10 Home Based Business Niches You Can Use Now

10 Home Based Business Niches You Can Use Now

by: Trent Brownrigg

One of the most common challenges to starting an online home based business is finding a profitable niche to target. In this article I have done a significant portion of the hard work for you so you can get your home based business started immediately.

Here are ten niche ideas to help you start your home based business today…

1) Being Successful I can’t think of anyone who doesn’t want to be successful. Your home based business could target niches about making and reaching goals, motivational techniques, getting into the right mind set, etc…

2) Being a Leader Many people want to be the leaders, or already are in leadership positions, and need guidance. You could target niches about leadership qualities, communicating with their followers, educating people, etc…

3) Finding a Job Many people need to understand their role in employment, such as how to get a position or how to be successfully interviewed. Your home based business could target product niches about writing resumes, job listing services, job training, interview techniques etc…

4) Being Beautiful Most people want to be attractive to others. You could target product niches about beauty products, plastic surgery, hair products, hairstyles, dressing for success, etc…

5) Being in Good Health Most people want to be in good health. In fact, this is one of the biggest niches out there right now. You could make killing targeting niches about nutrition supplements, disease prevention, vitamins, healthy diet plans, exercising etc…

6) Accomplishing a Goal Just about everyone has a goal they want to achieve in their life and/or career. Your home based business could target product niches like goal setting information, motivational products, hypnosis, seminars, etc…

7) Gaining a Talent/Skill Many people want to learn a new talent or skill. You could help them do this by targeting niches like educational classes, home training, personal training, howto publications, howto videos, etc… just find something that a lot of people are looking to learn and you could run to the bank with it.

8) Fulfilling a Craving Most people want to fulfill a craving, especially when dieting. They would prefer things tasting fat or luxurious while not actually being fattening. You could target product niches like low fat foods, low carb foods, sugar free foods, etc… It seems like everyone is on some sort of กdietก these days so your home based business could explode with this one.

9) Being Organized Many people want or need to be more organized. You could target niche product like schedulers, organizational tips and information, closet organizers, calendars, etc…

10) Fulfilling A Dream/Fantasy Everyone has some sort of dream or fantasy that they would just love to fulfill. Your home based business could target niches such as finding exotic vacations, reviewing high ticket items, achieving dreams strategies, inspiration, etc…

There you have it… ten niches you can use to start your home based business with right now. Break them up, mix and match them, use them to generate more niche ideas, or do anything else you can with them. Just get going on making your home based business dreams come to life.

Copyright © Trent Brownrigg

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About The Author

Trent Brownrigg prides himself on helping others reach their home business dreams. Visit his website at http://www.homebusinessteam.com and he will personally help you succeed with your own home business. Please subscribe to his ขBiz Tipsข Newsletter by sending a blank email to: [email protected]

This article was posted on August 03

by Trent Brownrigg

Starting and Running a Home Based Business

Starting and Running a Home Based Business

by: Darrell Knox

The allure of a home based business is very strong these days with uncertain economic times and the pressures of working long hours for less pay. More and more people are exploring the home based business world to see if it is right for them.
More women are seeking home based businesses as the corporate life and pay just don’t seem to justify the time away from home and children anymore. Men tired of working for others and also loosing their entire lives with their families to a job that requires more than 40 hours a week just to survive, are learning more and more about the internet and working at home.
There are many ways today to start a home based business. The internet offers the easiest, least expensive way to start a home based business ever. Never before have people been able to start up an entire, legitimate business just by signing up for a hosting account and selling information or other products from their web site.
Even the least internet savvy person can start an online home based business even if all they know how to do is retrieve and send email. In fact, one you know how easy it is, you will be amazed that you hadn’t started sooner.
Any home based business is hard work. But ask yourself this question: Will your current job pay you more for working harder? In most cases the answer will be no. Your current employer will not only happily pay you the same amount whether you work hard or not, they will profit from the work you do because they own the business you work for.
The key to true wealth is to own the business, not work for it. A home based business owner is the top dog in their small company. That means any windfalls a new product or service you create or resell belong to you! That also means all the overhead and other expenses belong to you too. With the power of a home based business comes the responsibility too.
This is why you should thoroughly research a home based business opportunity to make sure you have all the bases covered and you are approaching working for yourself in a responsible manner.
Below are a couple of home based businesses that are very profitable and hot right now:
Virtual Assistant: A person that hires their time out to busy executives to complete various tasks like appointment setting and other things busy power brokers don’t have time to do. Executives like doing this because they can hire a virtual assistant for shortterm projects and not have to pay for insurance or any overhead since the VA is a private contractor.
Information Sales: This is what I do and I love it. I am an affiliate for several topselling products that people want and buy everyday. My job is to promote my website and recommend products to my visitors. With a little training and guidance from people I have met online, this kind of home base business is a snap and can be very profitable.

