How to Make $10k a Month from Home (or ANYWHERE) (2024)

Ten thousand dollars per month means different things in different cities.

In San Francisco, you’d fall below the median income. But where I live in Colombia, you’d live like absolute royalty.

It’s safe to say that in most places on earth, $10,000 goes pretty far.

It’s an admirable income goal to shoot for. And in this guide, we’ll explore how to make 10k a month from home (or anywhere in the world) with 10 flexible and realistic strategies.

I’ve personally used a combination of these methods to build a five-figure per month income, and I’ve met people having success in every one of these methods.

Let’s dive in.

$10,000 per month sound a bit over-ambitious for ya? Why not start with these ideas on how to make $2000 a month — then work your way up from there.

How to make $10k a month from home

There is always more than one way to do something. The goal of this post is to help give you some ideas to get those juices flowing. You can start out with any of the below ideas or branch off and try something new.

You can also combine some of my ideas below to mix things up and generate income from multiple sources. After all, the average millionaire is said to have at least seven income streams.

1. Virtual Assistant

Virtual assistants do something different every day. However, most of them, especially the ones making top dollar, have some sort of specialty. This can include research, customer service, blogging, social media marketing, and email marketing.

If you have in-demand skills or want to learn some, being a VA could be a great path to get you to 10,000 dollars a month.

This kind of job requires you to market your business. You’ll probably need your own website, portfolio, or referral system to keep high-paying work coming in on a regular basis.

Successful virtual assistants are able to multitask, market their business well, learn new skills, and have a constant passion for learning. If you possess these traits you can probably earn a solid living.

If you’re interested in traveling the world, check out my post on how to become a virtual assistant digital nomad.

How to make $10,000 a month from home as a virtual assistant

Maybe you’re skeptical. Can someone really make $10k as a virtual assistant?

Well, let’s look at some examples.

Here’s a news story of Jemma Broadstock, a (then) 24-year-old pulling in £10,000 a month working 30 hours a week.

There’s also Kayla Sloan. She worked a crappy retail job making barely more than minimum wage. After deciding to pivot into a different career path, she got into virtual assistant work. Her specialty is working with personal finance bloggers.

It took her two years of grinding but she eventually earned 10,000 a month from home as a virtual assistant. She still works as a VA, but she’s also created a course to help your grind to 10k a month from home as a virtual assistant a little easier. Her free course is a great place to get started.

And if you’re stuck on ideas of VA services you could offer, here are over 275 of them.

While certainly not mandatory, if you want to get up and running as fast as possible, check out my 90 Day VA course review. I dissected one of the top VA courses on the market, and for certain types of people, it’s a gamechanger.

2. Blogging

Blogging is one of my favorite ways to make money. You create the content you enjoy, monetize however you want, and experience all of the joys of owning your own business without a lot of hassle.

Granted, there can be some stress. Many folks start blogging as a hobby. After they make a few bucks, they realize they’re sitting on a gold mine. And as one of history’s wisest men explains…

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The more you treat your blog as a business, the more business-like problems are going to come along with it.

You’ll have to create a content schedule. You may have to hire writers, editors, and social media managers.

However, when it comes to blogging, you can control your growth. This is one of the ways it differs from a traditional business. And you can stall your growth as you see fit. But if you want to hit the 10,000 dollars a month mark, you’ll be grinding hard.

This may include:

✔️ Having regularly scheduled blog posts
✔️ An email list (and actually using it)
✔️ Promoting your website on social media throughout the day
✔️ Engaging with your audience
✔️ Fighting for the top position in Google search results

There are many paths to success, but this one is one of the most promising for 2022.

How to make $10,000 a month blogging

Ten thousand dollars per month is over a six-figure salary.

There are plenty of bloggers at this level (and far beyond it). But 99% give up before reaching this point.

There are blogs earning five figures per month in many different niches — here are some examples of travel blogs that earn well.

