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- How to make money from home.
A lot of people, they dream about working
from the comfort of their own home.
Now if you know anything about my background
you know that I've only had one job
for my entire life and that was working
in a local supermarket as a grocery bagger,
and I've been working from home for so many years now,
and it's only when my company's so big now
we need office space just to have a place
for all my team members to work in.
Even now I still work from home a lot,
I always have a home office for every home that I have,
and also a lot of my team members,
they also work remotely and work from home as well,
so I absolutely love the idea of working from home
because I think that saves a whole lot of time
from people commuting to work,
because if you would agree, comment below,
that usually the commuting to work
is a whole big waste of time.
So let's say if you do wanna work from home,
what could you do, how do you get started,
what is that like, do you have the discipline
of working from home, is it the right thing for you?
So in this video I wanna answer some of those questions
and just share with you my perspective.
Now number one, the first concept
I wanna share with you is that most people,
what they do is they make money with manual labor.
I call that labor for money,
instead of skill for money.
So if let's say you are a plumber,
you are a landscaper, you are a waiter,
you need to be physically there doing the work
in order to earn the money,
in order to make a living.
On the other hand, skill for money
means that you have a skillset that you
need nothing more, maybe a laptop, a little computer
or maybe a telephone, or something
that you could utilize using technology
that you will be able to make money from home
and earn a living.
It also means that the value that you are able to provide
needs to be different from most people.
It requires a little bit more,
what I call high income skills.
Skills such as coding or computer programming,
or copywriting, or graphic design,
some type of skills that you could offer
to the marketplace in exchange of money.
You're using now more your brain, your intelligence,
your skillsets, to make money versus manual labor.
Manual labor to make money's always tough
because it is a commodity.
There are a lot of people that could do what you do,
versus if you have a unique skillset,
now you are more valuable,
not so much as a person but you're more valuable
in terms of skillset to the marketplace.
Also the better you're at your skillset
the more money you could charge, right.
There are graphic designers charging
20, 30, 50 dollars on Fiverr,
there are graphic designers charging
tens of thousands of dollars to do a website,
what's the difference?
The difference is skillset.
So that's my very first strategy for you
if you wanna work from home,
become more valuable, trade skill for money,
not just doing manual labor for money.
Strategy number two if you want to
work from the comfort of your own home,
and that is to think global, not local.
Now I'm not talking about you gotta build
a global organization that's like,
that sounds so crazy, you know,
I'm just talking about that your customer base,
you should not just aim to serve a customer base
in your local market.
Example, if I am a graphic designer,
I live in Vancouver, Canada, do I just do
graphic design for the local businesses,
or do I want to serve a global marketplace?
Meaning that I could do graphic design
for someone from the United States,
someone from Australia, someone from Dubai,
someone from Europe, it doesn't really matter,
I want to be able to offer my expertise,
my skills to the global market
instead of a local market because you never know,
sometimes your local market, your local area,
may be going through transition,
maybe there's economic downturn,
maybe there're uncertain times,
just like the uncertain times that we have now,
right, you never know.
But if in certain area in your local city,
hey you know what it's going through a transition,
or economy's not that good,
it doesn't really affect you
because if you serve a global market, it's okay,
one city doesn't work, you could serve another city,
as long as you have access to the internet
you could serve a global market.
You see the ability to work from home
has a lot to do with the stability
of your income.
You don't just wanna work from home
for three months and then three months later
you have to get a job, you gotta go out there
and work some place else outside of home.
You want to be able to have that stability,
that solid stream of income coming it.
What could make that happen is you serve a global market.
Then if something happens, you're not worried
that your income stream is always stable,
does that make sense, comment below.
Work from home strategy number three.
Ability over credentials.
You see if you wanna work from home
it's very very important that you are results driven
and results oriented.
Unlike a typical job where maybe
you clock in and clock out, right,
working from home depends on the industry
and the profession that you choose,
the career that you choose,
it's a little bit different.
Like I don't think I've ever hired,
let's say a graphic designer based on
oh, she's got a degree, she's got this certificate.
No I look at her portfolio,
is the work any good?
Now since if you follow my advice,
you're serving a global market,
you gotta be good.
You gotta be good at what you do,
'cause people will look at your work
and they would say hey could this person deliver,
could this person deliver within that timeframe,
within, like, to meet those deadlines.
It's pretty critical, so having that degree
doesn't really help you,
what you need is the ability to actually deliver results.
And when you do deliver results,
what happens is you will get referrals, right,
people will then come to seek you out
because you are actually good at what you do.
Now I wanna give you one bonus tip
because I do see when people work from home,
one of the challenges that they have is distraction.
So I've been working from home for so many years,
right, so many years, so what I would recommend
is you gotta have the conversation with your family.
Example, if you're a mom, right,
you gotta have those boundaries with your kids,
if you're working, let's say what I'll recommend at home,
you could have a little space,
if you're working from a kitchen table,
or working from a basement,
or even you take one of the rooms from your house,
and then you say this is the work office here,
right and then you will communicate to your kids
and say hey if mommy and daddy's working,
if I'm working, please knowing that
I don't want any distraction.
You can go and hang a little sign outside
and say I'm working means no distraction.
It's no different than mommy and daddy is now
outside, out there working, even though I'm home,
but there has to be that boundary.
Because if you don't set that boundary,
if you have a lot of distractions coming in and out
all the time, you're getting distracted all day,
you will not get anything done.
And I think for most people,
that's what stops them,
that's what prevents them from
working from home successfully.
If you are serious and you're interested
in learning more about a career, right,
a career, a skillset, that you could develop
without going through three, four years
of college and going through school
and getting into debt,
something that you could learn and offer
to a global marketplace within just a couple of months,
click the link below and join my free masterclass.
I think you'll be blown away to see
some of the possibilities that's out there,
the demand that's out there in the marketplace.
So go ahead and do that, now.