300 Small Business Ideas
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4. Retire!
1. Organize people’s homes. If you have a knack for organizing, or want to hire people who do, you can help rid people of clutter and get their lives on track.
2. Create a healthy smoothie you can sell. Try out different recipes until you figure out what works and what can stay good through shipment.
3. Start your own coffee shop. Learn how the coffee business works, buy a shop, buy beans, and sell great coffee. A perk of this business is you’ll always be caffeinated.
4. Become a florist. Start your own flower shop and make beautiful bouquets for people to use both regularly and on special occasions.
5. Start your own car shop. Hire mechanics to work for you and rent out a garage. Train to be a mechanic yourself in the meantime and then you can play a more integral part of the business.
6. Buy used vintage clothes and sell them for more. Get into sewing and spruce them up a bit, or just sell the original item at a higher price than you bought. This is how Nasty Gal started, and so could you!
7. Build your own software security business. Hire software engineers to develop programs that help protect against hackers. Then, sell it to companies to use as protection.
8. Start your own makeup company. Anyone can do it. Produce your makeup at home, and design packaging (small and simple.) Market your product and sell it to the masses.
9. Become a social media influencer. Get a professional photographer to take photos of you in exotic locations and post them on social media. Once you get enough followers, you can endorse other products and get paid.
10. Refurbish antique furniture to resell. Learn how to get the piece of furniture back to its original condition or hire someone who can. Start your own store and resell the gems you find.
11. Start your own marketing business. Pitch and run ads for big firms. Start out with small businesses and keep expanding until you get to large corporations.
12. Start a house-building business. Hire a team of carpenters, electricians, and builders to put together dream homes for customers. Hire a designer for the end to make it look nice.
13. Flip old, rundown houses into gorgeous modern homes. Learn how to refurbish homes or hire people who do, then resell the home for a higher price. You’ll be like Jo in no time.
14. Make your own woodcarvings to sell. Start carving and create your own designs, then hire other people to replicate your designs and sell them. Create a website for people to buy your woodwork.
15. Create your own clothing line. Design your own clothes and learn how to sew. If you don’t want to learn, get a factory to produce your products and market those instead. Be creative.
16. Create your own line of bathing suits. Bikinis require less fabric but are still profitable. Pay influencers to wear your products and the orders will come flooding in.
17. Create your own doggy day care. Buy a shop, design it to look modern and ready for puppies, then hire groomers and employees. Market your business locally, and then expand.
18. Start your own fast food cart/truck franchise. This will require a bit more capital, as they can require more than 50,000 to start. However, the payoffs can be reliable since people trust the franchise already.
19. Start your own beehive. Buy a hive and a swarm of bees. Learn how to care for them and harvest honey, then sell your products to local stores.
20. Become a matchmaker. Start online and pair people who you think would be good together. Ask them if they’d like to find out who you paired them with for a fee and send them each other’s information.
21. Become a pharmaceutical representative. Sell the product you think will do best and make commission on what you sell. This is similar to franchising. You’re working for others, but it’s your business.
22. Start your own winery. If you have enough capital to buy the land, purchase your own vineyards. If not, buy your own grapes and produce wine in a warehouse.
23. Start your own brewery. Grab some friends or business partners who love beer. Build your own beer to taste and market your brand. Get local restaurants to sell it and continue growing.
24. Start your own hemming business. Fix and alter people’s clothes for a fee. Hire an experienced seamstress or try to learn the craft yourself. People gain weight and lose weight all the time.
25. Start websites for businesses. Become a freelance website developer and offer your services to up and coming businesses who want a professional look.
26. Create your own type of candy and sell it in stores. Give out free samples until people love it, then sell it on the web. Eventually, you should try to get it in big candy stores and gas stations.
27. Start your own bakery. Make products that you love and see if others will love them as well. Buy a pre-existing bakery if you can, to minimize startup costs, and do your best to keep business coming in.
28. Open your own bar. The dream of every 40-year-old in the world. Come down and say hello to the regulars and drink free beer. Buy a bar and market it to suit your brand.
29. Train dogs for customers. If you’ve always had a knack with dogs, start your own puppy training business. People will give you their young puppies or troubled dogs and you’ll train them for profit.
30. Start your own landscaping business. Hire some, hardworking help, and turn a desert into a lush garden. No experience? No problem. You can take a course on this.
31. Start your own ice cream parlor. Rent out a shop and produce your own ice cream to sell. Add signature sprinkles or cones to set yourself apart.
32. Start your own dog-walking business. Hire other walkers to help you and secure clients for them. Take a cut from each walker and make a profit.
33. Organize a book club. If you can secure semi-famous authors to read at your book club, it’ll be a hit for book lovers. Create different book clubs for each night of the week and charge a small fee for attending.
34. Make your own soap business. Design luxury soaps and sell them to customers online, and then in stores. Make them extra colorful or fruity to distinguish them from other soaps.
35. Start a graphic design business. Hire graphic designers to work at your studio and produce work for clients. Grow until you’re a big corporation yourself.
36. Write your own novel. If you have a passion for writing, now is the time to start your dream novel. Try to get it published, but if not, self-publish and see how it fares.
37. Start your own accounting business. If you’re an accountant yourself, or know accountants, try branching out on your own and doing work for smaller clients.
