5 Best Work from Home Jobs for 2020 - DollarSense
5 Best Work from Home Jobs for 2020
1. Run a Facebook Ads Business from Home
What do Facebook marketers do?
Facebook marketers help businesses get more customers and sales.
Think about how many local businesses are in your area (not giant retailers like Walmart or Dick’s Sporting Goods, but local coffee shops, chiropractors, law firms, etc).
Chances are, most of them are not taking advantage of Facebook advertising.
These businesses may have a Facebook page, but most are not using them effectively to attract more clients or drive more sales via paid advertising.
That’s where you can come in, as a Facebook ads specialist. The best part about this work from home job (in addition to its flexibility) is that learning the art and skill of Facebook ads isn’t impossible — anyone can pick it up and secure their first client within a month.
Local Facebook ads experts help their clients with:
- Creating Facebook ads based on business goals
- Reaching their target audience/clientele
- Managing advertising budgets and monitoring campaigns
- Split testing ad variations to get the highest ROI (return on investment)
How much do Facebook marketers make?
This all depends on the results that you can deliver for your clients. Most Facebook ad agencies — even one man shows — will usually charge a monthly retainer as their “management fee” for managing the ads.
It’s industry standard to charge anywhere from $1,000 – $2,000 per month per client, and you don’t need any website or marketing experience to get started. This is in addition to the ad spend itself, which obviously goes directly to Facebook.
As you bring on more clients and build a reputation in your community for delivering outstanding results, your income can quickly increase. It only takes a handful of clients to start building a full time income.
How to become a local Facebook marketer:
The FB Side Hustle Course will show you how to start managing Facebook ads for local businesses, step by step.
Bobby Hoyt and Mike Yanda, two world-class Facebook marketers, created this course to teach you everything you need to know to go from “I don’t know how to do any of this” to “working with clients and making a great income” in the next 28 days. Instead of piecing together an education on your own and wasting a lot of time (with possibly outdated information), this course puts everything in one place for you to learn from.
This course helps you quickly master the three phases of building your work-from-home Facebook ads business:
- Learning how to set up a Facebook ad system for a local business
- How to find prospects who will pay you for this service
- How to convert those prospects into clients
If you want to learn more about Bobby and Mike’s backgrounds and how they’ve built their Facebook ads business, you can check out their story here.
2. Virtual Assistant Jobs
What is a virtual assistant?
Virtual assistants, commonly referred to as VAs, come in all shapes and sizes. Many companies will hire VAs if they are looking for help with online administrative tasks (email, calendar management, data entry, etc), but don’t necessarily want to hire a full time employee just yet. They’re the perfect work from home job for busy people that may need to drop their work at a moments notice, or have very sporadic availability.
Virtual assistant job tasks include helping with:
- Social media management
- Transcribing conference calls
- Responding to emails or setting up email lists
- Calendar management
- Presentation preparation
- A variety of other customer service oriented tasks
How much do virtual assistants make?
Between $35.00 and $50.00 per hour, according to Gina Horkey, a professional virtual assistant and work from home jobs coach at HorkeyHandbook.
How to become a virtual assistant:
Start by taking a training class that’ll teach you the common skills needed to become a virtual assistant.
Classes are typically work at your own pace, cost between one and three hundred dollars, and be completed in just a few short days — a pretty fair trade off for a job that can earn upwards of $70,000 per year.
After your initial training the real work begins. The best virtual assistants will scour popular sites such as Upwork and Freelancer, looking for work from home job opportunities and new job leads. Also, be sure to completely fill out your profile and list all pertinent skills. Potential clients can search for qualified remote workers and proactively contact them about potential job opportunities.
3. Start Blogging for Money
What is a blogger?
Bloggers are typically people who enjoy a particular topic and enjoy writing about it on a semi-regular to regular basis. If you have something you are passionate about, or are an expert in a particular area, you can consider starting a blog. Blogs are a great way to: teach people about a particular skill, entertain, or share about life experiences.
Bloggers can make money through a variety of different methods including, but not limited to: affiliate marketing, accepting paid advertisements, and by selling digital (or physical) products.
Here are some popular (and profitable) blog topics:
- Cooking
- Fitness and health
- Relationship
- Money
- Parenting
- Travel
- Fashion
- Sports
- Self improvement
- Crafts and DIY Projects
You really can blog about anything under the sun. What do you love reading about? What do you enjoy talking to your friends about? What do you like browsing through the most on Pinterest? These are all possible blog ideas.
How much do bloggers make?
Highly variable. Anywhere between $0 and $150,000 per month depending on experience level and direct competition.
How to start a blog for beginners:
HostGator is one of the most affordable options to get a money-making blog up and running. They make it simple and easy to get started (and have everything you need all in one place), which is why we recommend them to ambitious new bloggers.
No experience or technical knowledge is needed and you can check out a step-by-step tutorial for getting started here.
4. Online Survey Jobs
How paid online surveys work:
Most successful companies want to get inside the heads of consumers. They want to better understand potential customers so they can improve products and target their audience better To do that, they actually pay people to take surveys. It’s one the easiest work from home “jobs” out there, and it requires zero experience.
There are many different types of surveys you can take. From opinion polls, to answering questions about shopping habits, companies will typically ask users fairly in-depth questions so they can improve their marketing tactics. Survey takers are usually paid in cash via PayPal, or with points that can be redeemed for gift cards.
While unlike more traditional work from home jobs, getting paid to take online surveys is still a legitimate means for bringing in a few hundred extra dollars each month.
How much do they pay?
Between $50.00 and $200.00 per month, depending on eligibility and how many surveys you participate in.
How to get paid to take online surveys:
Signing up on survey taking websites is very easy (and free). In our experience, the best survey sites to use are Survey Junkie and Swagbucks (free $10 signup bonus).
5. Work from Home Freelance Writing Jobs
What is a freelance writer?
Freelance writers can more easily be thought of as a “writer for hire” or someone who is contracted out to write about a particular topic. If you have some writing chops, but don’t want to deal with all the extra work that goes into running a blog, you can hire yourself out and write for newspapers, large online publications and even other bloggers.
How much do freelance writing jobs pay?
Between $30.00 and $500.00 per assignment, depending on difficulty, the writers experience level, and the length of the material. Veteran freelancers and other remote workers can charge on a per-word basis with lengthy articles earning them well over $1,000.00.
How do you become a freelancer?
First, start by taking a course that teaches you basic skill required to pursue freelance writing jobs. Holly Johnson, a professional freelance writer at the Earn More Writing School offers one such course. She makes over $225,000 per year freelance writing and shares everything you need to know to get started for less than a few hundred dollars.
After you’ve mastered the basics, you’ll want to create a portfolio of writing samples that you can show to prospective clients. If you want to get a freelance copywriting gig, for instance, start by collecting samples of amazing copy that sells a product. Offer free work to clients to build up your portfolio, if needed.
Finally, once your portfolio is complete, you can start to find work on Upwork, Freelancer, or any number of similar websites.