Praveen Kumar
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Having your own business is the dream of many individuals from their childhood but due to lack of knowledge and other problems in the middle somehow they are lost and end up in the infinite cycle of 9-5 work.
I’m not trying to say that 9-5 is bad or you should stay away from it, but I’m saying that interested people in the business world, should make time for their business apart from their office.
Today in this blog, I will discuss 50+ Profitable small business ideas that you can start today if you have enough capital and entrepreneurial spirit. I will also give you some free resources and tools that can help you in your business journey.
50+ Profitable Small Business Ideas
1. Home Cleaning
Home Cleaning Businesses are straightforward to start, today everyone is busy with their office or other work and doesn’t have time to take care of their house like cleaning.
You can create a plan and show your customers that you will clean their house on these days, it can be a daily plan, weekly, or monthly. After you have enough homes, buy equipment and train staff.
2. Car Wash
Car Wash is a low-investment business to start, for this, you will need staff who can help you and also train them so they don’t mess it up. Business registration and Insurance are pretty much the same as other businesses.
Along with car washing you can provide car detailing services that will attract customers with high-end cards, of course, you need to have the detailing skills first. There is not much high investment required for car detailing so you can start easily.
3. Home Tutoring
Home Tutoring is best for housewives looking to make some extra income, they can start teaching students, today there are a variety of fields where students are interested whether it’s academic or non-academic like arts, music, and others.
For this, you don’t even need business registration if you have only a few students but if you are planning to expand this along with other staff, you will need to follow the legal procedures.
4. Online Courses
Online courses are trending these days, instead of teaching offline, Online courses are more profitable because you can distribute them to a wide audience without much effort and the best part is, this is only a time effort.
You can create courses based on skills, like digital marketing, coding, recipe videos, and tutorials.
5. Podcast
podcast is simply a conversation between two people or you can just record yourself, this is almost similar to YouTube video but, people only prefer audio.
Today many people are making millions from their podcasts like Joe Rogan who interviews popular personalities like Elon Musk. Popular platforms like Spotify offer them millions to upload their podcast on Spotify. Simply sell their streaming rights to them.
6. Youtube Channel
Today more and more people are consuming online content, So you can be a content creator on YouTube, people would say that YouTube is saturated but believe me people have been saying this since 2020. Still, more and more creators are growing day by day.
You need to find a gap and fill that gap with your creative content and your channel will boom. YouTube is the primary source of income for many creators, it can be yours too.
7. Print On Demand
Print on Demand simply means you create a design on your computer, list it on your website and when the person orders it, you can fulfill that order either by yourself or you have a supplier.
The T-shirt printing business is getting easier day by day, people are struggling with design but today you can create amazing unlimited designs with the help of AI.
8. Android App Buying and Selling
Android Apps make money by either showing ads or by selling premium subscriptions, there are many apps that you can buy, add your ads, and upload on the Play Store.
Once people download and use it, you will start making money from your display ads like blogs.
9. Resin Jewelry
Resin Jewelry is the simplest business for creative people, especially housewives who are looking to start their small venture, you can begin with resin jewelry, all you need is some raw materials and Resin and you are ready to go.
Resin Jewelry business can be started with as small as $1,000 and you can sell them easily online using Facebook and Instagram ads.
10. Reselling
The reselling business is quite simple, you buy products at wholesale price and sell them at retail price, anyone can start this business without much experience. The investment amount depends on the type of product which you are reselling.
And where you are opening your shop, whether renting it or already having a place. Every fact you have to consider before getting into this business.
11. Dropshipping
Dropshipping is just like reselling but in this business, you don’t have to worry about inventory management or product shipping, You only need to find a product and then its supplier.
List the product on your website and when someone orders the product, you can forward that order to the supplier. Your supplier will ship the product and you can take your commission.
Shopify is the best platform that can provide you with both a supplier and a website all in one place.
12. Flipping Products
Buying cheap products from Walmart and selling them online on Amazon at higher prices is the definition of flipping products, including sneakers, kitchen items, and many more.
Profit depends upon the competition and types of products you are flipping. This business is quite profitable for college students.
Many people have built their online selling empire on platforms like Amazon and Shopify by selling high-margin products like furniture, cars, and other valuable items.
13. Starting a Food Truck Business
The Food Truck Business requires some initial investment of around $30K-$40K. To start this business first you need a Truck a medium size that can fit all your accessories, and decide on the menu items, for this, you need to do some research according to location.
