Time flies, especially as we age. We know we need to stay active, but by the time we get home from exercise, exhaustion can set in, leaving us feeling unproductive despite the day's end. So you want to make the most of time while sitting at home, right? There's still a path to productivity. Take a look at the following 40 ways to make money from home, I hope at least one or two that interest you.
1. Relationship Consultancy Service
Leverage your years of experience in love and relationships to offer a consultancy service. Whether it's marriage, divorce, sexual advice, or equality issues, your insights can be invaluable to others.
2. Online Course Instructor Trainer
Many online instructors lack training, leading to student confusion. If you have a long experience as an instructor, you can bridge this gap by becoming instructor trainers, ensuring effective online teaching practices.
3. Personal Historian
Help individuals or families document their life stories, milestones, and legacies through written, audio, or video formats. This can be a deeply rewarding way to connect with others and help them preserve their histories.
4. Virtual Reality (VR) Travel Guide For Seniors
Use VR technology to create immersive travel experiences. If you've traveled extensively, you can offer personalized virtual tours of your favorite places around the world, sharing stories and tips along the way. It's particularly good for those who are no longer able to travel because of age-related physical limitations.
5. Custom Miniature Model Maker
For those who love detail-oriented crafts, create and sell custom miniature models of houses, historical landmarks, or scenes from clients' photos. This could be especially appealing to collectors and hobbyists.
6. Heritage Cookbook Creator
Compile family recipes, or gather traditional recipes from various cultures, and create digital or printed cookbooks. You can add stories or histories behind the recipes, making the cookbooks valuable keepsakes.
Ridicurrection
"Whaaat, did they really eat swans!? Rats and mice, maybe, but roasted swans!? How cruel..."
7. Custom Video Game Levels Designer (For Seniors)
Video game design is a youngster's job. But they don't know what kind of games are easy enough for seniors.
If you're skilled in video game design, create custom levels or mods for video games for older generations. Older gamers are still looking for new challenges could pay for unique, high-quality content that enhances their favorite games.
8. Virtual Reality (VR) Experience Creator
With VR becoming more accessible, create immersive VR experiences or tours. You could design virtual travel experiences, educational history tours, or even meditative landscapes for relaxation.
9. Personalized Nutrition Plans and Cooking Classes
If you have a background in nutrition or a passion for cooking, offer personalized meal planning and virtual cooking classes. Focus on specific dietary needs or cuisines to stand out.
10. Eco-Friendly Home Consultant
Help people make their homes more environmentally friendly. Offer consultations to suggest eco-friendly products, energy-saving tips, and ways to reduce waste, all through virtual meetings.
11. Remote Tech Support for Seniors
Offer your tech skills to help seniors navigate their gadgets, from setting up devices to teaching them how to use social media, apps, or video calling. This service caters to a demographic that is often overlooked in the tech world.
12. Online Comic Book Creator
Use your artistic talents to create and sell digital comic books. You could create custom comics for clients based on their stories or develop your own series and sell them through digital platforms.
13. Virtual Antiques Appraiser
If you have knowledge about antiques or collectibles, offer virtual appraisal services. Clients can send photos and details of their items, and you provide them with valuations and historical information.
14. Home Fitness Challenge Organizer
Create and manage virtual fitness challenges. Participants can sign up for your program, and you provide them with workout plans, nutrition advice, and daily challenges to keep them motivated.
15. Expert Chat Service
If you're an expert in a particular field, offer your advice through a paid chat service. People looking for immediate advice, whether it's legal, financial, or even relationship advice, can pay for a session with you.
16. Antique Restoration
If you have a knack for restoring furniture or antiques, offer your services to restore items to their former glory. This can be particularly fulfilling if you enjoy working with your hands and have an appreciation for history.
17. Custom Puzzle Maker
Design and sell customized puzzles. Customers can send you photographs or choose from a gallery of images, and you create puzzles of varying difficulty levels. This could include traditional jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, or even interactive digital puzzles.
