Plaster Casts business. Inexpensive-to-make plaster casts of people, animals and objects can serve as unique home décor. Business Overview Now a few of you reading this may be wondering how you can start a profitable business that creates and sells plaster casts. Probably many more of you are wondering why someone would purchase a plaster cast. Amazingly enough, there are businesses that not only survive producing plaster casts, but also earn very substantial profits for doing...

Stained Glass business. If you're an artist who likes to work with glass, and wants to show others how to do it, this is the biz for you. Business Overview Launching a business that focuses on teaching people how to make stained-glass items, such as lampshades and sun catchers, is a terrific low-investment business opportunity to initiate. The business and instruction classes can be operated from a homebased workshop, or the classes can be provided for students and operated in...

Balloon Service business. Learn a few basic configurations, and you can start a balloon service. Business Overview With an investment of less than $1,000 you can start a part-time party balloon service and earn big profits on weekends and during holidays. Depending on your goals and ambition, you could even turn the business into a full-time lucrative going concern. Corporate events, grand openings, children's birthday parties, special occasions, graduations, retailer sales,...

Freelance Photography business. Love to take photos? Freelance your expertise. Business Overview There are two very good reasons why the internet has breathed new life into the freelance photography industry. First, using e-mail, it is now very easy to send pictures to publishers, editors, copywriters, marketers and designers all around the globe in a matter of moments. Second, billions of photographic images are needed to fill the now more than four billion (and climbing) web...

The DSLR wheel of filters adds a new range of artistic flair by letting digital photographers "downgrade" their images to look as if they were taken by a toy camera. The device consists of two wheels with nine different effect lenses or color filters. Once the base-lens is mounted to the camera users can then attach one of the two wheels, which can be rotated to achieve the desired effect for either photographs or video. The wheels also include an empty hole for photographing with...

Recently i had the pleasure of hearing Christian Bök's amazing sound poetry. Speaking with Frank Davey and Christian at a recent conference at the Univeristy of Ottawa called "Re: reading the postmodern," i mused about the possibilities of taking sound poetry, having it recorded by speech recognition software and then having the result transcribed to be performed once again by the poet and done all over again. I refer readers to the interesting work of sound poets as featured on...

Balloon Bouquet Service business. Tap your creative strengths to bring smiles to customers with balloon bouquets. Business Overview If you've got creativity and a sense of fun, you can soar with a balloon bouquet service. You'll design and deliver balloon arrangements for all occasions -- white and gold for weddings, black for that over-the-hill 40th birthday party, green and white for St. Patty's Day bashes. You can tie gifts to your bouquets -- candy, stuffed animals,...

Music Lessons business. Share the sound of music with your students. Business Overview If you know how to sing, play guitar, piano, drums, a wind or string instrument well enough to teach others, then what are you waiting for? Capitalize on your talents and earn a great full- or part-time income by teaching customers how to play your instrument of choice. Classes can be conducted one-on-one or in a group format, from your home, at the student's location, from rented commercial...

Embroidery Service business. Using embroidery equipment, you can personalize everything from dog collars to T-shirts. Business Overview Recent technology changes in the multibillion dollar embroidery industry have made it very easy for even a novice to start an embroidery service. Embroidery machines are now available in single or multihead units enabling the operator to embroider six items at a time or more. Additionally, modern embroidery equipment is computer assisted,...

Wedding Consultant business. Help make sure a couple's special day goes off without a hitch as a wedding consultant. Business Overview It's hard to plan those dream nuptials these days -- both the bride and groom usually work, which leaves them scant time or energy for all the scores of details that go into planning the big event. But you can make dreams come true as a wedding planner (also called a bridal consultant). You'll work with the happy couple on an hourly basis,...