Can a home based travel agency be profitable?
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It is now tougher to be in the home based travel agency business. The Internet has changed the landscape of the travel business, and a number of changes has affected this business that has reduced the demand for travel agents:\n\n- An increasing number of customers plan and make their travel reservations online -- without the help from a travel agent. \n\n- Airlines no longer pay commissions to travel agencies. This has reduced their revenues and caused some agencies to go out of business. \n\nNote, though that some consumers still prefer to use a professional travel agent to ensure reliability, to save time, and, in some cases, to save money. \n\nYour best bet would be to find a niche in the travel sector and focus on that. For example, you may want to tap the active baby boomers and create travel packages for them.
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In a survey performed by Microsoft bCentral, internet sales and marketing was listed at the #1 home based business. Its ranking was based on high ease of entry, relatively low cost, high future demand and potentially high return.\n\nWhat should you look for in an "ideal" internet business? \n\n- No or minimal start-up fees (Our business start-up is $29.00)\n- A product or service you feel good about  (Consumable products used in every home… safer, more effective, less expensive, things people use and need on a daily basis)\n- A duplicable system (work FOR yourself- NOT BY yourself… we are a TEAM of individuals working to help others… “Enhancing the lives of those we touch by helping others reach their goals from Home!!!”\n- Residual income (Residual Income PLUS bonuses for helping others!!!)\n- Customizable web sites to promote your business  (Free website for ALL Members)\n- Free training and support  (Free Company and TEAM Training… we will work with you to reach YOUR GOALS!!!)\n- Free marketing materials and ideas (Our support team has 70 members who are there to help you every step of the way… Training and support from people who have been there and done that.  Training provided via email, internet, or telephone)\n- Company in business at least 18 months and in good standing with the Better Business Bureau (Inc 500 Company in business for over 20 years with over 700 Million in annual sales. As for the Better Business Bureau: “The Eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming division of the Better Business \nBureau recently presented Our Company AND CEO with its 2005 "Hall of Fame" award. This prestigious award honored Our Company for its example of ethics and integrity in \ndealings with customers, employees, and the community. We have received many other Prestigious Awards.)\n\nFor more information on how I AM replacing my income from home... (Not get rich quick scheme...my OWN legit BUSINESS) contact me through yahoo 360 or IM.\n\nMy websites: http://learn2.momsmakemore.com or http://learn2.ownanewbusiness.com
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as far as I am aware NO ONE makes thousands doing anything at home.  Watch out for the scams.  Check it out though - this could be the golden egg!! :o)
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I think it is very possible.  My business does both.  The key is finding a nitche market.  We are in the wedding business so that is always a large market.  What specifically are you looking to sell?  Product or service?
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There is no magic business that anyone can just get into and earn big money while doing very little. Otherwise, we'd all be millionaires here.\n\nThe best business will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n6 Hottest Businesses on the Web  http://www.powerhomebiz.com/052006/web.htm \n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home\n\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/BizIdeas/bizideas.htm
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The best home business that you can be sure is not a scam is one that you start yourself. It will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nYou can also check out the following books:\n\nTurn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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There is nothing simple or easy about starting a home-based business.\n\nThere is nothing simple about doing business on the Internet.\n\nYour best chance for success is to make a list of all the skills you have - what you like to do, what you are good at doing and then match that with a perceived need.  \n\nIf there is an existing market for what you can do, it's much easier.  Otherwise you will be spending large amounts of time building up a clientele for your product or service.\n\nA good place to start is with SCORE - link below - for free business advice from retired executives.\n\nEven if you don't spend cash starting up - be prepared to invest lots of time - most of it without bringing in cash - to establish and build your business.  \n\nEven when you do get clients, expect to put in long hours - most successful businesses don't begin to see a profit for 3-5 years.
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Most areas require professional licensing.  Once that is accomplished, you should have no trouble drumming up business with a relatively modest advertising budget, given the immense popularity of this therapy.  You might even want to consider a "traveling service" as opposed to a traditional "office" setting; bringing your service to homes and businesses is a great way to drum up free "word-of-mouth" advertising.
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You can either appoint an agent or a representative in Singapore as that may cost much less compared to opening an office where rental and hiring of backup staff can add-up to quite a bit.\n\nI conduct my own business as well and travel often to Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Myanmar.  I might be able to assist in those areas.
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If it sounds too good to be true then most likely it is.\nThere are lots of legit ways to make money from home. \nLike doing surveys like I do, selling on-line, making your own website, joining and selling for affiliate sites.
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Yes you can make a lot of money if you are working for a large organisation, with a good brand name, if not then no.\nHuman resource business is same as any other business..sometime peak and sometime low..depends on the demand and supply of labour...
