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Clothes retail There are many ways of doing this. You can either, buy in clothes, brand them and sell them on with a mark up. You could also bulk buy branded clothes with trade discount for buying so many and sell them on with a markup which. You could either buy or rent a shop and run the shop yourself and even employ someone to run it for you or you could run it as a footloose business which means using a website and running it from home.
EBAY You could buy and sell items from eBay or you could bulk buy off eBay (look in the wholesale section) and spilt the items up yourself to sell on individually at a much higher price.
Car wash This is a very easy business to set up and run profitably because you need very little start up money. All you need is a hosepipe some sponges and some car shampoo. If you feel like making your job a little easier a pressure washer may be useful if you want to spend on it, you will look more professional and it will remove dirt easier.
Dog walking service Many people are too busy to walk their dogs properly and this is where you can charge them to walk their dogs for them. You can make use of only doing one or 2 walk’s if you take multiple dogs on 1 walk. Kennels You could set up a secure location to look after dogs and you can charge upwards of £10 per night per dog. Make sure you do calculate how much it will cost you to look after a dog for a night before you decide on how much you will charge the owner
Furniture manufacture / repair You can make use of recycled materials from scrap yards, skips or you could start your own recycling collection if you have your own van. Although it may cost you a little extra to get a van it will mean free materials because people will give you recycling for free where as you will have to pay at a scrap yard. You can take the scrap and manufacture furniture and artwork from it. You could sell it through eBay or even your own specialist website.
Artist If you have a talent for art or are good at crafts you can make artwork and sell it on eBay or your own website. Gardening services If you have a few gardening tools and a method of moving them around you can offer gardening services locally.
Tradesmen provider If you know a few tradesmen then you can have a business organizing work for them and take a commission. It would be up to you to organize costs for job and charge the client accordingly and then you would pay the tradesmen yourself
Carpet cleaning service You can buy specialist equipment for removing stains from upholstery and you can offer services of carpet and curtain cleaning. You can buy the equipment for a few hundred pounds and start business straight away Recruitment agency You act as a middle man for people seeking work and people seeking employees. The employer will pay you to find people to suit certain jobs for them. The fee will depend on what the job is and how well paid the job is.
Pool services You can offer to clean people’s swimming pools. You can start this business quite cheaply and charge accordingly. Although in the UK there aren’t many swimming pools around if you live in another country or have affluent people who live around you then you can start a small business that has scope for expansion across the UK and employ people to do it under your business name in other counties and you take the payment and pay the employee a relatively low wage to keep more money for yourself.
Mechanics If you are good at repairing cars then you can rent or buy a smallish premise and buy a large tool kit and you can start charging to repair cars in your local area and slowly expand into other areas. Events organizer If you are good at time management you can start a business organizing events for companies and parties for individuals. This can be a very lucrative business that takes very little money to start and has very low running costs.
Pawn shop If you have a little cash saved up then you can rent premises and start a pawn shop. Very little overheads but you do need some start up money. Around £1000 maybe?
Bar Sometimes the thought of your own bar is a great plan because you can get all the free drinks you want. Running a successful bar is hard because of all the competition out there as well as relatively high running costs and expensive premises. If you are up for a challenge and have some cash saved then this may be the perfect business for you. Make sure you thoroughly research everything first though before you jump into a new idea.
Restaurant The same as above, there is no shortage of competition out there which shows that it is a viable business and that success can be achieved but it is a hard business to get started.
Club As above
Gym If you can rent an open space and have the money to buy or rent the equipment needed then you can start your own small gym. You can expand this type of business easily by following the same business plan that you used on the original premises and copying it in another area.
Fitness coach If you don’t have the money to start your own gym then you can work in someone else’s gym and pay them a percentage of your profits and you can coach people as a personal trainer.
Photography If you have a camera and a photo printer you have all you need to become a self employed photographer. Remember you can start any business small and expand it into something great.
Web designer If you are good with computers and can design websites then you can start your own web design business. This is a low cost start up and low running costs.
Computer repair If you are good with computer repair, hardware and software issues then you can easily start a low costs business
Printing Sign printing, clothes printing, poster printed etc… or your could offer the services of all of these through your printing business.
Jewelers You can become a jeweler online or in the high street. It takes very little money to start up an online business as you can order the products in as people order them from you. Starting a high street jeweler will cost more because you need to keep stock of what you offer to display.
Designer If you are good at drawing and using your imagination then a designing business is a very cheap business to start and run.
Architect As above only more specialized and it may take training to get a good business running.
Tutor for GCSE’s and A-Levels You don’t necessarily have to be good at the subjects yourself because you can employ people to do the tutoring and you can take a commission from their earnings because you find them work.
Book shop You can buy second hand books or new books and sell/rent them online or through a shop Equipment rental If you are willing to invest in buying machinery/tools/vehicles etc then you can rent them out. It will not take you very long to get your initial investment back because lots of people would rather rent something for a few days use than buy it.
Laundry services All you need is a washing machine and possibly an iron if you want to offer a top quality service.
Personal shopper service Many elderly people buy the same items every week from the shops, you can take notes of what they buy weekly and go and do it for them adding a percentage of the cost of each item onto what you paid for it and you can also have a base charge for if they don’t want many items to make it worth doing.
Cooking classes If you are good at cooking then you can offer cooking classes to locals and also expand into other areas.
Dating service You can rent out a room in a local hall and advertise around in newspapers for a dating service and charge people to come and meet other singles.
Antiques dealer If you are good with antiques or are prepared to learn quickly about them and valuing them then you can buy and sell antiques
Landscape gardener If you are good at designing or good at creating a lot from very little then you can make a very good business from landscaping and designing people’s gardens
Window washing service If you have a bucket, cloth and ladder then you can offer to wash windows for businesses and for houses. If you can get contracts with businesses to wash their windows fortnightly or monthly then you can guarantee income.
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