Today we'll be talking about the best home businesses.
- With low startup costs.
- You may have been wanting
to start your home-based business for some time. Now with the power of the Internet, it's easier than ever to start one.
- Yeah, in your pajamas.
- So we're gonna be talking about four different categories.
First, writing.
- Ooh, I love writing.
- You could be a freelance writer.
- A poet.
- Editor, blogger, or even self-publish your Kindle book.
- Oh yeah, and I heard you can earn up to 70% of the royalties, you guys.
- Cha-ching.
- Lucrative.
- So Emma, if you were to write a book, do you know what you would write about?
- Ooh, way to put me on the spot. Something that I enjoy, something that I know a lot about. Vegan cooking 'cause then I can incorporate pizza and also I do it at home all the time. So yeah, maybe just vegan cooking. Fast, easy, efficient, fun, and healthy.
- And I like that, and especially the fact that this is something you know about.
All right, so next category, services.
You could be a virtual assistant or a social media manager.
- Ooh, yeah.
If you think about that, that's something a lot of people don't want to do and they know it's important,
so you offer to do it for them and make some money.
- And you're saving people time. One of the most important commodities, I think, we all have, but never have enough of. The virtual assistant, you can schedule people's appointments, you can book things with them like travel. Get all these things done so that they can spend their time being more productive doing other things.
- I spend so much time organizing and reorganizing my calendar that like I feel good about what I'm getting done in the day, but I don't know if, I'm thinking if someone just did that for me and helped me--
- [Sam] You'd be a lot more productive.
- Yeah, a virtual assistant. Yeah, I'd be a lot more productive.
- And the great thing is you can do it from home.
You don't even have to leave your couch or you can do it from wherever you want.
- We could do it right now.
- We could, and speaking of working from anywhere, the next opportunity you could have is the data entry. You can do this at home, coffee shops.
- By the beach. That makes data entry a little more fun.
- Now, it can be something that's routine, mundane.
It's all right. At the same time, you can, don't have to put a lot of effort into it, but you can also do other things at the same time.
Listening to a podcast.
- Catching some rays.
- Exactly, and believe it or not, we have a video on being a digital nomad.
- Oh, that's right.
- Right over here.
- Next, graphic design or even web development. Again, something that you can just do it from home.
If you have a love for graphic design and being on the web, these are areas that you can jump into.
- Also, which falls under services, a couple of my friends do this, they're pet sitters or dog walkers.
I mean, what a fun job to do. I love animals.
- Yes, I have three dogs.
I'm a doggy dad.
- Do you have three dogs?
- Three dogs.
- Do you have a pet sitter or a dog sitter?
- We do. While I'm here making these great videos for you all, someone's watching our pets.
So next, event or wedding planner.
These are very good if you are savvy at getting things together, being creative, taking charge,
and making sure that things happen on time and hopefully under budget.
- Yeah, I mean, for me I'm all about the great party or walking down that aisle one day, but I don't want to plan the whole thing. Throw me a good party, I'll hire you,but I'm just gonna do the falling in love part.
- And it does take away some of that time, frustration for planning from others along with the budget constraints.
So you can focus on just doing a wedding planning business or you can open it up to all kinds of events.
- Ooh, and another great one in the services, private chef or caterer. I think about that sometimes just when I'm at home looking up meals and my friends will stop by. They're also like remote, and they're like, oh you should do this for bigger. That would stress me out, but for anyone else out there who's great at cooking this is a great service you can offer from your home, if you in fact are skilled in the kitchen.
- And you can have one client that you prepare multiple meals for.
- Oh, that's a good point.
- Or you can have different families that you're serving at different times of the month.
- Ooh, and another great one that my mom's best friend recently started doing is have an Airbnb. She lives alone in this a beautiful Victorian home. It's painted purple. It's got a ton of character. I know, it's--
- My wife's favorite color is purple.
