If you've never had a work-from-home job before, you can start with some of these high-paying ones for beginners:

1. Sales Development Rep at HubSpot

HubSpot is a marketing, sales, customer service, and CRM software company.

What you'll do:

  • Work closely and collaboratively with account executives (also known as sales reps) to develop and implement appropriate prospecting strategies
  • Conduct high volume prospecting (60-100 activities per day) to qualify leads through calls, emails, and social media
  • Schedule marketing assessments and discovery meetings for an account executive to further assess a prospect's business and potential for partnership with HubSpot
  • Conduct needs qualification calls with specific prospects as assigned
  • Help small and mid-sized companies realize the potential of digital marketing
  • Set yourself up for a successful career by learning the necessary fundamentals to be a great salesperson, leader, and executive
  • Get a mini-MBA! You'll learn how a variety of businesses operate, what challenges they face on a daily basis, and how technology can dramatically improve their businesses and employees' lives

Qualifications:

  • Previous successful sales experience OR a strong desire to begin a sales career
  • Previous sales experience in which you demonstrated the ability to meet or exceed sales quotas a plus (but not required)
  • A track record of high achievement
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • The ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, challenging environment with peers who challenge you to be better
  • The desire to meet and exceed measurable performance goals
  • Are naturally curious and passionate
  • The technical aptitude to master our sales tools
  • A keenly developed competitive nature
  • A “one-speed” energy with a highly self-driven sense of motivation
  • The ability to deal with and thrive on objections and rejection on a daily basis

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Superior attention to detail and ability to meet tight deadlines
  • Ability to complete complex tasks quickly with little to no guidance and react with appropriate urgency to situations that require a quick turnaround
  • Strong organizational, communication, and interpersonal skills
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Demonstrated ability to design and improve processes
  • Ability to prioritize and handle multiple assignments at any given time
  • High level of integrity and discretion
  • Impeccable attention to detail
  • Ability to work effectively with minimal supervision

Benefits/Compensation:

This job pays €55,000 to €70,000 annually.

  • Unlimited vacation and global week of rest
  • Remote work
  • 5-year sabbatical
  • HubCare healthcare
  • Parental benefits
  • Leadership development
  • Fitness reimbursements and other health/fitness benefits
  • Employee stock options
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Ongoing learning
  • Employee resource groups

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2. Sales at Forward (Est. $70k/Year)

Forward specializes in primary care focused on your long-term health, with top-rated doctors supported by technology.

They have many different Sales jobs that have the same description: Sales, Sales Agent, Membership Sales Advisor, etc.

Here is the job description that is pretty much universal for all of these:

What you'll do:

  • Help drive the sales and growth that are critical to the success of the company
  • Engage with prospective members over the phone or through messages
  • Help to tell Forward’s story and sign up new members

Qualifications:

  • A strong communicator. Exceptional written and verbal communication skills are a must.
  • Competitive and driven. You are passionate about reaching your goals and will do whatever it takes to achieve them.
  • Persuasive. You’re a good listener, you’re prepared for every conversation, and you know when and how to be persistent.
  • Personable. You easily establish relationships and develop rapport with a variety of people.
  • Flexible. This is a 100% remote position, with the expectation that you will work 30+ hours per week. Weekend and weekly night shifts, along with shifts during business hours, are available.
  • Agile. You are excited about improving our processes, and you adapt quickly to feedback and new training modules as we expand our offerings and services.
  • Passionate about helping people. Educational or professional experience in healthcare, medicine, and life sciences is a big plus.

Technical Requirements:

Internet: You must have wired or wifi connectivity, with download speed minimum of 5.0 Mbps and upload speed minimum of 3.0 Mbps

Mobile device: You will need to install a few programs on a personal phone or tablet for authentication purposes. This device should be running Android iOS 8+ or iOS 12+

Computer: You need to provide your own laptop or desktop with a monitor capable of displaying 1920 x 1080 pixels, and a sound card installed for use with speakers or headphones. Your device should meet the following requirements:

Processor

ChromeOS: Intel Pentium

Non-ChromeOS: Apple M1, Intel i3, AMD Ryzen, or better

Memory

ChromeOS: 4GB of RAM or better

Non-ChromeOS: 6 GB of RAM or better

Operating System

ChromeOS: no minimum

MacOS

Windows 10 or better

Browser

Google Chrome (latest version), Safari (latest version), or Internet Explorer 11

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3. Content Specialist at Empire Flippers

Empire Flippers is a website brokerage company that deals with buying and selling sites.

