Small Business Idea

Do you want one small business idea, or would you prefer hundreds?

For over ten years a friend has been running a highly successful small businesses group, putting well over 22,000 students through the program. The question most often asked is:

"I really want to get started, but I have no idea what to do! Can you give me some practical small business ideas?"

The answer is 'Yes!' and here they are.

These ideas for small businesses are divided into three sections:

1. 'Foolish' business ideas which made their creators rich. These are intended to inspire you. For the most part, these are ordinary men and women who just woke up one morning with a 'crazy/foolish' small business idea and wouldn't give up until they had made their dream a reality. In most cases, they have made very large sums of money (often in the millions) from these small business ideas.

The purpose of this section is to make you think: "If s/he can do it, I know I can!" Also, the intention is to erase any negative thoughts you might have along these lines: "It's hopeless nowadays, everything's been done. Anyway, the little guy will never make any money, they'll see to that."

Every day, people are bringing their winning small business ideas to market and retiring on easy street with big, fat payoffs. Why not you? I'm also reminded of this true quote from the head of the UK patent office in 1899 (Yes - Eighteen99)
"Everything which can be invented has already been invented."
Yeah.... right......

2. 'Realistic' small business ideas which you could operate right now. Often these ideas are not keys to a fortune, but, they are small business ideas which are working out there, right now, making good money for people. You can use any one of these ideas for yourself, or give it a little twist or variation.

3. 'Quick and Simple' small business ideas. The purpose of these small business ideas is to get your brain thinking. Often the ideas seem a bit crazy and unrealistic - almost too simple. But.... the intention is for these small business ideas to act as a trigger, making you say something like: "That idea's ridiculous, but if I change it around a bit I could..."

Surely there will be something here to capture your imagination!

To read about the origin of the 'foolish' small business ideas
click here- Foolish Origins

To read more small business ideas chat
click here- Small Business Ideas

We have had a number of requests to make searching within all of these ideas more simple. A list of all the ideas on the right-hand side should help you keep track of where you have got to.

Many thanks for the feedback folks, keep it coming.

Another 300 Different Ideas!!!
Just in case you are still 'ideas hungry', here are some more totally different ideas from our UK site.
www.4-small-businesses.co.uk/small-businesses-ideas.html

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