If you're good with computers and know your way around a laptop and a desktop and you have a patient personality, starting a part-time business as a computer tutor can provide extra income nights and weekends and give you time to start growing your client list and word-of-mouth referrals. You can get started with just minimal advertising and keep your services confined to a small area so you don't run up any travel expenses. This part-time business can also lead to a new career or a business in which you expand your services by publishing eBooks, online tutorials and more. Get ready to boogie down with a part-time business as an independent disc jockey. Since nearly all the events you would be hired for are going to take place at night or on the weekends, why not have some fun and earn a few bucks in the meantime? Although this business will require you to have some investments in music and equipment, it's perfect for the music hobbyist to gain experience in a competitive area where there are many wannabes and not enough professional caliber DJs out there. And, you'll get to be the life of the party, too! Help families lower their risk of injury under their own roof with a part-time home safety inspection business, an offshoot of the occupational safety and building inspection profession. This type of business lends itself especially well to starting on a part-time basis and working strictly out of your home. While some training is required to be considered knowledgeable enough to offer advise to other homeowners, if you're already involved in public safety it's a perfect fit and business you can run after hours and on weekends, which your clients will love since that's usually when it's easiest for them to meet with you anyway. If you enjoy wine and hosting parties, becoming an independent wine consultant could be the perfect choice for a part-time home business. The most popular company that offers business set-ups for independent wine consultants is probably The Traveling Vineyard. If you've thought about Tupperware or Avon, you might give the idea of being an independent wine consultant a more thorough look because it's ideal to start on a part-time basis - or keep part-time if you so choose. If you're good with your hands, a part-time furniture refinishing business could be just the ticket for you to start doing something you actually enjoy. Since your work will be done in your home shop, you can arrange to pick up pieces on certain designated evenings or weekends and do the work in your spare time. You'll gain additional experience and referrals, you'll earn some extra money, you don't need a gazillion dollars worth of equipment to get started and you just might have a lot of fun in the process! Photographers can make around $2,600 for a $20,000 wedding. And, because weddings are almost exclusively held on the weekends, this is a home business you can start part-time while you build your portfolio. The price of weddings is expected to climb significantly within the next few years, meaning a percentage deal will reap more money for the wedding photographer. A six-figure income is attainable for full-time, seasoned wedding photography pros, so the business has very good growth potential and could turn into a full-time pursuit in a short time. If you've had success as a seller on eBay, you probably have plenty of tips and tricks up your sleeve that could help others succeed in selling on eBay too. Plus, you'll make money doing it! eBay Trading Assistants who operate a home business typically go out to client's homes or businesses to photograph and pick up items and then sell them on eBay on consignment, with the Trading Assistant handling all of the details of the sale and collecting a commission once the item is sold. eBay's continued popularity is making the Trading Assistant idea a popular idea too, as evidenced by neighborhood storefronts popping up in many areas. However, as a part-time eBay Trading Assistant you can differentiate yourself by coming right to the home. Virtually any business you start online can be handled on a part-time basis as you build traffic and revenues during the early startup days. Over time you'll learn the tricks of the trade and how to maximize traffic and click throughs to boost your earnings. If you love being online and are looking for an online business that requires a tiny initial investment that you can do whenever you want, an affiliate marketing home business may be just the ticket for you. Party planner engagements can range from weddings and product launches to corporate seminars and awards dinners. Tasks can include renting a hall, mailing out engraved invitations, coming up with a theme, booking entertainment, deciding on the food and hiring waitstaff. It's easy to see how this could be a time-consuming full-time home business, but you don't necessarily have to start that way. You might even consider volunteering to plan a few upcoming events for family and friends to get your experience. Once party planners establish themselves in their own business, their income potential can grow exponentially.1. Home Based Business Idea - Computer Tutor
2. Part-Time Business Ideas - Disc Jockey
3. Part-Time Home Business Idea: Home Safety Inspection Home Business
4. Part-Time Home Business - Independent Wine Consultant
5. Part-Time Furniture Refinishing Home Business
6. Part-Time Home Business - Wedding Photographer
7. Part-Time Home Business - eBay Trading Assistant
8. Affiliate Marketing Online Home Business
9. Part-Time Small Business Ideas - Party Planner
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9. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed. You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better. 8. Use a proper domain name. If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need an easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you've done a good job!). 7. Start commenting on other blogs. Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people's blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog. Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog. 6. Trackback and link to other blogs in your blog posts. A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else's blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments. This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers. 5. Encourage comments on your own blog. One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going. 4. Submit your latest pillar article to a blog carnival. A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival enjoy a spike in new readers. To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at http://blogcarnival.com/. 3. Submit your blog to blogtopsites.com. To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps! 2. Submit your articles to EzineArticles.com. This is another tip that doesn't bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter. How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once. 1. Write more pillar articles. Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I've listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won't stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers. This article was by Yaro Starak, a professional blogger and my blog mentor. He is the leader of the Blog Mastermind mentoring program designed to teach bloggers how to earn a full time income blogging part time.
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