Praveen Kumar
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Diwali is a festival of light and joy, celebrated worldwide with lights and crackers. People spend money with their open hearts on sweets, crackers, and decorations.
The business lies where people spend money. This Diwali, you can find many business opportunities, and in 2024, you can start both online and offline businesses.
Today we will discuss such businesses that anyone can start with minimum investment and effort. The best thing about doing business at festivals is that products are sold at high margins and people buy them without checking the price tag.
Best Small Business Ideas to Start this Diwali
1. Cracker Shop
Diwali is the festival of lights and people love to burst crackers this day, so starting a cracker shop is a profitable business. Kids start bursting crackers days before Diwali and it has high profit margins.
Cracker Shop in Diwali is best for the person who wants to get their hands on business, this would be a good experience because it doesn’t require heavy investment, people often open cracker shops on roadside stalls that can be moved easily.
2. Colourful Diyas and Pots
Colorful Diyas and Pots are the main center of the Diwali festival and people buy them without seeing the price tag you can make huge margins on these pots. And you don’t have to worry about making anything from scratch.
You can buy them from the market at wholesale price color them or you can make the designs that would sell hand in hand, if you are a small team you can start with little quantity but if you have money to spare you can sell in huge amounts.
Selling colorful Diyas and pots is one opportunity for college students. They would gain a lot of experience and save some pocket money.
3. ColourFul Lights
Diwali is the festival of light. Everyone likes to decorate their homes with colorful lights. You can start selling and offering to decorate homes with lights for the Divali festival. There are two ways to enter this light business.
The first one is to buy from suppliers wholesale and sell it to customers directly. This is the best option for people looking to make quick money during the Diwali festival and not planning to expand further.
Second, You can also rent lights for Diwali, this method is best who already have a light or decoration business or who are planning to expand their business after Diwali.
4. Home Decoration Products
Decorative items such as flowers rangoli and lights are the center of attraction in homes, you can start a readymade decorative item shop made of paper and plastics or you can sell rangoli-making items.
These products are cheap have high profit margins and can make you good money in a short time.
5. House Cleaning Services
Everyone cleans their house before Diwali, but not everyone has time to do everything so you can provide house cleaning services to people in your cities, there are already many platforms where you can register and get cleaning orders.
Another way to get cleaning orders is to run meta ads, where you can advertise your services directly and get direct orders. Before going on the job, ensure you have proper cleaning equipment and experience.
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6. Utensil Shop
Selling Utensils on Diwali can be a profitable business since people purchase new kitchenwares and utensils during the festival seasons for personal use and gifting to others.
People who are starting small need to be careful with the choice of products they are planning to sell, and make sure to sell products that people could easily afford. Have some designer and unique products to attract customers.
Create Diwali offers and gift packs to attract more customers to your shop.
7. Mehandi and Rangoli
Starting a Rangoli and Mehandi Business on Diwali is a great idea since they both are traditional, people love to decorate their homes with rangoli and themselves with mehendi. You can start a Mehandi camp and offer.
Here is the trick to reaching customers locally, first of all, decide your service pricing and decide your target audience, and reach them directly through pamphlets. You can ask the newspaper distributer to put them inside the newspaper and he will do it for 70-100 rupees.
People will see your pamphlets and contact you directly you can take orders and decide the timing yourself. This Karwachauth my girlfriend did the same.
You can also collaborate with the beauty salons, they have contacts already so you can get customers easily but they also charge their commissions. You can start building your online portfolio like Instagram and Facebook pages to take this business on long term and use online ads to reach a wider audience.
8. Candles
Candle-making business is very popular because of its simplicity and low making cost. There are two ways to sell candles during Diwali first one is to buy candles from wholesalers and sell them at retail price.
The second one is to buy all the making items and make them at home, this would be cheaper and more profitable but also would cost your time. You need wax, mold, colors, and threads to make beautiful and colorful candles at home and you can sell them directly in the market or take orders online.
