10 Best Business Ideas of 2012

8 Ghost-Writing and free lancing

Publishing content has become easier as the barriers and costs of it have decreased. Moreover, the tech-media, from online books to blogs to social media posts, has made it easier to communicate and there are more audience to listen to you.

But for businesses, crafting content is tougher job, and if you are good at creating content, you can be a ghost-writer. Beyond online writing, you can think of authoring books, journals and more.

You can think of doing free lancing as well. With so many companies looking for freelance or contract employees of all sorts, it's not hard to imagine that you could build a whole company around providing freelance services of one sort or another. Some of the most in-demand freelance services are: data entry, academic writing, Excel projects, data processing, Web search and so on.

The advantage of these ghost-writing of free lancing is that, you need not devote your whole time to them; you can do these as part-time engagements. Hourly rates start at $30 an hour and stretch into the hundreds.