Some home Business Opportunities for You!

Homebiz is one of the cheapest and most effective means of starting a new business and in fact, home-based businesses account for two thirds of all small businesses in Australia, and more than that in America.

And home-based businesses are very successful operations that often become the springboard for bigger and better things. Most big companies started out as home-based businesses.

There are many advantages to operating a home-based business. The types of businesses that can be run from a home are virtually limitless, and are only restricted by your imagination and certain local council health and safety regulations.

However, to start a successful home-based business, like any business, you need to ensure you plan for all eventualities and have up-to-date, accurate information on what it takes to start and operate a home-based business.

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You will need to do some research, and you will need to think carefully about the following matters.

* What are the popular home-based businesses? * Do you have the right personality to work from home? * How to manage your time, stress and family concerns * How state and local government regulations will affect you * Location factors to consider when setting up your home-based business * How to put a price on your products and services * If you can hire staff if you are working from home * How to generate business * Direct marketing techniques that work * How to promote your business on the Internet * Which business licences and permits will you need for a home-based business? * Tax implications for a home-based business * How to work out how much start-up money you will need * Where to find information on grants available to small businesses.

You will need to prepare pricing strategies, accurate cash flow projections, sales forecasts, profit & loss statements and balance sheets, and a business plan. A home-based business is one of the cheapest and most effective means of starting a new business and in fact, home-based businesses account for two thirds of all small businesses in Australia, and more than that in America. There are many opportunities to get started, at a low cost, and we will mention some below.

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First of all, I’ll digress again, and relate a business success story about somebody I know well. Fred (not his real name) was a smart kid, who wasn’t doing well at school.

He loved push bikes, he lived for them, and had no interest in lessons. He would cycle out to the local garbage disposal shop, and come back with old push bike frames and parts tied all over his bike and body. He had an old shed down the back of his parent’s garden, and used to rebuild bikes and sell them for pocket money. He would fix all his mates’ bikes, sometimes charging them a bit, but mostly not. He just loved fixing bikes!

One day he came home from school and sat down for a long talk with his parents. He just didn’t want to go back! After a few days of sometimes very heated discussion, his parents realised he was serious. He said he wasn’t going to go on the dole, and he agreed to do some study at home in the evenings. He got a part-time job, and he kept on salvaging bike parts, and fixing and selling bikes at his shed at a home.

After six months, Fred and his father, who had by now accepted that more school was not an option for Fred, went for a drive and found an old shop for cheap rent. He lent Fred $1000 to get started, and Fred went into business for himself, fixing push bikes.

He used some of the money he had borrowed from his Dad to pay rent and do some local advertising. Because he was known and well thought of locally, his business thrived.

He started a program where kids could come in and work on their own bikes, and he would supply the tools and advice, for a small fee.

Fred is 26 now, is happily married with a couple of kids, and owns the biggest push bike sales and repair shop in the district. The moral of this story is, go with the flow. If you know what’s right for you, take the right opportunity when it comes along, and go for it.

Listed below is a dozen or so viable new home business ideas for consideration.

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SO, LET’S LOOK AT SOME HOME BUSINESS IDEAS.

*Classified Adv. Paper* What about a low cost classified paper, offering the community inexpensive advertising for second hand goods? They can be distributed free, just ask if you can leave them on the counter at all your local shops. Customers would pay for their advertisements, say $10, for one edition, $20 or $25 for three editions. You can print weekly, fortnightly, or monthly.

These papers save people the inconvenience of running a garage sale or setting up a stall at a local flea market. There is more than enough room for expansion and high profits in this business. The ideal market is highly populated, and not too spread out. If you live in area where there is a University or lots of Government offices, people move away fairly often, and need to sell stuff. Apartment and flat dwellers usually move on regularly too.

You could even be specific. In an area on the coast where there are lots of boats, you could have a Community Boat Trader, or similar. Of course you would have general items as well

You need a computer, a laser printer because they are much cheaper to run, or a photocopier. When your advertising paper gets too big, get it printed by a commercial print shop. These local community based papers can be highly successful and very profitable.

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An 8-page newspaper published every other week, with as few as 1600 listings, could generate $9,000 to $20,000 each month in display ads. It could carry at least $1,000 each month in prepaid classifieds. Think about this one, it can be a very good business. This is not a difficult business to start and profit potential is high.

*Photography* If you are a good photographer, think about starting up a photography business. There are family portraits, passports, events, and weddings to provide customers. This is an opportunity for a keen hobbyist, who has the equipment and the skills to take good photos.

You can set up a photo kiosk at a shopping centre. Attend movie premiers and launches to get photos of famous people to sell. Please don’t become nuisance photographer though! You can specialise, on wildlife or landscapes. To get into these fields and do well, of course, you need to be good. That takes lots of study, and lots of practice!

Then there is business, which always need good photos for their business newsletters. Your biggest investment in setting up this business will be in equipment.

*Mail order* In this business you sell mail order items, usually over the internet, but not always. If you don’t have a computer, you can advertise in your local or national newspapers. Before the Internet, postal mail order was a thriving business, and non-internet mail order still can be.

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*Promote Concerts* You really need to have an understanding about show business, but it’s not essential. You set up concerts based around country and western, jazz, family music, gospel music, rock’n roll, or whatever. Tickets are sold at local shops, which is free advertising for them. You arrange the musicians, advertise locally, and receive a proportion of the gate tickets. Can be very lucrative.

*Advertising Broker* You set up advertising campaigns, and sign up local businesses. You need to know about advertising and marketing.

*Phone Service* You can set up and operate a 24 hour phone service, for weather, community info, job hotline, or any other specialised service. You can offer a monthly subscription, or pay by the minute.

*Home Appliance Repair* If you are a good repair handyman, you can start a home appliance repair business. You would repair vacuum cleaners, sewing machines, and other household goods.

*Cleaning* There are windows, carpets, apartments, offices, houses and flats, cars, hotels, carpets and shops. Take your pick!

*Second Hand Sales* Buy at auctions, liquidation sales, estate sales etc, and sell at markets, through the newspapers, or set up a secondhand store in an inexpensive rented building.

*Organise Seminars* Organise seminars for businesses, rent a hall, sell tickets. Many seminar subjects to choose form.

*Candlemaking* Candles are always popular, and you can build up a good steady business provided your product is of good quality.

*Manufacturing* Set up a small manufacturing plant in your garage. If it’s too noisy though, the neighbors will complain. You can make, soaps, herbal ointments, candles, wooden toys and small wooden furniture, jewelry, store mail order goods, upholstery, appliance repair, printing, sewing, make musical instruments, bongo drums etc, household cleaning products, garden tools and furniture, picture frames, bio-diesel, fix cars motorbikes and pushbikes, photo development lab, herb-stuffed cloth dolls, make windchimes, bookbinding, secondhand books, cordial factory, or grow worms!

I’m sure there are lot’s more profitable uses for a garage too!

Finally, whatever business you are thinking about, please take the time to upgrade your marketing and business skills. In todays business climate, you need every little bit of assistance you can get to be successful.

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