Here are examples of services you can offer on the Inspectionally marketplace. They serve as tips on online money making ideas for freelancers.
Feel free to come up with your own ideas on how to make money online as a freelancer. Scroll straight to the section that interests you. Remote Work Opportunities (1-10). Verifications (11-20). Inspections (21-30). Business Services (31-40). Investigations (41-50). Everything else (51).
REMOTE FREELANCE OPPORTUNITIES
1. Virtual Event Planning
Assist clients in planning and executing virtual conferences, webinars, and online workshops, including logistics, marketing, and attendee engagement.
2. Remote Digital Marketing
Offer a range of digital marketing services, including social media management, content creation, search engine optimization (SEO), and online advertising campaigns.
3. Virtual Fitness Training
Providing personalized fitness programs and coaching sessions through virtual platforms, allowing clients to exercise and receive guidance from the comfort of their homes.
4. Remote IT Support
Offering technical assistance and troubleshooting services for individuals and businesses remotely, addressing software issues, network problems, and hardware concerns.
5. IT services
Offer IT services for individuals and businesses remotely in web development, coding and programming, software development, database management, data science and analytics.
6. Online Language Instruction
Teaching languages remotely through video conferencing platforms, providing personalized lessons, language practice, and cultural immersion experiences.
7. Virtual Coaching and Mentoring
Providing professional or personal coaching sessions remotely, offering guidance, support, and accountability to clients in achieving their goals.
8. Remote Graphic Design Services
Creating digital designs, logos, branding materials, and other visual assets for businesses and individuals, delivering them electronically.
9. Virtual Bookkeeping and Accounting
Assisting businesses with financial management remotely, including bookkeeping, payroll processing, tax preparation, and financial reporting.
10. Remote Consultancy Services
Offering expert advice and specialized knowledge in various fields, such as business strategy, marketing, HR, finance, and technology, through virtual consultations and workshops.
VERIFICATIONS
11. Verify things in your locality or area
If you are a resident of a town, city, province, state or country that outsiders are usually interested in, you could earn income by just living there. Verify things in your locality for people who need the information (may require paying a visit to somewhere.) Optionally offer enhanced services such as ticket booking, buying and sending items, etc.
EXAMPLES OF VERIFICATIONS YOU CAN DO IN YOUR AREA
- Business Information: People often seek to verify the opening hours, contact details, or addresses of local businesses, such as bars, restaurants, stores, or service providers.
- Events and Activities: You can help verify upcoming events, concerts, festivals, or community gatherings, including their dates, times, locations, and any admission fees or registration requirements.
- Public Transportation: Verify bus or train schedules, routes, fares, and any service disruptions or delays in public transportation systems in your area.
- Local Laws and Regulations: Help clarify local ordinances, zoning regulations, parking restrictions, or other legal requirements in your town or area.
- Historical Facts: Provide information and verify historical events, landmarks, or notable figures associated with your town or area.
- Tourist Information: Offer details about popular tourist attractions, museums, parks, or scenic spots, including admission fees, hours of operation, and any special events or exhibitions.
- Health Services: Help verify the location, contact information, and operating hours of local hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, or emergency services.
12. Fact checking
Freelancers can specialize in verifying the accuracy and credibility of information, news articles, research papers, or social media posts.
13. Verify the veracity and genuineness of offers
Scams and fraud from cybercriminals and offline con artists often prey on the most vulnerable people. If you are a web sleuth, Inspectionally is the place to get hired to use your research skills, intelligence and analytical prowess to do good.
Offer freelance services on Inspectionally utilizing your Internet sleuthing skills for deep research. Dig into offers sent to people, check things out to verify their veracity, and help save others from being victimized by scams.
Get hired to research offers received by people to find out if they have red flags and are potentially fraudulent.
Here’s a list of scams from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Consumer Alerts:
FTC Consumer Alerts on Scam Types
Here’s an example of FTC press release showing consumer scams and losses:
FTC Received 2.8 Million Fraud Reports from Consumers in 2021
14. Document verification
Provide services to view or sight documents. Also offer services to verify the authenticity and accuracy of various documents, such as certificates, diplomas, identification cards, or legal contracts.