Once you dive down the rabbit hole, you’ll also find many bloggers who own multiple blogs.

So instead of one ginormous blog earning $10,000, you might find people who have three blogs that earn several thousand dollars each.

Once you master the formula and have extra cash flow from your first site, you can re-invest it into growing additional sites.

3. Drop Servicing

Drop servicing is similar to starting an agency. You sell a digital service at premium prices, then you turn around and outsource the work to a team of freelancers willing to work for less.

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For example, let’s say you’re a freelance writer. And you’re busy. Congrats on being great at your job.

But the problem that comes with being great at a job is demand for your service goes up. Your schedule is packed.

So you decide to start outsourcing some of your work. The cheaper stuff. The stuff any writer can do.

You realize that while you aren’t making as much, you are essentially creating an income source that’s mostly passive. You earn as the middleman (or woman).

Now you decide to start an agency. You bring in some independent contractors to write the stuff you aren’t interested in writing. The business grows and you start offering extra services.

The problem is you know nothing about these other services.

Fortunately, with drop servicing, you don’t have to. You just need to hire freelancers who do.

Why isn’t everyone doing this? Well, it’s kind of hard. One of the hardest parts of being a freelancer is landing high-paying clients. And as a drop servicer, you have to master the art.

To cut down the learning curve, check out this free drop servicing masterclass. It starts off a little hypey, but the middle is full of gold nuggets.

There are many drop servicing courses out there, but for the most comprehensive, check out my Drop Servicing Blueprint review.

How to make $10,000 a month drop servicing

Find out what you need to do to make $1,000 a month in profit, then just 10x it.

Let’s use the above example of outsourcing your writing work.

You make $0.25 cents per word. You know other freelancers who work for $0.03 per word. When you outsource, you end up earning $220 for every 1k words. In this case, you’ll probably have quite a bit of editing to do. But if you’re willing to take lower margins, you can hire more expensive writers that don’t require as much oversight.

Once clients start rolling in, hire some more writers. Rinse and repeat until you hit your desired level of income.

After a while, hire editors and a content manager to run the business for you and you’ll have a completely passive income source.

Writing is just one example. This works in a variety of drop servicing niches — website design, animated videos, SEO services, etc. You just have to make sure the numbers work.

4. Amazon FBA

There are a ton of people making money on Amazon. Most of them aren’t employees. I’m talking about FBA, which is an acronym for “fulfilled by Amazon”.

Amazon takes care of everything from there — orders, fulfillment, shipping, returns, etc. — for a fee.

Done correctly, this can end up being a great way to make $10,000 a month in passive income. At least relatively passive.

The problem is, it’s easy to screw up if you go it alone (been there, done that). To start on the right foot, check out this free Amazon FBA masterclass.

I also recently took the MPSH course, which I highly recommend. For an inside look, see my Marketplace Superheroes review.

How to make $10,000 a month on Amazon

For Amazon FBA to be worth it, you need to find the right products.

You want products with decent sales volume, but not too much competition. This gives you the chance to rank in the top of Amazon search results when someone searches for your product.

You can boost your income even further by selling in multiple countries.

For example, let’s say you sell seven products in five countries. Each product has a profit margin of $15 on average. To make $10,000 a month on Amazon, you’d need to sell roughly 19 units of each product per day, per country.

That might seem like a lot, but think about it. There just needs to be 19 people in an ENTIRE COUNTRY that are searching for your product on Amazon each day.

If you offer a product that ranks #1 and is a bit better than your competitors, this is perfectly feasible.

And there is no limit to the number of products you can sell.

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Amazon isn’t the only e-commerce path to $10K. Here are some of the top digital products to sell on Etsy that make bank. If you have a knack for hand-made crafts, that’s another potentially lucrative path.To ramp up ASAP, check out these awesome Etsy printables courses.

5. Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is a beautiful thing. You partner with a brand. Then this brand gives you a link. When your audience clicks on this link and makes a purchase, you receive a commission of the sale at no additional cost to the customer.

