7 Ways to Earn Money From Home as a Fresher

The feeling of getting paid for the very first time in your life is a feeling like no other. Whether, it is from a job, a freelance project, part-time work, whatever it may be. And the digital economy has enabled us to have the freedom to work from anywhere and get paid easily.

For most students and freshers around the world, this is good news as you can really invest your spare time into activities of your interest and earn a decent amount over time. With the pandemic forcing everyone to stay indoors in 2020, this economy of working from home has boomed significantly.

And if you’re someone who doesn’t just want to spend their entire free time watching Netflix, but rather doing something productive and building your skill sets, then we’ve created a list of 7 ways you can earn money from home.

The gig economy is increasing in size every day. More and more people are choosing to work as freelance professionals. Working remotely, based on your schedule and how much time you can give to your profession is a path that many find extremely suitable.

As a fresher, freelancing is a great way to build and develop your skill sets. Be it marketing-related skills such as writing, advertising, and designing, or technical skills like developing software applications. There’s no end to the number of opportunities that you will find.

To start off, you can find many opportunities on sites like Upwork and Fiverr. These freelance portals will help you find gigs and start building a portfolio of work.

Very similar to freelance content creation, except that in this case, you’re doing it for yourself and that it takes a while to start getting paid through your blogging efforts.

Blogging can be in the form of writing articles or blogs on a website such as Medium or WordPress, a page on any social media platform like Instagram or Facebook, and even videos (often termed as vlogging) on platforms like YouTube.

The way to monetize a blog channel is by building an audience who likes and finds value in what you do. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where either you can monetize your content through ad placements or by reaching out to brands and promoting their products.

Even though you’re not going to get paid in the beginning, the reason why you should blog is to build a portfolio of work for yourself. This can also act as proof of your expertise while applying for freelance gigs.

Affiliate marketing is an extension of your blogging efforts. The way this works is that you collaborate with a particular brand to promote their product or service and they give you a special link.

You then utilize your own content to talk and promote this particular product or service and inform your audience about it. You let them know that if they are interested in buying that product, they can use a link that you’ve provided them with. So anytime someone uses that link to go and purchase from the brand, you receive a commission for it.

The key to success in affiliate marketing is to build your presence in a particular niche. Growing yourself as an expert in a specific industry helps you gain trust. And if you are someone who people trust, they’re more likely to take your advice and listen to your opinions.

There are many people/businesses who have important recurring tasks on a day-to-day basis, but they don’t have the time to do it themselves as they are required to do other things to help their business grow.

This is where they look to outsource these repetitive tasks to virtual assistants. Just like a freelance content creator, you can also be a virtual assistant on sites like Fiverr and Upwork. This way you can devote your spare time doing simple tasks for other people, save their time and hence earn money.

Are you fluent at writing and speaking in more than one language? Then chances are that you can find a translation job for yourself. There are many businesses looking to translate the audio from a video in a particular language.

But if you aren’t fluent in many languages, you still have the option to transcribe. A task where you write down what is being said in the audio or video file. Businesses often use this service to create captions or subtitles for their videos.

To find such jobs you can simply search ‘translation and transcription jobs’ on google or check out some of the following sites:

Most of us will have things that we don’t use a lot, but we don’t want to sell them either. Probably something like a camera. In these situations, instead of selling the camera and getting a one-time payment, you could rent it out to different people and earn a recurring amount over time. This way you get to keep your item as well as earn money through it.

Print-On-Demand is basically a type of dropshipping business. (Dropshipping is a form of retail business wherein the seller accepts customer orders but does not keep goods sold in stock.)

This form of the dropshipping model is relatively easier than others as it deals with simple print products where there is not much room for error. Some prerequisites that are good to have include knowledge of Facebook Advertising and creating simple designs through Canva or some other software.

Just like any other dropshipping business, you are responsible for the marketing and promotion of the t-shirts. The logistics will be handled by the supplier. A good place to start off is a marketplace like RedBubble or Amazon FBA where you simply have to upload and edit your designs according to the products.

If you want to create a t-shirt brand of your own and dropship them, then you could use a service like TeeSpring or Shopify to build your custom store and add products through fulfilment partners like Printify or Printful.

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