You
are highly educated or less-educated, it doesn’t matter, provided you
have a passion, a knack for a business and a special skill, service or
product to offer. Those who are divorcees or widowed recently should not
lose heart. Sometimes, these accidents and hard luck open new doors of
opportunities for us. Similarly, if you are single, fighting for better
financial conditions for your family, a girl student struggling to
finance your studies or a mom want to invest her free time in some good
venture, home based business can be an option for you.
Home-based business means you need not
to rent or buy an office. Rather, you may work from your home, either
enjoying the flexible hours or fixing some specific hours for your work.
Here are some of the ideas.
Whatever you opt to do, never miss a few things:
- Get a professional certificate, diploma, degree on what you want to take up as a career. Apart from formal educational institutes, there are many free online courses in various disciplines offered by the top universities of the world. Even you may look for videos and free online workshops. Just Google.
- If professional education is not available or impossible to get, go and get yourself trained by working with already existed professional institutes. Begin from best available ones and then move to the better ones.
- Stay connected to the other professionals of your professional network. For instance, if you are into Day Care business, try to approach other Day Care professionals around and learn from each other.
- Ensure your online presence. A Facebook page, Twitter page, Google+, an updated website, a running blog, all speak for you and attract your clients.
Day Care Centre
If you love young kids, Day care is an
emerging profession as now moms of the new generation want to pursue
family and work at the same time. So, they always look for good Day
Cares for their kids.
Since we don’t have specialized programs
in our country for running a Day Care Centre, it is better to work with
some good Day Cares for almost 2 years before you start your own as it
will give you firsthand knowledge of various dimensions of the business,
e.g. what services are included in Day Care? How to deliver them in the
best way? What do your clients expect from you? How much to charge? How
to market yourself? etc.
Even after your regular hours, you may
offer moms to leave their kids with you when they are on shopping,
celebrating special occasions with their husbands or friends, are busy
with emergencies and other busy hours.
Also, you may offer to take care of old parents for a short while.
Tuition Centre
According to your teaching experience
and education, you may open up tuition centers for preschoolers, or
school going students of different levels. Also, you specify a subject
that you are specialist of and would like to teach.
Apart from teaching school kids, you may
cater adults as well. For example, you offer English Language Classes
to Adults, Computer workshops for housewives, or so on. Just identify
the need of the people around you and offer your services.
Catering
You may offer your cooking specialties,
bakery, desserts, regional or traditional food or so. Accordingly, you
may specify your clients as whether they are banker, offices,
school/colleges/university canteens, hospitals, departmental stores,
bakeries, banquet halls, event management companies or so.
You will take your food samples to them
and talk about the different aspects of the business. e.g. your price,
delivery period (daily/weekly), number of items required, etc.
Or, you may hire distributors to buy your product and market it on their own.
If you have pretty good writing skills,
you may work as a content writer, editor and social media consultant.
These days, it is an emerging business in Pakistan.
You may Google your work opportunities
and find some good sites that may offer you work of your choice. Also,
you may introduce yourself by approaching various business companies on
your own, where job fairs at educational institutes and outside can be a
good introductory opportunity for you. However, don’t forget to ensure
you are working with a company who is reliable for its professionalism
and pay you on time regularly. Or, you ask for advance payment firmly to
avoid the online scam.
Furthermore, real life references of family and friend may also open many doors of opportunity for you.
Since we don’t have professional
trainings in Social Media Consultancy at our educational institutes, it
is preferable to work with a top class professional Social Media
Consultancy,The Blog Company, to learn it from a-z through a professional Guru.
Editor
With good writing skills, you may offer editing services to college and university students for their home assignments.
Also, you may run consultancy services
to students where you call each and every student and edit his/her
assignment in front of him/her in order to teach how to avoid writing
errors.
Both services may have separate charges.
Also, you may offer your services to books and magazine publishing companies or find online opportunities.
Entrepreneurship
There are ladies who buy clothes, bags,
shoes, paintings, make up material, jewelry or other accessories from
sales at brands, or places where they can buy quality products at
reasonable prices. Off and on they conduct exhibitions at home and at
various spots to sell these items with good profit.
Likewise, if you have some specific
skills like knitting, pottery, paintings, dress designing, event
management, interior designing, decoration items, food specialties, you
can also opt for exhibitions platforms to promote your business.
Here, in any case, don’t forget to get
help through social media marketing to access your client worldwide. The
best approach is to hire a social media consultant on monthly salary or
offer a percentage of share in your profit.
On Call Office/Kitchen Helper/Nurse/Teacher
If you have good office keeping skills
along with some experience, you may tie up with some companies and
institutes who will call you whenever they need you as a substitute
worker on daily wages or whatever is settled between you and your
employer. They will call you in case their regular employees are on
leave or leave them immediately without or with short notices. You will
work there until their need is fulfilled by someone else.
Never ignore your online personal branding.
As for kitchen helper, wherever there is
a home-based party, or food places that are short of workers, they may
hire you. Go and get connected to some good companies and families who
may need you any time.
Likewise, if you are a certified nurse
or a teacher and don’t want to work full-time, you may offer your
services to relevant institutions and they will call you whenever they
need you, like a on call office helper. Make you Facebook page now as a
first step to online marketing.
Beauty salon
If you are professionally certified
and/or experienced, offer your services to the right client, where you
find the market less competitive, like new housing schemes, small
cities, villages or so on, most probably you will flourish fast in this
competitive market.
Apart from general service, you better
advertise yourself for some specific clients as well. You may declare
you offer special services to students and housewives. Find ways to
approach them directly.
Social media and a favorable word of mouth is a must.
Run A Nursery
Many ladies are very fond of gardening
and doing experiments in it. They may open up plant nurseries and offer
their consultancy to their clients.
If you are a herbal researcher as well, it will add a new dimension to your business.
Home Poultry Farm
Some ladies love to have pets and
collect a big variety of them at home. They may offer poultry products
that are pure and fresh in quality. Quality is a major issue these days,
especially for milk. If the product is up to the mark, profit can be immense
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