For the past year or so I have been seriously looking for ways to make money working from home, and I at first I really did not even consider using the internet to make it happen, but instead I was trying to figure out how I could run a home based business, and most of all I was trying to come up with a business idea. Everything from a mail order store was considered but in the end I did not see the potential in them in making money without the risk of investing a lot and losing it all. So I started to search for work at home opportunities and to be honest, there are not a lot of companies that are willing to hire people to work from their home – well at least I did not find them.
My criterias for a good way to make money working from home are the following:
- You will have to have liberty about your working hours. No-one is going to give you anything more than a deadline for a project to be finished. After that it is you who decides how and when it is fulfilled – this is basically the definition of freelancing.
- Choosing your timetable is one thing but also you should be able to do everything from your home. When a computer is involved it is usually typing or reading.
- It can involve a lot more work than the payment includes, but the best part is to be able not to get up in the morning, dress and leave the house to sit in a train for a half an hour.
So basically in my opinion I could be working a lot harder than I would at a regular work, make a similar amount of money, but I would be working when I want, how I want and on what I want. Freedon might be the word that I am looking for.
What ways to make money working from home are there?
Today my knowledge on the ways that I can use to earn an income from home has changed quite a lot. Today the best option in my opinion is to work for yourself – become an entrepreneur. Freelance writing is a great way to make an additional income, and there are people who are doing it full time, but in my opinon there is one great big problem – you can run out of articles to write. Now I know that this could happen in every possible business, and not only if you are trying to make money working as a freelance writer but for some reason it feels a little risky to give up your job to wake up every morning hoping that someone is going to order something to write. You are going to have to do promotion like in any other line of work, but you can be sure that there are days when you just don’t have anything to do, and you can’t really do anything about it.
Doing paid surveys and mystery shopping is something that people are doing to earn money from home, but in the end these are only ways to earn a little pocket change – not a means to a full time income working from home. Usually people have a few good days a month when they score a lot of surveys, but in the end they run out of things to do, and end up waiting for new surveys to answer to. You can make a decent amount per survey when you compare the money earned to the time spent, but if this happens once or twice a month it is not secure, neither is it enough.
Today on the time of the internet, most of the ways to make money working from home, involve affiliate marketing online, or running a succesful website. These are ways that are highly praised by the a-list bloggers but not in the reach of normal people who are hoping to make an income on online using websites and blogs. If you are one of the people who want to make money online, and have been doing it for a while, you must have realized by now that it is not easy to make happen, but following the right people can make it a lot easier, and at the same time following the wrong people can take you further away from your goals.
Dreaming of becoming a social leader on the internet has never been a hobby of mine – I am simply using the internet to make money from home, and to be honest, the best way to do this is not to socialize but instead work. It’s a nice idea to want to build a single website that is going to make you rich, but it is not going to happen in the real world. The money lies in building blogs, websites and other web properties in bulk and making a little money from each – when you combine this money you have a real residual income that you have created working from home. You are not getting paid to surf around other peoples blogs and making comments about their blog posts, but instead you are paid for the work you are wiling to put in to the process of making money.
To put things in to proportions and to give you real numbers on how much work it is going to involve I will compare it to a “regular day at the office”.
When you get up and go to work, you are still a bit off, and when you sit in your office chair you are still sleeping and most likely you will spend a half an hour jacking around and after that you start reading e-mails. Being unefficent is pretty much that most people do at offices, and hardly anyone is working eight hours a day – actually you have a lunch break, a few coffee breaks and also some time in between when you possibly go an smoke a cig and drink a few coffees. Based on my experiences, people who have spent more than five years that the same job, are working at most 50% of the time they spend there. They are making money working half of the amount that new people work. Is it fair? People who are new to an office are working their asses off, and at the same time they are paid half of what the people who have spent there ten years are earning, by working every other hour of the day.
When you try to make money at home and you have decided to do it by building websites, it is going to be about building websites, and lots of them. The best thing about it is that you are not making anyone else rich, and if you really want to earn money, the best way is to spend eight hours a day working – not thinking about working and not definitely drinking coffee and having lunch. Since it is your own business, it is your money that you are spending when you are not working, and if you have to build four websites a day, then it is taking pretty much all that eight hours to do so.
What I am doing right now to make money working from home?
Many people are aware of the technique of “keyword snipering” with websites, and that is exactly what I am doing at the moment. The key is to find a keyword that is low in competition and and has some search traffic and build a niche website around that keyword. This means building 3-4 posts of high quality content that is informative and rich, put it up on an ugly HTML based site with your choice for monetization. I am doing a mixture right now and I am using the advertisers that have the most appropriate ads for my sites.
My goal is to make a 100 sites a month, and I started approximately this time last week, and right now I am staring at 23 websites up and running. I am not at the pace that I set for a goal in the beginning, but I have had some issues when it comes to time, because this weekend my goddaughter was babtized and I spent a whole day celebrating that on sunday. The key is to build a lot of websites that each bring a little income, and when I combine this it is going to be a decent amount of money. If each of these sites make me .30 per day, I am already looking at $900/mo only from these sites – it might sound like not much when you think that it takes eight hours a day to make it happen, but if you realize the fact that this income is most likely going to stick the next month when I do the exact same thing. After two months I am looking at $1800/mo, and after three months it is $2700/mo. That is the exact beauty of internet marketing and actually making money working from home building websites.
This is all that I can get in to today, because I have to get back building those sites!
