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At Home Business Ideas For the Handicapped Or Disabled

The best home based business ideas begin with knowing your niche. If you are one of the many handicapped people who want to contribute, remember, you have certain skills, life experience, interests and values that others may not have, so finding your niche is going to be much easier.

Here are the 10 best home based (handicapped accessible) business ideas you may want to consider:

1. Bed & Breakfast- Especially for others with a handicap. If you live in a large home and love visitors, this is a ready-made, handicapped accessible business to help the disabled get out there and travel. A great work at home business.

2. Pet Sitting is a small business option for those who love caring for animals on a temporary basis. I know so many people who would like to go away for a weekend but have no one to leave their pets with who will love them as much as they do.

3. Jewelry Designer – Did you see the Oprah show about 10-year-old Shiloh Peppin who wants to grow up to be a jewelry designer? Her handicap of fused legs will not stop her from the career of her dreams, nor should it stop you.

4. Gift Basket Service – The entrepreneur can design them at home to specific niches and mail them to buyers or make them available in local specialty stores.

5. Internet Store – If you are computer savvy, consider opening an internet based business that sells affiliate items. You receive a commission for every affiliate item you sell to others. See my website for more affiliate information.

6. Life Coaching – Who knows better than you what it’s like to survive and thrive with a handicap or challenge of any kind? So many people are waiting for your encouraging words.

7. Song Writer – For those with a love of music, why not write & sell your music for a living?

8. Recording Artist – If you have a beautiful voice, you can make a living from becoming a singer. Perhaps your niche is jingles – hey someone wrote & sang all those McDonalds jingles. Or maybe your niche is spiritual music, rock ‘n roll or weddings.

9. Screen Writer – Write what you know. Tell your story. Everyone’s already told you that your life is like a movie. Why not share your story with the rest of us?

10. Motivational Speaker – There is a great need for motivational speakers. You could speak at churches, community organizations, business meetings and even write and publish a book or EBook to motivate others.

If you were born challenged or experienced a life altering event and became handicapped or disabled later in life, and you want to work, you can and should.

Think seriously about starting a small business from home. These are just ten simple business ideas.

I know you can come up with more home based business ideas that are specific to your skills, values and interests. Here’s to your business success.

Creative Marketing Ideas For Shoe Stores

During an economic recession, the retail industry has taken a big hit as customers simply don’t have as much discretionary income as they used to. Whether your shoe store is part of a large chain or is just a small independent retailer, you should always be on the lookout for new, interesting marketing ideas that can stimulate business. Here are some great ways to put your best foot forward.

In-store events– Customers need to know the benefits of your shoes, be it that they are edgy and fashionable or that they provide a comfortable walking experience. Hosting an in-store event like a fashion show or a teaching session will not only generate buzz and awareness for your store, but also sell a lot of shoes! Have your featured products fully-visible using a vertical banner or even a window cling so customers know which shoes they’re going to learn about.

Loyalty cards– Most women have a shoe fetish, so create a loyalty program that keeps her coming back for more shoes. This could be a punch card or you could even use a computer-tracking system. After a certain amount of pairs purchased, your customer will receive a free (or at least discounted) pair. Not only do you sell more shoes, but you also retain loyal customers.

Shoe care– A great way to make your store more marketable is by offering shoe care services such as shining, stretching, and even minor repair. If you really want to offer a first-class experience, offer complimentary shoe repair services. You probably won’t be able to do this in-store, but set-up an agreement with a local shoe hospital or cobbler. Your client will appreciate the VIP treatment, and this ensures they’ll visit your store at least twice (once to drop off the shoes and again to pick them up). Odds are they’ll find a new pair in at least one of those visits. Display vinyl decals at your cash wraps letting customers know these special services you offer, and make sure your sales team is mentioning it as well.