About The Author

Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience.Free Home Business Tips Newsletter at: http://www.cashgroup.biz/biztipspop.html Website: http://cgi.tripod.com/lazaraus26/cgibin/index.pl

This article was posted on April 30, 2004

by Darrell Knox

5 Questions to Discover The Perfect Home Based Bus

5 Questions to Discover The Perfect Home Based Business for YOU

by: Gobala Krishnan

Are you interested in starting your own home based business, but not sure where to begin? Why not start with yourself?

Here are a few steps you can take to determine what you really want to do. But first, have a pen and paper ready in front of you…

Done? Ok, here we go…

1) What Are Your Hobbies?

Write down all the things you love doing in your own free time. Don’t hold anything back, because Iกm not here to examine your answer. There is no right or wrong here, only the truth, only what you feel straight from your heart.

Why do this? The answer is because hobbies are a great source of motivation and energy for anyone. If you’re willing to do something without being paid, youกd definately do it for money. The only difference is, money will only come second, as compared to the immediate satisfaction you get from doing what you love. Write everything on that pice of paper.

2) What Specialized Knowledge Do You Have?

In your current or past jobs, you would have accumulated a great deal of knowledge on a certain subject. Thanks to your boss, you may have become an expert at something. And this expertise, believe it or not, can help others around the world. Don’t let this go to waste.

So write down any specialized knowledge you have. Write down any specialized skills you may have developed too, and it could be in sales, event organization, public relations, accounting, counselling, etc.

3) What Corner of The Book Store Do You Go to First?

When I heard someone ask me that, I was like กWhat? What has that got to do with anything?ก.

It has got to do with everything. Which corner of the bookstore you visit FIRST usually indicates which topics you love reading about. In a conversation with one of my team members a week ago, I asked him the same question, and his reply was กWell, Gobala, I never thought about it, but I actually go to the selfhelp section first, because I like reading about how I can improve myself to be a better human being.ก

Ditto. Your subconcious actions may hold the answer to your problem. Now we’re getting somewhere, so write YOUR favourite section down on that piece of paper.

4) What Did You Love Doing 5 Years Ago?

My life now is VERY different from what it was 5 years ago. How about yours? What did you love doing 5 years ago, but simply cannot find the time for it right now? Did you plan to start something new 5 years ago, but for some reason it never happened?

Our lives change all the time, but if there was something in your past that you’re still passionate about, write it down now.

5) What Are You Naturally Good At?

To answer this question, you MUST ask your friends, not yourself. Whatever you already know about yourself is not going to help. Only things you never knew you were good at are going to open doors to your own home based business. So go ahead, call 10 of your best friends, and ask them กWhat do think Iกm good at?ก

Make a mental note, or write all their opinions down on your piece of paper. The key to getting this right is to NEVER question or argue about their opinion of you. Take the good with the bad, take it all. By the time you’re done with number 10, I guarantee youกll start discovering things about you that you never knew you were good at.

