Here is a list of 5 Home based businesses that you may start for under $200.00

Pet Sitting:

Most pet owners treat their pet, as if they were their own children. Some even spend hundreds and thousands of dollars annually on pet sitting, animal doctor, and dog wash.

Some pet owners work long hours and need reliable people to look after pets while they work. Therefore, if you like pets and enjoy taking care of them, start a pet sitting service.

Office Cleaning:

Are you a clean freak like my wife? Office cleaning may be just for you.

Visit your local library, borrow some books and CD's on office cleaning; follow the instructions. The internet can also provide tips on how to get started. Print up businesses cards and hand them out; put up flyers in supermarkets, advertise in your local paper.

Apartment Cleaning:

Many busy people don't have time to clean their apartments and homes.

Some will gladly pay a reliable person to pick up after the.

Candy Vending Machines:

Would you like to work smarter and not harder?

Purchase a candy machine and fill it with candies; Place it in an area where there's a lot of foot traffic. Watch the money grows.

Online Writing:

Anyone can make money writing online. There are many sites on the internet that allows freelancers, novice writers to write and submit articles. To improve your earning potential, take writing courses if necessary.

Surf the net, find an interesting website, evaluate the website, and then write a review.

This is an excellent way of getting ideas for articles.

These website reviews can be published at Associated Content , Helium , Triond , ReviewMe , constant-content, Wise Orb and Shvoong.

In addition, you can include these websites in your research notebook to include in other articles.

For example, if you write a website review of a vegan website, you can also make use of the website when writing articles about vegans and veganism in generate.

How do you evaluate a website?

Here are the questions that you should ask:

Why should visitors want to come to this website? What is the purpose of the website? (Geeky Traveller, for example.) What makes the website relevant or of interest to your readers?

You can also comment on the website design, the type of information provided, the quality of the information provided, etc.

What makes the website different and greater than similar websites? Does the website provide up-to-date and useful information?

If products are offered, you can also review the quality of the products.

Your evaluate and review depends upon the type of website, your purpose for writing the review and the relevance for the reader.

Maybe it's a critique of a new cookbook? Maybe it's just a general article on nutrition? Or maybe it's the role of food in history?

Would you like to write this kind of criticism? Would you like to become a food critic?

How do you get started?

In a recent episode of Ugly Betty, new TV show (and getting rave reviews), Ugly Betty and her boyfriend go into a posh restaurant and she must write a restaurant review. She must evaluation the restaurant, answer questions and write a restaurant review for the magazine that she works for. These questions help to give her guidelines in what to review, since this is her first time writing a restaurant review and her first time in this type of posh restaurant.

If your local newspaper allows the work of freelancers, then, of course, you can contact them directly about the possibility of publishing a food critique of a new local restaurant? You evaluate the restaurant, including food quality, service, prices, ambiance, comparison with the competition.

However, there are many websites which publish articles on food, including Associated Content, and you can begin your food critique writing online. Once you've published a sustantial number of articles, you can of course, submit them to newspapers and magazines for reprint and/or to provide them with writing samples.

You should also study and read the food criticism of established food critics and take notes. What makes for good food criticism? What type of details? What do you learn that can help you to improve your own articles.

Here are some websites for those interested in "food journalism." You can also refer to yourself as a "restaurant critic" if you specialize in restaurants. Food journalism, however, deals with more than just critiquing restaurants, but allows you to write on all aspects as foods.

If you're interested in becoming a professional food writer or restaurant reviewer, Information on food writing jobs and how to become a food critic can be found at the following websites:
www.fabjob.com
www.answerbag.com
www.news.harvard.edu
www.nedine.com
www.ehow.com