Photograph Sales business. Business Overview Calling all hobby photographers. Is everyone always telling you what great photographs you take? If so, why not consider turning your photography hobby into a part-time and profitable business. Selling photographs as art for home and office decorations to consumers is a very easy task to accomplish, providing the photos are good, unique, and interesting. The framed or unframed photographs can be sold at art and craft shows, home and...

Pet Grooming Kits business. Business Overview Are you looking for a pet-related business start-up that has the potential to make you rich? If so, perhaps you should consider starting a business that designs, packages, and wholesales pet grooming kits. Simply package pet grooming supplies into one convenient kit. The kits should be animal-breed specific and include a booklet on grooming tips for the particular breed as well as grooming equipment and supplies, such as brushes,...

Online All For Cats Web Site business. Business Overview As mentioned earlier in this chapter, you can create an online portal to bring dogs lovers together with merchandisers of dog-related products as well as service providers that specialize in providing services for dogs. Well, you can also create the same online portal for cat lovers. Once again this type of 'mega site for cats' will have to be indexed by types of products, types of services, and geographic area....

Online Photograph Sales business. Business Overview Start an online photograph gallery that can be used by hobby and professional photographers to sell their photographs. This type of Web site is very easy to develop and post. The site can be indexed by photographer or by photograph theme or style such as portrait, landscape, or objects. Securing photographs to be sold should not prove difficult as there would be no cost for the photographer to post the picture for sale, only a...

Breed Books business. Business Overview Thousands of new pet owners have numerous questions after purchasing or adopting a new pet in terms of the particular breed's habits, health needs, dietary needs, and training tips. Starting a business that publishes and distributes breed specific pet books is a terrific homebased business venture to initiate. Fear not if you do not have the skills required to write the books yourself, as you and the business will be better served by...

Online Pet Adoption business. Business Overview For a host of various reasons, sometimes pet owners are forced to give their cherished pets up for adoption, and you can help by developing a Web site that is focused on finding good families for good pets. In a nutshell, this sort of site would operate in a classifieds advertisement format and include various headings such as dogs for adoption, cats for adoption, pets wanted, and more. I would suggest that this posting service be...

Extreme Sports Photographer business. Business Overview Millions of people worldwide are participants in adventure or extreme sports, and starting a photography business that catches the sheer terror and thrills of these sports is sure to be a profitable and fun business to launch. The photographs can be sold directly to the people involved in the sport, or they can be sold to advertising agencies, newspapers, magazines, and as collectable art. The biggest prerequisites for...

Pooper Scooper Service business. Business Overview Believe it or not, you can make a very comfortable living by starting a doggie pooper-scooper service in your community. The business is extremely easy to set up and has no special requirements in terms of skills, equipment, or business experience. As crazy as this may sound, how difficult would it be to find 200 customers willing to pay a mere $30 each per month to ensure that all little treasures have been cleaned up and...

Invisible Pet Fencing business. Business Overview Indoor and outdoor invisible pet fencing has become an extremely popular purchase for many pet owners in the past decade. A great business opportunity exists for entrepreneurs that start a service that sells and installs the fencing. Invisible pet fencing is a wire loop that is buried in the ground, or in the case of indoor applications is hidden under floor coverings. The wire loop is connected to a low-voltage transmitter and...

Pet Breeder business. Business Overview If your motivation for starting a pet breeding business is purely for profit, then buzz off. The last thing the world needs are more puppy mills. However, if your motivation for starting a pet breeding business is because you have a keen interest in a particular breed of animal and you also have a keen interest in ensuring that the animal is sold to a caring family, then this is the business for you. Chances are you are going to have a...