The Top Small Business Ideas for BE and MBA

The Top Small Business Ideas for BE and MBA

For those that have nothing to do with the internet, they will be dedicated to services that are easily provided, but are inherently necessary.
Let’s start at the beginning.
Is your product or service something that is really needed, all day every day? Will your idea generate repeat sales? Is your idea sustainable, is it something you like to do, and is it something you’re good at and you won’t bore of it. These are core questions that must be answered honestly.
Regardless of what you do, you have to think of your small business in the same fashion as the medium and large business owners think. Nothing happens without a strategy. You have to remember, if I can come up with my forecast of the top 10 small business ideas, so can lots of others. Do not think for one minute that you will come up with a unique idea, somebody, somewhere, is thinking the same thing. First, develop your product or your service, make it different, and make it saleable. Second, set your sales goal. If you are selling a tangible item, your financial wherewithal may have an effect on the goal, if your selling a service your physical wherewithal may be the hindrance. Whatever it is, you must face reality. Once you are satisfied with your product and your goals, now you have to find the customers. Depending on your choice for your business, there will be on-line strategies and off-line strategies to employ.
All  top small business ideas are developed around a time line. Once you have established your strategy, you have to set the wheels in motion to make it happen. Set the goal, develop three or four challenges that must be met to ensure success, attend to the demands of the challenges, in other words, do it. Once you have completed this phase, honestly measure the results, analyze the outcome. If necessary, modify the strategy, reset the goal and do it again until you are satisfied that you have a workable business plan. This phase is on-going, there is no end to challenging yourself. For your fledgling idea to grow wings and soar, it needs constant nourishment, constant adjusting until it works as smooth as silk.
Now, let’s look at what the guru’s are forecasting as the top small business ideas for 2012. This list is not presented in any particular order of importance. What is important is to plant the seed that will get you thinking about your future.
Social media consultant: Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn etc. Are names that a few years ago were not even invented. Today, they are the tip of everyone’s tongue. This being the case, it is high time for this phenomena to be cashed in on. Facebook alone says it has 800 million users, this volume of potential buyers is what is making this site a top priority for business marketing. If you have the skills, or if you develop the skills to attack this potential, you can earn cold hard cash by using the internet. The potential of this undertaking makes it one of the top small business ideas for 2012.
Clothing alterations: I don’t have to tell you times are tough. Jobs are hard to come by and expenses keep going up. One great way to rein in costs is to alter clothing, in particular children’s clothing. If you have one child grow out of a garment, there is a very good chance it can be tailored to fit the next child. The same goes with growth spurts, kids don’t care what they wear, if they grow two inches, let the hem down on their blue jeans. Anyone with demonstrable skills with a sewing machine can turn this skill into dollars, and odds are you don’t have to leave the neighborhood to do it.
Home baking: Another home based business that is the product of skill and love. Just imagine what you can do with a bin of flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla and a few other ingredients, and an oven. A few fliers delivered within the area will get you started on the road to a very lucrative small business. If you really can bake cookies, cakes and pies, you can make considerable profit from it. When you look at the prices charged by a bake shop and consider the cost to produce the product, you can immediately see the potential. Before long, with proper marketing and packaging, your cakes will become the talk of the town.
Home gardening kits: There are many homes that have an available plot of land that can be turned over to vegetable gardening. The common tools that are required to make the garden a success are found in every garage; a shovel, hoe and rake. What’s missing is  the knowledge. When do you plant what, how deep, how wet do you keep it and on and on. A combination of health awareness, lowering food costs, and going green make the production of home gardening kits a great product. The kit will contain all the seeds, fertilizer, grow pots and instructions to turn a backyard into a productive area for tomato, radish, lettuce and a hundred other products. This product can be promoted over your Facebook site and by direct email to your friends. Ask them to help promote, pass the idea to their friends. Before you know it, you have a business on your hands.
Another of the top small business ideas that will attract itself to people with a creative streak is the writing of quality articles for posting on the internet. There are numerous web sites where people who want creative content go to find people who can give it to them. These sites usually cost nothing to the writer, he is free to search for work that he has the capability of doing, then make an offer. If your offer is taken up, your new boss will provide you with the finite details and away you go. In many cases, payment is done in two steps, when the job is 50% completed and when fully completed. The demand for quality work is literally unlimited. All you need is a reliable internet connection and the desire to please others with your work.

Makeup artists: There will never be an end to weddings, proms, cocktail parties, balls and other social events where you want to look your best. It is no longer necessary to travel to an expensive beauty salon to have professionally applied makeup performed. Perhaps half of the cost incurred in the shop is to cover the owners profit plus overhead. This is over and above the money that goes to the artist. This can be comfortably avoided by offering the service direct. The quality is the same, the makeup is the same, the difference is the convenience of home service and the total cost. This is not difficult to promote, it is word of mouth marketing and word will travel fast once you begin to build a reputation.
Mobile pet care: Of all the top 10 small business ideas, I like this best. Perhaps because I am a dog lover and I care for my animals. Nothing will replace the services of a vet when your pet is ill or needs specific care. This is not the case when it comes to bathing, grooming, and nail cutting, de-worming and other basic pet care services. I for one would be quite content to turn my animals over to a person who knows how to handle animals and has the ability to work with them, causing no distress, if you haven’t before then perhaps a pet grooming course is for you. Once again, a simple on-line presence, coupled with the free ad papers that are commonly circulated will get this business into top gear in short order.
Recycler: It used to be called “The junk man”, those days are long gone. There is a great deal of money in recycling and the majority of homeowners do not want to get personally involved. The amount of recyclable product found around the normal home does not warrant a trip to the scrap yard. There is an old Scottish saying, “Many a mickle make a muckle”, and in other words, volume counts. With a pickup truck and a route around housing estates you can purchase scrap at a low price, consolidate it and sell it at a high price. Not a day goes by without potential.
Personalized products: Gift giving is not an easy task, especially when you care about what you give to whom. Gifts are given by all, personal and corporate, and nothing says you care more than a personalized gift. A sterling silver spoon with baby’s name engraved upon it will last a lifetime. A pen engraved with a clients name will take pride of place on his desk. It is not the value that is important, it is the thought that counts. With connections to people who have the ability to do small custom jobs, you are in a position to bundle the skills and go to market with a broad array of possibilities. A web site, a blog, social networking will get the exposure that you need. Make sure the products you bring to market are unique, don’t be afraid to look abroad for ideas.
Although there are so many more ideas, my last call for the top new small business ideas is anything that is green and sustainable. Organic food cart at local markets and events, urban farming, organic restaurant or catering service, solar installations, repair and refurbish bicycles, green janitorial services using nothing but biodegradable cleansers. There are a wealth of opportunities in this field, people are primed, the y care and they are aware.

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