6 Best Home Business Ideas for 2007
For home business enthusiasts out there looking for new home based ventures, you might want to try the following, whichever interests you, of course:
1. Garage Organizing
In the Philippines, I’m not sure if this would take off easily since not a lot of Filipinos have garages that they’d spend on just to get it organized. But Americans are definitely a good market for this business.
2. eBay Business
Entrepreneur Philippines mag have already produced an issue that featured a successful Filipino eBay businessman. He resorted to selling old collectors’ item toys. Tips on how to start a home-based eBay selling business here.
3. Home-Based Outsourcing Jobs
These include home-based medical transcription or legal transcription, copywriting services and other jobs that can be outsourced for companies to focus on their core competencies. One of those home-based business people doing outsourcing jobs is yours truly. 
4. Pet Sitting or Pet Grooming
Michael de Mesa, though is not doing it out of his home is successful with his pet sitting business K9 couture. A similar business maybe in the form of a pet hotel like theBunnery might be given a chance in the Philippines, too.
5. Home-based scrapbooking
If you’d check out greeting cards sections in shops you’ll see that the scrapbooking supplies section is starting to include more and more varieties of scrapbooking tools. It’s because of the growing popularity of scrapbooking. The December issue of Entrepreneur Philippines mag featured scrapbooking as a business.
6. Art tutoring for kids
The number of home-based or online tutor jobs being offered is growing lately. Businesses that has something to do with education made more accessible are predicted to gain more success this year.
Read more about these home based business ideas from Businessweek.
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K9 Couture said,
January 17, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
Hello! Thanks so much for writing about our pet boutique and grooming salon =)
Sheryl said,
December 3, 2007 @ 7:49 am
Hi,
Just want to ask how do you get clients for outsourcing?
Hi,
There are lots of ways to find clients that won’t mind if you outsource the job.
1. Check out these online nooks:
- Craigslist
- BestJobs
- Freelance Marketplaces like GetaFreelancer, oDesk, Elance, RentaCoder
- Forums
2. Advertise your skills/services through
- A blog
- A website
- Business card
- Word-of-mouth
Or a combination of those
3. Call companies
Hope this helps.
- AM