15. Data validation
Offer services to validate and verify the accuracy, completeness, and quality of data sets, ensuring they meet specific criteria or standards.
16. Product reviews and testing
Freelancers can review and test products, services, or software applications to provide objective assessments and verify their quality, functionality, and performance.
17. Website and content verification
Help clients ensure the accuracy, coherence, and credibility of website content, blog posts, or articles by fact-checking information, verifying sources, and ensuring proper citation.
18. Online Reputation Management
Freelancers can assist individuals or businesses by verifying and monitoring online information about them, addressing inaccuracies, and managing their online reputation effectively.
19. Social Media Account Verification
Provide services to verify the authenticity and legitimacy of social media accounts, helping clients identify fake or impersonated profiles.
20. Due diligence
Offer due diligence services in any area you specialize; for example, employment background checks, legal, financial, commercial, intellectual property, compliance and regulatory due diligence.
ADDITIONAL VERIFICATION SERVICES TO CONSIDER
Language Translation Verification
Specialize in verifying the accuracy and quality of translations, ensuring that the meaning, context, and cultural nuances are properly conveyed.
Academic Plagiarism Detection
Offer services to verify the originality and authenticity of academic papers, essays, or research articles, using plagiarism detection tools and techniques.
INSPECTIONS
21. Used vehicles (cars, bikes, bicycles, boats, airplanes)
Inspect anything that moves, based on your skill set and experience. These include, but are not limited to, pre-owned vehicles (cars, buses, vans, trucks, aircrafts, helicopters, boats, bikes, bicycles, etc. Buyers of used vehicles need help to make good buying decisions.
Discover how to make money doing used vehicle inspection.
22. Used goods inspection
Have a good eye for details? Or knowledgeable about some types of goods? Offer a service to inspect used and new goods near you for others. Save people travel time and costs by inspecting things for them before they buy, for example, laptops, furniture, home appliances, jewelry, collectibles, collector items, antics, memorabilia, etc.
Learn how you could make money as a part-time or full-time home inspector.
23. Facility suitability and readiness inspection
Conduct on-site facility inspections for clients to confirm that facilities for their planned events (expos, weddings, training, meetings, etc) are equipped, suitable or ready for the event. Check out training rooms, schools, banquet halls, hotels, gyms, sports venues, offices and factories, depending on what your client needs inspected.
24. Pre-rental inspection
People rent charter jets, yachts and vacation homes. Sometimes they are far away from the items or property being rented. Your services as a pre-rental inspector become useful. Help potential renters understand the quality and status of their intended rental.
25. Real estate and property-related inspections
Do property-related inspections as a property or real estate inspector, or other types of property inspection (structural inspections of walls, roof, foundation, etc; mold,radon, and pest inspection). Inspect residential and commercial property. Offer property appraisals services. Don’t depend on referrals alone. Add your services on Inspectionally for additional ways people can find and hire you.
26. Home appraisals
As a home appraiser, you are important in the home purchase process. You offer a professional estimation of a home’s value, which is useful to all parties involved, such as the buyer, seller and mortgage lenders. You could get more clients when you offer your service on Inspectionally.
27. Used machinery and equipment inspection
Purchasing used machinery and equipment saves people and businesses tons of money. Offer a service as an inspector of the types of used machinery and equipment you are knowledgeable about.
28. Goods production inspection
Get hired to be the eyes of customers during the goods production process. Here are opportunities for you:
- Pre-production inspection
- In production inspection
- Pre-shipment inspection
- Container loading and unloading inspection
- Vehicle loading and unloading inspection
Monitor and supervise any of these stages using your eyes for detail.
29. Freelance compliance inspector
There are different areas in work and business where compliance inspection is needed, for example, restaurant sanitary status, building compliance, air quality compliance and more. Get hired by businesses and governments as an independent compliance inspector.
30. Other Inspections
Offer other type of inspections that could be of value to people and businesses.
BUSINESS SERVICES
31. Virtual Assisting
Offer services as a virtual assistant to help individuals, entrepreneurs, startups, businesses and organizations complete tasks, which helps them get work done and lighten their workload. There are many opportunities in virtual assisting.
