The prospect of learning how to make money from home is exciting. You get to create your own schedule, spend more time with your family, and make the money you need to live your best life.
Starting an online store or offering services is just the beginning. There are many ways to make money from home that can transform your life. This list will help you get started.
Table of Contents
1. Launch an Online Store
2. Sell Services Online
3. Sell Custom Products
4. Make a Subscription Box
5. Sell On Marketplaces
6. Sell Digital Products
7. Offer Webinars
8. Create Online Courses
9. Sell Affiliate Marketing Offers
10. Monetize an Audience
11. Make Skincare Products
12. Launch a Podcast
13. Take Surveys Online
14. Make Candles
15. Make Soap
16. Make Bath Bombs
17. Offer Consulting Services
18. Start Dropshipping
19. Start a Food Business
20. Start a YouTube Channel
21. Start a Blog
22. Work as a Freelance Writer
23. Write an eBook
24. Do Side Gigs
25. Sell your Stuff
26. Become an Online Tutor
27. Become a Virtual Assistant
28. Get a Remote Job
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1. Launch an Online Store
Launching an online store offers flexibility, low initial overhead, and a wide range of customers. You can make products yourself or you can source products and resell them. A website such as Sofia Health is a great place to sell your products. Check out what and where you can sell online.
2. Sell Services Online
Just as in the brick-and-mortar economy, you can sell services online. From yoga and other classes to health coaching, life coaching, nutrition, wellness, meditation, and skin care — think about what practices influence your life that you can share with others, and there's likely a market to pursue.
3. Sell Custom Products
Are you a fitness influencer? Have you thought about launching a clothing line? Or maybe you're a health coach and want your own line of business swag. From skin care coaches creating their own beauty line to nutrition consultants promoting their own food line, there are plenty of opportunities to create and sell your own products.
Let’s take the possibilities that exist for Sofia Health practitioners as an example. Through the platform, you can offer health and wellness services plus sell unique products. You can grow a following and create an online business with almost anything that appeals to everyday consumers, and you can use your unique talents as a creator to do so.
Your business can thrive selling baby and child care items, beauty and personal care, unique food, and drink, or spiritual and religious books. The choice is yours — it’s an opportunity to establish a business in the health space that’s based on what you love and where your talent lies.
4. Make a Subscription Box
Subscription boxes are a great way to make money from home consistently because your customers sign up to receive your recurring deliveries each month. You can offer any number of products that need to be replaced regularly, such as skin care products, prepared meal plans, or a variety of health products.
The benefits of creating a subscription box include a stable customer base that becomes loyal to the products you send every month. Your business gets a regular source of revenue and free cash flow without the cost of bringing on new customers.
5. Sell on Marketplaces
Marketplaces have a built-in user base that allows you to get your business up and running fast. Established platforms are a low-overhead way to launch your business and come with many built-in benefits: vendor support, search engine visibility, and followers already dedicated to products in your market segment. Only Sofia is exclusive to the health space, giving you a leg up to create your own niche and start a lucrative small business.
6. Sell Digital Products
Digital products are assets that can be made once and sold repeatedly. Health programs, workouts, music, and stock photography are just the start. As a health practitioner, you can create an experience, such as a visual relaxation tool, that guides others through your expertise. Digital products can take some front-end time and monetary investment, but they often recoup high returns because they can be sold more than once.
7. Offer Webinars
A webinar is a live or pre-recorded seminar or workshop broadcast online. Creating and selling access to your webinars not only provides you with an opportunity to share knowledge in your field of interest, but it also provides an opportunity to promote additional products and services you offer and enables you to cast a wide audience net since viewers can attend from all over the world. Webinars allow you to repurpose your existing content and act as a valuable tool for lead generation.
8. Create Online Courses
Online courses are a tool to reach any audience of people who want better health and well-being. There's something you know well enough to teach. Your courses on topics such as health coaching and fitness can be a nice complement to your personal services.
9. Sell Affiliate Marketing Offers
Affiliate marketing is a way to partner with other brands. You can earn a commission by mentioning their products in your online content, such as your blog. As a health and wellness entrepreneur, you can supplement your online income by linking out to their pages and taking a cut when your followers make a purchase. Consider brands that complement your own image and online store, such as body care, health literature, and services. Place affiliate links in your online content to give your customers the opportunity to buy from your affiliate partners.
10. Monetize an Audience
Once you have a set audience, you can build on that following by giving them more opportunities to purchase your products and services. Follow up through email campaigns, sponsored social media posts, and affiliate marketing in your blog to get a few coins every time one of your loyal customers engages with your online presence.
11. Make Skincare Products
Skincare is an exciting way for any health entrepreneur to make a living. It allows you to promote healthy skin and solidify your place as a wellness expert. Independent beauty brands are the current drivers of the market for skin care on a global scale. Whether you specialize in aromatherapy, hybrid beauty, or emerging health ingredients, you can find your place in this industry.