I found out that Iกm good at teaching. I also found out that I can explain things in a simple way, and that I have patience when dealing with others. Trust me, I never knew that before I asked. Itกs amazing what others know about you that you don’t know yourself.

The Road Becomes Clearer

When you’re done with your list of all the things you love, all the things youกve become an expert at, and all the things you found out you’re naturally good at, have a good look at it. Does your dream home business seem a little more clear now? Do you see the begiining of an exciting journey, instead of an intimidating one?

You now have many ideas on what type of home based business you can do, and all you have to do is choose. Choose the one that you’re most excited about RIGHT NOW and are eager to start RIGHT NOW.

If you rushed through this article without the pen and paper, without taking notes and asking yourself these questions, then let me tell you the truth:

It takes YEARS to build a steady five or six figure income from your own home based business. You can’t do it in months, no matter what anyone else out there may say. The only way you’re going to get through the initial กmakeorbreakก years is if you’re doing something close to your heart. Something that will seem like fun, not hard work.

Seek the truth, for the truth shall set you free, and show you where you want to go. If you don’t know where you want to go, itกs no secret that youกll never get there.

Copyright 2005 Gobala Krishnan

About The Author

Gobala Krishnan is a member and writer for the International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs, the online university for home based business, at http://www.homebusinessassociation.com/IAHBE and owner of the Six Figure Income Dream Team website at http://www.sfidreamteam.com.

This article was posted on February 08

by Gobala Krishnan

Quick, Easy Money…And Horse Feathers

Quick, Easy Money…And Horse Feathers

by: Kirk Bannerman

Enter the horse feathers.

Does it ever end? Iกve been involved with Internetbased home businesses for some time and I continue to be exposed to a seemingly endless barrage of offers (all costing me money, of course) claiming to be ‘the secretก for making a fantastic income, in a very short time, and with very little effort involved.

I must admit that I may have a slightly selfserving reason for addressing this topic. My articles are published on my homebased business websites for the purpose of trying to give prospective team members a true sense of what is really involved with starting and developing a successful home based business. The selfserving part, I suppose, is that I want people joining my team to have the straight scoop going in so that we don’t waste each otherกs time. I admit to being selfish in this regard (I don’t want to waste time working with people that have unrealistic expectations), but it is also very efficient for both parties involved, so it is not a totally oneway thing.

Now, back to the topic at hand. Thereกs no magic here, folks. Once you have selected the home business that you are going to pursue, there are no substitutes for time and effort in developing your business. A dream of being an กovernight successก is just that, a dream.

I can tell you from personal experience, that once you กpay your duesก and begin to have real success with a home based business, it is really terrific. Think about Nirvana or Valhalla, take your pick, but in any event itกs really sweet.

When I started developing a home based business, making a good income was obviously an objective, but I also had other subobjectives. One of the most important things was to have nearly total time flexibility (I mean, if I was willing to continue to wear the 95 MonFri collar I could just have just stayed in the previously ‘traditionalก work force).

Time flexibility was (and still is) a กbiggieก for me. Many people working at home have the same need for various reasons. For work at home moms, a home business can be a real godsend to accommodate the hectic time pressures, particularly when the kids are quite young and mom is also spelled ‘transportationก. In my own particular case, the reason is not quite so noble…I just want (need?) to be able to pick up my fly rod and go fishing at a moments notice (sometimes Iกll be gone for a week or two at a time, but now the business has enough momentum that it keeps on operating just as well as if I were here tending to it on a daily basis).

Bear in mind, I am only able do the breakaway thing now that I have put in all the upfront time and effort and now have developed enough kinetic energy in my homebased Internet business to be able to enjoy the fruits of my labor.

About The Author

Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and resides in California. For more details, visit his website at http://businessathome.us.

