Silk-Screened Mouse Pads business. The mouse on your desk needs a surface to scamper on. May we recommend a cheese pattern? Business Overview Purchasing silk-screening equipment and a few hundred blank mouse pads is all that is necessary for starting your own business that produces mouse pads emblazoned with printed images, logos, and slogans. The business can be operated from home and does not require a great deal of special skills or investment capital to establish. The...

Portrait Photography business. Capture your clients' perfect poses as a portrait photographer. Business Overview Calling all hobby photographers! Why not profit from your skills by starting a portrait photography service? As with pet photography, you can work at it full-time or part-time and operate the service on a mobile basis by going to your client's home, office, or business, or from a homebased studio requiring clients to come to you. Also, like pet photography, you can...

Bronze Baby Shoes business. Solidify your customer's greatest memories. Business Overview Preserving baby shoes, toys and keepsakes with a bronzing service is a surefire winner. Low investment, low overhead, unique and little competition means big profits for you. To get started, you'll need to invest a small amount of money into equipment and samples, but that's about it. Start by simply producing samples of your bronzing work and ask local baby and child-related stores if you...

Woooden Signs Manufacturing business. Put creativity and woodwork skills to use in this biz. Business Overview There are a few methods of manufacturing highly attractive and functional wood signs. The first is to use a router to remove wood and leave the message or words raised, or concave. The second method requires a design stencil and sandblasting equipment to remove the wood around the message or words. This manufacturing method can also produce a raised or concave...

Matting and Framing Shop business. Help customers frame items for their homes and businesses. Business Overview There is a lot of competition in the art framing and matting industry, and it can only mean one of two things. No one is making any money. Or, the second and more logical meaning, this is big business and there is plenty of work and profits to go around. Framing stores are relatively inexpensive to start and operate and, like a lot of retail products and services...

Charcoal Portraits business. Use your charcoal drawing expertise to create quick portraits. Business Overview Can you produce attractive charcoal portraits of people in a very short time frame? If not, you may want to take some courses so you can, as people portraits created from charcoal drawings is one of the greatest all time 'cash' art business that can be started. We have all seen street artists who produce quick charcoal portraits of people. These portraits usually cost...

Homebased Tailor business. If you're an experienced tailor, you can contract your work to retailers and then sew from home. Business Overview Retailers of men's formal and business wear generally don't have an in-house tailor, and typically alteration work is subcontracted to outside tailors. This fact creates a more than ample opportunity for individuals with sewing experience to capitalize by starting a tailoring service that operates right from a home based location. The...

Hand-Painted Pots business. Give plants a pretty home and watch profits bloom. Business Overview Gardening is one of the fastest growing pastimes in North America. For the entrepreneur seeking to capitalize on the huge demand for garden-related products, look no further than starting a business that creates and sells one-of-a-kind, hand-painted clay gardening pots. More and more people are searching for unique and interesting ways in which to display their flowers and shrubs,...

Quilt Sales business. It won't take people long to cozy up to this business idea. Business Overview Quilting has been around for generations and continues to thrive. Like many things today, everything old is once again new and popular, and starting a business that sells custom-made, one-of-a-kind quilts could be your opportunity to reap big financial benefits. If you are already familiar with quilting, great. If not, simply research the different aspects of quilting, or a visit...

Lamp Shades business. Create unique lampshades and watch customers' faces shine. Business Overview Are you searching to start a part-time business that has virtually no competition? If the answer is yes, then consider starting a business that manufactures and markets custom-made lampshades. The key to success in this very unusual manufacturing business is to ensure you create really unique lampshades, not only in appearance and design but also in your choice of raw materials...