1.
Graphic design:
If you are talented with Photoshop, use your talents to create
a business for yourself. Here are a few business ideas: design
banner ads and logos, birth announcements, business cards,
or digital scrapbooking kits.
Tips:
- Post on forums using a signature with a link to your graphic
design company.
- Barter with related websites for advertising
- Hand out business cards to pregnant mothers you see when
you are around town and offer to design a birth announcement.
- Pick up business cards you see and give them a call. Offer
to redesign their business cards or offer a free design
in exchange for future referrals.
2.
Web design: If you know how to design web sites there
is a big need for affordable web designers. A lot of people
want to start their own website but don’t know how to
do web design.
Tips:
- Develop
a few web sites for free in exchange for a link back to
your website.
- Network
with work at home moms and offer your services when appropriate.
- Design
personal pages for friends and family in exchange for referrals
or a link to your web site.
- Contact
local small business owners and offer your services.
3.
Home Day Care: If you have children or like being around
children home day care is a great way to make money from home.
Tips:
- Ask friends or family to give you referrals.
- Place an ad in the yellow pages or local newspaper.
- Place flyers around local area shopping centers.
4.
Freelance Writer: There is a growing need for authors,
especially online. If you can write, use your skills to write
from home.
Tips:
- Contact local newspapers or magazines and ask them if
you can submit completed articles for them to consider.
- Email web sites and ask them to consider purchasing your
articles. Send along an author bio and a sample of your
work.
- Submit articles to web sites that purchase content. Do
a search for “purchase articles.”
5.
Tutoring & Teaching Classes: If you are a teacher
or have a skill at music or art, you can teach classes from
home or teach private lessons.
Tips:
- Write and/or call the guidance counselor of the schools
in your area and ask them for referrals.
- Place an ad in the classified section of your local newspaper.
- Contact local homeschool support groups and offer your
services to anyone interested.
6.
Craft & Hobby business: If you are talented at
sewing, candle making, or another hobby, why not make a business
out of it.
Tips:
- Start an ebay account to sell your crafts.
- Sell your crafts in local craft shows.
- Hand out or leave business cards for your business in
appropriate places.
- During the holidays market your craft business with creative
flyers or last minute gift idea flyers.
- Get a customer list and get referrals. Keep track of birthdays
and anniversaries and offer your crafts as gifts when appropriate.
7.
Life coaching: Life coaching is a new industry. Life
coaches help people to attain personal success and happiness.
A life coach provides email and phone support to assist the
client in achieving personal success and reaching her life goals.
Tips:
- Contact
a life coach and find out how to get training.
- Submit
articles promoting your life coaching business in exchange
for a link back to your web site.
- Offer
a free complimentary session to new potential clients.
8.
Photography: If you are a photographer you can make
money taking photos or by selling your photos to stock photography
companies.
Tips:
- Take out an ad in the telephone book or local newspaper.
- Start off with a niche like pet photography. Leave flyers
with local veterinarians.
- Hand out business cards to any mom with an attractive
child or pregnant women and offer your services.
- Sell your photos to stock photography sites. Do a search
for “sell stock photography.”
9.
Video chat or content: Videos are a new trend in online
media. Many websites will pay you to host a chat online with
your skill or talent or purchase video content on a particular
topic such as cooking, knitting, home repair, etc.
Tips:
- Email websites and offer your videos for sale. Craft,
cooking, and other skills make great content for web publishers.
- Become an expert in your field. Offer online tutorials
or video classes on sewing, cooking, or any other talent.
10. Blogging: Many companies are looking for blogs
with content related to their industry. If you are willing to
write blog entries, you can use your talent to make money from
home.
Tips:
- Do a search for “blog for us” or “paid
to blog” to find sites that are hiring bloggers.
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