The key to this is to develop some sort of specialty, learn the pricing and then buy cheap and sell at a fair market price. A trading business might take some time to really master. That being said, you can make a lot of money trading items on eBay. To learn how to start your business check out Start-a-Business You can try this course for free on BusinessTown. Can you really make good money selling custom T-shirts? Yes you can! A friend of mine, Jeff Jacober, started a custom T-shirt business right after college.
Then he sold the business when he turned 40 and made enough money to buy a sailing yacht and cruise around the Caribbean for a year, buy an airplane, and invest in several new business ventures.
Custom T-Shirts are perfect for selling online, but you could sell them locally too. Even if you are going to focus on your local market you might want to initially skip the cost of a storefront and try running this business from your home. You could approach local businesses, social groups and sports teams. You can learn how to print T-shirts in minutes. If you are really feeling lazy you can even contract out the actual T-shirt printing and focus exclusively on making sales and customer service.
But I recommend you take a little time to learn how to print them yourself. Of course instead of doing custom T-shirts you could try to sell your own designs. This is a riskier approach but the upside potential is huge! Initially they struggled selling their T-shirts on college campuses. They lived out of their van to save money. To find out more about beginning a business, start streaming the courses on BusinessTown including Start-a-Business And if your skills are more advanced then you can tutor at higher levels.
Or you can just hire other people to do all the tutoring for you! You can tutor almost anywhere. You can tutor online via video, such as on Zoom. Or you can meet in a coffee shop or a library.
The demand is huge. We hired tutors to help my kids improve their college entrance test scores. The tutor was an MIT college student who had never tutored, but nonetheless was fabulous.
Tutoring is still another example of a very easy-to-start business. Yet you can grow it as large as you want by hiring additional tutors and ramping up your marketing. For example, I sold a career magazine business that I started to Kaplan Inc. Kaplan has grown into a world leader in tutoring with over 12, employees and over 1 million students. Like any business you will be more successful if you first learn about business and then plan it carefully.
If you want to find out more, consider my courses including Start-a-Business , which you can try for free on BusinessTown. Want to express your creativity and make some money at the same time? How about a craft business? Years ago my Great Aunt Betty made and sold a variety of creative craft items. She sold them both through a small shop on her property and also directly to a few stores.
Today the opportunities to sell your crafts are seemingly endless with the expansion of the Internet.
With websites like Etsy. But if you really want to turn this into a business, you should develop your own online presence. I would suggest starting with a website. Then adding an email list.
Also consider social media. You can also sell your craft items offline. You can start by selling at local art and craft fairs. And you can also approach retail stores yourself. Or once you have a good product line put together, you may want to consider contracting a sales rep firm that focuses on the gift trade. I successfully used sales reps firms to sell my books into the gift trade. You can find these firms at the larger gift shows or you can approach them online. To learn more about how to start a craft business — or any other business — check out my course, Start-a-Business You can try it for free on BusinessTown.
This is another perfect business that you can start small, even part-time, and then grow at your own pace. You can start with just a basic lawn cutting service. You can grow this business quickly by both adding customers and adding services. Typical add-on services include leaf collection, yard clean up, edging, weeding, snowplowing, and applying fertilizer.
The next level of services you could offer would be flower, bush and small tree planting. You can make big money cutting small lawns! Even just cutting a few lawns yourself you will likely be able to earn more per hour than many people earn at professional jobs. Add in a few basic services and your income can quickly add up.
They did grass cutting, yard cleanup, and snow plowing but nothing fancy — I hired other services for fertilizer application and irrigation. So how do you get going with a landscape business and how do you get customers? Of course you start with a business plan. Then give a lot of thought to marketing. I would suggest you use both online and traditional marketing. You can try this course and all the other courses on BusinessTown for free. You can get started selling on Amazon with very little money and even a single product.
And you can customize the look and feel of your Amazon online store front. You also have the option of having Amazon fulfill your orders and ship your products. The fee structure changes frequently and varies by product and country.
