How To Work From Home During Covid

Nina Petrov
8 min readMar 9, 2021

--

After Covid19 hit a massive amount of the population was able to begin working from home. More and more people either were giving the chance to work from home by their employer. Many people ended up being laid off and ended up starting to look more seriously at work at home opportunities online. As everyone either wanted to avoid the corona virus, or where simply forced into a circumstance where working from home was the only remaining option. Many SAHM’s and WAHM’s and mompreneurs are looking for a way to work from home to be able to raise their children. And many people are just tired of long commutes to and from work everyday. Most people want to be able to work their own hours and have some flexibility in their work days. Woking from home will allow you to get all that and more. Which means you’ll actually have a life. As soon as you can start to pull your own strings in life, it offers you that great sense of freedom to control your own hours, and your life. So working from home has massive benefits. Plus the income potential is virtually unlimited so with enough patience and hard work you can get ahead a lot faster than trying to climb the corporate ladder.

In this article we’ll explore ways to work from home during covid. The great thing is that working from home online is easier than ever. Plus there are endless work at home opportunities online to choose from. As long as you have some kind of device and an internet connection you’re basically in business. You don’t need any fancy set up either. Don’t go buying anything. Work with what you have. That means your laptop on a kitchen table is perfectly fine. Even just a smart phone can get you started. Start by just sorting out your day and figuring out what hours you can actually commit to doing this. Whether that means full or part time (or even just in your spare time). Also the next thing you’ll want to do is set up a basic PayPal account so you can get paid. Assuming you already have a bank account. You’ll need one of those. And also get a bitcoin wallet. Something like: Blockchain.com or else exodus.io wallet. Those are two of the top wallets for bitcoin (BTC). The reason you need all these wallets is because it will allow you to accept payments from people and companies you end up working for. Many online opportunities don’t pay directly to bank accounts. Most flow through PayPal and Bitcoin wallets. To work online you need both PayPal and a BTC wallet (as you’ll quickly find out). Those are both free to set up.

The next thing you simply need to do is find the right opportunity. Now here’s where you need to be very careful. Your goal is to “make money” not spend money. Again, your goal is to make an income. Not start spending money. Again, please don’t make the mistake of starting to “spend money”. You don’t have to. You’re goal is to start earning money. The reason I’m exaggerating this a bit is that literally 50% or more people start “spending money” which is a mistake. They either start spending money on a big elaborate office set up. Or they join some home business opportunity and start “spending a lot of money”. There’s only one exception to that rule. So if you’re goal is to start a business from your home, that’s different. So yes in those cases if you’re trying to start a business, that might require you to spend some money. However, that’s not what this article is about. If you’re goal is to start a business there’s endless information out there on that topic. However, this article focuses more on just ways to start earning money by working from home online. Which don’t require you join a business. Or don’t require you figure out your own business. It’s likely that covid19 has already cost you a lot, so don’t make the mistake of now spending even more. Save your money.

What you want to do is begin to seek out legitimate work at home opportunities. One’s that don’t require you spend a dime. You might have to try several of them in order to find one that works for you. You have several options to work from home during covid which include:

  • Actual jobs, where the employer allows you to work remotely
  • Freelancing type gigs or jobs
  • Mirco task freelancing jobs or gigs
  • Starting a youtube channel
  • Starting an ebay store or drop shipping
  • Joining an affiliate program

Most of these options you can pretty much start for free. And the right one can start to make you money. Keep in mind that it’s very competitive out there. Also some ideas take a long time to get some traction. Such as for example starting a youtube channel. You’d have to be willing to spend a good year to get established. Other ideas will require a lot of technical and business know how. And others will require that you already have some valuable skill to bring to the table, such as with freelancing. So all of those are good. And if you can find your niche in one of those areas, that allows you to turn a profit working from home, that’s great. Regardless of what you do, do a lot of research on it. You can do that by simply typing into google: “XYZ company reviews”. Or “XYZ company legit”. Searches like that will help you get some feedback on the company. Most companies will have both good and bad reviews. Just that if it’s “all bad” then you might want to think twice about it. And if it’s “mostly all good” reviews it’s likely a lot safer to try out.

