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Congratulations in the first place for searching for home based business idea. Like you, I have tried numerous opportunities based on ads, sending off credit card to get the insight from some millionaires, taking paid surveys, acted quickly to receive a 50% discount. I spent thousands of hours and dollars to explore a quick rich scheme to find the best home based business idea.

Out of these exercises, I learnt to do the proper due diligence and I learnt to pick the ones that worked. And I am more than happy to share the top ten home based business ideas with you.

Home Based Business Idea 1: Converting Your Hobbies into a Business
There are basically only two types of things in the world, one type is things you like to do, and the other is things you don’t like to do. Imagine how great life would be if you had a chance to live all your day by only doing the things you love to do.
I would call it living! Athletes call it Zone, Artists call it Flow.
You can live the life of your dreams when you convert those dreams into hobbies. Nothing else is more value than honesty, knowledge and true enthusiasm. Whatever your hobby is, you could make a great living out of it by turning it into a home based business.
What Do You Need?
Passion! You need to identify what your true passion is!
Ranking 5/5

Home Based Business Idea 2: eBay and Auction Selling
For just one moment, remember those days. No internet, no e bay. You put up a garage sale sign, and are awake from 5 in the morning, trying to sell the old lawn mower.
Now come back to current time. If you have the same lawnmower, you can get it listed into e bay, some one from 500 miles away from your home has just bought it for $400.00
Do you see the point? Could you turn it into a profitable business? I made six figure incomes by importing goods from drop shippers, and selling them through online local auction called trade me. Time Spent may be 1 hour a day or less.
What Do You Need?
How to add, subtract, email and know how to list in online auctions.
Ranking 5/5

Home Based Business Idea 3: Web designing
What on earth do you think made me learn web design at an age of 27, being a civil engineer?
Because I knew for what I am trying to achieve, I will need a website. I tried to get quotes from some local companies; sexy sales reps came to meet me and present quotations from 5 to 10k.
I knew there must be some other ways. I put an ad in the local student club, got it done at half the price and the designer showed me how easy it was. I downloaded demo version of Dream weaver and created my next website myself.
If you can design quality websites, I recommend right now quit your day job and start your own web design business.
What Do You Need?
A good PC, web design software (there are plenty of them available on the net even for free) and a bit of marketing
Ranking 5/5

Home Based Business Idea 4: Desktop Publishing
When I first started up my physical business, I knew the value to desktop publishers. How much I wished I could be one. Unfortunately my brain does not work that way! I called up so many people; I required logo, cards and brochure to be designed, and explored so many places, and they were so expensive!
If your brain works in this way, you have the gift to put together brochure and newsletters, you could offer your own desktop publishing service to other small businesses.
What Do You Need?
Although highly profitable, it is not for everyone. You need to be good in designing and efficient in using relevant software
Ranking 4/5

Home Based Business Idea 5: Business Coaching
There are two ways to learn, learning the hard way, by doing the mistakes yourself, and secondly learning the wise way, by learning from others mistakes.
Most of the successful small business owners are smart people and they prefer learning by looking at others mistakes. Also doing a silly mistake may become fatal to the small business owners. That’s why business coaching and mentoring is becoming increasingly popular everyday.
If you have relevant background or experience, by all means go ahead and start your own coaching business. If not, there is plenty of great business coaching franchises available for you.
What Do You Need?
An open mind, ability to feel others problem as your problem, leadership skills, knowledge and industry experience
Ranking 4/5

Home Based Business Idea 6: Child Care Service
Are you a big fan of Daddies day care movie? If you look at your local business directory, you will find that the hot businesses that get sold within two days of listing at a top price are child care businesses.
And the trend will be going up, up and up. As time goes by, parents will be becoming busier, and more willing to spend a fair chunk of their income for a good childcare service.
What Do You Need?
You can deceive the whole world, but you can not deceive a child mind. I really love children and wish I had the childhood connection with super intelligence back. You must be truly caring, and love children, I repeat you must love children
Ranking 4/5

Home Based Business Idea 7: Virtual Assistant Opportunity
Again, thanks to the internet and home based business. How much did a small business owner wished, if I could have a shadow secretary, filtering my email, drafting my letters, looking at the accounts, paying the bills and reminding me of my appointments? It’s a shame I can’t afford one!
Now it’s a different scenario. Virtual assistant opportunities in providing the above mentioned solutions are becoming popular and you could easily ride this tide. You could even employ some staff to help you out.
What Do You Need?
Some secretary skills, efficiency in using computers.
Ranking 4/5

Home Based Business Idea 8: Free Lance Photography
On my graduation day, for the first time in my life I used the service of a professional photographer. I was amazed to see his luxurious studio, his home theatre and audio system, and his collection of cameras and classical music (that is my one weakness).
Did you ever try to purchase a picture of a photographer for your article or college wall journal? Was it an easy task? Definitely not cheap!
If you like photography, you can combine it with internet to create a very successful home based business. You can offer your services as a free lancer to small and big companies, news papers, magazines. You could offer your service to weddings, college functions and where not?
What Do You Need?
A good camera, a good PC, a good collection of lenses and mindset of a good photographer
Ranking 5/5

