I’m tired and frustrated with the same all type of advices out there when you search for online jobs from home without investment.

You know what I am talking about – 

• “Start a blog and you will make millions. Hey guys, look at me, I have a Mercedes, travel the world, and I live on a beach…….” (Problem: the only caveat these “online gurus” don’t give you is that this takes years and years of time and effort. Plus, I would honestly stay away from people who only show you get-rich-quick kind of schemes)
• “Just do affiliate marketing guys!……..” (Problem: this takes lots and lots of traffic to your website)
• “Data entry jobs, online surveys — so simple!………” (Problem: these  type of jobs barely pay you anything)
• “Just start a YouTube channel, or an Instagram page!……….” (Problem: Let me not even start on this, my blood will gush out of my body in 10 seconds!!)

I’m assuming you already know the problem with these type of advises. We love to read, but we know for a fact, we will never do it.

These sound spammy, non-genuine, and really not effective in the long-run. 

If your main goal is to make money which is quick, reliable and genuine, then please do not get trapped to these online type of scams. 

Today, I’ll show you some proven ways of jobs from home without much investment.

They are –

• reliable (won’t just work once, but will continue ongoing basis)
• proven to work (I have tried it myself personally after trying atleast 20 different jobs and ways to make money from home)
• and authentic

Table of Contents 1But Wait, Firstly, Why Do You Need Online Jobs From Home (Without Investment)?2The 3 Strategies, Techniques and Hacks to Find Genuine Online Jobs From Home Without Investment3The 6 Genuine Online Jobs You Can Start from Home#1. Tutoring2. Transcription Services3. Content Writing4. Editing and Proofreading5. Graphic Designing6. Sell Your Existing Stuff4The 5-Point Email Formula that will get you Paying Jobs and Clients 5“But, what if I don’t like any of these, and want something which I like doing?”6Earn More Money By Starting a Side-Business

But Wait, Firstly, Why Do You Need Online Jobs From Home (Without Investment)?

So many reasons. Let me tell a few –

• The current scenario is risky 

Nobody in their wildest of the dreams thought how COVID-19 will shake up the entire world. I mean, the current situation you and me are in, is just plain risky.

What if something happens to your job? Your current income? Something unexpected just blows up.

Who knows what will happen tomorrow, and so one of the best things you can start doing today is have something from the comfort of your home, which will get you a consistent and reliable stream of income

• Gets you a second stream of income

The peace of mind you will have if you have another stream of income is priceless. The ability to take risks, flexibility, and freedom to do something of your choice — all of that is invaluable.

Starting a second income stream minimizes your risk and you don’t have to rely on just one source of income.

In the classic philosophic words — “don’t put all your eggs in one basket”

• Flexibility and freedom

It’s your own flexibility and complete location independence. Work from home, a coffee shop, or just anywhere in the world. Be it the projects you work on, clients you work with, or the location from where you work on — everything is under your control.

Nobody can manage you anymore. You own your thing!

• It’s just pure fun

Finding online jobs or starting an online business is fun. Doing something you love doing is more fun. Doing something you love from the comfort of your own home is one of the BEST feelings ever.

Think about it this way. You have a job now. You have one source of income now. 

Start a side-business with some of the proven techniques I have shared on this blog — find a profitable idea, validate it, and get your first 1-3 paying clients. 

You now get a second stream of income in as little as 6 weeks.

The 3 Strategies, Techniques and Hacks to Find Genuine Online Jobs From Home Without Investment

#1: Please don’t fall in the trap of FSC jobs

I’ll tell you what I am talking about. These are jobs which are either Fake, Spammy, or Cheap. So many people will simply tell you to do these jobs.

But, they never do thorough research and understand the nitty-gritty behind it. For eg: They will simply say “Just do online surveys!…..duh”

Or someone posts a random ad which says “make money from sitting home! Become a millionaire in 60 days!!!”

The truth bombs:

• Yes, you might make money. Congratulations on earning 50 RUPEES AFTER 10 DAYS OF WORK! 
• Any ad which promises is basically a “get-rich-quick” ad is purely a scam. Both, you and me know for a fact that you won’t become rich just overnight

If you like that, I’m all fine with it. But, I am assuming you are like me, and that you want a job which is qualitative with your efforts.  

