8 Home Business Ideas You Can Start With ZERO Dollars

If you're tired of your 9 to 5 job (or night job!!), if your salary is just not enough to live comfortably on, or you just don't enjoy your job anymore, then maybe you should start thinking about entrepreneurship.

It may seem unachievable because you think you need a lot of money to launch a business. I had this same mindset a long time ago!

I know different today. Fortunately for us, technology has made it very easy and affordable to start a business from home with ZERO dollars.

So here are my top 8 home business ideas to start with zero dollars

PRINTABLES

Selling printables is for sure one of the top profitable home business ideas.

This business idea can literally be done from anywhere and is never saturated because there are HUNDREDS if not thousands of niche ideas for a printable business.

From planners to invitations to simple notebooks, the list is HUGE, and you don't need to be a graphic designer at all. Sign up to canva for free, choose a template and start creating.

You created it for free, now how do you actually sell it for FREE?

With Etsy and Payhip. (Yes, Etsy!! There is a trick to it!)

Just go to Etsy, type in free listings in the search bar, and you'll see lots of offers. Choose one. Basically you get your first 40 listing for totally free. So you can list up to 40 products to sell totally for free. After that, it's 0,20 cents per listing.

Pro tip: if you choose Etsy, I strongly recommend you to check out Birchplease.co. It's a blog dedicated to Etsy with lots of free action plans to bring more sales and success to your Etsy Shop.

Payhip is even more amazing, for 2 reasons.

First you get 100% of the sales, no commission at ALL. Second, you can have your OWN affiliates, meaning you can invite your friends, family or social media subscribers to simply share your link, and they can have a small commission that you decide on when they bring you a sale.

Isn't this cool? Having your own affiliate program AUTOMATICALLY, just by signing up while still keeping 100% of all the sales.

You can do both to increase your chance of selling! Hey, it's free.

ASSIGNMENT BUSINESS

This is a very lucrative and fortunately an unsaturated business idea that you can start no matter who you are, even if you're still a student!!

You can earn money from literally HUNDREDS of different assignments, depending on your field of knowledge, expertise or experience.

If you like writing for example, you can start an essay assignment business.

You can try specific webistes like EssayPro or Essay Services for example, offer your services in freelance platforms or just use facebook and forums.

Later you can grow you business with your own website.

CHILD CARE

Who didn't use babysitting as a teen to make some extra money? Very few people can say no I think. And as a business, it can make you thousands of dollars instead of a few hundreds.

You can make great money by offering your services as a babysitter, nanny or even elderly caretaker. Even VIRUTALLY!

Craigslist, local bulletin boards, facebook and word to mouth are great ways to promote yourself for totally free.

Or you can check out specific platforms that will connect you with clients thought they will take a cut of out what you make.

• Taskrabbit
• Veebee (virtual babysitting)
• PapaPal (virtual elderly companionship)
• Care.com
• Sittercity
• Urbansitter

This can be applied to launch any type service business like house cleaning, laundry services, dog walking, grocery delivery..Be creative!

Pro tip: while having your own website makes you look more professional and can attract lots of client, this is about FREE so use canva to create a landing page or a one page website for free to impress your client even if you have $0!

RECRUITING

This is a highly lucrative business model where basically you don't have to work yourself but just connect people who need something done with workers or freelancers that fit what they're looking for.

The best part? You can simply use crowdsouring platforms like Fiverr to find people who qualify best for the offer. Basically the client doesn't want to waste time to search, so he pays you to do instead.

It helps if you already have a network in a certain niche but it's not necessary to get you started. And this also something you can do VIRTUALLY with Relode (a virtual recruiting platform)

Pro tip: one of the easiest ways, you can start this business model or make even double the money is with Fiverr's affiliate program which ANYONE can join. You can use it to to find freelancers for clients in need of a service and refer them to the gig/freelancer on the platform ( could be just people you know) or you can simply promote services you find interesting through social media, forums, craigslist!

DIGITAL ART

If you're an artist, and like to paint, this can be a very lucrative business.

Scan your oil, acrylic or watercolor paintings, upload them to several platforms and start selling them as digital downloads.

You won't have to frame, package or ship your piece of art.

You can use the exact same model we covered for selling printables to sell your digital art through Etsy and Payhip.

CONSULTATIONS

Whatever your niche of expertise, you can start an online consultation business for free and start making real money with your experience and knowledge. If you think you have no expertise, think again.

You can offer social media consultations, job interviews, career, or even fitness consultations..The choices are endless.

From marketing, to nursing, web development to computer technology, places like JustAnswer and Clarity.fm will also hire you to share your expertise and answer online questions. These are mainly for US and Canada.

If you live outside these two, you can try listing your consultation services on freelance platforms, forums, facebook, social media bio etc

Again use the canva landing page trick for free if you can't afford a website.

You can use either Zoom for a video chat or you can grab a free phone number from google and start offering consultations by phone call!!

BLOGGING

Yes blogging is a business. And, it can definitely earn you thousands even if you go for the free options which you can start both with Wordpress and Blogger.

The only issue with free blogging is that you can't put paid ads on your blog, so your main source of income would have to be affiliate marketing or digital downloads you sell on your own blog.

Still, it's much better than nothing. Start with a free blog, register for a couple of affiliate programs depending on your niche and start writing consistently.

Tip:If you want to really take it to the next level, and even if you have $0 right now, you can check out some microtasks from this list of 20 side hustles that are worth your time, for only few of hours of work, you'll have enough to pay for your domain name, a cheap host ($2,95) and even maybe an seo tool to help you rank higher on google and drive more traffic!

PRIND ON DEMAND

This is a great way to channel your creativity and use your art, your love for photography or words.

Whether you paint, draw, or just like to take photos everywhere you go.

Or you like quotes, funny sayings or words that rhyme. Go for print on demand (don't let your cute pictures or funny jokes go to waste!!).

You would be surprised at what people like and buy at these places.

You also get the opportunity to upload one design on hunreds of products to raise your chance at having sales.

Try: Redbubble, teespring, teepublic, cafepress, zazzle..Or all of them to increase your profits!

These were only a few ideas that hopefully will inspire you depending on you niche, hobby or talents. Think about what you love to create or what you're skilled at, I promise there are many ways you can monetize it!

PS: for the sake of transparency, please note that some of these links may be affiliates links that could earn me a small commission at no cost to you if you purchase through them.

Please feel free to drop a comment if you have other ideas that could be inspiring and helpful!! (or a like if you took some value from this post!!)