- You know what?
It's never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.
Think about the amazing gift we have with internet.
Think about the fact
that right now there's just an abundance
of opportunity with the online marketplace,
and there are more free resources,
there are open source tools, there are free platforms
for you to market yourself.
There is so much opportunity right now,
and you could be taking advantage of it.
In today's video, I'm gonna give you 10 ideas
for at-home businesses that you can start right now,
and not all of them require you to be tech savvy,
but I do believe that you should embrace
and take advantage of the technology and tools of our time
in order to help you get started.
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Let's get into today's video.
Hey everybody, this is Roberto Blake
helping you create something awesome today.
Welcome back to the channel.
For those of you who have no clue who I am
and you just clicked on this video
for whatever reason, first of all welcome.
Thank you for taking the time.
My name's Roberto Blake.
I am a creative entrepreneur, I'm a public speaker,
I'm a YouTube certified marketer,
and a lot of what I like to do
is help other people either develop their career
or develop their business,
especially using online technology and tools.
And today, I wanna tell you
about 10 at-home businesses you can start
because I actually successfully grew
my online social media coaching business
from zero to six figures.
I actually did a video about that.
I'm gonna link to it up here in the info card
and in the description for you.
But here are 10 businesses
that you can start, in your journey.
Number one, home office setup and installation.
This one's great because you don't have
to be that tech savvy.
You just have to be slightly above average.
You can help people set up their own office,
whether that's cable management,
so that, you know, they don't have
ratty wires everywhere cluttering up the office.
This is just a really practical business
with more people building their own
at-home businesses and home offices.
There's things you can do like obviously helping them
install or mount their monitors, set up their computer,
do some basic troubleshooting.
There's a lot that can be done with this.
So, highly recommend it.
It's a very affordable business to get into.
Basically, it's a business built on word of mouth
and delivering great customer service.
You also wanna do a little bit of social media
and set up your own website.
Number two, photography.
If you got a good camera and you've got a creative eye,
you can start a business in photography.
A lotta people are skeptical on this one,
and they don't think there's money in photography anymore,
but they're kind of approaching it wrong.
It's not about trying to take that job
doing all the senior portraits.
It's actually very lucrative if you find professionals,
people like doctors' or lawyers' offices
and you end up doing the headshots for everybody,
especially for their LinkedIn profiles.
More people are becoming online influencers
and entrepreneurs, so they need photos of themselves
or of their products.
A lot of you can just grab a macro lens,
start doing product photography,
and that would help you in terms
of getting local business clients
who are trying to sell their items online.
So don't sleep on photography.
There's a lot of opportunity.
You also can sell stock photos online.
Number three, copywriting.
Copywriting is useful for anybody
that has a business in terms of marketing, sales.
So if you decide to do copywriting,
you're valuable not just as a blogger,
which you can certainly do,
and you can make some money doing that
and writing for publications,
but I'm talking about helping write email sequences
for people who sell $1,000 products.
That is where the real money is.
So I think copywriting is dramatically underestimated.
I made good money as a freelance writer back in the day.
You can make as much as a $1,000 a week.
It's a good living.
I could also make much more than that.
I really believe it's a six figure skill,
and you could start it as a business
from home with nothing more than a decent laptop
and a smartphone.
Number four, become a web designer or an app developer.
You know, we live in an era where there's a lot
of free information.
You don't necessarily even have to go to school for this.
You can do online training.
There are places like Codecademy, and Khan Academy,
and Treehouse where you can actually learn the skills
to become a web designer, web developer
or build mobile applications.
Making some of these apps for yourself is a great way
to make passive income,
something we talk about a lot on the channel.
I'll link to some videos
about passive income in the info card
where you can get that on desktop or mobile
or in the description down below.
But being an app developer,
not only can you earn passive income
by making your own apps, but you can do that
for other people's businesses,
and this is something that's extremely lucrative.
So just look into that because it's an emerging market.
You can learn it on your own,
and all you have to do is prove your success
and the market will decide.
Now, I promised you some businesses
that don't require you to be tech savvy.
Here's another one.
Number five, becoming a personal trainer.
Now, for this one, I still recommend you at least learn
about social media, learn to grow a YouTube channel,
learn how to grow an Instagram
and at least build your own website.
I'm gonna link to some resources,
both in terms of videos and some services
for that down below, but the reason I say this
is because I think that there's a real opportunity
if you become a personal trainer
to make a lot of different forms of income.
You can obviously work with clients at the local gym,
but you can also build this in terms of an at-home business.
You could do yoga videos
or you could do at-home workout videos,
post them on YouTube and start making passive income
in terms of ad revenue.
You could also do affiliate deals and make a few sales.
You also have the opportunity
to build your own coaching business around this.
I talk about how I built my six figure coaching business.
I'm gonna link to that video
both here and in the description so you can check that out,
but I did it with digital products
around social media marketing,
but I know for a fact that you can do it
with digital products and assets
around at-home fitness and nutrition
and things of that nature
as a fitness instructor and a coach.
So definitely would recommend that one.
I think a lot of you are underestimating
how accessible this is.