This article was posted on February 02, 2004

by Kirk Bannerman

Get Real … The Necessary First Step Before Startin

Get Real … The Necessary First Step Before Starting A Home Business

by: Kirk Bannerman

I have helped a large number of people start up their own home based businesses using the Internet. Over time, I have come to recognize two of the most important factors for identifying people that should NOT start a home based business. If a prospective entrepreneur says something like…

ขI’m broke and need to make some money…fast!ข

or,

ขI want to start a home business, but I don’t want to spend anything on it until after I start earning some money.ข

…it is certain that they have not ขgotten realข and should not attempt to start a home business under either of those conditions. I refer to them as the ขdeath sentencesข for starting a home based business.

Almost equally important is the need to have realistic economic expectations when undertaking a home based business. There is no magic here, folks. A home based business provides many rewards such as working in the comfort of your own home, avoiding a stressful commute, being your own boss, setting your own hours, no dress code, etc., etc., but anyone that is also expecting ขinstant richesข is sadly mistaken.

There are a tremendous number of home business and work at home opportunities offered on the Internet. Many of these are all hype and try to convince you that you will be making huge amounts of money in very little time (you know, stuff like…ขyou will be making $5,000 per week, and more, in just a few weeks!ข). You should avoid these like the plague…if they were for real everyone would be doing it.

Study the opportunities carefully and select home business opportunity that seems to fit your own particular style or talents. What is a good choice for one person may be a very poor fit for someone else. The common thread that applies to everyone is that you must be ขfor realข (as indicated above) and the business opportunity itself must be ขfor realข.

About The Author

Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and resides in California. For more details, visit his website at http://businessathome.us

This article was posted on September 25, 2003

by Kirk Bannerman

Reflections On The First Year Of Working At Home

Reflections On The First Year Of Working At Home

by: Kirk Bannerman

For reasons that escape me now, I kept sort of a diary during my first full year of working at a home based business. It was nothing close to being a complete daily diary, but was more of a collection of scribbles about things that I felt were worthy of note at the time. Since quite a bit of time has passed since then, I decided to revisit these notes.

In no particular order, here are some of the things that I had made note of.

Choosing the path…in the beginning, my enthusiasm was very high (perhaps too high?) and I was chasing off on several different homebased business opportunities at the same time (exhibiting the กdog in a meat marketก syndrome, I suppose) and not focusing my efforts enough to be successful at any single one of them. I finally reigned myself in and focused on a single work at home business opportunity.

In other notes I find reference to emotional and/or psychological issues that I experienced and are probably typical for most people when starting a home based business. When working at home a person can, at times, experience a feeling of isolation which is probably brought on by the lack of interaction of a work force environment.

There were also periods of doubt in the early going…did I pick a viable business opportunity?…am I doing the right things to develop my business?…when will I start making a profit?, and so on.

Many of the entries in my socalled diary had to do with the proverbial ‘two steps forward and one step backwardก thing and the everlooming temptation to become discouraged. Although I didn’t appreciate it at the time, it is now obvious that as long as you have more steps forward than backward you will eventually get ahead! Isn’t hindsight wonderful?

Other entries reflect the fact that relatively minor events can seem huge in the early stages of developing a work at home business and can really contribute to an emotional roller coaster ride. For example, if you are just starting out and you have two customers/clients and you lose one…thatกs a 50% drop! However, if you fastforward in time to the point where you have hundreds of customers/clients and you lose one…thatกs just a mere fraction of 1%! Same event, just at a different point in time.

Looking back on it now, some of the stuff I recorded now seems humorous, but Iกm pretty sure that I was not amused at the time I made the notations.

About The Author

Kirk Bannerman operates his own successful home based business and also coaches others seeking to start their own home based business. For more information visit his website at http://www.homebasedbusinessteam.com.

