A home-based business can be either product-oriented or service-oriented. Product-oriented businesses are usually two types: a) selling products made by you, family members and/or employees (like raw materials such as fabrics or tanned leather, kits like yarn/pattern and knitting needles, partially finished items like unpainted bird houses or completed articles such as jewelry and belt buckles) or b)selling products manufactured by others and either purchased by you for resale or sold on an order basis. Services may involve performing a service at the place of business (word processing, tutoring, bookkeeping or child care) or at another location (house painting, carpet cleaning or consulting). To determine or confirm your business idea(s), examine your interests, skills and abilities, education/training, and experiences.
You must enjoy doing the work involved. Just because you make super apple pies or wooden toys doesn't mean that you would want to create them six days a week. Perhaps you would rather teach others to make pies or toys! Teaching requires a totally different set of skills and interests than doing the actual work yourself.
You must enjoy doing the work involved. Just because you make super apple pies or wooden toys doesn't mean that you would want to create them six days a week. Perhaps you would rather teach others to make pies or toys! Teaching requires a totally different set of skills and interests than doing the actual work yourself.
Ideas you can try are as follows:
Antique appraisal
Antique dealing
Appliance repair
Automobile tuneup and repair
Basketry
Batik
Bed and Breakfast
Bicycle repair
Bookkeeping
Breadmaking
Cakemaking and decorating
Candlemaking
Car, boat and mobile home waxing
Catering
Ceramics
Chair caning
Chimney sweeping
Clerical assistance
Clock repairing
Closet organizing
Clothes designing
Cookiemaking
Day care service
Delivery service
Doll and toy repairing
Dollmaking and toymaking
Dollhouse and miniature making
Fruit and vegetable growing
Furniture making and refinishing
Furniture upholstering
Genealogical service
Graphic design service
Hairstyling
Hand lettering
Herb growing and drying
Home canning
Home repair
House cleaning
House painting
House sitting
Interior decorating
Inventory service
Jewelry making
Lawnmower blade sharpening
Leathercraft
Library research service
Mail order business
Messenger service
Metalworking
Mimeograph printing
Modeling
Music teaching
Needlepoint and embroidery
Party planning
Pet sitting
Photography
Picture framing
Picture painting
Plant decorating
Printing and silk screening
Pool cleaning and maintenance
Quilt and applique
Rug making
Scale-model making
Scrimshaw
Sewing
Shopping service
Stained glass
Tax service
Teaching*
Telephone answering service
Tour planning
Tutoring
Tourist home
Typing
Wallpaper hanging
Weaving
Window washing
Writing
Woodworking and wood carving
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