BUSINESSES

Resources on the main types of home-based businesses. Information on business opportunities, franchises, eBay, mail order, family businesses, network marketing, income opportunities, consulting, and much more.

Consulting

Getting Started as a Consultant

Start a Service Business Using Your Professional Skills and Talents

By C.J. Hayden

Are you cut out to be a consultant? Consulting to businesses and organizations can result in higher earnings than working as an employee, provide you with needed income if you are laid off, and allow you to work from home. But success as a consultant isn’t guaranteed. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how consultants work, the essential elements of starting a consulting practice, and how to land your first clients.

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Special Types

Blind Painter's A-Ha Moment Spawns Art Agency

Exclusively Licensing Works by Handicapped Artists
By Home Business Magazine

After a successful career as a writer and editor, Ketra Oberlander left publishing around the turn of the millennium when her vision started to fail, and employment prospects concurrently diminished. Severe myopia, a lack of color and depth perception, and cone dystrophy conspired to rob her of her sight in her late thirties.

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One Week Away From Welfare

Man Risks Money and Starts a Home-Based Cleaning Business
By Home Business Magazine

In 1997, Jonathan Bergstein was living in New Jersey working in the corporate world in a dead end job. Jonathan knew that he had gone as far as he could in his field of customer service, and he contemplated starting his own business.
While speaking to a friend in Virginia, Jonathan mentioned that there were several job opportunities in Richmond. He indicated that he could stay with his friend while searching for employment.

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Tired of Playing the Corporate Game

Happy Home Business Owner Never Wants to Return to Her Old Corporate Life

By Home Business Magazine

In 2006, Lorraine White knew it was time for a change. As a vice president with a public company, she was tired of playing the game. For over twenty years, she had worked long hours, traveled extensively, and carried a heavy load of responsibility. The change Lorraine had in mind was to find something she could do as a home-based business.

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NYS Corrections Officer also Works from Home

Maintaining Great Customer Service Keeps Him Recession-Proof

By Home Business Magazine

The inspiration to start Tony’s Canvas and Leather really came when Tony O’geen’s son was a young hockey player. He realized there was a real demand for sports repair, and no one around the North Country was offering the services. Tony traveled to Montreal, Quebec to learn the art of Re-Palming Hockey Gloves. From there, he began not only repairing sports equipment but producing quality Custom Sports Bags.

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Consulting

Helping One Family at a Time

By Home Business Magazine

Entrepreneur shares his story of persistence to motivate people to not give up.

Brian S. Arrington was previously profiled in Home Business Magazine, back in 2001 (June issue). Up until last year, he still ran his own home-based entertainment business. He had become quite successful and was still a radio personality on a local radio station. Brian’s success in business had allowed him to purchase a home, and enabled his wife be a stay-at-home mom.

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