Every year brings various trends – including for home-based businesses. Business, like any other human endeavor, has various stages in its existence. Some business niches have reached their maturity and it is harder to join them, others are budding and promise to grow spectacularly, while others will always have a constant demand of products and services and are evergreen and impervious to trends.
Today we will show you five of the most successful and dynamic niches for home businesses for 2016. We made this selection taking into consideration the trends which were on a strong growth path since last year and some trends where we feel that there will not be a moment when we can say that the market is saturated.
In making this presentation, we hope that people who wish to start a small home-based business recognize their own set of skills and talents and realize that they have the potential to become successful and earn money to support their families doing what they are good at and what they love doing.
Without further ado, here are the hottest trends for home-based businesses in 2016:
1. Social Media Consultant
So many home-based businesses, so many opportunities to teach them how to master their social media marketing and make a good living! Social media is the next best thing after the internet came into being and people learned how to send instant messages and emails. In the current business and marketing world, social media plays a major role in attracting qualified leads and building a sales funnel.
If you have mastered the art of creating engagement, crafting and sharing viral posts or designing social media ads with a high level of conversion, then you have all the skills you need to become a consultant and teach other entrepreneurs how to run their business social media accounts efficiently.
2. Career Coach
The job market is still in turmoil after the economic crunch of 2007-2008. A lot of people are trying to stay competitive in their jobs, or are contemplating a career change. If you are skilled in counseling people on building their strengths, developing new skills and creating a compelling resume to get them hired, you could share your expertise and earn a good living as a career coach. There is no shortage of potential clients at all employment levels – starting with young graduates and ending with experienced professionals.
3. Web and Mobile App Designer
If your programming job is getting dull, you can add excitement to your life and become very successful building web based and native mobile apps. There is an explosion of demand for these apps at an unprecedented scale as businesses try to own the mobile environment and establish their brand identity.
Although some sources state that this trend is bound to reach saturation, right now you can still join the game while it is exciting and full of opportunities. Later on, you will have gained enough experience and built a large enough portfolio to remain successful as a skilled and reliable professional.
4. Content Writer/Copywriter
Company blogs, social media accounts and mobile apps – all these have one thing in common: content. There is a continuous demand for high quality and original content. You may state that there is an overflowing source of cheap content writing in Asian countries. That may be true, but right now the number one requirement is quality, and company owners together with marketing agency directors have learned the lesson of hiring cheap content creators: the quality of the work they provide is doubtful, especially for highly specialized niches and topics.
So, if your grammar is on point, your ideas and turns of expression are fresh, and you are good at doing research and learning the salient points of any topic in a short amount of time, you could become a successful content writer.
5. Online Fitness Trainer
This niche has been exploited over the years, but now there is a fresh wave of clients: the baby boomers, who have reached middle age and are looking forward to their golden years in good shape and health. They are actively seeking fitness and diet plans which they can incorporate into their busy schedules and the best solution is to subscribe to online training sessions, which they can schedule according to their work load and family commitments.
And this brings us to the end of our list. Hopefully, one of these recommendations fits your profile. However, if you have a great business idea, are willing to work hard for it, and have a passion and dedication to it, you should not abandon it only because you didn’t find it on this list. Good luck!