If you’re looking for low-risk ways to make money online from home or earn money amid this coronavirus pandemic, consider the following ideas to make online business ideas you can be start immediately, do not require any upfront monetary investment and you can still make money online since everyone is home. Okay, nearly everyone 🙂
With more and more people staying home and moving a big chunk of their lives online, you can still make money online quickly with any of these online business ideas even if you’re a newbie.
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Content repurposer
With more and more aspects of people’s lives migrated online, content creators are struggling to produce a steady pipeline of content online to meet their audiences’ demand .
And they may have no skills or time to hire, train and/or manage a content team.
The obvious ideas such as helping creators create quality content are too obvious and so the market may already be flooded. But all of the work that comes after is less-so and, is an entire industry in itself.
This is where you step in.
One of the best legit low-risk ways to make money online from home is to help content creators repurpose their content assets.
This not only helps them extract continuous value from an asset without having to churn out new material; but to also draw new value and widen audience reach, impact, and engagement while telling the same story.
It also frees them time to focus on creating consistent quality content in one format.
There’s nearly endless ways to make money online as a content repurposer.
Potential customers
Youtube video creators – you can help them repurpose their videos into social media teaser videos, into blog posts, add captions, into a professionally edited podcast episode, into cool infographics, into LinkedIn SlideShare presentations, into newsletters, into eBook, etc.
Podcastors – help them repurpose their podcasts into social media visuals, audio clips/audiograms, into video trailers with highlights of their podcast episodes, into blog posts, into infographics, e-mail series, newsletter, e-books, etc.
Bloggers – help them repurpose their blog posts into YouTube videos, email series to their subscribers, build several blog posts up into an eBook, etc.
Keynote speakers – Pare down details from their speech and transform them into high quality social media videos, into blog posts, into images with quotes, etc.
Action point
Get one of their already existing content a e.g. a keynote speaker’s existing high quality video from a past event and then transcribe and transform it into an exceptionally high quality social media video, with subtitles, and/or a well written blog post; or transform one of her photographs into a highly engaging images with one of her best quotes.
You can also take a blog post, develop a storyboard and create a short YouTube video based on that post.
Become a home education consultant
With Covid-19 having forced the vast majority of students out of school, schools have attempted to shift schooling to home for students to learn at home or remotely.
And most of it has been an epic failure with teachers struggling to adapt curricula that was designed to maximize face-to-face interactions to learning online.
Besides, most adults can barely concentrate for 8 hours straight remote working; it’s completely unreasonable to expect it of kids stuck in their homes attending online classes for several months to come.
And this is where you come in as a “home education,” not homeschooling, consultant.
The difference is that with home education, the focus is on children learning while doing everyday tasks like sewing, to learn mathematics, science, home economics, etc.
While you can take advantage of your personal experience to start off as a home education consultant, strengthen the marketability of your offering with additional study and training.
Take advantage of online learning platforms such as SkillShare, Teachable, etc.
Potential customers
Target parents and guardians who have suddenly been thrown into the deep end of the home schooling pool aka accidental home schoolers and get paid for it.
Possible business ideas to make money as a home education consultant include:
- helping new home educators get started
- provide direction in choice of curriculum and planning home education schedules
- help parents/guardians determine their child’s preferred learning style
- offering loose individual lesson plans,
- virtual tutoring,
- virtual home education workshops
- virtual crash course in education for parents and guardians
- downloadable materials required to complete home education exercise e.g. for Kenya’s CBC curriculum, etc.
Action point
To start off, test your business idea by offering free services to a few initial customers (start with your friends) and then asking for their feedback.
Consider signing up your services on any one of the online platforms such as Zoom, Skype, Clarity.fm, etc.
You can also set up a website and enlist your services then market it through free platforms such as Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, etc.
Make money online with your voice
There are so many opportunities for those with pleasant voices to make money online using their voices, doing voice over work.
Some of this ways to make money with your voice online include offering singing lessons, doing voice-overs, narrating audiobooks, recording voice messages including greetings, messages on hold, and voice prompts for business phone systems etc.
Potential customers for voice overs:
- Non-broadcast projects – such as audiobook authors, training videos, e-learning, videos, mobile apps,
- Broadcast voice over projects – such as TV commercials, TV shows, film projects, etc
Here are the best voice over sites to find voice over jobs and opportunities to make money online using your voice:
- Voices.com is a great voice over freelance site for work from home voice over actors looking for voice over jobs
- TakeLessons.com – Earn money offering singing lessons online. TakeLessons offers 100% online private lessons.
- ACX – is a great website to find audio recording opportunities to make money online as an audio book narrator helping authors transform their books into audiobooks
- Voice Bunny – provides freelance opportunities in English, other languages and different dialects if you’re looking for flexible and profitable online voice over work
Design educational games
Another great way to make money online is by designing educational games to be used in home education environments and/or for subscription home school websites.
The shift by most families to home schooling and remote learning, has created a viable market for these home schooling websites who are constantly looking for fresh ways to keep their users engaged.
Potential customers for educational games:
- subscription home school websites
- parents and guardians
- schools
- churches, mosques, temples
Action point
The beauty with this online business ideas is that don’t need expertise in computer programming to design educational games for subscription home-school websites.
Simply outline the specifics of your educational game for home education or subscription homeschool websites, get on freelancer sites like flexijobs.com upwork, Fiverr, 99designs, etc and hire a programmer to the technical work of developing the educational game.
Become a freelance resume writer
Millions of peo[le have suddenly found themselves out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic.
And with this is the increase in the need for services of freelance resume writers to help them land a new job or transition into a new career.
Basically your job will involve writing and/or editing clients’ resumes, job cover letters, and LinkedIn®.
Although to make money online writing and/or editing resumes doesn’t require certification, it is preferred.
For an edge in landing the available freelance resume writing opportunities, you’ll need to have a strong background in the job industries you’re looking to specialize in and/or have past experience writing and editing resumes and cover letters.
Check out ResumeEdge who are currently hiring freelance resume writers from all over the world.
Become a YouTube channel manager
As a YouTube channel manager, your job entails helping shape and execute your client’s overall channel strategy for video as well as video optimization, and viewership growth.
Your Turn
Might you want to try your hand at one of these aforementioned ideas?
If not for the money, you get to ease people’s corona related challenges.
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