Sponsorship/donation– Sponsoring local events is a great way to build a positive business reputation. In exchange, you’re usually able to advertise at these events with a vinyl banner or in the program. Another unique idea is to create a shoe-donation program. Work with charity groups such as the Salvation Army to donate a pair of shoes for every X amount you sell. This is a huge PR boost and makes your business socially-responsible. It has certainly worked for TOMS.

Family bundles– If you are a shoe store that caters to all customers (men, women, and children), create a family bundle package. Offer a special discount when customers buy a pair of shoes for every member of the family, or even have a buy one-get one special. You’re a one-stop shop for the family, but it may take a special deal for customers to realize that.

Gift Ideas – Find Great Gift Ideas For Your Loved Ones

One of the greatest ways to celebrate a moment, an occasion or express love is by presenting nice gifts. A gift can express the emotions that even words may not be able to portray. However, often there is a lack of original gift ideas and it can become difficult to choose a special gift item for a special person or a special occasion.

Unique Gift Ideas

There are a range of gift ideas depending upon the recipient (man, woman, child, babies, pets), relationship (father, mother, brother, sister, husband, wife, friends, girlfriend, boyfriend) and occasion. Some of the unique gift ideas are as follows:

Gift Ideas for Men: Gifting a man can be a little difficult as they tend to have very specific tastes and preferences. However, a bit of research can throw up some really nice ideas.

Almost all men are gadget freaks and any of the latest electronic items can completely floor them. An advanced cell phone, iPhone, iPhone accessories, multiple gadget charging stations and wireless headphones can be excellent gifts.

Apart from gadgets, another very good idea is to treat their taste buds by present food or drink packages. From fine wine to beer baskets and from assorted cheese packets to an expensive dinner at an exotic restaurant, these options would definitely be adored by them.

Some other unique ideas include golf club drink dispensers, personalized portraits, coasters with light, convertible luggage bags etc.

Gift Ideas for Women: A lot of people think that gifting a woman is the toughest. This is a myth and there are innumerable unique gift idea for women that can impress them a great deal.

Gorgeous apparel, jewelry, accessories and make-up items are some of the standard but effective gifts for women. To try something different, gifts like modern kitchen gadgets including meat thermometers, electric carving knives and cookie cutters can be very helpful.

Most women these days are fitness conscious and gifting them some fitness gifts can be quite unconventional. These can include health food baskets, herbal teas, calorie burning sandals, massaging mats, stress relievers, foot spas and yoga gift sets.

More extravagant gifts can include dream car tours, a vacation to an oriental or an exotic land, gourmet dinner cruise or even a precious gem stone.

Birthday Gift Ideas: Birthdays are the most frequent occasions to gift someone. There are some excellent offbeat birthday gift ideas for everyone. These include engraving the name in custom art, crazy cake pans, life size wall murals, personalized birthday chronicles, personalized birthday magazine cover, hot air balloon trip or even a poem.

Anniversary Gift Ideas: An anniversary is a celebration of the union of two people and there are many exclusive anniversary gifts available. These include romantic art decor, rose bouquet with custom messages on every rose, home spa gift sets, bottles with romantic messages, personalized photo lamps, personalized marble plaques, a trip to some of the best vineyard or even pencil sketches.

Presenting an offbeat gift item can surprise the recipients but they would make the occasion and the presenter extremely memorable for them.

Simple Fundraising Ideas? One Woman’s Crazy, Adventurous Quest in Search of Ideas For Fundraisers

When I began my parenting journey several years ago, I didn’t realize that I was also embarking on a never-ending search for simple fundraising ideas. Truly, I had no idea that one of the primary responsibilities as a parent would be continually drumming up ideas for fundraisers.

Even after I had resigned myself to the fact that fundraising would be a regular part of my life, I still had no idea that it would be such an adventure.

You see I’ve got three kids in school selling everything from pies to pizza. We’re involved in drama, soccer, basketball AND I sit on a hockey board that is solely self-funded by–you guessed it–fundraisers.

