| If you want to start up a home business and are | | | | gardening services such as weeding, lawn mowing, |
| looking for ideas then consider the following: | | | | and pruning and if you have experience then perhaps |
| - Become an administration assistant and help people | | | | even garden design. |
| with office type skills such as letter typing, resumes, | | | | - Dog walking and pet sitting is a good field for animal |
| book keeping, filing and other secretarial duties. | | | | lovers. You look after pets while their owners are |
| - If you love arts and crafts and have a hobby then | | | | away by feeding them and checking on them as |
| perhaps you could turn your hobby into a business. | | | | required. You could also offer dog walking as a |
| You can sell your goods to art and craft shops, at a | | | | separate service. |
| market stall or over the internet. | | | | - Pet grooming is another animal related business idea. |
| - If you have any experience with accounts then you | | | | This involves washing, trimming and clipping pets. You |
| could consider helping people fill in their tax returns. | | | | may need to do some training for this one if you |
| - Repair and maintenance around homes and | | | | aren't familiar with the procedures. |
| properties. You could offer your services to real | | | | - Help people set up their new home entertainment |
| estate agents as well as home owners who need | | | | such hooking up their surround sound system and |
| someone to fix things around their property. | | | | speakers to their television and DVD. You could also |
| - Become a tutor. If you have any expertise in a | | | | get into the field of installing built in sound systems |
| certain area such as a sport, a musical instrument or | | | | that work throughout the home. |
| a subject then you could advertise your services | | | | - Hairdressers or make up and beauty artists can |
| locally in newspapers and letterbox flyers. If your | | | | consider starting up a mobile business and offering |
| subject is suitable then you could even contact local | | | | their services to customers in their own homes. I |
| schools and let them know about your services. | | | | know of one hairdresser who does this and gets a |
| - If you know about computers then you could | | | | lot of business from stay at home moms who find it |
| provide a set up service and maybe even training. | | | | a convenient way to have their kids hair cut without |
| - Become a party planner and assist in planning | | | | the fuss of having to get them to the hairdressers. |
| events such as birthday parties, engagements, and | | | | - Become a wedding planner and help couples plan |
| christenings or even go into the corporate field and | | | | the day of their dreams. |
| offer event planning services to businesses. | | | | - Other ways to come up with a business idea is to |
| - Offer web design services and build websites. | | | | think of something that most people dislike doing |
| - If you love gardening then you could grow herbs | | | | themselves and would hire somebody else to do it |
| and vegetables. Places to sell them would be to local | | | | for them. |
| restaurants, market stalls. Or you could offer | | | | |