#2: Use the JGS method

You know what JGS stands for? Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Zubin Ajmera’s quotes.

Let me lay the curtains for you — JGS means — Just Get Started! 

What you do currently –

• Read 52 articles
• Browse all day on 68 websites
• Scroll through facebook, instagram, etc.
• Read 15 books
• Create a fancy plan in your brain
• Talk to 10 people 
• Think, think, and overthink

What you should do –

• Just Get Started!

Just pick something, move on, and get the ball rolling. Trust me, you will learn a lot from actually doing it, than to sit around all day and never progress onto the next step.

#3: It’s OK to not like it

If you don’t like any of the online jobs which I am about to share below, that’s OK. At the end of the post, I’ll share with you my proven method to find a job or an idea you will love, and how to make money out of it.

So, don’t worry, this is not a definitive list. It’s a list of few online jobs that are genuine and authentic. 

You always have the option to do a job you LOVE and which makes you a profit. 

The 6 Genuine Online Jobs You Can Start from Home

I’m not going to write yet another “here are 20 jobs from home” article for you. 

I have realised most of these jobs which are written online are — never researched, the person writing it has not even tried it himself, and most of them do not even show you how to get started.

What is the point in writing such an article then? Oh wait, they want to put ads on their website so they can make money by having you read that article….hmmmmmm……

So, let me show you 6 of the genuine online jobs from home, that require virtually no investment to get started, and if you put in 5-10 hours of work every week, you should easily earn 20-25K to begin with.

#1. Tutoring

With the COVID-19 pandemic, many parents have started homeschooling, or are looking for tutors to teach online.

Suddenly, the demand for tutors is HUGE.

But, how can you get started if you have no experience?

Here’s how: Pick ANY subject or area you are good at. Think – 

• Knowledge based: Physics, Maths, Science, etc.
• Creativity based: Craft, Arts, Painting, etc. 
• Skill based: Dance, Karate, Chess, etc.

See what I am saying? There are so many options with this. Students are wanting to learn these subjects and areas today, so it’s an amazing time to be in.

You need not be the best at it, so do not complicate it. 

Just pick ONE you think you are good at, and get you first 1-3 paying clients. 

How do you find them? (More details on this below)

Bad methods:

• Start an instagram page
• Build a fancy website
• Not doing anything (the worst)

Good methods:

• Know few parents within your network? Message 5 of them personally 1-1
• Aware of any Whatsapp group they are part of? Reach out to them, post a flyer, or just talk about what you plan to offer
• Perhaps you could join few facebook groups and post some valuable content

The point here is — the easiest way to find clients are to go where they ALREADY hang out.

2. Transcription Services

These pay you simply for transcribing audio into text. So, you can easily make some money transcribing audio files into text.

Let me make it easier for you — Rev is one legitimate website which pays you a flat rate of one dollar for one minute.

Let’s do some math:

• Average talking speed is around 120 words per minute. Average writing speed is around 40 words per minute
• So, it should take you around 2-3 minutes to type 1 minute of audio, which comes to around $20 an hour
• Dedicate about 5-10 hours a week for this, and that’s a nice $100-200 per week of extra income. So, about 7000-15000 INR per week — NOT BAD at all!

3. Content Writing

Companies need content…..for their websites, presentations, blogs, etc.

Influencers need content…..for their social media, emails, etc.

Marketing agencies need content….for their clients, websites, SEO, etc.

Authors need content….for their books, blogs, press, etc.

The point is — content writing is needed almost all everywhere, in all industries, in all types. 

Just look around, I am willing to bet you will find 80% of the network around you, needs content one way or the other. 

If you write decently well, you can easily get some genuine jobs. 

I still get part-time jobs, full-time offers, freelancing clients, etc. from content writing, so once you get started, there is a consistent stream of income you can expect.

4. Editing and Proofreading

Perhaps one of the simplest jobs you can do if you have decent skills in grammar correction, detailing, and sentence framing.

It’s simple — you are given a whole bunch of essays or long form content, and your job is to proof-read it to perfection, without any errors and mistakes.

Let’s take an example — If therr is a mistak in this sentenc, are yu able to spott it?

I think you will easily be able to correct that sentence. Editing and proofreading jobs are no different.

Review the entire content, correct the errors, proofread again for no mistakes, and there you go!

