{"id":807,"date":"2016-11-30T09:34:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T09:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T11:25:28","slug":"best-work-from-home-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/best-work-from-home-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the best work-from-home jobs? | FAQs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of starting a small business that allows you to work from home?<\/p>\n<p>To find\u00a0a gap in the work-from-home market, start by identifying a product or service that\u00a0could support another business in running more efficiently. \u00a0A remote\u00a0bookkeeper or graphic designer, for example.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-programme-block\">\n<div class=\"related-programme\" onclick=\"window.open('https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/uct-small-business-growth-and-management-online-short-course', '_blank')\">\n    <div class=\"row\">\n        <div class=\"col-12 col-md-11\">\n            <div class=\"related-programme__school-logo-container\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/universities\/university-of-cape-town\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__school-logo-link\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/UCT_logo.png\" alt=\"School Logo\" class=\"related-programme__school-logo\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n            <div class=\"related-programme__copy\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/universities\/university-of-cape-town\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__school-name\">\n                University of Cape Town (UCT)            <\/a><br>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/uct-small-business-growth-and-management-online-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"related-programme__programme-name\">\n                Small Business: Growth and Management online short course            <\/a>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"col-md-1 related-programme__chevron-column\">\n            <div class=\"related-programme__icon-container\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-btn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/wp-content\/themes\/blog\/assets\/icn_arrow-circle_right.svg\" alt=\"Read More Icon\">\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Watch this short video in which Gareth Cotton, Head Tutor on\u00a0the University of Cape Town <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/products\/uct-small-business-growth-and-management-online-short-course\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Start and Manage a Small Business online short course<\/a>, talks you through the best options for starting a business from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getsmarter.com\/blog\/4-soft-skills-every-freelancer-needs-and-why\/\">comfort of your own home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bMPBxhwLqlw\" width=\"1100\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em style=\"text-align: left;\">Transcription<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The best work-from-home jobs are going to be the types of jobs and services which people have a defined need for and when I say people, in this case, it\u2019s generally going to be businesses. So if you can come up with a product or a service which is going to support a business running their business better those are going to be the best work-from-home jobs. So for example, all businesses need their books looked after but very few business owners are very accounting strong so being a work-from-home bookkeeper or running a mobile bookkeeping service that could be a very popular and very easy system to set up. Another one could be something like graphic design. In today\u2019s age people need to be able to stand out from the crowd so they need to have a different viewpoint, they need to be projecting their brand well so they are going to need some design help. This is not the kind of thing they are going to need a full-time employee for so it\u2019s going to be a very good service that you can offer working from home.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking of starting a small business that allows you to work from home?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":19892,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127],"article-format":[],"class_list":["post-807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-advice","tag-career-advice"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.2 (Yoast SEO v26.2) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What are the best work-from-home jobs? | FAQs - GetSmarter Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Thinking of starting a small business that allows you to work from home? 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