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I suggest you have the shopping cart before the lens. . . .

Learn to take fabulous photos first. Exhibit them in shows, fairs, exhibitions and competitions. Get a name for yourself as a photographer. Sell a few photos now and then and find a gallery that will hang your photos.

Then you might . . . MIGHT. . . . Make some money off of greeting cards. And at that time you hire a good printer to make them on the correct card stock, supplying the correct envelopes and then you distribute them to gift stores, restaurants and other places that sell custom cards.

But learn to do outstanding photography first. No one is buying mediocre art or photography, even at $4.50 a pop, these days.

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If at this point you do not understand photography, lighting and the macro photography required, you are light years away from needing a business name. Get a camera and begin practicing first.

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You don’t necessarily need a DBA unless your business is operating under some name other than just your name. Depending on where you are and what your business is, various licenses might be needed. The cakes sound cute. For food items you make and sell, you need to contact your local health department for requirements, there are many.

As usual when “someone” gives you tax advice, they are confused and are confusing sales tax and income tax. You can’t get your supplies tax-free. If you are buying items for resale, you can get a reseller’s certificate from your state so you don’t have to pay sales tax when you buy the things you’re going to resell. If you are selling anything that’s taxed (sales tax) by your state you have to charge sales tax on them. You need a license from your state to do that, and they’ll tell you when to send it in.

Income tax is different from sales tax, and you pay it based on your net income, if you made over $400 for the year or if you file or are required to file an income tax return for the year, including a joint return. That info is calculated at the end of the year. You pay both income tax, and also self employment tax for social security and medicare. If you’re going to owe more than $1000 total for the two, you will make quarterly estimated payments through the year.

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Before following on any referrals and investing time and especially money on any home-based business offers, it’s a good idea to become educated on the different types of schemes there are out there, and what to look for – and look out for – before picking a home-based business. The Federal Trade Commission offers several advisories about home-based business opportunities and network marketing (MLM) schemes.
“Work at home Schemes” http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/invest/homewrk.htm
‘Net Based Business Opportunities: Are Some Flop-portunities?

Http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/online/netbizop.htm

“The Bottom Line on Multilevel Marketing Plans” http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/alerts/pyrdalrt.htm

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a consumer alert entitled “Take This Scheme and Stuff It: Avoiding Envelope-Stuffing Rip-Offs.” The alert, which can be found on the Commission’s Web site at provides tips for consumers who are interested in working at home, but wary of potential scams.

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Well i’m only 17 so i can’t answer this however, the site below has loads of recipe EBooks that you can buy at low prices. My friends mum who owns a bakery now has used this site. She bought about 20 of their eBooks and she’s stil using them today. So check it out it could do you some good and possibly make you more money.

Hope this helped. Good Luck

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Hi,

If you want to get a legit online job,, check out

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View the 2 Minute FREE Tour video to learn more about it

Hope this help,

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Hello Deisai1

You could try an online service called Elance.

There are thousands of multimedia and design requirements posted everyday. I have a few friends who use this website to get work.

They have a really flexible schedules, and get paid well too!

I just found FIVE retouching jobs after 2 minutes of research by typing “retouching” in the search field. Go to this webpage and try it:

http://www.elance.com/p/landing/provider.html

Also try searching for “photo retouching” or “photo correction”.

Hope this helps!

Have a nice weekend.

-Swarup

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There are a few cardinal rules for looking for ligitimate online jobs:

1) If they asks for any type of fees, RUN FAR AWAY!
2) You will most likely not find a plain ol’ data entry job.
3) Work at home jobs are not any easier than regular jobs you do outside the home, anything promising lots of money for doing nothing is a scam or a bad business opportunity.
4) Do not “process payments” for anyone, you could end up in the big house.
5) Is the job they are offering going to “change your life”, I doubt it. I go to church for that kind of stuff.
6) Legitimate companies will not advertise for jobs in banners or spam emails.

As you can probably tell I’ve seen just about every bad job offering out there and I get really irritated with all the promises and such. And I hate to see good people throw away their money.

With all that being said, I can tell you that there are legitimate jobs out there. It’s just a matter of finding them.

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If you want to learn about working at home using internet, visit this site

http://how-to-make-real-money-online.com

It is one of the few websites that legit and trusted

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EBay is the largest online marketplace and one of the most popular ways to earn an income from home with a PC and internet connection. Selling on eBay is inexpensive and easy to start. Ebay has a number of tools for sellers to maximise sales. These are eBay Pulse, Hot items report, merchandising calendar. By sourcing products at a low price, you can increase your profit.