38. Create your own jewelry business. Make the jewelry with chains, beads, and stones you buy. Then, sell it at fairs and markets until you make enough money to start your own shop.
39. Start your own snow removal company. Buy a snow blower and offer to remove snow from people’s driveways in the winter. With enough clients, you can buy more snowplows and expand.
40. Start your own tree-planting business. Find a pocket of land that needs trees and replant them for businesses who need lumber. They will pay your business to replant these trees for them.
41. Start your own yoga studio. Start virtual and get clients to watch your online tutorials. Then, rent your own space and conduct tutorials there.
42. Become an online vlogger. Vlog (videotape blog) is taking videos of your day to day life and posting them online to entertain others. You may have to do some interesting stuff to keep it entertaining, but it’ll be fun.
43. Start your own wedding planning business. If you love to plan events, this is a great way to get paid. Advertise your services and try to gain some clients. Work for someone else if you want experience first.
44. Become a talent manager. Find clients you think have potential and become their business manager. You’ll get ten percent of what they make, so try to get them big contracts.
45. Start your own photography business. Practice your skills, get a good camera, and find clients. Offer package deals to entice new clients, then ask for them for reviews online.
46. Start your own cake decorating business. Buy dyes and decorations to help you make cakes, then practice. You won’t be great overnight, but you’ll generate good clients over time.
47. Start your own used car dealership. Rent a parking lot, take in used cars for cash, then resell them at a higher price. Or, take a percentage of the price paid for it and give the rest to the previous owner.
48. Become a landlord. Put a down payment on a property and use the rent money to pay off the mortgage. At the end of the day, you’ll have a property for your down payment.
49. Start your own daycare. Get the proper licensing and training, then use your home or a rented area to take care of people’s kids while they’re at work.
50. Start your own maid businesses. Hire maids to clean different people’s houses, as well as doing it yourself if you’d like to make more money and maintain a percentage of the fee.
51. Manage the social media accounts for different businesses. If you’re social media savvy, use it to your advantage. Show them how much better and more accessible their business could be.
52. Start your own catering company. Create an array of dishes to prepare for guests and see which ones do the best. Then, continue with the best sellers for the next guests.
53. Grow vegetables to sell to restaurants. Small-scale farms can be profitable, especially with the new wave of organic, locally grown eating. Go to different restaurants and give them samples to see if they like it.
54. Become an editor for different pieces of work. Offer your editing services to online articles and see if any of them need an extra look over.
55. Start a personal support worker company. Hire personal support workers to go to elderly people’s homes and take care of them in different ways. They can help them bathe, go to the bathroom, or go to bed, just as a few options.
56. Start your own personal training business. Post workout videos online at first and try to gain clients. Once you have some, you can rent out gym space for your clients to use with you.
57. Become a career coach for people. If they want to be where you are, you can coach them on what steps they can take to achieve their dreams.
58. Start your own restaurant. If you’ve ever been passionate about a style of cooking, try making your own food to sell. Rent out a space and see if people will buy what you’re making.
59. Start your own foreign translation business. Connect people who need translators to the translators and take a small percentage of the fee.
60. Start a videography company. Film weddings and events with a video camera. How serious you are depends on how big the camera is. You may have to purchase a drone as well.
61. Start your own travel agency. If you love booking travel arrangements for yourself, try doing it for someone else. You can use your organizational planning skills to benefit others.
62. Start your own car cleaning business. Learn how to clean the exterior and interior of cars for less than big corporations. Generate clients and hire other people to help you after a while.
63. Start a food delivery business. Make your own meal prep and give it to clients who need portioned amounts of food. Deliver it to them and charge a fee plus food costs.
64. Start your own massage therapy clinic. Hire licensed masseuses and rent a space for clients to come in. Offer deals to begin with to bring in new clientele.
65. Start your own makeup artistry business. Learn how to do makeup and do it for clients on weddings or other special occasions. Get referrals to generate more business, then hire other makeup artists.
66. Start your own hairdressing business. Rent a space, use your basement, or go to people’s houses to cut their hair. Keep getting more clients until you can charge more.
67. Start your own barbershop. Give men the premium treatment for their hair and beard. Rent out a space and develop personal relationships with your customers and they’ll come back.
68. Start a reviewing business. Post videos of reviews you make online and give honest reviews, so customers trust you. You can still get paid by the brand, but be honest if you don’t like the product.
69. Start your own bed and breakfast. Use your home or rent a space for people to use as a hotel and make them food in the morning.
70. Make a business of flipping websites. Find old websites that need a glossier look and offer to redo them for the business. You could also straight up buy an old and dying site, and then reinvigorate it.
71. Start your own interior design business. Design rooms and homes for your clients and get more referrals until you can start outsourcing the work to rookie designers.
72. Become an online currency trader. Use online tutorials to learn how and eventually you can do it for clients as well. You can make a ton, or lose a ton. Depends how smart you are.
73. Start your own tour guide company. Rent a bus and take people around your local city. No one knows it better than a local. Want to get in super shape? Take people around in a little cart that you either bike or run.
74. Start your own tutoring business. Hire tutors for every subject and try to find clients for them to help.
Eventually, you can get them company cars to advertise as they work.
75. Start your own Christmas tree farm. Find a large plot of land or use some of your property. Plant the trees and wait for Christmas season.
