5 Work at Home Jobs You Can Start Today

If you are having trouble finding a job and possibly living off payday loans on the web due to the bad unemployment situation, here are 5 work at home jobs you can start right now.  No application process, interviews, or waiting.  Best of all these are all completely free to start you don’t even need business cards.

The trick to earning a full time income with these work at home jobs is to treat them just like a regular job  that starts today.  Show up to your computer in the morning and work at home on the job all day earning money online.  Take a 1/2 hour for lunch and get back at your work at home job – no distractions.

At dinner time close your computer down and get some exercise to clear your head.

After dinner, come back to the computer and get some self directed online education in making money on the internet for a couple hours.  You need to get a free online education in:

• SEO
• backlinking
• improving your writing skills
• affiliate marketing
• web design and website setup
• other skills to help you earn more online.

Don’t let personal emails or other distractions take you away from your new online job or your online education.

If you work with these sites that help you make a work at home job on a dedicated basis it is possible to create one or more full time work at home jobs PLUS develop a residual income online that will carry on for you for years to come.

I’ve linked to more detailed analysis of each opportunity, but here is an overview.

Write Full Time For Constant Content

Constant Content is the premier marketplace for written web content.  Everyone has an area of expertise and we can all research other areas.  If you can write and self edit well organized and error free article you can do very well with Constant Content.

What You Need: Writing skills and a Paypal Account.

How You Are Paid: 2 times a month, by Paypal.  Earnings depend on sales to third party buyers.  Build an inventory and the sales will start rolling in.  If you start full time on Constant Content you can reasonably expect your first paycheck within 2 weeks.

Immediate Earning Potential: The average article submitted (not just sold) is worth $20 net to the writer.  With a little practice and some batching most writers can create each article in less than an hour.  $20 X 10 articles = $200 a day@ 300 days a year is worth $60,000 a year.  Many articles sell for much more.

It will take a little time to develop consistant earnings but the bigger your catalog of articles the more consistant your earnings will be.  Just keep adding to your catalog and the site takes care of the rest.

Residual Income Potential: Some articles will take time to sell and others will sell for use only.  Expect to continue getting pay checks from your article catalog for months and years to come.  Take the articles that sell for use and use them yourself to elsewhere for Adsense revenue.

Action Steps

• Sign up for Constant Content (referral link, costs you nothing)
• Buy this eBook on Constant Content Success.
• Read more about Constant Content.

WebAnswers

This may sound a little crazy but you could go on WebAnswers.com answering and asking questions all day and actually make some cash.  WebAnswers shares Adsense revenue with users ($8,000 in a recent month) and they rewards active members with extra adsense displays.  This is not going to earn you an instant full time income but it is a decent work at home job.  The process of reading questions, looking for answers, and than writing up the answers will even prepare you  to win big on Jeopardy.

What You Need: A free Google Adsense account.

How You Are Paid: Google sends you a check or pays by Paypal.  Payment is monthly as long as you accrue $100.

Immediate Earning Potential: This will start small, maybe several dollars a day in the beginning, but the cumulative effect can add up to hundreds per month.  In my estimation, each solid day spent providing well researched answers on Webanswers is worth about $250 spread out over the next year and residuals after that.  That kind of pay is not bad for most people and it sure beats doing nothing.

Residual Income Potential: When you do find a job you will enjoy residual income from Webanswers forever from your activity there.

Action Steps

• Get a free Adsense Account
• Set up a WebAnswers.com Account
• Read my full review of WebAnswers here.

Write and Bookmark with Xomba

Adsense sharing website Xomba is definately a worth a try.  You can either write articles and post them, or create bookmarks to other web content, or do some combination.  Internal linking will get you a little traffic but the trick to really earning is to create pages on Xomba that rank high for good search terms and attract traffic.

Look at Google Trends or just focus on topic you like.  Focus on a single topic at a time and interlink the articles (see the Silver Bullion experiment) to rank them all higher in the SERPs.  Xomba has good credibility in Google’s eyes so it is easier to build good pages that will earn and you don’t need to bother with the mechanics of building your own website.

Even if you know nothing about search engine optimization shear luck will get you some winners.  As you read up on how to get search traffic you can go back and edit your Xomba pages later.

If you like books, one way to open multiple revenue streams on Xomba is to write up a short review of every book you own and provide a link to Amazon with your Associates ID embeded.  You could than start on the most popular books in your local libary.

Don’t like books, pick any topic you like and start writing and linking.

How You Get Paid: Google Adsense directly and, if you want, by directly by Amazon Affiliates and eBay referals.

Immediate Earning Potential: It will take several months to get cash due to Adsense and Amazan payout schedules.  It is hard to estimate earnings because the value of various topics and keywords differs so much.

Residual Income Potential: Expect to benefit from your efforts for years to come.  If you focus on evergreen content rather than news you will earn more over the long run.

Action Steps

• Join Xomba right now (referral link, costs you nothing)
• Get an Adsense Account through Xomba
• Read an interview with the Xomba CEO here

Mechanical Turk

Sit down and start taking simple jobs on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.  Here is a guide to working on Mechanical Turk I recently posted.  Again, it is work available right now, worth adding to your online activity for immediate cash.

Immediate Earning Potential: Should be able to earn something in the first hour.

Odesk

Take a serious look at oDesk, sign up and start bidding jobs.  Consider taking some jobs at a low hourly rate to gain experience on the oDesk platform.  With some good feedback you can raise your rates later.  There is a wide range of in demand skills you may have that you can market on oDesk.   Here is the link to sign up.

How You Get Paid: oDesk takes a 10% cut and pays you by Paypal.

Immediate Earning Potential: Depends on your skills and willingness to work at lower prices.

No Residual Income Potential, but you can form a team and lead it to win larger jobs.  You can also hire out jobs to others to build an online business faster.

Action Steps:

• Join oDesk right now through my referral link (if you earn a lot I get a small bonus)
• Learn more about oDesk

Remember to get that free online education in making money online and to focus your efforts to earn a real income online  starting today.  Good luck – let me know how these work at home jobs turn out for you.

Tagged as: Constant Content, freelance writing, Google Adsense, MTurk, oDesk, Skills, WebAnswers, Xomba