I’m trading commodities with friends, “I’ll take that pie and trade you cookie dough…good we’re even.” My family members won’t even answer their phone anymore, afraid they’ll be buying more things they don’t need.

We’ve done ’em all!

Let’s see, there are the gift-wrap/specialty item/trinket sales. If you ask me, these types of fundraisers are overused and overpriced. Every time I turn around my child has yet another catalog! In this economy when I can buy wrapping paper for $1.00 at the local dollar store, why would I want a roll of wrapping paper that costs me $9.00? (So what if it is better quality, it just gets ripped off the gift anyway.) I would actually rather write the school a check then try to sell this stuff.

Of course, we’re so tired of selling stuff anyway, so half the time, I just place a good sized order for my own family (reluctantly, of course).

Case in point: My daughter recently came home and mentioned that the “The Cookie Dough Guy” said that if they wanted enough money for their field trip to the Boston Museum, they were “encouraged” to sell at least two tubs of cookie dough (for $14.00 each!). I spent $28.00 on two itty bitty tubs of cookie dough. I could have gone to BJ’s, bought a BIG tub of Tollhouse Cookie dough for $6.99 AND bought my daughter’s admission into the museum for less than that! Why didn’t they just ask for the money for the field trip? It’s absurd!

And, how about those booths at craft fairs or festivals?

Okay, so if you’re ever asked to “man a booth for a couple of hours” be very wary. Our organization signed up for a booth at our community’s Summerfest in June. I signed on for the early shift (I’d get my shift over with and enjoy a fun filled afternoon with my family). Yeh, first mistake. Funny how your “replacements” never seem to show up to actually replace you. So, there I was, 6 hours later “manning the booth”. If that wasn’t annoying enough, suddenly, the skies grew dark, the wind kicked up and we were in the middle of one of those horrific thunder and lightning storms. Everything was blowing wildly; the canopy was about to take flight. And the rain was coming down in droves. Needless to say, we earned very little money that day. (Even putting the

“severe thunderstorm factor” aside, the event was not very profitable because even though there was a lot of traffic, there was also a lot of competition.)

Oh and let’s not forget one of my favorite “simple” fundraising ideas, pizza kits and pies.

Okay, yes they are pretty decent sellers, but the logistics of the whole thing are crazy. First of all, you need to arrange an EXACT delivery time with the company because they need to keep the goods frozen. Then, you need to let everyone know when that EXACT delivery date is and pray that they actually come to pick up their products. And, when they don’t . . .well, let’s just say, it was a darn good thing I had a spare freezer in my basement to store some of those overly large boxes! And, don’t get me started on how I had to make a bazillion phone calls to those people who failed to show up at our EXACT delivery time.

But, my all time favorite adventure was “The Bottle Drive”. The most basic of simple fundraising ideas. You collect, basically, people’s trash and exchange it for money. Piece of cake.

That’s what we thought too. The conversation went something like this: “We’ll have a bottle drive!” “Yes!” “On New Year’s Day.” “Great idea!” “All those New Year’s Eve parties! We’ll make a ton of money!”

It became an obsession. I’m in the grocery store and I run into Mike. He says, “Hey, we’re having a New Year’s Eve party, you and John should stop by.” Great, I’m thinking. Give his address to one of the drivers to pick up their bottles in the morning. I get so swept up in it, that I actually find myself eavesdropping to find out where everyone is going to celebrate.

So it’s New Year’s Day and with maps in hand and addresses of all those parties that happened the night before, we jumped into our trucks and headed out. Did I mention we live in Maine? We had been hit with several December storms and today we were in for a Nor’easter, as they are so endearingly called. (In case you’re unfamiliar with the term, this basically means that the snow falls in unassuming small crystals at a moderate but relentless pace until you suddenly realize that you are completely socked in.) That wasn’t going to deter us though . . . no worries, just bundle up and get an early start.

