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Many Community Colleges also now offer their programs online. I have worked for Community Colleges, traditional non-profit universities, and a for-profit university. I cannot warn you enough to stay away from for-profits. Total snake oil salesmen who would steal from their own grandmas. I was a customer of their website division a few years ago.
When my husband got downsized — I closed my business and started working with my current company. When our company started another division helping non-profits with alternative funding — it was something I was passionate about. Unfortunately, there are a lot of scammers out there. I am thing about starting a nonmedical senior care services. Can anyone provide some information on what services or area of service would be best for a one person type of operation.
I would welcome any information…Thanks! Freelance work is a great help for me! It enables me to earn money even though I am just staying at home. I also want other business and this post can be my guide.
Any ideas for me? My boss was so thrilled with me and my partner he fired a bunch of workers as we could pull off the bulk of his work! Since about 6 months ago my boss I think lost his house …I remeber his last visit he was so stressed saying he almost had 2 foreclose emergencies: This is a man who on our first envelope job bought us our furnace gas heater by paying us upfront half the money he would have topay when the job was done.
He was so concerned we had no heat he paid us before we even started writing out the envelopes…I felt so bad to see when I called him 2 months ago someone answered it but was not him or his family. I fear he lost his home: I have done approximately over 7 thousand envelopes for one job in less than a month…thats with writing the addresses on envelopes folding the car ads and sealing them and placing them by zip code into mail buckets.
Well I am in tears I cannot find any more work like this and tho this was a legit man and not off the internet I am sure that someone somewhere would love to have me do their work for them. Not only do I enjoy it but my handwriting is superb and every name on list is done no cheating and my partner too was having a good time doing them.
I have searched the internet for such a job and all I see are scams and this kind of work is my best asset…Not only am I productive and accurate but it is a fun job and one I can handle well. Can you recommend anyone that would be interested in me …I work with my hubby side by side doing these envelopes and we never let anyone down..
The pay is cheap but because we both are so good at it and want to do it we never complain because by the time we are done with the job we have done so many it pays well enough for us. Lake City Florida This good Christian Woman is desperate for more stuffing envelope work to help pay our bills again. This is Tim Ferris doctrine here. Find a niche, find 1, passionate customers, and boom, you can get it done from anywhere in the world. That is why, me, personally, I dig the e-commmerce oriented sites. I also talk about practical, concrete things you can do to start and run a successful consulting business, along with tools, tips, tricks, and techniques for automating your business and keeping costs to a minimum.
The info I give is applicable to most other types of businesses as well. I read your breif and mine is very similar. I beleive in the power of multiple minds. We both work other odds and ends spot jobs and it ends up working out. We have also had the flexibility to be volunteer managers at a church camp in the summer. My husband helps at the kids schools, apointments are easy to make, and the stress is less. I currently work from home and love it. It beats driving 2 hours in traffic any day.
I think a window cleaning business is an ideal way for someone to start their own business because of REPEAT customers. Great ideas about a home based business. Franchises seem to do some better but they have challenges too. After 32 years in the trenches as an entrepreneur, we invite you to visit our website, join us as a subscriber too where we share about our lumps and bruises in business owners.
Thanks for all the great ideas. Persistence is key for any business to succeed. Additional business is vegetable farming in case you have a bit of a backyard. This enables me to use most of my salary for other purposes since my daily recurrent expenses are taken care of. Edward, I do not actually — I just did a search for a course for it and that was what I found. Some claim a lot of people are interested in the idea of blogging as a business. May somebody please explain if this is a viable home based business, and how much can you realistically bring in based on an hourly rate… bottom line after all you have to put into it!?
I echo the foreclosure market. Some homes require special licenses for cleaning up mold damage and lead. Many churches, other non profit charities, and business owners NEED to advertise via social media. You can either be hired to do theirs or become a consultant who trains their staff. Ask me how I know. If America really spends more than it makes overall, you better not be in that crowd.
Love to earn money. Do alot of different things or one main thing but make sure you earn money at it. For now Im doing Craigslist business… I buy cheap stuffs in eBay then sell in Craigslist with profit. It works but it takes time. Im not a sales person who can talk to sell someone about the product. Im a normal quiet guy. But in Craigslist I just wrote down the description of te product Im selling then post them.
No need to sales talk someone will just email you if they want to buy that product. But I only meet in public places, with busy area so its safer. I like these ideas! Besides being good ideas in themselves, they stimulate MORE ideas! Some of them reminded me of something I was reading about called Craigslist arbitrage — buying low and selling high on craigslist, kind of like the first part of the old Oregon Trail game, but with washers and dryers and bicycles instead of cases of crackers and horses.
Anyway, that one about the pooper-scooper business, that works, I know because I was quite successful in the pooper-scooper service I started back in ! I really appreciate the links to more information on how to get started in several of these business opportunities. I will definitely look into them. Mr Bob, really am blown away.
