7 Ways to Make $6000 a Month From Home (or Anywhere)

If you can make yourself a $6000 monthly income, your earnings will stand well above those of the average American.

The median income of individuals living in America today stands at $41,535 according to the US Census Bureau.

$6000 per month, which equates to $72,000 per year is, therefore, a very decent income for most people.

Believe it or not but $72,000 is actually higher than the US median household income, which stands at just $67,521.

If you can hit that $6000 monthly income target, you’ll be able to live a fairly comfortable life in most states.

Yes, you won’t be living like the Great Gatsby but you certainly won’t be living anywhere near the breadline either.

If you want to hit that goal, unless you have some serious capital to invest, it is going to take some time, but it is 100% attainable with the right mindset, a good business plan, and dedication.

With that in mind, we’ve covered 7 tried and tested money makers (with examples) that literally anyone can start.

Better still, most of these don’t require a huge capital injection like you would need with most other businesses.

Let’s take a look…

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Build a Niche Website or Blog

Creating a website is still my number one go-to online business in 2022.

Why?

• Because it’s super cheap;
• It’s attainable for most people;
• It’s fun;
• The business model works and can be repeated across other blogs;
• You can earn well in excess of that $6000 target;
• You’ll work for yourself so you won’t need to commute, be micromanaged, or face the hustle and bustle you experience with most corporate jobs.

What Can You Earn Blogging?

If you want to tap into this market then it’s always inspirational and motivating to have a glance at the many success stories.

Here are a few examples of what successful bloggers earn just to whet your palate:

What is the Nature of the Business?

Often, when non-bloggers think of blogging, they think of some 30-year old+ stay-at-home mom writing about her trials and tribulations of parenthood and middle-class suburban life.

That’s a very outdated misconception of what blogging is.

In 2022, blogging is a business whereby you write about a chosen topic to help people solve their problems.

You curate carefully crafted content to attract readership from search engines like Google and, for some bloggers, from social media.

Can You Write About Anything?

For the most part, people don’t care about your personal life or what your passions are.

They don’t care what you had for breakfast, where you’re spending your summer holidays or what happened in your last relationship.

They care about having their problems solved, their queries answered and their lives improved.

A successful, modern blog helps other people by covering topics and specific queries (i.e. keywords) those people are trying to find information about.

You need to choose a niche/topic to write about that:

• Has a wide enough audience
• Isn’t too competitive
• Doesn’t require specialist knowledge (avoid medical, health, tax, investing niches or anything where you need to be qualified to a high level to write about it. Essentially, unless you’re qualified, avoid any niche where the information affects a person’s money or their life (YMYL));
• Can be profitable – i.e. avoid writing about things that are so niche that you’re unlikely to be able to build a big enough audience to make it worth your while

How Will I Make Money?

There are numerous ways to make money with a website but here are the most common ones:

• Display ads: Those annoying adverts that pop up when you view a website. I get paid around $30-$45 dollars for every 1000 visitors I get to my site. If I get 150,000 visitors a month at $40 per 1000 visitors – sweet I’ve made $6000;
• Affiliate marketing: Promoting other people’s/companies’ products for a commission. If I get a 20% cut of a $1000 product I promote and link to on my website and achieve 30 sales a month – I’ve made $6000;
• Selling Your Own Products: If I sell an e-book on how to make money costing $100 and sell 60 a month – that’s another $6000;
• Sponsored Posts: This is where you accept an article from a company or write an article yourself promoting a product in exchange for a fee. If I promote 20 product articles per month and charge $300 per promotion – another $6000.

My favorite method of monetizing a blog is through display ads.

Why?

• Because all of your content where you display ads makes money completely passively (i.e. you don’t need to make a sale to make money);
• Display ads can be shown whether the content is informational or product based. In other words, the visitor to your blog doesn’t have to be looking to buy a product before you earn;
• Display ads are easy to maintain. You don’t have to update them or even worry about placing them – the ad provider can do it all for you.

How to Get Started

As I alluded to above, blogging is a very cheap business to run.

All you need to get started is first, WordPress – that’s where you create your blog.

And second, a hosting provider to host your blog.

Forget about all-in-one blogging platforms like Weebly, Squarespace, or Wix. WordPress is what you should use and powers 43% of the world’s websites.

If blogging sounds like something you’re interested in then read our ultimate guide to blogging.

