This article gives some innovative ideas for home businesses. Even if none of the ideas appeal to you, you can learn something about the brainstorming process entrepreneurs use when considering new and unusual home business ideas.

7 Unusal Online Business Ideas
By Deepak Dutta

So you want to start an online business. You have surfed the web, read some blogs and have found that lots of people are making some decent mullah. But you are frustrated due to the lack of any new idea. Don't worry. There are still many ideas that you can implement using a little money, lots of efforts, and some persistency.

1. Think about your hobby. What you would like to do in your
spare time? May be you like to go hunting, or scuba diving. May
be you want to make dolls. List some of the annoyances and
inconveniences you encounter while pursuing your hobby. Search
in Google to find solutions to your problems and then write a
small e-book. Sell the e-book using clickbank dot com.

2. If you are an artist, crafter, or designer, check out etsy
dot com. You create your own shop by signing up for free.
Listing an item with photos cost 0.20 cents. The selling fee is
3.5% of the final sale price. You can accept payment through
PayPal.

3. Start a blog. But don't start a blog on making money. Find
your niche and sign up for free at Blogger to create your blog.
You need to select a name for your blog. Select the name of your
blog carefully. Write down half a dozen names that tell
something about your blog topic. Check out those names using the
overture keyword selector tool for search popularity. Use a name
that people search at least more than a thousand times every
month.

4. If you decide to use the number 3 (starting a blog) method
to generate incomes, sign up with ReviewMe, PayPerPost, and
Chitika for writing paid reviews of other companys' products and
services. This will supplement your Google's Adsense incomes.

5. If you are good at computer programming, write a simple
online tool, e.g calculating carbon foot print of your visitors,
or total body fat. You get the idea. The program should be
simple to use and easy to develop. Build a website around your
tool and sign up with affiliate programs for revenue generation.

6. If you frequently go on short trips or vacation, buy a good
but small and high resolutions digital camera for easy carrying
with you all the time. Take at least 200 pictures on each trip
and put them for sale on shutterpoint dot com. There are a few
other websites where you can put your photos for sale. Check
them out by doing a Google search.

7. Participate in paid survey. But don't pay to join any program
for paid survey. Use Google to search for paid survey and visit
a dozen paid survey websites. Review their offerings and write
those down. Now search webmaster forum in Google and then sign
up in a couple of webmaster forums. Ask about others experiences
with paid survey companies and pick a good one.

Now you have these seven unusual ways to make money online. You
will not make a ton of money overnight. But once you gain
experiences in online money making opportunities, you will
explore other methods to earn big bucks.

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About The Author: Dr. Deepak Dutta, creator of the oldest
online classified site: http://www.classifiedsforfree.com, has
launched Million$Dig, http://www.milliondollardig.com, to help
website owners build links, increase traffic, and have fun using
social networks.

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