How do you fancy starting a business from home? Lots of us have loved working from home over the last year or so, but with the prospect of returning to offices, you might be looking for something that keeps you at home. The freedom of working from home has been fantastic for many. The ability to fit in work around childcare and a better work life balance, to name a couple of benefits. There has been a lot of financial hardship over this time period too, so watching the pennies is important. With that in mind, let’s look at online home based jobs without investment.
Freelancer
If you have talents, the likelihood is that you already have the ability to do them. A laptop is a wonderful thing. When you combine it with a broadband connection, the ability to become a freelancer is heightened. You could become a freelance website creator, graphic designer, content writer. Maybe you could write social media posts, engage in outreach for companies, turn your hand to video editing. Freelancers have to look after their own taxes, however they tend to charge more than someone who is employed. You can make great money as a freelancer and if you do a good job, will likely get return clients. All by using what you have to begin with.
Blogger
Next on our list of online home based jobs without investment is blogger. If you have knowledge on a subject, have you considered becoming a blogger? Maybe you set up a fantastic business by the age of 16, or travelled the world on a budget. Document your story and you could gain interest and views on your site. On the back of your content, you can make money from your blog. This could be from affiliate links, paid product placements or adverts. You do the writing and creation, building a blog that people are interested in and other companies will want to piggy back on your success, paying you for the privilege.
Tutor
Many kids have fallen behind over the last few months. Parents are worried about their children’s education and are willing to pay tutors to get them back up to speed. Tutoring used to be just face to face, however, like many businesses, tutoring is now online. This opens you up to teach anybody in the world via video chat. It also means you can manage your time better and squeeze more students into your allocated hours because you don’t have to commute anywhere. If you have maths qualifications, science qualifications, religious education qualifications, you could tutor people over Skype or Zoom. Of course, you don’t need to only tutor children. There are many adults who would like to learn a second language or maybe even pick up a guitar! If you have the knowledge to teach, people will pay to learn.
Reselling Business
Next on our list of online home based jobs without investment is reselling. You might think that reselling needs investment and in many ways it does because you need to buy something in order to sell it on at a profit. But hear me out! Start your reselling business by looking around your own house for things that you can turn a profit with. Then you can use that money to buy your first bundle of items to resell. Look online at things that are valued too low and you know can sell for more. Check out charity shops as they have a fast turnover of goods and don’t always put the maximum amount of worth on their products. Make sure you keep track of fees from PayPal and eBay too as this will eat into your profits. As will postage fees if you don’t get them right. Don’t be scared of using free to sell platforms like Facebook Marketplace too.
YouTuber
All of the biggest and most famous YouTubers started in same position that you are in right now. Wondering whether or not to create a YouTube account. You can make money from YouTube. Make videos in a specific niche or just document your life. If they are well produced, interesting and people get on board with them, you can soon create a following, put adverts on your videos and start bringing in money. If you get successful, you might even have brands approach you for collaborations which can bring in more funds. If you love creating videos and have a passion for connecting with people online, YouTuber could be a great career for you.
Print On Demand
Next up on our list of online home based jobs without investment is print on demand. If you have graphic design skills like we’ve already mentioned, you could create products that people will buy. Of course, traditionally you would have to buy products, sore them in your spare room, list them online and then post them out to your customers. Print on demand companies are bridging that gap, making it easier for you. You make the designs, create a site and connect a print on demand platform and then all the product, printing and postage side of things is sorted out for you by the third party. Of course, they take a cut of the money for that service, but it saves you having to shell out a lot of financial investment in the first place. Create designs that people love and get the right eyes on your products via marketing and you could easier create a well loved and successful print on demand business. Read more about print on demand.
Surveys
Finally on our ideas of online home based jobs without investment is surveys. Did you know that companies will pay you for your opinion? Or to complete certain tasks? Sites such as Yougov and Swagbucks will let you accumulate points which you can then turn into cash pay outs. Use Cashback to earn on average £150 for just a few hours work. There are loads of survey sites online which will have you signing up for free trials, completing surveys and giving your opinion on current affairs in return for cash. Sign up to market research companies too. Some will conduct interviews over video chat whilst others will pay you to join a gym and then you’ll have tasks to complete during your membership. Surveys can bring cash in but also open you up to opportunities that you wouldn’t otherwise have.

Which of our online home based jobs without investment do you like the sound of? Maybe you aren’t ready to give up your job just yet but perhaps going part time is an option, which will allow you to dip your water into one of these ideas. think outside the box, use your creativity and be clever with what you already have in order to pretty much create something from nothing.