You know, people say nothing comes free, but you have generously broken that law with all these ideas you freely give. I read your article on how to make money by blogging and really , freely giving out all those steps is very generous of you sir becausei know poeple who sell almost every informatiomn they have. The first time i heard about blogging was around 3months ago while discussing with a friend about my first christian book, but your article has really openned me to a whole new world around blogging.
Thank you somuch sir, your latter will be far greater than your past. In my experience, one of the greatest challenges people face is deciding why they are starting a business, what they hope to accomplish and what they really want to do. It will not only clarify what you are getting into but also point out where you might be lacking. When starting your home business, make sure that you have enough money on hand to cover your expenses. It almost always takes a decent amount of time before home businesses become successful, so it is crucial that you have enough cash on hand to enable you to withstand some hardships and difficult financial times.
Starting a home business without enough money saved could lead to bankruptcy. If you have not already established a strong network of professional contacts than now is not the time to start your own business. It is important to have many contacts in several different areas as you never know what kind of assistance or business deal you may need to make. When running your own home based business it is absolutely crucial that you protect your income.
Protecting your income is something that is not easily done, but it is necessary. When first starting out you may need to stick with one basket until you figure out how to make your business work, but you should have alternatives ready as a way to protect your business and your income. You must be logged in to post a comment. I really began because I hoped they would lead to people advertising on my Blogs and earning an income — and overcoming my depression by being busy.
An occasional newsletter and emails sent when there is news to share are all that's required. Below are a bunch of home-based business ideas that you can peruse to see if any would work for you. In addition, you can use your design expertise to work with clients to add some unique elements to their Facebook pages. As a blogger, I was inspired from this list. You can list it as often as you want and can list it to be by the night, week, or month.
And I think the reason is fear. They fear that working from home might not work out immediately. There are countless opportunities, if you want to work from home and every excuse is just due to lack of courage. So happy to see Jam Maker on this list.
I recently started my own business making and selling unique jams and jellies online. I never knew I was trendy. Many good ideas on here. How large of an investment did you have to make putting a commercial kitchen space into your home, according to public health laws? I would love to sell a food product online, but the government regulations are just too cumbersome and expensive for me. I recently started working as a dance instructor from home and it has been wonderful! I have never thought that this would be my job.
My advice is — always follow your dreams. Hard work pays off eventually! I recently started working in network marketing with a natural hair care line. It has transformed my life, by giving me my confidence back. My good friend introduced me to these amazing products, that in a matter of months changed my life. I am very grateful to, now, be the one helping people get their confidence back.
Helping other people is the most gratifying job a person could ask for! I love my, stay at home, job!!! Is it available in Australia? This home based business idea is awsome and too much. I liked writing ebook as i find this one best to me. Great ideas Annie, these are great lists and useful. These info really helpful for those who wants to start a home-based business. Hi Annie , Thanks for posting such a nice list of home based business ideas.
As a blogger, I was inspired from this list. The Christmas Tree Farmer in the end was a surprise. All the jobs listed here are definitely interesting and I think that the numbers just keeps on growing. They are indeed good options. However, at the end of the day what matters is whether you are happy or not. No matter what, you should always do something that makes you happy. There was a time when the society only accepted government jobs and a few other elite jobs like doctor and engineer as the best career options for youngsters.
We have come a long way. I believe these 50 options will soon turn into , and then into s. Thanks for the very doable suggestions and ideas. I used do engraving and eBay. I love to share information about making money online ethically. Thank you Annie for this wonderful list. I found this website homebusinessidea. With so many choices out there I found their approach simple and down to earth. This read definitely got me thinking outside of the box and looking forward to the future.
Such a good read! Beautiful list of home based businesses. Thanks for sharing this. This is a great time for a concierge business or errand business startup. In many areas where there is significant development in the luxury market residential and commercial , you will find increasing opportunity for concierge service providers. I remember my first job as a residential concierge, which helped me start a concierge business from home.
The knowledge I acquired while employed by an established concierge business set the groundwork for my long-term career as a concierge business entrepreneur and author. Could you please ask Corey about the hair care line she is using! Then let us all know! I think you for your time! If you get two people to sign up with autoship, you get your product free.
Unfortunately, the majority of the businesses listed here either require significant start-up costs because in a lot of them you need liability insurance, licenses, money to buy the inventory to start the business, and or a physical location in order to operate. I always recommend people start in an industry they know well — as long as there is money to be made. In addition, an Internet-based business has very little overhead expenses and so in turn, you can get into profit a lot faster.
Those would be my two recommendations for anyone looking to start a small or home-based business. I wholeheartedly agree with your points to consider and would encourage anyone looking to join a network marketing-based business to do their due diligence before signing up. As I have found in my past ventures into home based businesses, the KEY to success is to treat your business as exactly that and not a hobby or trending fad.
Being told that they have to try to recruit their warm market, have home meetings, prospect strangers and attend hotel meeting every week.
I believe these task are so painful and takes the average person too far out of their comfort zone, it feels like a relief to just quit. I personally believe in network marketing and there are some awesome companies and awesome products.