Great Ideas For Home Based Businesses



Many work from home business opportunities are scams but there are some good ideas out there that do make money. You can spend hours surfing the internet looking for that perfect work from home opportunity but the best ideas are not necessarily the most innovative.

One of the best ideas that I have seen being done successfully from home is telemarketing. Many businesses need somebody to generate new leads and make appointments for their sales people. They are willing to pay someone who has some telesales experience and can work unsupervised over 30 dollars per hour for making calls. Some businesses pay per appointment but if they know that you are good they will be happy to pay hourly rates.

All you need for this type of work is a broadband internet connection, a dedicated phone line with unlimited national calls, a headset and a quiet room in the house so that you are not disturbed.

The great thing about working in telemarketing is that you can choose the hours you would like to work. The downside is that you have to make a lot of calls even when you do not feel like talking to anybody!

Running an interior design service from home can also be lucrative if you have an eye for the latest trends and understand how to coordinate different colours together. There are many courses you can do that will bring you up to speed very quickly.

Being an interior design consultant means that much of your time will be spent at other people's houses and places of work in order to evaluate your client's requirements and get approval for your ideas.

My cousin started doing this part time and now it has turned into a full time job. She gets payment in stages with a third paid upfront, another third when she is half way through the task and the remainder once the client is happy that all their objectives have been met.

She is very good at interior design, so she never has to advertise as all her work comes from word of mouth.

Selling goods on EBay can make you money if you stick at it. One guy I know gave me the following tip on how to make money on Ebay - "buy on the streets and sell on Ebay" was his advice. He spends half his time searching for goods whether it be job lots or individual items that households no longer need.

If you love car boot sales, second hand market places and do not mind trawling through peoples possessions in their attic, this could really be great fun and make you some money at the same time!

It is very hard to become a millionaire on Ebay now that so many people are doing it, but to generate a second income stream is fairly easy. You can sell absolutely anything on Ebay but it is important that you establish a good reputation as a supplier. Make sure you have to have a refunds policy in place for disgruntled buyers and only buy items that are in great condition.

When searching for ideas to work from home with, make sure that you do not choose a business opportunity just on the basis of how much money it can make you. Rather choose something that you will enjoy doing for years to come and have a definite flair for. You will almost certainly make money if you persevere and learn all the tricks of the trade
PTC Sites

There are alot of PTC sites out there. Some of them are scams but most are not. Here are the best 10 out there.



Isabelmarco's

Neobux

Persian PTC

Clickin Me

Extra 10

Beanybux

Wordlinx

Buxout

Take The Globe

Ur Online Bux

Some of these sites require you to have AlertPay to recieve your earnings. (It's just like PayPal.) You can sign up for that here.


GET PAID TO WRITE!

Here are a list of sites that pay you for your written content:

- My Lot
- Hubpages
- Bloggingads
- Smorty
- Pay Per Post
- Blogsvertise
- Blogtive
- LoudLaunch
- Bloggerwave
- Payu2Blog
- Xomba.com
- EasyWritingBiz
GET PAID TO UPLOAD VIDEOS:

- Revver
- Metacafe
- MyLot
- Break
- LuLu
- Blip
Make Money With An Online Store!

This is a big topic and I don’t want this post getting very long. The main point that I would like to impart is that one can start a store online and reach a lot more customers than the one’s being served by your local malls. The beauty of this very legal scheme is that one can do it almost without spending a single cent.

What does it have to do with making huge amounts of money online? Well, products and services can now be traded across the globe more freely through internet based transactions and the profit potential is so huge. Theoretically, an online marketplace can land a previous nobody on the top of Forbes’ list of richest people in the world. An example would be, what if one can effectively market his mom’s special cake and sell one loaf to 1/4th of the world’s population through the internet (at a profit of $1/loaf)? And what if, those clients decide to reorder once a year? Computing the bank interests to be gained from the annual profit would surely be enough to make Bill Gates wish that he studied baking breads instead of blurring his eyesight by spending hours in front of his computer.

Furthermore, capital requirements for this kind of businesses can be as low as the cost of being online. For instance one can buy cheap (online store) software that makes it possible to immediately start selling any good or service. If you don’t want to spend anything, you may always open an account with sites like eBay.com and avail of its beautiful system. The only cost would come in the form of commissions that a seller will have to give eBay (only after a sale has been consummated). Another option would also be selling through both eBay and your own website.

How do you get paid? Open a Paypal account (it’s FREE!) and that will automatically enable you to accept VISA, Mastercard, Discover and PayPal payments. This will also enable both the buyers and sellers to process and conclude the transactions easily. For tips on how to sign in to Paypal, please click this link. A registration link is also in that post.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

To be able to optimize your resources, you may opt to sell items before buying it. How do you do that? First, get a seller to agree to sell you their products and services for a price. Add your projected costs and intended profit. Advertise the goods in your marketplace (eBay or your own site) and as soon as you get an order and payment from your customers, you may now buy the goods and ship it to the customers. Here’s one advice: To make your life easier, never include the shipping cost in the price. You may simply note in your site that the shipping costs will be on the buyer’s account meaning, they will pay the courier themselves.

The types of goods that can be effectively sold in online marketplaces include:

1. Items that are regularly needed.
2. Gadgets (it seems that everybody is wanting to buy the latest cellular phones and iPods, these days).
3. Items that are in fashion (like the latest designer shoes and shirts).
4. Items that are not commonly available (collectors stamps, card collections, commemorative posters, paintings, native handicraft, etc..).
5. Photos (you may have taken thousands of nice photos already).
6. Anything of value (check the items being sold at eBay to give you an idea
Dry Cleaning Delivery Service

A dry cleaning delivery service is a great small business that can be started with minimal investment. There are few people who do not own clothing that requires dry cleaning and with todays busy lifestyles, few people enjoy the task of going to the dry cleaner.

You will need a cargo van with suitable fixtures for hanging clothing for this small business. You do not have to handle any of the actual dry cleaning yourself because you will simply locate a quality local dry cleaner to work with.

This service can work in almost any location. You will set up a delivery schedule to pick up your clients dry cleaning which they will leave for you on the door of their home in a garment bag which you supply.

Another great way to run a dry cleaning delivery service is to work with local professional businesses and large offices and real estate offices to set up a regular route. You can schedule a pick up time at each business so the workers can simply bring their dry cleaning with them to work where you can pick it up and then drop it off.

This type of service is great for professional people and can save them lots of time. With a little planning and research, you may be able to clean up in the profitable dry cleaning delivery business.