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1. Antiques
The buying and selling of antiques has been and should continue to be a very productive business, financially, for those that do it. Here, you only need an extra room in the house, or the use of your garage — and you have an office!
If you have a large home that has some antique furnishings, you might consider turning it into a showroom for your antique acquisitions and sales, providing you satisfy any local zoning regulations. The interest in antiques will survive into the foreseeable future. Many people choose to spend their free time on the weekends “antiquating” from place to place to try and pick up a few odds or ends and maybe a jewel or two. If you know anything about antiques, this may be a great opportunity for you.
For more information, read the article How to Start an Antique Dealership and Collectibles Business
Check out the books below on starting an antiques business:
- The Business of Antiques: How to Succeed in the Antiques World
- How to Start a Home-based Antiques Business (Home-Based Business Series) (Fifth Edition) [Paperback]
- How to Make $20,000 a Year in Antiques & Collectibles Without Leaving Your Job
- Picker’s Bible: How to Pick Antiques Like the Pros
2. Baking
Have you ever been told that you have a recipe that people would line up to get if they could? Ever had anyone tell you that you should be selling those cupcakes you make?
There are a number of success stories about people who have launched successful businesses by cooking at home and then marketing to local people first. You may specialize in on just one well-tried and tested food product; or you may innovate on a product that you created yourself and which has never been marketed before. Having perfected the recipe you then turn to packaging and marketing. Word of mouth on a good product may start to get restaurants or bakeries interested in acquiring your culinary masterpieces. Then you progress to selling them statewide and you’re on your way to a profitable home-based business.
For more information, read the following articles:
- How to Start a Food Business in Texas
- How to Start a Food Business
- How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business
- How to Market and Sell Food Products to Grocery Stores
- Starting a Bakery: Success in the Niche Food Business
- How to Start a Mobile Food Truck Businesss
Check out the following books on starting a baking business:
- Home Baking for Profit
- Baking for Profit: Starting a Small Bakery
- How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business (Home-Based Business Series)
- How To Start A Cake Business From Home: How To Make Money from your Handmade Cakes, Cupcakes, Cake Pops and more!
- Start a Cake Business:How to Succeed in a Home-based Cottage Food Operation or a Commercial Kitchen
3. Bed-and-Breakfast Proprietors
Have you ever stayed in a bed and breakfast and thought, “Hey, I can do this!” You probably went on vacation and simply chalked your thought up as one of those pipedreams one gets when they stay in a beautiful spot.
Don’t toss that thought away! While it’s not easy work as the hours can be long and it’s usually a seven days per week business, it’s often something that you can work into a daily schedule. After all, it’s merely an extension of doing the housework for family, right? More and more Americans are taking after Europeans and opening their homes to travelers.
If you have an extra room or two since the kids moved out, you can start a bed and breakfast in your own place! Bed and breakfast popularity will continue as more and more vacationers and business travelers seek a different accommodation away from the predictability of the average hotel room. If they enjoy their stay, many become “repeat” customers, coming back to the same familiar surroundings time and again.
If you don’t need to do any major renovations in the house to accommodate this type of establishment, you can be off and running with very little money invested, other than advertising and some new “guest room supplies”. If your dream is to buy a bed and breakfast somewhere in a vacation paradise, there are probably houses for sale that will work for this purpose.
For more information, read the article How to Start a Bed-and-Breakfast Business
Check out the books below on starting a bed-and-breakfast business:
- How to Open a Financially Successful Bed & Breakfast or Small Hotel: With Companion CD-ROM
- How to Open and Operate a Bed & Breakfast, 9th (Home-Based Business Series)
- Running a Bed and Breakfast For Dummies
- How to Start and Operate Your Own Bed-and-Breakfast: Down-To-Earth Advice from an Award-Winning B&B Owner
- Bed and Breakfast Magic: How to Transform Your Bed and Breakfast Into A Booming 6 Figure Business
4. Childcare or Daycare Business
Due to the financial pressures faced by many families today, parents work outside of the home to bring in enough income to pay daily living expenses. A single parent is obviously working but all too often, both members of a two-parent family are in the workforce. This creates a home-based opportunity. Children must be watched, all day if they’re not in school, or, otherwise, for a brief time after school before the parents finish work for the day. Most parents want their children immersed in a more stimulating environment than is usual with the average babysitter. You can begin small at home, offering a more stimulating and educational environment setting for client children.
