Working at home provides a tremendous amount of freedom for moms and dads who want to stay home to raise their own kids while still earning a full-time income to support their families. In order to make money from home, you need to find a home business opportunity that meets your family’s financial needs by providing the ability to earn a residual income for years to come.
Here are three potential home based businesses that anyone can start, run and earn a good income from with little or no experience or investment.
1. Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is the equivalent of being an online salesperson by promoting someone else’s products or services in order to earn a commission. Depending on the type affiliate program offered, commissions are earned based on either sales or leads–sometimes both. Most affiliate programs pay for sales, but leads programs are available.
Affiliate programs are typically free to join, require no special knowledge and can even be promoted through ezine advertising or classified ads so you don’t even have to have a website (though one is recommended). Search online for “free affiliate program” to find hundreds of possibilities.
2. Epublishing
If you have even average writing skills, you can earn a good income working at home by writing your own ebooks, reports and ecourses and selling them to others. The easiest way to epublish and the one that offers the most profit potential is to write about what you know.
• If you know how to rebuild an engine, you can write a series of ebooks on rebuilding the engine in various vehicles.
• If you know how to bake the best bread in the county, you can write an ebook filled with tips and tricks for baking bread.
• If you’ve raised 10 kids and no what works in parenting and what doesn’t, you can write an ebook on how to be an effective parent.
Whatever you write about, choose topics that you enjoy, and create informative products that readers will be glad they bought and will tell their friends about.
3. Private Label Rights (PLR) Products
If you like the idea of epublishing, but don’t feel you’re a competent writer, you have a couple of other options. One is to hire a ghostwriter to write ebooks and reports for you. This is a good option, but does require some monetary outlay. The other option is to find Private Label Rights (PLR) products that you can customize and sell as your own.
PLR is material that has been written, and sold or given away, with permission that allows the buyer to resell it as his own. While you can pay for PLR, and may decide you want to later on, you can find a lot of good PLR free for the download.
The profitable way to use PLR is to edit and customize it to make it your own. Before you do this, be sure the PLR you use comes with Master Resell Rights (MRR) and gives you permission to change it.
Never make the mistake of using PLR as is. A quick search for your PLR title online will reveal others who do that very thing. This is not a profitable way to use PLR. Why would someone pay for what they can download free?
However, customizing PLR, maybe by combining one or more articles into an ebook, changing the title, or adding more information will create a unique product that you can use to build a profitable business working at home.
Craigslist can be a tremendous source of income for home business owners. It gets hundreds of thousands of visitors every day and it’s free to use. Begin right away making money from home selling on Craigslist following these tips.
Visit Craigslist and create a free account. You’ll need to enter a valid email address and create a password. You can post an advertisement without an account, but it’s best to sign in to your account before posting. That way it’s easy to make changes or delete an ad if you need to.
Consider using a “throwaway” email address for your Craigslist posts. As on other sites, scammers and spammers harvest email addresses from Craigslist and you will get unwanted messages. Better to have them sent to an address on Gmail or Yahoo than into your main ISP’s account.
Pick a Craigslist site near where you live. And create only one account. Some people create multiple accounts, hoping to make more money, but you can lose all account privileges if you’re caught. It’s better to abide by the terms of service and have only one account.
Pick the nearest city to post in. Most often Craigslist buyers would rather pick up an item locally than pay for shipping. So the closer you are to the Craigslist area you post in, the better.
Once you’ve confirmed your email account, you can sign in and begin posting ads!
You can sell almost anything on Craigslist. Consider furniture, appliances, home decor, books, toys, clothing, musical instruments, cars and trucks, and more. You can even sell business items and services as long as you post them in the appropriate sections.
Pay attention to where you post your ads, and only post them once. Duplicate posting or mis-categorizing an ad (posting it in the wrong section) will get your ad removed.
Include a clear photo so potential buyers can see exactly what you’re selling. Set a reasonable price and include your location. To allow for price negotiation, add “OBO” (meaning “or best offer”) to your ad so buyers know you may go down on the price.
Avoid hype when you post. There’s no need for a dozen asterisks (*) or exclamation points (!) in the title. List your item by name and give a good indication of its condition within the ad. If there’s something wrong with the item, such as a car that needs a new battery, say so.
Include as many details as possible. Describe the color, if applicable. Even if you have a photo, it can be hard to tell what something really looks like without physically viewing the item. Try to answer in advance any questions a buyer might have.
People may buy something that needs some TLC, but they won’t buy from you more than once if they see you’re trying to scam them. Be honest in your dealings and you’ll go a lot farther making money selling on Craigslist–or anywhere else.
