Does working from home or any remote location of your choice, while dictating your schedule and having complete control over your career sound good?
If so, you should consider starting an online career. It’s a lot easier than you might think -- thanks to the internet, it’s actually quite simple, requiring much less startup capital than you might imagine.
With a combination of drive, determination and skill, your online career can start almost
immediately. Here are ten that you could literally start today.
1. Virtual assistant
With so many companies operating these days without a physical office
location, it has opened up multiple remote opportunities for virtual assistants to handle a wide range of tasks. These include customer
service duties, answering phones, setting appointments and screening emails.
You can start small with a single client and then once you identify your specialty or an area you want to focus on -- social media customer service, for example -- you can then begin to take on more clients, thus increasing yourearning potential.
2. Business coach
If you are an expert in a particular field leverage your knowledge and become a coach, teaching students form all over the world. The
internet allows you to reach anyone that is interested, regardless of their geographical location. Take fellow Entrepreneur
contributor Timothy Sykes for example. He is a very successful penny stock trader that used his
knowledge and expertise to create a program that teaches his strategies to students that sign up for his challenge program.
3. Freelance content creator
Virtually every business is doing some form of content marketing these days -- it’s been the buzzword for the past several years, but for good reason -- it works. With everyone trying to capture attention, demand for excellent writers is at an all time high.
Anyone can publish content, but very few businesses are creating compelling content that commands attention and converts their audience into revenue. If you are a skilled
writer there is plenty of lucrative opportunities waiting for you.
4. eBay store owner
Gary Vaynerchuk is a huge fan of garage sales, saying, “The garage sale eBay conversion has some of the biggest margins in the world.” The concept is very simple: buy low and sell high.
This is also a very viable option if you’re looking to raise startup funds. It’s a great bridge for those looking to start an online career but don’t want to abandon the security and paycheck of a 9 to 5 job, because you can hit garage sales on
the weekend and handle your auction listings in the evening.
5. T-shirt ecommerce store
With several print on demand solutions available, it makes starting a t-shirt company much more affordable than it was years ago. In the past, you would have to order large quantities of shirts, in multiple colors and sizes, forcing you to guess what was going to sell.
Now, creative designs and the power of social media can get a t-shirt brand up and running -- and generating revenue -- almost overnight. Chummy Tees is a great example of how you can turn catchy tag-lines and creative designs into a profitable online business.
