What are the easy independent activities at home?
What are the advantage and disadvantages of starting a home-based business?
Creating a home-based business is a dream for many people who wish to better articulate their professional lives with their private lives. Starting a business at home has become commonplace as a result of the emergence of self-employment and then micro-enterprise status, and the trend is accelerating.
This article presents 25 home business ideas for men and women. These activities are more or less profitable and promising. In any case, it will be essential to go out to meet with customers, partners or suppliers.
Create your home business: advantages and disadvantages.
Creating a home-based business has advantages:
- reduced travel time
- savings and pooling of fixed costs (rent, heating …): the breakeven point will be lower
- flexible and adaptable schedules
- possibility of adapting his professional life to family constraints
But starting from home also has drawbacks:
- boundary between private and professional life less clear, which can create tensions within the couple or the family
- less visibility and more difficult to reach customers
- unable to receive clients and partners at home
- isolation
- lack of credibility
Note the trend towards the development of co-working: home-based entrepreneurs leave their homes to settle in shared work spaces, in order to develop their network and their business faster, without degrading their quality of life.
25 ideas for starting a home business.
Idea 1: Create a home-staging company (interior decoration): see our dedicated article
Idea 2: Create a company of repair and restoration of furniture or objects. This is an activity that involves having a home workshop.
Idea 3: Set up as a yoga teacher: see our dedicated article
Idea 4: To settle down as an artist-creator: see our dedicated article
Idea 5: Settling in as a graphic designer or web designer. It is a very competitive activity that involves significant efforts in terms of canvassing.
Idea 6: Create a business of home administrative assistant (telesecretariat): see our dedicated article
Idea 7: Settle in as an auto agent. The car agent looks for vehicles on behalf of his clients, for example abroad. He pockets a commission often included in 700 € and 1500 € per vehicle. It is possible to practice at home, but sometimes distant trips are expected to recover the vehicles.
Idea 8: Create a sports coach activity or home life coach: see our dedicated article
Idea 9: Create a gardening business: see our dedicated article
Idea 10: Create a home school support business: see our dedicated article
Idea 11: Create an agricultural activity. This type of activity involves owning (or renting) land. There is a proliferation of market gardening, permaculture, or organic farming / breeding projects.
Idea 12: Create a Tomb Maintenance Company.
Idea 13: To settle down as a liberal music therapist: see our dedicated article
Idea 14: Create a blog and write articles. Beyond about 150 articles, it is possible to generate income through his blog (advertising, sponsored articles, paid services …). The blog will be easier to monetize as it will be qualitative and targeted. It is a real activity at home, which requires very little movement.
Idea 15: Create a cleaning company: see our dedicated article
Idea 16: To create a company of sale of costume jewels: see our dedicated article
Idea 17: Create a phone consulting business for individuals. Again, this is an easy activity to practice at home, and requiring little travel. This may include career management advice, marriage counseling, family counseling, or administrative advice.
Idea 18: Create guest rooms: see our dedicated article
Idea 19: Create an online business: see our dedicated article
Idea 20: Settle in as a public home writer.
Idea 21: To settle down as a business contributor: see our dedicated article
Idea 22: Settling in as pet sitter: see our dedicated article
Idea 23: Create an application or game online. For this type of activity, it is strongly recommended to work on order, which makes possible remuneration for the progress of the work.
Idea 24: Create a small cosmetics brand: see our dedicated article
Idea 25: Keeping children at home: see our article dedicated to the services to the person.