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Starting a business from home in 2021 is a realistic way to make passive income or turn a side hobby into a full time gig. There are millions of people who have started businesses from their homes and you can be one of them. With the rise of the gig economy, you can hire freelancers to help with anything. There are plenty of good business ideas to start your online business. But before you begin, you should learn about the HOW in how to start an online business.

Start An Online Business With These Tips

Leverage Skills
Entrepreneurship’s is the current buzz. Everyone wants to be one, but how can you start a business if you don’t have expendable money? Many successful companies have been started with little to no money. Many of the most successful business owners started from scratch. With the knowledge and skills they had acquired over years of hard work, they were able to create successful companies. For example, Bill Gates had been programming for many years before he and Paul Allen launched Microsoft. If you want to create a company with almost no upfront costs, you are going to have to leverage your skills to create something that solves a problem.

Brainstorm Problems
Think of some ways you can use your skills to create something of value that solves a problem others experience.
◎ Action Item: write down the problems you can solve with the skills you possess

Work Backwards
What if you don’t have any skills that can be used to create something? Find an area you are interested in and learn the skills you need to create to solve problems in that industry. Do you want to create an iPhone app? Learn iOS development. Do you want to build an affiliate marketing network? Learn SEO, how to build websites, and copywriting. You are going to have to invest tons of time in order to truly develop these skills to a point where you will be able to create something of value.

Use the Internet
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So once you know what skills you need to learn, how do you learn them? One word: Google. The internet is the first place to look if you want to learn anything. Literally look up “how to learn ______” and you will be given hundreds of search results. I’d recommend reading the first 5 results and take notes on them.
◎ Action Item: search how to learn the skills you have written down and take notes on the first 5 results

Use Online Learning Platforms‍

Additionally, there are hundreds of online learning platforms that can teach you everything from cryptocurrency to digital marketing to programming with Python. Reading reviews and blogs can help you learn about popular online businesses and stay up to date.