The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century

If you were a farrier, blacksmith or coach builder at the turn of the 20th century knocking back work contracts would be a daily pastime. 100 years later you would be lucky to find one and certainly there are few training institutes educating the next generation in preparation for a skills shortage in one of these professions.

Paul and Sarah Edwards, authors of the bestseller "The Best Home Businesses for the 90's" profiled 95 top home businesses. Their subsequent book The Best Home Businesses for the 21st Century(aff.) is now on the shelves and although I haven't read it I wanted to do my own review on their list of 95 best home businesses to see the relevance of each in this decade.

Will each home business stand the test of time or will they be replaced or superseded as our previous examples have been?

Each day we'll take a look at 10 in the list with the last day finishing off with the final 5 (for those who were struggling with how 10 went into 95!). I'll review whether their perceived longevity is growing or reducing and whether the profit levels are as as good.

Stay tuned as we start the series tomorrow.