Caring for one additional child may not be that lucrative, but taking care of several children can certainly be a full-time, financially successful business. Often, taking care of several children is made somewhat easier as the youngsters often will play together. You can do this at home for only a small investment in basic equipment and toys for the kids in addition to the advertising of your business.
For more information, read the article How to Start Your Own Day Care Business or Child Care Center
Check out the books below on starting a child care or daycare business:
- How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Child Care Service: With Companion CD-ROM
- The Business of Child Care: Management and Financial Strategies
- How to Start a Home-Based Day-Care Business, 6th (Home-Based Business Series)
- The Ultimate Daycare Starter Workbook (Volume 1)
5. Computer Specialist
The advent of the computer age has changed the concept of self-employment. Having a computer at home has opened a number of opportunities for running your own business utilizing this equipment. Companies everywhere are “outsourcing” work that can be done by someone else on their computer, out of their own home.
If you are a whiz in computers, you may end up working as a consultant, writing programs for companies. If you are a beginner, you may find yourself able to obtain work as a writer, using your computer to produce copy that is easy to edit. You can also keep accounting and payroll records for companies on your computer’s database.
Word processing software can be used not only for writers but for those that can offer secretarial services out of their house. Desktop publishing software can allow you to do newsletters for businesses and other organizations. If you can operate a computer, you can find work in the information age today.
Of course, the advent of the Web has opened a lot of business opportunities for the enterprising individuals. If you have skills in lay-outing and graphic design, you can be a website designer. Website designers earn significant amounts of money nowadays.
For more information, read the following articles
- How to Start a Computer Repair Business
- Starting an Online Tutoring Business from Home
- How to Earn Money on the Web
Check out the books below on starting a computer business:
- Start Your Own Computer Business: Building a Successful PC Repair and Service Business by Supporting Customers and Managing Money
- How to Start a Home-based Computer Repair Business (Home-Based Business Series)
- Start & Run a Computer Repair Service (Start and Run A)
6. Gardening
If you like working in your garden each year , it’s a definite possibility for home-based employment. Imagine clearing a little more space and growing more items that you can sell directly to the consumer. You can produce vegetables, bedding plants, bonzai tree, exotic plants, flower trees, herb, house plants, landscaping plants, orchids and many more.
Most produce stands will buy from you if your product is one of high quality. If you enjoy gardening, this could be your ticket! If you have some more land to use, do it! Plant what you can, when you can! Contact your local produce stands to ascertain their buying habits.
You can even inquire about your own produce stand if you have enough product. The more space you have on your land, the more likely you will be able to generate enough crops to run the business. People love homegrown vegetables. They just do not have the time or want to be bothered doing it themselves. That is your open door!
You can also engage in selling other gardening products and supplies such as compost, earthworms, herb boxes, beneficial bugs, or drip irrigation systems.
For more information, read the article How to Start an Herb Farming Business from Home
Check out the following books on gardening and farming businesses:
- Start and Run a Gardening Business, 3rd Edition: An Insider Guide to Setting Yourself Up as a Professional Gardener (Small Business Start-Ups)
- Aquaponic Gardening: A Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Vegetables and Fish Together
- Market Farming Success: The Business of Growing and Selling Local Food, 2nd Editon
- Storey’s Guide to Growing Organic Vegetables & Herbs for Market: Site & Crop Selection * Planting, Care & Harvesting * Business Basics
- Growing Your Herb Business
7. Importer and Distributor
There are a substantial number of products manufactured in other countries that can be bought inexpensively and sold in your country at a profitable level. The Government and the formation of international trade organizations have made it easier to bring in other products from other countries.
