You don’t need a whole lot of money to start up a service type of business. In a service business, you use your skills to get income and reinvest some of the profits into the business which will generate more profits. What are your skills? Are you good with plumbing or electrical work? cleaning? computers? teaching? writing??? Only you know what you can and cannot do. You’ll make more money working for yourself than working for someone else but you have to excel at whatever it is you do. Get referrals from customers for their family and friends and just keep plugging along. You’ll hear "NO" alot more than "YES" but you won’t hear anything if you don’t ask. Learn as much as you can about your industry and set yourself apart from the others. You don’t need huge amounts of money to make up flyers. Post an ad on Craig’s List. Ask local stores if you can hang flyers for your business. I am willing to bet that you’ll be successful as soon as you believe in your success.
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There is a way that you can go back to work, and the start-up cost is very minimal. There is an industry that a lot of people think is a scam, but it’s not. Just like anything else any industry is only as good as the people that work in it.

There is a lot of work in this industry, the pay is not great but it will pay a few bills and you could in up meeting some that sees the good work that you do and decide to give a regular job. You can also build yourself up to working full-time 40-60 hours per week if you want to.

There are a lot of companies out there that need your help. You get to choose when and where you work, the type of work that you are going to be doing and to some degree how much you make (you can take only higher paying job if you wish). The best part is that you have your own home based business with all the tax breaks that go with it.

The major pitfall is that these companies are slow in paying you for your work. Some companies take 4 – 6 weeks to pay you. Despite the pitfall, the work is interesting, there is a lot of variety so you don’t get bored, and some of the work can be a lot of fun to. You also get to meet a lot of very interesting people, and see things that most people do not get to see, normally.

The industry that I am telling you about is – Mystery Shopping, Merchandising, Product Demonstration & Audits, Customer Survey’s and Interviews.
- Mystery Shopping – This is where you go into a business and you are checking into how well the business looks (clean and organized). You are also there to evaluate the employees on how well they do their jobs. Many times you are there to purchase something, when this happens you are paid to do the shop and reimbursed for your purchase (to a certain limit, which you know about before you accept the job assignment).
- Product Demonstrations – This simply is where you go into a business and set up a display table/stand and handout sample of a certain product or demonstrate how a product works to increase the sales of the product you are there to represent.
- Audits- These are usually very easy assignments to do. Some you go in to check the dates on a product to see if they are selling or out dated. You may be sent in to count the inventory for a certain product. I did an assignment once that it was my job to go into this one chain of stores in my area to count how may shelves or basket they had in their cooler (5 minute job each store), I did 75 – 80 in one week and made about $600. Those kinds of assignments don’t come along very often, but when they do, whew what a deal!
- Customer Survey’s – You are simply asking customer their opinion on some specific type of questions on a variety of subjects.
- Customer Interviews – This where you ask question about their shopping experience as they are leaving the store. You will be asking to interview people as they come in about their expectation on shopping at the store.
Some of these assignments pay better than other, it really depends on your service area (how far you are willing to travel for your work assignments), the type of work you are willing to do (store resets and set-ups, pay real well, but you have to travel and be gone several days), the number of hour you are willing to work, your dependability, your honesty, the quality of work that you do, and your level of experience (including any certifications that you have).

Some assignments can lead into a full-time position.

One excellent company to start off with is – http://www.certifiedfieldassociates.com – There is no start-up cost or membership fees of any kind, and they have lots of work (at least in my area).

Once you get started another excellent source for finding more companies to work with is – http://www.shadowshopper.com – You can sign-up for free, and upgrade later which gives a much better opportunity to make money. The paid membership to start off with is a small amount, but well worth it. You will get access to certification opportunities, and a awesome list of companies looking for you to work for them. Plus you will get a lot of companies asking you to do work for them, just because of your membership with Shadow Shopper.

One more great source for making money from home is something that i had been looking for, for a long time and did not know it. Social Network websites. The more common ones that you, might know of is, MySpace, Facebook, and YouTube. But I found some others for people like you and me that are looking to make money or extra money.

These sites are great for learning about how to make money from home and to meet people and build yourself a network of people that can help with just about any problem that you come across. They can be downright fun.

Three of the sites that I signed-up with, I have listed below.
http://homebizconnection.ning.com & http://assurantagents.ning.com & http://homebasedbusinessprogram.ning.com

You can learn a lot from these websites about business a
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