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Top 10 Home Businesses to Succeed in Now
Let's explore the Top 10 Home Businesses to consider now that the world has gone social and is never going back.
No, I am not going to put you to sleep recommending the tired "start a pet sitting business" or selling your thrift store finds on ebay. These tips are real time ideas with a lucrative bent for those with forward thinking. Get in before these niches get filled.Twitter Button
1. Social Media Expert.One thing is for sure, the best home businesses are no longer casting a skeptical eye at social business connections. If you can Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and Skype your way through the day you can be a valuable asset to Top 10 home businesses that don't know how to leverage social media, let alone have the hours in the day to execute time sensitive and time consuming social marketing campaigns.
2. Online Reputation Management.The internet is a big, competitive place and any business can have a targeted negative publicity attack waged against it. Competitors, disgruntled employees, or a motivated customer who was displeased can all have a business under attack in less than an hour. The demand for reputation management will only increase with time.
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3. Senior Technology Coach. This is one of my favorite top 10 home businesses as I love and respect older folks for their world contributions. I know quite a few older people, and they share a frustration and even an embarrassment at their inability to grasp how to do anything with technology. Give one of them a Smartphone and ask them to email you on it? Well, no. You can make a great difference in the quality and fun in elders lives, and they will pay you well for it. Plus you can show them how to see their grand kids in real time:-)
4. Niche Website Owner. Everyone has a passion or special skill inside them, and creating a website about that knowledge is only the beginning, if you want to make money online, that is. The other part required is having the tools available to the non techie to get lot's of monetized traffic. That is the trick.
I recommend most highly you look at Dr. Ken Evoy's SiteSell.com approach to taking you by the hand, step by doable step, to creating a profitable niche website that gets seen at the search engines, rather than dying off in Google outer space.
Wordpress or Blogger? Not for most people. I created this website using Sitebuild it, so I walk the walk I am recommending. Give them a try, they are in fact, honest, ethical, and hugely successful at helping regular people create profitable online websites, but only the ones who do the work as outlined in 10 hefty steps. www.sitesell.com
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5. Food Trucking. A growing trend if you live in a large metropolitan area is to operate a food truck. This assumes you are a great cook of course. Usually offering one type of food, say, tacos or pasta dishes, noodle creations or cupcakes. These food trucks are doing a booming business while traditional restaurants have suffered during this recession.
6. Self Improvement. We Americans spent upwards of 11 Billion dollars on self improvement services and products. Motivational speakers, instructional wealth building DVD's, Podcasting for an audience for self improvement products are all growing at a healthy rate.
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7. Repair Services. This is obvious in an unhealthy economy, but it is no less true that people are fixing things rather than buying new ones. Auto repair, shoe repair, electronics repair and generic Mr. Fix it enterprises are all good choices for top 10 home businesses if you have the skill set for it. Plus, if you don't want a lease and employees, you can go it alone at home and do just fine by yourself on sweat equity and know how.
8. Online Tutoring. This can be done on a very small or very large scale, depending on your skill set. Online tutoring paid for by parents by the hour is increasingly useful as the global fight for better educated students continues. You could offer your one on one online tutoring or set up a virtual army of independents to serve students online 24/7.
9. DIY and Sell it. You have something special you love to make. There are people all over the planet handcrafting and selling all manner of small batches of you name it. There are millions of people willing to pay for something you can do and they cannot. Special foods, handiwork such as cross stitch, crochet, homemade beer, fondant wedding cakes, you name it. If you can make a quality, feel good item the world will buy it.
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10. Professional Bakery. Special event cakes for weddings, anniversaries, graduations and the like are always in demand. The cute and tiny desserts are also all the rage in the United States these days. If you have a talent for making beautiful cakes and cupcakes, you can start a profitable home bakery for under $500.00, making it one of the cheapest ideas for top 10 home businesses around.
Check the laws in your State at the local public health department. Many states have passed new cottage food laws that are allowing food businesses to flourish without a commercial kitchen.
That's the line up of our top 10 home businesses for this week and I wish you all the best as you choose from your strengths and talent to start the very best home business for you!