Just a few years ago, working from home was frowned upon. But with the increasing flexibility that the corporate world began offering, work at home was termed as tele commuting, and many people began to find out that working from home was actually a possibility.

With the advent of the Internet and other related technologies, there are several professions that one can follow and set up a home based business. Here are the top home based businesses that are prevalent today.

Baby Sitting/Crèche

If you have a spare room or two in your house, you can convert it into a playhouse and let working parents and single parents bring over their children to stay with you while they are work. Though babysitting is considered to be one of the oldest ‘work at home’ jobs, it is not as simple as it seems. The people who are babysitting should be able to keep their cool around children and basically know how to spend time with children constructively with them.

Tutoring:

Education is fast becoming one of the most lucrative businesses, and it is up to you whether you would like to sit and rue the days gone by when Education was free or would like to get up the bandwagon and make some money. If you have the passion and ability to teach, you can always look at the tutoring opportunities that are available.

In most regions and countries, you do not need a professional degree to teach, unless you wish to teach at the school or college level. Also, crèche and tutoring go hand in hand, because if you get into babysitting you have a ready market for tutoring.

You can either tutor or instruct not only students but adults also if you have the knowledge and information. For example, you can conduct yoga or meditation classes at home.

Creating Web Identities:

The Internet has usurped the top position from many other entertainment and information devices. Today, many companies are vying to have top space in the Internet megasphere, and they are willing to pay you to do that – if you have the necessary skills. If you have adept at writing, you could look at the various online content writing jobs.

If you have web development skills like PHP and CSS, you would be teeming with job offers for professional blogging and customized WordPress and Blogspot themes, so on and so forth. If you like computers and would like to spend time around them, you should definitely have a look at it.