It’s a win-win for everyone involved.

Just don’t be that person who pimps a bunch of scammy garbage links. You’ll lose your readership and may even get penalized by search engines. Focus on quality products and services that you believe in and mention them casually. Don’t be pushy.

Better yet, start by focusing on only products you use and love yourself.

How to earn $10,000 a month affiliate marketing

Bloggers and YouTubers are usually the people who reap the most benefit from affiliate marketing. It’s a versatile monetization strategy because it gives creators with smaller audiences the ability to bring in some cash.

Once you grow your audience, this income will usually grow with it.

My favorite types of affiliate programs are (1) high ticket items and (2) recurring services.

With high ticket items, you only need to refer a few customers to make a decent income. For example, if you promote a $1,000 digital product, you might earn a $500 commission per referral. For $10K, you’d need 20 referrals per month.

Heck, if you’re lucky enough to earn a couple commissions back-to-back (like during a product launch), you could even make $1,000 in a day!

With recurring services, even cheap services, things can snowball over time. For example, I love Safetywing travel insurance and use it myself. I’m an affiliate and promote the program as much as possible. Here’s a screenshot of how my earnings have grown over the past year.

When someone signs up through my affiliate link, I only earn a few bucks. But I keep earning those few bucks every month until the person cancels their service. So instead of a bunch of one-off sales, it compounds as more people sign up long-term.

Speaking of which, if you need affordable travel insurance, use this link to buy it 😉

Another popular recurring affiliate opportunity is website hosting, but it’s uber-competitive.

To learn advanced affiliate marketing techniques, check out The Affiliate Lab (or see my full review of the TAL course for an insider look).

6. Freelancing

As a freelancer, you offer services to businesses as an independent contractor.

There are LOADS of freelancing paths, here are the best ones for beginners.

That said, not all of these services will get you to $10,000 per month.

Just remember, there are three main factors that influence how much you can earn in any given freelancing field:

#1.) How valuable your service is to your clients
#2.) How irreplaceable you are
#3.) Knowing just how valuable and irreplaceable you are, and finding clients who recognize that value

For example, freelance proofreading is a great freelance job for beginners. But since the bar of entry is so low (i.e., knowing grammar rules), you’re easily replaceable by someone who charges less.

Certain types of freelance writing, on the other hand, require more specialized skills, offer higher ROI for clients, and harder to replace.

For example, Let’s say a freelance copywriter writes a sales page that generates $10 million in sales for a company. That piece of writing is extremely valuable to the company, and it would be harder to replace that copywriter with someone else who can achieve the same results.

How to make $10K a month freelancing

Copywriting is the easiest example to imagine. Going back to our example — if you spend a week writing that $10 million sales page, it wouldn’t be unheard of to charge $10,000 for your services.

After all, the company is essentially 100x-ing the money they invest in your writing services.

If you want to become a copywriter, check out this course (or at the very least, get on the email newsletter list).

But even “content writers” can earn $10,000 per month. By content writing, I’m talking about freelancers who write articles and blog posts like what you’re currently reading.

Take me for example. I currently earn $250 to $500 per article, and I can comfortably write two articles per day (maybe even three if they are short-and-sweet). If I write two articles per day at my minimum rate, it’d take 20 days to hit $10,000.

Now, doing that much client work would drive me absolutely bonkers (and wouldn’t leave me time for Project Untethered), so I choose to work part-time.

But if push comes to shove and I need $10k in a month, the numbers work out.

It’s taken me several years to get to this point, but everyone needs to start somewhere. If freelance writing sounds up your alley, I made a free course explaining how to make your first $1k, step-by-step.

7. Course Creator

No one comes out of the womb knowing how to make money. It’s an environmental thing. We learn through trial and error. In my case, there has been a lot of error. And that’s ok.

I eventually realized that it makes way more sense to pay someone to teach you whatever you want to learn. You save time (and time is money). And you avoid potentially expensive mistakes.