76. Start your own gym. Rent a space, buy the equipment, and let the profit come to you. Hire some personal trainers to bring in new clients. Gyms make a lot of money, but finding clientele is tough. You need to make your gym special and amazing.
77. Make customized scrapbooks for clients. If you love being artsy and making crafts, this is a great way to share your skills with the world.
78. Make your own candle business. Create your favorite scents with essential oils and flavors. Sell them online, and eventually in stores when you get enough business.
79. Start your own limo tour business. Hire drivers to take people on tours of cities, wineries, to weddings, and other special occasions. You can sell them drinks, food, and souvenirs.
80. Become a DJ. Learn how to mix songs and post your videos online. Try to get a job in clubs and weddings if you can. If not, just do virtual shows.
81. Become a fitness instructor. Teach your own fitness class, either online or in person. Use a standing bike or mat to exercise with your clients. People in apartment buildings are dying for a personal trainer. Their building has a gym, but nobody to teach them!
82. Start a staging business. Stage homes for realtors to help them sell. If you stage it well and it sells for a good price, you’ll get a percentage.
83. Become a freelance coder. Learn how to code and offer your services to companies who need extra coding work, or start-up websites.
84. Turn your home into an Airbnb. Stay with your parents or significant other’s every weekend and rent out your place to travelers. This is also a great way to own a cottage without spending a ton of money. You can rent it out half the year.
85. Start a referral business. Similar to headhunting, a business will pay you a fee if you find someone that ends up getting hired at their firm. You can also connect businesses to other businesses that would work well together.
86. Start your own computer school. Teach people who don’t know how to use computers how do basic computer functions. Do a web seminar and guide them on their screen.
87. Become a home inspector for realtors. Use your learned expertise to judge buildings. Hire other inspectors if you get a lot of clients and expand your business.
88. Start your own telephone hotline. People always need someone to talk to, especially if they lack social interaction. Get callers to pay a fee to chat to a nice person.
89. Become a nutritionist. Learn about nutrition and start a consulting service for people’s diets. You’ll be amazed at the difference you can make in people’s lives.
90. Become a motivational speaker at assemblies. Learn how to master life, then teach others how to do the same. Write a book to sell along with your tour for extra profits.
91. Start your own courier task business. Hire people to do small tasks like groceries or errands for other people. You get a small fee for hooking them up.
92. Start your own grass cutting business. Bring your riding lawnmower to people’s homes and offer to do it for a fee. Get a tan and enjoy.
93. Start your own pest removal business. Get the right equipment to remove all types of pests, then advertise your services until you gain clients.
94. Start your own mini-golf business. Set up the holes, let people come play, and receive passive profits all summer. Just hire some teenagers to run it for you. Make your mini-putt place the ideal cheap date idea and you’ll be rolling in business.
95. Start a pool cleaning business. Hire staff to clean pools at people’s homes and receive the extra profit just for setting up the interaction.
96. Start a sports tutoring program. If you’re good at a sport, offer to teach children the sport in a class. It’ll be less expensive than a professional camp for the kids, and more personal.
97. Teach children how to play instruments. If you learned how to play an instrument growing up, why not pass on your knowledge. Hire other people to teach instruments you don’t know how to play.
98. Start a locksmith business. Learn how to make locks, or buy a machine, and secure people’s property for them. People lose their keys all the time.
99. Start a security installation company. Provide motion sensors, lights, alarms, and video cameras to homes. You can buy everything off Amazon. Your job is just to set it up. Make sure to charge for your time.
100. Start a holiday decorating business. Many businesses want to spruce up their place during different seasons, but it’s difficult and expensive to acquire so many decorations. If they rent from you, you can give them more glamorous decorations at a lower cost.
101. Create a house painting business. Offer to paint the interior and exterior of houses. Take a training class or hire people who know what they’re doing to be successful.
102. Start your own moving company. Purchase a large truck or two, hire some muscular people, and move furniture for people moving homes.
103. Set up a packing company. Movers will come take you belongings, but packers do the tedious job of putting everything safely in boxes.
104. Become a freelance garden designer. For landscapers or people who don’t want to come up with a design to redo their garden on their own, you can design their garden plan.
105. Create a laundry service. Take people’s laundry to the wash or buy your own washing machines for it. Then, dry and fold the laundry to return it for a fee.
106. Become a freelance handyman. If you’ve always had a knack for being able to fix things or problem solve, try offering up your services as a business venture.
107. Create an air duct cleaning business. Buy materials to clean people or businesses airducts and advertise your services. Get paid to stop allergens from making people sneeze.
108. Become a freelance concierge. Start a concierge business and become one yourself or just hire others to work for your clients. Rich people don’t have time to book tedious appointments.
109. Start your own grocery delivery business. Many people don’t have time or energy to go to the grocery store. Charge for your time, but don’t mark up the price of food. Give receipts!
110. Create an ecommerce store. Go to markets and ask if anyone would like to sell their products online on your website. Once they sell, you take a tiny fee and slowly make income through running the site.
111. Create your own apps. If you know computer software, try to learn how to build apps and sell them. Either build them for yourself or freelance for different companies.
112. Become a professional babysitter. Offer your services to homes and work whenever different families require it. Then, hire other babysitters and start a service to provide someone when your customers ask you.
