77 Cool Business Ideas

So you want to start a new business but you don't want to rip the wallet. That's ok, there is a multitude of business opportunities and ideas for businesses that require very little initial capital investment. I'll get right to it, here's my list of possible businesses that won't require me to sell the kids for finance.

Buy Something and Rent it Out

1. Buy 1 or 2 jumping castles. People are always having parties and as long as that's the case there will be a market for jumping castles. You could easily make your money back in 3 to 4 months.
2. Buy some garden tools such as lawn mower, etc, and rent it out. Start with your neighbors, I'm sure you could do this part time on the weekends for some extra money.
3. Buy some tables and chairs and rent them out. This is great for big functions which happen all the time.
4. Buy some playstation consoles and rent them out. I knew a guy that did this, he had a custom trailer made where he mounted all the consoles, then he rented the whole thing out like a mobile network gaming setup.
5. Buy some large tents or gazebos and rent them out. This is another feature that is often used for functions.
6. Buy some trailers and rent them out. People are always moving stuff, and they need your trailers.
7. Buy a bunch of party outfits and rent them out. Masks, hats, clown costumes, Santa costumes, Barney, Winnie, Other animals, pirate costume, space costume, cowboy costume, etc. I'm not just talking about stuff for kids either http://www.talkgold.com/forum/images/smilies/smile.gif).
8. Buy some complete barbecue sets and rent them out. I'm not sure how well this would work, but its definitely worth thinking about.
9. Buy some golf sets and rent them out. I'm not so sure about this either, but its out there for you to chew on.
10. Buy a beach buggy and rent it out. I'm sure the tourists don't want to spend all that money on buying a brand new one when they can just rent from you.
11. Buy a container and rent it out. There are a few ways that you can do this, either you convert the container into an office, or room of some sort and rent it out, you can rent it out to people that are moving, or you could buy a few and rent them out as storage.

Offer a Service

1. Can you mow the lawn?
2. Can you paint?
3. Can you build and renovate kitchens?
4. Can you maintain a pool?
5. Can you clean carpets?
6. Can you clean windows?
7. Can you do graphic design?
8. Can you build websites?
9. Can you be an entertainer?
10. Can you bake?
11. Can you cater?
12. Can you house sit?
13. Can you baby sit?
14. Can you stand in a queue?
15. Can you drive?
16. Can you teach?
17. Can you take care of pets?
18. Can you fix computers?
19. Can you fix TVs?
20. Can you fix cars?
21. Can you fix a leaking pipe?
22. Can you fix an electrical problem?
23. Can you pave a pavement?
24. Can you cut trees?
25. Can you deal a poker game?
26. Can you play guitar?
27. Can you play a piano?
28. Can you beat a drum?
29. Can you organize a project?
30. Can you plant a garden?

Buy Something and Sell It

1. Buy and sell used cars. Don't do this if you don't know anything about used cars, take it from me, I tried and failed because I knew nothing about cars.
2. Buy and sell computers and laptops. You could do this as a dealer with new computers or you could try with used stuff.
3. Look in the local classified or junk mail for a bargain and sell it, preferably before you buy it. There was a guy that looked in the wanted section of the classified and found something that someone wanted and that someone else was selling, then he would make the deal without spending any money.
4. Be on the lookout for interesting things that you can flip. Here in South Africa complexes, or townhouses, are springing up all over the place and usually you can secure one for a very small deposit (5,000 rand which is about 720 dollars), so my idea is to make a few deposits on a few good deals then selling those deposits a month or so later. I think that if done properly this can be quite lucrative.
5. If you have a certain amount of money you can buy a share in a farmers crop, before it grows and is harvested, at a huge discount, then once the crop is harvested you sell your share for much more and make a nifty profit. This is quite risky and you need quite a bit of knowledge to do this properly.
6. Go to some auctions and check out the many deals, find something good and sell it.

Animal breeding

1. Buy some dogs, breed and sell them. Here in South Africa, guard dogs are a good option, such as Rottweilers.
2. Buy some cats, breed and sell them.
3. Buy some gold fish for breeding and selling.
4. Buy some Budgerigars, these are often quite popular.
5. Hamsters are another favorite.
6. If you know what you're doing, Koi can be an excellent investment for breeding and selling.
7. Have you got space? Then breed some horses.
8. Chickens.
9. Cows.
10. Goats.
11. Sheep.
12. How about some snakes?

Make Something and Sell It

1. Build Wendy houses and sheds. This could be quite fun, and quite lucrative also.
2. Start a local magazine. I will definitely do something like this in the future, I imagine its very similar to blogging, you pick a niche, write, find other writers, find advertisers, and distribute.
3. Build a website. Make it a business, and when its generating some good income you can sell it.
4. Write a computer program and sell it.
5. Write a book and sell it.
6. Design and make a board game and sell it.
7. Invent something cool.
8. Sell your special recipe. Don't actually sell the recipe, sell the finished product.
9. Make something out of wood and sell it.
10. Can you knit?
11. Can you sew? Become a tailor.
12. Can you sew and are you creative? Start your own fashion company.

Other

1. Give some seminars.
2. Offer private tutoring.
3. Hold some Tupperware parties. This is where you get all your lady friends together for a party where you sell them Tupperware.
4. Start a casino in your home. Make sure to get all the proper licenses.
5. Have a garage flea market in your back yard and invite all the neighbors, make sure to charge them a small entrance fee.
6. Ask your friends if they are starting any businesses and offer yourself as a partner.

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I have also consider some business ideas like Buying and Selling technique and also online product auctioning.