Have you ever attended one of those business luncheons or fund raising dinners and realized you were the only one who knew which eating utensil to use first? Are you one of those people who actually listened when Mom said to get your elbows off the table? Did you know that you can put your good sense and polite manners to work for you?

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Everyone needs their carpets cleaned professionally at least once a year, however, carpet cleaners are a dime a dozen. You will set yourself apart from other companies by offering to clean carpets with 'green' ingredients. Since more and more of the general population have environmental allergies, they cannot have their carpets cleaned with regular commercial chemicals. These people are a huge untapped market that you would do well to take advantage of!

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One survey of the Australian population for the year of 2007 reported that 5.1 million households had a computer and internet access. Another survey conducted in the United States reported that approximately 89 percent of Americans had a personal computer and of those 81 percent had internet access. A similar study conducted in the U.K. reported that more than 15 million residents had internet access. Now imagine that each computer has at least one problem over its lifetime. Who is going to fix them - the computer's owner? In most cases, no!

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Offer a service where you completely redesign new parents' homes by taking care of every little safety aspect - cover outlets, lock cabinets and drawers, the whole nine-yards. Not only will this service offer a sigh of relief to new parents, but also baby-proofing is something every parent wants to protect their new babies at home. Your business will sell itself.

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According to one statistical source, during the 2006 fiscal year, almost twenty thousand businesses in the United States filed for bankruptcy. In 2007 that number was up to 28 thousand and as of April of 2008, more than two thousand more businesses had already filed for bankruptcy. More than six thousand Canadian businesses filed for bankruptcy in 2007. The U.K. businesses are not faring much better. They reported almost twelve thousand bankruptcies during the year 2007. While these bankruptcies may be bad news for the business owners, they are good news for you!

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There is quite a huge market for aiding entrepreneurs to achieve success, since so many people are starting their own businesses and striving to work from home. Offering a newsletter created for these very people could prove to be extremely successful. Giving the newsletters free to new entrepreneurs signing up and making money from affiliates they may choose to do business with, could be a great way to make some extra money. You will be helping your readers and making profit from referrals.

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If you are a sports fan who can play fairly well why not become a sports tutor? You cannot only enjoy playing; you will be helping kids gain skills and earning money.

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One of the many nice things about documents saved on CD is the fact that they are small and you can spare people the many piles or even boxes of paperwork they may have been keeping needlessly. They can easily find a safe place to keep these small CDs. Make this a selling point to those that may have never given thought to transferring their important paperwork to CDs.

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In every waiting room and every office, there are office chairs. These chairs are quite expensive and those buying them surely don't want to simply throw one away just because it's slightly broken.

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You can design and sell loosely fitting coverings for furniture and other surfaces of the house for pets to lie on. These smaller washable surfaces will be more inexpensive for the average pet owner and easier to maintain than a full size custom created cover for a piece of furniture (or for instance, a rug). This will prevent any hair and/or fur from sticking to the surface of a piece of furniture or carpet. It can also prevent those annoying smells, which seem to penetrate the fibers of a piece of furniture, that never seem to come out! Your covers will also offer the added benefit of keeping a home cleaner and overall more sanitary. This wouldn't just be a wonderful easy option for pet owners, but also for pet sitters, groomers, or kennels as well!

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