1. Online Reseller
You can earn large sums of money selling items online by reaching out to people who want to get rid of their stuff but are too busy to do it themselves.
What you bring to the table: Experience selling goods through auctions on eBay and the business savvy required to promote your services.
Expect to earn: Sellers determine the price by the market and the value of items they sell. Some charge a flat per-item fee (often $5 to $25), or take a percentage (20 percent to 40 percent) of total sales. Depending on the volume of your business, reselling on eBay and other sites could become a lucrative full-time job.
How to get started: Active eBay sellers with high ratings and sales can register to be listed on the website’s directory of trading assistants at ebaytradingassistant.com. You need to be a self-starter who knows how to spread the word—to friends, family members, acquaintances and strangers. Check out allyou.com/home-business for more tips on how to market your services.
What you bring to the table: Experience selling goods through auctions on eBay and the business savvy required to promote your services.
Expect to earn: Sellers determine the price by the market and the value of items they sell. Some charge a flat per-item fee (often $5 to $25), or take a percentage (20 percent to 40 percent) of total sales. Depending on the volume of your business, reselling on eBay and other sites could become a lucrative full-time job.
How to get started: Active eBay sellers with high ratings and sales can register to be listed on the website’s directory of trading assistants at ebaytradingassistant.com. You need to be a self-starter who knows how to spread the word—to friends, family members, acquaintances and strangers. Check out allyou.com/home-business for more tips on how to market your services.
2. Virtual Assistant
Someone who juggles her family calendar without breaking a sweat might have what it takes to become a virtual assistant. Clients could include a business owner looking for someone to handle e-mail, scheduling and travel arrangements or a busy executive who wants you to schedule her children's doctors appointments.What you bring to the table: Administrative experience; excellent organizational and time-management skills so you can juggle a multitude of tasks and a pleasant phone manner. It also helps if you know Microsoft Office.
What you can expect to earn: About $10 per hour at a staffing agency; up to $30 per hour if you work directly with clients. Top VAs earn $60 an hour.
How to get started: Contact businesses in your area or advertise on Craigslist. Or register with an agency such as eaHelp.com or Zirtual.com, which assign clients to you.
3. Call-Center Employee
Customers
used to call a company to complain or order a product, and they’d reach
the main office. Now virtual call centers route incoming calls to a
home agent’s phone; agents receive a script on how to answer possible
questions so they can respond to routine customer-service inquries or
sell products.
What you bring to the table: Professional, pleasant phone presence, the ability to read a script and make it sound natural, a quiet area in which to work and perhaps a headset attached to your phone.
Expect to earn: $7 to $15 per hour, with some jobs offering incentives for high sales.
How to get started: Enroll to become an agent at a call-center company website—such as workingsolutions.com, liveops.com or alpineaccess.com—that offers extensive training.
What you bring to the table: Professional, pleasant phone presence, the ability to read a script and make it sound natural, a quiet area in which to work and perhaps a headset attached to your phone.
Expect to earn: $7 to $15 per hour, with some jobs offering incentives for high sales.
How to get started: Enroll to become an agent at a call-center company website—such as workingsolutions.com, liveops.com or alpineaccess.com—that offers extensive training.
4. Data-Entry Worker
Companies
are always on the lookout for people to help them “go digital” by
typing paper documents into a computer. Many outsource the task of
inputting data to update their records on a regular basis.
What you bring to the table: A computer, typing accuracy and speed.
Expect to earn: $6 to $20 per hour.
How to get started: While jobs exist, demand is high and scams plentiful. The Work at Home Jobs page at homewiththekids.com lists companies that hire regularly. Also search Craigslist and Google (type in “online data input jobs”), and cold-call companies’ human resources departments to apply.
What you bring to the table: A computer, typing accuracy and speed.
Expect to earn: $6 to $20 per hour.
How to get started: While jobs exist, demand is high and scams plentiful. The Work at Home Jobs page at homewiththekids.com lists companies that hire regularly. Also search Craigslist and Google (type in “online data input jobs”), and cold-call companies’ human resources departments to apply.
5. Content Writer
Companies
often don’t have the staff to create content for their websites, so
they outsource the job to freelancers. With new sites springing up every
day, writers are in huge demand.
What you bring to the table: A talent for expressing yourself concisely, putting an idea into words and meeting deadlines reliably. Companies often want content pertaining to a specific field of expertise, so it helps to sell yourself in your areas of strength.
Expect to earn: There is a vast range of pay for writing Web content, from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per assignment. The median pay for a full-time content writer is $35,200. You can earn as much as $66,000.
How to get started: Check listings at indeed.com. If you think you're a fit for a specific company, e-mail a sample post and offer your services.
What you bring to the table: A talent for expressing yourself concisely, putting an idea into words and meeting deadlines reliably. Companies often want content pertaining to a specific field of expertise, so it helps to sell yourself in your areas of strength.
Expect to earn: There is a vast range of pay for writing Web content, from nothing up to hundreds of dollars per assignment. The median pay for a full-time content writer is $35,200. You can earn as much as $66,000.
How to get started: Check listings at indeed.com. If you think you're a fit for a specific company, e-mail a sample post and offer your services.
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