Interior Design business. Design creative indoor spaces that fit your clients' needs. Business Overview If you love interior decorating -- your home draws admiring comments from visitors, you've got décor magazines stacked on coffee tables and nightstands, home design shows playing on the television all day (and night), and you're a home furnishings shopaholic -- then this could be the business for you. As an interior designer or decorator, you'll help clients make their...

Residential Safety Consultant business. Have an eye for hazards? Help clients feel safe at home. Business Overview Statistically speaking, the largest percentage of accidents causing injuries do not happen on the job, on the roads, or on playing fields, but right at home. Falls, accidental poisonings, burns, cuts, broken bones, and many other types of injuries take place in thousands of homes across the country every single day. The vast majority of these injuries are...

Roof Repair business. Not afraid of heights? Help homeowners fix their roofs. Business Overview The prerequisite for selling roof-repair services is obvious; you need to know how to repair all or most types of roofing'asphalt, cedar, tile, steel, torch-on, and tar and gravel. Although this may sound like a major requirement, in fact it is not. Just about anyone with basic carpentry and construction skills can quickly learn how to repair roofs. You will, however, need proper...

Real Estate Listing Preparation Service business. Help people prep their home listings with your excellent copywriting, editing and sales skills. Business Overview Real estate agents are quick to tell you that a home that has been professionally prepared to be listed will always sell faster, and for more money, than a home that has not been prepared to be listed. That is why real estate agents will become your number-one referral source if you choose to start a real estate...

Welcome Service business. Business Overview Here is a business start-up that requires no practical business experience, and very little capital to activate. A welcome wagon service is simply making new residents of your community feel welcome and explaining all the various services and attractions that are available locally. Local companies pay you a small fee in exchange for promoting their products and services to new residents, thus creating a business income. These small...

Rubbish Removal business. Being a trash man may not sound glamorous, but there's plenty of money to be made hauling junk. Business Overview It isn't pretty, but trash could put you on the road to riches. Rubbish removal is charged by the hour, truckload, or by a quote before removing the junk. If you can offer home and business owners fast and convenient rubbish removal services at competitive prices, word-of-mouth advertising will generate more work than you can handle. Be...

Information Consultant business. Use your strong research skills to start an information consulting business. Business Overview The amount of information available today is staggering. For companies planning new products and patents or scoping out the competition, and for many other types of businesses, the trick is in figuring out how to access the information they need. If you love research -- the excitement of sifting through a maze of books, magazines, journals and...

Reglazing Surface business. Make home items look like new with a reglazing service. Business Overview Whether it's bathtubs, sinks, showers, tub surrounds, clawfoot tubs, or tile, most bathroom fixtures and surfaces can easily be reglazed, and these services are in high demand throughout the country. Why? Lots of reasons, including: *. Reglazing costs up to 75 percent less than replacement. *. There's zero mess and no need to renovate or call in a plumber, because...

Interior Landscaping Service business. Use your green thumb to bring the outside in with an interior landscaping service. Business Overview If you're a plant lover and you can't be dragged away from the garden department of any store, then an interior plantscape (also called plant maintenance or interior landscape contractor) business is the one for you. You'll feed, water, prune and doctor indoor plants on a weekly basis for residential and commercial customers -- from...

Mailbox Center business. Find a convenient location and turn your business into a mailbox center. Business Overview Starting a mailbox center is a very easy business enterprise to activate that requires no special business experiences or skills. The main requirement will be a small retail storefront location; approximately 600 square feet will be more than sufficient. Likewise, you will need individually locking mailboxes and a few pieces of office equipment such as a...