Weekend Home Business Opportunities
Below is another great article excerpt from Entrepreneur.com:
“Starting a low-cost home business on the weekend is one of the easiest and most risk-free ways to dip your toe into the waters of entrepreneurship. It only takes your free time, a small investment in marketing materials and business supplies, and some hard work.
Michelle Anton and Jennifer Basye Sander interviewed more than 100 people living their dreams through weekend home businesses when they wrote Weekend Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash (Entrepreneur Press). Here, we excerpt four great ideas for people who love to work around the house. If you’re already spending your evenings and weekends cleaning, organizing and improving your home, why not put those skills to work in a part-time business?
Holistic Housecleaning With Allergy-Free Products
Did you know that approximately 50 percent of Americans suffer from some kind of chemical sensitivity? Or that nationwide, every single day, 32 million pounds of household cleaning products are poured down the drain? Kind of makes you stop and think, doesn’t it?
Christmas Light Installer
This is a great seasonal business that specializes in providing the labor for holiday decorations. Once a year an opportunity to make excellent extra money arrives–installing and then later removing decorative outdoor Christmas lights for people who just don’t have the time or the energy to do it for themselves. Jennifer recently went to a spring dinner party at the home of a distinguished couple in their late 70s. Although it was May, the house was still hung with colored Christmas lights outside. These folks and others like them, busy or not quite in physical shape to remove their own lights, are your target audience.
House Staging
Have you ever been inside a house for sale, and although you liked the house itself, the furnishing and decorating gave you the willies? Some real estate agents insist that empty houses sell better; it allows a prospective buyer to “see” themselves living in the space when it isn’t all cluttered with the current owner’s things. “Less is more” when it comes to staging a house for sale, and an objective eye can help cut through the clutter that the longtime owner can’t see anymore.”
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January 7th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Sorry, but I could not disagree with you more about Home Staging as a ‘weekend business’! This career is not for the ‘faint of heart’ or the person who is looking for a ‘part-time’ career; it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort.
You have to deal with realtors, who still are not completely sold on the idea of ’staging a house to sell’, and you have to deal with the Seller who does not want to invest money in order to make money!
How I wish it were as simple as being able to use your ‘gift’ of design-styling; however this business takes much time to market and a lot of business acumen.
I also disagree that you need to have a large inventory of furnishings in order to ’stage’ vacant houses - there are many national furniture rental companies that provide exceptional-quality furnishings. The ‘trick’ is being ’seasoned enough’ to know how to ’sell’ the Seller on why they need to invest money in order to make money.
January 7th, 2007 at 9:34 pm
Thank you for your opinion on Home Staging. I personally am not familiar with this type of business opportunity, but I regularly post article excerpts from Entrepreneur.com.