Home Business Idea - examples of how ordinary people have created positive, productive and profitable retirement plans.

Each of these creative examples is a home business idea that will help me illustrate how your work experiences, interests and hobbies can develop into a creative and profitable lifework by providing information via the internet.

I surveyed a number of site editors via email and asked them how they came to develop their home business site.

Home Business Idea - Audrey Owen, editor at Writer's Helper.com, tripped over a retirement job. A primary school teacher, Audrey earned an MEd degree late in her teaching career. Part of the program included a course in writing. Students were supposed to critique each other's writing. Audrey couldn't wait to get her hands on her colleague's writing. She'd fill their pages with comments and then wait anxiously for the next installment. It turned out that she had the heart of an editor.

That experience and a writing group she formed for other children's writers led her to start an editing business.

Audrey lives in a small and relatively isolated community on the southwest coast of British Columbia, Canada. She could never make a living editing for the local population of 20,000. Her Web site draws clients from the whole English-speaking world, making her early retirement an economic possibility.

Home Business Idea - Christine Albury, emigrated from the UK to the Bahamas along with her husband and four children two years ago and it soon became obvious that because of the high cost of living on the islands, there was an obvious need for two incomes.
However, Christine and her husband agreed it was important for her to stay at home and care for the children, at least until they started school –the internet offered up a possible solution.

Like many of us, Christine know nothing about Ecommerce and her internet experience was limited to basic web searching and sending Emails.
So the Albury’s started researching and came across Site Build It.

From the free information they downloaded from the SBI Action Guide, they were guided to a home business idea that solved their problem – Christine loved writing and was passionate about natural child care, had always made her own baby food and actively encouraged others to do the same – the perfect Ecommerce combination.

“ With SBI, I could see a way to share my thoughts and recipes with others and perhaps make a living doing something I really enjoy!”

Christine also found that while SBI takes you by the hand and takes care of all the techie stuff, another big bonus in the package is the SBI Forums – as Christine notes - “...... best of all, SBI has the most amazing forums! It is so comforting to have someone to ask every time I hit a problem. And sometimes it's just a great place to bounce around ideas, or find out what's working well for others.”

Christine has proved that Ecommerce success is possible for work at home Moms, but only for WAHM’s who have “patience, dedication and time”

Check out Christine’s www.homemade-baby-food-recipes.com

Home Business Idea - Here’s an example of how finding the right teacher can save you time and money and help you build on a home business idea.
Cindy English moved from Canada to Georgia eight years ago to work as a contractor for the Federal government. There were two, thankfully short, unemployment spells between contracts, an experience that led to some serious thinking about the need for some form of supplement income. Cindy looked to the internet as a possibility.

Being self taught in computer skills but far from being ecommerce savvy, Cindy, like many of us, was taken for several pricey rides to nowhere by scam sharks who hunt the waters of the web looking for innocent newbies.
Cindy can’t remember how she found Site Build It, but as the downloading of the Action Guide was free she decided to go for it. Just fifteen days later, Cindy, following SBI’s step-by step roadmap, registered her first domain name - beach-wedding-themes

Cindy told me -

"It was slow going as I was working full time as a Project Manager but...although it did not seem 'lucky' at the time, when the contract that I was working was awarded to a new company, they brought in new management, so, I was out of a job on Feb 14th. I decided to use the time to work on my site. I put my head down and it was FULL STEAM AHEAD! I didn't even LOOK for a job...just kept building. It did not take long before I could see that everything that Ken (Dr. Ken Evoy, developer of SBI) had promised and everything that he had said would happen, WAS happening! I was on cloud nine! Still am!”

Cindy now has three sites up and running with another on the drawing board.
As for the supplement income imitative that started this creative challenge? All income goals have been surpassed – Google checks get bigger every month - her home business idea has paid off.

I asked Cindy what was the most difficult part in developing her site -

” I really haven't found any of it to be difficult. I did what Ken (Dr. Ken Evoy, developer of SBI) said, I read the SBI Action Guide, put my blinders on and ignored the rest of the net. I TRUSTED him and I was right to do so!”

Home Business Idea - Carol, who lives in the Chiltern Hills area of England is 59 years young, a mother of 5 and grandmother of 8. From 1989 to her retirement last year, Carol was involved with a local women’s centre coordinating a support group for survivors of child sexual abuse. For years, Carol wanted to create somewhere women could be heard on an interactive basis – “where their contributions would be valued for what they are, women speaking to women.”

With her self-taught computer skills, her home business idea presented itself when she was directed to Dr. Ken Evoy’s SiteSell program.

Following the SiteSell roadmap, Carol's home business idea turned into a website "Women’s Words" – that covers a wide range of topics important to women and to Carol – creative writing, self-help, domestic violence and other social issues

Carol's ultimate home business idea is to develop a directory of UK women's organizations under one roof - a major undertaking. In the meantime, Carol said this about her creative retirement plan.
“I'm having the time of my life, making a little money and meeting some fantastic people, but most importantly it keeps my finger on the pulse and me young.”

Here is a true example of how someone can build on a home business idea by establishing a targeted website that provides useful information on a subject they’re knowledgeable about because they “lived it.”

Dave immigrated to Canada after leaving the British armed forces. After settling in Calgary, Alberta, Dave was asked by a British military magazine to write an article about his experiences of working his way through the Canadian immigration system.

That assignment led to a home business idea that proved to be a valuable one. Dave became an innocent victim in an car crash. After the accident, he decided to finally do something to provide extra income (hopefully leading to working from home)and began searching the internet for ideas. Like many of us who have gone through this search, he was assaulted with all kinds of scams and get rich schemes.

Luckily, he was directed to Dr. Ken Evoy's SBI He studied the manuals, discussed the possibilities with his wife and during a brainstorming session, remembered the article he had written for the Brit military magazine – the rest as they say, is history.

Although still building, and hasn’t been “googled” yet, plus working with highly competitive keywords, Dave’s One-stop Canadian information resource – everything you need for immigration Is logging 3,500 unique visitors to his site each month and he hasn’t even started on his marketing yet.

Dave also wants to emphasize – travel Websites are not a get-rich-quick proposition – it takes work, dedication and patience.

Home Business Idea - Michael Gelman in West Palm Beach Florida has more than twelve years experience as a financial consultant and after selling off his credit counseling companies formed a business-to-business consulting firm. However, he has a passion to help people who are overburdened with debt. With the help of some of this companies senior staff, Michael produced a web site dedicated to strictly helping people with debt and their finances. This site does not make money – it’s free advice, but for Michael it’s a Home Business Idea that offers “a creative” opportunity to offer the benefit of his expertise to those who need it. Free Debt advisor

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