113. Create your own aquarium maintenance business. Hire people to go to homes and businesses to clean their aquariums. No one wants to do it themselves, so there’s high demand.
114. Begin a childproofing company. Parents want their kids to be safe, but often don’t catch all the hazards. Send people to babyproof their homes and make sure their kids are safe.
115. Start an editing business. Lots of people need editing for their books, papers, manuscripts, websites, etc. All you need to learn is proper grammar and sentence structure. Charge by the word!
116. Create a service to pick up dog poop in people’s backyards. Many people hate this part of owning a dog and would gladly pay someone to do it a couple times a week.
117. Begin a basement remodeling company. Most people need their basement redone. If you can minimize costs and specialize in basements, you can find lots of customers.
118. Start a business converting media platforms. Many people have old CDs and tapes and have no idea how to put them on the computer. Convert their old mediums to new ones for a fee.
119. Create your own consignment store. Ask people if they have any old clothes or items to sell. If you can sell them, you get a percentage of the profits. You can do this online or start your own shop.
120. Open a petting zoo. If you already have lots of farm animals, or you’re looking to get some, let little kids come play with them. Only safe ones though, no tigers.
121. Start your own bookkeeping business. Many businesses have papers they need to get organized. Hire people to go through their paperwork and leverage your time.
122. Begin your own proofreading business. Many college and high school students need people to edit and look over their essays. Hire other smart people to proofread in their spare time and charge a small fee.
123. Create a slideshow company. If you’re very skilled at PowerPoint, offer to make digital presentations for companies, schools, weddings, and funerals if they need something visual.
124. Start your own composting business. Collect compost, or make it yourself with fruits and vegetables, then let it turn into soil. Sell it to farms to be used as rich soil for plants.
125. Start a computer repair business. If you’ve always had a knack for computers, or are willing to learn, help other people fix internal or external problems with their soft and hardware.
126. Create a cloth diaper business. Save the environment and deliver cloth diapers to homes around the neighborhood. Once a week, pick them up, wash them, and bring them back to the home for a fee.
127. Become an Uber driver. Work whenever you want and interact with cool people every day. You could also deliver food instead of people!
128. Start a consulting company. If you’re business savvy, people will want your expertise in making a business. Consult with them and make their business grow even bigger.
129. Become a virtual guidance counselor. Give career and personal advice as a life coach, but online. See several clients a day without leaving your home and give them your educated advice on how they should live their life.
130. Write other people’s resumes for them. People will always struggle with creating a proper resume. With all the formatting and rules, they’d rather pay to let you figure it out.
131. Start your own home bakery. Create products in your kitchen to sell online in packages. You don’t need a huge bakery, just your home kitchen and eager buyers.
132. Become an art consultant. Rich people need someone to tell them which pieces of art are the best investment. You can study to learn the differences of various pieces and get paid for your opinion.
133. Become a publicist for clients. Spin any scandal into a positive light and make your person or business look the best they can.
134. Become a media trainer. People going into the media when they first become famous need a lot of media training. Teach them how to answer questions or spin them so they don’t have to answer.
135. Start a construction cleanup business. Construction sites can be left in disarray after the project is complete. Many large-scale operations need a secondary business to go in and clean up. They don’t want to do it!
136. Design and sell gift baskets online. If someone needs to buy a gift for an acquaintance or someone they aren’t sure of what to get for, a gift basket is great. You can buy all the items in bulk and divide them into the baskets to lower costs.
137. Become an eyelash technician. Apply eyelash extensions have become all the rage recently. Learn how to apply them, then let clients come to your home and get their eyelashes done. There are training courses to become certified, then you can start your business.
138. Become a nail technician. Go to people’s homes, or have them come to yours, and do their nails. Some people, especially celebrities, don’t want to go into a nail salon, so you can become a tech and go to them.
139. Create a wedding venue. Find a property perfect for weddings and make it even more perfect. Create an indoor and outdoor venue you can host weddings at every weekend.
140. Make your own specialty food to sell online. If you’ve always been great at making sausages, cheese, bread, or anything you can make, see if you can get people to order your food online.
141. Become a stylist. Organize outfits and watch for new trends to put your clients in. If you’ve always had a keen eye for fashion, this is a great career choice.
142. Become a freelance coach for sports teams. Watch practices and see what the team and coach can improve on. Sometimes an outside eye is the perfect fix for struggling teams.
143. Create your own vocal coaching company. Teach children and adults how to sing to the best of their abilities. Even great artists have singing coaches.
144. Open your own dance studio. Hire dancers to teach young children how to perfect their dancing abilities and become professional dancers themselves.
145. Become a professional dancer. If you’ve been dancing your whole life, why not try it as a career. Audition to be backup dancers for different artists and go on tour with them around the world.
146. Become a choreographer. Teach dances for music videos, dance classes, and make online tutorials. Use your creativity to make unmistakable dances.
147. Create a stable for young riders. Buy a horse farm and start teaching young children how to ride horses. If you’re an equestrian, this is a dream.
148. Become a director. Study film either in school or by yourself. Learn what looks good and apply your vision to music videos, TV shows, and movies.
149. Become a model. If you’ve always thought you look great or unique in front of the camera, try going to auditions and see how you fare. You could have the next new face.
