Turn Your Assets Into Income Online

I get e-mail daily asking about the best work-at-home opportunity.  I usually interpret “best” to mean fastest, easiest and most lucrative. But there is no one opportunity that is the “best” for everyone. Instead, the best opportunity for you is the one you’ll do. And the one you’ll do is the one that you feel competent in and enjoy. So start your work-at-home search by inventorying your assets.

Your assets are:

1)      What you do: These are skills you’ve learned on the job, in volunteer work or in your hobby. It could be your typing speed, keeping the books for the recreational soccer league, or growing a garden in winter.

2)      What you know: Again these are bits of knowledge that you learned from your job, volunteer work or through a hobby.  It can include software or other tools that you know how to use, or information you’ve gained through experience.

3)      What you love: These are your passions and interests and can include anything from fighting poverty to being an avid mystery reader.

4)      What you’ve got: These are tangible items that can be used as tools or even sold. A computer is a tool that can be used to make money. The clutter around your home can be sold for money. My favorite example is the family in the southwest that sells the tumble weed that blows through their yard. That tumble weed is an asset.

Make a list of all your assets. Include everything no matter how crazy you think it is. You’d be amazed at all the ways people are taking their unique and unusual assets and turning them into money.

Once you have your list, you simply need to match them to income options. The three basic ways to do that are to:

1)      Sell your skills (what you do). This can be done by finding a work-at-home job, freelancing or starting a business.

2)      Sell your knowledge (what you know and love). This involves teaching others what you know or do and can be done through coaching or creating informational products.

3)      Sell your stuff (what you got). You can sell your clutter, your own creations or even join an existing business opportunity that has the products you love.

I understand the desire to find the fastest and easiest money-making opportunity, but searching for work focused on the money will almost always fail. You’ll either end up scammed or involved in a work-at-home opportunity that you don’t like. The shortest path to work-at-home success is to focus on your current assets. You already have the knowledge and experience that you can put to work much faster than learning something new.