Amongst the many benefits of the Internet is the ability for people to be able to work or run their business from anywhere without needing a physical office or store.
This concept is called working remotely, and it became very popular when Covid-19 shut down the world. A remote business is any business you can operate from a location other than a business facility, shop, or office.
Such locations could include your home, a co-working or other shared space, a private office, or any other place outside of the traditional corporate business facility or store.
There are several options when it comes to remote business ideas that you can choose from, and that is what we will discuss in this article.
Best Remote Business ideas You Can Run from Anywhere
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Website Designing
Available data released by Forbes shows that there are 1.13 billion websites in the world as of February 2023 of which 82% were deactivated, which means around 200 million websites are active.
This goes to show that there is a massive market for website design. Interestingly, if you have website designing skills, you can run your own business as against working for a company.
Please note that to secure website designing deals, you must have an advantage over your competitors because the market is highly competitive.
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Graphic Designing
Offering graphic designing services is yet another remote business idea you can run from anywhere. Although, in recent times there are many AI software that people are using to generate graphics, but the truth remains that people and organizations who want unique graphics will always hire a competent graphic artist.
Interestingly, there are several projects that graphic artists can work on, and a company in the United States can hire a graphic artist in Nigeria to help them handle their projects as long as the graphic artist is good at what he or she does.
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Online Courses
Apart from the fact that you can generate your online courses from scratch, you can also sell other people’s online courses as long as you have permission to do so.
Interestingly, there are several subjects or areas you can create online courses for. It could be on relationships, technical skills, soft skills, academics, and other areas of life.
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Forex Trading
Forex trading is one of the remote businesses that has made many people millionaires within a short time. Although forex trading can be highly volatile, if you learn the trade properly, you will be able to minimize your risks and maximize your profits. There are several platforms online where you can trade forex.
Some of them include; IG Academy, SaxoTraderGo mobile app, Interactive Brokers – IBKR mobile app and Impact app, FOREX.com – FOREX.com mobile app, AvaTradeGo mobile app, and AvaOptions mobile app, and IC Markets – MT4, MT5, and cTrader mobile apps et al.
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Remote Photography
If you are a photographer, you can still run your business without needing a photo studio or going to physical locations to take pictures of your clients. Yes, this is possible, and many thanks to the innovation that has made this possible.
This is how remote photography works, instead of setting up your studio, your clients will connect with you over video conferencing tools such as Zoom or Skype and you can comfortably direct the photoshoot remotely.
When conducting remote photography, photographers can use real-time camera adjustments and lighting setups to create original images with a professional look.
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Ghostwriting Services
A ghostwriter is a person hired to write literary or journalistic works, speeches, or other texts that are credited to another person as the author.
Trust me, as the world becomes busier, loads of people will struggle to write their books, speeches, or even content on their websites or brochures.
That is where a ghostwriter comes in. Please note that if you want to become a successful ghostwriter, you should avoid plagiarism, and your work must be original and creative.
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Travel Consultancy Business
If you are a travel consultant, and you are struggling to pay for office space, you can work remotely from the comfort of your home or any location.
All you need to get your work done for your clients is to have a computer (laptop), smartphone, website, and internet connection.
The fact that you don’t have to physically see your customers before offering your services to them makes it easier for you to work from any location. Please note that you will need to build trust if indeed you want to succeed as a travel consultant without a physical office.
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Online Home Tutor, and Teaching Business
If you are an educationist, and you want to start a remote business, you should consider starting an online tutor business.
As an online tutor, you can teach your students from any part of the world as long as you have a reliable internet and video conferencing platform.
Interestingly, you can hire teachers who specialize in teaching other subjects to make your online home tutor robust and attractive.
Come to think of it, apart from teaching academic subjects to pupils, you can also help teach local languages to children in the diaspora.
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Drop Shipping Business
Drop shipping is a business model that allows you to sell products online without having to own or operate the physical location where those products are stored and processed.
This means you can start an eCommerce store and sell a wide range of products without handling inventory and fulfillment.
One good thing about the drop shipping business is that you can be in anywhere in the world, buy goods from China, and have the goods delivered to someone in Dallas, Texas without having any physical contact with the goods.
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Telemedicine
The concept of telemedicine has come to stay, and if you are a doctor who is interested in starting a remote business, you may want to consider starting a telemedicine business.
Telemedicine is the delivery of health care from a distance using electronic information and technology, such as computers, cameras, videoconferencing, satellites, wireless communications, and the Internet.
During the last COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of people embraced the concept of telemedicine, and some of them were not willing to go back to the norm hence making telemedicine grow and become popular.
