Successful Business Ideas
Whether your selling a product or service, successful business ideas must meet the needs of the consumer. Your idea must enhance the lives of others in a meaningful way in order for it to be profitable.
Your sales pitch must illustrate why your idea is important and superior to its competitors. The more fun you can infuse into your business idea, the more palatable and memorable it will become in the eyes of the public.
Products Specialist
As a products specialist, you inform the public about all aspects of a given product. You work on site, demonstrating the products(s). You are able to briefly and intelligently field all questions about a product that prospective customers may have. You work in stores and can also cultivate trade-show clients.
The typical pay for handing out samples of products in stores ranges from between $25.00 to $50.00 dollars a day, as of 2010. Trade shows and larger events pay $150.00 to $1,000.00 a day.
Potentially, you can earn between $20,000.00 to $35,000.00 annually as a products specialist or demonstrator. The start up cost is between $500.00 and $1,000.00. You do not need any equipment or staff.
You can expect to spend a lot of time on the road. Your travel expenses and your insurance will be your primary overhead.
Pet Care Business
Pets fulfill a need for companionship. People often spend more on their pets than they do themselves. If you love animals, develop a pet care business for the types of pets that you know and like best.
Pet care ideas include aquarium maintenance; birdhouse cleaning and feeding; dog grooming; dog walking; dog training; and doggy daycare, to name a few.
An aquarium maintenance business is more specialized and requires a $10,000.00 to $50,000.00 start-up cost.
CD Ripper
Most people have some sort of portable music device such as an iPod or MP3 player with the capacity to store thousands of favorite songs played back seamlessly. But many people do not have the time to organize all those best-loved CDs and upload them to an iPod, for example.
If you love music, are techno-savvy and well-organized, a business as a “CD ripper” may be for you. Your job would be to organize other people’s voluminous music collections, catalog them and upload them to their iPod or mobile recording device. You can charge per CD or per set of CDs