Whether you’re looking for a part-time gig to bring in extra income or want to build a full-fledged business, there are plenty of ways to make an extra $500, $1,000, $5,000 or more right from the comfort of your home.

Or you are a busy mother, a stay at home father, a college student, or just want to earn some extra money – doing some extra work can help you make money from home.

You won’t make a fortune from these ideas, but they’re by far some of the easiest ways to bring in an income from home. Let us now take a look at some of these opportunities to make money from home.

• 30 Easy Ways to Make Money From Home in The US
• What Are the highest-paying work-from-home jobs
• How to Make $100 a Day Online

30 Easy Ways to Make Money From Home in The US

Some of these ideas will just make you a few bucks a month, but others can become powerful moneymakers depending on the time you have to invest in them.

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Read on to find out about some of the exciting ways to make money from home.

1. Watch movie previews, YouTube, and like videos

Do you like watching videos in your free time? Now, you can get paid for watching videos including movie previews, news, celebrity videos, and all kinds of other videos.

Sites like Swagbucks ask you to watch certain videos and like them. You have to watch for a certain number of minutes which you’ll be told ahead of time. You could earn over $200 a month (earnings vary).  

You’ll earn Swagbucks for watching (points that can be redeemed for gift cards or Paypal). You can get $5 just for signing up!

2. Sign up for free gift cards

Rakuten will give you a $10 gift card when you sign up and earn your first cashback rebate. It’s great for online shoppers. Rakuten is free to use.

You just visit the Rakuten website and click through to the store you want to shop at. If you buy from the store Rakuten gets a commission that they split with you.  It’s an easy way to save.

3. Download and install these apps

A lot of companies – including Google – pay you for installing their apps. Moreover, you get paid for each month the apps are installed on your phone. Some of these sites include:

• ShopTracker – Answer a few questions then launch the app on your device, and you’ll earn $3.00 instantly.  Keep the app on your phone to earn money each month and help companies understand what people are buying online.
• Nielsen Mobile Panel – From the people that run Nielsen TV ratings, the Nielsen mobile app rewards you for using your mobile device. You can earn up to $50 a year.
• MobileXpression – Install this app and you’ll be eligible to win prizes each week. You get to play an instant rewards game by participating in market research.

4. Test websites for $30 an hour

Ever visit a website and you thought about how bad or how great it was? Now you can get paid to share your thoughts.

Just open a website, click around, and get paid. New or updated website owners compensate you to test their sites.

For example with User Testing you can earn almost $30 for an hour. Here’s how it works:

• You get paid $10 via PayPal for every 20-minute video you complete.
• UserTesting pays you to visit websites or apps, complete a set of tasks, and record your thoughts.

While you’re visiting a website your screen will be recorded as well as your voice. Their clients include Apple, Microsoft, Adobe, and other Fortune 500 companies.  How would you like a few bucks to share your thoughts

5. Get paid for being healthy

The health app AchieveMint gives you points for being healthy and doing things like walking, tracking your food, or taking health surveys.  You earn points which can be redeemed for cash or Amazon Gift Cards.  For every 10,000 points, you earn $10 and there is no limit on your earnings.

AchieveMint connects to the fitness apps you may already be using including Fitbit, RunKeeper, Healthkit, and MyFitnessPal.

You can earn 10 points just for signing up with AchieveMint and connecting an app.

6. Become a freelancer or freelance writer

Doing freelance work can greatly increase your income. Are you a stay at home mom with an English degree or a guy who naturally can find mistakes in written text?

Huge and trustworthy sites like Upwork have thousands of employers who want to hire for all kinds of tasks where you can write or edit about anything from technology to business articles. Get paid for every single article. Get a great reputation and you can turn this into a full-time job

7. Become a virtual assistant

Work for someone from home. Virtual assistances (VAs) can do everything from checking emails and making travel plans to handling internet research or working for their small business.  High-end earners can command $50-$100 an hour.

Some reputable sites are Zirtual and Upwork

8. Tutoring

Give private tuition classes at your home and use your SAT knowledge. Choose your schedule, if you have some imperative routine tasks.

Or rather, go for online tutoring and earn $20 per hour on Chegg Tutors.

9. Change your search engine

Do you use Google or Yahoo to search for something on the net? Now, leave them behind and opt for the Bing search engine.

