Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

Interested in starting your own home business? Here are 5 Top Home Based Businesses you can start.
From Hartford Business
Home party sales
Home party consultants sell anything from kitchen gadgets and cosmetics to home decor and fashion accessories. Most companies allow you to make money from new recruits. You earn a portion of what someone else sells [...]

From Start Up Nation
10 Ripe Areas for Starting Your Business
If you’re hot to get going with a startup, but your finances aren’t, here are some independent businesses – requiring little more than a certificate or license – that you can start today:
1. Tutoring: The last U.S. Census reports more than 76 million school-age children. Federal [...]

One Person businesses are booming as I’ve reported before. Will the remain microbusinesses though? That’s the question. Or will they remain one person businesses as “teams” who share referrals but remain financially separate?
As the article reports, the “average” revenue was $38,000. But it’s deceiving because many of these businesses are part time operations or seasonal.
From [...]

Freelance writer, Melissa J. Gallagher, has released a free guide entitled, CREATIVE FREELANCING, that helps cash-strapped college students, home-bound moms, and aspiring freelancers earn extra income in their spare time by freelancing from home. Her free guide is available at http://www.writingcareer.com/creative-freelancing-book.php

Creative Freelancing introduces readers to various part-time and full-time freelance opportunities, including: freelance writing; [...]

A while back a friend of mine had talked about starting one of those small local newspapers like the one pictured here.  He really didn’t have the 50,000 population required to make it work, but maybe there was enough.
I didn’t have a packaged resource to send him to, but if he started talking about it [...]

Every business start up guide I’ve read that Skip Rosell has produced has 2 characteristics… ingenious and reasonably priced.
This one is no different. He and his friend Bob Mc Alister have produced a great report here.
It’s not an affiliate link.
I liked it enough to post it for you just because it’s “worth it”.
Hi my friend,A [...]

From the Urbana News Gazette
In the past four or so years, the media have reported that sewing, particularly among Generation X’ers and younger craftsters, has become the new knitting. Sewing machines and patterns are “flying off the shelves,” due in part to the popularity of television shows such as “Project Runway.”
Urbana resident Nora Miller, who [...]

Ever wanted to start your own niche coupon site?
Vondre Whaley’s come up with an idea for just how you can do that without a large up front investment.
You can learn more at MyCouponBiz (note: not an affiliate link).

Potential business start ups in North Carolina that focus on technology may be able to find help from the Inception Micro Angel Fund…
The North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center (SBTDC) announced a new plan to make capital available to entrepreneurs and begin building a stronger early-stage investment industry. In 2003, SBTDC launched the Inception [...]

You can even run a franchise without quitting your day job and while working from home according to Start Up Journal. The days where the franchise operator was required to be on site are over and owners are now allowed and equipped to manage the business remotely.
One owner interviewed monitors his Arlington, VA business from [...]