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How can I top up my salary easily?
21 NOVEMBER 2023
It's possible to earn extra money, top up your salary and generate extra income from home or close to home!
Having a secondary activity, in addition to your main job, is a good way of achieving the level of income you want, according to your personal budget. But how?
Various forms of online activity (paid surveys, cashback, dropshipping) are mentioned on the Internet. In practice, however, few of them earn enough euros per month to enable you to significantly increase your income.
So how can you make money from home or close to home? Elora, a home shopping company specialising in ready-to-wear clothing, gives you its expert opinion.
THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO TOP UP YOUR SALARY
Many people rely on ideas and tips from platforms and websites of all kinds. On the web, the idea seems so simple to put into practice! There are a variety of jobs that, at first glance, seem to offer an easy way to earn extra income. You can expect attractive remuneration, whether on a one-off basis or on a regular basis.
But there's a big catch! These types of online activity, carried out on a freelance basis, are not actually among the most profitable solutions... whether it's cashback, paid surveys, video creation for sales sites, or even dropshipping (on Amazon or other specialist platforms)... Quite often, hours of work online only yield an anecdotal return, minus the commission paid by the platforms.
Let's face it... unless you've struck a miraculous chord, or you have special training or specific know-how that makes you indispensable in a technical field, this kind of service won't make much difference to your budget. It's better to think of them simply as a way of practising, discovering other activities and other companies, getting away from your routine, etc., while making a bit of money at the same time.
That's why many of you are now looking for a different kind of work, alongside your core business, to generate an extracomplementFromsalary sufficient to meet all their expenses (home rental and maintenance, children's education, car and car insurance, etc.).
Yes, but how do you come up with a good idea and choose the right niche?
Whatever your professional skills, remember that the company that pays you looks first and foremost at what you bring in. If you are capable of generating traffic on a website, selling items online, coming up with original ideas, convincing customers to join your community... you've got it made!
Don't settle for a banal, standardised activity that hundreds of private individuals could do just as well as you. You are unique... and so must be your service, and your remuneration will flow naturally from that.
PART-TIME WORK
If you already have a job, and you're only looking for part-time work to generate extra money and increase your income... the situation gets tougher! So you're not available for just any job. What you're really asking yourself is how you can start a new job in your spare time, preferably close to home, depending on your availability.
Having the idea of a profitable sideline business, without being able to devote a great deal of time to it, seems like squaring the circle... And yet? You know that times have changed. Thanks to the Internet and its many resources, an inventive and effective person can acquire training, build up a network, evaluate products and even work remotely, from home, without having to devote full-time to it as before.
For many people, the trigger is a break from work or maternity leave. This is the time to take a step back, surf the web and ask yourself what activity you really want and need, depending on how much extra income you feel you need to generate.
THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS FOR TOP-UP PAY
A profitable job is bound to involve a commitment to a company or brand, even on a part-time basis !
Now more than ever, temporary work is a good idea, except that most of the jobs offered to non-specialists are in logistics, handling, hotels, reception or catering. On the one hand, this is not for everyone, and on the other hand, above all, you won't have a choice of workplace (sometimes far from your home, and therefore a source of expense and wasted time) or working hours.
Joining 'uber' platforms is another realistic way of earning money, but in practice, you don't start out as a driver or deliveryman that easily. The same goes for dropshipping (the business of selling products online, without managing stocks and shipping yourself). Competition is fierce on the Internet... The various merchant sites and platforms (generalist like Amazon or more specialised) are waging a fierce war against each other. The sector, which was flourishing at the outset, now demands a great deal of know-how and commitment from those who want to generate significant income.
HOW CAN I MAKE MONEY WORKING FROM HOME?
Working as an Independent Home Salesperson (IHSS) in addition to your current job seems to be one of the best ideas for supplementing your income.
The role of the VDI (or Vendeur à Domicile Indépendant) is to sell products or objects on behalf of a brand, either via the Internet or by visiting private homes or companies: fashion, lingerie, jewellery, cosmetics, natural products, etc.
This is a type of job where no particular qualifications are required and where the professional experience of each individual is of little importance, insofar as it involves signing a contract with a company to distribute its products and services. The only essential quality is commercial sense, backed up by real drive. All you need is the ability to act as a brand ambassador, with ideas, conviction and efficiency!
In most cases, you will be asked to become an auto-entrepreneur (i.e. to set up your own micro-business). This can be done easily in just a few clicks, directly online from the URSSAF website. You will then be able to offer your services to companies in the home sales sector, to earn extra money.
If you love fashion and have your own ideas about how to dress and what's on trend, or if you already love taking your friends on shopping sprees, then the home fashion retail sector seems like the right place for you.
Why not try the Elora adventure, like hundreds of other women in France and the Benelux countries, who are delighted with this activity and the additional income it brings them? Some of them are so pleased with the pay they get and the personal fulfilment they get from the job that they've even made it their main job !
BECOME A PERSONAL STYLIST WITH ELORA TO EARN MORE MONEY
For more than 30 years, the Elora brand has been providing a service to individuals by offering them exceptional shopping moments with their friends. Thanks to Elora's fashion consultants, fashion week takes place directly in the living rooms of over 950,000 customers in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. There's something for everyone in this trendy, original and committed clothing line. Elora makes every effort to design and manufacture collections that are over 85% eco-responsible.
How does it work? As an independent door-to-door salesperson (VDI), you'll be responsible for canvassing and marketing around you
You'll be organising presentations of the Elora product line in your customers' homes, to help them update their wardrobes, and it's thanks to this activity that you'll be able to generate additional income.
WHY JOIN ELORA TO BOOST YOUR INCOME?
By offering your services to Elora, you are joining a company with strong values such as caring, transparency and a job well done.
The company takes care to provide the best possible support for its new employees, giving them access to a start-up kit so that they don't have to invest their own money in the products at the outset, as well as an experienced and enthusiastic 'mentor' who can show them in practice how to make a success of their first presentation. To complement their knowledge, courses are available free of charge on the online training platform, making it easier for them to continually improve their skills and effectiveness.
Each personal stylist is also free to consult Elora's blog at their own pace, which contains a wealth of articles and advice for independent home sellers.
Thanks to the status of auto entrepreneur (i.e. micro enterprise), each employee can organise her schedule as she wishes, in complete independence. It's important to bear in mind that the income of Elora personal stylists is linked to the number of home presentations they make, which makes the business highly motivating.
A fashion consultant is paid nearly 30% of the sales she achieves. That's enough to generate a profit of several hundred euros in a single evening! The equivalent of a minimum wage salary is quickly reached, as long as the home sales consultant makes at least 2 sales a week... With the right organisation, this is totally compatible with a job in a company.
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