Conduct your regular searches on Bing, make it your default search engine, and earn credits that can be redeemed for gift cards. You can earn as much as $5 to $10 per month. Tip: Just stay signed-in, when you perform a search.

Another option is Nielsen Digital Voice. Digital Voice is a part of Nielsen – the big company that publishes T.V. ratings. Just surf the web and you may be able to start earning money.

10. Work for Amazon

Pick micro tasks from Amazon Mechanical Turk. These are services that require human interaction. You can work from home, flexible hours and get paid by one of the world’s largest retailers.

Here are some examples of tasks workers have completed:

• Select the correct spelling for these search terms
• Is this website suitable for a general audience?
• Find the item number for the product in this image
• Rate the search results for these keywords
• Are these two products the same?
• Choose the appropriate category for products
• Categorize the tone of this article
• Translate a paragraph from English to French

11. Data entry

Use your accurate and quick typing skills to enter information. Go through Craigslist or Upwork and find data entry and administrative jobs for yourself. These jobs can be easily done through telecommuting

12. Online juror

Do you love Law and Order? Ever wanted to sit in a courtroom and decide if someone is innocent or guilty?

eJury provides an attorney the opportunity to “pre-try” the case before it goes to trial in front of an actual jury at the courthouse.

eJurors review facts and answer the questions, and click a “Submit Verdict” button upon completion.

For each verdict rendered, eJurors are paid $5 – $10 depending on the length of the case. You certainly won’t get rich serving as an eJuror, but just one case a week would probably pay for your Internet access.

13. At-home daycare

If you are home with your children, why not start an at home daycare.

They are highly sought out in our area of Dallas because people like that they are close and that there are much fewer children involved that a more corporate daycare.

You will need to get a certification from your state, but you can make big bucks caring for children while getting to spend the day with your children as well.

14. Transcriptionist

Even if you don’t like your writing skills or have a programming talent, you can still do freelance transcription. Transcribing is detailed work, but luckily you can do it any time of night or day.

15. Cook

A college student makes the most beautiful cookies and finds events to sell them all year long – birthdays, holidays, football parties, the list is endless.

Some people love to cook and bake. If this is you, consider running a catering business from your kitchen. Bake cakes or cookies for birthday parties, dinners, or other events.

Make sure to abide by the food safety laws and have fun.

There are many moms who don’t have time to make homemade food for bake sales and parties and families who want a holiday feast without the trouble.

16. Flea market tossing or flipping

If you have a crafty side, put it to good use. Visit the nearest flea market, Craigslist, or Freecycle.org and buy some interesting items, restore them, add your special touch, and resell them for a profit.

Think about refinishing tables or converting old plates into art. Turn trash into treasure.

If you need ideas, check out Pinterest. It has a world of ideas, and you’d be surprised how much people will pay for a custom baby nursery lamp or a re-stained bar from the 70s.

If you enjoy this type of work, consider starting an Etsy store. One of my wife’s friends felt staying home with her two boys was great, but she missed having an artistic outlet.

She researched what was popular on Etsy and started making artistic versions of people’s photos. It only took a few months for her shop to become as busy.

17. Sell online

A garage sale might not be your style, or maybe you only have a few really nice things you want to sell. Consider selling on Ebay, Craigslist, and Facebook groups.

A stay at home mom sold some Kate Spade purses that she no longer used and made much more by using Ebay than trying to sell locally. She started by asking a very low price for the purses and the bidding drove the price up much higher than she expected.

18. Sell your snapshots

Do you have some random pictures lying somewhere or taking computer space? Sell them on stock photo sites like Shutterstock.

Such websites purchase photos from anyone. Even if you feel that the images are not worth selling, just give it a try. Very often, the most neglected pictures of everyday objects do the trick, like a simple pen and paper.

19. Start a side business

Become an online personal stylist or the many other options to start something on the side. It will take effort, but there are many different routes you can go.

You can work with an existing company, like Avon, Jamberry, and Stitch Fix, which will help you get started. Or find a need in your community that might need addressing. Do local companies need your accounting skills?

20. Get Money Back Instantly For Stuff You’ve Already Bought

Do you love getting refunds? How cool would it be to get money back on stuff you’ve already bought? Paribus is a service that lets you find out if stores you’ve shopped at online owe you a refund.  

It’s free to sign up. Paribus connects to your email account and checks your receipts.  If they find out a retailer has dropped their price they file a price adjustment claim for you.

