Gone are the days when you required spending thousands and thousands of dollars just to get a business name registered only to get started with your business.



You don’t need a brick-and-mortar shop or a commercial office to get started with making money for your own self by being your own boss.

With the kick-in of 21st century and mass adaptation of internet all around the world, starting a business became as easy as cooking a meal on your own and serving it to other as well.

Just at the comfort of your home and a laptop with active internet connection, you can get started with a legit business as quickly as possible.

Not only that, some businesses don’t even require you to spend a single penny to get you started with making money.

Most people get a swanking new laptop for watching Netflix, gaming or just daily browsing but with your existing laptop and an active internet connection you get started with making money.

However there are some prerequisites to start making money from your laptop; otherwise anyone and everyone would get started with it leaving their 9-to-5 jobs.

Prerequisites for Starting an Online Business

1. Having a Skill: This has always been an important factor since the starting of any business or even getting a job. You need to have some kind of skill to make you money, even if you don’t, there are multiple courses available online (even free ones) that can teach you about the topic you’re interested in.



If you want to learn coding, go to Youtube and learn coding about the language you’re interested it. Resources like Khan Academy and theNewBoston have been providing free coding lessons for many years.



Want to learn cooking? Youtube is your best bet, tons and tons of cooking recipes in visual format are available on Youtube. Moreover for $90, you can learn personalized cooking from the Master Cook Gordon Ramsey himself on Masterclass.com





2. At least $100 Investment: As I said earlier there are multiple businesses that you can start using your laptop with $0, I’ve personally started few business myself with ‘0’ investment.



However to get a proper head start you need some sort of initial investment to get you started on the right foot.



Hence a $100 investment will provide a buffer to spend money where it is actually required: like buying website hosting, getting a course or even advertising your business to get that initial stream of customers.





3. You won’t make money from 1st day itself: A lot of people have misunderstanding that starting an online business using a laptop means you will start making money from 1st day itself.



Though that may be true for some people but for most, perseverance is the keyword.



If you get started with any business, you need spend atleast 6-months or 1-year of time sticking to the business you started.



Brands like HP, Google or Apple weren’t successful from the get go. It took them several years to reach out to consumers and start selling products.



Hence people don’t give a second thought when buying from a reputed brand.

Now that you’ve understood few things about starting an online business using your laptop, here are the 5 Businesses that you can start Right from your Laptop.

#1: Blogging

Before the onset of Facebook and Twitter, celebrities and famous personalities stick to blogging to share their personal life with their fans and their fans also got a glimpse of where their idols where they were going, what they were eating, what clothes they wore and what products they used.

Nowadays anyone can start a blog and write about topics that interest them and there thousands of other people who are searching about those topics.

To get started with Blogging, you need to buy a domain ($10/year) and website hosting ($30-60/year) to setup up a legit website and start blogging about topics that interest you.

However Blogging is a very deep topic and you can search on Youtube to know about basics of blogging.

To make money from blogging, you can either apply for Amazon Affiliate program or Google’s Adsense program or start making money from there.

Wirecutter.com is an example of Amazon Affiliate based website that makes money by suggesting various products to different groups of consumers.

#2: Online Tutoring

Nowadays to become a teacher, you don’t need to an expensive college degree. Just one skill and proper use of Laptop and Internet, you can get started with online tutoring and make money on your own terms while you’re at it.

There are multiple websites on the internet that provide means to get you started with online tutoring.

Each website have their own terms and operate differently from each other, hence check website that suits you best and get started with it.

Most of the websites Pay Per Hour and the payout can be between $4-25+/Hour depending on the task and your expertise as well

#3: Publish Online Courses

Publishing Online Courses is just like Online Tutoring; however you create one course and make money off of it for a lifetime.

My own brother creates online courses related to Android App Development, Robotics, VR, AR and sells them on Udemy.com.

It takes around 1 month for him to create a high quality course consisting of 7-8 hours of content and once he publishes it on Udemy, he starts making money immediately and this generates a passive income stream for him for the next few years to come.

For eg: a course he published about making a basic Android App 2 years ago, still makes him close to $200-300/month.

So in a period of 24 months, he must have made between $5000-7000 with just that one course.

And since he has multiple courses, some that make him over $500/month, you can do the math.

#4: Online Translator

With Mass Globalization, businesses need to reach out to masses to promote their products and services or just to provide basic information.

With only 20% of World Population speaking English, businesses need Translators to translate their content from English to other language and vice-a-versa.

Though there are free and paid online translator tools available, however they aren’t as efficient when it comes to comparing to an actual person translating.

Most of us have a second language during our schooling years, if you’re affluent with it you can easily get started with online tutoring, if not just brush up on your language.

Take a look at this article, where 30 websites are listed that provide online translation jobs, register to the Top 5 websites, and you can make close to $500/month with translation services.

Though, not all language translation jobs pay the same. Translating to-and-from Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and French pays more, whereas languages like Russian, Slovak, Hebrew and Serbian pays the least.

#5: Fiverr.com

Fiverr.com is a service based website where you can sell simple services for $5 and more.

Earlier the limit to sell any service was only $5, however now they’ve lifted this limit and hence you can easily make $10-$15 for simple task.

The popular services on Fiverr.com are Logo Designing, Graphic Designing, Article Writing, Voiceovers, Building Websites and more.

These tasks are very simple to learn on your own via Youtube and make quick bucks.

However new gigs on Fiverr.com don’t get sales easily. Hence once you post a gig on Fiverr, you can set the price to $5 and pay your friends to buy your gig and give 5-star rating, and once you have over 10-15 reviews and enough exposure, you can raise your gig’s price and get legit sales.