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Start Freelancing

The demand for freelances was already peaking well before the world changed drastically in March 2020.

The demand since then has gone into orbit!

Freelancing is such a great work-from-home (or anywhere) business model as it has such a low barrier to entry.

You certainly don’t need a college degree to get started and you can literally start earning straight away with websites like Fivver and UpWork.

Granted, you may not reach $6000 a month straight out of the traps but this is definitely achievable with some experience.

What Freelance Work to Do?

You can hire freelancers in so many fields now.

If you can outsource a task, then there’s likely a freelancer out there willing to do it.

Some examples:

• Writing
• Graphic design
• Web design
• Social media management
• Virtual assistant
• Legal writing
• Print on demand designs
• Coding
• Logo design

How to Get Started

The best way to get started with freelancing is to take a course.

This will not only improve your skills but it will also make you more attractive to prospective clients.

Here are a few of my favorite courses for Proofreading, Virtual Assistant, and Pinterest Management freelancing jobs:

Is Freelancing Worth it?

Freelance work is where I would start if I wanted to earn $6000 a month.

You are your own boss, you can scale at your own pace and the amount of work available is only going to increase with the ever-widening appetite for outsourcing.

In fact, Forbes recently said that freelance work may increase in the US by 10 million workers with 20% of the workforce considering freelance options.

Don’t fall off the wagon and miss this opportunity.

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Set Up and E-Commerce Business

Setting up an e-commerce business is another great option if you want to hit that $6000 per month target.

Setting up an online shop has never been easier and there are thousands of success stories to take inspiration from:

With platforms like Shopify anyone can set up a store these days.

The thing I love about Shopify is you can connect to thousands of vendors to stock up your shop instantly.

You can also create your own designs with print-on-demand apps like Printify which allows you to craft your own designs to sell within your Shopify store.

Shopify also allows you to utilize the popular dropshipping method whereby you don’t stock your own inventory.

Essentially, someone buys a product from your store, the drop shipping handler ships it for you and deals with returns.

Here are some popular items you can design to drop ship or ship yourself:

• T-shirts
• Phone cases
• Jewelry
• Mugs
• Novelty items
• Beach towels
• Notebooks
• Cushion covers

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Online Courses/Coaching

The online education business is expected to reach a whopping $319 billion by 2025.

It’s easy to see why that is.

Who wants to traipse halfway around the city to attend some class when you can learn the same thing sitting at your computer screen?

With this comes an awesome opportunity to create an online business whereby you coach your skills one to one or through a course you’ve created.

If you have a special skillset – perhaps through your job, education, or from a hobby you’re passionate about – then you can create your own course.

Here are some ideas:

• How to play an instrument
• How to web design
• How to build a computer
• How to write creatively
• How to learn photography

How to Get Started

There are plenty of course-creating platforms to get started on.

It depends on what type of course you want to create, whether that be video, podcast, or written.

Here are some of my recommendations:

How Much Can I Earn?

Courses are generally priced at around $100 – $3000 depending on the topic, the amount of content, and whether they’re updated regularly.

Typically, expect to pay around $300 for most courses.

If we take that $300 figure, you only need to sell 20-course subscriptions a month to hit your $6000pm target.

You can really boost your course sales by setting up an affiliate program so that others can promote your course for a commission.

Ok, you’ll have to pay commissions but a few good affiliates with the right audience can generate hundreds of sales for you each month.

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Join a Master Node

This is one of the few examples on my list that requires some initial upfront capital.

Making money from this involves putting capital into a master node which is a function used in crypto servers to provide services like validating transactions on the blockchain.

In return, you can make a passive return on your investment as you’re rewarded as part of your master node participation.

It is quite difficult to set up a master node and you generally need relevant expertise to do so.

However, YieldNodes has done all the donkey work for you and allows you to inject capital into a master node they’ve set up to allow you to earn a slice of the returns.

How Much Can I Make?

YieldNodes boast an average return rate of 5-15% per month. They update their website every month to inform visitors of last month’s figures.

For example, for February 2022 their average returns were 8.0%.

This means that if you invested $10,000, you could make a return of $800 per month on the basis of February 2022’s yield.

Clearly, to hit your $6000 target you would need to invest a lot more ($75,000 on the basis of an 8% monthly return).

However, with YieldNodes you can compound your earnings so that by month 2 following your hypothetical $10,000 initial investment, you would have $10,800 in your account, meaning your next return would be 8% of $10,800 = $864 (i.e. $64 more).

