Question of the day from a Quora user: What are some of the best home based businesses?
Answer: The best home based business is the side hustle of affiliate marketing and blogging and here’s why. Hands down, it’s not only the best home based business you can work in your spare time without someone standing over your shoulder pressuring you to meet sales quota, but it’s a passionately labor of love you can take up as a hobby doing something you want to do in your spare time without anybody hounding you. With a home-based business, it has to be something you truly want to do from the heart because not only is it a freelance line of work, but there’s no guarantee of financial success and unless your heart is in it, you’ll never achieve “side hustle millionaire” status.
First off, you need a domain name. A domain name is your personal online real estate known as the URL address. URL stands for uniform resource locator. When people see your blog and a domain name, they know you’re serious about your business. Having a free blog on a site like LiveJournal-TypePad, Google’s blogger.com and Tumblr will not be seen by people as an official business and you won’t be taken seriously. And besides, those are free blogging platforms that can delete your content for any reason or no reason at all.
Once you’ve acquired your domain name, you need dedicated web hosting. Once you’ve acquired a dedicated web hosting package, whether it be a dedicated server or a cloud server, you would go ahead and install a self hosted version of WordPress blogging CMS content management system on your server. It’s absolutely free of charge and a blog is a great way to not only have a home-based business working in your spare time as a side hustle, but you’ll also be able to work on your blog anywhere you want, as long as you have a laptop and an instant Internet connection.
You could be at a coffee shop, the gym, on the go and sitting in the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, or in a hotel room with your laptop and work on creating quality content for your blog as you please. Your blog can potentially become a 24-hour a day money making machine and help you achieve side hustle millionaire status. If you’re serious about making the home-based business-side hustle work for you, this is your calling to putting your money where your mouth is and showing everyone, including the naysayers, who has the true “side hustle business muscle for the hustle,” and do the transformation business work starting today out of inspiration or desperation.
Food for thought: The more you stay on your cushy day job and continue working paycheck to paycheck with some sort of job security, you’ll never discover your true entrepreneurial potential and rely on your job as her sole and only means of income. If you sick and tired of being around people every day, sick and tired of someone controlling your hourly pay rate or annual salary, sick of someone thinking you’re not worth X and X amount of dollars, and sick of getting up and going to work for a loudmouth or unthankful employer, it’s time for you to do the transformation business work today out of inspiration or desperation by feeling uncomfortable enough to start a business online working from home, even in the worst time of your life.
If you start your home based business-side hustle now while things seem bleak and uncertain, not only will you develop “tough entrepreneurial skin,” but it’ll also prove to you how much you can put up with and handle in times of adversity before achieving future status of “side hustle millionaire.” If you think you have the “business muscle for the home-based business side hustle” and ready to deal with no guarantees of financial success in the business of online freelancing and working from home, go for the gusto and get started now by “getting organized with no delay.” Lastly, this line of work is not for the faint hearted or those who can’t see past “instant gratification!”