- Welcome to the Journey.
Today we'll be talking about the best home businesses.
- With low startup costs.
- You may have been wanting
to start your own home-based business for some time.
Now with the power of the Internet,
it's easier than ever to start one.
- Yeah, in your pajamas.
- So we're gonna be talking about four different categories.
First, writing.
- Ooh, I love writing.
- You could be a freelance writer.
- A poet.
- Editor, blogger or even self-publish your own Kindle book.
- Oh yeah, and I heard you can earn up to 70%
of the royalties, you guys.
- Cha-ching.
- Lucrative.
- So Emma, if you were to write a book,
do you know what you would write about?
- Ooh, way to put me on the spot.
Something that I enjoy, something that I know a lot about.
Vegan cooking 'cause then I can incorporate pizza
and also I do it at home all the time.
So yeah, maybe just vegan cooking.
Fast, easy, efficient, fun, and healthy.
- And I like that, and especially the fact
that this is something you know about.
All right, so next category, services.
You could be a virtual assistant or a social media manager.
- Ooh, yeah, definitely.
If you think about that, that's something a lot
of people don't want to do and they know it's important,
so you offer to do it for them and make some money.
- And you're saving people time.
One of the most important commodities, I think,
we all have, but never have enough of.
The virtual assistant, you can schedule
people's appointments, you can book things
with them like the travel.
Get all these things done so that they can actually spend
their time being more productive doing other things.
- I spend so much time organizing
and reorganizing my calendar that like I feel good about
what I'm getting done in the day, but I don't know if,
I'm thinking, if someone just did
that for me and helped me--
- [Sam] You'd be a lot more productive.
- Yeah, a virtual assistant.
Yeah, I'd be a lot more productive.
- And the great thing is you can do it from home.
You don't even have to leave your couch
or you can do it from wherever you want.
- We could do it right now.
- We could, and speaking of working from anywhere,
the next opportunity you could have is the data entry.
You can do this at home, coffee shops.
- By the beach.
That makes data entry a little more fun.
- Now, it can be something that's routine, mundane.
It's all right.
At the same time, you can, don't have to put a lot of effort
into it, but you can also do other things at the same time.
Listening to a podcast.
- Catching some rays.
- Exactly, and believe it or not, we have a video
on being a digital nomad.
- Oh, that's right.
- Right over here.
- Next, graphic design or even web development.
Again, something that you can just do from home.
If you have a love for graphic design and being on the web,
these are areas that you can actually jump into.
- Also, which falls under services, a couple
of my friends do this, they're pet sitters or dog walkers.
I mean, what a fun job to do.
I love animals.
- Yes, I have three dogs.
I'm a doggy dad.
- You have three dogs?
- Three dogs.
- Do you have a pet sitter or a dog sitter?
- We do.
While I'm here making these great videos for you all,
someone's watching our pets.
So next, event or wedding planner.
These are very good if you are savvy
at getting things together, being creative, taking charge,
and making sure that things happen on time
and hopefully under budget.
- Yeah, I mean, for me I'm all about the great party
or walking down that aisle one day,
but I don't want to plan the whole thing.
Throw me a good party, I'll hire you,
but I'm just gonna do the falling in love part.
- And it does take away some of that time, frustration
for planning from others along with the budget constraints.
So you can actually focus on just doing
a wedding planning business or you can open it up
to all kinds of events.
- Ooh, and another great one in the services,
private chef or caterer.
I think about that sometimes just when I'm at home looking
up meals and my friends will stop by.
They're also like remote, and they're like, oh,
you should do this for bigger.
That would stress me out, but for anyone else out there
who's great at cooking this is a great service you can offer
from your home if you in fact are skilled in the kitchen.
- And you can have one client
that you prepare multiple meals for.
- Oh, that's a good point.
- Or you can have different families that you're serving
at different times of the month.
- Ooh, and another great one that my mom's best friend
recently started doing is have an Airbnb.
She lives alone in this beautiful Victorian home.
It's painted purple.
It's got a ton of character.
I know, it's--
- My wife's favorite color is purple.
