Niche Greeting Cards business. Let others use your unique perspective to express themselves -- with a niche greeting card biz. Business Overview If you love picking out and sending just the right card for every occasion, and if you're a whiz at designing that perfect card yourself, then niche greetings cards is the business for you. This is a field with room for growth, and while the big players like Hallmark do tend to dominate the market, most of the country's more than 1,800...

Herb Farm business. Feed the popular organic market with fresh herbs. Business Overview Herbs are tremendously popular these days -- from the smallest shop to the largest discount warehouse, you'll find medicinal herbs, culinary herbs, and herbal teas, baths, candles and aromatherapy essences. If you love the romance and mystique of herbs and you like gardening, then an herb farm might be just the business for you. You'll plant and raise your herbs, then sell them to...

Home Inspection business. Are you detail oriented? Consider starting a home inspection service. Business Overview If you have construction or remodeling experience and you like diagnosing house ailments, then you can give a home buyer sweet dreams -- or at least let him know what he's up against -- as a home inspector. You'll work mostly for buyers, but also for sellers and with real estate agents, clambering around in attics, crawl spaces and basements, peering at plumbing and...

Marketing Consultant business. Use your marketing expertise to help others grow their businesses. Business Overview Let's face it: Without marketing, businesses cannot survive. So it is no surprise that topnotch marketing consultants are in high demand across North America. Consequently, if you are an experienced marketer, the time has never been better to put that experience to work leading other businesspeople down the path to marketing success. Marketing consultants offer a...

Online Researcher business. Have your nose in the net all day? Monetize your research time. Business Overview If you find yourself spending a lot of time surfing the web, and if you're looking to start your own business, consider an internet research service so you can get paid for the time you spend surfing. This business opportunity was once called information brokering, but, with the introduction of the internet, the name has changed. The business remains the same, however,...