Here’s a curious concept…an early start on New Year’s Day. Okay, so not everyone spent New Year’s Eve like me — in their pj’s, snuggled up next to the woodstove, going to bed early so we could get an early start in the morning for the bottle drive. At 9:00 a.m., if you had a party, you are NOT likely to be moving around, much less cleaning your house. So, many doors went unanswered.

Finally, one neighborhood proved to be promising until we saw…the Boy Scouts. We couldn’t believe it. They were having a bottle drive as well! (It’s amazing how fast a bunch of not-so-thrilled-to-be-up-this-early-on-a-weekend teenage hockey players can actually move when they are trying to outrun the Boy Scouts.)

My friend and I decided, enough of this door-to-door stuff, we’ll hit up the local restaurants and pubs. We hit the mother load at our local Thatcher’s. We rock! Our hopes were high. Then, we hear, “Sorry, you need to talk to the manager and they aren’t working on New Year’s Day” or “We have lots of bottles in our shed out back but unfortunately the plow guy hasn’t plowed us out from the last storm. Come see us in the spring.”

Okay, this was getting discouraging. We traded cell phone calls and met at regular intervals at the local redemption center. The snow was coming down faster than the plows could get the roads clear and we realized that it was getting too dangerous to have vehicles on the road. With an army of twelve trucks, we headed back to the redemption center only to discover it had closed due to the weather!

Now what do we do?

“Bring them to my garage” (What, who said that? Me? Note to self: you are far too accommodating.) Of course everyone thinks that is a great idea!

Before I know it, my garage is full of stale smelling beer bottles, my hands are sticky and cold, I’m exhausted, my husband is ready to divorce me AND my car is now outside covered by 18 inches of heavy, wet snow because there isn’t enough room in my garage!

Over the course of the next week, my husband and I bagged up the bottles and made several trips to the redemption center. Woo Hoo! We made $350 for 15 people, spending a cold, snowy day, driving all over town. There has got to be a simpler way to fundraise!

Best 10 Small Business Ideas Of 2020

Do you feel bored with your regular nine to five job and looking for starting a business? Are you looking for starting an extra earning source? Or, do you want to start a small business in full swing eyeing to make it your career?

The idea of starting a business can be exciting and all it requires is time, effort, money, and a fresh idea. We can definitely help you with the ‘idea’ part.

Let’s get started with 10 small business ideas of 2020 that can get you started.

Cooking/Baking: This doesn’t need a huge capital. If you already have the skills, you are good to go. Make a slow start. If necessary, work from home. Select your preferred arena such as Braising, Stewing, Steaming, Baking, Roasting, Grilling, etc. Start with 2/3 items and start delivering. Everyone likes a nicely cooked home meal. Advertise within your known area and let your cooking do the rest.

Tutoring: This is probably the most known source of earning, though most of us don’t try to take this on another level. Tutoring is not limited to teaching academics. It can be a huge business opportunity with these extra steps:

– Know how to play a musical instrument? Teach your dexterity.

– Can make small yet handy crafts? Teach your techniques.

– Good at editing or designing? Teach your skills.

– Able to sing, dance, art, cook, or anything as such? Teach your expertise.

– Confident in applying your makeup just right? People always asking, how are your attire always so perfect? Teach your mastery.

– Know how to click the perfect picture? Teach your knowledge.

To summarize, find out what you know because there is a huge number of potential students out there searching for your service. Remember, learning will never go out of fashion.

Babysitting: Bet you have spent a fair share of time taking care of your baby nephew and nieces. Now is the time to use that experience. Watch the kids when their working parents are too busy to do so. Make your family and friends your brand ambassador in this case.

Interior Designer: Have a fascination with a beautifully organized home? Then start learning of course! Online courses about the basic interior are not very hard to find. After gathering enough knowledge start doing small projects, take pictures, make a portfolio, and open a website or online page or hand out flyers if needed. The want of virtual assistants is huge in rate.