150. Write kids’ books. (Short fiction.) Kids don’t require much to be entertained. Throw in some jokes, facts, and a bit of a story. Poof. Instant best seller.
151. Write music to sell to artists. Write out lyrics, create the music for the songs, and sell them to A-listers to perform at the Grammy’s. Can’t find any artists? Check out YouTube for the up-and-comers.
152. Become a musical producer. Study how to manipulate sound and make musical tracks sound infinitely better. You’ll get a percentage of profits from selling the song.
153. Start a fact checking business. Businesses and public speakers need to make sure all their statistics are correct. So, get your people to go over the research and make sure it’s real.
154. Bake your own dog treats and sell them online. Many people need good, healthy cooked treats for their dogs. Cook them in your home and mail them out to customers.
155. Start your own canine meal prep company. If you pre-make the meals and freeze them, you can send them to clients for their dogs. People want healthy and homemade. No preservatives. No junk!
156. Start your own dog food business. If you live on a farm, you may have access to cows that would’ve been used for human meat. If you can get the cows low cost from a farm, you can use the meat to make your own dog food to sell online or in stores.
157. Become a midwife. Learn how to birth children in natural ways and keep the mother calm throughout the birthing period. Make sure to look out for signs they need to go to the hospital, because baby doctors exist for a reason. (Make sure to learn what you’re doing before starting this business. Health and medicine is no joke!)
158. Find out about people’s ancestry for a fee. If you love looking through history books and investigating, ask clients to hire you to find out about their family tree.
159. Become a private investigator. You can become a detective by being a cop, or you can do it on your own. If you’ve always been good at finding out information but want to work for yourself, try becoming a PI.
160. Start your own gutter-cleaning business. Pay people to clean the gutters of homes or do it yourself. This is something no one wants to do, so you’ll be able to locate clients.
161. Make personalized gifts for people. Lots of companies want to show their appreciation for their employees, but don’t have time to make personalized gifts. You can make them for different companies for a fee.
162. Make Christmas/holiday cards. They can be personalized to order, or just crafty cards people want to buy. Sell them online to people/gift stores.
163. Start a junk removal business. If someone needs garbage removed from their property, and don’t have a truck or time, that’s where you come in. Bring it to a certified dump to be disposed of.
164. Start a roofing business. Learn how to apply roofing, hire some reliable people, and advertise your services. Get referrals and continue growing your business.
165. Start a wedding concierge business. Venues need reliable people to come let people in, show them to their seats, and make sure everything is working smoothly on the day of. Make deals with venues to work with them during busy season.
166. Start a house-sitting business. Hire trustworthy people to take care of people’s homes while they’re away on vacation.
167. Start your own food truck. Build a restaurant inside a mobile truck and drive it to where you think the most business will be.
168. Become a transcriber. Many videos online need to be transcribed. If you’re a fast typist, you’ll get a lot done quickly and can make some serious money.
169. Trade stock options. Learn how to do this by watching YouTube videos. Start small and don’t risk more than you can afford to lose. Trading options is a lot like sports betting.
170. Become a personal shopper. Shop for other people who need clothes and trust your style. Or, go shopping with them and pick out things you like, like What Not to Wear.
171. Orchestrate pet sitting for clients. Set up a website where people can find suitable matches for their pets and take a small percentage for the referral.
172. Start your own blog. Write about what you love and your interests, and if people feel the same way they’ll give you more traction. Once you have enough attention you can run ads.
173. Start your own amateur sports league. Create a website and get people to sign up. Coordinate the games and put people on teams for a fee.
174. Design a video game. If you know how computers and engineering works, you can try to set up your own online video game. Charge people for being able to play it.
175. Teach online courses in something you’re passionate about. Whether it’s stocks, biology, or dinosaurs, if you’re an expert, use it to make money.
176. Start a business teaching people how to present. Many people experience presentation anxiety, so create a course designed to alleviate some of that.
177. Create a cartridge refilling business. Ink cartridges are so expensive from the store. If you can refill them yourself, you can go door to door asking people if they need refill to be installed for less.
178. Start your own speech pathology business. Hire a speech pathologist, rent out a building, and get clients to come in and receive speech therapy.
179. Create a tanning salon. Rent out a space, buy tanning beds and spray tanning units, and watch the pale people flourish.
180. Become a dog breeder. Buy a couple top quality dogs and sell the puppies for thousands of dollars. Buy a couple of dogs to breed so that the same ones aren’t getting pregnant year after year.
181. Open an electronics repair shop. If you know how to fix computers or want to know, now’s the time. Learn how the hard and software work in computers and get paid to fix them.
182. Start a bicycle repair shop. Learn how bikes work and create a business fixing old bikes and repairing ones with issues. No one wants to throw out a thousand-dollar bike.
183. Start a bike polishing shop to turn regular bikes into art pieces. Use professional paint to spruce them up and give them cool designs. Jack up some bikes.
184. Create a menu-planning business. Lots of high scale restaurants aren’t sure what to put on their menu. If you can prove your tastes, you can recommend what they should serve.
185. Become a freelance public relations manager. Manage how businesses are viewed in the world for a fee. If you’re experienced in this field, businesses would rather pay you than a large firm.
186. Create a sprinkler business. Set up sprinklers in people’s yards to keep their grass healthy. Advertise your services and generate clients. You could also do other lawn maintenance things. Create packages. Sell it all!
