These ideas for new business start-ups are the hottest trends in the market today. Most of these businesses will be profitable in any area of the country. Some have unique requirements to be successful, but with a little imagination, you can own and operate any of these businesses in a very short time. As we find hot new business trends, we add them here, so make this page a favorite and check it out often!
KEYWORD DEFINITIONS
TREND: Hot=Good with steadily growing demand
Sizzling=Excellent with rapidly growing demand
Lava=Fantastic with higher demand than businesses available to meet it
COST: Cost of Start-up 1 to 5 Scale 1: no cost to under $500 and 5: above $10,000
EASE: Ease of Start-up 1 to 5 Scale 1: simple and 5: requires extensive planning
STAFF: Employees required Yes or No
EARN: Average Annual Income 1 to 5 scale 1: $30,000+ and 5: over $150,000
ADVERTISING BROKER
Develop community ad campaigns and sign up local businesses. Place group ads at a discount and keep a large part of the ad fees you've collected.
COMMUNITY REFERRAL SERVICE
Research who offers what in your community. Offer "one call does it all" referral for virtually anything needed. Businesses pay a fee to be on your referral list.
AUDIOBOOK PRODUCER
Audiobooks are hot, hot, hot! Easily secure audio rights to published works that need a boost in sales. Or create your own books about something you know. Record and mass-duplicate the tapes. Offer
them for sale at local stores and restaurants near highways or freeway exits or on the Internet. Do-it-yourself or sub-contract the production work.
SPECIALTY INSTRUCTOR
Become an instructor. Teach people anything you have a passion for. Hold organized classes or offer individual instruction. Plan your course,
advertise locally and start instructing. Your effectiveness will spread by word of mouth and growth will come quickly. Current trends show people are buying instruction in everything from cooking to home decoration to
setting up and using their first computer. Let your imagination run wild and always offer something new.
COMPUTER SERVICES
Anything your computer can produce, people will buy. Offer word processing, spreadsheet data entry, newsletters, signs, banners, photos on disk, cd's.. the sky's the limit. Use your creativity and free or low-cost
software to build a business that offers so many services, repeat business will be assured.
MEDIA TRANSCRIPT SERVICE
Your local radio and TV stations have news specials and special reports for which they offer a written transcript. National transcript services take a long time to produce and mail a transcript and they charge a very high fee.
Because you are local, you can transcribe these programs and distribute them quickly at a lower price. You can even advertise and offer Internet e-mail service to speed delivery. Media transcription varieties are limitless as
you employ a little imagination.
USED CAR LOCATOR
Used cars are a growing market and the economy will soon make this a boom business. Hundreds of sellers place ads in various papers. Buyers don't always have the time to scan all the papers and call all the sellers for information.
You do that for them. They tell you exactly what they're looking for..you locate it for a fee. Offer your customers a list of ten "best buys" or be creative by offering additional services. This business requires mostly time and a few strategically placed ads.
CONCERT PROMOTER
Love music? Ever wonder why there are not more medium sized concerts in your area featuring great talent that's yet undiscovered? There's an unlimited market in most communities for concert promotion. Book groups, rent a hall, promote,
promote, promote! Sell tickets through local book and music stores. They get free advertising. You get a 20-35% cut of ticket sales. This is an excellent business with jazz, contemporary and gospel groups.
AIRBRUSH ARTIST
Set up at Mall kiosks, flea markets, conventions, etc. to create custom designed art on clothing, license plates, signs, dishware and jewelry.
Artistic talent required.
FUND RAISER
Yard sales are everywhere. No one sells everything. Run low cost ads offering to pick up left over yard sale merchandise for charity. After collecting sufficient stock, arrange and promote a massive sale to benefit a local charity. Charity volunteers will help you
during the fund raiser. Invite food vendors. You get a cut of all sales during the event. This is an honest promotional business which greatly helps your local charities. Since cash donations are decreasing, charities will love your program.
HOTLINE PHONE SERVICE
Operate a job hotline, a community information hotline or a dozen other information by phone services. Use recorded messages that clients can scan to find the information they need. You can charge a per minute phone charge or offer a subscription service for
a monthly fee. With a little imagination, a couple of phone lines, and a dual tape system you can earn a terrific living with only a few hours work per day.
