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Biz Ideas
You may have a clear idea about the business
you want to start. Here is a partial list of some more home business ideas:
Produce a product
Providing a service
Becoming an agent for someone's product or service
Importing products and services made outside the country
Rebuilding or remanufacturing products
Taking local markets to new markets
Imitating successful products or business ideas
Buying the right to make or sell a product
Selling the right to a product you own to another person to make or sell
Offering replacement products for goods now imported
Inventing or locating an invention you can patent or claim rights
Identifying market gaps or shortages and filling them
Buying a franchise
Some of the most profitable home-based businesses are in these areas:
* pet care and grooming
* event planning
* landscape/gardening
* light manufacturing
* hair styling
* maid service
* computer services
* bed and breakfast
* home care
* consulting
* catering
* daycare
* counselling
* herb growing
* multi-level marketing
Other Ideas for Home-Based Businesses:
- Animal boarding, care
- Audio and visual production services
- Bed and breakfast
- Answering Service
- Art gallery and sales, in-home
- Auction items on Ebay, drop- shipped, personal or consignment
- Baking, specialty products (non-wheat, additive free, low salt)
- Baby items
- Beekeeping, honey production
- Child Care, elder care, special needs support
- Car services, specialized
- Catering, food or sector specialty (gourmet or film industry)
- Children and specialty entertainment, e.g, clowns, magicians
- Cleaning, house and commercial/institutional
- Computer Mapping
- Consultant, wide range of services and subjects
- Computer Services, design, create, do layout;
publish; manage other people's data; provide mail order
services; publish price lists, catalogues, listings,
newsletters; rent equipment or time on
computer systems; write or print resumes, proposals,
reports; sell data; teach about computing or using available
software programs; teach other skills and subjects;
troubleshoot; write programs, web design and website management.
- Convention and conference planning, logistics and support
- Cooking services, specialty or targeted
- Distributing
- Event and party planning
- Farming, specialty, including organic, herb, special product (kiwi, holly)
- Design and layout, creative services in producing documents and audiovisuals
- Door-to-door selling
- Fashions, specialty (maternity, children's clothing, applique)
- Desktop Publishing
- Energy services (energy loss detection, energy efficient planning and renovation)
- Food Products, particularly those tied to
trends, natural food, low fat or organic
foods
- Footwear
- Fundraising
- Furniture polish, wax, stain
- Furniture repair, small-scale manufacture
- Glass blowing and design, retail and industrial/commercial
- Gardening, yard and lawn maintenance, landscaping
- Guided tours and sightseeing
- Gift basket service
- Hobby, craft, and art supplies
- Home renovations and maintenance
- Image consulting (ward-robe, communication, and seminars for professionals)
- Importing
- Information service, consulting or information brokering
- Interior design, commercial or residential
- Internet Research
- Jewellery, original designs and work, repair
- Lawn and garden care
- Mail order services
- Maternity fashions and specialty products
- Leisure activities, including instruction
- Media productions and services
- Novelty items (T-shirts, mugs) targeted to certain market, e,g.. new parents or grandparents
- Office planning office systems design. installation
- Packaging. retail and "breaking bulk," sorting large quantities into smaller ones and repackaging them for sale
- Personal services, house-sitting, errands
- Personal shopping
- Photo postcards, picture postcards
- Photography and photographic services
- Polishes and cleaning products
- Pottery, particularly specialty styles and products
- Placement and assistance (temporary help) services
- Printing, various services related to copying, printing, document production
- Pool cleaning
- Professions that don't require special
facilities, eg., accountant. lawyer, public
relations and management consultants
- Publishing and publishing services (editing)
- Rebuilding or remanufacturing
- Recreation
- Research
- Resume's
- Seminars and courses, workshops
- Sewing and tailoring
- Shoe repair
- Sports equipment
- Telephone answering and soliciting service
- Training and training materials
- Tutoring and instruction
- Videotaping
- Wordprocessing
- Writing
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