By the way — this can also be a continuation if you get a content writing job. 

5. Graphic Designing

Quick exercise and homework for you: Open your mobile phone. Go to Instagram. Scroll through your feed.

How many images do you see? 

Answer: ALL are images

Now, think of the same on other platforms — Facebook, LinkedIn, Websites, Invitation cards, Gift cards, etc.

Images, images and only images.

And what if you know how to create beautiful images from scratch? How is that for a job? 

I’ll tell you — it’s AMAZING!

In fact, go to canva.com, and you can just start making images of all kinds. Play around and you are now a ninja master!

Advanced graphic designing goes further into infographics, illustrations, vector images, etc. But, if you are just starting out, creating attractive images is good enough to land you a job or a client.

Tons and tons of companies hire graphic designers every single hour.

Just to show you an example, go to facebook, and type in “graphic designing groups” or “marketing jobs”, or “freelance media jobs”, or something similar, and you will easily find lots of lots of groups, where people post graphic designing jobs every single day.

Huge in demand.

6. Sell Your Existing Stuff

I had a guitar lying around for months. Never used. Never moved. Not done anything with it.

So, just randomly one day, I took some pictures, put it on olx, made a price of 5000 rs.

Boom! Next morning, I have 7 enquiries asking for it. I sold to 1.

30-45 minutes of work….5K straight in cash…..not bad for some quick money.

Same applies to you. We know there are so many things lying around in your house, but we never take the time to remove it.

Do some quick inventory check. What are some items you can sell?

• Books
• Clothes
• Video games
• Electronics
• Any vintage collection
• Furniture
• Home accessories
• etc.

The list is endless.

How to Get Your First 1-3 Online Jobs? Use The Surgical Technique

Go to google, and search “how to get online jobs” or “how to find clients”, and you will be thrown with results of articles telling you to do 157 different things.

Where do you start? How do you know if it will work? How much time does that take?

There are barely any answers to that. 

The end result? You won’t do anything.

Instead, I like to do JUST 2-3 key things consistently for 3-4 weeks, that are proven to work.

So, I’ll show you how to get your first clients. This will work

• even if you have no experience
• even if you have no idea how to begin
• even if (insert your excuse here)

The strategy we are going to use is what I call — The Surgical Technique.

So, instead of doing 100 different things and going in random directions, we will surgically go direct to our audience.

So, how do we do that? 

Let’s answer the fundamental 2 questions which will cover all our answers –

• Who is our audience? 
• Where do they hang out, specifically?

Let’s take a real example here. Let’s say you are interested in content writing, so how do you find your first online jobs or clients for it?

Let’s walk through the answers methodically.  

Who is our audience? 

• Average answer: Anyone who needs content!
• Good answer: Anyone who has a blog, or a website, or social media accounts
• Great answer: Digital marketing agencies based in Mumbai, and are interested to offer content writing jobs, either part-time or freelance basis

Look at that! The more specific you get, the easier it is to find people.

The point is — do the research on who needs your service. Like, literally sit down, take a 15-min silence, and think — “Who will actually need content writing services?”

From there, you can start making a list –

• Marketing agencies
• Authors
• Website owners
• Small software and technology companies
• etc.

Once you know who is your target audience, we move onto the next question.

Where do they hang out, specifically?

• Average answer: They are everywhere online
• Good answer: They are on facebook, instagram, whatsapp, etc.
• Great answer: “Zubin, I did a quick google search for “digital marketing agencies in Mumbai”, and BOOM! I now have a list of atleast 50 companies I can reach out to.” Alright alright, I love you for that!

Let’s try that. I go to google and search “list of digital marketing agencies in Mumbai”

I then click on the “More Places” button below

I now get a huge list of companies as per my criteria. I click on the first website result, A&B – Digital Marketing Agency in Mumbai.

I go to their Contact Us page, and see what we get –

BOOM! You get the email of syed@aandb.xyz

Great work so far! Hey, did you pat yourself? If not, please do it immediately! 

Alright, so, what do we have so far –

1. We have a list of online jobs ready. We can pick 1
2. We know who will need us for that specific job
3. We also know how do we find those people

At this point, you are WAY WAY WAYYYYYYY ahead than 95% of the people, who just sit, dream, hope, pray and at the end — do nothing!