What you'll do:

  • Writing listing descriptions for new businesses going live on our marketplace
  • Outreach to off-site publications and websites with a goal of creating 1 in-depth industry-related blog post per month.
  • Optimize content with best SEO industry practices.
  • Publishing story and data-driven blog content twice a month.
  • Monitor mentions and backlinks across the web for potential content opportunities.
  • Manage and improve the ongoing editorial calendar.
  • Interviewing sellers for the RMRB podcast

Qualifications:

  • An affinity for writing
  • A can-do attitude
  • A self-starter
  • An immaculate attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications:

  • A deep understanding of crafting written, story-driven content marketing pieces
  • Strong emphasis on editing skills across various writing styles to ensure overall brand messaging remains top of mind
  • Basic to intermediate social media knowledge
  • Basic to intermediate SEO knowledge
  • Basic to intermediate email marketing automation knowledge
  • Basic to intermediate graphic design skills
  • Journalism background (Especially in Amazon FBA, DTC e-commerce or SaaS related)

Compensation:

You should make around $200/day according to estimates for this job at Glassdoor.

Other than that, the benefits should be about the same.

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4. Customer Experience Specialist at Calm

Calm is a software company that produces meditation products.

What You'll Do:

  • Ensure each user’s support experience is of the highest possible quality through providing personalized, efficient, and empathetic replies 
  • Confidently answer escalated customer inquiries or route them to the agent best equipped to respond
  • Be an expert of Calm's operating platforms, features, and available documentation
  • Identify patterns in bug reports and feature requests and escalate appropriately
  • Own the tickets and tasks assigned to you, and thoughtfully prioritize them based on the evolving needs of the team
  • Write internal and external knowledge base articles as well as canned responses to common inquiries both proactively and as assigned
  • Assist with support agent on-boarding, training, and quality assurance
  • Suggest guidelines and offer new best practice ideas for the support team

Qualifications:

  • Has exceptional written and verbal communication skills with a solutions oriented approach
  • Is able to turn a negative into a positive through effort and consideration
  • Works autonomously and takes responsibility for completing assigned work 
  • Volunteers for tasks rather than waiting for them to be assigned 
  • Cares about not just making sure the work is done, but that it’s done well; always seeking ways to do things better through asking for advice and feedback
  • Willing to work on-call one weekend per month in order to assist our weekend agents and to respond to production issues

Preferred:

  • Experience supporting a subscription-based service with in-app purchases
  • 1-year working with Zendesk or a similar ticketing platform
  • Other helpful tech: JIRA, Confluence, Asana, Stripe, Braintree and basic SQL queries a plus

Benefits/Compensation:

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5. Client Account Executive at Contra ($80-$100/Year)

Contra is a professional community for the independent digital workforce. Digital professionals use Contra to create stunning visual profiles, earn money commission-free, and build high-quality professional communities and referral networks.

What you'll do:

  • Build meaningful relationships with clients through timely and engaging communication with the goal to determine the clients needs, build value and establish a successful relationship with Contra
  • Proactively anticipate and address escalating client issues with speed and urgency
  • Develop creative outreach strategies to increase client engagement, retention, drive growth, reduce churn
  • Coordinate and participate in user interviews with clients to gain a deep understanding of their business and help them to derive maximum value from Contra
  • Partner with clients to understand their hiring needs and ensure they are finding amazing talent to work with through Contra
  • Deliver accurate projections through strong pipeline management and forecasting
  • Extremely analytical; you leverage data in all of your decision making
  • Consistently strive to exceed the quarterly goals that have been set and be compensated competitively with a commission structure
  • High energy, self-starting personality that works well in a start-up, fast-paced environment

Qualifications:

  • Mission driven. Our mission truly resonates with you and you would like to be a part of what we are building together at Contra!
  • A dedicated team player. You thrive in a collaborative, remote-only environment and you are comfortable with 8am-12 pm PST core hours and flexibility around those hours for the rest of your work day.!
  • Passionate about learning. Share a genuine curiosity for learning, alway eager to pick up new skills. We don’t expect everyone to know everything but you learn quickly!
  • Goal oriented. Understand what you need to do in order to achieve your goals without needing all of the bells and whistles.
  • Committed to trying. Have the resilience and willingness to try and try again even if you fail after a few attempts!
  • Ambitious attitude. You bring a strong work ethic and contagious energy to your team as we work towards our North Star.
  • Path Paver. Joining a startup you enjoy taking ownership, building out processes and documentation that might not exist to share with your team members.

Benefits:

  • Remote-only culture that is here to stay
  • 100% health coverage for US full-time employees, and health reimbursements for all international contractors
  • 401k matching for US full-time employees
  • $4,000 laptop reimbursement upon starting + additional equipment, co-working, education, and meetups
  • No-meeting Wednesdays
  • Half days every third Friday of the month to enjoy a long weekend, reduce screen fatigue, and decompress
  •  Generous time off — 2 week-long company-wide shutdowns per year subject to hitting business goals. The purpose is so we can all collectively relax together, in addition to paid time off and flex days.
  • Flexible parental leave
  • Annual team-wide off-site (our most recent was in June 2022!)
  • A custom slack emoji, just for you!

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Justin Bryant
Justin Bryant

I'm an entrepreneur, fitness freak, artist, car enthusiast, sports fan and self improvement addict. My goal is to help people be their best and create incredible businesses that change the world.

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