Coloring Books business. Use your artistic creativity to develop custom coloring books children will love. Business Overview The main focus of this business enterprise is to personalize children's coloring books. The equipment requirements and approach to marketing are very similar to that of the story time book venture. However, an additional marketing technique that can be employed is to design a retail sales kiosk and locate the kiosk in a busy community mall on weekends....

Candle Making business. Provide a little light in people's lives with handmade candles. Business Overview The popularity of specialty candles has really taken off in the past decade as more and more people are starting to enjoy the relaxing effect that burning scented candles can have. This popularity and consumer demand for specialty candles creates a tremendous business opportunity for the innovative entrepreneur to start a business that manufactures and sells candles. A good...

Craft Shows business. Bringing vendors together can be a crafty part-time business that doesn't require a lot of capital. Business Overview Do you want to know how you can make an extra $25,000 per year by hosting only four annual craft shows? It is actually quite easy to host craft shows, and in the spirit of being unique, let me suggest a way that you cannot only make an additional $25,000 per year part-time, but you can also have a lot of fun doing it. The business concept...

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...

Woodturnings business. If you're an artist who likes to work with wood, this is the biz for you. Business Overview Fruit bowls, candlesticks, stair spindles or baseball bats'there are literally hundreds of different products which can be manufactured simply by purchasing a wood-turning lathe and mastering the art of wood turning. While the finished products can be sold directly to consumers, a better choice in terms of merchandising the wood-turning products is to arrange...

Art Easels business. Love art and building things? Build easels for artists. Business Overview Hobby artists rank in the millions, and starting a business that builds and sells art easels is a very easy and inexpensive enterprise to get rolling. The business can be operated from a small homebased workshop, and the art easels can be sold to artist supply stores on a wholesale basis. Furthermore, once the business has been established and all of the manufacturing bugs have been...

Arts and Crafts Instruction business. Take your love for crafts and teaching and bring them together as an arts and crafts instructor. Business Overview Knitting, painting, print-making, sculpture, stained glass, pottery, glass-blowing and woodworking are just a few examples of arts and crafts that people are willing to shell out their hard-earned money to learn. If you have mastered any of these or other arts and crafts, why not be the person to train them and earn substantial...

Artist's Workspace Rentals business. Got a spare room? Rent it out to artists in need of some creative space. Business Overview Renting a large warehouse space and dividing the space into smaller sections to rent to artists as work studios is a great way to start your own business and be self-employed. The work studios can be rented on a daily, weekly or monthly basis, providing they're used for work areas only and not residential units. The business doesn't require a great...

Special Occasion Yard Cutouts business. Design yard decorations and announcements for clients' special occasions. Business Overview You can design and build your own special occasion yard cutouts, such as a stork for birth announcements, bells for a wedding, or a cap for a graduation. Or you can purchase predesigned and constructed special occasion yard cutouts to get this unique advertising business off the ground. Clients typically include people who want to surprise their...

Online Art Auctions business. Connect artists with customers far and wide in online auctions. Business Overview Once again, millions of professional and amateur artists are seeking ways to sell their artwork and this fact creates a fantastic opportunity to start an online art auction service. The challenge with operating this type of venture will not be securing works of art to be auctioned, but promoting the site in such a manor that it receives a lot of visitor hits and...