Event Planner business. Bring all the elements of a perfect party together to create knock-out events. Business Overview If you're the premier party-giver in your crowd, then you can have a ball as an event planner. You'll work for private and corporate clients, creating, planning and organizing everything from bar mitzvahs to new-product unveilings, company picnics to murder mystery dinners, sales meetings to Valentine's balls. You'll do it all, from designing the theme to...

E-Commerce Consultant business. Use your web smarts to help others grow their online businesses. Business Overview Doing business online and achieving any kind of e-profitable success is probably more difficult than it is in the bricks-and-mortar world. For that reason many online entrepreneurs are turning to enlisting the services of an e-commerce specialist to help build, market, and maintain their e-commerce businesses. Right now, and for the foreseeable future, there is...

eBay Consultant business. Teach others to sell on eBay as an eBay consultant. Business Overview With more than 100 million registered users, eBay generates billions in annual sales. This in turn has created a fantastic opportunity to start an eBay consulting business training small business owners to use the online marketplace giant to sell their goods and services and cash in big. Marketing your consulting services requires nothing more than setting appointments with...

Copywriter business. Business Overview The written word makes the world go round. It's what businesses, associations and organizations of every description use to entice, inveigle and educate their target audiences, potential customers and existing clients. The problem is that most people view any sort of writing assignment with dread. But if you're a word wizard -- you thrive on the creative challenge that goes with turning out clever, compelling and concise copy on just...

Executive Organizer business. Head straight to the top to get the boss organized and see the effect trickle down. Business Overview The average businessperson faces a daily avalanche of information -- e-mail, snail mail, faxes, memos, reports, revisions, agendas, addenda, ad infinitum -- and is nearly swept under by the sheer mass of all this stuff. If you're a neat freak with a passion for order and efficiency, then you can save the day as an executive organizer. ...

Fabric Restoration business. Are you great at cleaning and mending? Try out fabric restoration. Business Overview Fabric restoration is big business for both residential and commercial applications, mainly because, if you stop to think about it, fabric covers just about everything in the home and office. Working from a well-equipped van on a mobile basis, you can repair and restore torn, cracked, faded, stained and burned fabrics like leather, suede, vinyl, cloth, plastic,...

Exporting business. Want to work internationally? Consider exporting. Business Overview If you love trying your voice at other languages, you can't be dragged away from the aisles of import stores, and you live to travel, then exporting could be the business for you. And it's big business. In one recent year, American companies exported $349 billion in merchandise to 226 foreign countries. Everything from beverages to commodes -- and a staggering list of other products you...

Miniblind Cleaning Service business. Put your attention to detail to work when cleaning miniblinds. Business Overview Almost everybody's got at least one set of miniblinds in their homes or offices -- and everybody who has them also has a major problem with the dust and grime that sticks to blind surfaces and defies soap and water. You wash one side and dirt drips to the other. Tackle that side and you wind up with globby streaks on your first side. But you can conquer dirt...

Errand Service business. Help busy people get through the day by providing an errand service. Business Overview Let's face it; today's busy lifestyles mean that a lot working people just don't have time for even the simplest of errands, such as taking the family pet to the veterinarian for a routine checkup, buying Aunt Sue a birthday present, or picking up the kids after school. Which is great news if you're a multitasker looking to start your own simple, inexpensive, yet...

Direct-Mail Service business. Help businesses get their message across by providing a direct-mail service. Business Overview With a direct-mail coupon service, you'll sell local businesses on placing coupon ads in your publications, then mail them out to local residents. Everybody benefits, including you! With the new plethora of small businesses these days, direct-mail couponing is positioned for success. Entrepreneurs can advertise in a medium where results can be measured...