Use your family and friends to start a Street Teams business.  I am sure you’ve seen people handing out promotional items in a busy downtown city area before.  The people that perform that function are called “Street Teams”.  They are a team of people that are hired by an organization to promote the company’s product.  They stand on the sidewalks in busy downtown areas and give you product samples, brochures, flyers, etc.  You can build a team in several geographic areas that can provide regional or national coverage.  You can pay the team members based on the projects they participate in.  Your Team members can maintain their fulltime jobs and earn money on the side by participating in team projects.

The publishing industry is an area of enormous growth.  More than anything else authors/publishers  need to get the work out on their books.  A great way to get the work out is through blogs.  A good book blog can develop an enormous world wide following  that will be attractive to authors/publishers.  You can make money by charging authors/publishers a fee for the service as well as  by selling advertising space on the site.

Create graphic designs for use in all areas of marketing and promotions such as websites, videos, printed materials, product boxes, etc.  This is a growing market with endless possibilities.  Businesses are always looking for new inventive ways to present their products.  If you know a couple other people with graphic artist skills you can use them to outsource projects to until you can generate enough revenues to hire them full time.  This will keep your startup cost low and allow you to grow as revenues increase.  If you don't have graphic artist skills you can easily acquire them by taking the training.  You can start this type of business from home.

Social Media Networking is one of the most effective ways  for companies to promote their product/service to the masses.  You can build a network of 100 core members who in turn will develop their own following using Facebook, Myspace, Twitter,  blogs, etc.  With such network you can build a web of hundreds of thousands of participants to whom you can promote a client’s product to.  However, you only have to worry about compensating the 100 core members of the group.

When a company build a product and want to promote it they often want to show how the product is supposed to be used.  Products can vary from games to a new product to open a can.  You can create a small team to demonstrate products and create videos for the client to put on their website.

Promotional items vary from flyers, brochures, catalogs, mouse pads, logo on t-shirts, logo on hats, etc.  You can build a business that produces these items for customers.  Focus on local businesses to develop a client base.  You can actually start this type of business in the basement of your home as long as you have enough space for the machines you will need.  Alternatively you can outsource the creation of the items and act as a consultant/broker to your clients.

You’ve seen vehicles with logos painted on the side of them.  You’ve seen buildings with promotional logos painted on them.  As a promotional artist you can solicit business from companies by offering to help them promote their products/services through these venues.  You can a fleet of willing participants and a team of building owners who are willing to participate in the program in return for a fee.  You get to pocket the difference between what you charge the client and what you have to pay in feeds to your team members.