While it is relatively easy to set up an Amazon store and start selling some products, it is more difficult to build a sustainable, highly profitable business.
Selling on Amazon or anywhere else online is super competitive. To develop a great plan for your store, first evaluate your market, your target customers and your competitors. Next seek out opportunities where you can develop a true competitive advantage.
Then, take the time to develop your thoughts into a cohesive strategy and a well thought out business plan. You can also pay Amazon for additional advertising and exposure on their website but you need to make sure that it is cost effective for you. Consider doing your own digital marketing beyond Amazon such as through your own website, through social media, through email marketing or through online advertising. There are all kinds of ways to turn photography into a business. You can do portrait photography, commercial shoots for businesses, real estate photography, or wedding photography.
You can sell photos through stock photo services. You can even do photojournalism or sell your outstanding photos in the photo art world. When we decided to get pictures of our kids, we went to a local portrait photographer who used one of the rooms in her house as her studio.
She charged a significant price — but the great pictures made it worth every penny of it. Excellent lighting, good positioning and getting the kids to smile made a difference!
A common myth is that anyone who has a smartphone can be an awesome photographer. But the photos I have taken certainly prove otherwise! You could start your photography business as a side gig but to be sure it turns into a real business instead of a hobby, you need to be serious about it.
So write up a business plan that includes the specifics of what kind of customers you will target, what services you will offer, what your marketing message will be, what packages and pricing you will offer, and how you will get your marketing message to your audience.
If you want to find out more, take a look at my courses including, Start-a-Business and How to Create a Business Plan. You can try them for free on BusinessTown.
Let me tell you about my first business — a story that has valuable take-aways for any business you are considering starting. It was a little scary because I had no idea what I was doing. Then, I arranged to have a motel, a gas station and a sporting goods store serve as rental locations. But my competitors had better rental locations already lined up.
And they also had shiny new bicycles. Almost no one was renting my bikes and my business was going nowhere.
So, unlike my competitors, I tried offering free delivery of bicycles to customers at their motels and campsites.
My customers loved it and my business took off! This example shows why it is so important in any business to develop a unique business model. In other words you want to design your business around a true competitive advantage. To design a business with a competitive advantage, you first need to evaluate your market, your target customers and your competition and then seek out new opportunities. Then, you want to put together a solid strategy and develop it into a complete business plan.
A good related business is bicycle repair. The demand is constant providing you with a strong, steady income. You could start by only taking on the easier repair jobs. Then for more complex repair jobs you could contract them out to other repair shops and keep a percentage of the repair price. You could also try selling bicycles. If you are operating out of your house I would recommend you focus on buying and selling used bicycles. I found it difficult to sell new bicycles out of my home.
But I discovered that I was often able to sell second hand bicycles for quite a bit more than I paid for them. To learn more see my courses including Start-a-Business and How to Create a Business Plan which includes a complete business plan for a bicycle rental business.
You can try these courses for free on BusinessTown. A consulting business can be very lucrative and rewarding. He prefers to do his consulting work only hours a month and spends the rest of his time doing volunteer work for non profits and avidly following outdoor athletic pursuits such as mountain hiking and cross country skiing.
I know a lot of other consultants who have done well with specialities including sales, logistics, human resources, executive coaching, small business coaching, international business customs, facebook marketing, website strategies, email, accounting, logos, and more.
I have also hired a number of consultants for my various businesses. So what does it take to become a successful consultant? The path I have seen many people take is to start an independent consulting business after many years of working in the field. By that point in time they have not only developed a lot of expertise but they also have built up a network of industry contacts. However, today I increasingly see many people becoming successful consultants much earlier in their career — sometimes right out of college.
Why the shift? For one, the digital world has exacerbated the rate of change, increasing the demand for consultants with new knowledge. Plus online marketing has made it much easier to attract clients. Also I have seen people with less experience develop their consulting practice and get new clients by offering attractive flat rate packages for their first assignment, rather than just charging by the hour. Even though you may be a highly experienced consultant you still should come up with a detailed business plan.