Over time, you can therefore realize exponential growth as your earnings compound.

YieldNodes boasts a 213% annual return for people who have chosen to compound rather than take out their gains.

A close friend of mine currently has $40,000 tied up in YieldNodes and makes around $4000 a month on average.

Is it Worth It?

YieldNodes, like any crypto-based money-spinner, can be risky as it depends on the strength of the market.

If there’s a huge crash in the market then your returns are likely to be affected.

However, I am fairly buoyed by the fact that Yahoo and Black Book Crypto have reviewed it without raising any red flags.

They also have a 4.8 rating on TrustPilot.

Further, they also guarantee that should the yield drop to 5% for 3 consecutive months, they will return your rental payment along with any accrued profits.

One thing you should note is that YieldNodes does tie up your initial capital for 6 months so bear this in mind before you pull the trigger.

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Do Up and Sell Furniture

If you’ve got a flair for design or DIY then flipping furniture is an excellent option to make $6000 a month.

This works by scouring marketplaces like Facebook, eBay, and garage sales for furniture that you can purchase and then repaint, modify or restore.

This is a pastime a good friend of mine has been hustling at since the pandemic and I have been amazed at the profits he’s achieved:

• Old wardrobe – purchased for $60 – painted and varnished and sold for $150
• Old bedside cabinet – purchased for $10 – painted and sold for $60
• Kitchen table – purchased for $50 – restored, painted and varnished and sold for $220

There have been days where he’s made over $200, which would take you to $6000 over the course of a month.

I think this works so well because the furniture that can be found and lends itself well to restoration is the old, solid wooden units and not flat-packed garbage that only lasts a few years.

People are much more inclined to pay a premium for good quality restored furniture.

If you’re interested in flipping goods for a profit, then check out the Fleamarket Flipper course which will teach you everything you need to know about flipping goods for a profit.

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Build a Service Based Business

Anyone with a little enterprise can set up a service-based business to make extra money and even a full-time $6k per month income.

You’d be surprised how much money you can make providing a service, doing jobs that other people don’t want to.

Many of these service-based jobs can be done without specialist qualifications.

Here are a few ideas:

• Handy man/woman
• Furniture assembly
• Dog walker
• Painter and decorator
• Professional shopper
• Driver

You can offer your services on websites like Task Rabbit, Needto, and Jobble.

Whilst these websites won’t guarantee you $6000 per month, they are a great way to supplement other sources of income.

For example, if you’re working as a part-time freelancer but need an extra few hundred dollars to hit your $6k per month target, then providing a service can get you over the line.

Clearly, if you have more specialist skills in, say, plumbing, electrical work, or joinery then you can earn $6000 per month fairly easily by setting up your own business and marketing your services on social media.

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Is $6000 Per Month a Good Salary?

Yes, $6000 per month is an excellent salary and amounts to $72,000 per year which equates to almost double the average US yearly salary of $41,535.

Tips to Make $6000 Per Month

To make $6000 per month you need to apply some thought and we suggest doing the following:

• Devise a business plan. Work out what money you have to invest if any, assess the competition, consider how you’ll market yourself, work out your monthly overheads and expected returns, take advice or complete a course;
• Work hard at the beginning. To maintain $6000 you will likely need to work hard all of the time but this is especially so when you first set up. Running a business is hardwork and takes dedication. Set goals for yourself and don’t be afraid to invest in your business or seek help
• Scale. Scaling a business is the art of knowing when and how to set the stage for growth. This means outsourcing and delegating work and planning and implementing systems that encourage and promote efficiency and increased output.

How to Make $6000 Fast

If you need $6000 super fast then there are a few options open to you:

• Take out a short or long term loan
• Re-mortgage your property
• Sell goods you own
• Borrow money from family
• If in the UK, try Matched Betting (not gambling)

Final Thoughts

If I was going to start a new online business today to earn $6000 a month, I would look at freelance working (probably freelance writing) or setting up a niche site or blog.

These are two tried and tested methods of making money and I have first-hand experience of how well they work (I have done both and have earned $6000 a month from both).

It’s important to remember that earning money with a business (let alone $6000 per month) takes time and dedication and you need to work extremely hard in today’s market to succeed.

There are very few credible get-rich schemes. Run a mile from anyone who tells you otherwise.