Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20

If you are sat at home this weekend contemplating starting your own small / micro home business or becoming a self-employed freelancer / sole trader then here are ten quick-fire business ideas to use as a starting point. 

• A website teaching readers about the day-to-day training requirements for various sports.
• Improvisational comedy confidence-building exercises.
• A company which takes your dead electronic equipment and smashes it until it becomes modern art!
• A premium hotline providing legal advice.
• A café for aspiring filmmakers to congregate and show their work to receive feedback.
• A clothes-sharing website for high-value items such as shoes.
• An impartial advice line for people purchasing consumer electronics.
• A YouTube channel reviewing local restaurants.
• Keep other people’s elderly relatives company for a small fee.
• An art co-op which collectively owns valuable pieces and shares them until they are eventually auctioned.

3 Responses to “ Ten Small Business Startup Ideas – 2009/09/20 ”

1. ria simpson
   
   Said on September 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

   Sage Software has recently launched a free online invoicng tool for freelancers and small businesses at http://www.billingboss.com. Billing Boss is focused of keeping invoicing simple – so simple that you can get set up and send your first invoice in just a couple minutes.

   Please note: With the goal of full disclosure, I work at Sage. Feel free to contact me if you have any feedback about Billing Boss.

2. Stefan Töpfer
   
   Said on September 20th, 2009 at 3:32 pm

   Hi Ria,

   I normally do not allow links in the comment body – but in the case of Sage, I’ll make an exception. But you guys will have to do more than just selling software, or as in this case giving it away. Small businesses need solutions not software.

   Anyway, good to see Sage getting back into the SaaS arena – hope you are going to be more successful this time.

   VB, Stefan

3. Emma
   
   Said on September 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm

   Hi, I like your ideas !! Great mind , So keep it up this is excellent

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