14 Most Easy Online Jobs That Really Pay
Make
(good!) money working from home with our guide to the best online jobs.
(Source:
http://www.allyou.com )
1.
Virtual
Assistant.
Someone who juggles her
family calendar without breaking a sweat might have what it takes to become a
virtual assistant. Clients could include a business owner looking for someone
to handle e-mail, scheduling and travel arrangements or a busy executive who wants
you to schedule her children's doctors appointments. What you bring to the
table: Administrative experience; excellent organizational and time-management
skills so you can juggle a multitude of tasks and a pleasant phone manner. It
also helps if you know Microsoft Office. What you can expect to earn: About $10
per hour at a staffing agency; up to $30 per hour if you work directly with
clients. Top VAs earn $60 an hour. How to get started: Contact businesses in
your area or advertise on Craigslist. Or register with an agency such as
eaHelp.com or Zirtual.com, which assign clients to you.
2.
Online
Reseller. You
can earn large sums of money selling items online by reaching out to people who
want to get rid of their stuff but are too busy to do it themselves. What you
bring to the table: Experience selling goods through auctions on eBay and the
business savvy required to promote your services. Expect to earn: Sellers
determine the price by the market and the value of items they sell. Some charge
a flat per-item fee (often $5 to $25), or take a percentage (20 percent to 40
percent) of total sales. Depending on the volume of your business, reselling on
eBay and other sites could become a lucrative full-time job. How to get started: Active eBay sellers with high ratings and
sales can register to be listed on the website’s directory of trading assistants
at ebaytradingassistant.com. You need to be a self-starter who knows how to
spread the word—to friends, family members, acquaintances and strangers. Check
out allyou.com/home-business for more tips on how to market your services.
3.
Call-Center
Employee. Customers used to call a
company to complain or order a product, and they’d reach the main office. Now
virtual call centers route incoming calls to a home agent’s phone; agents
receive a script on how to answer possible questions so they can respond to routine
customer-service inquries or sell products. What you bring to the table:
Professional, pleasant phone presence, the ability to read a script and make it
sound natural, a quiet area in which to work and perhaps a headset attached to
your phone. Expect to earn: $7 to $15 per hour, with some jobs offering
incentives for high sales. How to get started: Enroll to become an agent at a
call-center company website—such as workingsolutions.com, liveops.com or
alpineaccess.com—that offers extensive training.
4.
Document
Translator. As businesses expand globally,
they need to communicate in more languages. That's great news for bilingual
people who are interested in entering this flexible, fast-growing profession.
From a virtual office (using Skype to join conference calls, say), people in
this field participate in live conversations and translate documents and
recordings. Spanish is the most in-demand tongue, followed by Japanese, Korean,
Chinese and French. Deadlines are tight at times, but you are free to turn down
anything. Gengo and similar agencies have a global client base—which means you
can work in the middle of the night if that suits you. What you bring to the
table: The ability to read, write and fluently speak more than one language.
You can find plenty of work in Spanish, French and Chinese, but the more
obscure the language, the higher the demand. Expect to earn: About $12 an hour.
Translators working with technical or scientific content can earn up to $40.
How to get started: The website Translatorscafe.com contains a free online
directory of translators and translation jobs. Just upload your resumé and list
your rates and services. Jobs, which are posted daily, might include
translating a tourism brochure or subtitling a movie. You apply directly to the
hiring company. Or enlist an online agency such as the ones at gengo.com and
verbalizeit.com. You select projects that fit your calendar and abilities.
