Business Ideas to help you get started
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Artist |
How are your artistic skills? Can you re-train to develop them. Try part-time/evening courses to hone your skills |
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Accountant |
Doing accounts for small businesses. If you are not one already, have a look at the ACCA web site for course information. |
ACCA : www.acca.co.uk |
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Advertising |
Have you got marketing skills, or have local contacts? Imagination and a flare for marketing would be good. |
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Antique Dealing |
Know your antiques and collectables? Good at finding bargains that you could sell on? |
Try This Book: Antique dealing: The original how to run an antique shop |
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Answering Service |
Good communication skills a must. Loan your number out to small businesses or have their calls re-directed to you. Provide personalised answering for each business when no one is available to take the call. |
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Beautician |
Good with your hands? Interested in others? Are you a good people person? Do you have the room at home or can you travel to clients houses? |
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Business to Business |
Putting local businesses in touch with each other. Finding the best companies for a business' specific requirements. |
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Budget Advisor |
Have you managed to get your household bills down significantly? Can you make your money go further? Put that to good use by helping others to mange their budgets either household or business. |
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Business Travel Arrangement |
Good at organising and getting good travel deals? Why not arrange travel for busy small business owners? |
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Cleaning Service |
Domestic/Commercial cleaning services |
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Computer Repair |
Are you interested in technology? Good at finding the root cause of problems? |
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Computer Training |
Train adults or children to use computers. Have you got the communication skills to teach and listen. Can you stay calm when you've just explained the same thing 15 times! |
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Career Advisor |
Have you got experience in recruitment or general management skills? Must remember that the decisions you help an individual make may affect their future! |
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Colour Consultant |
Helping people to understand what colours suit them best and how to wear them. Good people person and communication skills needed. |
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Catering |
Can you cook well? Have you got the necessary facilities? Have you got the right storage facilities? Can you transport the food appropriately? Could provide catering for parties and silver service waiter/waitressing too. |
Try This Book:Starting and Running a Catering Business: How to Start and Manage a Successful Enterprise (Small Business Start Ups): How to Start and Manage a Successful Enterprise (Small Business Start Ups) |
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Cake Making/Decorating |
Can you bake well? Have you got the necessary facilities? |
Try This Book:The Cake Companion: The Definitive Guide to Making Great Cakes with Nearly 200 Recipes |
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Crafts - making |
Are you into arts and crafts? Ideas could be: knitting items, making models, making dolls houses etc |
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Clown Service |
A sense of humour would be good! |
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Children's toy/clothes making/designing |
Good with your hands? Interested in kids items? |
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Courier |
Need transport of some sort. Provide service to local companies. |
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Childmider |
Want more kids running around your house? Will need to be registered by your local authority. |
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Children's Party Organiser |
Help despondent parents to organise and run their children's parties. Host Halloween/Christmas/Easter parties. |
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CV/Resume Writing |
With the job market as it is a well written CV is an essential for most of us. |
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Desktop Publishing |
Are you artistic? Have you got a good eye for colour and a head full of ideas? Could produce: brochures, cards, invitations, flyers, business cards, announcements etc. |
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Dog Walking |
Are you good with animals, like being outdoors? |
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Dog Trainer |
Need to be good with animals. |
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Dressmaking |
Can you sew well? Have you got a good enough sewing machine and a room with no kids allowed (not easy stopping toddlers and kids from picking up pins or drawing on Mummy's/Daddy's very expensive new material!) Could sew wedding dresses to order, children's clothes, fancy dresses etc. |
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Floral Arrangements |
Need to be a bit artistic. Provide arrangements for houses, hotels, special events etc |
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Furniture Restoration |
Will need some training. Either take on individual items to restore or find items at auctions etc and restore and sell on. |
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Family Tree Researcher |
Help people research their family trees. |
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Garden Design |
Like the outdoors? Have an eye for design, shape and form? A reasonable knowledge of plants (what will grow where etc). |
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Gardening |
Like the outdoors? Not afraid of what may be back breaking work? Good knowledge of plants would be helpful, but if you wanted to focus on helping people keep their gardens tidy (e.g. mowing lawn, clipping hedges etc) then a basic knowledge would be enough. |
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Gift Baskets/Boxes |
Can put together boxes or baskets of anything, for any occasion. New baby baskets containing baby care books, baby toys, creams etc. New House baskets containing items to give as house warming gifts. |
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House Swap Agency |
Provide lists of houses available for swapping for holidays or business relocations etc. Good people skills and organisational skills. |
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Hampers |
Put together hampers for special occasions. Special evenings/days out. Hampers for coach trips etc. |
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Hairdresser |
Mobile hair dressing or make a small salon at home. |
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House Sitting |
Be available to live in someone's house whilst they are away on holiday/business. If you need to take the kids with you this may be a problem to some potential clients. |
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Home Security Consultant |
