If you have knowledge or a skill that others would like to have, you could probably make money teaching it. The possibilities for businesses in teaching are endless.

There are numerous ways of "packaging" or "marketing" your teaching business. You can hold seminars or workshops in any local building (hotel, community center, school classroom or gymnasium, etc.), or even from your own living room or basement.

You can teach groups of people or give private lessons. You can write and sell "how-to" books, videos, or self-study correspondence courses. You can market your services to homeschoolers, either teaching their children directly, or you can teach your skills as an extra service at daycares or you can set-up a curriculum package for parents to teach.

You can teach a dance, sports, karate, art, swimming or riding lessons as a summer day camp. You can teach anything that children or adults would be interested in learning.

Here's a list of options to help you get started:

Teach Music: piano, guitar, orchestra or band instrument, etc.

Sports Activities: golf, baseball, football, soccer, basketball, tennis, cheerleading, etc.

Singing Lessons

Drama Lessons

Painting or Sketching: oil paintings, water paints, charcoal, etc.

Give Computer Lessons

Fishing, Bird Watching

Culinary: cooking, catering for groups or private parties, weddings

Tutor: elementary or college students; SAT exam preparation

Swimming Lessons

Crafts & Games: nursing homes, craft centers

Teach Foreign Languages

Dance: jazz, tap, ballet, to preschool or daycare (teach at a different center each day of the week)

Pottery or Ceramics

Money-making or job skills