In your plan clearly spell out the value proposition that you are going to offer clients and how you are going to get the word out. You will also need a website to appear credible. Several of the consultants I know regularly send out emails or brief newsletters. I would also try to arrange publicity on industry websites. Then reach out with email, phone, social media and networking. Especially if you love to bake this could be a very satisfying and doable business for you.
If you can bake in your house you can start and operate this business with a low overhead. Then you have a variety of options for selling your food. You could sell it online and ship it out. Or you could sell and arrange for delivery to local food stores or restaurants. Well done food products are relatively easy to sell into local food outlets. Plus the upside is huge. Regulations on operating a commercial kitchen from your home vary considerably by state and type of food. If you run into a glitch consider leasing space in a commercial kitchen — still much less expensive than leasing retail space for a storefront.
Just being a great baker is not the only necessary ingredient for success in this business. You also need to nail down the business aspects of the endeavor. You will want to analyze the market, your target customers, your competition, pricing and packaging really carefully to find your best opportunity.
You are much better off launching with very few exceptional food items rather than a full line of products that are closer to average in quality or uniqueness. If your first items are not well received it will be difficult to sell additional products.
I have a food savvy friend who produced a good food product but it did not sell well at retail. In hindsight if she had launched her product slower and more carefully, priced it lower, and given more attention to packaging I think it would have worked really well. Their little pies not only taste great but they look great too. Their packaging, presentation, and marketing looks terrific.
And I really like the name they chose for their business. A home based food business can be massively successful. But do your homework and plan your business carefully before you start selling food. Your actual profitability in any business will be largely determined by how well you plan, start and run the business. To learn more, start streaming the courses on BusinessTown. Do you enjoy hanging out and putting up posts on Facebook and other social media platforms?
Then why not get paid for it? Just about any business that sells something would like to be on social media. What I really like about the social media business is that this is typically not a one-time sale.
Most customers will want to retain you on a regular basis to keep their social media postings fresh. So you can develop a nice steady income. Plus you can do most of the work from home.
So how can you get started with social media as a business? You can approach a local small business and tell them they will get a great deal because they are your first customer. Or you can set up a web page for your own social media business and start promoting that on social media. Like any business you should come up with a plan and a way to differentiate yourself. Maybe you specialize in promoting independent flower shops for example. Learn more about how to use social media to promote any business — including your own business — on BusinessTown.
I offer a solid introduction to all of the major social media platforms in my course, The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing. We also offer 5 other courses on social media marketing. You can try all these courses for free. For example, my kids stocked a really sharp-looking black high top sneaker that they sold to 15 year old boys as well as 60 year old women. Developing a successful boutique is less about selling individual items and more about putting together an environment and a collection of clothing that people want to be part of.
The design of your store and your website, the selection of your apparel, your marketing, and even the appearance of your staff, should all work in concert to sell a lifestyle. If you are renting a storefront, traffic and especially foot traffic, is critical. Even if you are one block away from the busy streets in town, then you are too far away. In fact, I suggest that before you lease a storefront, you personally count how many people walk by each hour during your prime shopping times.
If you are selling online you also need traffic. But in addition you will need to develop a relationship with your audience. Unlike with physical foot traffic to a storefront location, it may take time to get a website visitor to buy from you. You may be wondering, did my kids write a business plan for their little boutique?
Is this a small side gig or a business with a big upside potential? Richard started writing resumes as a side gig in addition to his full time job teaching English. Over time, he raised his rates, added other services like writing Linkedin profiles and ramped up his marketing. So many otherwise talented professionals are simply not very good resume writers.
I should know because in addition to personally reviewing thousands of resumes, my book publishing company became the leading publisher of resume books. So this is where you come in! You help your clients turn their experience, skills and capabilities into terrific job-winning resumes.