18. Virtual Interior Design Consultant
Use your flair for interior design to offer virtual consultations. Clients can send you photos or videos of their spaces, and you provide them with design ideas, DIY home improvement suggestions, and even virtual furniture placement using 3D modeling software.
19. Online Mystery Box Creator
Curate themed mystery boxes for various interests such as gourmet foods, tech gadgets, or handmade crafts. Customers buy these boxes without knowing exactly what they'll get, enjoying the surprise element. You can sell these through your website or platforms like Etsy.
20. Remote Party Planner For Seniors
There are many services out there that plan and host virtual events or parties. But there aren't many that specialize for seniors. For example, sending out digital invites to organizing online entertainment like live music streams, virtual games for seniors, and coordinating food delivery for seniors.
You can create memorable experiences for those celebrating special occasions during golden years.
21. Customized Storybook Writer
Write and illustrate personalized storybooks for children. Parents and guardians provide details about their child, and you create a unique story featuring them as the main character. These can be digital or printed.
22. Niche Subscription Service
Start a subscription service focused on a niche hobby or interest. This could range from monthly boxes of rare plant seeds for gardening enthusiasts to kits for building miniature models. The key is to find a passionate community and cater to their specific interests.
23. Virtual Landscape Design Service
Offer landscaping design services online. Clients send you their outdoor space specifications and preferences, and you use software to design their perfect garden or outdoor area, complete with plant suggestions and layout plans.
24. Online Course Creator for Unusual Skills
Create and sell courses on unique or unusual skills you possess. This could range from teaching people how to do voice impressions, mastering the art of origami, to courses on survival skills for the urban environment.
25. Home-Based Escape Room Designer
Design escape room games that people can set up in their homes. Create and sell packages with storylines, puzzles, clues, and instructions. Customers can download these or receive physical kits to entertain guests or enjoy a fun family night.
26. Genealogy Researcher
Use your interest in history and family stories to help others trace their ancestry. This could involve using online databases, historical archives, and even DNA testing to build family trees and uncover heritage stories.
27. Virtual Storytelling Host
Share your wealth of experiences, historical knowledge, or storytelling skills through virtual platforms. Host sessions for schools, book clubs, or individuals interested in learning from someone with life experience.
28. Handwritten Letter Service
In an age of digital communication, offer a service that sends out handwritten letters, thank-you notes, or invitations. Your personal touch could be especially valued for special occasions.
29. Craft and Art Sales
Turn your hobbies into income by creating and selling your crafts or artwork online. Platforms like Etsy are great for selling everything from handmade jewelry to custom paintings and sculptures.
30. Gardening Advisor
If you have a green thumb, offer advice on garden planning, plant care, and sustainable gardening practices through video calls or personalized guides.
31. Clairvoyant
Ridicurrection
"She's saying, don't forget to buy bread, eggs, and spinach. Not the large bag, the small one is enough for tonight."
"Really? Is that what my great, great, great grandma's telling me right now?"
Ancedotal evidence suggests that some people develop heightened intuition near life's end. For example, they can experience precognitive insights or feeling a connection with the deceased. If you are one of them, you can offer psychic services.
32. Book Reviewer/Editor
For those who love reading, offer your services as a freelance book reviewer or editor. Many authors and publishers look for insightful feedback before publishing their works.
33. Voice-Over Artist
Use your distinctive voice to work as a voice-over artist for audiobooks, documentaries, commercials, or animation. This can be a fun and creative outlet, as well as a source of income.
34. Backyard Birding Consultant
If you're an avid bird watcher, offer your expertise to help others attract and identify birds in their backyards. You could provide personalized advice, create guides, or even host virtual bird-watching tours.
35. Personalized Board Game Creator
Design and sell board games tailored to clients' interests or family histories. This can include creating custom game pieces, cards, and rules that reflect the unique aspects of their lives or favorite hobbies.
36. Online Debate Moderator
Organize and moderate online debates on topics you're passionate about. Participants can pay to join these debates, which can be educational, entertaining, and a great way for people to engage with current issues.
