by Stephen Beck
There are a number of different money making ideas that you can implement if you are looking to start a Christian home based business. While you can certainly own a business that allows you to promote products that advance your faith it is not necessary. The key is that you have a business that reflects values of your faith and not contradicts the principles of your faith.
One option is to start a Christian home based business that offers for sale pdf ebooks or actually physical books that deal with Christian topics and principles. While you can certainly write a book from scratch or hire a ghostwriter to write one for you, there are a number of options available to you if you do not want to create a complete new work from scratch, like tapping into the public domain.
How do you tap into the public domain? All you have to do is find a work that is in the public domain that is related to Christianity or Christian principles. Next, you make some slight changes, modifications, revisions or additions to the work. This in affect makes it a new work. Now you can sell this product under a new copyright as your own product.
So what constitutes whether something is a part of the public domain or not? The public domain consists of any creative work in which the original author or creator no longer has an exclusive copyright to the work. This usually consists of works that were created many years ago where the copyright has expired or works created by the United States government.
For example, the King James Bible is considered part of the public domain. What this means is that you can take the text of the Bible, use it to create pdf ebooks or physical books and sell them for profit as your own book. This is how many of the study Bibles are created. They simply contain the biblical text with additional study comments.
Suppose you do not want to go through the process required to write an ebook or physical book even if it is based on a public domain work? You can still make money online by promoting other peoples products as an affiliate. The way this works is a company that sells a product will pay you a commission if you can refer other people to buy that product. When they buy that product you get paid.
Even if you do not want to sell Bible or Christian related works, you can also start a Christian home based business that simply has a basis on Christian principles. One example of this is a network marketing business. In this business model the way you make the most money is to meet certain sales goals and help others meet those sales goals by serving others. Just make sure you research the company and be sure it is not a scam.
There are many moneymaking ideas available to you if you are looking to start a Christian home-based business. Just decide whether you want to sell Christian products specifically or have a business that is based on these values.
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Copyright Stephen Beck, 2009
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