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Online Counselling, and Therapy Services
Just like telemedicine, counseling is yet another service that can be carried out from any location. If you are a counselor, and a therapist, and you are looking to work with clients from any part of the world, then you may want to consider taking your services online.
All you need to start your online counseling services are a smartphone, laptop, headset, and internet device that will help deliver your services effortlessly.
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Online Shoe Store Business
An online shoe store is an e-commerce website or an online retail outlet that sells different types of shoes and related products.
Please note that an online shoe store can be a brick-and-mortar shoe retail business with a website. It can also be an e-commerce website or app where buyers can see a catalog of products (shoes) and electronically purchase them.
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Online Boutique
An online boutique is a small shop that typically sells fashionable clothing or accessories through the Internet. Interestingly, more people are now comfortable shopping online hence the increase in sales for businesses such as online boutiques.
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Open a Shop on Etsy
Please note that owning a shop on Etsy means that you can only sell handmade or crafted items. This is so because Etsy is a marketplace strictly for handmade and vintage items. All vintage items must be at least 20 years old.
The site follows the tradition of open craft fairs, giving sellers personal storefronts where they list their goods for a fee of US$0.20 per item. So, if you can create or design your items, then you may want to consider opening a shop on Etsy.
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Affiliate Marketing Business
Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate earns a commission for marketing another person’s or company’s products.
The affiliate simply searches for a product they enjoy, then promotes that product and earns a piece of the profit from each sale they make.
With affiliate marketing, you simply join their affiliate program, grab your link, and post it on your page or website. It might interest you to note that affiliate marketing is a multibillion-dollar global industry.
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Online Flight Booking Services
The truth is that you do not need to get the required IATA certification before you can start making money online by booking flights for air travelers online.
All you need is computer knowledge, a laptop, an internet device, and of course partnership agreement with a registered and certified ticketing company. With this kind of agreement, you will be required to book flights for clients and you will make your commission.
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Start Selling NFTs
Do you know you can make good money online from selling NFTs? Of course, several people from across the world are making money dealing in NFTs, and recent data (12, March 2024), shows that the global NFT market cap today is $70.07 Billion, a +1.25% change in the last 24 hours.
NFT is known as non-fungible tokens (NFTs), these cryptographic assets are based on blockchain technology and have unique identification codes and metadata that set them apart from each other.
The most popular way to generate money from NFTs is by selling them on NFT-dedicated marketplaces. Today, there are a variety of marketplaces and platforms where you can create, list, sell, and exchange NFTs including OpenSea and Mintable.
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Domain Flipping Business
All you need to do to start this type of business is to look for domains with potential for sale, buy them, and then look for those who are interested in buying such domains.
It might be risky to buy a domain name, but the truth remains that you are likely going to sell at a price that is far more than the price you purchased it; it is similar to real estate investment – some domain names appreciate with time.
The goal of a domain flipping business is to identify domain names with high potential value and sell them to buyers who need them.
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Buying and Selling Cryptocurrencies
When you buy cryptocurrencies via an exchange, you purchase the coins themselves. You are required to create an exchange account, put up the full value of the asset to open a position, and store the cryptocurrency tokens in your wallet until you’re ready to sell. Trust me, this is one business that is profitable and creates opportunities for entrepreneurs to make money.
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Online Match-making Platform
In recent times, the search for a spouse has gone beyond people you can see within your community to an online search. This is why online match-making platforms are gaining prominence.
In case you have experience in this regard, and you are looking for a remote business you can start from anywhere in the world, you can open an online match-making platform.
Although there are several online match-making platforms on the internet, you can make yours stand out if you can keep it safe, secure, and able to attract eligible bachelors and spinsters who are seriously searching for spouses.
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Software as a Service (SaaS) Business
Software as a service (or SaaS) is an emerging paradigm business model or concept that enables software to be delivered as a service to customers.
This is an arrangement that enables companies to expand their network capacity and run applications directly on a vendor’s network, offering a host of advantages with the most primary being radically lower IT costs.
The lower budgetary requirements and commitments allow even smaller companies to piece together an IT project without spending on purchasing legacy servers, and storage systems.
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Digital Marketing Services
Digital marketing in its simplest terms is the process of leveraging modern digital technology to market goods or services or the process of pulling website traffic or attention through social media sites; they achieve this by creating content that attracts attention and encourages readers to share it across their social network platforms.
One of the major purposes of leveraging social media in marketing is that it covers a wide range of target markets compared to other marketing tools.
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Online Hotel Booking Business
If you live in a country that attracts thousands of visitors and tourists, then you can look towards starting your online hotel booking business.
