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   petlvr70posted 12 years ago

   I am looking to start my own home based business. I need something that has a low start up cost but that with hard work can result in a decent salary. Any ideas?

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   Whatever it is, make it something that you enjoy. Otherwise, you will fail.

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   paradigmsearchposted 12 years ago

   What a dead forum day...

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      petlvr70posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      you said it! I figured people would jump on this topic.

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   rajan jollyposted 12 years ago

   Strange, this topic has no takers. If you could take hubpages and writing as seriously as a business, I think you have one on hand. It is home based and gives you flexible timings plus you have the option to make a residual income if you work seriously at it.

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   Pcunixposted 12 years ago

   My business is computer tech support and selling business mail servers.  I can do almost all of it from home, but I do have to go out at least once or twice a month.

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   Dawn Conklinposted 12 years ago

   I work from home doing various things.  I do run a business with a Multi Level Marketing company along with my writing and pictures.  It does take a lot of work and is rough in the beginning for MLM. 
   You need to decide what your passion is and do something based around it.  I write through blogs and also articles, I enjoy sharing things in writing.  This makes it easy for me to do as I love to write for people.  My MLM business is in the health field and I enjoy it for the product before the possible business rewards, that has helped as I didn't get discouraged in the beginning when the going was rough.  There are many opportunities that are legit, and many ideas to start on your own.  What do you enjoy?

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   petlvr70posted 12 years ago

   Well, I enjoy a lot of things but I would say mostly baking, crafts and animals. I am thinking about something in the craft area because it would probably have the lowest start up cost. Just afraid there might too many crafty people out there.

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      WriteAngledposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      With respect to animals, perhaps a pet-sitting service?
      
      I end up having to leave my cats alone when I go away because I cannot find anyone to look after them. Luckily my cats use a cat flap to go out. This means I can leave stacks of dry food and big containers of water for them and know they will be OK. However, even then, I don't feel I can be away more than a week at a time.
      
      If there was a local person doing pet-sitting, I would gladly pay them to come in once a day to check everything was OK, put out some tinned food, etc.

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   Sherry Hewinsposted 12 years ago

   Etsy is a good site to sell crafts. It helps a lot if your craft is special or different from what others are offering.

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   WriteAngledposted 12 years ago

   I work from home as a translator and also prepare back of book indexes now and then. I did need to train for the book indexing side. I know people who make a full-time living from indexing, but I've never bothered to market myself for that since translation is more lucrative and more interesting for me personally. With regard to translation, I simply set up a profile on a translators' web site and get all my clients from there. I do however have specialist subject knowledge and a couple of more obscure languages, which means there is high demand for my services.
   
   Before, while I was still in employment, I did try selling things on eBay, thinking that might expand into a full-time business. At that time, selling things I found in charity shops gave me far better returns than buying in new stuff for resale. However, I think eBay has changed dramatically since then and I'm not sure it is such a useful place now for very small-scale sellers.

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    americababyposted 12 years ago

    moving boxes.  there's probably a hub on this this site somewhere about that subject.  someone must have written about how to sell moving boxes somewhere on hubpages.

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