by Curtis D. Tucker
It doesn’t have to take months of planning, raising money, or quick payday loans to start a side business. Here are a few quick business ideas that you could start tomorrow if you had to:
1) Student Tutor – if you know math, spelling, English, Spanish, art, science, history or any other school subject you could start a tutoring business as quickly as you could round up a few students. Tutors make great money and can find new leads just by word-of-mouth alone.
2) Gadget Repair – If you have a knack for fixing things you can buy up broken and non-working gadgets. Take the working parts from the bad gadgets and put them in the good gadgets to make “like new” gadgets. Repairing iPods, cell phones, watches and cameras would be perfect for this business model.
3) Drop Shipping – advertise a product you do not actually have but can have drop shipped to a customer. The customer pays you plus a profit, you pay the wholesaler and have the product shipped. Beware of drop ship company lists. Find your own companies to drop ship for online.
4) Party Clean Up – advertise a clean up service for fund raisers, weddings, showers, school functions, business retreats and reunions. Most people hate the clean up after any event. It’s a niche you can cover.
5) Bicycle/Lawn Mower Repair – everyone and I mean everyone needs their bike or lawn mower repaired at some time. Most times the only repair is just replacing a broken or non-working part.
6) City Website – create a website for your city listing restaurants, parks, things to do and entertaining news. Report on openings and closings, history and upload local pictures. Sell ad space on the site, create a classified page and add some AdSense ads.
7) Piano Tuning – they all need tuning sometime!
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Great list of ideas and very inspiring. Thank you.
Any ideas on how to search for dropship companies? How should companies be approached?
Hi Ash, I would try using Google and also look for a book or catalog that has a complete list of drop ship companies. I’ve actually just found companies I was interested in and asked them if they had a drop ship plan. The ones that do will usually set you up.
Hope that helps.
Thank you for the business ideas ,the ideas are very practical and they help give a guide line in idea generation
Thanks Donny, I hope to post more ideas soon.