Break the norm saying, Interior Designers are only for the riches. Provide your service in all possible ranges and see your business booming. Due to growing demand, you may count interior design as one of the best among 10 small business ideas of 2020.

Customized Jewelry: Have a thing for jewelry? In that case, this business is for you. The opportunity in this field is huge with its growth projected at 5-6% per year. From golden to wooden, no jewelry will ever be old-fashioned. This is perfect for a small capital side business. Due to the rising popularity of customized jewelry among fashioned seeker women, this can be considered as one of the best among 10 small business ideas of 2020.

Develop an app: There are apps for anything and everything these days. From finding all your essential files to finding a good night’s sleep, there is an app to the rescue. Coding skills or no coding skills, learning how to develop an app will only bring you potential business opportunities. Start with some marketing research and you are off to a great start.

Translator: Now will be the time to put your language skills in use.

Employment of translators is projected to grow 19 percent from 2018 to 2028 which is much faster than the average for all occupations. If you know more than one 2nd languages then you’re in luck and in great demand.

Create your channel: A YouTube channel can earn around $3 to $5 per 1000 views. A successful YouTuber can earn millions by a single video. If you are up for it, this can be your only earning source as well. Hence this idea can be considered as demanding ideas among 10 small business ideas of 2020.

If you have a passion for travel, standup comedy, music, dance, animation, teaching, creating, or anything of such sort, start sharing with the world.

Learn about YouTube guidelines and know your tools. A decent location and a good camera can increase your chances of income.

Ghostwriting: All ‘BoJack Horseman’ fans know about Diane and how she was a successful ghostwriter. She was never out of work and nor will you be if you have a passion for writing. A ghostwriter may not get credit for their work but it’s a lot of money.

Many started as a normal ghostwriter and ended up having an influential career out of it. Averagely, an adept ghostwriter can net $20,000 per project and over $50,000 if the client is a celebrity. Beginners on average earn around $5,000 depending on the topic and length of any text.

Freelance Content Writing: Content writing is undoubtedly one of the best among 10 small business ideas of 2020. In this age of digital marketing, content writers have their fair share of demands. If you have skill in formulating a well-structured story or article, this startup is for you.

One can write content for a variety of things like Web content, Blogging, Social media, ad and sales copy, Expert, or industry writing, Journalistic/news writing, Creative writing, etc. An experienced content writer can earn up to $1000 to $5000 a month.

If you already made up your mind to start a small business, that’s great! Don’t make a delay, pick up one from 10 small business ideas of 2020 above, and get prepared for a jump in the big space of business!

Simple Side Business Ideas

These days it is really not that uncommon for some people to have one or two or even three jobs. And this is not only because they just want to keep their families afloat, some are just basically willing to make certain sacrifices – like giving up sleeping and their free time just to be able to work their way to the top. However, all work and no play will certainly make anyone go insane so while it is perfectly okay for you to consider having side business ideas, it certainly will not hurt you either to make sure that you choose the one that will be perfect for you.

As long as you are not too picky and you have a wide range of interests and skills, then you can easily take your pick from the many side business ideas that are going around out there.

If you are a stay-at-home mom, some great side business ideas that you can do – even from your home are:

-At-home telemarketing: just simply set your own office, make use of your computer, your internet knowhow and your headset and start making those calls.

-Freelancing: got great writing skills? Lots of companies are looking for freelance writers to outsource to help them with their many marketing projects especially with SEO.

-Transcribing: all you really need is to be able to type fast and have good hearing to ace this.

If you are a student, here are some great side business ideas that you can easily do during your spare time and still be able to focus on your studies:

-Freelance researcher: make the most of the researching skills that you have acquired from school and make yourself useful to companies who are looking for freelance researchers that they can outsource to help them do their extra work. Work time is flexible, you can take as many assignments as you can handle and take a break whenever you feel that you won’t have the time for it.