187. Open a gras- growing business. Offer to plant grass seed in people’s lawns and set up fencing around it so no one steps where it’s planted.
188. Set up a lawn aerating business. Offer to aerate people’s lawns with an aerator and make profit, plus a tan, on sunny days.
189. Start your own podcast. While everyone else would tell you not to do it, you totally should. Talk about things you’re passionate about, and eventually you can run ads.
190. Start a construction firm. If you love building projects and have worked in the industry, try starting your own small-scale construction company. Start small and specialize in something, like backyard decks. Boomers want a deck, but don’t want to build one.
191. Become an SEO (search engine optimization) consultant for businesses. Learn how businesses can get traction with their ads on different search engines and recommend how they can better succeed.
192. Become a party planner. There are other events that need planning other than weddings. Plan anniversaries, birthdays, Bat Mitzvahs, and so on.
193. Clean the sides of people’s homes. They so often get neglected, but a power wash can do wonders. Get a strong house and wash down people’s homes for a fee.
194. Write an e-book and publish it online. You can write about whatever you’d like without having to publish physically. Put out ads and do write a couple to see what sells.
195. Become a social media consultant. Teach people how to streamline their social media and effectively get more followers. The more followers, the more ad money.
196. Start your own fanfiction website. Create a platform people can write in, then run ads when enough people start joining in. You won’t be writing the fanfiction; you’ll be vetting it. Don’t allow any garbage on your site!
197. Create art catalogues for art collectors. They can browse through their art easily and remember what they own and the backstory for each piece. You can make them both physically and digitally.
198. Become a virtual assistant for someone. A lot of people or businesses need someone to answer their e-mails and organize zoom meetings. Do this from the comfort of your own home.
199. Become a foreign consultant for companies. Businesses want to know what different cultures are like in order to market to them, so if you’ve gone to different countries offer your services.
200. Offer to do people’s taxes for them. Lots of people hate doing taxes, but anyone can do it. Offer to sort their receipts and submit their tax claims for a fee.
201. Become a travel guide. Go around the world travelling with tourists who need an experienced companion. You can start with the major cities in your country. Offer full tours and unique experiences.
202. Start a video editing business. Lots of online personalities need people to edit their videos for them. Get paid to make their videos look great. YouTubers, Twitch stars, etc.
203. Become a voice-over professional. Use your voice to narrate projects of your choice on the internet. Check out Fiverr and you’ll find lots of work.
204. Start a copy-editing business for other companies. Use your editing skills to check the grammar and structure of pieces of work companies are putting out.
205. Become a travel consultant. Lots of people don’t have friends who have travelled and can recommend good places to go. Use your expertise and consult on their travel plans to make sure they’re seeing the right sites.
206. Teach your first language to students abroad. Use your online platform to teach children people with your native accent would sound like.
207. Resell products on Amazon. Buy them in bulk and resell them individually. You can buy pallets of cheap products from countries like Pakistan and China. All you need to learn is how to import them. Then you need a storage place.
208. Start your own phone case business. Customize phone cases for people and sell them to clients. Or, create your own cool designs and sell them online.
209. Create an SAT tutoring business. Connect successful tutors with children in need of help. Designate a small percentage of the fee for yourself.
210. Make ads for people on google as a freelance business. Offer your services to companies who need help making successful ads but can’t afford a large-scale advertiser.
211. Become a freelance interior design consultant. Most people model their own designs, but if they’re having trouble matching the wood to the curtains, they can ask you your opinion for a fee.
212. Make small scale jewelry or crafts to sell on Etsy. It’s easy to start your online business with a safe, secure website, so sell your specialty projects. Just be careful with stepping on other people’s intellectual property.
213. Sell your soul on Fiverr. Find freelance work to do for yourself on this app. You can pick and choose what jobs you do and make as little or lot of money as you so choose.
214. Help teenagers write their college admissions essays. It can be difficult to figure out what colleges want, so find out and help them get into their dream school.
215. Write romance fiction for websites. You can generate lots of business writing out niche scenarios for different books, movies, video games and TV shows.
216. Start a berry farm. Find a berry or fruit that easily grows in your area. Plant them in your land and sell them at a stand on the side of the road or at a market.
217. Write cute greeting cards for someone. Personalized greetings cards in bulk can be expensive, so deliver this product to corporations for less and do it yourself. Hire an artist and leverage your time.
218. Address and seal wedding invitations. Many couples find this job tedious and would gladly pay someone to do it. Get their names and addresses and do a personalized card for each guest.
219. Rent your car to strangers on Turbo. If you own one but barely use it, you can easily rent it to strangers cheaper than at a rental. As long as they give it back, that is.
220. Become an art collector. This can take some time and serious capital, but if you buy pieces you think will generate money over time, you can buy low and sell high.
221. Design an app to sell. Pitch ideas to a software engineer and take a percentage of whatever it makes. Be the business sided idea creator for apps if you don’t know how to build them.
222. Become famous on social media and do interviews. Do freelance interviews for television platforms and give your take on current issues and gossip.
223. Start your own juice stand. Juice different types of fruit and create specialty, natural drinks consumers will die for.
224. Trademark names you think will be used in the future. If you think someone will need it, they can buy it from you at a higher price.
