THE HOMEBASED BUSINESS NEWSLETTER
The results are in for our third annual call for suggestions for homebased businesses. We went to popular message boards and asked for suggestions for homebased businesses that actually made money. We got over 125 suggestions this year even after we combined the duplicates. We found that no matter what your reasons were for starting a homebased business, the process itself helped improve organizational skills and leadership skills. The trend seems to be for more and more people to run mini conglomerates right from their own homes. When running homebased businesses, in order to increase your income, you increase your number of customers.
For a FULL TIME business, choose three, four, or more.
For a SUMMER or VACATION business, choose one, two, three, four, or more depending on the amount of income that you need.
Also, for a FULL TIME business, run a temp service for a variety of jobs on this list. You recruit the workers, find them the jobs, and then you take 10% to 20% of what they earned as a fee for finding the jobs.
2. Use bookkeeping software to keep books for small businesses.
3. Teach beginning golf skills to children and adults.
4. Write, record, and sell upbeat songs about English basics, such as parts of speech, etc. for young children.
5. Tutor parents and grandparents in email and search engine skills.
6. Use basic carpentry skills to provide basic wood replacement for homes and small businesses.
7. Take care of large plants for businesses.
8. Get up early on yard sale and estate sale days to buy all types of tools at a low price. Then clean them and restore them to sell at construction sites, garages, and flea markets at a higher price.
9. Organize light exercise sessions at work places for stress relief and fitness.
10. Run a fix-it business for household appliances, bicycles, and other things that break.
11. Use a digital camera and small portable photo printer to take and print out pictures at parties, weddings, and other gatherings and for photo inventory for insurance purposes.
12. Buy all types of sports equipment at yard and estate sales, restore them, and sell them at a profit at flea markets.
13. Become a super nanny consultant on nonviolent child discipline that works.
14. Buy hidden treasures at a low price from yard sales and estate sales. Then sell them at a higher price on eBay and at flea markets.
15. Do information research for businesses and others.
16. Do legal research for lawyers.
17. Install electronic equipment for businesses and people who buy it but don't know how to set it up or use it.
18. Do holiday and special events decorating.
19. Organize travel tours.
20. Make and sell your hobby products on eBay and at flea markets.
21. Buy and restore old furniture and sell it at flea markets.
22. Groom dogs, clean fish tanks, clean bird cages, and do other pet necessities.
23. Assemble furniture, bikes, and other things for people who buy them unassembled and don't know how to put them together.
24. Be a wedding consultant.
25. Help people navigate through eBay to sell their products.
26. Do basic auto and motocycle service and repair at people's homes.
27. Run a catering service.
28. Run an interior decorating service.
29. Run a lawn service.
30. Run a garden design and planting service.
31. Run a delivery service with your small truck for people who buy large purchases but can't get them home because they have small cars.
32. Make jewelry or restore old jewelry and sell it,
33. Run a blind and fan cleaning service using special attachments for your vacuum cleaner.
34. Be a personal shopper and errand runner for busy people.
35. Run a steam cleaning business using one of those small portable steam cleaners with attachments.
36. Make and sell small gift baskets.
37. Run a house siding cleaning business using a small portable power washer.
38. Be a party planner for children's parties and adult parties.
39. Restore and rewire old lamps and sell them on eBay and at flea markets.
40. Run a packing and unpacking business for people who move and use movers who don't have this service.
41. Be a personal organizer for businesses and people who have a lot of clutter.
42. Run a house painting business.
43. Design and make clothes or make clothes from other people's designs.
44. Run an advertising sales business.
45. Run a public relations business.
46. Become a grant specialist who searches for and writes grant applications for individuals, businesses, and educational facilities.
47. Become a scholarship specialist who searches for and helps students apply for scholarships.
48. Become a specialist in finding qualified and experienced people to fill hard to fill hard-to-fill jobs.
49. Teach basic tennis skills to children and adults.
50. Conduct anger management sessions.
51. Set up and maintain web pages for small businesses.
52. Become an independent drywall specialist for all types of drywall problems.
53. Run a golf club cleaning service.
54. Using computer software, make and sell special cards for all types of occasions.
55. Send out greeting cards for businesses who want to send them to special customers.