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Starting your own business is a great way to find fulfillment and put your skills, talents, and passions to good use. Service businesses are the easiest businesses to get running on a shoestring these days. Providing a service to busy working folks is a great way for people to start their own business, and there are creative ways to leverage the web to get that service business rolling with minimal upfront costs.

What are five ideas for people to start their own business?

1. Freelance Web Writer

Anyone with a talent for writing, a computer and an internet connection, can write for the web. With the explosion of websites and the need for content, there is an almost constant demand for fresh web content.

There are three types of web content most in demand: Web Articles, Blogposts, and Copywriting. Posting content on sites like Helium and Suite101 allows writers to share ad revenue on those sites, which, for good writers, can create a nice residual income. Sites like TextBroker and Associated Content pay per article or blogpost. Copywriting is the most lucrative, but also requires specialized knowledge, and a knack for making the sale.

2. Senior In-Home Care Technologist

People with experience in Electronics technology, such as in home theater and stereo installation, might want to look at the fledgling field of Age In Place Technology. The Baby Boomer Generation are two income families, who don’t have the luxury of staying home and taking care of an aging parent. Technology comes to the rescue, with the installation of home monitoring systems and sensors. The technology is really taking off. Imagine being able to tell remotely, with the click of a mouse button, what an aging diabetic parent’s glucose level is at that moment while they’re home a few miles away. These systems give adult children of aging parents much peace of mind, while enabling the aging parent to continue living in their own home.

3. Transcriptionist

For those who can write a decent grammatical sentence and can type, there’s a demand for transcriptionists, and a few companies based in the US that hire locally, such as The Transcription Institute and Focus Forward. Transcription is simply typing what people are saying. Minor editing is needed, for instance removing the “Uh” or “Um” at the beginning of a sentence, but basically there’s no creativity involved, just simple typing. For anyone who has some experience in the medical fields and familiarity with the terminology and spelling, medical transcription is usually better paying. Completing a competency test and an application is what’s needed to get started.

4. Medical Billing and Coding

With the enormous amount of paperwork generated by our health care billing system there’s a great need for those certified in Medical Billing and Coding. Once you’re certified, this is a legitimate and potentially lucrative work at home online job, with plenty of potential for ongoing work. As you gain competency, you can add Specialties to your Certification, which will allow you more lucrative assignments in billing and coding. The American Academy of Professional Coders (AAPC) and The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) are two of the Certifying Organizations.

5. Disaster Damage Restoration

Whether it be fires, hurricanes, floods or tornadoes, there is always need for those specializing in Disaster Damage Restoration. Learning how to clean smoke and soot from inside a home, restore blistered finishes on wood furniture, clean smoke residue and smell from drapes and upholstery and other fire related issues, or dealing with mildew and damp damage from floods and firehoses, there is steady disaster recovery business with the bills paid by insurance settlements.

With many of these ideas for people to start their own business, with some care and forethought the business can be started with little or no upfront investment. Hopefully this will help you to start your own business soon.