Promotional gifts items like post card, calender, key chain, photo frame, and numerous other small gift items is able to bring prospect if you are good in marketing and selling them. The advantage of this type of home based business is you are able to purchase the items in bulk at lowest price possible and sell it at low price due to the lower overhead than any nearby outlet store. This type of business can be either full time or part time running at home based and the customer can be your friends, family members, neighbors and anybody else. You can even aim to sell these promotional gifts items to company who are looking for gift for their staffs, customers or suppliers.
Other than running this business home based, you can consider also to set up a store booth at any function or fair, sell online by developing your own website or through ebay. To run this home based business successfully, as a business owner you have to make sure you have a basic computer skill in operating or maintaining the website, a proper storage place to store all the inventories, and a reliable shipping agent to send or receive the promotional gift items to your customer or from the suppliers.

Estimated cost of start up: USD 10,000
Basic start up kit: PC/laptop, internet connection, website(hosting + domain), display booth, importation and exportation knowledge.