Starting a home business is easier than ever before. Whether you’re a stay at home mom, or dad, looking for a passive income, or a budding entrepreneur, there are a few easy online home businesses you can launch today.

All you need is an Internet connection, a computer, and a little due diligence to begin your online home business. Need some ideas? The following are a few you can easily create.

1. Create And Run A Successful Blog

Launching a blog is one of the easiest ways to launch an online home business. In most cases it will only cost you less than $200 to set up a blogger site and a day to layout your website and publish your very first blog.

Money aside, you will need to brainstorm a bit to get your blog underway. For instance, you’ll need to choose a blog name and domain name. This is important because you want to brand your blog to connect with your target audience in an efficient way.

Knowing what to do after you buy a domain is also important. You’ll need to connect it with your WordPress account and hosting provider. You will also need to start marketing your domain and get all the social media channels as well.

Once you have a decent number of blogs published and your traffic is growing, it is time to generate revenue from ads using platforms like, Google AdSense or Chitika. If you get lots of traffic, you could be netting a nice passive income in no time.

2. Become A Paid Freelance Writer And Make A Living

Are you a pretty decent writer? If so, you can easily launch a freelance writing online business from the comfort of your home. Freelance writers can make from $30 per article to $150 per article, depending on your clients and the publications that your articles are published in.

For instance, you can ghostwrite for industry leaders, who already have a monthly article requirement for high authority publications like Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Washington Post, Inc., and even the Wall Street Journal.

How do you get started as a freelance writer? If you already have a blog, you can use this as your portfolio and begin connecting with industry leaders on social media offering your services. You can also get hired to do freelance writing by an agency that provides articles and website copy for companies.

You will certainly make more money going it alone, but the trade off is that you’ll need to find your own clients. This can take awhile, but once you land one, word of mouth travels fast and your client list will quickly fill up.

There are also a number of freelance platforms you can showcase your writing services on, like Fiverr and Upwork. Just be sure to check the fees they take and list your writing costs appropriately.

3. Create A WooCommerce Site For Online Retail Profits

Ecommerce is certainly trending with an estimated $4.5 trillion dollars of sales to be made globally by 2021. Many people are starting online home businesses via ecommerce websites, and you can easily do the same.

One of the biggest drawbacks to launching and maintaining an ecommerce home business is inventory. Where do you keep the inventory you need on hand when working out of your home? Enter drop shipping.

Drop shipping allows you to sell any number of products, from consumer electronics to sporting goods without receiving a single product at your home. Using drop shipping also eliminates the risk of having product you can’t sell, thus eating the costs yourself.

How do you launch and run a successful WooCommerce site from your home? First you’ll need to purchase and set up an ecommerce website. This is easier than you may think with the help of WordPress, WooCommerce, and/or Shopify.

Once you have your site ready to go, you need to find products. You can do that using online drop shipping sites like Oberlo. Oberlo can be integrated into your Shopify account, making it easy to choose, list, and sell products quickly.

In Conclusion . . . 

The above home business ideas are only the tip of the iceberg. There are plenty more ways you can start generating a passive income, or make the shift from 9-to-5 job to working from home permanently.

With a bit of research, an Internet connection, computer, and a few hundred dollars to invest, you can easily start an online home business today. Have you started a business from home? Share your tips with us.