- Oh well, if you're ever in Indiana, go check out Lou Ann's Airbnb, but anyways, it's a beautiful home and she so kindly opens her doors for an Airbnb and she meets amazing people from all over the world that comes through, surprisingly, Indiana, the crossroads of America. So this is just another great idea and also, now that reminds me, my mom helps out with the Airbnb because she has such as the skill set of cleaning. Like this woman actually likes to clean and enjoys it. So she helps her best the friend with the Airbnb with that skill set of just, hey, I like to clean, so after your guests leave, I'll handle that
- Nice.
The next category, selling.
Now, if you are creative and you can make things with your hands and it's very unique, Etsy could be the place for you and it could give you an opportunity to have an outlet to make that income from home.
- Could you make anything?
- No, I cannot.
- Nothing?
- I'm trying to think what I could do. I could paint you a picture.
- But I can make these videos.
- Yeah, ooh, Sam, here's another one of my favorites.
Online consignment.Oh my gosh, you could go just through your closet or your parents' and find some old gems that you could sell for money. Also, you could go and thrift. You know, find that great leather jacket or that designer shirt or shoes and then put them online. There's a ton of apps to sell used clothing, consignment, high fashion.
- Yeah, Offer Up.
You can go on Facebook Marketplace and even offer your items there as well, and if you are pretty good in the kitchen similar to that private chef and caterer, you can also sell your baked goods online. This is something great to do because a lot of coffee shops, they don't bake their goods.
- Oh, that's a great point. When I worked at a coffee shop, we had a cabinet of donuts to scones to bagels and they all came from other people or businesses, yeah.
- Right, a lot of these businesses use other vendors to supply them with these baked goods, and last category, teaching You can be an online teacher or tutor. It gives you a lot of flexibility and it's definitely in demand. You can be teaching others that don't have English as their first language, you can teach them English.
- True, have you ever taught someone?
- I did.
- What'd you teach?
- Math.
- How was that?
- Hated it.
- Next, you can create online courses.
- Oh, good point.
- Everything that we just talked about.Baking, graphic design, blogging. Whatever you are good at, you can make a video and instruct people on how to do it.
- That's very true, and I love that.I love taking in a lot of information, skills from the privacy of my home on my couch. I want to learn another language that way. I don't want to go out somewhere.
Give me an online course.
I'm a Millennial.
- My wife is a fitness instructor and she's able to do a a lot of different things that she's passionate about, either working in a gym or even having your own
clients on the side.
- Didn't she pick up client when she was here?
- She did.
- And you guys live in Austin, Texas.
- We're in Kirkland and she picked up. Okay, just checking, thought that happened.
- It gives you a lot of flexibility. You don't have to be local to one area, but you can do it wherever. There are parks that you can work out in. There are people's homes. Like we said before, you
can go and have different classes or personal instruction there.
- I've done some yoga classes that way.
Yeah, so like I decided in 2019, it's the year of the hamstrings. I was like, oh yeah, I want
to work on my hamstrings and I want to focus on it, but I want to just do it from the privacy of my home and not spend a ton on a membership. So I watched online little videos, classes, if you will,on how to do this.
- Next is the music teacher.
- Can you play an instrument?
- No, I cannot.
- Can you sing?
- No, I cannot.
- Okay, carry on.
- So on that same note,get it, carry on, sing? But anyhow, if you know how to instruct people to play an instrument, this is something you can do or if you know how to give voice lessons, help people to sing, like myself, carry a tune, that's also something you can do. You can go to the nonprofits like churches or you can go to schools,teaching elementary You know, kids, a lot of parents love to get their children
involved in those things. looking for someone that can spark that creativity in that young child's life.
- Yeah, that would help my karaoke game.
- Oh yeah.
- Some voice lessons.
- So to get a lot of this started, you can join freelance websites like Upwork, Fiverr, Guru, freelancer.com. They'll be a great opportunity because you already have people there looking for services,so you might as well use it to market yourself. So that's a wrap.
Today you just learned the
best home-based business.
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