37. Retirement Lifestyle Coach
Use your experience to coach others on making the most of their retirement. This can cover financial planning, health and wellness, finding new hobbies, or even how to start a home-based business.
38. Historical Letter Subscription Service
Create and send out monthly letters that mimic historical documents, letters from famous figures, or fictional correspondences from different eras. Subscribers can get a feel for different historical periods and enjoy the anticipation of each new letter.
39. Virtual Museum Docent
Offer virtual tours of museums you know well or have researched thoroughly. You can share insights, backstories, and detailed explanations of exhibits, appealing to history buffs and culture enthusiasts.
40. Curated Relaxation Soundscapes
Record and sell soundscapes or ambient noise collections that you've created. This could include nature sounds from your local area, guided meditations, or even narrated stories designed to help people relax or fall asleep.
Niche marketing is exciting. If you are knowledgeable about something, you can start writing about it and make yourself known to the world as an expert. If you have a hobby, if you have something that you care about, you can turn it into a website business.
And it is true - it is not about selling. People visit your website to solve their problems. If you have a website about handbags, you'll be helping people who are looking for a handbag to solve their problem; which handbag to buy. And most of you I hope, will find joy & happiness in sharing your knowledge with others. Because I find mine and get paid for it!
Kyle, the co-founder of Wealthy Affiliate says this;
Successful online marketers have 3 things in common.
- However successful they are, they have help & support from their own mentors.
- They never stop trying, testing, and learning. And they know how to do it right.
- They have their own website!
It's been over 2 years since I joined, and I still believe in Wealthy Affiliate. Absolutely.
Just google wealthy affiliate scam and you find many people complain about the place. They make you promote itself, people hardly make a success disillusioned and leave. Bitching free you joking? Full of troubles, man.
Hi Rakibul, thanks for your comment. I am aware of the people who complain about Wealthy Affiliate and feel sorry that it didn’t work out for them.
I’ve seen quite a few ‘loud-mouthed’ members who would cross the line and eventually leave. Typically they spend so much time with WA community, they would give us valuable tips & advice, but they would also create a drama by making unpleasant comments or attitude. Yes, bitching, but they would leave the membership shortly after that. We all join Wealthy Affiliate to learn how to make money online, but sadly some of them lose themselves in the social space…they HAVE TO say something back, while they should be working to monetise their website.
I would say to any newbie marketers in Wealthy Affiliate community (or any make-money-online community), every time you read a blog / Q&A / training or advice, ask yourself if the information was helpful to you. If yes, HOW can you apply it to your work? If there’s no clear answer, ignore and move on. Time is too precious to hang out in the community for so long.
Wealthy Affiliate does not make you promote itself – the referral commission is 50% of monthly recurring fee, which is great, and it teaches you how to promote it effectively. Who doesn’t?
Thanks again Rakibul for your opinion, if you need any more clarifications please don’t hesitate to leave another comment.
Ray
I can honestly say that Wealthy Affiliate has changed my life. The community is so supportive and helpful and I have learnt more in the last year than I have in the previous 5 probably!
It’s enabled me to work part-time now I’m making a little money from my blog. I think the people that write negative reviews and complain are the ones who didn’t truly give it a chance. It’s not a get-rich-quick-scheme and it takes perseverance but in my opinion this is one of the (many) great things about it!
If you work methodically through the training, take time to ask questions and dedicate yourself yo your blog you will make money, I can promise you.
Hi Louise, thanks for sharing your experience & opinion. It’s great to hear that you’ve made your success with your blog and that’s because of Wealthy Affiliate. Yes I agree, you need to work methodically through the training, not to become lazy by interpreting what’s been taught into some ‘convenient’ way you want.
I think people who write negative reviews are often referring something else other than the training. I’ve never seen anyone say negative about the WA weekly webinar by Jay, for example. And the webinar by itself is worth paying my membership fee for.
Thanks Louise, appreciate your comment!