Number six, become a social media marketer like me,
but very seriously, being a social media marketer
is really accessible for someone
who's a Jack or Jill of all trades.
You don't necessarily have to graduate with a degree in it.
I certainly didn't.
They weren't offering one at the time when I was in college,
and I think that the reality is that
there's a diverse skillset here,
and it ultimately comes down to helping facilitate
other people, build their brand,
build their business, sell their products and services.
So I think there's a lot of great free tools
that you can use to develop as a social media marketer.
I think there's a lot of great information out there.
I've obviously put a lot out there,
and it's a combination of things.
It's not just always about consulting and strategy.
Sometimes it's implementation and execution.
It can be managing someone's account,
and I think that that often becomes
much more mechanical than strategic.
A lot of times, it's someone telling you exactly
what they've been doing and you just doing it
so they can save time in their business
and their other task.
So you don't have to be a master
to be a social media marketer.
You just have to be a very good practitioner.
So I would recommend looking into that.
Number seven, become an event planner.
Becoming an event planner and an event coordinator
is actually something that most people can do
with very little in terms of investment and resources.
Obviously, you have to network with the local venues.
You have to put together some marketing
for yourself, a website.
You'll probably need to be
in a couple of social media platforms,
specifically LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook.
I think that you definitely need to take advantage
of those resources.
I would even say Pinterest is still very good
for event planners and being an event marketer.
And a lot of what is focused around,
a lot people think about weddings
when they think about event planners,
but it could be any number of things.
It's not just weddings.
It can be speaking engagements,
conferences, popups, workshops.
There's a lot of opportunity.
So really think about what event marketing
and event planning could look like
because it's a very profitable business,
and there aren't a lot of people
that might be offering it in your area.
Definitely something that is massively underrated.
Number eight, graphic designer.
A lotta people don't think this one has any money in it.
They think about starving artists.
Graphic design is still very powerful.
There are people starting businesses every day.
Those people need logos.
They need branding elements.
They need graphics for their podcast.
They need thumbnails for their YouTube channel.
Graphic design is still lucrative.
I just think that a lot people
are getting bogged down by a traditional model with it.
I think a lot of people hesitate to do freelancing
because they think it's living hand to mouth,
and there can be that situation,
but I've done a lot of videos here on the channel
about freelancing, about graphic design,
and people have built successful businesses around it.
You just have to be business minded
or you'll end up being a starving artist.
So it may not be for everybody,
but I still think that it's a very powerful profession
and a great skillset that a lotta people hire for
if you know where to look,
and I would look more at entrepreneurs
and people with businesses like the ones we mentioned
because everybody needs to worry about their visual brand.
Number nine, video editor or animator.
You know, in a world where everyone's marketing themselves,
video is very powerful.
You're watching this one right now.
But having a video editor that you can outsource things to
is very practical for a lot of businesses,
a lot of marketers, so on
because if you're running a business,
you don't always wanna have to do that,
and it may not be your skill.
So if someone develops a business where they are editing,
I've known husband and wife teams
to be very successful at doing video editing
just kind of as a small at-home business,
and I think it works out really well in a ecosystem
where more people are becoming online influencers
and where video marketing is becoming the norm.
It's also a very profitable skillset to have
just because so few people offer it
and usually not at a local level.
It's usually remote.
So if you can kind of corner the market
in your local area of being the top tier video editor
or motion graphics person or animator,
then I think that you could really drum up a lot of business
because you'll be the best game in town.
Now if you wanna get into that,
there are a lot of video editing tutorials
here on the channel.
And then finally, number 10.
This one is one you might've been expecting,
become an online content creator.
By using platforms like YouTube, Twitch, and Instagram,
people have been able to become online content creators
and make money doing things that they love.
There will be skeptics out there
that don't consider this a real business,
but it's as real of a business
as you are a businessman or businesswoman.
If you run it like a business and you make it profitable,
it is a business.
Now, if you said it wasn't a job,
I'd completely agree with you.
This is gonna be something
you have to take full responsibility for.
Just like every other business on this list,
you are in charge.
The buck stops with you.
You have to deliver what you promise.
So I think that being an online content creator,
at least it's been a great experience for me.
It's something that I do outside of my coaching business
and my public speaking,
and it also has been leveraged, of course,
as the marketing for that business.
So there's a lot of ways to kind of tie it together,
and I think for any of the businesses
that you're doing, you should consider a side hustle
as a content creator
because I think it could help grow that business.
That's been my experience.
Question of the day, if you knew you couldn't fail,
what business would you start?
I've asked this before,
but we might have some newcomers here
and I'd really like more perspectives.
So what business would you start
if you knew it couldn't fail?
Lemme know in the comments section.
I wanna thank our friends at PayPal
for sponsoring this video.
I want to also thank them for everything they do
for the online business community.
Like in said, I'm gonna link to some more resources
from the PayPal Business Center in the description
so that you guys can benefit from the information
that they're putting out there absolutely free,
and I would encourage you to read as much of it as possible.
Also, if you're interested in working with me
to grow your business or to learn more
about online marketing or content,
I'm gonna link down to awesomecreatoracademy.com
in the description so that you can figure out how
to work with me to grow your brand
and grow your business online.
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