12. Launch a Podcast
If you like to talk about health, wellness, or other topics, think about a podcast. Sure, there are lots of podcasts out there, but that’s because they are easy to start. You can develop your brand in an interview format in which you converse with guests about your expertise. Free platforms such as Spotify can help you get started, and you can build an early audience with your existing social media network.
So, how do you make money with a podcast? Look for partnerships with brands and companies that appeal to your audience. They can buy ad time during each episode.
13. Take Surveys Online
Think of all the times you're scrolling social media for the better part of an hour or even hours at a time. Instead of mindlessly liking photos, you could earn money by taking online surveys. Though they may not pay much per survey, they can add up and require nothing to start.
14. Make Candles
Candle-making is an art form that brings beauty into one’s home and personal space. The benefit of candle-making is that there’s almost always a market for your product and almost unlimited places to sell your wares. Set up an online store, sell at seasonal farmers’ markets, or set up a kiosk in a local retail setting. You can use candles with a health flair — think natural products such as beeswax candles or scented with healing aromatherapy — as a stand-alone business or to draw in more clients to your personal service health company.
15. Make Soap
Like candles, soap can bring beauty into a person’s home. You can experiment with color, scents, and materials. Try telling soap at farmers’ markets or online with links back to information on other health services you provide. That way you can recoup your investment in the soaps while feeding your client list to your primary business.
16. Make Bath Bombs
Bath bombs are another crafty item people love to buy as gifts or as a treat for themselves. They offer function as well as luxury, both great selling points. Whether online or offline, bath bombs enable you to show off your creative flair while also helping to establish you as a leader in the health and beauty space.
17. Offer Consulting Services
If you have a lot of experience and knowledge in a field such as marketing, life coaching, nutrition, or fitness, then you can make a lot of money consulting for people looking for direction. In fact, offering consulting services in the health and wellness industry offers many benefits.
18. Start Dropshipping
Dropshipping is a generally low-cost way to start a business from home. You're selling products that you don't keep in stock. When a customer purchases the product, you have it shipped directly to their home from a third party.
So how does dropshipping work? Your company is the face of the sale, but behind the scenes, you have a supplier who packages and ships the product to the customer. The third party also holds the inventory, so your role is to take the order and payment while someone else handles shipping.
19. Start a Food Business
Whether offering some of your mouth-watering and healthy recipes or setting up nutrition plans for people looking to get the most out of their diet, there are plenty of options for food businesses out there. If you want to get out of the house, you can even offer private chef services.
20. Start a YouTube Channel
YouTubers with a big following make serious money filming videos from home. If you've got a niche or a hook that you think YouTube's audience would like, give it a go and start your YouTube business. There's a market for every kind of content out there, so don't be afraid to lean into something unique.
21. Start a Blog
Everyone has something they can write about, from travel to food to finance. While starting a blog was just a hobby years ago, many people have been able to generate revenue through blogging by selling affiliate products and monetizing site traffic with ads. It may take time, but if you like writing, starting a blog can be a great way to make money online.
22. Work as a Freelance Writer
Many companies need content for their websites, social media sites, marketing emails, and blogs. You can offer your services on sites such as Upwork and Fiverr or apply to write for one of the many advertising agencies out there.
23. Write an eBook
If you have the patience to write long-form content, writing is a great way to make money online. It doesn't have to be the next great American novel — many eBooks that sell online are about how to travel around a tourist city the writer knows well or how to begin a fitness plan. Choose something you know a lot about and write a definitive book about it, and it will pay you for years to come.
24. Do Side Gigs
Task Rabbit is a great place to find side gigs to do in your spare time. It operates in cities across America, and you can make money performing tasks ranging from assembling furniture to standing in line for someone.
Sofia Health is your platform for health and wellness side gigs, so you can promote your skills in this area — and make a little cash on the side.
25. Sell your Stuff
Here's an idea — you know all those old clothes in the back of your closet that you spent a lot of money on but don't actually wear? Sell them! You probably have nice clothes that you bought for a specific occasion and are waiting for a similar one that will never arrive. Or maybe the clothes don't fit you anymore. Apps such as Poshmark are great for reselling your clothes that are in great condition but collecting dust.
26. Become an Online Tutor
There are students who need help in all school subjects, so if there's one you excelled in, then you may make a great online tutor. Tutors are in particularly high demand for help with learning a second language. Some students just want to talk with a native speaker and practice, and you can get paid to do that.
27. Become a Virtual Assistant
Professionals in all sorts of industries need help, and they can't always find the best person for the job in their city, or perhaps they don't have the office space. Whether transcribing notes or taking and organizing appointments, many people make a living working from home as virtual assistants.
28. Get a Remote Job
Websites such as WeWorkRemote, Flexjobs, and WorkingNomads all focus exclusively on highlighting remote positions. There are health and wellness jobs particularly well-suited to remote work. Whether it's full-time or part-time, working as a health coach can be both satisfying and lucrative.
For more ideas, read about the 29 best small business ideas for wellness entrepreneurs to start in 2023.