It is. Number one — make sure you have plenty of appropriate search engine friendly keywords in the resume. Number two — keep it short but not too short — except for top executives I would keep resume length to one page. Instead focus on what the clients accomplished, achieved, and changed. You can write LinkedIn profiles that will really power up sales for entrepreneurs and freelancers and also help professionals get attention in their industry.
So how do you start a resume service or a LinkedIn profile writing service? First you come up with a plan. Are you going to focus on freelancers or top executives or recent college grads? Are you going to have long discussions on video or the phone with clients or are you going to restrict contact to email?
Are you going to price low end or high end? Are you passionate about fitness and do you like working with people? You could be a great personal trainer, helping people get fit and feel good about themselves. Today you can offer personal training online, such as via Zoom. Or you can train clients in their homes, in your home or at a local gym. Like many businesses you can easily run this service part-time. The big issue I see when people are starting this business is that while they may be good personal trainers they are not always so good at marketing themselves.
They are not always sure of how to write an effective marketing message and how to deliver the message to potential customers. Yet, a compelling marketing message can make all the difference. A friend of mine recently signed up for online one-on-one personal training completely because of a compelling advertising message she saw on Facebook.
The ad promised that in 8 weeks she would achieve tangible results and feel like a new person. Often you have to experiment with different offers, different marketing copy and different marketing venues to find what works best. Sometimes, before you can make the sale, you need to develop a relationship with a potential customer. You can do this by providing relevant articles and videos on your website, as well as informative emails and social media posts.
To learn more about how to sell yourself and build a relationship with your prospective customers, check out the courses Developing Your Marketing Message, The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing and Start-a-Business In this business you may very well make as much money as you anticipate.
And financing may be relatively easy to obtain. However, the business may involve more work and issues than you anticipate. Some guests will be more demanding and problematic than others.
With guests coming and going, your building and property will have more wear and tear than a private home. An older property especially will need more repairs.
Cleaning is a never ending chore. Will you hire someone or will you do the cleaning yourself? Then there is the breakfast part of the business. Ann serves an awesome unique hot breakfast. But to do so, she starts preparing the night before — every single night in season. Upgrading your decor can increase your business, lead to more repeat customers and allow you to charge higher rates.
And like other lodging businesses, you should constantly monitor the going rates in your locality and adjust your prices accordingly.
Cleaning can be hard work but you can also make good money because not everyone is willing to do this kind of work. To make even more money you can develop a specialty such as cleaning offices, industrial sites or even hazardous waste removal.
In its simplest form, you can start a house cleaning business with a single client. Most customers will want their home cleaned regularly so this is another good repeat customer, steady income business. You can charge by the hour but most house cleaners charge by the job. That way both you and the customer know exactly what the charge will be in advance. Instead a good resume or profile should highlight what the individual accomplished, what they changed and how they distinguished themselves.
They also need to include plenty of search engine friendly keywords. I arranged to rent bicycles through a motel, a gas station and a sporting goods shop in a tourist area on Cape Cod.
And all I could afford was used bicycles whereas the competition had brand new ones. Then I changed my business model to be different from the existing competitors. I did this by offering free delivery of bicycles directly to customers at their campsites, and motels.
My business immediately took off and became a big success. To do this you need to evaluate your market, your target customers and your competition and seek out opportunities. Then you design your business around a true competitive advantage. Another good solid related business is bicycle repair. The demand is huge and steady. You could start just by doing simple repairs yourself — you can teach yourself how to do them.
You can send out the more complex repairs to other repair shops and take a percentage of the repair cost for yourself. By the way, I did try to sell brand new bicycles out of my house and it proved very difficult. Instead, as still another alternative, you may want to consider buying and selling used bicycles.
In my bike rental business I found that I could often sell my used bicycles for more than I paid for them. But with a little time you can quickly master the business aspects of the jewelry business. A great place to start selling your jewelry is online with websites like Etsy and eBay. You can also sell your jewelry at flea markets and craft fairs. You can also set up your own website and do your own online marketing including building an email list, social media following and more.
