Business Ideas 21 – 30

21. Home improvement business -Tudor style.

Set up a home-improvement business which modifies the exterior of houses to give them a Tudor appearance. Your service will include the fitting of ornamental oak beams, giving exterior walls a white covering and adding metal grids to windows.

22. Make wooden noughts and crosses games.

Drill nine holes in a small square block and paint on a grid. Next make ten pegs and pint on each peg an ‘O’ or an ‘X’. Place the grid and pegs into a clear bag and staple on a product card.

23. Sell brassware ornaments.

Bring together a range of brassware ornaments so you can have a stall at crafts fairs, antique markets and car boot sales.

24. Publishing: newsletters.

Publish a newsletter which has the title “Ambitious Persons Way to Wealth” or “Clever People Don’t Work Hard”. The contents of your newsletter might be in a vein similar to Joe Karbo’s “The Lazy Man’s Way to Riches”.

25. Set up and run a school of window dressing.

Organise one-day or two-day seminars for established shopkeepers who want to learn more about this aspect of their business. Also provide courses fro those who would like to take up a career as a window dresser.

26. Write and publish a manual about how to make money from property.

In the manual include chapters on: Buying and selling land, buying properties for conversions and renovations, investing in property, etc. Use direct mail and press advertising to sell by mail order to business opportunity seekers.

27. Found and run a school of investment.

Give tuition to solo students and to groups about different types of investments such as shares, gilt-edged securities, unit trusts, USM, antiques, stamps, arts, etc. For each area covered, prepare lesson plans and follow these closely.

28. Prayer plaques manufacturing.

Make a selection of children’s prayer plaques: Wooden wall plates which feature popular prayers. The prayers might be painted onto or burned into the wood.

29. Transform old coins into jewelry.

Start a crafts business which uses interesting foreign coins to make jewellery. Incorporate coins into pendant bracelet, brooches, necklaces and earrings. Alternatively, make jewellery which features reproduction coins from the ancient world.

30. Create a line of Seashell necklaces.

Use small sea-shells strung together to make necklaces. Find a trade source of small sea-shells and either set up your own production line or employ homeworkers.