Today, tend of thousand of people are considering starting a home based business, and for good reasons. On average, people can expert to have two and three careers during their work life. Those leaving one career often think about their second or third career move being to their own home. people who have been part of the traditional nine-to-five work and are on the verge of retiring a home based business is within the reach of almost anyone who wants to take a risk and work hard.
1. ACCOUNTANT
Experience, Training or licensing may be needed
Create a filter outlining your services. Before you do that, you need to know what those services will be. Do you want to simply do bookkeeping for a small business? A man involved level of accounting would be do actually work up balance sheets, income statements, and other don't mind keeping their own day-to-day bookkeeping records but would rather get professional help with their taxes.
2. BICYCLE REPAIR
In many parts of the country, this business tend to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that. Rent a storage unit and offer to soter people's bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them. If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you can have business all year round. These road race riders are training through snow, sleet and dark of night. Some of them work on their own bicycles, but many of them don't, so you can get their business all year. And if you will have a group of enthusiasts coming by talk all things cycling.
2. BICYCLE REPAIR
In many parts of the country, this business tend to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that. Rent a storage unit and offer to soter people's bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them. If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you can have business all year round. These road race riders are training through snow, sleet and dark of night. Some of them work on their own bicycles, but many of them don't, so you can get their business all year. And if you will have a group of enthusiasts coming by talk all things cycling.
3.BOATING CLEANING
Experience, training or license may be needed
Boats that are hauled out of the water for the winter or even just for mind-season repairs will need the hull cleaned. And depending on the type of boat, it is a good time to give a major cleaning everything else too--the decks, the sleeping quarters, the head and the holds. Start by approaching homes that have a boat sitting in the yard. Or you could market your services to the marina to contract you to do the boat cleaning it offers to customer.
4. BUSINESS PLAN SERVICES
Has expansion possibilities
Offer a soup-to-nuts business plan, including market research, the business plan narrative and the financial statements. Plan your fee around the main one that the client will want and offer the others as add-on services. You can keep the business plan on files and offer the service of tweaking it whenever necessary. Have business plan samples to show clients-- and make sure to include your own!
5. COMPUTER REPAIR
Experience, training or licensing may be needed
Study the main types of software that system users want-- word processing, photo manipulate software, mail merge, spreadsheet, design and especially security software. Investing all the components--monitor types in all their varieties, keyboards, from wired to ergonomic to wireless, mouse types, a well a peripheral components like printers and scanners. Become completely familiar with all the ISP (internet service providers) available in the market area you plan to cover. Establish yourself as the guru who can meet the needs of the personal computer user, the small business or a larger corporation.
6.CONSULTANT
Has expansion possibilities
To be a consultant, you need to have an expertise in something so you can market yourself as an divisor to others looking work in that area. Perhaps you managed several large warehouse for many years for a large shoe manufacturing or you set up a chain of beauty supply shop or take out restaurants. You can use this experience to help others do similar things without making the same mistakes that you made along the way.
7. DOG BREEDER
Experience, training, or license may be needed
Pets are phenomenally popular in the U.S. While many people are willing to adopt from animal shelters others are looking for a specific breed. Purebred dogs are more popular than ever and can command large sums of obey. But becoming a dog breeder is serious business catering to savvy consumers with high expectations of their pet purchase. You will need to establish yourself as a conscientious breeder who cares about the health and welfare to the animals you bring into the world.
8. EBAY ASSISTANTS
Do you have items lurking around your household that you could sell on eBay? Figure out your asking price and decide whether to auction it or put it in your eBay store. then decide if you want a minimum bid and how long you want the auction to last. You will want to establish pay-pal account to use for transaction. The eBay website providers all the information you need to know to get up and running with an eBay business.
From Editorial Services to Household Organizer
9. EDITORIAL SERVICES
Has expansion possibilities
Here are some of the editorial services you can provide from the quiet of your own home.
- Copy-editing: This is where fact checking takes place, and where grammatical, stylish and typographical errors are caught.
- Proofreading: This is the last stop for a "finished" piece. The proofreader makes sure the copy editing changes have been properly made and no new errors are created in the process.
- Indexing : There are indexing courses available and you get indexing software.
- Developmental editing : A developmental services provided for manuscripts written by experts.They create a manuscript as best they can and then a book doctor puts into publishable shape.
- Book Doctoring : This an editorial services provided for manuscripts written by experts. They create a manuscript as best they can and then a book doctors puts it into publishers shape.
- Ghost Writing : As a ghost writer, you actually do the research and write the book and someone else's name so attached as the author.
- Copy-writing : Also known as business writing, this is writing that promotes a product or service.
- Magazine article writing : Magazines and newspapers are a grate way to get your writing published before tackling the daunting task of writing a whole book.
- Web page content provider : Providing content for a web site is a good way to make some money writing.
10. ELECTRONICS REPAIR
Has expansion possibilities
This business is similar to the computer repair business, but you will take on all sorts of electronic equipment besides just computers. With smaller electronics, you will need to be prepared to have customers bring their repair projects to you would have difficulty recovering the cost of driving around picking up broken equipment and returning it. You may also want to encourage people to give you their old electrons so you can use them for parts.
Has expansion possibilities
One of the first things you need to do is visit every potential event location with which you plan to work. Work with the marketing manager to tour each site and learn what is available at each location. Start a database that will allow you to sort venues b varying features-- the number of people each site holds, if there is AV equipment available on site, will you need to arrange for rental chairs, etc. Then when you are beginning to plan an event with a client, you can find out what the key parameters are for the event and easily and easily pull up the three or four sites that meet the basic criteria and engagement parties, etc
12. EXPERT WITNESS SERVICE
Experience, training or licensing may be need
One way to make money in this field is by being an expert witness yourself. If you have an expertise that could be useful in legal cases, you can market yourself to attorneys to act as an expert witness. Another way to be active in the expert witness field is to play a sort of matchmaker, matching attorneys up with expert witness for their cases--either for the defense or for the prosecution. Expert witness for big money cases can be expected to fly anywhere to testify. There's no reason your database witness can't be from all parts of the country.
13. FINANCIAL PLANNER
Experience, training or license may be needed
To start, you should go through the certification process so that you can label yourself a CFP(Certified Financial Planner_. Your certificate shows that you have expertise, and this differentiation will help people choose you as their financial planner.
14. FLEA MARKET
Has expansion possibilities
People love to spend weekend rummaging through tables full of other people's unwanted items, looking for treasures. Make sure to change your layout and put new stuff out for sale often. You want people to come back time and again to see what's new. You don't even have to have that much new stuff to make things look new. Just moving an item from a table to the top of a bookshelf might get it noticed, even though the items\ has been in your inventory since first having sales.
15. GOLF COACH
Experience, training or licensing may be needed
Let the local public courses know about your coaching business. Cultivate relationships with the staff and encourage them to recommended you as a coach. Another place to look for customers is the corporate world. Golfing is a game that business people use to develop relations outside the office. You do need to be a better than average golfer to develop a reputation as a golf coach. You also need to be a good teacher, know how to be motivation and be willing to work with many different types of people.
16.HOME ENERGY AUDITOR
Experience, training or license may be needed
All homeowners are always on the lookout for ways to save on their utility bills. You can come to their aid by providing them with an audit of their house and giving them a breakdown of how they could accomplish real savings in heating, cooling and electrical use. You can go one step further and do the implementation and installation of some of your suggestions in their home yourself. Do a complete appliance audit, with efficiency rating and calculations based on the age of the age of the applications. And don't forget the water heater!