What part-time business jobs can you do with an economics degree?

Having your own home business will enable you to take control of your life and you can begin part-time.

There are many ways to start a home based business but let's be honest you will need some start up capital to invest. Fortunately, if you choose the right niche it need not be excessive.

The type of business you need to consider is one where the product is used by many people and who will purchase it over and over again.

If you have a background in a particular niche that has an online presence then maybe you could consider going it alone, but it will be expensive to set up your home business.

Your other options include purchasing a franchise (again very expensive) or Network Marketing (MLM) which is the cheaper option. This way you can tap into the resources of the company eg. their experience and training etc.

When starting out it is easy to be drawn in by online scams because you are not aware of the pitfalls - and you definitely will need an online presence as this will make any home based business viable for future success.

The best type of online home based business is one where you don't have to hold and store any inventory and is all web based.

That could be anything from electronic downloadable products (Ebooks) sold from your website or on eBay to working with a drop shipping company, where your website takes the orders and the drop shipping company you have a contract with sends out the goods, you just take the money.

Remember when Blockbuster was the leader in getting your films to watch at home, that meant a trip to the store - Netflix changed all that by allowing people to download them straight onto there system or stream them to watch instantly. Blockbuster had to change the way it worked rapidly or die.

With technology developing at such a rapid rate companies spring up from time to time who begin to change the way we do the everyday things we do, they become leaders in their markets.

Take the multi billion dollar greetings card industry, this market is also going through a massive upheaval, real cards can be chosen from a catalog of thousands of cards or custom designed online by you from your own account on your own computer, even upload your own photos to use on your cards, then with a click of your mouse they're sent for high quality printing, put in an envelope, a real stamp attached then posted to anywhere in the world by the company, at a fraction the cost of other outlets.

And guess what, people want to purchase cards over and over again, businesses use them to show gratitude to their customers and send offers - think of other reasons why people send cards, the list is endless.

The beauty is that people enjoy being creative and sending cards, with this modern development it all got easier, more creative and much cheaper for them to do it.

Even more amazing, we can share in the company's success by becoming part of the business and building our own home business network through online greeting cards and tapping into a suuccessful company's support, training and experience.

One group of business owners actually run free webinars which you can attend to get more information. http://www.40waystousecards.com/1stclassmale

Hope you find what your looking for - to your success...

Good luck.

You can teach at a community college. Pay is about $25/ hr.