5 Top Jobs You Can Do from Home

RocketMonkeys
Jul 27, 2017 · 3 min read

Easy ways to earn money without leaving your house

Working from home is getting more and more popular and it affects various groups of population — students, mothers, retired persons, but also anybody else, who likes to sit in the comfort of their home and earn money. However, this kind of a job does require certain personality traits, such as self-discipline and focus, because you won’t have a boss looking over your shoulder and putting pressure on you to deliver. In this case, you are your own boss and you have to organize yourself in the best possible way. The most popular motivation here — next to being able to stay at home — is of course money.

So what opportunities are there on the market when it comes to easy-to-do jobs? We have looked into it and have filtered these 5 jobs for you:

  1. “How-To” Videos Creator

This one is really easy, because only things you need for this job is some expertise, a smartphone or a camera and a YouTube account. “How-To” videos can be marketed easily and you don’t need a budget to produce them. So in case you are a good cook, you can show the world in a form of a video, how to make your favourite dish. It is important that your video has a special touch to it, so that it attracts the viewers. So get creative and press the record button. In order to market the video you should enroll for the YouTube partner programme, which will then monetize the clicks and the views. Here you can get tips how to create engaging videos for YouTube: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/225791

2. Search Engines Tester

The biggest search engines Google and Yahoo always look for testers in order to help them optimize their service. So in case you are good in English and like to look for things online, this job is perfect for you. Jobs like these are mediated by platforms such as leapforceathome.com and appenbutlerhill.com

3. Virtual Tutor

Here people with expertise in certain field or subject are requested — so if you are really good in math or in some foreign language, you get students that you can tutor online upon arrangement. There are websites who connect tutors with students — try tutor.com or tutorzilla.com

4. Websites Tester

This one is probably the easiest of the bunch. Anybody who has a website or application wants to know how the customers are perceiving their appearance. Today this is easily done with remote tests, which testers do from home (or even while on the go). So this is where your valuable opinion is asked. There are platforms like rocketmonkeys.io which connect clients with testers. For this job you only need a smartphone, or a computer with a webcam and a microphone in order to film yourself when testing a website and fulfilling tasks — in case of an online shop you might be requested to buy red shoes and loudly describe and film your experience when doing so. Here no qualifications are needed and everybody is welcome.

5. Mystery Shopper

If you like shopping, here is a right position for you. In case you are not acquainted with the term, mystery shopping means that you are pretending to be a real customer but you evaluate the shop on friendliness, expertise etc. Many companies hire mystery shoppers to go visit their stores or to work from home via phone and complete short online forms. So if you would like to test this one, here are two companies you can start with callcenterqa.org or maritzmysteryshopping.com

However, since many of the job offers for work from home are scams, always make sure to research the company which posted it. Firms like FlexJobs analyse companies which offer such job opportunities and check how serious they are, so you can always do a check on their website.

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