Professional Organizing – Work with business owners, homeowners, and professionals to “spring clean” and organize their living and work spaces.1. Balloon Decorator – Use balloons to decorate clients’ homes, offices, wedding reception halls, retirement dinners, trade show events, and other venues for birthdays and other special events. www.BalloonHQ.com/
2. Catering – Offer general or specialized cuisine for graduation celebrations, picnics, weddings, and other celebratory events. National Assn. of Catering Executives: www.nace.net/
3. Cleaning, Specialty – Rent or invest in specialized equipment, using environment-friendly methods to clean windows, dryers, carpets, gutters, antiques; or clean-up after fire, water, or wind events. www.cleaningconsultants.com
4. Educational Tutoring – Set up a tutoring office space to help remedial students; those preparing for college; or adults returning to school. National Tutoring Assn. - www.ntatutor.com/.
5. Food Truck – With a food-prep-equipped vehicle and license, sell meals or ethnic foods or snacks on popular streets and at local sporting events and fairs. “How To Start a Home-based Food Truck Business” by Eric Thomas (ebook).
6. Handy-Person – Use your “fix-it” skills to do small and larger repairs, installations, or painting jobs for homeowners, the elderly, or landlords. Obtain required permits and licenses. The Association of Certified Handyman Professionals - www.achpnet.org/
7. House-Sitting– While homeowners are away, bonded and insured professionals care, maintain, and secure clients’ houses, pets, and plants. Endless Holidays - A Guide to House and Pet Sitting Around the World by Lynne & Mike Edmonds
8. Pet Training – Using your experience and expertise, instruct owners how to care and train their cats, dogs, horses, and other domestic animals for appropriate behavior or for competition. World Animal Trainers’ Assn. www.wataweb.it/
9. Pool Maintenance – Clean and repair (or subcontract work) the pools, fountains, and ornamental ponds of homeowners, apartments, condos, and community pools.
The Ultimate Pool Maintenance Manual: Spas, Pools, Hot Tubs, Rockscapes and Other Water Features, 2nd ed. by Terry Tamminen
10. Professional Organizing – Work with business owners, homeowners, and professionals to “spring clean” and organize their living and work spaces for better efficiency and improve workflow systems. National Association of Professional Organizers - www.napo.net
11. Sports Instruction – Skilled instructors use combinations of lectures and demonstrations to teach specific sports’ skills to individuals or groups for leisure or for competitive participation. *Teaching Lifetime Sports by Lawrence F. Butler
12. Taxi, Special – With a good driving record and a dependable, safe vehicle (could have a wheelchair lift), obtain a license to transport children, pets, and other passengers to appointments and activities. “Starting a Driving Service for Pleasure and Profit” by Dana Carter (Kindle e-book). HBM
Priscilla Y. Huff is a home-based, freelance writer and author of business idea and marketing articles, books, and blogs.
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