Best Businesses to Start If You Have a Full-time Job

During a recession, the workforce trends often changes. People are taking a firm grip of their incomes to ensure there is something to fall back on should the economy dip. No longer is working 9-5 enough, when owning a home seems almost impossible and living in the city is always a financial struggle. The full-time entrepreneurs are growing fast, so if you are thinking of safeguarding your future, here is our list of the best freelance gigs to start if you have a full-time job.

Resell your skills

If there is something you already know how to do well (maybe it’s your day job), the easiest way to make more money from it is by becoming a specialist in that field and reselling your skills on freelance websites.

Step 1: Buy a domain that reflects yourself or your skill

Step 2: Fill it with content, services you offer and your social media accounts (clients like to know you are who you say)

Step 3: Register on as many freelance websites and list your skill, service, product (when you find the one that works best, simply focus on that one). Remember, you don’t need to be self-employed to freelance, people in full-time jobs also work freelance for an extra income.

Step 4: Archive all the work you do on your main domain. It will be a bit difficult to start off with since the competition is growing on freelance websites, so be patient, promote your service on social media and keep a close eye for work opportunities. Once you get an order, make sure you get a review. Use that review on your own domain to show that you have happy clients.

Step 5: Once you get your first client, the chances are very high that you will get a second and a third. So make sure you archive and note everything down on your main domain, you e25d5c necessarily need to state which platform you are conducting the service, but it will give confidence to new visitors who find your website.

Step 6: Grow your website, brand, track, market in your own time. And there you have it, a fully functioning business from a skill you already get paid for.

Affiliate Marketing

If you do not want to spend too much time on a side income, this is the best business to start now. A lot of people do not understand affiliate marketing, but follow these simple steps, optimize the things that work for you, give it a bit of time and get paid a double salary in no time. Before you follow the steps below, familiarize yourself with what is affiliate marketing.

Step 1: If you are starting out, we are guessing you do not have a massive fan following or a blog that has loads of visitors a month. So the quickest way to get into affiliate marketing is to find what people need. The simplest way to do this is Google Keyword Planner.

Step 2: Find the right keywords that people are searching a lot on a monthly basis but don’t have too many search results on google. An example of this would be keyword ‘worn panties’, there are around 1,000 people looking at this keyword on a monthly basis but only 14,000 google search results. This will indicate that if you started a blog purely focused on best worn panties, you have a high chance of appearing on the first page of google search, and therefore getting immediate traffic from those 1,000 searches.

Step 3: (If you haven’t guessed already) buy a simple wordpress theme and domain with the keyword you have chosen, write loads of content and spread it across 5-6 pages. Promote your simple website to ensure it appears on the first page of google search.

Step 4:Time to monetize those searches

Find companies that are selling cycling gloves or anything to do with cycling, scroll to the bottom of the website and you should see an Affiliate Program you can join.

Once you have signed up, get your unique link and banners or whatever else the company has available in their affiliate program. Place the link in the content on your own website or banners or videos or whatever drives traffic from your blog to the company that sells the products the people coming to your website are looking for already. And voila! Every time a person comes to your website, clicks through to the link of the company that is selling a product you are promoting, you get a commission from a purchase they make.

This can be a little time consuming, but has very little maintenance afterwards so you can sit back and enjoy the rewards for years to come. And, the beauty is once you have the formula, you can do this over and over and over again, until you do not even need your 9-5.

Simple E-commerce

Pick a product, any product. If you dedicate as much time to it as your own facebook page you will have purchasing customer in no-time. You need a simple e-commerce platform, get a simple template from wix.com and just create as many social media pages. Start building buzz with comments, links, photos so on (have fun with it). It’s always best to have limited amount of services or products to start of with, as it will allow you to really target the audiences on social media that might be interested in this product. Why? Because if you target people that are already interested in your product, chances are they will come back and keep buying it.