* Courtesy Readers Digest, January 2004.

So here are a few ideas, things that are already being done.

Now I realize that phone-cam pictures aren’t latest and greatest in high-resolution photography. You won’t be winning any awards with your pictures for “gallery quality” work!

But…you can take action photos of breaking news and have it instantly ready for media use. You can take pictures of events and have them instantly reproduced in far distant locales. You can capture ideas and archive them for your later use in art, fashion, etc.

Just let your imagination run wild, jot down all ideas you can come up with for possible uses of your cell phone camera, run them by all your friends, weed out impractical, and “go” with what you have left. Investigate, check it out in detail, and then “put your dream to work” and create your own new, successful home-based business from your cell-phone camera.

Happy picture taking.

6. On sale everywhere - Your sales area has no geographic limits but you don't have to leave home. You can promote your web site worldwide, every Internet user in whole world is potentially your customer (and you call this a small business!).

7. High income potential -With your own affiliate business your income level is limited only by your desire and effort - not by corporate salary scale structure or whim of your boss.

8. No inventory to carry - You can sell any item, large or small without having to worry about storage space. You could sell trucks from a one-bedroom apartment! You don't have to worry or expense of insuring stock or having extra security to protect it.

9. Low running costs - Apart from a modest budget for advertising and a small amount to pay for your internet connection, you have nothing much in way of overheads. You work from home, so big expense of renting premises is avoided and it is possible to get income tax reductions to cover some things such as part of your electricity and phone bills.

10.Always open for business - As an affiliate, your business keeps running and pulling in profits for you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, even on Bank Holidays. You are open for business even while you are asleep. You don't have to worry about business hours or delivery deadlines, all that proceeds on autopilot. You don't have to worry about scheduling staff holidays: you don't even need any staff!