SILK FLOWER SERVICES
Silk flowers are necessary in decorating any office, restaurant or salon. Just dust them regularly and they remain beautiful forever. Arrange and install silk flowers in all types of businesses. Include regular cleaning and maintenance and charge a monthly fee
for the whole package. This is a highly profitable business for which there is higher demand than services available.
SEMINAR PROMOTER
People need quick, easy access to information that helps them meet their goals and improve their careers. One of the best ways for them to get such information is to attend a seminar. As a promoter, you can
provide that information by planning professional seminars that include expert speakers, as well as retailers of products and services. Plan, rent a hall, sell tickets through ads and directly to businesses
whose employees can be motivated by such a seminar. Subjects for seminars are limitless. This is much less complicated than it seems and returns super high profits.
MAIL ORDER SERVICES
Sell food, crafts, collectibles, clothing, gifts, jewelry, toys, software, books, cd's/tapes, herbal supplements and information by mail order. This is the trend in shopping today. Internet mail order is at an all-time high.
Most manufacturers will let you sell their merchandise and even provide you with promotional materials and catalogs. They will even drop-ship to your customers, eliminating the need for costly inventory. Add your mark-up,
get paid up-front and the customer has their products in just a few days. You can offer a thousand products or specialize in one product area. Simple to start and operate.
WEB SITE INTERNET BUSINESS
The Internet is the fastest growing sales market on the planet. Create a website using one of the hundreds of free tools available on the net. Then sell anything you think people will buy. There are numerous companies that
will accept credit cards and check transactions for you and directly deposit your sales dollars into your bank account. Many large net retailers will help you sell their products and pay you a commission. It couldn't be any
easier than this. Your income is limited only to your creative genius and finding the right products.
WEB SITE CREATOR
So you have a flair for creativity and marketing. Create websites and home pages for people who think it's too difficult to do on their own. The biggest market is to create home sites for businesses who want to connect with
their customers using the latest technology or they understand that a web site is necessary to remain competitive. Most businesses, even large corporations, don't know where to start. Check out some of the major national
retailer's web sites and see for yourself. You'll find poorly designed sites with little to offer the online shopper. If you have imagination and a little artistic flair, this could be the business for you!
VACUUM CLEANER REPAIR SERVICE
Today's vacuum cleaner's are built to last a lifetime.. if you're a goldfish. How many people do you know with a closet full of vac's that don't work? Usually the problem is easy to repair and takes only a few minutes: clogged airways, beater bars massed with hair and fiber, motor shaft spindles wrapped with string, and so on. And if a new part is required, you can buy one in almost every community or express them overnight from a wholesale supplier. Americans spend
thousands of dollars on vac's and use them till they stop. Market your money-saving solution and see how fast you have more business than you can handle.
WINDOW WASHING SERVICE
Most task oriented services are more efficient and return higher profits when targeted to commercial customers. Every restaurant and most retail businesses need their exterior windows cleaned weekly. In many communities only high-priced cleaners
that specialize in sky-work are available. You can easily set up a daily route of small businesses. You'll spend between 10 and 20 minutes cleaning the exterior glass of most customer sites. Charge $75-$100 per hour commercial or a flat fee for regularly scheduled service. Little equipment is required - 4 day weeks are common.
COMMERCIAL CARPET CLEANING
The yellow pages are full of carpet cleaners, but call one and tell them you want the carpet cleaned at your business at 9 p.m. tonight when you close. Your carpets will remain dirty. If you're willing to work 3 hours a night, 5 days a week, with 2 weeks vacation a year, and make $90-$100,000 this business is for you. No cleaning equipment purchase is necessary. We've tracked the stats from this business in 5 diverse communities. It Works!
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3-4
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3
TREND: Lava COST: 2
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3-4
TREND: Hot COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3-4
TREND: Hot COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 4-5
TREND: Lava COST: 2
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Hot COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 3
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 3-4
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 4-5
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 4
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 5+
TREND: Sizzling COST: 1
EASE: 2 STAFF:
No EARN: 4
TREND: Hot COST: 1
EASE: 1 STAFF:
No EARN: 4-5
TREND: Lava COST: 1
EASE: