Have you every considered starting your own profitable home based business?

What if you could really help people and make good money doing it?

Owning your own profitable business is a great dream. Promises are abundant luring us to invest, but what really works?

Every day I get mail and email offering some new money making scheme. It would be easy to lose heart.

Deep inside of us there a wish that we could suddenly be rich and live a life of ease and comfort. The con artists understand this very well. Maybe that is why we are bombarded with so many sure things that offer unbelievable riches with little or no work. Are you just a little tired of being conned?

So, is it possible to make a living from home?

Absolutely, yes. There are legitimate things you can do to make a living from home. Please, do not think that I am some rich guy looking down my nose at others from my gilded chair. On the contrary, I am just like you. I want to pay my bills and take care of my family. I just prefer doing it from home. I like the convenience and personal benefits, but I do work from home.

For many years my wife ran a part time sewing business from our home. She worked when she wanted to, and she brought in needed extra cash.

My meager salary as a small church minister was hardly enough to raise five children, so money was always tight. There were a few years when she did work outside of the house teaching 2nd grade and later 7th grade, but we really appreciated the fact that most of the time our children were small, mom was there.

When we moved to Texas in 1992, she decided to build up her business. Soon she had loads of work, but she kept getting requests for sewing machine repair.

I thought I can do that. So, in 1992, I started learning how to repair sewing machines. I ran a little ad in the local newspaper, and soon had half dozen machines to repair every week.

Over time, we opened a sewing store, and the repair business grew. We expanded and the repair business grew. We now own three sewing stores and do about 150 sewing machine repairs each month.

Not everyone sews today. Those who do, however, do so with such passion that it overwhelms.

When I talk with non sewers, and mention what I do, they sometimes look at me as if to say, Are you Amish?

Many people just do not realize how big the sewing business is in America.

The size of the sewing business is staggering to most people. In the United States there are some 90 million sewing machines in active use. Some five million new sewing machines are some every year.

Passionate sewing machine uses are willing to pay $5,000 - $9,000 - $12,000 or more for the top of the line sewing machine of their choice.

Just think of it. Every one of those sewing machines needs an annual repair service.

I am not going to tell you that you can make a bundle of money without doing any work; but from my own experience, I will tell your there is a big opportunity in sewing machine repair. Here are some advantages: you can learn it in a matter of weeks; you can do business from your kitchen table, shop, or garage; you need no big overhead; you need no large investment; and you need no employees.

Begin by servicing machines for a few friends free of charge. Then repair a few more at a nominal fee. Let word of mouth advertizing work for you. Then print up and distribute a thousand or so business cards to let people know what you do. Run a small ad in the classifieds. Send special offers to community clubs, churches, sewing shops, etc. Let people know you do sewing machine repair. If you have competition, and most communities you wont, find out what they charge and charge a bit less. Increase your pricing as your skills and numbers grow.

Nobody can guarantee you will make any money at all in your own business. It is certain that if you do not work at it, you will make no money.

On the other hand, the potential for your own sewing machine repair business operated from your home is very real. For example, lets say you decide to charge $80.00 per standard service. Since you have no overheard, employees, or other major expenses the $80.00 is yours.

If it takes you 2.5 hours to complete the service, what is your hourly rate? Now can you live with better than $30.00 per hour?

If you did just one machine a week you would earn over $4,000 per year. All this for working about 2.5 hours per week at home.

The more machines your repair, the more money you will make. The more machines you do, the faster you will be able to complete a service. If you want to expand your business, all you have to do is increase the number of machines you repair.

For example, lets say you contact a church group and agree to service twenty sewing machines in the month of January. That would be about 6 machines a week. Or maybe you decide you want to take off for vacation or Christmas holidays and do no machines for a week or two. You are in control.

Remember, on average you will need to schedule about two and a half hours per machine. If you want to work twenty hours this week, you might compete 8 to 10. Now, what if you did on average 5 machines a week. How much would you earn for each one? In a month? In a year?

Increase the average by just one machine per week and see an additional $4000.00 per year.

Now if you were to expand and set up a few collection sites in quilt shops, fabric stores, and other repair shops; what kind of potential do think you could achieve?

What if you could increase the number of sewing machines you service to 10 or 15 per week, what would that do?

At 10 machines you would earn $850 per week or $44,200 annually. At 15 machines you would earn $1275 per week or .

Perhaps you are getting the idea. To do ten machines per week would only require about 25 hours per week. To do fifteen per week would involve about 38 hours.

Sewing machine repair is a business you can do without ever opening a store, hiring employees, renting space, or investing thousands of dollars in empty promises. As long as there are people who love to sew, there will be a need for sewing machine repair.