Starting a business when you're already in a full-time job

If you have a full-time job but you desperately want to be an entrepreneur today, you can do it if you pick the right type of business. A digital business can be designed so that you don’t have to do it during specific hours or times.

For example, if you decide to start a blogging business and make money as an affiliate marketer, it doesn’t matter when you create your content if you publish content that your audience wants to see regularly.

If you’re interested in starting a business when you’re already in a full-time job, here are some ideas to investigate for yourself.

* Virtual Assistant – You can set up your VA business (kind of like a virtual secretary) to work in such a way that you are not available on call. You can have your clients assign work by a certain time for you to finish by a certain time. All they should care about are the deliverables.

* Digital Marketing – If you start a digital marketing agency, you can easily do it while you have your full-time job due to software that enables you to schedule actions. So, on the weekends when you’re off, you can feed ten emails into your autoresponder plus ten blog posts into your blog schedule, and it’ll work for you all week.

* Blogger – As a blogger, you can create the content for your blog whenever you have the time. The system will schedule the blogs that you set up to be published regularly. No one will realize you wrote it at 2 am or that you wrote all ten blog posts in a series in a weekend. You make money via ads and products that you recommend.

* Graphic Design Firm – If you are good with Photoshop and other software that enables you to design beautiful graphics (from web banners to book covers), then you can start a graphic design firm. If you build websites too, that’s even more than your firm can do. Hire some help, and you have a real business that can go far.

* Create an Online Course – Do you know how to do something that is super-cool and useful? Or, maybe it’s not even useful but other people want to do it? If so, you can create a course. Today, the software available like Teachable.com or aMember.com enables you to deliver courses without you even being there.

* Become a Writer – You can start a writing business by becoming an author and self-publishing via Amazon and Kindle, or you can actually write as a service for other businesses that need content for their websites, ads, and brochures.

There are many more ideas today that you can do from home even with a full-time job - even if you have kids. The main thing to consider is the flexibility that your business will afford you, and if it has the capability to earn enough money to replace your job or not. If it can’t replace your job, you may want to find something else.