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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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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

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I work on a live webcam site and i know that you can make good money doing that but I dont know of any legitimate survey/shopping places.

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I make decent cash doing short surveys and refering people to the site. I have made around $400 in the past 3 weeks, and they pay thru Paypal so it doesn’t take long. I know its not alot, but its better than nothing. I have actually researched many sites and this one is the best for makin’ easy money. Check it out, let me know what you think. Just make the address below whole to make it work.

W w w . AW Surveys . Com/Home Main.cfm ?RefID=petersbm11

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Try myLot. Mylot pays you for answering and asking questions (like yahoo answers), blogging, and referring members…its a nice site, it does’nt only help you earn money, it also a nice site to meet new friends, and gain knowledge from the site.. Its a nice site to ask for help for tech problems, family prob,,etc.myLot is a unique and fun online community filled with members from all over the world discussing topics of everyday life

http://www.mylot.com/?ref=cuttyrish

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I’m thinking about making some extra cash too from online. You should do surveys and such.

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Where’s the husband/father? Your company going out of business doesn’t negate your skills and/or abilities to work from home. Have you tried Craigslist, monster.com or NY TIMES.com with “telecommute” selected? Or will the tax-paying public be supporting TWO of your illlegitimate children?

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From reading your question, I think you would excel in marketing directly to human beings in the real world. You appear to a good energy level and an understanding of the importance of action to accomplish a goal. I would look for products to market targeted groups such as outside of large office buildings. The flaw in the thinking of the online marketing crowd is that they largely see a free lunch and are not coming to the job with a strong work ethic. Just the way you describe your circumstance as being the general economy and not “I am a victim” says a great deal about you as person. I would search for products of which you are knowledgeable and market those in person. I just do not like buying from a website or even from a tv infomercial. Now, if you are marketing financial products, including, insurance, you may be able to accomplish that via online. Just offer the customer that you are in compliance with state regulations to sell the product. Another approach, would be sell specialty baked goods to select restaurants in your market area.

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I have never heard of this, but it sounds pretty cool.

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Win cash Rs.5,000. Real players, Real prizes! Free registration! – http://surl.in/HLDDT261252BMRMTGQ

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Ebay, sell blood, sell plasma, pawn items, payday loan, ask your friends, ask your parents, get a cash advance from work, ask your apartment complex for an extension.

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Hello friend!

I don’t know exactly how much you are expecting to earn but toolbars and ads are not the best options.I will tell you why, lets do some math first..

I got a toolbar stuff sometime ago.
* they will pay you as,1000 points = 0.01.$
* so $1 = 100000 points
* the minimum payout is $30
* $30 = 3000000 points
if you surf for an evarage of 4 hours you might earn 2000 points.
So it will take 1500 days = 30$

That means more than 3 years just to make $30. You don’t trust me, that dosen’t even bother me the least.You will find what they are all about in few months time.Surveys are not the best option either. Surveys are targeted stuff. You will get one in two weeks and even get kicked out of it if you don’t satisfy their requirements.

You can always make some good money working on the net. But the most important factor is that you find a source that really helps you. It’s totally worthless trying anything anywhere. Cause you need to pay them.And according to me 87% of on line moneymaking schemes are fraud.

Why do I need to pay when there are so many free offers around?
Cause: Free Turns Out To Be Fraud.

That’s what I have learned in 5 years of my work on online marketing and money generation. ASK ME WHY?

Cause no fool will ever let you know the real secrets without cutting a profit for him. When you come across free money making sites they are DAMN SLOW. You never make enough.Take it for granted I have tried more than a dozen of them, with a lot of hope and dreams.You just let someone spam your email with ads and surveys.Install toolbars, get your screen hijecked. Do referral with the hope that someday you will see profit and what do you come across? NOTHING ‘WORTH’. WORTH your time and effort that you put on this methods.Although free sounds fascinating reality is bitter. I am not any master but I know what I am talking about.

I am right now working with such a site that I needed to pay to sign up.Its true that I don’t earn as much they show on their site but atleast their methods are not fake. It makes money, I made $149 in my first month with my worst effort.I am still learning. I know I will make higher.Truth is this sites are not money making packages they are just a THROUGH. They can tell you how to but can’t make you any.You will have to swim yourself. But your work dose pays out.

They will charge you an initial fees because they will provide you with MATERIAL, MEANS AND METHODS of making some decent money to “SATISFACTION”.They will assist you in every manner. They will provide you online support to your queries- which you never get in the free ones. This cost them maintenance. What you pay is simply nothing in comparison to what you will get in return.

I hope your doubt is cleared.

I would suggest you to give it a try. What you pay is Completely Refundable–NOTHING TO LOSE.

Just check out and ask yourself, did you know this before! It’s real independence.

I hope It will work for you cause it works for me.I Hope you succeed.

Click on my avatar and go to my profile where you will find a link as ‘make money online’ in the “about me” section.It will guide you to your required page.

Best Of Luck

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Look for telemarketing from home jobs. I do about 10 hours a week, and make $8 hr plus commission when I set appointments for a cleaning company.

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To help you out, I will share ways that I make money in my free time usually I spend about 12 hours a week doing the following and if you have any questions about my suggestions, feel free to email me through “yahoo answers”
(1) I also re-sell stuff on the Internet, basically I started out selling extra items that I had around the house, now I go to yard sales, discount bins at my local stores and resell them on the net. I use different “auction houses”, One I use to sell small items and I use a local auction site to sell the bigger items
(2) I have a blog and a website that makes me money,
(3) I also make a little extra money by reading emails, I spend about 1/2 to an hour a night doing this, I got lucky a few weeks ago while doing research and came across a website that had all the free info that I needed about making extra money at home like “reading emails”. I will post the link that I used below.

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I have been working from home with a great company that has been in business for a little over twenty years and have been members in good standing with the BBB ever since they opened their doors. They were also awarded the BBB’s Hall of Fame award at the end of 2005. I don’t have to host parties, stock, sell or deliver products. I don’t even have to worry about collecting any money. If you would like more info you can check out my web sites and click on “Get More Info”

http://www.themomteam.com/cgi-bin/mom.cgi?id=LE464989&action=show

http://www.theceonetwork.com/cgi-bin/team.cgi?id=LE464989&action=show

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You can start a home business or internet business. Maybe start a website based on your passion-design, teaching others tips and tutorials and have multiple streams from it. You can start an online business based on any of your passion and hobbies and then one you get traffic monetize it.
You can also freelance other services other than design-maybe writing if you have a passion.

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Babysit, sell Mary Kay, Sew for people, etc.