All you need to do is enter into partnerships with hotels around you so that when people book their hotels from your website, they will pay you a commission based on the agreement you have with the management of the hotel.
In other to succeed with this type of business, you must ensure that you gain the trust and cooperation of the management of the hotels listed on your website.
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Resume Writing and Career Coaching
If you are good at writing resumes and helping people move up the ladder in their careers, then you may want to consider starting a resume writing and career coaching business. The truth is that there is a large global market for resume writing and career coaching.
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Remote IT Support Services
Remote IT Support is a way of delivering an IT service to clients without requiring an engineer on-site. It is the ability to remotely access and control devices anytime, anywhere using secure remote support software.
Trust me, there is a large and growing market for remote IT support services, and interestingly, as a remote IT support professional, you can be on vacation somewhere in the Bahamas, and still be working for your clients somewhere in San Francisco, California.
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App Development and Design
If you are a software app designer and developer, you can start an app development and design business. Application development, and design, or app development, and design, is the process of planning, designing, creating, testing, and deploying a software application to perform various business operations.
Even though app development and design can be done by massive organizations with large teams working on projects, it can also be done by a single freelance developer who operates his or her business from home.
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Online Music Streaming and Download Business
If you are considering starting your own music streaming services business, the first rule of thumb you must obey is to own a desktop computer or a laptop with the speed and capacity that supports live streaming.
Having only a computer without an internet connection might be useless; the reason being that you would need to be on the web to do the job.
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Online Radio
Online radio (also web radio, net radio, streaming radio, e-radio, IP radio, internet radio) is a digital audio service transmitted via the Internet. Broadcasting on the Internet is usually referred to as webcasting since it is not transmitted broadly through wireless means.
It can either be used as a stand-alone device running through the internet, or as software running through a single computer.
Online radio services offer news, sports, talk, and various genres of music—every format that is available on traditional broadcast radio stations.
Several online radio services are associated with a corresponding traditional (terrestrial) radio station or radio network, although low start-up and ongoing costs have allowed a substantial proliferation of independent Internet-only radio stations.
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Online Legal Services or Consulting
The concept of online legal services is gaining popularity, and many people who would rather prefer to remain anonymous usually embrace this concept of legal services.
With online law, clients can access legal services from anywhere, at any time, without physically visiting a lawyer’s office.
Additionally, online law firms tend to offer competitive pricing, making legal services more affordable for those who may not have been able to afford them otherwise.
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Email Marketing Management
Email marketing is a form of marketing that can make the customers on your email list aware of new products, discounts, and other services.
It can also be a softer sell to educate your audience on the value of your brand or keep them engaged between purchases.
It can also be anything in between. Interestingly, as an email marketing manager, you can work with several clients by helping them manage their email marketing. Once you can give the results they need, they will continue to keep you on a retainership contract.
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Virtual Bookkeeping and Accounting
As a virtual bookkeeping and accounting service provider, you are expected to help clients manage their business’s financial transactions and records remotely through cloud-based accounting software.
Interestingly, you can operate a virtual bookkeeping and accounting business in Lagos, Nigeria, and work for clients in New York City, New York.
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Blogging and Content Creation
Blogging and content creation involve the creation and publication of written, visual, or multimedia content on a specific topic or niche.
Bloggers and content creators produce articles, videos, podcasts, or other forms of content to inform, entertain, or engage their audience. This content is typically shared on websites, social media platforms, or other online channels.
The goal of blogging and content creation is to attract and retain an audience, drive traffic to websites, and ultimately, generate revenue through advertising, sponsorships, or product sales
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Translation Services
As a translation services provider, you are expected to offer a wide variety of services that help organizations reach a broader audience.
Some of the most common services that clients will be willing to pay you for include document translation – It is the process of taking written documents and translating them into another language.
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Online Survey or Market Research Services
The fact that organizations are looking for ways to increase their market share means that if your online survey or market research services business is efficient, with a proven track record, you will have more clients than you can handle at any time.
An online survey is a research method used to collect data and opinions from a targeted audience over the Internet. It involves designing a set of questions or statements and distributing them through various online platforms, such as websites, email, social media, or mobile applications
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Freelance Writing and Copywriting
This is one of the most popular remote jobs you can find out there. Freelance writing is all about creating engaging and informative content for various clients, publications, or websites on a wide range of topics, tailored to specific audience needs and preferences.
Copywriting involves crafting persuasive and compelling written content, such as advertisements, sales letters, or website copy, with the primary aim of driving action or generating leads for businesses or clients.