Do You Like Working With Your Hands?

I will depart from my usual style of posting today to bring you something that might be helpful if you are having difficulty trying to decide what type of home business you might be interested in. I ran across a book entitled: Great Big Book of Business Lists.

The book listed 62 different small manufacturing businesses that entrepreneurs might start at home. I thought the list was worth quoting here as it seemed to be comprehensive and a good starting point for any of you that might be looking for this type of help.

Obviously, it would help to have expertise in your chosen niche . . . however, I can tell you that there are dropshippers available that can send any kind of product to a buyer.

So even though you may not plan to actually construct patio furniture, for instance, you still have the opportunity to sell it if you can do a good job of finding profitable sources and markets for this product and then market it successfully.

Here is the list as quoted:

1- Patio Furniture Manufacturing

2- Online Manufacturer’s Directory

3- Kitchen Cutting Boards

4- Bookends

5- Weather Vanes

6- Waterbeds

7- Custom Picture Frames

8- Wooden Signs

9- Scratch Posts

10-Wooden Sash Windows

11- Bird Houses

12- Online Bird House Sales

13- Wind Chimes

14- Saunas

15- Prototype Design

16- Roof Trusses

17- Floating Docks

18- Canoe Paddles

19- CD, DVD, Blue-Ray Racks

20- Art Easels

21- Picnic Tables

22- Wood Moldings

23- Old English Telephone Booths

24- Hide-A-Beds

25- Packing Crates

26- Store Display Cases

27- Futons

28- Wood turnings

29- Window sash mirrors

30- Magnetic Signs

31- Specialty Soaps

32- Mailboxes

33- Silk Screened Mouse Pads

34- Staircases

35- Porch Columns

36- Themed Bunk Beds

37- First Aid Kits

38- Christmas Ornaments

39- Custom Doorstops

40- Wood Clothes Hangers

42- Trade Show Displays

43- Snowboards

44- Rubber Stamps

45- Clocks

46- Brooms and Brushes

47- Window Shutters and Blinds

48- Tree House Kits

49- Store Directory Boards

50- Plastic Displays

51- Online Factory Direct

52- Office Dividers

53- Antenna Ornaments

54- Dog Houses

55- Jewelry Boxes

56- Fence Panels

57- Garden Arbors

58- Lattice Manufacturing

59- Driftwood and Log Furniture

60- Air Freshner Manufacturing

61- Aluminum Door and Window Manufacturing

62- Awning Manufacturing

Of course this list is only a beginning to help some of you get the creative juices flowing and think about:

– Things you enjoy doing or making with your hands (or working with)

– Ways you might be able to provide custom, one-of-a-kind products

– Or find sourcing companies that carry what you want to sell

– Whether or not you might be able to compete with other known sources of these same products

– How you will identify and find your customers, especially online – and then contact them

If you can answer these questions, you may just have a great idea for a home based business that is transacted over the Internet.

To your online business success,

Steve Browne

www.stevebrownedirect.com