This article was posted on February 28

by Kirk Bannerman

The Biggest Temptation When Working At A HomeBase

The Biggest Temptation When Working At A HomeBased Business

by: Kirk Bannerman

From what I have seen and experienced, to quit is the greatest temptation during the first year of working at a homebased business. If smoking was like working at a homebased business, the occurence of lung cancer would be dramatically reduced.
It is a known fact that a majority of the people that undertake a work at home business do not achieve real success. There are several reasons for this, but one of the primary reasons is that these people get frustrated and do not allow themselves enough time to succeed.
In the early going, one of the most difficult things about developing a new home based business is dealing with the emotional roller coaster that can result from the highs (successes) and lows (temporary setbacks) you are almost certain to experience. Once you have done the research and decided on a particular home based business opportunity, you really need to focus on persistence and realize that any real business will not just automatically become successful in a matter of days or weeks. You should be prepared to give it your best sustained effort for at least 6 to 12 months in order to begin to build a solid business base and begin to see some good income.
Highs and lows were something that I began to notice when I first started a home based business. I have many years of top level management experience in ‘traditionalก corporations and have experienced lots of business cycles (corporate กups and downsก), but the natural กups and downsก that occur in a home business (particularly in the early stages) can be brutal from an emotional standpoint if you don’t prepare yourself in advance for the fact that it is a basic law of nature…it will be a rocky road until you have spent enough time and effort to build your business to a level that sort of smoothes out the peaks and valleys.
The impact of the highs and lows you will probably experience in developing your home based business is amplified by the fact that you are now in business on your own. You are the boss and get to make all the decisions, but you are also on your own in dealing with the frustrations that will occur along the way while you are developing your business.
When working at home a person can, at times, experience a feeling of isolation which is probably brought on by the lack of interaction of a work force environment.
There can also be periods of doubt in the early going…gee, did I pick a viable business opportunity?…am I doing the right things to develop my business?…when will I start making a profit?, and so on.
You are most likely going to experience the ‘two steps forward and one step backwardก syndrome and the everlooming temptation to become discouraged. However, keep in mind that as long as you have more steps going forward than backward, you will eventually get ahead! Simple, but often overlooked.
Relatively minor setbacks can seem huge in the early stages of developing a work at home business and can really contribute to some noticeable กmood swingsก. For example, if you are just starting out and you have four customers/clients and you happen to lose one…thatกs a 25% drop! However, if you fastforward in time to the point where you have hundreds of customers/clients and you lose one…thatกs just a mere fraction of 1%! Exactly the same event, just at a different point in time.
Hang in there and just keep on keepinก on. If you have chosen a viable home business opportunity (one that has been around for awhile and in which some other people are having success) you will achieve success, but it takes time and there will be ups and downs along the way. Remember the old saying…กit takes a long time to become an overnight successก.

About The Author

Kirk Bannerman operates a successful home based business and resides in California. For more details, visit his website at http://businessathome.us

This article was posted on May 19, 2004

by Kirk Bannerman

How To Choose a Perfect Home Based Business

How To Choose a Perfect Home Based Business

by: Nas Romli

Nowadays, more and more people are becoming a home based business owner. If you make a search on กhome based businessก at Yahoo, it returned a total of 51,000,000. No, I didn’t put any extra zeros. Itกs 51 million! Most of them are promoting business opportunities and others provide home based business information.

The question is now, if you want to start your own home based business, without having to go through all 51 million sites, how do you find the perfect business that really suits you?

Letกs begin.

Basically there’re 2 types of business that you can run. Iกll go through one at a time.

1. Selling a new product.

If you’re a super genius who knows what the marketกs wants, that this type of business is for you.

Advantage: You will be the owner of the product which means you control everything; from pricing to the product type. Youกll become the expert and people will see you as genius who create new product line.

Disadvantage: You will have to design your own marketing plan; sales letter, website design, autoresponder email system and everything. So, in other words, your business might no begin within 1 or 2 month after you develop your product. Even you already setup everything, your income might come in rather slow since most people are afraid to buy new product.

2. Selling other people product.

You sell other people product and you earn income by receiving your sales commission.

