A large number of people work from home and you can still do it. In most cases, first time entrepreneurs find it easier to start from home until it blossoms into a big business. Home businesses are increasingly becoming the order of the day globally. And so you should imbibe it in your lifestyle. Even if you are a woman, getting yourself a business from home and meeting up some financial needs becomes very important to augment and possibly take the financial responsibility in case the man goes out of job. I have personally experienced a couple's case where a husband had always kicked against his wife working. The wife was later to convince the husband the need for her to learn Bead making and Tie & Dye (Adire) Craft, which later blossomed into a big business. The husband was later to lose his job and saw him and the home being sustained by the wife with income from her business. I have made clearly 21 Businesses you can start from your home, kitchen or lobby and start making millions of Naira from, while taking care of your kids at home even if you are a man or woman.
1. Bead Making:
Making Beads is one good way to Make Money from home. This is a business anyone can start from home in days. All you need is less than N10,000 and you run it from your home. Buy all the accessories needed such as pliers and beads of various types, learn how to make bead from an expert trainer and start making it yourself. You can start supplying your beads from your home, to friends and relatives as well as people in your church and neighborhood. You can run this from your parlour or bedroom or your balcony.
2. Tie and Dye (Adire):
This has a good potential and any woman or man can start it with less than N10,000. You can start it from your kitchen by getting all the chemicals, buy the clothes and start making it and supplying. You can start marketing your finished clothes to neighbors, friends, and relatives and in churches. You can have people or clients you can supply too or still take it to the market place. This has a good potential as you can export it abroad too.
3. Soap Making:
Because every day, people must clean their homes, offices, wash their clothes and plates, you name it, therefore, there is a very viable potential in soap making business. And you can start this from your home. Make both liquid and bar soaps for your personal use first and go commercial with it. How do you start with this? Learn the trade, start making for your home first and perfect it. Make for friends for test and advice. After then make and supply to your neighborhood stores, friends and relatives until you go fully commercial.
4. Hair Weaving:
Women would weave their hair. Female School children will weave their hair weekly. And so you can start running a weaving service from your home for women and female children. You can render an at-their-home-service where you visit their homes and weave their hair once they call you on phone or you must have already agreed for a particular day of the week when you will be at a particular client's home or when they will be at your own home to make their hair.
5. Business Brokerage:
Business brokerage is a very viable business. People are looking for what to buy and don't know where to buy it. People are also having items and are looking for whom to buy them. For example, if someone wants to sell a used car, you can locate who is looking for a used car to buy and broker the sale. In brokerage, you will have to bring the buyer and seller together and make your commission from sale.
6. Event Management:
Each weekend, there are weddings and various parties of all kind. There are political gatherings, house warming, burials etc. These people may not have the time to arrange and organize these events and so you can come in as an event manager. An event manager manages event. You will be the one to arrange for buses that will convey people to the venue of the event, arrange for the drinks, foods, decorations etc. If it is a wedding event, then you will take up the contract to arrange for the decoration, MC, Venue etc. You are paid to do all of this on contract basis.
7. Ice Block Making and supply:
We all use fridges at home. And we know these days there are no stable power supply from the almighty PHCN. Also, people holding parties need to have their drinks and other stuffs preserved to be cold. Turn your fridge in the house to money by making ice blocks and selling to your neighborhood, and supplying to parties. Start this today and soonest you will be known as being the one running it. You will make unending income from this daily
8. Training and Workshop:
Training and workshop is one steady area for anyone to make money from his/her ideas, expertise, hobby etc. If you know how to make soap, adire, how to tie gele, how to make money with stock investment, etc, then turn it into a seminar or workshop where you can teach people on how to do it. I teach people how to make money on the Internet and how to start and run their business and I make money with it. All you have to do here is to advertise your training with any newspaper or magazine such as "Start Your Own Business Magazine" with a budget of N6.000 and then rent a hall and teach your attendees. You will be surprised that you can make at least N100, 000.00 in two hours. What you need is your phone number where would be attendees will call you on phone as well as your website.