Made your house secure? Help others to do so too. |
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Handywoman/man |
Good with building/making things or assembling furniture? Can you put shelves up etc? |
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Health and Safety Advisor |
Advice businesses on Health and Safety - will need formal training in this field. |
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Home Locating Service |
Like to look at other peoples houses? Why not help people find their dream home. |
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Interior Designer |
Like decorating? Head full of ideas and inspiration comes easy? May need some training. Could use your own house as a "show home" to show off your flair. |
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Information Specialist |
Good at gathering and organising information? Hire your talents out to firms that need data gathered and sorted. |
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Life Coaching |
Like helping others? Need to be a people person with good communication skills and listening ability. |
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Laundry Service/Ironing Service |
Most of us hate ironing or laundry day! Why not make a living out of it though? |
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Modeling |
You don't have to look like Kate Moss to model. Have you got good hands, feet or skin even? |
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Mystery Shopper |
Ideal for the shopaholic. More and more shops are using mystery shoppers to check on customer care. |
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Mobile Disco |
Need to invest in the right equipment. Hire out for adult or kiddies parties. |
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Massage Therapy |
Will require professional training. |
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Nappy Washing |
More and more people are going eco-friendly and using terry nappies. Why not help the environment and your pocket and provide a local nappy washing service? |
Some one who has already done it - HappyNappyDays, click here to read her story. |
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New Mother/Infant Day Care Services |
Help a new mum out by being there to cook/clean/take the dog out for a walk - general household duties to take the stress out of having a new baby in the house! |
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Organiser |
Hire your talents in organisation out. Organise households, home businesses etc. Even help people to organise their lives! |
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Personal Trainer |
Like keeping fit? Then train as a personal trainer and help others to keep fit or lose weight. |
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Product Distribution |
Do you have transport? Contact local companies to see if they need a distributor. |
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Party Balloons |
Provide balloon decoration for parties. |
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Packing/Unpacking Services |
House moves, office moves etc. |
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Party Organisation |
Arrange parties and special ocassions |
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Personal Shopper |
Shop with someone else's money - heaven! Go shopping for those who are too busy or unable to shop for themselves. |
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Property Management |
Manage house or office lets. |
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Pet Boarding |
Love pets? Set up a cattery or kennel or any other pet house! |
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Picture Framing |
Frame pictures to specific requirements. |
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Pet Sitting |
Look after a beloved pet whilst the owner is on holiday. |
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Photography |
Are you good with a camera? Portrait photography, pet photography, freelance etc. |
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Queen |
Good work from home job, but limited demand and virtually no vacancies :-) |
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Recruitment Consultant |
Provide recruitment services for firms. Will require interviewing skills and good communication and sales ability. |
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Reflexology |
Will require professional training. |
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Secretarial Services |
Need good typing skills and keen organisational skills. |
Some one who has already done it - SecretarialAngel, click here to read her story. |
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Seminar/Convention Organiser |
Organisational skills required. Organise seminars or conventions for businesses etc. |
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Sports Tutor |
Are you a good golfer, tennis player etc. If so make use of your skills by teaching others. |
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Second Hand Book Sales |
Ideal if you enjoy reading! |
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Singer |
Do you have a good voice? Hire it out for special events etc. |
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Teleworking |
Some companies have actually realised that the work-life balance is important and offer some employees the chance to work from home. |
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Taxi Service |
Hire yourself and your car out as a taxi service. |
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Tutoring |
Why not teach English to foreign students/residents or mathematics to local children? |
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T-Shirt Design |
Will require the appropriate equipment. Design T-shirts for general sales or to specific requirements. |
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Translator |
Are you proficient in another second language? Translate documents or hire yourself out as an interpreter. |
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Tarot Card Reader |
Think your destiny is in the cards? Train as a tarot card reader. Onthe same theme - palm reading, astrology etc. |
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Upholstery |
Re-upholster furniture, make curtains to specific requirements. |
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Video Taping |
Video someone's big day, be it their wedding, graduation, hen night or stag night!! |
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Work Place Lunch Delivery |
Make sandwiches and snacks and provide a delivery service to local companies. |
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Web Design |
Create websites for companies and individuals. Web design/creation software, graphic design software, image editing software - good software may be costly. LearnDirect do some good courses so you can even learn from home if it suits you. |
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Writer |
JK Rowling did it! Enrol in a writing class if it helps build your confidence and hels provide a good grounding. |
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Wedding Planning |
Will need to be a very good organiser and be ready for anything. Help take the stress out of arranging the big day! |
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Yoga Teacher |
Will definitely need to be appropriately trained before you can teach. |
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