Not all home businesses are operated entirely in the home.  Many are home based, that is, they’re operated outside your home, but your headquarters is your home.
 These include:

 House & office cleaning
Lawn maintenance & landscaping
Carpet cleaning
Pet sitting
House sitting
Wallpapering
House painting
Interior decorating
Babysitting
Bookkeeping
Tutoring (your home or theirs)
 Gardening
Home repairs & maintenance

What other service business ideas can you think of or have experienced?
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These books aren’t for any specific business.  Yet they’re helpful in developing customer relations, organizing your affairs, working with employees, and developing a great attitude.  I keep going back and reading them.
 What books have you found helpful and interesting?

Go for No!
Ten Powerful Phrases for Positive People
Lincoln on Leadership
Mission: Success!
Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life
Google Blogger for Dummies
The Secret
Think and Grow Rich
Patton’s Principles
The Magic of Thinking Big
A Better Way to Live
Just Ask! Success Can Be as Simple as Asking the Right Questions
10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

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 Work at home moms become involved in many businesses.  There’s so much opportunity out there…on the Internet and  in a traditional business, or combining the two.  Some businesses may involve working entirely from one’s home; others include going to locations outside the home, yet using your home as a base.  (Incidentally, these aren’t businesses solely for moms.)
 Here’s a starter list.  There are many more home businesses to consider.

 Cake Decorating
Medical transcription
Web Design
Freelance writing and it’s many
Teaching scrapbooking and multi-media classes
Quiltmaking and related activities
Teaching online classes
Daycare in the home
Dressmaking and alterations
Bookkeeping for other businesses
Tutoring
Giving music and/or singing lessons
Housecleaning

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I found lots of valuable information for home business owners on the U.S. government’s Business.gov website  , and I thought I would share some of these with you.  Here you go – Happy Thursday!
1, Pros and Cons of Starting a Home Based Business
2. Zoning Laws for Home Based Businesses
3. Business Plans for Home Based Businesses
4. Home Based Business: Market Your Product
5. IRS FAQ’s For Home (and other) Businesses
6. Energy Efficiency for Home Businesses
7. Market and Sell Green Products in Your Home Business
8. State and Local Resources for Home Business Owners (check out zoning regulations here)
9. Can You Live …read more

Thursday Thirteen: My daughter-in-law presents us with a list of gifts each year – for herself, her husband, and the grandchildren.  While this is helpful, my husband rebels.  He specifically gets them things that are NOT on the list.  If you like holiday gift lists, here is one for you to present to family and friends.
I decided to look on Etsy.com to see what handmade products might be appropriate for the home business owner.  Since I wrote about Etsy on Small Business Boomers a while back, I have spent way too much time on this site.  I love the idea …read more

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Depending on your type of product, you may have a very narrow niche market or you have customers from a broader base for your home business. 
If you’re just starting out or need to expand, check out the list below and see if these will give you some more marketing ideas.  With some of these you’re more likely to make contacts rather than immediate sales.  But those contacts could lead to future sales.

Your own web site
A shop in your home
Stores in your area that buy wholesale
Craft fairs
Galleries and museums
Etsy.com, an online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade
Co-op shops
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Apparently the appeal of home business is great.  Since I once edited a regional publication and have written for many over the years, I can’t resist picking them up wherever I go.  As I browse through them, I see many home businesses mentioned, often very unique ones.
Here are some I found mentioned in one regional publication, Upper Valley Life.  Some of these businesses started out as a small one operating out of the home and now may have expanded.  Others have remained a one or two-person operation.

The Billings Farm  & Museum- a very diverse working dairy farm where children can …read more

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Since August represents Travel Month here at Home Biz Notes, I’ll take time today, Thursday, to mention 13 travel related home businesses that come to mind.  Of course, there will be more, and you may be involved in a type I’ve not discussed here.  Feel free to mention it in the comments.
These may be operated from your home or take you away from home, yet be home based.

Travel agent booking at home for your own business or a travel agency
Travel writer who researches at home and on trips.
Bed and breakfast in your home.
Making travel related items you sell in …read more

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Since we’re focusing on home based writing and publishing businesses throughout July, I’ll mention 13 types you could consider.  Of course, there are others.
Sometimes you may combine a variety of them, as I have done.  Or you may do solely one type of writing if it will being in the necessary income.
Some of these businesses you’ll operate entirely from your home.  Others will involve traveling and research that can take you some distance from home.  Or you might write for a business/newspaper that involves your reporting to the office in person weekly.  Either way, you’ll be freelance, operating your …read more

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 Work at home moms become involved in many types of businesses.There’s so much opportunity out there…on the Internet and offline in a traditional business, or combining the two. Some businesses may involve working entirely from one’s home; others include going to places outside the home, yet using your home as a base.
Here’s simply a small list of 13 home business ideas for moms:
1.  Quiltmaking and related activities
2.  Teaching online classes
3.  Daycare in the home
4.  Housecleaning
5.  Medical transcription
6.  Web designing
7.  Freelance writing and it’s many variations
8.  Teaching scrapbooking and multi-media classes
9.  Dressmaking and alterations
10.Bookkeeping for other businesses
11.Tutoring
12.Giving music and/or singing lessons
13.Cake …read more