- Oh well, if you're ever in Indiana,
go check out Lou Ann's Airbnb, but anyways,
it's a beautiful home and she so kindly opens her doors
for an Airbnb and she meets amazing people from all
over the world that come through, surprisingly, Indiana,
the crossroads of America.
So this is just another great idea and also,
now that reminds me, my mom helps out with the Airbnb
because she has such a skillset of cleaning.
Like this woman actually likes to clean and enjoys it.
So she helps her best friend with the Airbnb
with that skillset of just, hey, I like to clean,
so after your guests leave, I'll handle that.
- Nice.
Next category, selling.
Now, if you are really creative and you can make things
with your hands and it's very unique,
Etsy could be the place for you
and it could give you an opportunity to have an outlet
to actually make that income from home.
- Could you make anything?
- No, I cannot.
- Nothing?
- Nothing.
- I'm trying to think what I could do.
I could paint you a picture.
- But I can make these videos.
- Yeah, ooh, Sam, here's another one of my favorites.
Online consignment.
Oh my gosh, you could go just through your own closet
or your parents' and find some old gems
that you could sell for money.
Also you could go and actually thrift.
You know, find that great leather jacket
or that designer shirt or shoes and then put it online.
There's a ton of apps to sell used clothing,
consignment, high fashion.
- Yeah, OfferUp.
You can go on Facebook Marketplace
and even offer your items there as well,
and if you are pretty good in the kitchen similar
to that private chef and caterer,
you can also sell your baked goods online.
This is something great to do because a lot of coffee shops,
they don't actually bake their own goods.
- Oh, that's a great point.
When I worked at a coffee shop, we had a cabinet of donuts
to scones to bagels and they all came
from other people or businesses, yeah.
- Right, a lot of these businesses use other vendors
to supply them with these baked goods,
and last category, teaching
You can be an online teacher or a tutorer.
It gives you a lot of flexibility
and it's definitely in demand.
You can be teaching others that don't have English
as their first language, you can teach them English.
- True, have you ever taught someone?
- I did.
- What'd you teach?
- Math.
- How was that?
- Hated it.
- Hated it?
- Next, you can actually create online courses.
- Oh, good point.
- Everything that we just talked about.
Baking, graphic design, blogging.
Whatever you are good at, you can make a video
and instruct people on how to do it.
- That's very true, and I love that.
I love taking in a lot of information,
skills from the privacy of my home on my couch.
I want to learn another language that way.
I don't want to go out somewhere.
Give me an online course.
I'm a Millennial.
- My wife is actually a fitness instructor
and she's able to do a lot of different things
that she's passionate about, either working in a gym
or even having your own clients on the side.
- Didn't she pick up a client when she was here?
- She did.
- And you guys live in Austin, Texas.
- We're in Kirkland and she picked up.
Okay, just checking, thought that happened.
- It gives you a lot of flexibility.
You don't have to be local to one area,
but you can do it wherever.
There's parks that you can actually work out in.
There's people's homes.
Like we said before, you can go and actually have
different classes or personal instruction there.
- I've done some yoga classes that way.
Yeah, so like I decided in 2019,
it's the year of the hamstrings.
I was like, oh yeah, I want to work on my hamstrings
and I want to focus on it, but I want to just do it
from the privacy of my home
and not spend a ton on a membership.
So I watched online little videos, classes, if you will,
on how to do this.
- Next is music teacher.
- Can you play an instrument?
- No, I cannot.
- Can you sing?
- No, I cannot.
- Okay, carry on.
- So on that same note, get it, carry on, sing?
But anyhow, if you know how to instruct people
to play an instrument, this is something you can do
or if you know how to give voice lessons, help people
to sing, like myself, carry a tune,
that's also something you can do.
You can go to the nonprofits like churches
or you can go to schools, teaching elementary.
You know, kids, a lot of parents love
to get their children involved in those things.
They're looking for someone that can spark that creativity
in that young child's life.
- Yeah, that would really help my karaoke game.
- Oh yeah.
- Some voice lessons.
- So in order to get a lot of this started,
you can join freelance websites like Upwork,
Fiverr, Guru, freelancer.com.
They'll be a great opportunity
because you already have people there looking for services,
so you might as well use it to market yourself.
So that's a wrap.
Today you just learned the best home-based business.
- With low startup costs.
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