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Maybe you could start with the neccesary things first, then expand. If you can undercut any competition within a reasonable driving distance, and can remember names well,sell goldfish, dog and cat food, treats, manufactured as well as custom built houses, then add your designer clothing as a small addition, just to see how it goes. You know if your items cost the same or more the traffic will be very low. But yes I think pet sales account for a real good income. Now, location, the better the locatiuon the more it'll cost you. People in towns where traffic is 9 cars long  to the intersection find that corner lots are not as good as they were when cars only lined up 2-3 long. Too busy of an intersection makes it impossible to get in and out. \n\nOr you could purchase a franchise. But here's a clean little example of what it might take to seriously consider such an enterprise:
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The best home business that you can be sure is not a scam is one that you start yourself. It will depend on what you want, how you define to be interesting. A person may consider a pet sitting business to be the most exciting work in the world, while another person would rather watch TV than take care of dogs. \n\nThe key is to determine what your interests are, what you want to do, what is suitable for your lifestyle and your overall goals, and what can fit with your resources.\n\nDan Ramsey in his book "101 Best Home Businesses" has a chapter on how to find YOUR best home business. He suggests these 10 steps:\n\n1. List 5 things you do best\n2. List how others would benefit from what you do best\n3. Find out how to give people what they want\n4. Learn the value of your services to others\n5. Find out who else offers similar services\n6. Learn from the successes of others\n7. Learn from the failures of others\n8. Plan your own success\n9. Make low cost mistakes\n10. Enjoy what you do and how you do it\n\nHe then made suggestions on the best home businesses according to type. Here are a few of them:\n\nBest Businesses Using Craft or Physical Skills\n- antique restoration\n- auto detail service\n- carpet cleaning business\n- errand/delivery service\n- housecleaning business\n\nBest Service Businesses \n- bed and breakfast operator\n- caregiver\n- catering service\n- senior day care center\n- tutoring service\n\nBest Professional Businesses\n- desktop publisher\n- magazine writer\n- import/export service\n- income tax preparation service\n- event planner\n\nSome other home business ideas:\n\nTop 10 Home Businesses with Rapid Break-Even Time http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol33/breakeven.htm\n10 Profitable “Go-Out" Home Businesses http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol31/goout.htm\nLow Cost Startup Businesses http://www.entrepreneur.com/lowcostbusinesses/0,6617,,00.html\n\nYou may also want to check out the following books:\n\n- Turn Your Talents into Profits: 100+ Terrific Ideas for Starting Your Own Home-Based Microbusiness \n- The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century \n- 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \n- The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start \n- 101 Ways to Make Money at Home
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The travel sector is a very competitive niche. Your site must have something to offer, something original to make visitors use your site as against your more established competitors.\n\nWays to Turn it into a business:\n\n1. Sign up for affiliate programs. Check out what Commission Junction, Clickbank, Linkshare and others have for your sector. Choose the affiliate program that your users are likely to be interested in\n\n2. Use contextual advertising such as Google Adsense https://www.google.com/adsense/ \n\n3. Join banner advertising networks such as BurstMedia, Fastclick, TribalFusion.com, Advertising.com - they usually have minimum pageviews (5000 a month I think). In some of them, you can select the campaigns you want to run while you have more limited options in others\n\n4. Work with companies in your region such as hotels in South Africa and make some arrangements with referrals. \n\nI also suggest you go check out other websites in the travel sector to see how they monetize their websites. One site I suggest is EuropeforVisitors.com - I know he does well with affiliate programs and Adsense. His site was named as one of Forbes Best of Web, so he really knows what he is doing.
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you could go to a travel agency
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Yes. It depends on what you do and how much time you put into it.\n\nOne place to make money at home is eBay. One person I got a ton of good advice and tips from was Dave Espino. His web addy is https://www.auctionsforincome.com/index.htm.\n\nYou could also search Monster or Hotjobs for "telecommuting" jobs.\n\nHere are some other webistes you can try:\n\nhttp://www.workathomejobsinformation.com/\nhttp://www.work-at-home-index.net/\nhttp://jobsearch.about.com/od/workathomehelp/
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well for my small home business my wife has become the accountant , the bill collector  bill payer , the answering service. so this year we have outsourced our billing to a CPA. they now run the payment and the collection of fees owed. this has allowed the wife to work less and allow me to do what i am skilled in doing which is appraisal work. \n\nso depending upon what you are trying to accomplish here i would say anything that can be outsourced is feasible. find out how wide of a target market you want to attract. if you want to be some ones answering service then how many different clients do you want or do you want to specialize say for just private practice Dr offices. that way you don't have to learn every ones terminology for  hey i am on vacation here. \n\nfor me letting me do my job instead of being the chief of everything was a big relief.