32. Project manager, task coordinator, facilitator
If you are detail-oriented, have experience managing, supervising or overseeing work, projects, and people, regardless of the industry, you could offer a service as a freelance, temp work or task coordinator or project manager. Coordinate tasks or work projects big or small. Manage, track, delegate and coordinate to completion, depending on what your client needs. Learn more.
33. Freelance Facilitator
If you are resourceful and have a knack for arranging and facilitating things, consider offering a service to facilitate, arrange and oversee tasks for others. Be hired as a resource person to research service and location options, and communicate with vendors. Facilitate things like expos, events, parties, moving, tourism, and many more. Learn more about what you can do here.
34. Work monitor
Monitor work in progress for people unavailable or too busy to do so themselves. Get paid to keep an eye on on-going work (e.g., repairs; construction; home improvement; cleanups; shipment events, loading and unloading of goods; training and event venue set-up). Learn more here.
35. Be a professional organizer
Help others be more organized. People often need help with organizing. Offer this service If you are that organized person that loves to arrange things the way they should be (files, the books, anything). Learn more here.
36. Count inventory for businesses
Offer a service that counts inventory for businesses, stores, retailers, property management companies, asset management companies, warehouses, factories, suppliers, receivers and other entities where people need to take stock of physical items and inventory.
37. Run errands, complete tasks
There's a need for personal assistants who help free up time by completing needed tasks. Offer a concierge business service to assist individuals run errands, do chores and complete tasks. Lighten their workload.
38. Notary services
Inspectionally is the platform to get business for your public notary services. Work both as an online notary and on-ground as well. Notarize documents, witness signatures and perform other notary tasks.
39. Paralegal services
Are you a lawyer or paralegal? Have you worked as a legal assistant or provided support to attorneys/lawyers in legal practice. Inspectionally could open the door to more clients for the paralegal services you offer.
40. Event support
Work events by offering a service as an Event Aide. Help event planners with pre-event, during event and post-event management tasks like venue setup, booth manning, attendee service and cleanups.
RESEARCH & INVESTIGATIONS
41. Scam and fraud investigation
People receive tons of scam emails, text and phone calls and fall for them. The Federal Trade Commission received 2.8 million fraud reports in just 2021 in the U.S. alone. Fraud losses reported for that year was more than $5.8 billion.
These scams often target the most vulnerable. If you are a private investigator or have expertise in web sleuthing and research, your services on Inspectionally is more than just about earning income. You will do some good by helping protect those who are vulnerable from being victimized.
FTC Received 2.8 Million Fraud Reports from Consumers in 2021
FTC Consumer Alerts on Types of Scams
42. Freelance corporate investigator
Use your investigative skills to conduct investigations into company problems such as harassment complaints, illegal activities, fraud, pre-employment screenings, cybercrime, and copyright infringement. Help companies and organizations resolve issues.
43. Freelance legal investigator
Use your investigative skills or knowledge of the legal practice to conduct investigations, assemble facts in a logical manner and assist attorneys (lawyers) in their preparation for litigation and other areas of legal practice.
44. Private investigator
Get hired to investigate problems and discover the truth. Private detectives and investigators uncover information about fraud, legal, financial or other matters.
45. Researcher and fact finder
Skilled researchers, Internet sleuths, cyber sleuths and professionals in specialized fields can utilize their skills to conduct research and discover information that are useful to businesses and individuals.
46. Business fraud investigation
As a business fraud investigator, you can help businesses dig into transactions and practices that have occurred, or are occurring internally from employee actions or by external parties through contract violations, purchases, procurement, sales and other transactions.
47. Survey researcher
If you are a survey research expert, offer survey researcher services and be hired to conduct surveys and focus groups that help businesses understand buyers better.
48. Computer forensics researcher
Computer forensic investigators have the skills to find, recover, collect and analyze data from computers. Your services will help businesses identify threats like hacking, intrusion and data stealing.
49. Freelance insurance investigator
Provide services that insurance companies and lawyers need. Investigate possible cases of fraud and fraudulent claims arising from property damage, injuries and claims. Work for insurance companies or lawyers protecting clients.
50. Other investigations
Provide other types of investigation services that are useful.
EVERYTHING ELSE
Your skills. Your creativity.
51. Everything Else
Put your creativity and experience to work. Offer any useful service that people and businesses may need.
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