225. Patent business ideas. If you can produce it, then another corporation may want to as well. If you can defend it legally, you’ll make money.
226. Create a boat cleaning business. Learn how to clean the decks, living space, and exterior of the boat when it’s not in season. Boats can get dirty over time, so owners will want a reliable cleaner.
227. Create your own specialty hot chocolate stand. If you love making drinks and employing your children, this is a great way to do both and make money.
228. Start your own beavertail truck. Rent or buy a truck and sell beavertails on school campuses. Students will line up in between classes to get their hands on them.
229. Sell specialty hotdogs outside of a nightclub. They’re cheap to make, and drunk people will love eating right after leaving the club. Offer hotdogs and sausages for a bit of variety.
230. Sell personalized sweaters to graduating classes. Order them in bulk and get the high school or university’s brand on the front of the sweater. Students love to represent where they go to school.
231. Sell your own specialty coffee. If you found beans you love in a foreign country, offer to sell them for the buyer as a distributer. If you love them, other people may as well.
232. Refurbish used electronics for profit. Buy people’s old electronics after they’ve bought new ones. Then, resell them once you’ve made them fast and pretty.
233. Become a freelance copywriter for websites. They’ll often hire someone to copywrite their website. With time and experience you can grow your clientele to a full-time job.
234. Create your own online business course. If you love studying business, teach others what you know. Those who cannot do, teach.
235. Start a children’s party planning business. Less coordinating than for adults, as there will be less people, but still a large amount of work. You’ll have to make sure everything is safe for children as well.
236. Create your own haircare products. Put together your own products out of natural ingredients you trust. Use likeable product names and colors to help sell your product.
237. Create your own facemask brand. You can literally make a facemask out of so many different natural products, and almost any fruit. Put them in a jar and sell them online or as a popup.
238. Find or buy stones to paint. If you’re artistic, you can create pretty designs for people to place in their flowerpots. They’ll also keep moisture inside the pot for the roots.
239. Become an investor in startups. Spread out your money in businesses you believe in, and hopefully one will succeed. Then, you’ll receive passive income for as long as the business succeeds.
240. Fill out online surveys for a fee. Work from home and do as much or little as you’d like. Stay in bed and make money all day for their opinion.
241. Create your own meditation class. Start online and use soothing music to get people to calm their thinking. The best part about hosting a meditation class is you barely have to speak.
242. Start your own YouTube channel. Gain followers and keep them engaged by posting a video or two a week. Once you gain enough traction you can sell or endorse products.
243. Become a ghost writer. Write biographies and stories for people with ideas who don’t know how to write. Or, write for celebrities who would like to have their name on a Y/A book.
244. Start your own smoked meat business. Buy your own meat to smoke yourself and sell it online or at a pop-up store. Experiment with jerky. People love jerky. It also lasts a long time. And it’s expensive.
245. Smoke your own salmon to sell online. Freeze in packages and send it out in Styrofoam coolers. Once you sell enough you can start your own store.
246. Make your own sushi to sell. Sell it in freezer bags online. People need a more accessible way to get sashimi.
247. Start your own fishing company. Buy a boat and start fishing to sell what you catch in the market. You’ll be Forest Gump in no time.
248. Start a witness service business. If you’re an expert in a crime field, you can charge lawyers for your expert testimony in court.
249. Start your own financial planning business. If you’ve always been great at organizing your own finances, try doing it for someone else. Picking stocks is fun, but index funds and hedging is easier.
250. Create your own perfume line. If you have a way with scents, try making your own line of fragrances. Get them endorsed by a celebrity, send out free samples, and see how you do.
251. Start your own flea market. Rent a large building and ask if small businesses will come to sell their own products. Become the facilitator of sales.
252. Create a stock photography business. If you love to take pictures and can find many different, odd scenarios, try selling them to a stock photo company.
253. Begin your own stock photo company. Buy photos from freelance photographers to sell to businesses who need photos. Become the middleman business.
254. Become a golf coach. If you’re good at golf or an ex-pro, you can do freelance work for clients who want to improve their game. Maybe you’ll even score some stock market tips from all the rich old guys.
255. Start a referral business. Get clients who you will then link to other businesses they need. Instead of looking online for businesses, you can connect the two in a trusted manner.
256. Become a home energy helper. Start a business going into people’s homes and retrofitting them to become greener, such as having better shower heads, taps, and window sealants.
257. Start your own suit store. Make your own customized suits and sell them to clients for special occasions, such as their wedding.
258. Start your own window installation business. Windows let in cold air in the winter and hot in the summer, so they need to be updated more often than other fixtures. Buy windows from a manufacturer to install in people’s homes.
259. Start a class on importing and exporting goods. If you’re experienced in the field, many people will want to learn from you. Instead of going through the trials and tribulations themselves, they can pay to have you teach them the basics and common mistakes. If you speak a second language you can act as their go-between for another country.
260. Start a cat café. If you love cats and making lattes, start you own business with both. Make coffee while adoptable cats roam around with customers gawking at them.
261. Create your own nail polish brand. If you’ve always loved chemistry, come up with something that beats the rest in terms of staying power, color, and texture. Sell it online, then eventually in stores.
262. Create a tie brand. Make personalized or creative looking ties and sell them online. If you get enough traction you can create a pop-up shop somewhere.
