LOCK DOWN: How to get the best out of staying at home this period

Getting the best out of staying home

As part of the safety measures adopted by governments across countries over curtailing the spread of the global pandemic COVID-19, a stay-at-home precaution has been implored to keep its citizens safe within the periods 1 to 14 weeks or more depending on the number and level of confirmed cases.

For some of us working remotely otherwise known as “working from home” is not a new thing as seen in other developed countries or in Information Technology (IT) firms within the country but, not going to work this period for some people is seen as a full-time job that doesn’t pay a full-time paycheck, it’s like taking their means of livelihood. This thought alone can be worrisome but the good news is, there are ways to earn money without leaving the comfort of your home this period.

What’s in the article?

The writeups from this article expose remote opportunities (old and new) that have been discovered by researchers and are readily available at your fingertips and, how they can help become a powerful tool for your income generation as an individual in times like this. For FREE!

Also, the resources needed for the proper execution of the tips that will be shared as we walk through this article will be stated as well.

What do you stand to learn?

Tips looking at the “how to make” working remotely (#LockDown precaution) beneficial either you’re working from home or you are just staying home because your work before the pandemic implores or requires only manual labor. The Highlighted tips in this article will touch:

• Family goals

•  Finance goals

•  Brand awareness goals

• Educational goals

• Personal development goals.

Now, let's get to the point!

The 5 pointers above will be analyzed in a way that offers optimum benefits to you staying at home while helping you discover amazing qualities and resources within and around you that have been unnoticed.

  

• Tip 1: Family Goals

I would rather not go into detail on the dangers of not having to spend time with your family because we are here to proffer solutions.

Have you been too busy with your family over the years?

Would you not take advantage of this lockdown to get to be around and to know your kids more, to understand the physics of how your home works?

As a parent this period presents to you the family bonding experience and if you have kids that are “super excited” that makes you want to stay away from home if you know what I mean. Smiles, you’re not alone.

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The tools below will be of great help:
1.       Pre-planning: This is simply planning ahead. Coming up with a calendar scheduling the Do’s and Don’ts of staying at home will be of great help. For example, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, it is advised that we ought to maintain social distancing, right? So, come up with creative ideas such as games within the house that indulge and at the same time educate your children. This is one way you get to build your relationship with your kids if you haven’t had a good one before.
2.       House cleaning: as part of the precaution to curtail the spread of COVID-19, it is advised that we keep ourselves and our family clean at all times. Use this period to teach your family good hygiene values with a twist I call “play” in it. I listened to a play therapist on the radio and wow! saw a great deal with when and how children and also adults play.
3.       Reading: It could be a long break from school, but keeping tabs on your kids with books is a better way of investing in them this period.

• Tip 2: Finance Goals

Staying at home requires lots of money for certain expenses. I don’t know about you but for me, that’s when I eat more. For you to stay at home and still build some financial capacity, here are some tips to guide you:

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• Blogging: creating blogs these days for yourself is very easy with little or no cash involved. If you’re a food enthusiast, a parenting consultant, a digital marketer, a lover of fashion and music, etc. I will recommend you create a blog to help you reach out to people, and share tips and guidelines on how to become better at your area of specialization.
  

But I have my social media account?

Yes, that’s an added advantage for you. Blogging and social media platforms work well together and hence, help you reach a larger audience.
But I have no idea about creating a blog?

I don’t know how to code?
Don’t worry, I will briefly explain how to go about getting a blog for FREE! There are free sites that offer free blogging templates that you could use for example blogger.com
What do I need to do?

•  Get an email account

• Visit blogger.com

•  Select a preferred template

•   Choose your blog name and that is all.

Keynote: for your domain, you could go the extra by buying one but if not part of your budget this period, you could just use the blogger free domain with the .blogspot extension e.g. https://www.vintagefingerz.blogspot.com. This way you get to share your food recipes, share those beautiful ideas, and so on, all for free!

For more on how blogger works visit blogger.com

• Ads and Affiliate Marketing: this is a step further to make a profit.

How it works?

Do you know you can make legitimate income from your social media accounts?

Yes, you can! Google AdSense is a cool tool to enable you to earn a living from home. If you already have a website or a blog, this is where it becomes interesting. By placing ads on your websites and blogs, you generate organic traffic from your readers or visitors thus, making profits.

For more on how Google ads work visit https://www.adsense.com

Affiliate marketing is a popular network that offers links to earn some amount of money from, few examples include:

•   Nairatwt

• Clickbank

•  Share sale 
• Affiliate marketing is simply promoting ads of other people or company products and services on your site and social media accounts and in return, you get paid.

3.       Get paid for freelance writing: if you love to write and tell stories for fun, as a hobby or for money then this is for you. Think about all of those stories you tell, the fiction you’ve written about, yes! All of them now is the time to get them out there and receive amazing returns while you #StayAtHome.

All you need are good writing skills, articles that are unique to submit, and an account to receive payments. For more, check out:

•   https://www.teckler.com

•    https://constant-content.com

•  www.hubpages.com

• Tip 3: Brand Awareness. Do you have a skill in fashion, cake making, art, comedy, or hair styling? This is the right time to promote your brand. Let me tell you a brief story about an interesting lady I once worked with as an intern with Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. Blessing or BB as we call her served with the Transaction Service Group (TSG) unit of the bank but something was interesting about her, she is a hairstylist per excellence. Her weekends are for creatively coming up with amazing new hairstyles most for herself and a few for clients she meets with during banking hours.
• What’s the point here? Most of us have skills that are profitable but we lack appropriate marketing and/ or brand awareness. With the stay-at-home precaution, you can make your brand known. For workers Like BB, creating good awareness of your product and reaching out to a larger audience using platforms such as Instagram and Facebook, will help increase your income level as your audience could become your client now and after the pandemic.

How to promote your brand?

• ·    Make DIY video

• ·    Create skits

• ·    Embrace the business area of your social media accounts

Lastly, we shall walk through Personal development and the educational goal as Tip 4.

 

As a CEO of a company or one-man business, and as a student, this is the time to invest in your personal and educational goals.

 

How to go about it?

For self-development, you could decide to organize online tutorials for students or clients, and learn something new by reading books or with available courses online. This is possible by registering for an online course to learn crafts like bead making or courses on programming, content creation, web designing, Graphics design, music production, etc.

For more of these courses visit www.udemy.com or make www.youtube.com your friend. These tools above are great resources to help boost yourself and your educational goals.

Conclusion

Working from home during this period is an exciting and fun culture to embrace in underdeveloped countries. I’d advise the government and companies in these countries to provide for its staffs the necessary resources such as Wi-Fi and power supply or its equivalent to enable them to work effectively from home.

If you are not working from home, making use of the tips above is a good way of benefiting yourself from the lockdown.

Remember health is wealth, so stay safe.

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