The big advantage of doing this is that you can develop a loyal audience, add more customers by word of mouth, and build repeat customer business.
Holly Christensen left her real estate job and started her jewelry business making items on her kitchen table and selling them through art and craft shows. Her idea was to make jewelry using sand from beaches.
People thought it was a crazy concept. But she has been highly successful and now has loyal customers, over 20 employees and sells jewelry in stores throughout the world. Holly explains how she started her jewelry business in the course How to Succeed as a Woman Entrepreneur. This course is one of the many included with BusinessTown , which you can try for free.
So if your educational skills are a little rusty, you may want to stick to tutoring first and second graders. If your skills are more advanced you can tutor at higher levels. You can help out students by tutoring in your own home , at their home, at a local library or at a coffee shop. You can also tutor online via a video service such as Zoom. As you are getting started you may want to test marketing different tutoring specialties to see what gets the best response.
Home tutoring is another example of a very simple business that you can start. But like any simple business you are going to be much more successful if you start and plan it carefully. You should write up a business plan including what you will specialize in, who is your target market, what will be your marketing message and how you will reach your audience. You may want to take a look at the courses Start-a-Business , Developing Your Marketing Message, and How to Create a Business Plan which includes a sample one page business plan for a tutoring business.
You can try all these courses for free on BusinessTown. Dropshipping is a very simple business. In this business model you feature a product usually on your own website or an online marketplace. You accept an order and payment for the product. Then you forward the order to a third party who fills the order and ships it to the customer. The third party that fills the order may be the product manufacturer, a wholesaler, or another retailer.
And you can start part time. After a couple years he focused on his business full time, testing a variety of products. So it certainly is possible to make a lot of money in dropshipping. But while it is a simple business, it is not necessarily an easy business. Like any business you first need to do your homework including learning the basics of running a business. You need to choose your products carefully and come up with a business plan.
Furthermore any product business, including dropshipping is going to be riskier and take more work to succeed at than many of the simple service businesses on this list. But at the same time the upside can be huge. So how do you succeed at dropshipping? Beyond learning and planning you need to test. Test everything! Test different products, different prices, and different ad copy.
Finally when your dropshipping business begins to gain some traction I suggest you consider shifting your model to stocking and shipping the goods yourself.
And you also may want to consider creating your own products. To increase your chances of success in this business learn all that you can by streaming the courses on BusinessTown.
To find out more about launching a business, start streaming the courses on BusinessTown including Start-a-Business This is perhaps the cheapest business to start in terms of overhead. Expertise is another matter, but remember that writing can take many forms — from resumes to news articles to marketing materials and even thank you notes. One friend made good money editing posts on a popular travel site. The key to freelance writing is to never stop selling yourself. Network like crazy online and in person.
Ask for press passes to events in the field of your choice. Attend writing workshops and writer meet-ups; they happen everywhere. There are loads of job listings for freelancers on major job boards, and you can always advertise your services and look for work on craigslist or LinkedIn.
Steady work is the best work for freelancers. If all else fails at first, just write. Start a blog. Build clips. Get writing! Content marketing is writing designed to help businesses market themselves online such as through websites, blogs, emails and social media.
The more you know about content marketing, the more marketable your writing services will be. And learn what makes for good blog posts, email messages and social media posts. To learn more, start streaming the courses on BusinessTown including the courses on freelancing, content marketing, SEO, email marketing and social media.
I have a wealthy friend who is crazy about his cars. He had a six car garage built onto his house. On Saturdays he loves to wash, wax and then take one of his fancy cars for a ride.
His older son also loves cars and worked at an auto dealership while in high school. He started washing cars, then later learned how to detail them. This is a great niche business. Some people pamper their pets. Other people pamper their cars. Owners of high end cars are willing to pay good money to have their cars detailed.
But they are a meticulous bunch. They are going to want the work done just so. But if they like you, they will have you detail their car regularly. And they will recommend you to their friends. Give them a discount and keep their expectations realistic when you are getting started. To find out more about how to start this business — or any other business — see my course Start-a-Business An enterprising friend of mine, Jeff Jacober, started a custom T-shirt business after college.
