5 Simple and Creative Home Business Ideas

The forced lock-down of people at home because of covid-19 pandemic has made many people to have another look at businesses they can do in the interim. Many are just realizing that you don’t really need to commute and be in formal office environment to do something profitable to better your life. Necessity they say is the mother of invention. What you really need is to be a bit creative and to think out of the box to get something going for you.

Here are some 5 creative home business ideas you can consider.

1. Affiliate Marketing

With access to a computer and the internet, you can easily become an affiliate marketer working from home. Selling appears to be the biggest problem of product merchants. Affiliate marketers help to mitigate that problem. The relationship is simple. All an Affiliate marketer needs to do is to simply partner with product merchants to help market their products. Once a sale is made, the affiliate marketer gets paid a commission if that sale is directly attributable to his marketing efforts. It is as simple as that and anyone can thus get to be an affiliate marketer working directly from home. Affiliate marketing is one of the best small business ideas you can easily start and do from home even with limited skills and experience. Just get yourself a computer/laptop, a good internet connection and a marketable product; you are in business working out of your home.



2. Handmade Products

Handmade products are very suitable business ideas especially for women still raising a family. Many women can decide to bake cakes, make chocolates, biscuits, scented candles, knitted apparels, face masks, hand crafts, etc. etc. and sell out of their homes. They only need a very small capital outlay to buy materials and inputs. With their skills and creativity, they go to work to make good marketable products in high demand. These they can make and sell out of their homes to satisfy customer demands and even through a specially designed website for a wider reach.

3. Teaching Online Classes

As they say in human relations, everyone knows something better than someone else. That “something” can be taught to others as an income-earning activity. There is no doubt you are aware that teaching is a very noble activity even as a business. You get satisfaction from helping others to gain some knowledge while others get satisfaction from being able to learn something from you. If you get to make some money from this relationship, it is all well and good. It thus becomes a good and respectable business for you to make some money from. If you have a teachable knowledge about something, there are good platforms on the internet where you can complete your profile and get paid for tutoring and creating online courses. Teaching a good course on demand online is one of the best ways to earn some money from home. If you have a smart computer, stable internet connection, and a deep passion to teach and learn, you can be in some teaching business working out of your home.

4. Skills Coaching

This is a bit similar to teaching online courses but instead of just the information, you need to teach specialized skills here. Most of these skills relate to extracurricular activities like sports, playing musical instruments, music, singing, dancing, gymnastics, body building, painting, sculpting, molding, carving, carpentry, etc. etc. It is a great small business idea to teach any of these skills on demand if you have the knowledge and skills. It makes some business sense too to think of getting together with some other skillful persons and pool your skills together to establish an academy for such skills. That done, it is possible to get good patronage and make money as well!

5. Social Events Planning

This is one great business idea which helps to take pressure off most celebrants. No matter how depressed the world has become as a result of the ravaging pandemic, life still goes on. Anniversaries, birthdays, marriages and other important social events are still taking place even at reduced scales. Despite the effects of the pandemic, there is still money to be made from social events planning. Some people may appear poor but many still like to spend some good money to once in a while celebrate events which are very important in their lives. That is where the business of helping to plan and organize such events becomes very handy. Anyone with some experience no matter how little in organizing mere picnics or even birthday parties can do this business. If you have the right connections, it is possible to be in high demand to render this service to many and diverse people, families and even corporate organizations. Total and comprehensive packaging of every activity that is required for each event can be scaled to be one of the best profit generating small business ideas anyone can think of in any community.

Tips to Approach Prospects when Marketing in SFI

In SFI business, if you are not good at approaching people face-to-face, know that you are not alone. You have company in the vast majority of people. There is a way out though. Talking to people one-on-one is a skill that can be learned. The following tips do come in very handy to help out:

1. Regularly read self-improvement books about developing such skills.
2. Start by talking to friends and family members.
3. Encourage them to point out your faults if any.
4. Talk to yourself in your bathroom mirror.
5. Learn how to psyche up yourself.
6. Write notes first and study them thoroughly on any subject you want to talk about.
7. Learn to speak with confidence.
8. Be very knowledgeable about any subject matter you want to talk about.
9. Learn to look people in the eyes when talking to them.
10. Be conscious always of the value of time to your prospects.
11. Address any and everyone with respect.
12. Focus more on learning the art of approaching and you can approach anyone accordingly.
13. Let your self-confidence shine through always with positive enthusiasm when talking to people.
14. Always bear in mind that anyone can be approached. It is your attitude which determines the outcome.
15. Choose carefully places and locations where you can talk to people.
16. Be confident at handling rejections because they are inevitable.