5
Exciting Home-Based Businesses You Can Start Instantly
by
Greg Montenegro
Everybody
seems to be in small business these days. Everyone is manufacturing
some widgets. Everyone is hawking some useful wares. Everybody
is doing some service for somebody.
The reasons
for the upsurge in this economic phenomenon are:
Everyone
wants to be a millionaire and start their megamillions from
their garage or kitchens. Many of today's richest people in
the world started this way.
There
is no tenure in employment anymore; you can be laid off anytime.
So what are you waiting for? Take charge! Start today.
Companies
wishing to get rid of long-time, hence big salaried, employees,
dangle early retirement plans. They bait their loyal employees
with promises of greater medical benefits and lump sum, which
they say you can start a small business.
How do
we do this? We not only have to start our small business,
but promote it. We should try to do what the big business
are doing-albeit in a smaller way. We have to toot our horn
to help ourselves in our business endeavor, and at the same
time, help our customers and our community too.
The first
idea is to create a website and add an affiliate link. This
type of business is actually my personal favorite. As an affiliate
partner you can earn from 5% to 75% in commissions. The job
of an affiliate is relatively easy. There are no products
to develop, carry, or ship and no orders to process. The affiliate
company does all the hard work. You can get more information
on various affiliate programs by visiting http://hop.clickbank.net/?pmoon/webvista2.
The only work of the webmaster is to promote his or her site.
Another
favorite of mine is looking for bargains in Ebay and reselling
the item offline. Most people know that Ebay is a great place
to buy and sell things, but few people think of it as a place
to find bargains and instantly sell them offline. This technique
is known as auction arbitrage. An arbitrage is where you purchase
an item form one market (internet) then resale it on another
market (brick and mortar) in order to profit from a price
discrepancy. I other words you simply buy an item at a lower
price and resell it at a higher price thus insuring a profit.
For example, you can find jewelry at 50% to 70% discount and
advertise the item at your local classified ads. Iíve
been using this technique for a while and found some amazing
success.
Another
way to make money, especially if you are passionate about
cars is be a car broker. In the real estate industry brokers
earn about 5% to 6% commission on every home they sell. You
can use the same strategy with the same commission rates in
the second hand car industry, sometimes with very little competition.
Nowadays, car owners are force to sell their used cars themselves.
All you have to do is to offer your services for a 6% commission.
If you do the math and sell x number of cars per month you
can make at least $60,000 a year.
Our world
today is getting smaller with the migration of expatriates.
These expats often miss having some of their favorite foods
and drinks from their native countries and find it difficult
to obtain them. The opportunity here is to open a specialty/niche
foreign food shop. Stock-up a selection of a popular and unusual
foods and beverages from a particular country. You may later
branch out into mail order or putting a website to expand
your market.
Managers
and HR departments find it difficult to constantly motivate
employees. An entrepreneur can fulfill this need and make
some good profits at the same time. All you need to do is
create a generic monthly motivational newsletter that can
be reproduced for various companies. Imagine creating a large
subscription base for your newsletter, the profits could be
great! If you don't like write articles you can get free contents
at http://groups.yahoo.com/free-content.
I'd like
to end this article that to be successful in today's business
arena, the modern day entrepreneur has to be well-rounded
in business and marketing. The entrepreneur needs to sharpen
his sales and marketing skills, gain new approaches of how
to market better, think out of the box, revisit some unorthodox
principles and concepts and apply some degree of variations
to make it appear new, different and meaningful to capture
a bigger slice of the market.
About
the Author
Greg Montenegro, Baltimore,MD, USA
pexcor@yahoo.com
http://www.12homebasedbusiness.com (url does not belong to author anymore)
Mr. Montenegro has been in international marketing since 1992.His
firm exports computer parts to Asia. He is also the webmaster
of http://www.12homebasedbusiness.com a website that shows
you how to go from zero to making real money online in about
a month.
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