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Home-Based Business Opportunities - Personal Services

Home-based business opportunities in a variety of personal services fields, designed to spur your imagination for creating your own personal services home business. Includes real-life profiles of home-based businesses and links to home business ideas.
7 Personal Services Home Business Ideas
Personal services businesses make great home business ideas. Here are seven personal services business that budding entrepreneurs might consider.
Home Business Idea - Antique Appraiser
The pros and cons of starting a home based antique appraiser business, as well as what you'll need to get started in the business.
Business Ideas - Catering Service Home Business
The pros and cons and what you need to get started in a catering service home based business.
Home Based Business Idea - Computer Tutor
Just because we live in a computer age doesn't mean that everyone is computer-savvy. That's where the computer tutor comes in. A computer tutor teaches individuals and businesses how to best use their computer programs and the Internet, typically at the client's location.
Business Ideas - Disc Jockey
Business ideas such as becoming an independent disc jockey can be a terrific part- or full-time home business for someone with a passion for music.
Gourmet Pet Foods Business
A look at operating a gourmet pet food business as a home-based business, the pros and cons, what you need and more to start this type of home business.
Health Care Patient Advocate Home Based Business
If you have already reviewed the possible patient advocacy career paths available, and none of them meets your wishes or needs, you may want to consider starting your own patient advocacy business as a self-employed patient advocate.
Ideas for Home Businesses - Maid Service
A maid service or house-cleaning service spruces up or scrubs down houses and offices, aiming to build a clientele for repeat business. Most maid services begin as home businesses. Entrepreneurs who want to make it a career may eventually hire others to do the actual cleaning, while they focus on managing and promoting the business.
Licensed Day Care Center Home Business
A look at operating a licensed day care center as a home business, the pros and cons, what you need and more to start this type of home business.
Massage Therapist Home Businesses
The massage therapy business, which aims to ease stress and alleviate pain after illness or injury, has tripled in the last decade. It should grow by 20% through 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, which indicates strong growth potential for message therapist home businesses. Masseuses can earn between $40 and $70 per hour on average.
Nanny Service Home Business
A look at operating a nanny service as a home business, the pros and cons, what you need and more to start this type of home business.
Small Home Business Ideas - Party Planner
If merely booking the caterer and the DJ made a successful party planner, many more would-be entrepreneurs considering small home business ideas would be tapping into this industry. But this small home business takes a lot more: diplomacy, salesmanship, multitasking, and above all, a desire to help other people enjoy themselves.
Personal Chef Home Business
A look at operating a home business as a personal chef, the pros and cons, what you need and more to start this type of home business.
Ideas for a Home Based Business: Personal Shopper and Errand Service
Personal shoppers take the lightly regarded station of go-fer and turn it into a vocation, serving clients who are either too busy or simply unable to shop for themselves. Many personal shopper and errand services either charge a percentage of what they buy or by the hour, and this is one of those ideas for a home based business that's great for someone who loves to shop.
Business Ideas - Personal Trainer Home Business
The job of getting clients in shape is expected to grow by a staggering 27% through 2016, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook, making this one of those business ideas with lots of growth potential.
Pet Sitting Home Business
A look at operating a pet sitting business as a home-based business, the pros and cons, what you need and more to start this type of home business.
Free Home Business Ideas - Professional Organizer
A professional organizer turns clutter and chaos into an efficient space for households and businesses. Jobs can range from organizing a small shoe closet to designing a storage space for a marketing firm. Professional organizers generally can earn between $35 and $200 an hour, and often do some of the handiwork involved.
Work at Home Business - Resume Writing Service
A resume writing service can make a great work at home business, both for when times are hard to come by and when times are good and workers are looking to advance in their careers.
Home Based Business Startup - Wedding Photographer
The ability to capture precious moments using a camera is just the starting point for a wedding photographer (or a videographer). This home based business startup requires business sense, patience and the ability to spread the word online, in bridal magazines and among wedding planners, as good wedding photographers can be in high demand.
Real Home Business - Wedding Planner
Care to orchestrate one of the most emotional, romantic, stressful days of peoples' lives over and over? Then say "I do" to becoming a wedding planner and start you own real home business. From flowers to catering to rehearsal to transportation, wedding planners do almost everything to arrange the perfect day.
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