Online jobs that you can do from home

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7 online jobs that you can do from home

If you are unemployed or looking for a respite from your 9 to 5, are unable to commute to work, or wants to do work from home, or have some other constraint that prevents you from finding a full-time job, there’s no need to waste your earning potential.

There are plenty of opportunities available online that let you work from home. Here are a few options you can consider.

1. Translating
   If you are bilingual or trilingual, this might be the opportunity for you. While being fluent in English and one or two Indian languages might serve you well enough, taking a language course can add significantly to your earning potential.

Plenty of international businesses, scholars and authors would be willing to enlist your services for their translation needs if you can prove your proficiency. To start earning, enlist on a popular freelancing site like Upwork.com or Fiverr.com, listing the languages you are proficient in.

Potential earnings: Rs 2-Rs 5 per word. It can go up to Rs 10 for some languages.

1. Making youtube videos
   YouTube is both popular and easily accessible. If you’re not camera shy or are good in making videos, it might be the right platform for you. Choose a category or subject that you want to make videos on and get started, but make sure it’s a topic that’ll interest a lot of people.

Everything from pranking shows to cooking shows can find many takers on YouTube. You don’t even need to have professional equipment or a proper set-up to record videos—a mid-range smartphone will suffice. You have to create a YouTube channel, which works on a similar model as a blog—as you make your channel popular and the number of subscribers grows, so will your earning potential. YouTube offers many earning opportunities once you gain popularity by uploading videos regularly and good stuff.

Potential Earning: Rs 100-300 per 1,000 views.

1. Selling your products online
   Whether you have a penchant for crafts or are particularly good at choosing fabrics and creating ensembles, there is probably a market for your products. Once you decide on what you want to sell, create an inventory by buying the products wholesale, or producing a good number of them to keep up with orders, and then set the prices you want to sell them at.

To sell these items, you can register on the website of any popular online like Flipkart, eBay, Amazon etc to smaller portals like indiamart.com. These websites might charge a small amount for hosting your products. Once you get an order, pack your products and keep it ready for the logistics partner of the chosen portal to pick it up and deliver it for you. You will receive the payment within a week after a given order is completed.

Potential earnings: Earnings vary according to products and pricing. After the portal’s small fee is deducted, the rest of the revenue is yours.

1. Virtual assistantship
   Professionals, Entrepreneurs and small startup teams often need assistance with various administrative tasks.

These could include scheduling meetings, getting in touch with clients and investors, following up on orders, creating business documents like PowerPoint presentations and Excel sheets, managing blogs and websites, etc. Virtual assistants (VAs) work remotely with such clients, managing the aspects of their business or practice that they are too busy to handle themselves.

Becoming a VA can entail some degree of training or briefing, depending on your qualifications. However, if you have good communication skills and are capable of using applications like MS Office, you can just sign up on sites such as Zirtual.com and Elance.Com and start looking for work as a VA.

Potential earnings: VA professional can earn good amount of money. You can earn up to 3000 per hour.

1. Web development
   Do you have some understanding of coding and web design? Then you can easily work from home as a web developer. Even if you are a novice who is interested in the job, you can find dozens of easy online tutorials that can help you get started. Web development is usually outsourced by companies and is, therefore, an area where finding work should be easy.

However, keep in mind that there are plenty of freelance web developers out there who can give you a run for your money. It’s important to find your niche, build a good reputation and keep your pricing reasonable.

Potential earnings: Depending on the client and job, a single project can fetch you anywhere between Rs 10,000 and Rs 1 lakh.

6)Online tutoring
If you already have some tutoring experience or are an expert in a particular subject, you can earn by tutoring people online. Sign up on websites like MyPrivateTutor.com, BharatTutors.com, tutorindia.net as an online tutor, create a profile listing the subjects or classes you want to teach, how much experience you have, what your qualifications are, etc.

Once your details are checked and approved, you will have to take an online test or give a telephonic interview in order to be selected. If academic tutoring is not your cup of tea, portals like Udemy let you have your own virtual classroom for anything that can be taught, from cooking to yoga.

Potential earnings: Beginners can make around Rs 200 per hour, which can increase to Rs 500 as you gain experience and expertise.

1. Data entry
   Although this line of work is seriously threatened by automation, there are still plenty of data entry jobs available. It is one the simplest jobs you can do online and requires no special skills. You just have to have a computer, and Internet connection, fast typing skills, and the ability to pay attention to details.

Most freelancing websites list these jobs, and you can sign up on any of them to start working. The client provides printed or scanned sheets of data that needs to be entered into a digital format. This simple task can fetch you a steady income while working from home on a flexible schedule.

Potential Earnings: Rs 300 to Rs 1,500 per hour.

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