Home Business Ideas

Create Personalized Books

December Challenge Day 1 is an idea to setup a business to create personalized books, which (as the name suggests) are books customized for an individual to provide a gift that will last forever(!)

The key to making this sort of business work is to
i) Develop standard “templates” or themes which can be used again and again
and
ii) outsource the creation of your stories (they don’t have to be Nobel prize winning efforts after all)
This will leave you with the time to market your business ….

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Work From Home Scams and How To Avoid Them

As a regular user of the internet you will no doubt have seen as part of your regular activity (whether you are looking for them or not) loads of advertisements and notices for work from home opportunities.

Some are legitimate, but a large proportion are scams, designed for you to part with your money, and it is often difficult to spot the work from home scams from the truly legitimate opportunities.

I hope this article will go some way towards helping you avoid any work from home scams

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12 Things You Need When Working From Home

Here is my list of twelve things you really (really) need when working from home….

These are what I would consider my “essentials”, things that I (at least) need to have in place whether you are working from home for somebody else or running your own business…..

Of course your list may be different (possibly driven by whatever it is you do), and maybe a set of headphones is your number 1 working from home accessory (if you were in customer service), or maybe some sort of specialist software if you are into that sort of thing…

Anyway, here is my Top 12 .. I bet yours is different!
The things you need when working from home

Tips For Writing a Business Plan

I thought I would put together some tips for writing a business plan gathered from around the web.

If you are starting a home business of any size or shape it is useful to think about writing a business plan.

Writing a business plan is essential if you need any investment or if you need to borrow money say from the bank, but it can also be useful if you are self-funding or starting a business with minimum cost because it helps define your business goals and where you want your business to go.

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Start a Home Business Installing Solar Lighting

Here’s a home business idea which taps into the need to be both ecologically and economicallv aware – why not start a home business installing solar lighting?

It is true that more and more people are turning to more economical sources of energy and more ecologically aware methods of performing everyday tasks, the idea of lighting a garden, walkway, or landscape using solar lamps becomes a logical choice for many people.

This is where you come in! You will start a home business that specializes in the installation of solar garden lighting.

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