Your goal is to try 10 things. Make a checklist of 1 to 10. Now start to search youtube and google for “work at home opportunities”. Don’t get mixed up here. There’s tons and tons of “business opportunities” that are going to ask you for money. Avoid those. Focus on opportunities to work from home that are “free to join”. And don’t require any purchase ever. Many of them don’t. And that’s what you’re looking for to add to your list. Now try out 10 of them. Try each for a few days or maybe a week. See if they actually start paying you. That means you should start to see money adding up in your bank account your paypal account or your BTC wallet. That’s how you know your onto something. Also the amount you're earning per day or per hour needs to make sense. It should be equal to or more than what you use to earn in your old day job. Or what you’d expect from a 9 to 5 job. Like try find something that pays you at least $25 per hour or more. That way you don’t end up spinning your wheels, and you actually get somewhere eventually. After you try 10 work at home opportunities see what one’s worked and what didn’t. Stop doing those that didn’t work. If one is really performing very well, and you're actually earning money, then stick with that one. If none of the 10 panned out, then start over and find another 10 to try out.

Also there’s one key thing you need to understand as well. When you’re making money online, the money is only there if you see it in your: 1) bank account, 2) PayPal account or 3) bitcoin wallet. If you join something, get an account with them. You login and you see money they claim you’ve earned sitting there in your account with them, that’s not real money. it’s only real money when it hits “your account”. Remember that. Digits on a screen are not money. Even when the money is in your Bank, PayPal or Bitcoin, it’s now closer to real money but again it’s digits on a screen. Even paypal has been known to close account left right and center and run off with the users money. That’s another thing I should mention. If you’re working with a PayPal account, NEVER and I mean Never, leave your funds in that account. As soon as they hit your paypal account, transfer them into your own bank account.

One of the best ways to make good money working from home that doesn’t require any experience is by joining an affiliate program. Affiliate programs are mostly all free to join. They allow you to basically be a sales rep for the company. It’s one of the biggest and most trusted trends online in terms of working from home. You don’t have to pay anything to join an affiliate program, and you don’t have to have any skills or experience to start making good income. You’ll want to find some program that meets some of the following criteria. It should be high ticket (high paying). High commission rate 50% is pretty good. Pays out to your bank account, Paypal or bitcoin wallet. Has a product that is “high demand”. Not just a product that is a “want”, but an actual “need”. That makes selling it a lot easier. Also you want to find something that is somewhat new or lesser known. That way you’re not competing against thousands of other affiliates in that same program. It makes selling so much easier if there’s less competition (less affiliates).

There’s many affiliate programs to explore. Infact there’s literally 1000’s of them. Try out 10 and see which one’s pan out. One very solid affiliate program that’s completely free to join is shown here: www.mlmrc.com/affiliate.htm This program will allow you to work from home. Full training is provided. No experience is required. And it’s completely free to join. The MLMRC affiliate program pays you between $500 and $1250 per sale. So the income can really start to add up fast. If you made even 1 sale per day, well do the math, you’d be laughing all the way to the bank! Plus isn’t relatively new so it’s not over saturated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_gh4NIYhEQ

There’s so much to learn in working from home. Again the basics are: 1) you need those accounts so you can get paid. 2) don’t pay for anything ever! Join ones that are 100% free. 3) Test out at least 10 things to start, and then evaluate each. And just dive in and get your feet wet. Don’t try and search out the perfect solution. It doesn’t exist. You just need something that pays reasonably well and that works, and that actually pays you. But again, don’t be afraid to try a lot of ideas. Just be careful not to end up “buying things or paying for things”. Don’t do that. Your goal is to find the equivalent to a “job” but just online. Something that “pays you”.

In conclusion these are some steps to help you in your journey toward starting to work from home during and after the covid crisis. Good luck on your journey.

References:

  1. PayPal
  2. Bitcion “wallet”
  3. Laptop, desktop, smartphone and internet connection
  4. An area to work in. “kitch table is fine
  5. list of 10 ones to try out. Don’t over analyse either. Time is money. Rather start testing them out as the way to evaluate them.
  6. Free to join Affiliate programs. ie: www.mlmrc.com/affiliate.htm

Good luck with your journey to begin working from home. Take care.

--

--

Nina Petrov
Nina Petrov

Written by Nina Petrov

Providing services and advice to those in the direct sales industry.

No responses yet