The thing is, anyone can create a course. So if you’ve figured something out that other people might want to learn, you could become a course creator.

And remember, there are over 8 billion people on the planet. So even if you have a niche skill, odds are there are other people on the planet who would be interested.

Don’t believe me, check out these weird online courses niches that earn well. We’re talking things like civil engineering test prep, how to grow succulent plants, food photography, how to be a minimalist, and tons of other lucrative under-the-radar topics real people are making real money teaching.

How to make $10,000 per month selling courses

In the virtual assistant section, I talked about Kayla Sloan, who makes $10,000 a month from home as a VA.

She is also a course creator. Her course teaches others how to be successful VAs so they don’t have to go through all of the hardship she did. Her course sells for almost $500.

If her goal is to make $10k a month from home as a course creator, she only has to sell 20 courses a month.

The best part is you can create a course once, and you can earn passively indefinitely (as long as you keep it updated and demand to learn the skill continues).

8. Consulting

Consulting is a great path for people who want to use skills they already possess to go to work for themselves.

Consulting boils down to giving advice and it is seen frequently in business. If your business needs help with accounting, logistics, whatever, you can find a consultant for it.

And you don’t need to be some sort of business or marketing expert either.

I’ve met an entrepreneur who runs a holistic health consulting business, and another who offers virtual voice coach consulting.

That said, like freelancing, the more value you provide, the more your clients will be willing to pay.

If you’re confused about how consulting works, this short video explains it well:

How to earn $10,000 per month consulting

To pull in 10 grand per month as a consultant, you need two ingredients:

#1.) Expertise that solves an important problem.
#2.) Marketing skills to keep your schedule full.

Let’s say you live abroad and offer consulting services to Americans who need help planning their move to a different country.

You charge $120 per 60-minute consultation. To reach your income goal, you’d need to schedule three consultations per day.

Unless you’re famous in your industry, this might be a tall order.

One way to supplement your consulting income is to create an online course option. Clients can choose to pay more to work with you directly, or if they’re on a budget, they can buy your cheaper DIY course.

9. Investing

Investing lets you put your money to work for you.

You can buy stocks and forget about them. You can play options, forex, or futures markets. There is a little something for everyone.

Strategies vary from person to person.

If you don’t know much about the markets and have no intention of learning, you have exchange-traded funds or robo advisors.

Different strategies have different risk levels. And oftentimes, the greater the risk, the greater the reward.

I’m obviously not a financial advisor, so always do your due diligence. I highly recommend reading The Boglehead’s Guide to Investing. It’s a great place to start your journey.

What I can tell you with certainty is — if you’re not investing in anything, you’re missing out on passive money-making opportunities.

How much to invest to make 10k a month

Investing in companies you understand and believe is usually a good idea.

The average 20-year return in the stock market as a whole is around 10% per year. Investing in mutual funds and ETFs allows you to diversify your investment and mimic a large portion of the market.

If you want this 10% return to equal $120,000 (or $10k a month), it’s going to take some serious upfront cash. You’ll need a minimum of $1.2 million to earn this kind of pay.

For most people, this isn’t possible.

Fortunately, you can start investing with any amount of money. The earlier you start, the more your investment has time to compound.

Start slow. Add money to your 401(k) and your Roth. As your money grows, you can branch out into a regular brokerage account. These investments will snowball in the long run.

10. Multiply your income streams

Nothing is stronger than finding multiple ways to make money and then combining them all.

This is especially true with passive income streams.

You can use affiliate marketing with blogging and YouTube. You can also leverage your audience to sell online courses and consulting.

When you have the income machine up and running. Start something new. Perhaps an Amazon FBA store or a drop servicing business.

Be patient. It won’t happen overnight, and don’t try to do everything at once. But if you slowly build up one income stream after the other — grinding away and never giving up — reaching $10K per month is inevitable.

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