But, I don’t want to leave you hanging, so let me also show you how to reach out to them.

The 5-Point Email Formula that will get you Paying Jobs and Clients 

Gone are the days when you had to wait months and months to get a meeting with someone, and then hope and pray they offer you something.

But today, maybe this is the best phase we are in, thanks to the technologies and mediums out there, which allows us to communicate with anyone, effortlessly. 

With just a few emails (which I am about to show you), you will easily land some paying jobs and clients.

Plus, with freelancing on the rise, virtually everyone is open to the idea of working from home.

Here’s an email broken down and the psychology behind it on why it works:

“Hi Rohit,

I’m Zubin, and I specialise in lead generation and booking meetings, for software companies, in the B2B industry. (1)

I was checking your website and got interested with the software your company has, I think a huge time-saver for all the HR professionals with their employee onboarding and then engagement. (2)

I have been doing lead generation for the past several years, so had 2-3 ideas on how I could do the same for (company name). (3)

This way, you book meetings every month, and your sales team focuses more on closing instead of prospecting and looking for meetings. (4)

Mind if I send you few times for next week for a quick call? (5)

Best,

Zubin Ajmera

Let’s break it down step-by-step on why this works magically –

(1) Quick introduction about yourself, and what you have to offer

(2) Builds some rapport, and shows the person you have done some research and spent the time understanding their company. (Most people will never do this part)

(3) Shows some credibility, and puts forward few ideas on how you could HELP them (again, this is brilliantly done in one sentence)

(4) Tells the person the value and benefit they will get by working with you. It’s not “I do this, I do that, I also do that!!!” — NO. Instead, it’s showing them how you will help them and make their life easier. This is music to the ears

(5) Making it super-simple for the person to reply. The person can read the entire email, and can quickly reply with a Yes or a No. So, you have done all the research and work, and making it extremely easy for the person to respond — beautiful

The 5-point email formula looks dead simple, but the simplicity of it makes it to work magically. 

Let’s talk about how to NOT reach via emails –

• Please, please, for the love of God, do not be spammy: 

One of my core ethical rules to live by is never be spammy. Look, people get bombarded with emails, calls, messages, ALL DAY.

There is an insurance person who keeps telling you to buy insurance. There is a lady calling you every week forcing you to buy some loans (even though I do not need one.)

There are spammers emailing you — “hey Zubin, I do web development! Please buy my service. I will give you 80% discount!!!”

I am sure you get across these people too. So, when you take a different approach, you instantly separate yourself and stand out. 

•  Don’t write an essay: Keep your emails short and concise. Make it quick, short and you are good to go
•  Read your email loud after: If it sounds spammy after you have written it, well, then perhaps, it is spammy

“But, what if I don’t like any of these, and want something which I like doing?”

Of course, not necessary you will find these jobs attractive. Maybe you will say “Uhhh, I don’t know. They sound interesting, but…….”

Or “I don’t imagine myself doing this job in the next 2-3 years”

Well, I have good news for you.

You don’t have to do these jobs, rather what if you created your own online business AND get paid for it. (Btw — here’s a battle-tested list of small-scale business ideas for inspiration.) 

Plus, what if you LOVE doing that job everyday of your life. So, you wake up excited, look forward to do that job and don’t have to think about anything else.

Is that possible? 

In my experience, today, it is possible and maybe one of the best gifts you could give yourself.

Earn More Money By Starting a Side-Business

One of the best ways to have a fulfilling online job, and earn more money is to start a side-business,

This applies if you are still working at a job, or are looking for a new one, or just wanting to start something of your own.

After doing this repeatedly over the past several years, I have distilled all my learnings, mistakes, and strategies that work down to the ONLY KEY things you need to do.

Here’s the proven tried-and-tested process for this:

• Step 1: Get a few ideas. Then, pick 1
• Step 2: Test and validate the idea for profitability
• Step 3: Get your first 1-3 paying customers

That is it. 

No fancy websites. No random facebook page likes. No complicated startup or investor overwhelm.

No nickel and dime on boring tasks.

Just a few steps, and you can easily make around 25-30K as an extra income.

Plus, you need not quit your job yet. Start with getting few clients, and eventually you have an option to quit and make the leap on your business full-time.