Then as he turned 40 years old he sold the business and bought an airplane, and a yacht to cruise around the Caribbean.
Custom T-shirts is a great online business. People email you their logo or artwork and you print up the shirts. In college I made T-shirts for my softball team. I would also do email outreach to youth groups, sports teams and local business owners. The flip side of this business is that instead of doing custom T-shirts you sell your own designs.
They tried to sell their T-shirts on college campuses but initially made little progress. To learn more about how to begin your business, start streaming the courses on BusinessTown including Start-a-Business One of the more obvious ideas for starting a new business is still one of the best.
Cleaning houses is hard work, but people who do it well can pick up desperate new clients at a rapid pace. Cleaning can be very lucrative. Most house cleaners charge a flat rate to clean a house. I notice that some house cleaners however spend less and less time at each job after they think that the customer is comfortable with their work. Another option is cleaning offices. One friend in Boston built a highly successful cleaning business focusing on small businesses.
They trusted him with access to their businesses at night and were willing to pay him a hefty premium. He worked just 4 or 5 hours a night and made a very healthy living. You can make lots of money in this business if you know the basics of how to run a business and how to attract new customers.
To learn more see my course Start-a-Business You can try this course and all of our other courses for free on BusinessTown. Most school kids enter a music program at some point, whether it involves singing or playing an instrument. There is a big market for teaching music and your instrument is your specialty.
The key is to develop reasonable but firm policies on pricing and cancellations and, if possible, make your home the venue for providing lessons, rather than traveling to visit students. Another great home teaching gig is art lessons. When I was growing up there was a woman not too far from me who gave art lessons in her home to young kids after school. Not just kids but adults too are interested in art lessons. Almost anyone for example can teach young elementary age students.
Plan out the course so that the students will have some exciting finished art projects to take home and show off to their friends. Both music and art lessons lend themselves well for digital marketing. For music lessons you can show off videos of students playing their instruments on your website and on social media. For both music and art you can feature interviews with your students talking about what they are working on.
To find out more about starting this business — or any other business — see my course Start-a-Business You can try it for free on BusinessTown, along with all of our other courses. When my son was at Stanford University one of his fraternity brothers, Evan Spiegel, came up with an idea for his kid sister to send digital messages in her high school classes that would instantly disappear.
He called it SnapChat. He became the youngest billionaire in the world in Almost any business that sells anything wants to be on social media, so the market is huge! They need your help. How can you break into this field? Learn and practice. Build an audience for yourself before offering your services to others.
Keep cranking out content and get comfortable with it. And like any business, come up with a solid plan. Evaluate the competition and potential target markets, then come up with your business plan.
You can learn more about how to use social media to promote a business — including your own business — on BusinessTown. We also offer 5 other courses on social media marketing. People trade away perfectly good or certainly good enough cars all the time for all sorts of trivial issues. Especially if you like cars and can make one shine for a Craigslist ad, you could take advantage of massive opportunities to buy used cars and resell them for major profit.
That way you could buy a few decent used cars without using any financing. But it could be possible to start this business with just about nothing by getting financing for your inventory. The key to success in this business is being very disciplined in buying. Limit your car buying to popular models that you can turn over quickly. Focus on models that you have a strong understanding of current local pricing on.
Only buy cars that you can buy at a significant discount to the price you believe you can fairly sell them for. And avoid cars that are likely to need major work. A friend in Georgia has been doing this successfully for more than 20 years. I never traded cars, but I did trade used boats from my house one summer and quickly made good money at it. I discovered the key was to focus on the most popular, fastest selling products such as brand name outboard powerboats and avoid the slowest selling products such as sailboats.
It was a really fun business! I even sold a boat to the famous novelist Norman Mailer. Today even if you are trading cars or boats part time, you want to have at least a simple website. It will not only help attract customers, but it will make your business seem more credible.