Then hire staff to cook and serve food, you have to spend daily on food like vegetables, meat, and other related stuff required to prepare food, which would come under extra cost also known as running cost.
Make sure you have extra cash to pay your employees in advance for at least 6 months because, in the initial days, you have to experiment with the location and food the people like, don’t expect quick profit from the first day. According to reports food trucks make around $400,000-500,000 per annum.
Once your business starts making profits you can expand it easily using bank loans.
14. Resin Art Business
Resin Art Business is a small investment business that can easily be started under $1000. All you need is some raw materials resin and Jewelry crafts. You don’t have to spend days learning how to create the crafts, you can easily learn it within a day.
After learning you can start crafting different materials that can be sold online. many people have already doing this business for years. Also, there are many tutorials available on YouTube that will help you in learning.
I have already written a complete Guide on the Resin Art Business, You can read and learn a step-by-step guide to starting a resin craft business.
Resin Craft Business Complete Guide
15. Clothing Brand
Starting your clothing brand is also a great idea today, people think that it would cost a lot of money to build your clothing brand if you are starting from scratch but let me tell you this.
Most popular Luxury brands like Gucci, PRADA, BURBERRY, and other brands import their products from countries like Bangladesh, China, and other countries where manufacturing prices are very low and import them.
This process is known as white labeling, they don’t spend money on manufacturing, just import them paste their logo, and sell for a high-end price.
16. Food Cart
A Food Cart is slightly different from a Food truck because you don’t need to spend money on modifying your truck into a food kitchen, usually food carts are stationary and and operate within a limited range.
That’s why you can start a food card with minimum investment, all you have to spend money on food equipment, and running costs, if you have family members to support the business, you don’t even need to hire employees.
Once you start making profits you can expand this business like the food chain, where you can give carts on rent or buy carts and rent people to operate, whatever model suits you the best.
17. Vending Machine Business
The Vending Machine Business is quite popular in the US where individuals can easily set up their machines, you can start a vending machine business with as little as $10,000 and there is no hard and fast rule that you need to spend money on new machines only.
You can start with used machines too. You can read my complete Guide on vending machine business.
Vending Machine Business Complete Guide
18. Coffee Shop
Coffee Shop is another small venture that can be started with minimum investment, you just have to be careful that you are not directly competing with the big brands in the initial days like Starbucks and others.
If you are dreaming of making it big one day, then you should start working on its quality, so that people get addicted to your taste and forget big brands.
Big Brands often have crazy prices, so you can start with medium and fill the gap.
19. Child Day Care Service
Working couples in cities don’t have enough time to take care of their kids, so they drop their kids at the child daycare centers and pick them up in the evening.
The child is taken care of by the caretakers in the centers and they are provided all necessities like basic education, playing, and taking care of their health and hygiene.
Starting a child daycare service can be a lucrative business idea in the cities, to start this you need a space where you can build all the basic structures for the service like a playing area, teaching, and more.
You will also need full-time caretakers to look after the kids in the absence of their parents. It would cost around $10,000-$50,000 to start a child day care service and it can vary based on various factors like location.
20. Yoga and Meditation Classes
Today people in cities are fed up with the corporate work culture, and there is no peace of mind, so providing them with mental therapy through meditation and yoga can be the best solution.
To start this business you can rent a space and if you have enough space in your home, you can start from there in the initial days. Online classes can be an option but it’s better when it’s offline like you can communicate and understand your audience more accurately.
21. Selling Online Course
Today content creators are making more money than ad revenue through their online courses because creating a course is a time effort and you can sell that course to millions of people online through your reputation.
For example, if you are a content creator, you can create courses about how to become a content creator from scratch and how to rank your blog in the Google search engine.
Once you create the course from scratch you can update it and sell it over and over, the popular platforms to sell your courses are your website, Udemy, YouTube Premium, and Private Telegram Groups.
Online courses have almost 90% ROI if you have decent organic followers and you can also use Google, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube to promote your ads.
22. Starting a Digital Marketing Agency
Today in the fast-growing competition on the internet, people are competing with each other to rank their business on top of any search engine so more and more people can find their service and they can generate more traffic through it.
23. Car Renting Business
The car renting business is as simple as it sounds, you buy cars repair them, and rent them and it generates money, Starting a car renting business can cost you around $100,000 depending upon the number of cars you have for rent, lease, or loan.
I would suggest starting with second-hand cars, they are cheap renovating them, and then putting them on rent.
24. Starting a Blog
Many people would disagree with this but I would include this anyway because I’m doing this and I know it’s working, Blogging is just doing fine and you can start it easily. I suggest you learn basic things like SEO and writing skills.
