Work From Home Income

Work from home income is one of the most thought about topic in today's world. Many individuals have either lost their job or are in a current one that they feel like they are walking on egg shells around the office. Many people are finding they are short on cash for their monthly expenses, future vacations or retirement and wonder if they work from home can it help. Unfortunately the world that we live in today is if you do have a job or career you are taking on extra hours or responsibilities to impress the boss that probably doesn't even know your name.

Consider the following

Consider the following work from home income opportunities:

Child care provider

While you may think this is a fancy name for a "babysitter", well yes it can be. Look at it this way, many people are taking night jobs because that is all they can obtain. Many single parents don't have the ability to obtain a live in service or have family that can help. You could still continue your 9-5 job but provide childcare from 11-7. The best part is that the child is sleeping 80 percent of the time and so are you. Or you could provide weekend or special event childcare on days like St. Patrick's Day, New Years Eve or any type of celebration.

Freelance typing, writing or editing

Many companies now want a competitive advantage over their competitors so they have started outsourcing. Outsourcing for companies saves them time and money and it provides them with professional content or services to give their clients. You have the ability to search out outsourcing companies and look to find out if they are in need of additional writers or editors. This works well for the person that has a very limited schedule; one thing you will find though is that the pay varies dramatically. I would suggest as with any opportunity that you do your due diligence.

Cleaning Houses

While many of us are not real keen on this idea, myself included. This is primarily for one reason; we don't like to clean, so why start a business that is based around cleaning? Any work from home income opportunity you start, you have got to make sure that it is something you enjoy. If you enjoy cleaning, this is right up your alley because just by cleaning a couple houses a week you could potentially make 500.00 a month. While normal houses could take three hours to do a good cleaning, you would just have to figure out if you wanted to charge by the house or by the hour.

A Virtual Assistant

Many of us have heard this term before but really what is a virtual assistant and can you be one? A Virtual Assistant is someone who provides professional administrative, technical or creative assistance to clients from a home office. A good example is being a receptionist from your home for a small business like a broker or a consultation firm. Another example would be if a small business needed a monthly newsletter sent out, you could do this from home and send it back to the company as a pdf.

Online Auctions

Online auctions are becoming quite popular since you can be on numerous auction sites at once from the comfort of your own home. How this could be a work from home income opportunity is actually quite simple; the legendary buy low and sell high principle. You may come across an opportunity to buy a bulk of specialty tools from a company that is filing bankruptcy. With this amazing opportunity you could obtain these for pennies on the dollar, and then resell on the other sites or locally. While this process can be very time consuming it can be a very lucrative opportunity for the individual that knows his or her products.

How will you get the word out?

While many of these examples are good work from home income opportunities you need to think of a couple things:

Branding - branding is you, branding is getting who you are out in the world. Branding is a name, a sign, symbol, slogan or anything that is used to identify and distinguish a specific product, service or business. As a business owner you have got to build "you" as a brand so you may stand out in the crowd.

Marketing - this is my favorite, as this is what I help people to learn. Marketing is the wide range of activities involved in making sure that you're continuing to meet the needs of your customers and getting value in return. Without marketing consider yourself a store front with no sign outside above the door and everyone keeps walking by because they don't know who you are, what you do or that you even exist.

Name this marketing campaign

One of the best known marketing campaigns in history started in 1988 that had an ad agency called Wieden and Kennedy and a small group of other employees from another company brainstorming. In ten years due to this marketing campaign this company was able to increase its market share from 18 percent to 43 percent, from 877 million in sales to 9.2 billion.

If you guessed Nike and the marketing campaign "Just Do It" you are a marketing guru that knows your marketing history. While everyone may not like the brand Nike, you have got to respect the marketing campaign and the results it provided.

In closing, there are many work from home income opportunities available to everyone and anyone. Your responsibility is to find one that you are passionate about and do something every day that will drive your business. Just remember that marketing is the fuel you will need to drive it. Without knowledge on how to market your business or service you can almost count on failing, check out my website to learn more about marketing.

Robert David Strong
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