Business class is always the way to go. You do not have to settle for economy class airfare. You will feel much better through the trip and once you arrive than if you chose the economy side where you could be stuck to a group a kids or babies. You receive more room to stretch, better service, food, and drinks. The goal is to always find a low price ticket for business class airfare. In the past, this was much more difficult. These days, most airlines will give you a special price on these airfares. If you happen to be with a company that has made a deal with an airline, then you are one of the lucky few with permanent discounted fare.
Those are the lucky ones because they do not have to do any searching, but you can still get a ticket for a low price without much trouble. Check all the airlines sites first. Be sure to visit them from time to time so you will become familiar with the prices and what special deals they offer for your destinations.
Next, try using websites such as Expedia and Travelocity. Each of them have made deals with airlines to buy large amounts of tickets and then they are trying to get rid of these tickets as soon as they can. You end up earning a decent chunk of the profits when they are trying to dump all the tickets off to customers at low prices. There are also search engines on travel sites and other sites made just for searching. This will give you many advanced searching options and bring up all the best fares on a certain date, be sure to try different dates.
Always be sure to book your flights early to increase the chances of getting a cheaper flight, and during the correct months prices will be lower. Also, the day and time of your purchase may have a significant impact on ticket price. Every night at midnight airlines reloading their reservation databases with new available seats that was reserved but were not paid for. For this reason, it is best to do your search in the hours of the morning. This are the reasons that, in the past, all travel agents had access to much better airfares than all general public. But today you can search for these tickets yourself at any of the major travel sites.
Finally, sign up for all the notifications that sites offer so you are always up to date on the latest airfare deals and offers.
Low Cost Business Class
This list is neither complete nor exhaustive, and shall continue to be up-dated.
1. Garage cleaning: Most garages need cleaning or complete overhaul. It is a task that many people will gladly pay someone else to do for them. You could be that someone else. Offer your services to home owners, especially in medium to high income brackets.
2. Commercial cleaning: Residential or business (office) cleaning is in demand, and some people are cashing in and making nice incomes. Offer business and/or upper income residents to do their office/home cleaning work. You choose to be paid room, squire foot or hourly.
3. Concierge/Corporate Concierge: Help with tasks like picking up dry cleaning, returning videos, finding limousine services, event planning, taking cars for oil change etc.
4. Child Day Care: A child day care in your home if you have a basement or extra room/space. You need to purchase small chairs and tables, games, toys, and outdoor play items. Prices vary with area or neighborhood. Most states require a license and some training, especially 1st Aid and Child CPR.
5. Information Abstractor: You sum up an article into a paragraph or two, without loosing the essence. You have to be fast and knowledgeable in your chosen field.
6. Errand Service: You charge hourly to perform a wide variety of errands for clients. Busy moms, single parents, executives and seniors are good targets.
7. Web Writer: Track down articles on certain subjects. A genuine interest or knowledge in the subject helps a great deal here. You put the pieces together to make one tasty snack.
8. Relocation Consultant/Specialist: Your work is to help new people moving into a city find a home/apartment, job, schools etc. according to need. This works best in high-population cities.
9. Perfumer: Play around with different combos of essences until you come up with a fragrance that's pleasant and unique.
10. Personal Shopper: Not to be mistaken with Mystery Shopping (below). Your job is to shop for busy executives. You charge hourly, and might include gift wrapping.
11. Mystery/Secret Shopper: You get paid to pose as a customer and shop at department stores or malls. Your work is to report back to the company about service, cleanliness etc. You get paid hourly or by gift certificates, and in most cases you keep your purchases.
12. Personal Chef: Requires great culinary skills or you be a trained chef. As a personal chef, your work is to create and prepare great-tasting customized meals for individuals and families (that can afford the service, of course). Farther info: United States Personal Chef Association.
13. Bed & Breakfast: You need an extra room or two that you can rent out. You don't need an extra bath but highly recommended. Best around tourist attractions. Breakfast can be simply coffee and/or juice and a bowl of cereal.
14. Computer Tutor: If you have a knack for working with computers you can earn some extra cash helping newbies to learn how to operate systems.
15. Export Agent: Learn the basics of exporting (the better if you've worked with exporting firms). Offer exporting services to small-medium companies/manufacturers for a commission.
16. Resume Writer: Many people find resume writing scary and would gladly pay someone else to do it for them. You can make a full-time living in Resume writing- some resume writers make six-figure incomes!
17. Hair Care: If you're good at cutting/styling hair, offer to cut or style at home or at work. Charge slightly lower than the barbershop/salon. This saves busy people time and money. You could arrange to do this on regular basis, so they get their hair done regularly and you have a steady income.
18. Lunch/Dinner Delivery: Most people would like a nice home-cooked meal, but don't want or have no time to do the cooking. If you're a good cook you can offer to deliver home cooked meals for lunch, dinner or both. You could also specialize in ethnic dishes if you have a large population of a certain community in your area.
19. Drop Shipping: Sell products that you don't have to ever store, ship or even touch. Buy on wholesale price and sell on retail. Better still, you get to use your customers' money to buy the products that you've already sold. This is the beauty of something called Drop Shipping. The drop shipper packs and ships the products to your customer in your name. How sweet is that?
20. Candle Making: People, women especially, love candles for themselves or as gifts. They would especially love unique handcrafted, scented candles. This could be both fun and financially rewarding for you.
21. Crocheting: If you're good at or are interested in crocheting, you can make some extra cash from this. Better still, this is something that can be done at odd moments-what's better than to earn some money utilizing time that would have gone to waste, while doing something you love?
22. Photography: Banks, insurance and advertising companies need up to date and accurate photographs of cars, boats and properties. It's impractical to have company representative in all areas and will gladly pay someone to do this. You could be that someone.
23. Online Auctions: People are making handsome incomes from home through online auctions, especially eBay™. And no, it's not about emptying your garage (what happens when your garage runs out of stuff?). Also works well with Drop Shipping (#19 above).
Remember, you need very little money to start a work at home or home business venture, and you can start in your spare time. I will continue to update this article with more ideas and tips.
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