You will find over 600 ideas for small businesses to help get you started, or to give you ideas for expansion of your existing businesses.
I devised this site because I believe there are only 3 ways to become seriously rich.
1. By force - e.g. stealing or other major crime.
#1 is too dumb to even consider here.
2. By luck - e.g. inheriting wealth or winning a lottery.
#2 is (statistically) just not going to happen, and every £ and moment spent, hoping that it will happen, is a £ and moment wasted.
3. By effort - e.g. running your own business.
#3 is the only sensible alternative left.
You may wonder why I have left out simply working for someone else. I have left it off the list because I believe a job is just a way of earning money for someone else. If you didn't earn more money for the boss than the boss pays you, why would s/he bother? So why not just do the job yourself and put all the money in your own pocket?
Do you know anyone working at a 'job' who is seriously wealthy? I don't.
Don't get me wrong - There is absolutely nothing wrong with working for someone else, I just think you may well be able to do better working for yourself.
Lets assume you are in broad agreement with me so far, but that you have no clear idea of what you could do to get started. This is where the hundreds of simple business ideas on this site come in handy.
Most of the feedback I receive from this site is along the lines of, "I came to the site because I wasn't sure what business I wanted to start, I just knew I wanted to begin something. After reading through all the ideas on your site, I found myself bursting with ideas for small businesses."
Sure, lots of the ideas are dated and sound a bit lame on their own, but add them to one of the other ideas and mix in your own ideas and skills and you never know, you just might surprise yourself!
Many people who would like to run their own business make the mistake of thinking that they have to have to be the first ones to market with a new idea/invention. Sure, many have done just this, but far more hugely successful businesses simply copy an existing business idea. How many companies do you think there are selling shoes, car servicing, food, flowers, pet food, anything else you can think of, ask yourself, are they making money?... Arguably, the more companies you can find already trading with your preferred idea, the more successful it has been proven to be. Sure, you are going to have some competition but even if you can think up some new idea/invention, if you are successful it will only a matter of time before you face just the same competition.
However attractive the offer placed before you, simply ask yourself -
'If it is that good why are you selling the idea and not doing it yourself?'
I have asked this question hundreds of times and, with the exception of established franchises, the answers would be laughable if so many folks were not being conned.
If you want to find some simple 'off-the-shelf' system of making money on this site I am afraid you will be disappointed. You will find none.
By the way - There is no way for you to pay me for anything, anywhere on this site.
But if you are a budding entrepreneur, a mumtrepreneur or simply want ideas for an extra income, read on. You will find hundreds of ideas for businesses which other people have actually used, to form the heart of their small businesses.
Because many Small businesses start off from a very simple idea, I have collected hundreds of simple small business ideas which you can use to help you start a new business.
Many of these ideas are case histories of genuine businesses which have made fortunes for the people who had the ideas, and acted on them.
It is not my intention to tell you what to do, but to simply give you a lot of ideas to think about, in the hopes that something sounds good enough to motivate you to have a go for yourself.
Click the 'Business Ideas' tab on the right to get started with loads of ideas designed to help you to get ideas for your own small business.
You may be interested to know that these ideas were first published on the web on this site in January 2003 and have since been copied by many other sites. Here - you have found the originals!
The truth is you need access to services, which consistently deliver excellent value quickly, leaving you free to concentrate on your core activities. So I have tried to find the very best solutions to the problems which most new businesses face - like keeping down your Start-Up Costs and where to look for the best business loans and insurance.
I shine a light in the direction of any company, which will deliver a best-of-the-best service for you, and give you some great practical help and ideas in many different areas.
And I know you are busy, so try to keep it short.
You know how many times you have heard of people who have made life-changing amounts of money and promptly lost it all. Well there are many good reasons for this. One of them is because in this consumer society we have had a lot of practice at spending, but most people have had much less experience of saving money, so guess what happens!
However you earn money I believe that it is wise to continually take a small proportion and save it beyond easy reach, for the very long term.