Making Money with Your Home Computer

Ian C. Langtree Content Writer/Editor for Disabled World
Published: 2010/08/22 - Updated: 2024/02/01
Publication Type: Informative
Contents: Summary - Main - Related Publications

Synopsis: A list of home business opportunities that only require a computer, internet access, email address, and commitment. A home business using your own computer can be a very rewarding way of making an income from home.

Main Digest

There are a number of work at home business opportunities that only require a computer, internet access, email and hard work and commitment to be successful and profitable.

Build Your Own Website

An increasingly popular way of making money at home is to create an income generating website. Building a content-based, money-making website can be a rewarding home business idea. It may seem like an enormous challenge to actually design and develop a website but if you have basic computer skills and internet access it can be done.

What is a Content Based Website

A content based website is a website that provides information on a specific subject or topic. For example a site that provides in-depth information and advice on how to design a kitchen is a content-based website but a site built to promote a kitchen design service or sell kitchen products is not a content-based website.

Building a content based website is one of the best home businesses because you do not need to have a product or service to start with - just a great idea! Finding the right idea takes some careful thought and planning. Your website is a story about something - something that you know about or are passionate about. Everyone has a winning website story in them!

Creating a Website

The simplest way to build your own website is to make use of a service provider who offers all the tools and resources for people who want to create their own websites but who do not have the technical expertise to do so on their own.

There are a number of packages offered and you need to research carefully the one that will work best for you. These packages also assist you with building traffic and optimizing search engine rankings.

Making Money with a Website

There are many different ways of making money from a website. Your choice of how you generate income from your website will depend largely on your website content. The easiest way for a content-based website to earn income is to use text-related advertising such as Google AdSense.

Affiliate marketing is also a popular way of making money at home with your website. You promote products and services offered by a company and in return receive a commission from the company or affiliate for sales or leads.

Data Entry Work at Home

This is another popular way of making money at home. Companies are looking for accurate and dependable data entry workers to process information for them. You need a computer, internet access, email and some basic office supplies to start doing data entry work. Accurate typing skills, reliability and the commitment to meet deadlines are also important.

Data entry work can be found online but unfortunately there are a large number of scams. You need to be able to identify a legitimate data entry work opportunity. Another option is to generate your own data entry work from legitimate local organizations and businesses.

Typing Work From Home

Making money at home with your own typing or secretarial business is a solid work from home opportunity. Establish your own clients and create a small secretarial business. This is a good way of ensuring that the typing and clerical work you do at home is for a legitimate organization who will pay you fairly for your work.

You will need a computer connected to a printer and with internet access plus relevant software and good typing and clerical skills. Use your marketing and entrepreneurial skills to market and develop a rewarding home based secretarial business.