263. Create a class teaching how to make crafts. If you’re a crafty person and know to DIY with any household object, teach your classmates the same trick.
264. Become a freelance movie setting scout. Look for gorgeous places in the world for movies to be set at. Work on contracts and do as much or as little as you’d like.
265. Start your own plumbing business. Hire plumbers to go around to people’s homes responding to calls. Refer people to your plumbers and take a percentage. (It’s a good idea to become a plumber yourself.)
266. Create your own electrical business. Hire electricians to do electrical wiring in buildings for construction companies. Become one yourself for extra profit.
267. Start a small engine repair company. Learn how small motors work, such as in leaf blowers and lawn mowers, and fix them for people. Put out ads to get your name out there.
268. Become a solar energy consultant. Inspect people’s property and tell them what types of solar energy they can produce on their land. If you sell products you can get commission as well.
269. Become an inventor. Invent products you think will be useful in the world, then sell them to companies or on your own.
270. Teach people how to prepare their own taxes. Create a seminar and show them how to sort and file their taxes without having to pay for an accountant.
271. Start your own used bookstore. Buy old books with value, then resell them to collectors. Focus on first edition classics and other books that gain value over time.
272. Create your own appliance repair shop. Hire people who know how to fix appliances, or learn yourself, and put out ads to try to attract business.
273. Become a freelance content marketer. Create ads for small businesses that need the right push into becoming well known. Help develop brands with any insight or experience you have.
274. Start your own day trading business. If you have expertise in a subject and closely follow the news, try guessing where you think the stocks will go that day based on a variety of factors, including luck.
275. Start your own miniature hedge fund. If you like investing, try doing it full time to try to make a serious profit. However, only invest what you’re willing to lose.
276. Create a carpet cleaning business. Many people don’t want to invest in a steam cleaner, so if you get an industrial one you can deep clean people’s carpets for less than what they’d pay to buy one themselves.
277. Become a professional gamer. Learn how to play a videogame well and play in competitions. If you’re amazing, you can gain tons of prize money.
278. Start a call center business. Your business can get large scale clients who need your business to answer their phones and problem solve for them.
279. Start your own real estate consulting business. You don’t have to be an agent. You can help people get their houses ready for sale. Sell packages that involve landscaping and staging. Make their house fancier!
280. Build custom furniture for clients. If designers need a specific look, they can go to you for custom pieces. From picnic tables to couches, personalized furniture is the real deal.
281. Start a tiny bakery. Everyone loves homemade sourdough bread, but nobody wants to bake it themselves. Set your shop up in a trendy neighborhood and charge extra for “organic.”
282. Become a singer. Sing in pubs and bars until you develop a client base. Then, advertise yourself until you can sell your records and go on tour.
283. Create a hot sauce stand in a shopping venue or mall. Make your own hot sauce blends and choose your best one to make in bulk and try to sell. Give out free samples and grow until you can make them in a factory.
284. Wear clothing for brands. If you’re an influencer, get paid to wear different brands and be a human billboard for them.
285. Start a waxing clinic. If you’re not squeamish about body hair, try waxing people’s off. Rent out a building and invite clients to come inside and get silky smooth.
286. Start an eyebrow threading business. Begin with a pop-up in a shopping mall for people to get their eyebrows threaded when passing by. With enough clients, you can open your own venue.
287. Create your own fencing business. Everyone needs to redo their fence occasionally, or have one built in the first place. All you need is some handy workers and a supplier.
288. Become a facialist and start your own clinic. Have clients come in and use products for their skin. Give facial massages and make it feel like a retreat. Tell celebrities you’ll do them for free for an endorsement.
289. Start a birthing class. If you study babies and delivery breathing methods, try opening your own birthing class. Teach expectant mothers how to have their first baby.
290. Teach a breastfeeding class. Show mothers the best tactics to get your child to breastfeed, as well as how to pump and keep your bottled milk good.
291. Create a skincare course for people interested in taking care of their skin. Many people don’t know the step-by-step routine you should be doing for your skin. It can also be personalized per skin type, so you can give personal tutorials.
292. Start your own nature spa. Build pools among nature and charge guests for access to the warm and cold pools. Add some saunas for extra excitement.
293. Become a first-aid coach. Go to different companies and teach their staff first-aid. Many employees would be excited for the chance to learn, and the company would have a safer workspace.
294. Teach sign language. Create your own online course or go to businesses and teach their staff how to sign. It’ll make your staff more accessible to people with hearing disorders and will give them more life skills in general.
295. Start your own pilot school. If you know how to fly a plane but want to work for yourself, try teaching other students how to fly and become pilots.
296. Create your own online school. If school is cancelled and the schools aren’t providing enough material to learn, you can offer bonus lessons in subjects you’re an expert on.
297. Create a graffiti removal company. Many cleaning services wouldn’t normally get rid of graffiti, so specialize in it and get rid of graffiti on private buildings.
298. Create a rug making business. If you’re amazing at making rugs or marketing rugs, this is for you. Either make them yourself or find someone you can hire to do it.
299. Start your own herb stand. Grow different fresh herbs and spices to sell at your very own farm stand.
300. Start your own online therapy business. Either become a therapist yourself or connect people in need of therapy with certified therapists. Mental health is important to keep strong, just like physical health.
That’s all, folks! Thanks for reading, and good luck starting your business.