Hi, Ray, thank you for such a inspiring sentences. I never heard about a wealthy affiliate but, I would like myself to be successful web and digital market expert in future. Please tell me what is the best study to do.
Thank you very much.
Tien
Hi Tien, thanks for visiting my site. Like I explained in my post, Wealthy Affiliate allows you to learn how to build your own website and promote a ‘niche’ that you’ve chosen – any subjects, hobbies, products or areas of interest that you have a knowledge of. And learn how to make your website appealing to the world at large. I believe there is the ‘best way to study’ in there. It’s free to join, so just take a look around. Thanks again for your comment!
Hello Ray. I saw your another website then I knew about this website. Very nice site and I like it. I also like your Wealthy Affiliate review because You are honest and you teach very good things so thank you very much. I am ready to join Wealthy Affiliate soon so please give me a help.
Hi Mai, thanks for your comment, I appreciate it. Good to hear that you’re ready to join Wealthy Affiliate. Don’t hesitate to contact me anytime and ask any questions. You can find me there! Thanks for your visit.
Hi Ray, it’s a nice invitation. Thank you. When I have more time I would love to start learning about affiliating.
Thanks Jane for leaving a comment. Whenever you’re ready to learn how to make money online, just give me a shout, I can help you get started (for free, of course!)
Hey, it’s good you enjoy the Wealthy Affiliate membership. I used to be a member and quit, I intend to start all over again. Good for you and wish me luck. Cheers 🙂
Hi Sacha, good luck! I hope you’ll enjoy using some new features in the platform. Any questions please don’t hesitate to ask!
Good job Ray, I know you support Wealthy Affiliate 100% and it’s an awesome community. Best of luck and best wishes. Martin
Thanks Martin, I appreciate your comment. I hope you’ll be able to get back rebuilding your website soon. If you need some help, I’m here for you. Give me a shout any time!
Can I ask a question about hiring someone to write a blog page. How easy is it to find and will it make money, I don’t have my website but if someone can write it for me and I can receive a good roi I will consider as my future main income source. If there is a possibility. Thanks.
Hi Jona, it’s easy to find a guest blogger, but you need to find someone with a good knowledge in SEO, who will charge you $50 or more per page, that’s not easy. And you can’t expect any income from it.
Nothing will happen overnight. First when you open your own website, you need to learn how to optimize it, ultimately means how to gain trust from search engines. You need to build your blog posts – write at least one post a week. A lot of new website owners write every day for the first month or so. Imagine paying 30 x guest bloggers, and there’s no guarantee or whatsoever it will allow you to make money.
Sorry to disappoint you! But you do need to learn technique and keep working on your site, just like any other work. I hope this makes sense but if you have any more questions please don’t hesitate to get back to me. Thanks for your visit!
I have tried Wealthy Affiliate like 3 years ago and couldn’t finish the training. It takes a lot of determination to start I guess. I should go back when I’m ready and would like to earn passive income. Is it possible to start again and get the first 7 days free? Thanks I appreciate.
Hi Sarah, thanks for your comment. Whenever you’re ready, you can take your own good time to learn affiliate marketing from WA. Just to clarify – you can stay as a free member as long as you like. If you become a premium member in the first 7 days, you’ll get 56%+ discount, that’s all it is. So when you log back in using the same email address, your account should still be there. Take your time and whenever you can afford to pay the monthly fee, you can become a premium and move on to less 2 onwards. If you need any help, don’t hesitate to ask me any time. Thanks for your visit!
I am desperate for a success to make money. Working from home. I tried more than 2 years and spend more money than make. I made about $1000 in total but spend maybe $5000 or more. Please if I may have your advice. I am not in USA.
Thank you. Ray.
Zan
Hi Zan, thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you’ve been making a loss in online marketing that way. It is crucial to monitor your expenses as well as income, important to prepare a plan and stay focused. Join Wealthy Affiliate then I’ll take you through. Or email me with any specific questions any time. Good luck!