Home Based Business Idea 9: Writing E Books and Articles
Napoleon Hill, when he wrote his book, got paid $1 a month from the president of USA. But when his book was published and sold, he earned more than a few millions from the sale during the first year.
Publishing a book is another mammoth task, almost a nightmare for a novice writer.
With e-books, you can eliminate this nightmare and enjoy a part of this great success by brilliant authors.
What Do You Need?
A bit of creativity, project planning and management skills and persistence
Ranking: 5/5

Home Based Business Idea 10: Interior Designer
No matter when you are moving to a new home, or re-decorating your home, moving to new office, how much do you wish for a consultation from an interior designer? Do you believe in Fang Shui?
If you are good in colour, material selection and arrangement you should go for it. If you do not have a relevant qualification, do not worry, you can just get one in 3 to 4 months from lots of organizations. Do well in whatever you are doing, and your phone won’t stop ringing.
What Do You Need?
A creative mind, passion for space and making things look better.

Let’s face it, as far as advertising goes, sometimes bigger is better. And in the ad space business, a semi-trailer is about as big as it gets.

For the past few years the U.S. trucking industry has involved in a movement to make advertising more effective and affordable for the businesses whose products they carry. Now, after much study and testing, many are starting to realize, this marketing-in-motion tool is not only cheaper but also more powerful than most other traditional advertising media. The real marvel is that so few businesses know about it.

Fleet trucks are no longer simply delivering products – they’re delivering advertising messages as well. Some of the biggest names in the transportation industry have signed on to offer ad space including Roadway, Swift, Yellow, Supervalue, Trailways and Greyhound.

Some see it as the 9th form of advertising – fluid and mobile to capture the attention of a consumer constantly in motion. It’s common sense advertising that’s not yet very common. – the ultimate form of Guerilla Marketing. Mobile ad companies are springing up across the country and banking on the visual impact, constant motion and the sheer size of this medium to put American businesses and brands back into the ad game.

The question for advertisers is, what would it do for your business if you could reach over half of American on any given business day and get your advertising noticed over 90% of the time? Wherein out door media now reaches 96% of Americans, mobile media is rapidly becoming one of the best tools for advertisers to communicate their messages.

Right now, mobile (truckside) advertising may be the most direct way to reach the nearly 150 million people that commute every business day. With outdoor advertising space at a premium, Truckside Ads serve as readily available, highly affordable advertising space and studies show that the impact ratings of mobile media trucks scored higher than all other outdoor media – combined. (Thibodeaux Research Inc.)

Studies and campaigns conducted over the past 5 years show truckside advertising can deliver between 30,000 and 70,000 impressions per day, depending if it is a regional or national operator. Depending in the market, metro trucks ads are seen by 10 -14 million pares of eyes a year. An astounding 18 million Number of annual impressions can be generated by a truck in a DMA market of more than 5,000,000 people. Some mobile billboard campaigns have produced over 150,000 impressions in a single hour in Las Vegas, NV.

This form of mobile marketing can saturate any size U.S. market, where you routinely have trucks and trailers that travel hundreds of miles a day or around a city block. A mobile campaign can run as many weeks or months as you wish, exposing an audience to a graphic ad showcase with many repeat viewings for up to 10 hours a day.

Our Mobile Society

We Americans are very much a mobile society. Some 150 million of us commute every business day, travel some 300 miles on average a week and over 15,000 miles per year. (Collectively, over 3 trillion miles a year) We spend on average 15 hours a week in our cars driving on some 4 million miles of U.S. roads. For many people, possibly most, the time spent in the car when they could see advertising is several times the amount of time they have to devote to traditional in-home media. (Arbitron Study)

People are commuting greater distances, and as congestion grows worse, the traffic is moving more slowly and as Airlines become more crowded with security concerns and longer delays people are returning to their cars for cross-country travel. Many people would not even consider air travel for trips less than 500 miles. Heavy vehicle mileage and long commutes are becoming the norm. An estimated 90% of the population uses the highways regularly (PUH: People Using Highways). Highway travelers are probably the very best audience and the mobile-billboard ad is welcome entertainment, and there is little competition for this audience’s attention as there is so little ad clutter.

The increase in travel is making it harder for advertisers to reach their target with conventional advertising methods. With more Americans commuting, more vehicles on the road and longer commute times/distances, reaching them effectively between 7 am and 7 pm has become a challenge for traditional media. There is clearly tremendous growth potential for out-of-home, in-car advertising, as this is where the audience has gone. The findings of a recent Arbitron Outdoor Media Study seem to suggest truckside advertising is the perfect answer to reaching today’s consumer:

According to the recent Arbitron Outdoor Media Study “media that targets vehicle drivers/passengers reach 96% of Americans weekly and outdoor media that targets pedestrian traffic reach 79 percent weekly.” Another important finding of the study is that over one-third of Americans shop near work. Among those who work full-time, 62 percent say they shop closer to home and 35 percent indicate they shop equally near home/work or shop most at work. “This indicates that advertisers cannot just target consumers who live near their retail locations; they must also consider the sizable group of consumers who shop near work when constructing their media plans,” says Jacqueline Noel, director, sales and marketing, Arbitron Outdoor. “By examining the results of the study, marketers can identify out-of-home media that have the ability reach the working crowd, as well as gain important insight into outdoor advertising’s role in the overall media mix.”

