Home Business Ideas

Another Work at Home Idea – Dog Training

Dog Training as a Work at Home Business

Got a love of dogs? Well over one million people search the net for the term “dog training” every month in the US alone! Add up all the other similar searches like “dog trainer” and “training a dog” and so on and we see over two million such searches every month! That is a large number of people looking for a solution to their needs and an opportunity for dog loving work at home entrepreneurs!

Many dog owners and particularly new owners do not know where to start when it comes to dog training so this spells opportunity for those who do. Read more…

Work at Home Business Ideas – Share Them!

I’m still on the look out for more home business ideas large and small to list at Work at Home Business Ideas a now two page collection of smal business ideas for ‘at-home’ workers. I see this as even more important now that so many workplaces are laying off employees, who in this poor economy are going to need opportunities for alternative incomes.

As always I’m looking for genuinely at home (note not home based), such as are suitable for folks like work at home mothers who do not get much opportunity to get out. If the majority of the work is not done at home, I’m not interested! Leave a comment here or send an email or a note by carrier pigeon. Read more…

Hobby Business Ideas

Is there scope to turn your hobby into a business or at least a little extra income? For many the answer is yes though it may not be in such a direct hands on way. If you love your hobby and are good at it, chances are you can either make something others want (a product selling opportunity) or you can teach others how to do it (a service selling opportunity).

The distinction is simple with say arts and crafts, you can sell your paintings at local galleries or from arts cafes or you can teach others how to do what you do, for a fee of course. What though if your hobby is something more unusual so there is little local market for it, or indeed what if you live a great distance from a population of customers but still want to earn money at home? The answer in those circumstances might be to write about it or start a website on the subject. Read more…

How to Make Money from Websites

When we pose the question how to make money from websites, we tend to think of websites as a marketing channel where we market our wares, show off our successes, sell affiliate products or just write about our interests and monetize with ad placements.

We can certainly make money from websites in those ways but we keep forgetting there is another way! When we have learned how to establish websites and maybe even learned how to optimize them for some search engine traffic, we have learned a skill that is very much in demand by local business owners.

Thee must be millions of small businesses that would love to have a website showcasing their service and even more who want to be at the top of google results pages for the relevant keywords in their area. Why not sell your skills to them? Getting good search engine listings Read more…

MLM as a Work at Home Idea

Mention multi level marketing and you’re likely to get a bunch of mixed responses. MLM has had its success stories and its failures and certainly has a mixed reputation as a genuine home business opportunity.

MLM (also known as network marketing) is essentially the process of marketing a product or service to others and getting those customers to become marketers themselves. There are several varieties but the common thread is the continuation of bringing customers into the system as marketers to form a downline from top to bottom. The person introducing the new folk into the system gets a commission on their sales and on the sales of anyone they also introduce into the system.  Sometimes this can go on for several levels.

The difficulty comes when these systems go too close to the illegal pyramid schemes. Read more…