You go to the office daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. At the month-end, you earn your salary for your work. But what if you make equivalent amounts of money working from home? At least you do not have to commute daily through traffic! In this article, you will see 4 realistic ways of earning from your home without going to the office. To achieve a good income from home, you need to work on more than one job mentioned below.
But one thing. Please do not leave your office job now. At first, try at least one of these side hustles and start to earn some money. Then, you can replace your office job fully by doing these freelancing work-from-home jobs.
Transcribing Jobs
You can do this work from home. All you need is a laptop with a good internet connection and headphones. Also, it will be better if you have a fast typing speed and can write and read English fluently. It would be an added advantage if you could understand English words easily by listening to them.
For most transcribing jobs, you do not require any experience. But, most of these jobs are of three categories.
- Medical Transcription
- Legal Transcription
- General Transcription
If you are unfamiliar with medical or legal terms, you should opt for general transcription jobs. To improve your transcription work performance, you should use Foot Pedal software. Also, using another software, Express Scribe, can enhance the quality of your work and help you finish the job more quickly. So, these are handy software to help you.
You can try to get a full-time remote, work-from-home transcription job, or you can try to work as a freelance worker. You must apply for remote positions on job boards like LinkedIn to get a full-time remote job.
But, if you plan to work as a freelance worker, there are transcription websites like Rev, TranscribeMe, Crowdsurf, Quicktate, etc. These freelance websites accept candidates from all over the world. On those websites, first, you need to sign up. Then you need to pass their qualification test. If you pass their test, you will find freelance tasks on the corresponding website. Finish those tasks with high work quality, and you will start to earn money!
Freelancing Jobs on Fiverr
Fiverr is a freelancing website. Many sellers are present there, and many buyers or customers buy services or products from the sellers. As a seller, you can do freelance work, writing, social media marketing, boosting website views, creating websites, and so on.
First, you need to register yourself as a seller. After that, you need to create gigs and the services you offer. But there is a catch. Since you are a new seller, your gig will go at the bottom of all other sellers offering the same service. But then you will not get any buyers buying your service.
To put your gig up, preferably within the top 5 gigs, you need to optimize your gig-SEO. It means you need to put keywords in your gig. But, if you need to learn how to improve your gig SEO, create another buyer account and search for gigs that will enhance your gig SEO. Yes, there are gigs present that improve other gigs’ SEO for $10 or $20 price. Buy that gig and improve your gig’s SEO. Then you have a higher chance of getting buyers.
Try to remain online on Fiverr as much as possible. Negotiate with that person when a buyer contacts you and gets your first job or work. Finish the work as well as possible, submit it, and then request the buyer to give you a five-star rating. After the successful completion of your first work, you will start to get more jobs regularly.
Be a Remote Writer
Those interested in writing long-form essays or articles can take the job as a freelance writer or full-time work-from-home writer for a company. In terms of earnings, both are fine, provided you are good at writing.
You should visit job boards that provide remote writers’ jobs to get a full-time or part-time writer’s job. You can find the name of those job boards in a google search. You need to apply for remote, suitable jobs on those job boards.
If you are a US national, you can apply to many websites that provide work for freelance writers. You can get those websites by searching in Google. But, if you are a non-US national, there are few options for becoming a freelance writer.
One option available for them is Constant Content Website. You need to sign up there, pass a grammar test, and then pass a small essay writing test, and you are eligible to write and submit your articles there! Once you submit your piece, they will review that article, and after a successful review, it will go to the marketplace of Constant Content.
Many buyers frequently visit their marketplace. If a buyer likes your article and buys it, the website will take 35% of the price and give you the rest of the cost of that article. Forget to mention while submitting your piece; you need to mention the price of that article. After Constant Content takes its cut, you will get 65% of that price.
Another website like the above is MarkerContent.com. Here also you need to give a test to get selected and then write articles they will sell in their marketplace.
Take a Paid Survey
I’m not too fond of this one. For a non-American like me, there are more viable options to make a living while working from home. But I heard that for a US citizen, answering a survey can pay $25 to $50. In that scenario, taking a paid survey is a viable option for a US national to make a living.
Some good survey websites are Swagbucks, InboxDollar, BrandedSurvey, Opinion Outpost, etc. You need to sign up and give all the information about yourself. Then you will be eligible to answer the surveys suitable for you.
Conclusion
To earn a good monthly income, you may need to try at least more than one way mentioned above. If you are a US national, taking the surveys will be your best way to earn money relatively quickly. Also, joining and earning from a transcription website will be easier for you, in case you are a US person. The same applies to the writing job too.
For the non-US people, please don’t get disheartened after reading the above paragraph. Use Foot Pedal and Express Scribe software to help you in your transcription job. For a writing job, it is better to use free Grammarly and ProWritingAid extensions to help you write. Though taking surveys may not be a good option for you, please give more importance to Fiverr.
I mentioned above the list of jobs you can get worldwide for getting jobs. Mainly, transcription websites accept people worldwide for their job. If you are good at writing and listening to English, you can easily do those transcription jobs.