To learn how to create a website for your business, see my course, The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing. It is one of the many courses that you can try for free on BusinessTown. The key is to specialize—on a sport, a category of clientele or both—and to look the part. I have seen all kinds of success stories in sports coaching and training.
I have seen other coaches successfully expand their businesses into sports camps, sports schools and in one case, his own indoor soccer league.
So spend a little time to create a kick ass website and learn how to do digital marketing. These are among the many courses you can try for free on BusinessTown. Big success stories have been around for years now, but there is an enormous amount of competition on the site. There are basically two alternative business models and each one has very different characteristics.
One option is to run a trading business where you buy items and then sell them for higher prices. The key to success in this business is to specialize and get to know the pricing and the salability of a particular niche really well.
The other option is to provide a service selling and fulfilling orders for other people. This business model can be a good route to repeat customers and more or less steady income. These are not enterprises for the lazy. Most importantly, to successfully sell products on eBay or anywhere else you need to develop a unique and compelling business model. You should carefully evaluate your market, your target customers, and your competition. Then design your business model around a true competitive advantage.
You should also develop a well thought out business plan. Your success in business will largely be determined by how carefully you plan, start and run your business. He started by serving simple foods for friends of his parents. Then over time he expanded his offerings and his customer base. You too can start with limited food offerings of just your most fabulous foods.
If I was starting this business I think I would focus on cooking hot dogs — one of the few foods I can cook well! Like starting a home bakery, developing a catering service comes with a unique set of food oriented challenges. You may want to check the regulations in your state and municipality on using your home kitchen for commercial cooking. And you want to make sure that you are following food safety regulations and practices. Catering is a low overhead way to create a food business without all of the hassles and costs of a restaurant.
Historically, successful catering businesses have grown over time, fueled by word of mouth. Today you can rapidly accelerate your growth with digital marketing. While for many businesses a very simple website may be enough, I would recommend that you go all out on your website for this business — including coming up with some incredibly beautiful pictures of your best food dishes.
I would show off great pictures of every food possible, dig up every testimonial you can find starting with your friends, and post suggested menus, in addition to all your possible food choices.
I would further try to ramp up word of mouth by building an email list and using social media. To find out more about how to start and promote your business, check out the courses on BusinessTown including The Complete Guide to Digital Marketing. Do you love dogs? Are you good at taking care of them? Then a doggie bed and breakfast may be the perfect business for you! Invest intelligently, sell a product you believe in, and you can reap the rewards for years to come.
Not only is Airbnb a great way to make money by renting out your spare bedroom or living room couch, but you also have the benefit of meeting new people and making new friends. Once you build up a reputation and client base for yourself, it could easily turn into a full-time endeavor for you. Check out these tips to a successful personal training business by the American Fitness Professionals and this interview with several fitness blog owners who are making a living online, from MonetizePros.
Yoga is getting ever more popular, which means yoga instructors are more in demand than ever. Pursue emotional and physical balance with others, during your free time while helping your bank balance, too.
If you can create value-driven, entertaining video content and grow your subscriber base to a few thousand subscribers, your videos can start generating pretty substantial income from all the ads being displayed on your videos.
Many YouTube users make well into the millions each year. If your mastery of another language is good enough to have the grammar and spelling down, translating is a great side business to set up for yourself and can be done remotely. Flexjobs has literally hundreds of freelance, remote translator jobs available right now. Live in a destination where travelers frequently visit?
If you love meeting new people from around the world and also love the city you live in, starting your own local tour business will give you both of those perks. Take a unique spin on your local tour business like Erik from Vantigo. Do you play a musical instrument well enough to teach it to others?
If you have a fondness for taking pictures of smiling families or laughing children blowing bubbles, consider selling your images to a stock photo company like ShutterStock and iStockPhoto. Take the time to develop your skills at either making your own music, or becoming a pro at mixing, and your side business of dj-ing local events could turn into a much bigger business. Graphic Design.
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