-Freelance creative writer: have a knack for writing creatively? If you have a way of easily convincing people through the sheer power of the written word, they you should consider other freelancing gigs like that of a freelance writer. Side business ideas like that of freelancers are great for students like you who need to be able to have a decent schedule to be able to still ace his or her schooling. Just make sure that you have a portfolio of your sample works ready once your prospects start calling you up.

And whether you are a struggling employee, a stay-at-home mom or a student, one surefire way to get the big bucks rolling in is to make the effort to put up a multi-level marketing business that you can do from your home. You can easily research on the internet for possible product ideas and sales and marketing schemes that you can make use of to have a successful multi marketing business.

Best Business Ideas for Women In the Modern World

It’s no longer a man’s world out there. We live in a world where men and women alike rule the world; where women can be who and what they want to be without prejudice. According to the published report by the Catalyst, a non-profit membership association increasing opportunities for women and business, women make up the 7.6% of the Forbes 500 top earners and 46.7 % of the American workforce. Here are some of the best business ideas for women you should consider when thinking of having your own business.

In our world, men are not the only ones wearing the trousers; women nowadays are actively participating in making decisions for their careers, families, and their lives in general. For most women, starting a business can sometimes be gruelling. It’s hard to choose which idea can be great to start a business and a career. However, the most simple and unlikely ideas can sometimes become one of the best business ideas for women.

Any woman can be successful in any business she ventures into. Most women nowadays, like women who stay at home to watch over the kids, search for business opportunities that won’t compromise their responsibilities at home. For home-staying moms, you can start a home-based business.

Depending on your skills, capabilities, resources, and passion, a home-based business can be a great success. For those who are computer and internet-savvy, starting up a home-based virtual assistant service is one of the best business ideas for women. If you have a background in sales or customer service, you can start a call center facility. If you have superb writing skills, you can create a writing business, creating marketing and promotional write-ups for people and products.

Best business ideas for women include starting an interior design business, catering service, accessory-making and writing and PR services. A woman who enjoys baking, can start a pastry business; a woman who is passionate about beauty and wellness can start a spa or a beauty salon business. Depending on her skills, a woman who has technical dancing skills in ballet or musical talent like playing the piano, violin, guitar or any musical instrument can start her own dance/music class at home.

The list can go and on but before deciding which business idea to consider, take into account your capabilities, skills, budget, time, and the amount of passion that you can pour into that idea. Starting a business can sometimes be demanding, but with the right attitude and frame of mind, a start-up business can become a successful one.

7 Home Business Ideas For Women That Work

More and more women are choosing to work from home. This gives them the flexibility required to raise children, manage the house and take care of other such tasks. There are many home business ideas for women. Many times, a hobby becomes a base for your business. Here are some interesting business ideas that should be considered.

1: Craft

Crafts have enormous potential. People are constantly looking for innovative products as gifts for their loved ones. It may be wedding gifts, party favors and more. You can come up with some nice items and promote them among friends and family in the beginning. If the news spreads and if your products are good, your small business will have a lot of orders.

2: Child Care

If you have something for children and the necessary space in your home, you might consider establishing a small business of child care. Of course, you must obtain the necessary permits and licenses. But if your locality lacks a good facility, this business opportunity will work for you.

3: Pet care

Just as people appreciate good childcare, there are others who would like to have a good Pet Care Service. This is especially true if they are frequent travelers with pets. You can consider using your place for this work. Once the business starts doing well, you can delegate tasks to people who are interested.

4: Using your culinary skills

A good business opportunity that many women can cash on is their cooking. This can be baking snacks and other refreshments. You can take on full board and work with fixed menus for various functions. Art of cooking can be changed according to any catering needs. If people like what you do, you can make good money here.

5: Tutoring

Tutoring can be an essential activity for children who are weak in their studies. Depending on your core knowledge, you can choose to educate on a particular topic. Remember, people pay to those who can make their children pass with good marks. If you are sure that you have what it takes, it can provide a substantial income on monthly basis. This is among good home business ideas for women.

