These People Made Money Working from Home — You Can, Too!
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
You may elect to sell products online as a means of working from home. Home-based jobs are growing more and more popular as people recognize the freedom they offer. Anyone can work from home but it is especially good for people who have skills that are particularly suited for digital delivery.
One of the biggest opportunities for working from home has been the growth of the website Ebay. The site has given rise to an army of entrepreneurs all plying different businesses that they are able to sustain with very little overhead costs.
A good example would be the case of Marion Walsh. Marion is a qualified school teacher but stopped going out to work once she had a family that she preferred to raise herself at home. Marion was also a very capable graphic designer and started a business where she combined her teaching and desktop publishing skills with the intent to make money online.
She began making classroom resources such as work sheets, games, wall displays and study packs. She sold her creations on Ebay which other teachers and students found to be valuable time saving resources. The excellent thing about Marion’s creations were that they could be delivered digitally by email, so she didn’t have any expensive printing and postage costs and was thus enabled to sell at very low prices.
Another Ebay entrepreneur is Robbie Needham. Like Marion, he felt compelled to look for alternative employment working from home. Robbie had been a car mechanic and owned his own car service garage. However due to a back injury, he was no longer able to continue in this work and sold off his garage. Robbie took the opportunity to pursue his lifelong interest in photography and old photographs.
Robbie began making specialist albums of his work and collections and putting them on compact discs. He specialized in town and city studies and had collections of landmarks and faces pertaining to a location through the ages in one album for sale. The compact discs were so popular on Ebay that it enabled Robbie to travel to different cities around Europe to take and collect photographs.
Cameron Tilley is a 3D artist who works from home creating 3D objects for sale on his highly successful 3D art website. Cameron is an example of someone earning a living doing something he would happily have done for free. After university, Cameron went to work for a city consultancy firm in which he had very good prospects. However, once home Cameron was at his computer creating 3D art in his favourite 3D package. The package has a big following and enthusiasts gather on online forums to discuss their work. The forums also have market places and this is where Cameron discovered that his object creations were extremely popular and commanded good prices. Soon he found that he didn’t have enough time to work and do the 3D work as well. He opted to start his own business and hasn’t looked back since.
The internet is providing new and varied opportunities to make money and you don’t just have to create products to work from home. You may decide to focus on writing as did Tricia Frampton, a former hairdresser who is now a full-time blogger and website owner. Tricia became known for her commentaries on celebrity hairstyles and her website attracted thousands of hits every day. Although she wasn’t selling a product, her site was monetized with advertising revenue and she was able to make money blogging at a successful rate. The income generating opportunities did not escape Tricia who now owns several websites that keep her busy and earn her a very substantial income annually.


