Do you want more from life than just surviving? Are you tired of waking up to the sound of an annoying alarm clock, and rushing to get the kids ready for school so that you can also rush to the office, sit at your computer from 9 to 5 in a job you find unfulfilling and mundane, and that only gives you 3 weeks’ holiday a year, dash home to feed and bath the kids, and repeat this cycle every day?
More freedom and flexibility
Would you prefer a life where you’re more in control of your time, where you wake up and get the kids ready for school without the stress of hurrying through traffic to get to the office on-time because if you’re late, you’ll probably have to work late?
If your ‘office’ was anywhere – maybe in your home or a nearby coffee shop – you wouldn’t have all that stress. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many people to work from home, which has worked well for many families (but has also introduced new challenges, temporarily, such as looking after kids at home all day while working full-time). Not commuting has given many employees a taste of a life with more freedom and flexibility.
More fulfilment
Even if working remotely becomes a permanent change at your company, what about your level of job satisfaction? Do you enjoy your work? Do you wake up feeling excited about it? And job security – do you think your position will always be safe despite the increase in unemployment worldwide? Do you earn enough so that your family enjoys a great quality of life, or is your hard work simply improving your bosses’ quality of life?
Imagine earning a passive income that leverages your interests or passion as well as in-demand digital skills.
Imagine earning a passive income that leverages your interests or passion as well as in-demand digital skills. You can learn these skills part-time while you are working your 9 to 5 office job, as long as you have a computer and internet connection. How long it takes you to learn the skills and start earning depends on you and how much you want a better life, as well as the time you have to focus on this. It differs for everyone – you still want to enjoy quality time with your family too.
Become an affiliate marketer
Affiliate marketers promote other companies’ products or services and get paid a commission for any referrals. They can work from anywhere and take a break anytime without worrying about contracts, inventory or customers complaints.
4 things affiliate marketers focus on:
- They find products and/or services they’d like to promote. It could be something connected to their passion or interest or something they use and believe in.
- They find potential customers for these products.
- They create marketing material and campaigns to connect these customers with the products.
- They optimise their marketing campaigns to become more profitable.
Start your own e-commerce business
E-commerce popularity has sky-rocketed during the pandemic because it doesn’t require the buyer to go into a physical store to make a purchase. Anyone can go online and search for and then buy a product from a company like Amazon, Shopify or eBay.
You could work from home and start your own e-commerce business; and order a product from China or elsewhere at low cost. You could then sell the product through Amazon – and they take care of the rest: from processing payments, to packaging, distributing and delivering the product to your customer’s front door.
According to Big Commerce, global e-commerce sales will continue to increase – even before the pandemic, the prediction was that sales would increase to $4.2 trillion and make up 16% of total retail sales by the end of 2020, and the numbers would continue to go up in the years to come.
Final thought
The global pandemic has caused hardship for many people. It has also accelerated online buying trends – this is the time to step out of the 9 to 5 ‘safe zone’, and start your own profitable business.