When you say
home business, obviously the thing that went to our minds is a business done at home. There are lots of
home business ideas you can think of and you can search the internet for ideas.
Home business is not new and in fact most Filipinos who started their businesses at home became big businesses today. One example is Red Ribbon bakeshop. I remember my wife when she told me about how Red Ribbon bakeshop started. She knew that because she worked there when she was still single, a couple of years before we came to know each other. It actually started as a hobby and the owner used to bake cakes as a gift to friends and relatives and tied it down with red ribbon. So that is where the name of the bakeshop came from.
Traditional home business are vendors who sold kakanin (native delicaies) like suman, bibingka or cuchinta and other street foods which are usually made at home. You can also produce home made laundry detergents, dishwashing liquid, process meat products, novelty crafts and other things limited only by your imagination. So how about online home businesses opportunities? are they available in the Philippines? if internet was not invented, then chances are we won’t be able to dive in this opportunity. Although not too many Filipinos are aware of it, those who have a chance to harness this technology can earn by selling online like in eBay for example. Some create there own ecommerce websites selling goods like Divisoria.Com and PinoyDelikasi.Com. If not there own products, website owners join affiliate networks selling other peoples products and earn by commision. Others sell their services as freelancers doing article writing, programming, website designers and graphics designers.
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In the Philippines, maybe it’s only my opinion when you say travel agency, that’s it its a travel agency. I think many are interested in starting one and if you are reading and found my post now in Google or Yahoo, then perhaps you are interested too. But the fact is there are many types of travel agencies and that includes the following:
- General Sales Agents for Foreign Travel Companies
- Business and Commercial Travel Agencies
- By Class
- Cargo Travel Agencies
- Online Travel Agencies
- Multi-Destination and Niche Agencies
So far the common travel agency we see in the Philippines that are sprouting here and there are the Business and Commercial Travel agencies. This type caters to leisure travel and business travel. Those who are well organized have a separate department for business travel and a separate one for leisure travel in order to find better deals on each one. Since our Government are promoting tourism in our country, I guess most travel agencies here specialize in leisure travel because I frequently see ads on newspapers and in malls discounted rates travelling to exotics places and amusement parks to many countries in Asia and Europe.
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I found an article about a business idea using your digital camera. Yes I know a digital camera is one of the business tools an entrepreneur might have. For example, if you are a photographer, obviously you will need a camera. What I’m saying is what if you are not a professional photographer and you have a digital camera just for fun?
Many companies now are putting their brick and mortar businesses online and depending on the type of business they have, some might need pictures on your area like real state, cars and homes for their online brochure. Sounds stupid but you will never know that someone might need the picture you have taken or some companies might need your services. If you love taking pictures, why not make an archive of them and make a website showing your stock photos? Just be sure to watermark them so nobody can steal those pictures. This is just a sample on how you can make use of your camera and there are lots of opportunities you can think of.
I remember when I was still employed in a computer store owned by my father’s friend. It was actually my father’s friend’s son who owns it. It was located in Greenhills shopping center in San Juan but I was only employed there for less than a month because I wasn’t interested in selling computers that time. I wanted to pursue another career, as an AutoCAD designer because I wanted to learn more how to design stuffs and it was really my plan to use AutoCAD in designing fabricated hollow block machines which was our family business before it flopped. My goal then is to improve the existing design to make the noise tolerable enough. Another reason is why I don’t want to work there is both our parent had some quarrels before so I was embarrassed to work for him. His mother told me that since he was their one and only son, they are looking for a trustee to look after him. They gave me an opportunity but I didn’t grabbed it. I’m too proud I guess.
So back to the computer keyboard story. That time (about 15 years ago), as I was listening from a computer technician, he was telling a story about the computer he was going to repair. It was an IBM XT 286 (he he very funny). Back then XT 486 is the latest CPU it was released after XT 386 which you have to install with a math coprocessor to speed it up a little bit. Then He said, “When I opened the casing of the CPU, I asked the owner of the computer, where did you get this stuff? in a museum?”. We were laughing so hard because 286 was already obsolete that time.
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Looking for a unique Christmas gift? I saw in the internet a PC mouse which is custom made and looks like it came from the Pirates of the Caribbean. It was called the Paradox Mouse. It was created by a blogger and has other PC peripheral modifications posted on his blog called Steam Punk. The mouse looks creepy with real mouse skeleton attached to it (poor mouse). Maybe I’m wrong on mentioning it here at this time because it’s going to be Christmas soon. The mouse should be a Halloween decoration instead. The mouse has a real rat skull inside the grill-like structure (see photo) and rat’s spine on the body of the mouse. This is a functional mouse with left and right button and a scroll button in the middle.
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