More significant findings: Late night TV news is not seen by 56% of all consumers. 54% of all consumers do not watch morning TV. 25% do not watch evening news. In fact, today, 29% of consumers do not read a newspaper. (Source: OAAA 4/2001) Now we’re talking about Arbitron (radio ratings) and the guys at Nielson (TV ratings). These are the companies that provide the accepted price quotients for broadcast advertising. They have seen growth in truckside (advertising) while others mediums have stagnated, and they’re doing something about it.

The Big Out-of-Doors Audience

According to OAAA chief marketing officer Stephen Freitas, “Outdoor advertising is experiencing unprecedented growth in resources and revenue, and truckside advertising plays a key role in fueling this growth by providing advertisers an important new planning option.” “For the past few years, TruckSide advertising has been promoted based on cost effectiveness and ability to enter markets where conventional out-of-home advertising methods are limited or unavailable, “Now there’s conclusive proof of TruckSide’s value as a powerful marketing tool that impacts awareness, attitudes and opinions. “Over the past few years, the outdoor advertising industry has evolved into a rejuvenated media force… that’s poised to compete aggressively in the 21st century media fray.”

Out-of-door media is typically available even in towns that are too small to have a radio station or a local newspaper. The system of using vending truck billboards can provide advertising opportunities right down to the neighborhood level, which may be useful if your campaign is concentrating on inner city residents. Truckside advertising has the ability to target all segments of our society. The versatility and sheer impact of truckside advertising allows advertisers to capture the attention of business decision makers and consumers during part of their daily routines.

To quote a recent TIME Magazine article entitled “Getting on Board – An Old Advertising Medium is being Reinvented” TIME says “Thanks to the Web, cell phones and applications like Bluetooth and text messaging, one of the oldest ad media is suddenly one of the industry’s most fashionable. U.S. marketers spent $6.3 billion last year on out-of-home campaigns, as billboard advertising is called–an 8% increase from the year before, making outdoor the second fastest-growing ad medium after the Internet. And at a time when consumers have become increasingly mobile and increasingly overloaded with information, the outdoor ad industry is touting the billboard, the updated version as well as the old standby, as the last powerful way to reach a mass audience efficiently”

Stationary billboards work well if you can secure a great location. The problem is, the best billboard space has a waiting list and low cost billboard space won’t be visible to most of the population. Truckside Ads routinely cover an area filled with hundreds of billboards in a single day. This is really the last major untapped ad medium, there’s nothing else left.

Mobile Might

Mobile marketing campaigns offers better targeting and more frequency. For instance, a zip code analysis as the truck passes through a particular zip code, where you will pull up census data linked to those zip codes, such as the age of people in that area, their income, family structure, etc…It’s a street level-in-your-face presence and it’s recurring. People will believe that the products being delivered are your products. Truckside Ads deliver a major branding effect and that is a wonderful benefit.

In short, one truckside ad with a great graphic can generate millions of impressions per year. Imagine the results with a photographic image larger than life getting your company noticed, day in and day out – for 1/30th the rate of a prime time TV Ad. The monthly cost of an ad trailer is around the national average cost of a static billboard. Trucks have become so much like rolling billboards that they are rated the same way in terms of impressions made, wherein all advertising media is measured in terms of cost per thousand (CPM) – truckside advertising is around $1.50 – currently the lowest in the industry.

Does truckside and mobile billboard advertising really work? Many of Americas top Brands and Fortune 500 companies are already taking advantage of it. McDonald’s, Procter and Gamble, IBM, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, GM, Delta Air Lines, Kraft Foods, Saab, NBC, Burger King, Toyota, Cadbury Shweppes, Bic Pens, XM Radio,…have all successfully implemented truckside-advertising and mobile-billboard campaigns to reach their target audiences where they work, play and congregate.

A surprising statistic shows that again, while outdoor media reaches over 96 percent of all U.S. consumers, most advertising media budgets only allocate it one-three percent. Wherein all advertising media is measured in terms of cost per thousand (CPM); truck-side advertising is around $1.50 – the lowest in the industry.

This is an interesting point considering the fact that it is the one medium that does not require the consumer to purchase anything or subscribe to something to view it. (TV, Radio, Newspaper, Magazine, Internet, Direct Mail & Yellow Pages all rely on ads to exist…)

Today’s’ marketing must engage the consumer or it will not register – at all. When the average American is exposed to over 600,000 media messages a year – any medium that actually breaks through the advertising clutter and white noise is indeed impressive – and most of the experts are in agreement – that’s just what this one does.