The Top 3 Spare-Time Biz
Opps for 2010, and Why
By Roy Furr

Today's market for resumes is bigger than it's been in decades. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics official reports, a full 10% of the employable American population is unemployed. The real number is probably higher. More Americans are without jobs now than at any other time since World War II, other than during a brief period in the early 1980s. (It could get worse before it gets better, too.)

Not only are there more people who need resumes, there's more competition to get noticed. 10% unemployment means most job openings have more applicants. The stack of resumes being sorted through is bigger. Employers are looking for every reason to throw out a resume, because they have their choice of more applicants. Clients need your services to make their resume stand out and to get the interview.

If you'd like to quickly fill up your pipeline with plenty of resume-writing work, you could offer a free workshop at the local library in conjunction with the local unemployment office, or for employees of a local business you know is closing down. They'll love that you're offering this service. You have the content right there in The Pro Resume Writer Program. And because doing this workshop positions you as an expert, some percentage of your students will be quick to pay you to write their resumes for them. It's win-win-win all around.

What's cooler than getting paid to spend time exploring your passions, without any boss, clients, or customers? Well, that's the promise of a money-making website.

With today's tools, it's gotten much easier too. You don't need "geek" skills to create a complete website around your hobby. Most web hosts have software that manages all the site creation stuff for you, so you just plug in the content. Link to merchants who sell products around your passion, and you can get paid when someone clicks through from your site to make a purchase on the merchant's website.

This way you don't have to worry about a boss or clients, or even deal with customers and order fulfillment. You're completely free to do what you want with your money-making website, on your own schedule. You just create content for your website and build a following. Before long you could have as much as a few hundred dollars per month in passive income coming in from a website around your passions.
I proved this for myself with my www.KettlebellWall.com website I started building last May – and that was just doing it on my own.
2010 will be even better though. Starting January 18th all owners of How to Write Your Own Money-Making Websites will have an opportunity to participate in ongoing training with Nick Usborne – and a mastermind group with other students – as we all start new money-making websites together. I predict this up-to-date information plus ongoing feedback from the mastermind group is going to make a lot of people a lot more successful with their new money-making websites.

Self-publishing holds a perpetual spot on my list of top spare-time biz opportunities because it gives you so much leverage. Let me explain. Your start up costs are primarily in the time it takes to create the content you wish to sell. You can start very small, marketing to just a few hundred or a few thousand people. Reinvesting profits, you can continue to grow. Soon you get to a point where each incremental sale doesn't take much more effort, yet it generates quite a bit more profits. So your initial investment of time and energy keeps paying itself back over and over and over again.

You don't have to be a "guru" either. Just do your homework and make sure you're delivering high-value content to improve the lives of your clients and customers. If you publish around something you're interested in and do your research when developing your content, you'll be able to include plenty of new information that'll make your customers more than happy.

Here's what's going to get you ahead with self-publishing in 2010. Begin. Make your first sale. This transforms you from just putting together information, to self-publishing professionally. This first sale is your biggest hurdle. Once you've made your first sale though, you're on your way.

Most entrepreneurs I've met who've replaced their full-time income with a spare-time biz have done so with some variation on Self Publishing: Your Complete Business Plan for Creating a Life Without Borders. It is, in my view, one of the best opportunities today to start small and begin creating a mostly-passive income even a doctor would envy. If you're looking for a spare-time biz that will eventually be your ticket to full-time freedom, self-publishing may be the way to go.