Work-from-home Ideas

[SweetSecret]

If you aren't too busy, and can really devote time to it, another way to make money from home is social media account management. I have a friend who needed some help with her accounts late in her pregnancy. She had myself & 5 other people working for her. It wasn't a ton of money, and honestly took more time that I really could afford, but it's still money. I probably would have continued to do it after she gave birth if her business partner, who is no longer part of the business, hadn't been such a pain.

Anyhow, basically I had 3 business accounts that I managed. Each account had a Facebook, Twitter, & another social media account. Every day for each business I had to post 5-10 call to action items, and 10 pieces of "engagement". The call to action items were always track-able hyperlinks to something, generally the business's website, and at the end of the week I had to send in a report about how many clicks each link received as well as status updates on account engagement. The engagement simply consisted of getting others to interact with the account, either by writing a response to something they wrote in order to get them to respond, or asking a question to someone. It wasn't too hard, but at the time it was pain because I was still dancing, and had a lot of friends coming in to stay with me from out of town. My friend paid me $500/mo to manage the 3 accounts, honestly with all the work it ended up requiring in terms of team phone conferences, direct manager conferences, etc... it just didn't feel like it was worth it when the club was right next door (literally) and I could make a few hundred without all the hassles.

I might consider doing this again. If you are going to do it, I'd honestly suggest just doing it independently. I know my friend charged a lot for the services I was doing, and I was only seeing a very small sliver of that money. Try advertising on CraigsList, or go to business networking events. You could probably pick-up clients relatively quickly... especially small business owners.