6: Interior designers

Business Ideas for Women can be creative as well. You can try your skills in design and put them to good use by advising people on how to modernize the interior of their homes. You can help people make the right purchase, depending on their requirements. Rich housewives can pay you a good amount if you can earn their trust. This turns out to be another lucrative business you can begin with.

7: eBay

eBay sellers make good money too, and when you get the right kind of products online, you can be sure that many people will choose to buy from you. The income potential here is unlimited; all you need is right mentoring. This can be among some of the best home business ideas for women.

There are great possibilities out there for ladies who want to work from home. Think of the ideas above and choose the one that suits you best. Remember, you can only gain by this knowledge by taking decisive actions.

Promotional Gift Ideas for Effective and Successful Business Promotion

The main purpose of every business is gaining more and more profits without spending a lot of money. But, for a successful business, effective sales and marketing strategies as well as perfect and well planned promotion or advertising is essential in a number of ways. And for this, a considerable amount of money is spend every year on advertising and promotion of products and services.

Promotional gift ideas are also a successful way of business promotion that without spending a good amount of money can lead your business to the way of success. In other words, presenting unique and business related gifts to existing customers, prospective clients, employees and business partners is considered as an effective marketing tool to promote your business and making people aware to your aim. When it comes to promotional gift ideas, then the marker places are flourished with an assortment of products and ideas to gift all those related to your business.

Right from coffee plunger to iPhone cases, leather CD cases, airline toilet bag, keyring and pen sets, vantage binoculars, traveller kit, candle sets, beautiful wallet, folding umbrella, cooler /warmer, digital clock, mugs, flasks, book set, to any thing else that can suit your business promotional gift ideas. Depending on your choice and ideas, you can select any kind of promotional product and also customise them according your requirements. In other words, these promotional and corporate gifts have enough space to imprint with your company name, logo, message and website address.

Apart from this, you can also select them in your preferred colour and design. Moreover, unique and innovative promotional gift ideas are also suggested by professionals who have gained so much experience in the field of promotional products and gift ideas. They can easily aware you with the unique gifts that can boost the popularity of your products, business or services. Apart from this, these professionals also offer you an option of get your selected items and products customised according to your choice and desire. These professional also offer their services online.

Top 5 Online Money Making Ideas

In today’s tough times, most are hard-pressed in making ends meet even if they’re currently employed with regular source of income. For some, a job is no longer an option and would rather venture into other money making ideas that can potentially replace their job income.

This article outlines the top 5 online money making ideas a lot of creative people use to earn extra (or full time) income that makes end meet or to actually put food on the table.

The internet has not only changed how we communicate and research for information but offered a lot of income opportunities to ones who are willing to grab it.

Freelancing – One of the most common ways to make money aside from having a traditional job is to offer your services as a freelancer. If you’re an artist, you can position yourself as an artist for hire. Building an online portfolio is extremely pivotal to being an artist for hire. An illustrator needs to be able to show potential clients what they can offer them if they take them on as a client. Independent authors and web publishers are constantly looking for people to design book covers, websites, and logos for them. This is a great income source for someone who enjoys doing graphic design. My friend, does this quite successfully and by having his own website that attract organic traffic, he sets himself up above the many other freelance graphic artists around.Another popular way of making money as a freelancer is to become a freelance writer or editor. Self-publishing books has exploded in recent years. There are a lot of independent authors looking for editors who would like to have their work edited for a more affordable price than the norm in the publishing world. You can editing jobs or be a ghost writer to help the author craft the whole book if you know what you’re doing.

On the lower end of this scale, you can accept article writing gigs and help online publishers like niche website owners and bloggers continuously feed their sites with fresh quality content. The key here is quality content, to build ongoing relationships with your clients and build your reputation.

Freelance writing is a great money making idea because you can completely control how much work you take on. if you’re just getting started, websites like Odesk.com and Elance.com are great places to land your initial gigs. Pricing your service competitively will help you attract clients and build your reputation on these freelance job boards but if you’re considering to go this route on a long term basis, I suggest that you build your own website to build your reputation, attract more clients, and turn this into a real business that can potentially replace your day job.