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Hmmm… The internet is normally more used for advertising businesses then hosting them but… I guess you could always go for something like… An online thesaurus i can never find a good one of those

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Crafts, assembly, cleaning, ironing service, laundry, pet sitting/ dog walking, copy editing on paper, mail order business without the net, fixing equipment in the home, double glazing person, befriending, TV critic?
A few ideas …..

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In general, it is probably legal if:

You will deliver what you promise.

You do not promise something which you cannot deliver.

It is not harmful to yourself or others, and is not immoral or unethical.

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Start with affiliate marketing. For this it will be better if you have one blog. If you need help on all those then you can visit my blog once.

Http://earnmoneyonlinehub.com

Hope it will help you.

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Www.whoeversendsmethemostmoneywins.com

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Go to www.thirtydaychallenge.com

Sign up, everything is free, no catches, tons of info

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I would suggest you go to http://www.firstinforeview.com they give you all the information you will need to start a profitable internet business. This information is free.
Or if you prefer you could try http://www.1stbusinessreview.com they review online business programs and post the ones that work on there site.
Good Luck

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It’s no different then running any other sort of side Business. Check out SCORE (the service core of retired executives) they have loads of forms on their website that will help you.

A small business’s best friend is a good accountant. I suggest you find one that specializes in small Business. CPA’s are best.

If you incorperate, you will have to pay unemployment tax on yourself along with a self employment tax and other taxes.

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If you want to start a business from home then it has to be something you have a passion for. What do you like to do? What are you good at? Are there any skills that you would like to learn? Are you creative?

Have you ever tried beading or making jewelry? Jewelry has been around since the beginning of time and probably always will be. But it is also a big competition out there, so you need to make your jewelry unique and creative.

Check out this site:

http://www.beading-design-jewelry.com

The whole site is a home based jewelry business and design guide with hundreds of ideas and tips to inspire you to design and create unique bead jewelry designs that will give you an edge in the market place.

A great resource for inspiration and innovation in marketing and designing handmade bead jewelry from home.

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I think you can buy some cheap things and sell them high. You earn the difference. China has a lots of cheap things but the delivery fee is too high unless the seller would like to pay the fee.

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A! Ya wanna build CD Modulators at home?

Seriously though, there is NO work-at-home job!

The ONLY way is to invent the business yourself and run it yourself and take all of the risk involved in running your own business.

Do NOT give out any personal info about yourself to total strangers over the web!

And do NOT pay anybody anything for any “opportunity”!

This sort of question is a spam magnet!
Be careful!
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If you are good in a certain subject you can tutor on line.

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If you are looking for a job because you want guaranteed income you should think again.

The only guaranteed income is the income you completely control by being your own bos,s..,.

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Check this out, it may be something for you and I know that it is in fact a legit business http://vickie.balancedmom.com

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Your not going to make a decent amount of money working a job from home. Most home jobs only pay minimum wage. Your better off starting your own home based business. Most home based business cost under $500 to start. Depending on what you like to do.
I don’t know what you like to do, so I can only tell you what my husband and I started over six years ago. It well supports our family as well as a major funding source for our non-profit organization that we started up a while back with part of the income we earned. As well as it’s a funding source for other non-profit organizations.
Anyhow, we got involved in the telecommunications industry.
With a world wide company that’s over 15 years old. We’ve been featured in several magazines like USA Today, Success, Fortune etc. Inc 500 rated us the 22nd fastest growing company. They offer services that people use every day and pay for anyway, but now they can have a lower cost. Services such as local and long distance phones, Internet, digital phones, video phones (you can see the person your taking to live)VOIP, Satallite tv, and all the major cellular phone companies like Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, Alltell, Nextell etc. Have partnered up with them too.
How many people do you know, or know of, that uses or has one or more of these services? How would you feel if you could save people money on services that they’re already using and everytime they pay their bills each month, you make a percentage off these bills every single month. Huge income opportunity. It’s incredible how much money is involved in this industry.
If you’d like more information feel free to email me and I’ll be happy to pass it along to you.

I also created a blog on my 360 page on home based business’s. There’s over half a dozen different ones to take a look at. Your more then welcome to browse through them. If you find one that’s interesting, contact the person who wrote it and they can point you out in the right direction.

Tiffany