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 Your
unique skills and personality can help you determine
what you want to do and what you will be good at in a small
business. We have broken these small biz ideas into
different character types. Find what fits YOU and who knows
it may be a perfect fit!
- Over 150 Great Ideas!
Artist
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Art Gallery
Owner
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Cake Decorating
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Children's
Music, Videos.
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Computer
Generated Family/Home/Pet Portraits
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Crafts - Unique
Items, Original and Handmade, Dried Floral, Read More Craft
Ideas...
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Custom Candy Wrappers
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Entertainment -
Music, Singing, Dance
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Freelance
Artist - Pencil Sketches, Family Portraits
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Game Designer
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Gift Basket Maker,
Creative Gift Packaging
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Gourmet Jams,
Jellies and Specialty Food Items
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Graphic Designer
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Greeting Card Designer
(including E-Cards) Embossed Notecards
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Hair Stylist -
Mobile or in Your Home
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Home
Portraits
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Interior
Decorator - Baby, Kids, Home, Apartment, Home Office, Sales
Office
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Pets and
livestock portraits
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Personal Chef, Prepackaged Home Meals, Delivery.
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Photographer -
Family, Sports, Birth Photos, Announcements, Keepsake, School
Pictures, Outdoors, Events
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Sewing -
Draperies, Clothing, Kids, Unique Items, Purses
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Specialty
Retail Items
T-shirt Design, Stationery...
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Videographer
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Website Designer
Business Woman
Caregiver/Nurturer
Clean Freak
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Aquarium and
Animal Cage Cleaning - Including Pooper-Scooper
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Commercial &
Residential Cleaning
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Window
Cleaning - Specialty Dusting and Organizing for Busy Women
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Yard
Maintenance including Pools
Collector
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Art and
Collectibles Dealer
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Old Book and
Magazine Dealer
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Old Picture
Restoration
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Refurbishing
- Furniture/Antiques, Hardware and Heirlooms
Communicator
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Ezine
Publisher
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Ghost
Writing
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Publisher -
Newsletter, Local Magazine, Neighborhood News, eBooks, Guides,
Welcome Wagon, Real-Estate, Hometown News
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Proofreader/Copy Editor
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Translator
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Website Creator/Editor
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Writer -
Self Publisher, Historical, Self-Help, Research, Booklets,
Professional Advise, Comedy, Fiction
Consultant/Advisor
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Business
Travel
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Career
Coaching, Professional Coaching
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Financial Planner
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Fundraising
Consultant
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Image
Consultant
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Nanny/Childcare Finding Service
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Home
Security Consultant
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Relocation
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Small
Business Consultant - Business Plan Development, Financing,
Inventions and Startup Advise
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Time
Management Specialist
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Wedding Consultant
Fitness Guru
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Personal Trainer
- Including private, mobile, small group, specialty (children,
seniors, special needs)
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Exercise
Classes
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Pregnancy
Fitness Class
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Senior
Fitness and Healthy Lifestyle Strategies
HandyWoman
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Appliance
Repair
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Carpet
Repair
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Home
Turnover (purchasing a fixer-upper and reselling for more)
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Home
Entertainment Installation
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Knife
Sharpening
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Painting -
Faux/Specialty Treatments, Touch-Ups, Interior/Exterior.
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Pooper-Scooper Service
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Power-Washing - exterior home.
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Small to
Large Paint and Fix-Ups
Healer
Natural Woman
Organized Woman
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Baby-Proofing Service
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Children's
Transportation Service
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Concierge/Errand Runner
- Dry Cleaning, limo, house sitting
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Court-Paper
Serving
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Garage Sale
Organizer
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Home
Delivery - Groceries, pet food.
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Local Moving
Service
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Packing/Unpacking Service
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Professional Organizer
- Home, office, Closet, Cupboards, Garage, Business...
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Restaurant
Delivery Service
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Staging -
Preparing Homes for Sale
Pet Lover
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Animal
Behavior Expert
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Breeder
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Grooming -
Including Mobile
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Obedience
Training
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Pet Walking,
Socializing, Exercising and Overnight Stays
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Pony Rides
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Specialty
Items for Pets - Natural Biscuits/Treats, Comfortable and Fun
Beds, Clothing, Accessories, Housing etc.
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Traveling
Zoo - Petting and Demos
Social Butterfly
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Bed and
Breakfast Inn
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Catering
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Convention
and Seminar Organizing
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Costume -
Design, Creation
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Entertainment - Clown, Comedy, Music (disc Jockey, Karaoke),
Singing, Dance, Magic
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Home Party Plans
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Networking
Groups
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Party & Event Planner
- Kids Birthday, Special Events, Reunion, Anniversary, Unique
Coordinating Service
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Wedding Consultant
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Welcoming
Service - Basket with Coupons, small gifts and local promotions.
Sporty Gal
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Adventure
and Educational Touring - Bike, Walk, Ride through local
attractions, places of beauty.
