Earning Opportunities, Welcome!

I always welcome any earning opportunity that come my way, so long as they don't require me having to give up spending quality time with my family. That is why I enjoy being a freelance virtual assistant because I own my time, I can work whenever I want to and still get the job done and deliver it to the client at the agreed date. However, clients are hard to come by and so I am thinking of other means to earn on the side. 

I could always search for sales jobs and sell products to our friends here when we see them but then again, when I think about it, I realize that I am not very good at doing sales talk. My first job was as a Technical Assistant in a salt industry and although the job title sounds technical, it still involves selling products. I have a friend who sells stuff on the side while working and she is managing it. How she does it, I always wonder. I guess for one to become an effective sales person, one must first try and believe in the product that he / she is using. That way, one will have already had a personal experience about the product and be able to say more about it. A good and solid testimony is what makes a product appealing for me.