WORK FROM HOME: 20 Online/Offline Businesses You Can Do From Home.


“Set up your own blog and fill it with great writing, photos, videos and anything else you’re passionate about,” she advises. “Get ads automatically through Google Adsense and make a few pence every time someone clicks on an ad.”


16 Book Reviewing: Do book reviews and make money selling the books through Amazon’s affiliate programme.

17 Ironing/laundry services Even in these cash-strapped times, some people hate ironing so much they’re willing to pay others to do it and believe me you can do this at the comfort of your home.

18 Website designing An increasingly competitive field as the software needed becomes more and more mainstream. However if you have a good eye for design generally and formal training, it can be a profitable side business.

19 Wedding/social photographing: You’ll need a website or blog to showcase your work, but if you’re confident that your photography is good enough, there’s no reason why you can’t do wedding/function work professionally. Do your homework though – you’ll need to take charge of arranging people into groups and know all the classic poses expected of the occasion.

20Writing letters to magazines: Though this isn’t If you have a really juicy story you can make even more, and you don’t even have to write it, she says. Women’s magazines particularly are usually desperate for items for their letters’ pages, and even quite tame stuff often gets in.