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Golf-Club
Selection, Cleaning, Advise
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Golf
Lessons, Swimming Lessons, Dance
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Self-Defense
Instruction
Teacher
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Babysitting
Class
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Children -
Kindergarten Prep, Tutoring
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Computer Trainer
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Cooking
School - Families and Kids
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Children and
Teens Class on Etiquette
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Special
Talent Lessons - Singing, Art, Music, Horseback Riding etc.
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Tutoring
Techno Pro
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Computer
Repair
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Online
Researcher - Family Tree
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Home
Computer System Consulting/Purchase/Installation/Upgrade/Home
Networking and Initial Training
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Software
Development, Database Design and Coding
Finding
Your Niche in Life
By Suzanne
Falter-Barns, author
Have you ever felt like the life you are living is not the
one you originally had in mind? Back when you were a kid, there
might have been other things you thought you were going to be,
like a Broadway diva or a country doc. That was before so-called
reality hit, back when the only voice you listened to was your
own.
Fast forward to today. If you're like most of us, you lost
track of those dreams and ideas some time ago. Other factors
came into play, like earning a living, the impossibility of
going back to school, or the queasy fear of looking stupid. You
might have even heard your parents in the background, quietly
chanting. "Get a good job, honey. You need the
security." "You expect too much from life!!"
"Who said work was supposed to be fun?"
In her book, Losing
Your Parents, Finding Your Self, Victoria Secunda
interviewed 94 men and women who had lost at least one parent
about the impact their parents' death had on their lives. What
she found was that after that parent's death, 50 percent of the
respondents changed their career -- and 69 percent of that group
did so as a direct result of the death. The reason? Respondents
no longer had to worry about pleasing or displeasing that
parent. "The credit, or blame, for their success and
failures fell almost entirely on their own shoulders," says
Secunda.
When we begin to listen to our own voice, and throw off all
those other helpful ones in our head, life really starts to make
sense. Not only do the wheels of progress finally turn in the
direction we want, but we begin to put more and more credence in
that small, lesser known part of ourselves that is the seat of
both our vulnerability and our power. This is the place where
our creativity, our imagination, and our own unique 'I-ness'
really lives. It's also the place we operate from when we're
truly connecting with others.
Having the courage to live up to your own ideals is truly
refreshing. When you move from thinking about it to actually
doing it, you are amazed by the flow and the ease with which you
can suddenly operate. You may also be struck by how long you
waited to finally get on with the real joy in life.
Getting there, however, can be the hard part, because it all
begins with awareness. Often those voices in our heads, whether
they belong to parents, well-meaning friends, former bosses,
spouses, or even nosy neighbors, may have been playing so long
and so loudly we can't even hear them.
Emme, one of the world's top plus-size model, grew up
listening to the abusive voice of the man her mother married
when she was 5. At age 12, he instructed her to strip down to
her underwear, then circled in indelible magic marker all the
places on her body where she needed to lose weight. Even though
she'd tried to scrub them off, her next trip to the local pool
was a humiliating nightmare. "After that," she told an
interviewer, "I didn't allow myself to feel ... Finally I
went into therapy and said, 'I'm angry. I need to find out
why.'" Emme's work with a therapist gave her a fuller
understanding of the influences she'd been spending a lifetime
silently wrestling with -- voices she has since moved beyond in
her work as a model, and role model, for plus size women
everywhere.
Ultimately, unplugging all those inner know-it-alls rests on
nothing more than your desire to be who were you always intended
to be in the first place. Are you willing to rise above everyone
else's agenda for you, and carve out the niche that is
rightfully yours? Are you willing to let go of what others will
think, and honor your greater self instead? Are you willing to
be known as the tremendous, quirky soul that you are?
Perhaps the best example of this is Roger the Jester, a
wonderful, original performer based near Great Barrington,
Massachusetts. After unsuccessful stabs at psychology and
photojournalism, Roger landed on jesting by asking himself what
he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing. "What I
really liked was making people laugh, and goofing off. Once I
got booked for a show and they told me, 'We'd just like you to
carry on.' Well, that's what my mother used to yell at me --
'Will you stop carrying on?' And now, here I was, carrying on
and getting paid for it."
Take a moment right now to complete the following questions
in a journal or notebook. They will help you clear the many
voices in your head, so you and your niche can emerge…
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I would complete my dream, except that my father:
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When I think of my dream, I think of my mother :
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Everyone keeps telling me :
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I don't pursue my dreams because :
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The truth about my dreams is that:
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If I could truly do anything I wanted to in life, I would:
Now write down a list of everyone in your life who truly does
honor your own, unique spirit. This is your new list of voices
-- be sure to ask for their support when the going gets rough.
And then, of course, listen.
Suzanne Falter-Barns is the author of How Much Joy Can You
Stand? A Creative Guide to Facing Your Fears and Making Your
Dreams Come True (Ballantine Wellspring). For regular shots of
inspiration, sign up for her free ezine, The Joy Letter, at http://www.howmuchjoy.com/optin.htm
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