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Profitable home business

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Filed under: What is ?, World News
Date: Apr 14,2008

1.Business Lecturer or Resource Speaker. If you have established an expertise in a business area, you can earn money by providing seminars and lectures to other business people. These seminars can run from a day to as long as a week, and focus on providing techniques and methods that will help attendees increase their profits in their business. Topics often include advertising, e-commerce development, computer applications, time management, email marketing, etc.
2. Computer consulting. A computer consultant’s job is to help companies and organizations realize the profit potential in computers, by helping solve information-management problems. Computer consulting usually serves two functions: to select the appropriate computer system, including which peripherals, systems, networks, servers and software to buy (normally a one-time project); or to integrate the computer into day-to-day management (could be a recurring assignment). Some of the key types of work a consultant does are as follows: business requirement analysis, preliminary system design, hardware acquisition and installation, documentation, system maintenance, periodic evaluation and audits, among others.
3. Business broker. A business broker is one who matches buyers and sellers of small and medium-size businesses, ranging from used car dealerships to bakeries and beauty parlors. As a business broker, your objective is to save buyers and business owners money by helping them to avoid costly mistakes, market the appeal of the seller’s business, and maximize exposure to serious, qualified buyers–all with complete confidentiality. According to the Department of Commerce, one out of four U.S. businesses changes hands in every five years. Business transfers in 1999 generated $300 billion in revenues, including those not sold through business brokers. It is estimated that 25 to 50 percent of company sales are handled by brokers.
4. Recycling consultant. Recycling consulting involves helping public and private agencies, communities and non-governmental organizations set-up and implement or improve their recycling programs. Talking trash is big business: revenues for the remanufacturing industry are estimated to be at $53 billion. This industry will continue to experience expansion, given the rising concern for recycling and the shrinking available land fills. Recycling is still the most viable method to solve the problem of what to do with waste materials.
5. Personal organizer. If you are good at arranging and organizing things, this can be a business for you. As a personal organizer, your job is to organize the junk and clutter in your clients’ homes - from the kitchen, closet, garage, file cabinets to the attic and teaching them how to keep their things tidy. Some even specialize in organizing messy and cluttered closets, and then grow to provide closet installations and sell closet accessories from hangers to shoe boxes. Others assist with many areas of organization including business, paper management, clutter control, chronic disorganization, behavior modification, space planning, filing, photographs, packing/moving, records management, home offices, corporate offices, etc
6. Personal assistant. A personal assistant’s job involves performing routine errands for clients, such as picking up dry cleaning, buying the dinosaur cake for the little tyke, and so on. With the rise of two-income families, working people nowadays seldom have the time to do life’s little chores. If you do not mind performing these little tasks and enjoy doing something different each day, this is a business with excellent growth potential.
7. House trash and debris hauling service. There is money in trash if you do not mind putting in physical labor and dealing with dirt. For this business, you can have two major markets: folks who need help cleaning and hauling trash out of their homes, and those who are moving out of their homes or apartments. Many people would rather not spend their weekends cleaning their garages, attics or garden shed and disposing all those trash.
8. Personal coach. Personal coaching has come into vogue in the last five years, and it continues to be enormously popular. The job of a personal coach involves offering one-on-one assistance, advice, encouragement, and other forms of support to individuals. Your work is to help your clients gain confidence and competence in personal areas such as social skills, time and productivity management, even public speaking. You basically provide a self-help course: you help clients achieve things that they otherwise might not be able to do without your guidance, motivation and planning.
9. Pet sitter. Believe it or not, pet sitting is big business. In the United States alone, pet sitting grew by 753 percent from 1993 to 1998, and is now estimated to be a $20 to $35 million industry. A 1998 survey showed that 7.5 million U.S. homes used pet sitters. People love their pets; and as a pet sitter, your job is to spend days and evenings caring for pets in the owners’ homes while they are away.
10. Antique and rare auto finding business. If you love cars, this is a perfect business for you. Your job will be to locate antique or rare automobiles for museums, collectors and restorers. You will be paid a fee by either by the buyer or seller (sometimes both), usually about 5 to 10 percent of the price paid for the car. Your fee can run from $250 for a routine find, but it can go up to as high as $5,000 for a rare gem of a car. Start-up costs for this business can be minimal, and involves finding a list of buyers and sellers. You can run classified ads in upscale automotive magazines offering your service.