Consignment Furniture Store business. Give furniture a second life by selling it again. Business Overview A furniture consignment shop can stock everything from a 100-year-old highboy to a 10-year young sofa. Just as in clothing, the trend these days is toward recycling, finding delightful ways to make everything old seem new (or just beloved) again. Furniture is one of the fastest-growing segments of the resale industry, with more and more nonfurniture consignment stores...

Concrete Cutting business. Do you know how to work with building materials? Try concrete cutting. Business Overview Interior and exterior concrete often needs to be cut, ground or drilled for plumbing repairs, sidewalk removal, trip-hazard removal, leveling for handicap accessibility, tree root damage, section replacement, installation of anchors and lags, and many other reasons. This need provides great opportunities to capitalize on your construction knowledge and to start a...

Cookie Gift Business business. Have a knack for baking? Create delicious gifts. Business Overview Everybody loves receiving flowers, and everybody loves cookies. If you're a cookie magician -- you buy every magazine at the market that features cookie recipes on the cover and then bake up a storm -- you can say it with flowers of the cookie kind with a cookie gift business. You can sell a single cookie on a 'stem' or a huge bouquet of tasty morsels in one of several...

Courier Service business. Help get things from one place to another with a courier service. Business Overview Start a courier service specializing in envelopes, small packages or large shipments, or combine all package types and sizes to maximize profit potential. The least expensive way to get started in the courier industry is to subcontract your services to an established courier company, meaning that you supply the transportation and yourself to pickup and deliver parcels....

Computer Repair and Maintenance business. Take your tech knowledge to the streets and help people with computer problems. Business Overview Everybody with a computer knows that moment of panic when the hard drive crashes -- and for businesspeople, it usually happens when they're staring into the eye of a deadline. But if you're a computer physician capable of diagnosing virtual ills and then repairing them, you can take on the appearance of an angel of mercy as a computer...

Adventure Travel Agent business. Business Overview How about ice-climbing in Finland, deep-sea fishing off Australia, base-jumping in Africa, or a Mayan ruins tour in a hot-air balloon? Have fun and earn incredible profits arranging the adventure of a lifetime for clients by starting a specialty adventure travel agency. Forget about run-of-the-mill tours of Paris and those mundane amenity-packed hotels in the Caribbean, and concentrate instead on your client's need for...

Day Care Center business. Create a safe space for kids to play away from home with a day care center. Business Overview The escalating cost of living has made child day care a booming industry simply because many families require two full-time incomes to make ends meet. Day-care facilities can be homebased, operated from a storefront or office location, or in conjunction with an established business or office complex. Investment budget, business objectives and demand will...