Paribus works with a huge number of merchants that you probably already shop at, including Walmart, Costco, Best Buy, Target, Apple, Kohl’s, and more!

21. Trade cryptocurrency

As the digital world evolves, so does our currency. What seemed like a novelty yesterday will ultimately become the preferred medium for money. A Gallop poll found that 10 percent of people claimed to use cash as their preferred payment method in 2016 (down from 19 percent in 2011). 

While cryptocurrency is still relatively new, it will ultimately become the standard. Bitcoin and Etherium might be the primary cryptocurrency platforms today, but the US Dollar will eventually become the Digital Dollar by leveraging the blockchain.

You can take advantage of the current boom in cryptocurrency by trading it through platforms like eToro and Kraken, amongst many others. 

22. Sell services on Fiverr

Fiverr has grown significantly since its inception. Today, it’s a vast marketplace where you can sell just about any service under the sun. This is great if you’re looking to make money online as a digital nomad or even while sitting at home on your laptop while in your pajamas. 

What, specifically, can you sell on Fiverr? Anything from graphics and design services, to digital marketing, writing and translation services, video and animation services, music and audio, programming and application development, business services and lifestyle services that includes anything from celebrity impressions to gaming.

23. Rent out your home

Another way you can make money at home is to actually rent out your home. AirBnB has carved a sizable industry out of vacation rentals. While the market did exist prior to AirBnB’s arrival, it’s certainly grown by leaps and bounds since its arrival on the scene.

In 2017, AirBnB purchased luxury vacation rental provider, Luxury Retreats, and other consolidations in the marketplace have happened with leading sites like InvitedHome’s acquisition of PPG rentals and Seasoned Dreams’ platforms, and Expedia’s $3.9 billion acquisition of another vacation rental giant, HomeAway.

The market is booming and the time is ripe for entry, no matter how big or small your home or condo might be. 

24. Start a blog

Blogs are quite possibly one of the best ways to earn a passive income, even while traveling the world. While starting a blog might be simple you will need to put in the work and the effort in order to reap the benefits. Plant the seeds now to enjoy the harvest later.

However, once that blog gets going, generating an income and scaling out your business is straightforward. Simply produce more content and line up more offers.

As your blog grows in popularity, you’ll also be able to attract top talent willing to write for you simply in exchange for one very powerful link back to their own websites.

25. Launch an ecommerce site

Ecommerce is booming. While Amazon takes the lion’s share, consumers are buying by the droves when they can scoop up great offers.

In fact, some of the leading online marketers like Neil Patel, Frank Kern, Dean Graziosi, David Sharpe, John Reese and many others, are using free-plus-shipping ecommerce and book funnels to make small fortunes.

This comes back to the implementation of sales funnels within an ecommerce environment. In fact, much of what people think about traditional ecommerce stores taking months or even years to build and costing a small fortune simply isn’t true.

26. Build sales funnels

Every successful business has an automated sales funnel. Yet, so many businesses are completely unaware of the power of an effective funnel. Sales funnels provide automation in the sales process.

They help you build a relationship with your audience and develop a bond with the consumer. There are plenty of tools you can use to build a sales funnel, but the world’s most successful businesses often create custom-coded funnels.

Expert sales funnels often start with a free offer, also called the lead magnet. By delivering value in the lead magnet, you’re creating trust with the consumer. In the next step, you’d usually find what’s called a self-liquidating offer or a trip wire.

These are deals that are hard to pass up, often for $7 to $47. The front-end offer is usually found beyond that along with one-time offers to help boost the lifetime value of the customer and the average cart value.

While there are considerable technique details when it comes to sales funnels, understanding them today, right now, could set you up for a higher degree of online marketing prowess. It’ll also help you scale your business by optimizing a conversion rate, then simply expanding your ad spend.

27. Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing presents a very low friction entry into selling products online. While you do need some type of audience to sell these products or services to, you could make a significant amount of money from home while doing it.

Some products or services have very high earnings per click. That means, if you play your cards right, you could easily make a large profit on conversions by driving traffic to specific offers as long as you target the right interests.

You can find affiliate marketing offers on sites like ClickBank, CJ.com and Rakuten LinkShare, amongst many others. Search for the right offer and ensure that you present it to the right audience and don’t spam people about it. Do your marketing ethically

28. Freelance Proofreading

Freelance proofreaders draw on the same skills and competencies as freelance writers and editors, but their career paths are distinct.