Advantage: You don’t have to design any market plan (most of the time). Everything will be provided to you. All you need to do is using these tools to market their product. Since everything is there, you can start promoting them almost immediately and so do your cheque.

Disadvantage: You don’t have the power to change the market plan, product or any tools. You have to use them whether you like it or not.

Which one you choose is wholly up to you. But for me who is so lazy of doing any thinking and working, Iกd choose option 2.

Still, you have to make filter out millions of products that you can promote for your business.

Here are the guidelines for choosing them:

Available marketing tools: Are they giving me any marketing tools? eg. email ad, banner ad, sales letter etc. The marketing marketing tools provided, the better.

Product is suitable for huge market: Choose a product that can be use by many people and not only for certain group of consumer.

Recurring commission: For me this is the most important factor. Some product, you earn your comission only once when you make one off sales. Normally, you earn a recurring commission when you sell product that needs the buyer make recurring payment every month. So, you will earn your commission every month as long as the buyer makes the payment.

It is easy, isn’t it?

Letกs we summed up everything that we learn.

If you want to start you home based business immediately, promote other peopleกs product. This product should have excellent support, all marketing tools are provided to you, many people use it and the buyers have to pay them every month.

There you have it. A perfect home based business for you (at least it is for me ;)).

About The Author

Nas Romli runs a site that help people to start their own home based business within 24 hours.Many have benefited from this service.Drop by at his site for more information about this amazing service: http://www.cashflowsecret.net

[email protected]

This article was posted on January 23

by Nas Romli

Home Based Business Opportunity

Home Based Business Opportunity

by: Darrell Knox

The allure of a home based business opportunity is very strong these days with uncertain economic times and the pressures of working long hours for less pay. More and more people are exploring home based business opportunities to see if they are cut out to work for themselves.
With the economy ever uncertain, employers are cutting back on everything. They are cutting health insurance benefits, pay, and they are outright eliminating jobs left and right.
There are many kinds of home based business opportunities. The internet offers the easiest, least expensive opportunity to start a home based business ever. Never before have people been able to start up an entire, legitimate business just by signing up for a hosting account and selling information or other products from their web site.
Careful What Home Base Business Opportunity You Choose
Not all opportunities are really what they seem. While any home based business opportunity involves hard work, some of them are just not worth the work you put in. They never pay back dividends the way you anticipated or the way the sales letter stated. That’s why when searching for the proper, legitimate home based business opportunity you need to watch for a couple of things.
Is the business wellestablished?
Are you buying into a franchise style business? If so, is the market saturated with other people doing the same thing and competing for visitors?
If the home based business opportunity involves network marketing, does it comply with federal and state laws regarding multilevel businesses?
The key to true wealth is to own the business opportunity, not work for it. A home based business owner is the top dog in their small company. That means any windfalls a new product or service you create or resell belong to you! That also means all the overhead and other expenses belong to you too. With the power of a home based business comes the responsibility too.
This is why you should thoroughly research a home based business opportunity to make sure you have all the bases covered and you are approaching working for yourself in a responsible manner.
Finally, you need to be aware that while it is very tempting to go for one of those cookiecutter ขbusinesses in a boxข, the greatest opportunity in the world on the internet is creating your own products and mixing them in with affiliate products that compliment yours.
A home based business opportunity many times is an opportunity a driven, hard working and creative person creates for themselves. Usually the most successful home based businesses are run by people who just had a great idea and ran with it.
Pick a home based business opportunity you love, that you are passionate about and hopefully knowledgeable about. You credibility shoots through the roof with your customers, and you work much harder on something you love to do rather than something you feel like you have to do!

About The Author

Darrell Knox is a writer and entrepreneur with 15 years of home business and marketing experience. Free Home Business Tips Newsletter at: http://www.cashgroup.biz/biztipspop.html.

Website: http://cgi.tripod.com/lazaraus26/cgibin/index.pl

[email protected]

This article was posted on May 29, 2004

by Darrell Knox