Have you been wondering how you might build a profitable home-based business?
Well, you’ve come to the right place because we are going to discuss just that topic right here.
You may have been wondering how you go about getting started and what will be the best type of business for you.
If so, let’s get started and see what we can come up with.
What Are Profitable Home-Based Businesses?
There are absolutely a great many different things that you do at home that you can turn into a profitable home-based business.
For example, arts and crafts can fit right into this category. And, there are many places that you can sell these for profit – galleries, gift shops, online marketplaces, and the list goes on.
We have written elsewhere about some of the best home-based business ideas. The sorts of ideas we mentioned were:
- Dog Walking (you can easily turn this into a business by offering your services to others)
- Crafts (we have talked about this above)
- Writing (if this is a good skill of yours you can become a freelance writer and assist others)
- Baking Pies (if this is a talent you possess, you can easily sell your products)
- Handyman (many people need someone to get those “honey-do” tasks done).
If any of these ideas interest you, you can read the full article right here.
Other ideas not mentioned before might be Sewing and Quilting, Knitting, Virtual Assistant, Social Media Manager, Dog Grooming. In fact, the ideas are endless and you just need to get started.
What Are The Benefits of Working From Home?
Working from home gives you a sense of freedom that you cannot feel in a corporate work environment (no matter how good that is).
The freedom I refer to is actually “time freedom”. Imagine your day working from home.
The hour commute you had before to get to the workplace, you now have free (as well as the hour to return home). You can decide to work during that time or do some other chores.
With your time freedom you can set your own hours of work at whatever will be effective for you.
No longer will you be limited to the 9 to 5 rule (unless, of course, you choose to work from 9pm to 5am!)
Because you will be based at home, there will be more time to spend with your family.
In addition, you can manage your time to make room for your other activities, such as golf, tennis, sailing, exercise and even more.
Because you will have a better work-life balance, your productivity will be increased.
Thus, your profitable home-based business will develop its profitability more quickly.
Whatever you decide, you need to know that there are ways of developing favorite hobbies and pastimes into home based businesses.
How Can I Turn My Computer Into A Profitable Home-Based Business?
That is a really good question and one that can be answered very easily.
The best computer-based business is affiliate marketing. If you haven’t heard of it, let me explain.
Affiliate Marketing simply explained is where you, the owner of the computer, set up your own blog (website) and start writing about and promoting someone else’s products.
You join an affiliate program for products you wish to promote. You are provided with a personally identifiable affiliate link for the purpose of tracking.
Once a customer makes a purchase through your link, the other party pays you a commission.
This is a win-win-win for everyone.
The owner of the product has hundreds (possibly thousands) of bloggers promoting products. This reduces the cost of marketing for them.
The customer gets a good review of a product he/she wants and buys it (at no additional cost).
You get paid a small commission, which is built in to the product owner’s marketing expense.
An additional benefit is that since the start of the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic, online shopping has become more popular.
There are around 3.5 billion searches on Google alone every day with a few hundred million on Bing and Yahoo.
So using your computer to access this market will definitely help you to build a profitable home-based business.
An Introduction To Wealthy Affiliate – For The Best Internet Marketing Training.
You should invest in some training in the field of affiliate marketing before setting up your business.
In fact, the education and training at Wealthy Affiliate will take you through the steps from choosing your niche (market segment) to building your website, writing content, joining affiliate programs, search engine optimization (SEO) and generating revenue.
It is far and away the best training I have found anywhere that deals entirely with affiliate marketing.
I was a part of another organization for a couple of years that purported to be affiliate marketing – it was actually multi-level-marketing.
In fact, you could not make money unless you enrolled a team of people under you. In addition, you have to buy product every month to maintain your position in the hierarchy.
Anyway, I want to get back to the training at Wealthy Affiliate.
This organization actually has a try before you buy policy and Starter Membership is totally FREE.
If you decide to follow this path and upgrade to a paid membership, you will hve access to unlimited training for online businesses.
With your Starter Membership you do get access to the first 8 lessons in two separate training courses. So, you can lay the foundations for your online business with these.
Here are the differences in levels of membership.
Investing in Your Future With Wealthy Affiliate.
As you can see, your Premium Membership will entitle you to manage up to 3 websites with your own domain on the Wealthy Affiliate platform. Or up to 10 if you are a Premium Plus Member.
In addition, you have access to the full education of both training courses – Online Entrepreneur Certification and Affiliate Bootcamp. There are 35 lessons in the former and 37 lessons in the latter.
Each lesson is delivered by text and video demonstration and incorporates tasks to be completed.
Successful completion of tasks ensures that you have understood the learning in that particular lesson.
In addition, there are weekly Live Webinar trainings available to Premium/+ Members.
Also, there are hundreds of text and video trainings on specialized topics.
Members of the Wealthy Affiliate Community contribute these and they are available to read or watch at your own pace. In fact, you work at your own pace for all the training within Wealthy Affiliate.
I would be remiss if I did not mention that you also have unlimited access to Jaaxy, the most amazing keyword research tool.
This puts you ahead of the game in identifying suitable keywords for your content. By the way, as a Starter Member, you get 30 Free searches on Jaaxy.
So, I think this just about covers what I wanted to share with you about Wealthy Affiliate, though I could go on and on.
If you would like some more information on the specifics of the training courses, you will find this information right here.
Don’t Wait Any Longer – Start Your Profitable Home-Based Business Right Now.
Covid has definitely started more people thinking seriously about having a home-based business. What a perfect time to get started and Wealthy Affiliate sounds fantastic, I really like that you can try it for free and don’t need a credit card to try it. So many other training and hosting platforms want your money upfront before you even know if they are offering value. I think you gave great ideas for home-based businesses you could start and finding one that you know you will enjoy sharing ideas about and promoting products will truly help you to be successful.
A wonderful article, thanks.
Thanks for your comment, Lily. I do truly believe that we should all be looking at the concept of home-based business these days, especially now that online shopping has reached incredible heights. Wealthy Affiliate is a fantastic platform to get started with and the training is exceptional. Best wishes, Jenni.