Fwd: 55 business ideas

After reading this article I’m not really sure about it, it sounds more like side jobs than real scaleable businesses.

But keeping my goal in mind – which is to be globally free*- there are some jobs which fulfill this:

 

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/201588-2

 

My favorites:

 

11. EDITORIAL SERVICES
Has expansion possibilities

Here are some of the editorial services you can provide from the quiet of your own home:

• Copyediting. This is where fact checking takes place, and where grammatical, stylistic and typographical errors are caught.
• Proofreading. This is the last stop for a "finished" piece. The proofreader makes sure the copyediting changes have been properly made and no new errors are created in the process.
• Indexing. There are indexing courses available and you can get indexing software.
• Developmental editing. A developmental editor works with a manuscript on big-picture things like organization and content issues.
• Book doctoring. This is an editorial service provided for manuscripts written by experts. They create a manuscript as best they can and then a book doctor puts it into publishable shape.
• Ghost Writing. As a ghost writer, you actually do the research and write the book and someone else's name is attached as the author.
• Copywriting. Also known as business writing, this is writing that promotes a product or a service.
• Book writing. Do you have an expertise in something professional, such as accounting or interior decorating? Or personally, like knitting? Why not write a book about it?
• Magazine article writing. Magazines and newspapers are a great way to get your writing published before tackling the daunting task of writing a whole book.
• Web page content provider. Providing content for a web site is a good way to make some money writing.

 

14. EXPERT WITNESS SERVICE
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

One way to make money in this field is by being an expert witness yourself. If you have an expertise that could be useful in legal cases, you can market yourself to attorneys to act as an expert witness. Another way to be active in the expert witness field is to play a sort of matchmaker, matching attorneys up with expert witnesses for their cases--either for the defense or for the prosecution. Expert witnesses for big money cases can be expected to fly anywhere to testify. There's no reason your database of witnesses can't be from all parts of the country.

38. DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

You can use desktop publishing software to create newsletters, magazines, books or even marketing materials. You can create the content for your desktop publications, or you can pay a writer to create the content for you. Alternatively, you can advertise your desktop publishing services to design and create newsletters and books for others with their content.

40. FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Despite the proliferation of the internet, print media is here to stay for the foreseeable future! Fliers, newsletters, magazines, information sheets, letters and advertisements are just a few of the types of print media that business hire freelancers to create for them. Websites and online advertising need graphic design services as well. Even if your expertise is only in design, offer the works for potential clients, including the editorial creation and the printing and even mailing of the final piece. You can line up regular freelancers for those parts of the job you can't do.

 

What?! In my opinion not a good idea as a “new” business to start.

49. PHOTOGRAPHER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Making money as a photographer can be done in a number of different ways. You can specialize in one area, the most common being weddings. There are niches you can explore for photography: portraits of people and their pets, families, and homes; photographs of holiday events, birthday parties or Christmas cards; the possibilities are endless.

[From my experience this is the way of the loser, just like starving artists, if you want to starve – be a photographer or artist. What is the difference between a succesful artist/photographer and the unsuccessful artist/photographer? Answer: Business! Either a business degree or business sense; the succesful artists/photographers are businessmen FIRST, the art and objects are totally secondary to their business.]

 

51. WEBSITE DEVELOPER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Many courses exist (many of which, logically, are offered online) where you can learn the language of website creation and can learn about the details, like how to set up shopping cart systems, security concerns, etc. You will, of course, need to learn about each company you design for. What is the atmosphere of the company that you need to reflect in the website design--is it wild and contemporary, meaning brilliant colors and fun graphics? Or will more classic colors like black, navy blue and maroon be more appropriate?

*Yes, yes, I know my goal is to make a million dollars in 5 years. But why do I want to be rich? In the beginning my goal was to be globally free; so I could move wherever I want whenever I want.  After researching this subject more I noticed there was one thing that enables this, one thing that they all have in common – money. So I readjusted my goal, let’s say my ‘immediate’ goal to make a million in 5 years, with my ‘higher’ ultimate goal being to be totally globally free.

  This alludes to Scott Adams – systems insteads of goals. I have reached many goals in my life, from flying planes to moving to Europe etc.. I can go from small goal to small goal all I want… and never reach my higher goal. If I’m a multi-millionaire, all of my little goals will fall like dominoes… flying? What kind of plane do you want to fly? House? Where do you want to live and on how many continents? This global freedom only exists for millionaires. Sure I know there are jobs that are not location specific like the ones mentioned above, but that is a ‘lower’ goal. 

Real freedom is only attained when one is really successful. The money in your bank is only and indicator or side effect of your system. Make it a KPI if you will, my first KPI/Milestone is 1 million$ in 5 years.