That would help you to rank your site faster on Google Search Engine and you can derive traffic to your website.
Making money from a blog is a lengthy process and takes months and even a year. So you also have to be patient and work consistently. Once your blog starts getting traffic you can easily make $3000-$5000 easily.
How to Start a Blog From Scratch
25. Website Flipping
Website Flipping is the same as it sounds, In this process, you create a website grow it, and sell it, most people prefer a blog website to flip because it is more profitable than the rest.
You can start a website Flipping business with a minimum investment of $5000 and it can take 3-5 months to grow a single website.
Some essential skills you need for website flipping are website development and SEO.
26. Dropservicing
Dropservicing is the process of outsourcing a client project and then sourcing a freelancer to complete that project and you can enjoy the margin profit.
Basically in this process, you take projects from freelancing platforms like Fiverr and Upwork and then hire a freelancer at a cheaper price to finish the same project at a cheaper price, once the project is completed, you can deliver it to your client and pay the freelancer.
You are just acting like a middleman in the project. Anyway, this is quite a profitable business considering you have excellent negotiation skills.
27. Selling Stickers
Creating stickers is easier than ever because of the generated AI, So you can create stickers using AI tools and then sell them digitally on Etsy or you can print them and sell them for yourself.
Sticker selling can be quite profitable if you integrate with it other businesses like selling high-quality stickers to t-shirt printing companies online or you can start your t-shirt brand with unique stickers.
28. Starting a Writing Agency
As I earlier explained about drop servicing agencies, if you have writing skills, you can start your writing agency, there are hundreds and thousands of publishers looking for writers for their blog websites.
You can take a contract for their blog publishing and article writing, of course, you will need some capable writers to help you along.
29. Laundry Service
Laundry Service is quite a profitable business if you are at the right location, there are two ways to set up a laundry business.
The first method is to buy your equipment and start the business with a perfect location, and the second method is to buy a franchise and start the business in both cases you will need to spend some money around $20K-$30K, and goes on depending upon your need and services.
Since the investment is not very much you can start at multiple locations at the same time.
30. Online Business Flipping
Online Business Flipping can be the most profitable business you can start, many dying businesses are on sale, you can buy these businesses at cheap prices turn them profitable, and then sell them at profits.
Online businesses are very easy to flip, you can find them on websites like Flipp and EmpireMarketplace. Before buying any business you should have it’s knowledge of how it works and how can you turn it profitable otherwise you will lose all your investments.
31. Affiliate Marketing
Today almost every major brand affiliate services to boost their sales in a short time, you can easily join affiliate programs and promote the product. When someone buys the product through your link you get paid.
There are several products you can promote in affiliate marketing like clothing, daily essentials, and more but there are categories like Digital Products, Software, Services, and more.
Affiliate marketing is more effective when you have decent followers on Instagram or Facebook otherwise you have to spend money on advertisements to reach your audience.
32. Event Planning
Events like parties, gatherings, and marriages are very common these days, you can start your business based on this. There would be two types of investment you would require first is one one-time investment for equipment.
The second is running costs, you would need the manpower to set everything up while planning, and you have to take care of the travel and all other expenses.
You have to analyze the location before setting up this business otherwise you might have to travel long distances. You can expect to make a 15-35% profit margin based on the event.
33. Candle Making Business
Candle Making is another low-investment business idea that housewives can start easily without much effort. To start this business you need to find a wax supplier, thread, and mold and you are ready to go.
The next step would be to find the right clients to sell your candles, these days hotels buy candles in bulk for their decorations, you can contact them, they are your potential clients and also online marketplaces.
34. Pet Business
Pet business is a wide and diverse business that you can start, In a Pet business you can either buy and sell Pets like cats and Dogs, start a Pet Grooming and styling service, Pet training classes, and a Pet retail store.
Pets are often considered family members, so you can understand how much demand there is for this business in the market, all you have to do is take the risk and get in the business, and you know what pet food is more costly than human food, which means it can generate more profit.
35. Starting a GYM
GYM is a one-time investment business, you find a place rent it, modify it buy the equipment, and open with a membership plan. It’s as simple as that?
Well, not various problems lie ahead like finding the perfect place and deciding the genders, marketing, and membership plans.
The initial investment would start from around $80,000 and can go up to 1,00,000 easily depending upon your facilities, monthly maintenance would be around $2,000-$3,000.