When an item sells, remove the ad. There’s no need to leave it online if the item’s no longer available. It also helps eliminate messages about items that are already gone.
With a little effort and time, you can build a very profitable business and make money from home selling items on Craigslist. The only thing to limit how much you make is how many ads you can post.
posted by Chris Simpson
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Sunday, September 20th 2009
Free home based business ideas are appealing, but common sense tells that sometimes we may have to invest a little money in order to make money. While some of these ideas may cost a small initial investment, the cost is minimal and you may already have what you need on hand.
1. Advertising Copywriter
The only thing needed to implement this home based business idea is a knowledge of marketing concepts and the ability to write reasonably well. Market your services to webmasters, ezine publishers and others who need powerful, well-written copy to sell their products and services.
2. Bookkeeping Service
If you’re adept at managing financial records and accounts, this may be the perfect home based business idea for you. While QuickBooks or similar accounting software is desirable, it’s not mandatory. What is needed is the ability to set up a spreadsheet, input data and track income and expenses for individuals and small business owners.
3. Collection Agency
Have a telephone? Then you can implement this home based business idea today. Simply gather the data needed from prospective clients, make some phone calls and do your best to entice delinquent customers to pay up. All that’s needed is a pleasant phone manner since you’ll catch many more flies with honey than vinegar, and a phone.
4. Photography Career
This home based business idea requires only a digital camera and Internet access. While a website of your own is ideal, there are many Websites that buy digital photography and will pay a small fee for each use of your uploaded photos. All you need to get started is a photography business plan.
5. Editor / Proofreader
You can put this home based business idea to work earning you money almost immediately. All you need is an eye for detail and a working knowledge of grammar and language.
6. Ezine Publishing
While this home based business idea may not pay off as quickly as some of the others, there is still tremendous profit potential in ezine publishing. Once you build your mailing list, you can sell products and services of your own as well as affiliate programs and advertising from others who hope to reach your target audience. And the set-up and operation costs are almost nil.
7. Freelance Writer
Like editing and proofreading, and advertising copywriting, freelance writing is an excellent home based business idea, if you can string a few words together, and make sense of them. Not only are there hundreds of markets online, but you can write for print publications or private clients, too. The profit potential for this one is unlimited!
8. Greeting Card Sending Service
Busy moms, and overworked business owners make this home based business idea profitable for anyone who can sign a name, write an address and stick on a stamp. Buy greeting cards wholesale or print them from your computer and turn your spare time into a simple money-making venture.
While each of these home based business ideas do require an investment of time, you can see there are several possibilities for creating a profitable business working at home using skills or equipment you already own. So, what’s stopping you? Get started building your successful home based business today!
posted by Chris Simpson
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Friday, September 18th 2009
You’ve made the decision to become self-employed and work from home, but the online jobs aren’t as easy to secure as you had initially expected, and your dreams of being a work at home mom are beginning to fade away. Don’t let this stalemate prevent you from following your dreams of running an online business. There are still solutions that could help.
Affiliate programs (sometimes called associate programs) are great for moms who need to start earning money but who don’t have much time to dedicate to their businesses, especially during those early days when you’re still working around small children with big demands.
All you need to join an affiliate program is a business blog that can be set up through Blogger or Wordpress, or a business website that can link to these programs.
An affiliate program is a system that many companies use that allows them to advertise their products or services on your blog or website and pay you on a commission or per-click basis (which means that when someone clicks on their link on your site, you earn a commission).
When picking an affiliate program to promote, it’s important to do all your research and keep safe; only affiliate with companies that you trust, or that have been recommended to you by other stay at home moms. Always remember that there are a lot of nasty people out there, especially on the Internet.
It’s strongly advisable that you affiliate with businesses that are related to your own business products and services in some way. This is because your customers and clients are far more likely to click a link that is related to what brought them to your website or blog. For example, it’s highly unusual for a customer to click on a link to buy children’s clothing if the service you’re providing has no relationship to children.
Be flexible and don’t be afraid to join several affiliate programs. Basically, the more links to affiliate programs you have on your business website, the more clicks that could potentially be earning you money.
The best area of your website for adding affiliate links is the home page. This is the page that the vast majority of your website traffic will initially reach. But this isn’t the only place that affiliate links could be used for optimum power.
Update your business blog and website regularly, adding new affiliate programs, rotating banners and buttons for the ones you have, and removing any that aren’t producing. But don’t fill your site with links and ads only! The more quality content you have–such as fresh and original articles, related resources, and helpful information–the more opportunities there are for making a real income linking to relevant affiliate programs.
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