New Small Business Idea: Local Fast Food Portal

You do not have to be the next craigslist, to be successful as an online portal. Just start out with a simple service and then develop your business further.

For example, you could start a simple website and put fast food restaurants and their complete menu online, to generate online orders for them, some places do it themselves, most small ones don’t.

Charge for the privilege a fixed fee per month and then advertise your site locally:

• talk to the local newspaper, they are always looking for stories,
• drop leaflets in neighborhoods,
• blog about it on the internet with a strong local focus.

Then see where the road leads you, here are two ideas:

• you could develop your online portal more for other services and become portal for events, jobs, accountants and so on;
• you could deliver the fast food for restaurants who do take away, but do not deliver.

I guess you can see what I’m driving at. One other benefit here is you can start this on the side, while you still keep your job, until you can afford to do this full time.

Remember to plan your venture from day one, start making money first, bootstrap and enjoy the ride. Total cost to set something like this up, maybe $50/£25 per month. ST.

2 Responses to “ New Small Business Idea: Local Fast Food Portal ”

1. Jodith
   
   Said on June 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

   Funny, great minds think alike! My husband and I were talking about something like this just last week. We live in a semi-rural area, and thought a business directory would be a great idea for local businesses.

2. Leaflet Distribution
   
   Said on June 25th, 2009 at 12:14 pm

   Anything like this is only as good as its visibility and how useful the site is, I have to say that we see similar things in print form all the time, as I am sure most people do, be very sure that you really do have a potential business, and not something that has minimal demand or has already been done a number of times.

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