Special Occasion Yard Cutouts business. Business Overview You can design and build your own special occasion yard cutouts, such as a stork for birth announcements or a happy birthday caricature. Or you can purchase predesigned and constructed special occasion yard cutouts to get this unique advertising business off the ground. Clients typically include people that want to surprise other people by having an announcement placed in their front yard to let everyone in the...

Online Star Search business. Make money off of other people's fame. Business Overview Here is a novel online business opportunity for the cybersavvy entrepreneur to tackle. Develop a Web site that enables wanna-be movie stars, singers, and performers of all sorts a chance at fame. People with a particular talent could submit digital video footage of their performance and the footage could be placed into the Web site under the appropriate heading. Visitors to the site could...

Street Entertainer business. Have extraordinary talent and want to make money independently? Try this idea and give those street mimes some competition. Business Overview Do you possess a special entertainment talent such as miming, juggling, or walking on stilts? If so, perhaps you should consider applying that talent to becoming a professional street entertainer or busker, as many buskers routinely earn more than $1,000 per week and, best of all, the earnings come in the form...

Site Sign Installation Service business. Business Overview Here is a terrific business to start and operate in conjunction with a door hanger service. Company site signs are temporally installed in front of a customer's home telling people in the neighborhood who the company is that is performing work, as well as what business they are in and how to contact the company. Most construction, renovation, and home service companies realize the value of installing site signs....

Extras-Only Agent business. They may not be the big starts, but movie extras can still make you money as an agent. Business Overview The film and TV production industry is booming, and starting an extras-only casting agency can potentially secure you a portion of this multibillion-dollar industry. Extras casting is simply supplying people to act as background performers in a film production. Typically extras or background performers represent every walk of life in terms of...

Advertising Clipping Service business. Business Overview Did you know that companies that compete within the same industry regularly retain the services of an advertising clipping service to keep them up-to-date on how, why, and where the competition is advertising? Here is your opportunity to capitalize financially by starting an advertising clipping service. The key to success in this business is not to overcharge clients, but to work in volume. Charging clients a mere $30 to...

Elevator Advertising business. Sell advertising space that will reach a captive audience. Business Overview Elevator advertising is probably the most effective advertising available in terms of consumer awareness, simply because occupants of elevators are a captive audience surrounded by few distractions. The key to successfully operating an advertising service that specializes in marketing elevator advertising spaces is to secure the busiest elevators in the community for the...

Hoarding Advertising Service business. Sell advertising along the fencing that protects construction sites. Business Overview For anyone who is not familiar with the term hoarding, it is the temporary plywood fencing that is erected around the perimeter of a construction site. Typically, hoarding is used for construction sites in densely populated urban areas to prevent foot traffic from being potentially injured as a result of coming into contact with falling debris or...

Recording Studio business. Business Overview The investment required to start a sound recording studio is gigantic. However, the profits that the business can potentially generate are even larger. Starting a sound recording studio is much easier than it was at one time, simply because of the advancement in technology. Many recording studios that specialize in voiceovers for radio advertising, compact disc recordings, and videocassette recording are even homebased operations....

Mystery Dinner Parties business. A passion for drama, imagination and social interaction could make this perfect for you. Business Overview Organizing and hosting mystery dinner parties is not only a sensational business venture to initiate, but it could also prove to be a lot of fun. 'Who done it' or murder mystery dinner parties have become an extremely popular entertainment service in the past few years, and there are many benefits to starting this unique and fun service...