36. Taxi Service
Online taxi companies have made the Taxi service business very easy, today you don’t have to track your taxis by calling them constantly and assigning them to work through phone calls.
You can register your taxi on the app and it would track the daily routine of the car where your driver took it.
People usually buy cars and put them directly in the taxi business, here is how this business works in simple words.
You buy a taxi, hire a driver and stay at home, ask the driver every day if you have to give me this amount as a commission or you can also give him a salary usually commission is better.
37. Ice Cream Truck
Ice Cream truck is as easy as it sounds, You buy an Ice cream truck, fill it with all necessary items, hire a worker to sell your ice cream, and give him a monthly salary.
An average Ice cream truck costs around $15,000-$20,000 and an additional $500/truck for the frozen items. You need at least $100,000 to set up 5 Ice Cream trucks.
Also, this is a seasonal business, so you have to take care of that too.
38. Consulting Business
Consulting business requires experience and expertise in a particular field, so if you have something like that you can start this business easily, Today you don’t need to open even an office space, you can just communicate with your clients online.
There are many people in different fields looking for guidance, you can be their guide and in the process, you can also make money.
Today many prestigious firms charge thousands of dollars per hour for consulting.
39. Social Media Management
Social Media Management is the easiest business to start, Today not everyone has time to manage their own social media handles, so they hire agencies to manage it.
All you have to do is create some posts on social media handles and reply to comments and DMs. Some basic skills like video editing, template creation in canva, and social media SEO would be helpful.
You can make $3,000 to $5,000 by social media management alone and with a team your revenue can grow exponentially.
40. Selling Craft on Etsy
Love creating crafts? You can turn this hobby into a successful online business. There is a high demand for handmade products online and people are willing to pay premium prices for handmade items.
So, you can start this business with little investment, some popular crafts that people are selling on Etsy are artificial Jewelry, designer clothes gift items, and many more.
20 HandMade Products To Sell on Etsy
41. Starting a restaurant
Starting your restaurant can be an interesting journey if you have some money for investment because the restaurant business costs a lot of money to open and operate these days.
Starting would be a one-time investment and keeping it running is the second.
Not to scare you but you will also face competition from the big food chains directly. this is the reason why most restaurants close within three to 3 years of their opening.
42. Instagram Theme Page Business
Scrolling Instagram throughout the whole day is boring, stop doing that and start creating content yourself. People today are making thousands of dollars by posting content regularly on Instagram. This business model is known as Instagram Theme Page Business where you don’t have to show your face.
Just choose a niche and start creating content related to that topic, when you reach enough followers, you will start receiving offers from brands for promotions.
43. Selling Art Online
Digital art is not something new, when the NFT wave first came, digital art was surging higher and higher in the crypto space. Buy not many of you know digital art is more than just NFTs.
Today digital art market is around a billion-dollar business, you can create art online using AI tools list it and people will buy it.
And when someone buys it, sellers print it and ship it to the seller. This is cheating on the real artists. These arts are not sold as high as the real paintings but selling in bulk would cover that price.
44. Beauty Parlour
Beauty parlors are very common and easy business ideas for women all they need is 6 months of practice and they are ready to start their parlour. You can provide services like facial, and hair makeup according to your planning and resources.
Selling self-care items is also quite profitable, you can also make money from them.
45. Starting a Saas Business
SAAS business is one of the most profitable businesses out there today. SAAS stands for Software as a Service. This business has made not only multi-millionaires but also billionaires.
The only problem with the SAAS business is that it requires a lot of investment, time, and resources like programmers, tasters, marketing, and more. but once the business is set up, It can print you money daily that you can’t even count.
But luckily today, there is a business model as I have explained to you earlier known as white labeling. you can buy a software label for your brand and start selling it.
46. Electronic Repair Business
Today everyone owns electronics which means there is a repair market also, after all, gadgets don’t last forever. Starting an electronic repair shop can be a profitable venture, the only thing you need is knowledge and experience in how to repair electronics.
You can also start verified repair centers where you can officially repair guaranteed products from different brands.
47. Photography and Videography
Photography and Videography businesses are at their peak because of the rapidly growing content creator community, today every content creator requires a professional camera handler for their videos.
Instagram models also need professional cameramen to click their photos, this is necessary for them to get contracts.
You can build your online portfolio on Instagram and get clients directly from there.
Conclusion
Starting an online business is easy, the main problem starts while running the business and making profits, today there are hundreds of startups coming into the market daily but hardly any one of them is making any profits. Many businesses are entirely dependent on the investor’s funding today.