There are a lot of services that you can offer as an online freelancer. If you’re a developer or a programmer, you’ll definitely make more money online by offering software development services.

Become An Online Retailer – Ever bought something off Amazon and eBay? Most of these sellers are people just like you and me operating their own bookstores, gadget shops or computer retail stores off their homes. There are two ways you can start selling stuff as an online retailer.One is by buying stocks and keeping inventories to ship yourself or to become a dropshipper where you partner with a dropshipping supplier that will ship your inventories to your buyers from their warehouses. Option two takes a lot of work but it can be tricky when it comes to pricing, delivery and item quality as you don’t really get to see (or touch) your products before they are shipped to your customers.

The best way to get started with this money making idea is to start selling junk you can find inside your home (ladies, I’m not referring to your husbands!). The average person has a lot of things in their home that they never use. Items like old jewelry, unwatched DVDs and unused craft items are perfect. You can also buy things that are on bargain bins and sell them online for regular prices or get stuff from your local thrift stores or library sales.

The key is on being able to check the current prices of the items you’re looking to resell before you buy them to make sure you’re actually going to make a profit. This is where your smart phone will come handy, all you have to do is download price scanning/comparison apps like FOB Scan.

Sell Fiverr Gigs – Yes, Fiverr gigs! It may not seem like much but Fiverr gigs are no longer limited to $5 per pop. You can offer your initial service or product on the standard $5 pricing but you can offer upgrades from $20 to $50 per pop. Some of the gigs you can offer are voice overs, small graphic jobs, short videos, SEO pushes, and other small and fast jobs that you can do for a few minutes of your time.

Open Up A YouTube Channel – As mentioned in my previous article, YouTube users watch over 4 billion hours of video a month so there are always people willing to watch your videos. A person who plans to make money off of YouTube needs to decide on a niche or what they want to talk about in their videos. Do they want to teach a tutorial or give a commentary? If someone owns all of their material legally, than they’re eligible for the partner program.

With original ideas and constant promotions, an internet entrepreneur can set up shop on YouTube in a matter of minutes. Although it might take a lot of work, the payment after a while can be pretty big but just like any other content marketing businesses, 10 YouTube videos won’t make you a happy camper. It’s always a numbers game, think of it as having your own TV show where you’re the host, producer and channel owner. You can read this article for more on how to make money with YouTube.

Create And Sell Your Own Products – A lot of online marketers found that they can make money faster with creating their own products than creating blogs or niche websites. This of course if beyond the realities of most beginning online marketers but if you have some time to spare, product creation isn’t really that difficult as you may think. Creating an infoproduct (eBook or membership site) on a subject that you know and love will reward you hundred times over. Come to think of it, if you have a product of your own, a lot of other affiliate marketers are willing to sell your products on their websites and email lists for a commission helping you reach a very wide audience that’s impossible for you to reach on your own.

There are a whole lot more money making ideas people use to make money online but these by far are the top ideas that you can put to work for you right away, specially the top 3. Building and publishing your own blog or website is the best way to build a business system that will build an awesome source of passive income in the near future but the top 3 ideas listed above will help you make money right away.

Offering freelance services on established freelance job boards helps you piggy back on their traffic being that they’re the “go to” places for people who are looking to outsource stuff they don’t like to do themselves.

Retailing on Amazon or eBay can also attract sales faster than if you’re going to build your own online store as they already have the traffic of shoppers whose mindset is to scout for products they want to buy online. It’s free to list products on Amazon and you only get charged when you actually sell something while eBay will charge you a few dime when you list a product for sale.

Fiverr on the other hand is the world’s “go to” place for small jobs people want outsourced. It may not be as promising as the first two money making ideas listed herein but they do pay for each gig you deliver.