9. Counseling/Advice:
If you know how to counsel people for good, then you can turn it into cash. You can run a business of counseling and advice agency. If for example you advise couples on how to have a healthy relationship for free, then you can do this for money. You can advice people on best ways to get their visa, how to face interviews, how to invest in stock, how to make money etc
10. Knotting of Tie :
This is one area that people have undermined yet, there is big money from this business. A lot of corporate people don't know how to knot their ties and so keep it on the wardrobe once their ties have been knotted. You can make money here from home knotting ties for people on weekly basis and also by teaching them how to knot their ties on their own. You can charge free for one-on-one training.
11. Tying Gele :
This is also one area that is a great money spinner. You see, women tie gele to Churches on Sundays, occasions and to parties every weekend. And most of them don't know how to tie gele the right way. You can make money from home by tying gele for women and also teaching them how to tie gele on their own.
12. Mobile Food Vendor :
There are eateries people can go and eat. Yes, but people must leave their offices to eat in these eateries. Besides, some people will prefer African menu. You can start your business from your home making these foods and packaging them and supplying directly to office workers. They will be happy to see you supply them at their offices and you will start building your client base once you start this. This will be very viable in an office area. All they need to have is your phone number and you also have their phone number to call them and ask them the type of menu they want and when they want it.
13 Thrift Collector :
As thrift collector, you will have to collect daily or weekly contributions from your clients. You can target market women, small business owners and artisans who you visit daily and collect a particular amount of contribution and you save the money on their behalf in your bank account. What you need to have here is your card to keep their record of payment. Here you make money by taking a commission on each contribution. What you need to start is just your registration with CAC, and printing of Membership Record Cards.
14. Beautician/Makeup Artiste:
As a beautician or makeup artiste, you can start dressing artiste and making up people who want to look fine for any occasion for a fee. You can have some on contract basis in which case, you are permanently paid every month and you render your service as and when due.
15. Article Writing:
If you know how to write or have flare for writing, then you could convert it into cash. What you need to do here is to write for magazines who are looking for unique writers in a particular niche or field. If you "know about medicine, then you can write for magazines, online magazines, journals etc for money. You can also run your personal newsletter or journal and write and sell it for money. You can do this locally or globally. Locally, you will need to contact local magazines and newspaper. Globally, you can set up a blog site and start making money with it and you are paid monthly cheques.
16. International Survey:
Companies are ready and interested in. knowing what the perception of their product is and are ready to compensate you for your opinion on their products or services. Some will give gifts while some will give money for this. You can visit the Internet and take online surveys and be paid. You see, there are surveys for Nigerians and there are surveys for other countries. And let me stress this, I have seen a lot of people who pay money to companies to take survey and this is wrong. Let us assume this: If MTN Nigeria want to have your opinion on usage of their network in Nigeria, logic will tell you that they won't ask you to pay money, instead, you will be compensated with credit for your time. Just go online and type "international paid survey" and sign up with them and start taking survey. Note also that surveys that will be given to you will depend on what your background is.
17. Proof Reading:
Proofreading is one of the easiest ways to make money from home with little capital to establish. People who have written their books, their web site content are looking for proofreaders who would proofread and correct their tenses and sentences to be professionally ok for reading. All you need here is just your call cards and advertising on classified ads for your services.
18. Phone Call and Card Sales:
You can establish phone call services and make call from home. You can turn your GSM to a paid phone call and make money from home. You can also start selling recharge cards from your home at a profit.
19. Promotional Items:
A lot of businesses love those catchy little items (pens, key, rings, etc) that feature the company's name on them. Entrepreneurs have discovered that customers like them even more. You can start a business taking orders for these goods and selling them to businesses in your area. Hook up with an advertising specialty that can fulfill the orders for you and you will be on your way to wealth.
20. Apartment Preparers:
The truth is that people who rent apartment or homes could damage the premises or leave them in a rather unkempt state. You can start a business from home by coming to prepare the apartment to fit the next tenant by rendering services in the area of cleaning and straightening up to painting, furniture refinishing and more. Your charge should be hourly in order for you to make good money out of these services.
21. Home Crèche:
Because of the nature of cities like Lagos, Abuja etc not all family have the time to take care of their children since they work. They have to contend with both work and family life and there is pressure at all time. You can establish a crèche from your home where they bring their children and you look after them and teach them until their parents return from work.