This is a business easily operated out of the home, depending on the types of stock you’re carrying. You may have to rent some storage space, but the capital required to start should essentially be limited to the products you’re buying to sell here.
If you know the type of product you want to import and the market most likely to purchase your goods, you have great potential for a successful home-based business.
For more information, read the following articles:
- Starting Your Own Home-Based International Trading Business
- Starting a Home-Based International Trading Business
- Starting a Home-Based Exporting Business
- Setting Up Suppliers and Buyers for Your International Trading Business
Check the books on starting an international trade business:
- How Small Business Trades Worldwide: Your Guide to Starting or Expanding a Small Business International Trade Company Now
- Building an Import / Export Business
- Export/Import Procedures and Documentation
- How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Import Export Business (Book & CD-ROM)
8. Interior Design or Decoration Business
Interior decorating is a business that will require you to be mobile, constantly meeting with customers. It offers flexible hours, a good variety of activities, and a very lucrative return. If you have a fascination for decorating a home, this could be your line of work. Many people do not know where to start when they are remodeling or buying a house for the first time.
If you have the knowledge of colors and patterns and what looks good together, plus the expertise of knowing where to get materials and furnishings, this can be a winning home-based business for you. To be able to decorate a room so that it conveys the mood that the homeowner wishes will be your goal. Strive for the skillful, personal touch in all you design.
For more information, read the following articles
- Starting an Interior Design Business
- How to Become an Interior Decorator
- How to Advertise Your Business: The Case of Starting an Interior Decorating Business
Check out the books below on starting an interior design or interior decorating business:
- The Interior Design Business Handbook: A Complete Guide to Profitability
- How to Start a Home-Based Interior Design Business, 5th (Home-Based Business Series)
- Interior Design Clients: The Designer’s Guide to Building and Keeping a Great Clientele
- Interior Design in Practice: Case Studies of Successful Business Models
- How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm: A Guide for Interior Designers and Architects, Second Edition
9. Photography Business
The sky is the limit here! Armed with your trusty camera and some good advertising, you can do weddings, models, family portraits, passports, student photos, local newspaper coverage; almost anything that requires a picture!
You can easily start this work, part-time, and work into full-time work based on your success and inclination. Not much equipment is necessary to get going as a camera off the store shelf can often do the trick today. Picking up a tripod and having a room sufficient for developing your pictures, and you’re in business — at home!
For more information, read the following articles
- Starting a Home-Based Photography Business
- How to Earn from Stock Photography
- Managing your Wedding Photography Business
Check out the books below on starting a photography business:
- Photography Business Secrets: The Savvy Photographer’s Guide to Sales, Marketing, and More
- Start a Successful Photography Business in 34 Days: Actionable steps to plan a portrait or wedding photography business, develop a brand, launch a website, write a marketing plan & more.
- The Photographer’s MBA: Everything You Need to Know for Your Photography Business
- Best Business Practices for Photographers, Second Edition
- How to Create a Successful Photography Business
10. Sewing and Alterations Business
Many people love to sew. If you are one of them, consider offering this service out of your home. When someone buys a new outfit, it rarely fits perfectly, meaning some kind of alteration must be done.
People look long and hard to find reliable individuals to do their alterations. If you can sew, you are well on your way to opening the doors of this type of business.
For more information, read the following articles:
- Starting a Home Sewing Business
- Starting a Sewing Business for the Figure Skating Market
- The Business of Sewing Custom Figure Skating Dresses and Costumes
- Marketing Your Sewing Business: Custom Figure Skating Dresses
Check out the following books on starting a sewing business:
- How to Start a Sewing Business
- Marketing Your Sewing Business: How to Earn a Profit
- The Business of Teaching Sewing
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