The best way for someone new to the freelance proofreading game to get started (even with prior writing or editing experience) is to invest in a proofreading course to establish credibility with potential employers. 

Proofread Anywhere is a great example. With free introductory modules, there’s no obligation if you decide the gig isn’t for you.

Though the niche is surprisingly varied, proofreading jobs generally fall into two broad categories: general proofreading and technical proofreading. The former covers non-technical, relatively unspecialized media like blogs and books.

The latter covers transcripts and other technical materials; court reporters, for instance, are seasoned technical proofreaders. Which you choose depends on your innate strengths as a proofreader and what you’re hoping to get out of the job.

Technical proofreading is harder to break into but typically pays better; general proofreading is more competitive but easier to launch.

29. Rent out your car

If you have a personal vehicle, you can rent it out to travelers and people who don’t own their own cars – without getting behind the wheel or even leaving your house.

Car rental apps abound. Before you choose one, read the fine print and make sure it has adequate liability insurance that protects you in the event of a serious accident involving injuries and property damage. 

Getaround has a good reputation and a relatively long track record. According to its website, car owners in high-demand cities such as San Francisco can earn up to $10,000 per year. That’s a pretty impressive passive income stream. Another option to consider is Turo.

30. Turn Your Extra Space Into a Storage Unit

Do you have an under-utilized garage, shed, basement, or attic? Are you willing to clean it up? Then you’re a good fit for Neighbor.com, a P2P platform that connects folks who need extra storage space with those who have it in spades (and aren’t using it themselves).

Neighbor.com advertises rental rates at 50% of the going rate for self-storage units, though you’ll earn a bit less than that after the platform takes its cut. Still, that’s quite a bit of passive income for doing basically nothing at all.

What Are the highest-paying work-from-home jobs

If you’re looking for a job that offers both flexibility and healthy pay, now is the perfect time to put yourself in the job market.

Several industries, including tech, finance and medicine are now providing increased flexibility to its employees in an effort to hire and retain top talent.

Job search site Glassdoor highlights that telemedicine, an industry which allows medical professionals to communicate with patients remotely, is expected to grow 19% between 2018 and 2025.

Each of these positions offers a wide salary range depending on experience, but they all offer the potential to earn $90,000 per year, or more. 

Take a look at the below list of eight high-paying work-from-home jobs you should consider applying to today:

1. Project Manager

Salary range: $51,000-$111,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, project managers are tasked with ensuring that projects are completed on time, helping to solve specific roadblocks that team members face and monitoring the overall budget for a project.

2. Full Stack Web Developer

Salary range: $50,000-$117,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, full stack web developers must be proficient in several computer languages, and they must be able to work with databases, servers and systems engineering.

3. Physician

Salary range: $119,000-$303,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, physicians must have a bachelor’s degree, at least four years of medical school and roughly three to seven years of residency training.

4. Senior Software Engineer

Salary range: $94,000-$166,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, senior software engineers must have a deep knowledge of a number of different programming languages, as well as knowledge about software development and computer operating systems.

5. Client Services Director

Salary range: $76,000-$160,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, client services directors help to maintain long-term relationships with clients and find solutions to client issues.

6. UX Designer

Salary range: $62,000-$130,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, UX designers design and test the user-friendliness of a product and the branding of a product to ensure that it is enjoyable for consumers.

7. Business Development Manager

Salary range: $49,000-$118,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, business development managers are responsible for creating sales opportunities with both existing and new clients, as well as creating new business strategies for a company to increase its sales.

8. Account Manager

Salary range: $39,000-$90,000

Description: According to Glassdoor, the responsibilities of an account manager can vary depending on industry. But, in most cases, account managers are tasked with managing and solving client issues, reaching company sales targets and maintaining a good relationship between the client and the company.

How to Make $100 a Day Online

1. Become a Shopper

If you love shopping around, how about doing it for others? With Instacart you will work as an independent contractor delivering groceries for other people.

There’s great potential to make good money. You could make up to $25 per hour during busy times, although the average is between $10 to $20 per hour.

It couldn’t be easier:  you get offered the order, you shop the order, you get paid!

You make your own schedule and pick your orders and the flexibility is what makes it so great, especially if you have limited time or are a stay at home mum or a student.

