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HOMEBASED BUSINESSES YOU CAN START NOW

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1.  Make and sell how-to videos.

2.  Use bookkeeping software to keep books for small businesses.

3.  Teach beginning golf skills to children and adults.

4.  Run a golf club cleaning service.

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 that businesses have.

8.  Get up early on yard sale and estate sale days to buy all types of tools at a low price and 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.  Get up early on yard sale and estate sale days to buy all types of golf clubs and equipment at a low price,  restore them,  and sell them at a profit at flea markets or on eBay.

11.  Run a fix-it business for household appliances,  bicycles,  and other things that break.

12.  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.

13.  Set up backyard ponds and water gardens.

14.  Get up early on yard sale and estate sale days to find hidden treasures at a low price to sell 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 hobby projects on eBay and at flea markets.

21.  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 motocycling servicing and repair at people's homes.

27.  Run a catering service.

28.  Run a lawn service.

29.  Run an interior decorating 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.  Become 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 one of those small portable power cleaners that can be hooked up to a hose.

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 do not have this service.

41.  Be a personal organizer for people and businesses 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.  Make,  decorate,  and sell concrete stepping stones.

45.  Help people make scrapbooks.

THINK ABOUT YOUR SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE.  ADD TO THE LIST.

ALMOST ANYTHING THAT YOU DO IN A JOB CAN BE DONE ON A SMALLER SCALE AS A HOMEBASED BUSINESS.

FOLLOW THE TREND.
For a PART TIME business,  choose one or two.
For a FULL TIME business,  choose three or four.
For a FULL TIME business,  become a temp service for a variety of the jobs on the list.  You recruit,  find them the jobs,  then you take 10% to 20% of what they earn as a fee for finding them the jobs.