2. Get paid to watch videos online

InboxDollars is a cool website to make some cash with surveys, but you can also make money by watching movie previews, TV shows, celebrity videos, the latest news, and many other videos. Plus, you’ll get a bonus $5 just for signing up.

But how does it work?

Simply head to InboxDollars.com and login to see the list of videos available for you to watch. You’ll watch videos on your phone or laptop. InboxDollars then rewards you for watching them with your choice of free cash or gift cards for popular brands.

You need to watch all of the shows in a specific playlist, so be prepared and get the popcorn ready! You can check out how long the playlist runs before you start watching, and playlists range from a few minutes to about a half-hour.

3. Wrap your car

Do you own a car? How about placing advertising on it and get paid?  With Wrapify you can get paid up to $452 for having your car wrapped with an ad.

You need to download the Wrapify app, then they will track your journeys until you reach 50 miles. Once you reach 50 miles you are eligible to take part in a campaign. Each campaign will place ads on your car for 1 to 12 months.

During that time you will be earning free money every month!

To be eligible to take part in a campaign you need to:

• Be 21 or older
• Have a clean driving (and criminal) record
• Have a car that is from 2008 or newer

4. Freelancing

If you have some skills, you could put them to good use and do some extra freelance work from home!

There are plenty of websites that will help you to find a side job to work part-time from home. You can work for a few hours a day as a proofreader, virtual assistant, writer, social media manager, tutor, transcriptionist…

The options are infinite, and you could be making up to $100 an hour!

The best way to find freelancing gigs is to register to these great websites:

• Flexjobs
• Weworkremotly.com
• Remote.co

5. Pet sitting

If you love animals, pet sitting is a great way to make extra money.

Pet sitting is extremely flexible because you decide when to do it and you can fit it around your own schedule. It’s easy to do even if you work full time, as you can spend time during the weekend looking after our little friends.

Rover is the perfect place to start!

It offers different services to pet owners and, once you have registered with them, you will be able to decide which one you want to offer to your potential clients:

• Dog walking
• Doggy daycare
• House-sitting
• Dog boarding

6. Get Paid to Listen to Music

If you are a music fan, you will love this! This really is one of the most creative ways to make money.

Slicethepie.com is the largest paid review site on the internet. You earn cash for every review you leave! Log in and start reviewing unsigned artists and bands to earn some extra cash.

Read Also: How to Earn Income With Digital Games Distribution Marketplace

The better your review, the bigger the bonus payment. Slicethepie.com encourages people to leave detailed reviews and will reward them for their time/effort!

You will get paid through PayPal once you reach the minimum payment of $10.

Slicethepie.com also offers a referral program: if any of your friends sign up using your referral code and write reviews, then you’ll receive a bonus payment for every review they submit.

7. Monetize a YouTube channel

Do you know how much money YouTubers make?

A lot!

And yes, starting a YouTube channel isn’t for anyone and it will take time. But if this is something you always wanted to do, now it’s the best time to start.

Google made a whopping $15.5 billion in ad revenue in 2019, up 36% compared to the year before! And a lot this money (55%) goes directly into YouTubers’ pockets.

8. Get paid by searching online

We all spend hours every day searching online.

And guess what?

Swagbucks will pay you to use its search engine. They will also give you a $5 bonus if you sign up by clicking my Swagbucks $5 bonus link.

This is probably one of the easiest ideas to make money in a day we found!

9. Sell your photos

Do you love taking pictures? 

Did you know you can sell them to stock photo agencies and make money?

You don’t have to be a professional to sell your photos and you still have the opportunity to earn some money, even if you are just a novice.

Most websites pay you based on the number of downloads: you get paid a percentage every time someone downloads one of your pictures.

Best websites to sell your photos online:

• Shutterstock
• iStock
• Adobe Stock

10. Do Small Tasks For Others

The world is full of people that don’t have time to do small chore-type tasks like data entry, picking up groceries, cleaning their garden, or putting together furniture.

If you are up to running some errands for others, you can easily make some money on websites like:

• TaskRabbit: this is one of the best websites, with a high variety of tasks but there is a $20 non-refundable registration fee to pay when you register to become a tasker.
• Fiverr
• Thumbtack
• Gigwalk

Conclusion

Remember, if you want to make money you need to put in the work. No one gives money away for free.

Whether you want to start your own side gig or a small business, find out what you enjoy and pick your favorite idea to make more money in your spare time.