Unusual business ideas: examples. Business Training

To choose a suitable and rather unusual business idea for starting your own business, let's look at what they are and where they come from.

How are start-ups born?

Their main sources are hobbies, their own or others' needs, as well as attempts to improve someone else's idea. That is, take a certain project, "bring to mind" and adapt to their own needs.

Another advantageous option is to remember the well-forgotten old. Rummaged in the archive of ideas and having fished out something worthwhile, but undeservedly forgotten, many contemporaries were able to establish more than profitable business.

The basic principle of every successful entrepreneur is to do a favorite business and manage to extract profit from it. Almost any hobby, provided they are seriously involved, can grow into a full-fledged business. To do this, you should think about the benefits that it can bring to others. At the same time, an easy adjustment of the idea or work in a close direction is possible. Training in this case is quite easy and natural.

The classical way is to analyze what is lacking in reality for you or your loved ones. It was with this approach, there was a huge variety of useful trifles, without which we now do not imagine everyday life. Another good option is to copy someone else's business idea. For example, you came to relatives in another city and suddenly you see something that is not in your native places. For example, a bright and cheerful children's playground in the shopping center. Why not organize something like this in the nearest supermarket? Unusual ideas of small business are sometimes literally lying under your feet.

For about a month, ask yourself the following question: what kind of inconvenience do people experience, what do they need right now, how can I use it? Think about this always and everywhere - while in society, watching the life and everyday affairs of acquaintances and strangers. This is the beginning of the basics of business training.

Let's start to think over the project

"Brainstorm" start with the compilation of two lists - the one in which you are competent (that you know, you know how, you can organize), and a list of things and hobbies that can bring you true joy. Be as honest as possible, rummage in the memory - what exactly did you like to do from the very youth, what did you dream of when you were young? All occupations that cause interest and attention, carefully put on paper.

When both lists are ready, choose one by one from the first and try it on each second position. We carefully and critically examine the combinations obtained. What can they give? Do not be lazy to note each option found. At the same time, we do not forget about the basic principle of brainstorming - we record everything, but so far we have not analyzed anything. Now our business is to fix all the thoughts that come to mind. If necessary, we involve friends or colleagues in the process.

The next stage is the analysis and careful selection of the recorded information. To assess how effective our new and unusual business idea will be, we need to think about a whole host of factors, namely:

1. Will this offer be in demand?

2. What resources will the project require?

3. What do you have from this?

4. What about competition in the chosen field?

Try to answer the questions posed as objectively as possible. As a result, you will understand that most of the original ideas can be discarded without regret for complete hopelessness. Do not be discouraged - it should be so. Leave only a few real achievable. And do not be in a hurry - maybe a part of the options simply requires further development or some modification, after which it will be possible to talk about their profitability.

Leaving some of the most promising ideas not crossed out, linger on the one that most closely matches the available resources. And most importantly - do not forget about the presence or absence of demand. Do people need what you are planning?

Its business in crisis

There is an opinion that in the crisis the opening of any business is an unprofitable and senseless occupation. But this is far from the case. Many entrepreneurs "have risen" in difficult times, having competently orientated themselves in the situation. Here are the options when your goods or services will help people survive a difficult period.

1. Alternative lending. The lack of money in the crisis forces people to seek additional sources of financing. If you can not or do not want to deal with express loans, you can organize a resource with the provision of an up-to-date service - a so-called credit for trust. It looks like an Internet site that unites borrowers ready to give money at interest on a loan. The income of the resource is from the commission that they will pay.

2. Second-hand clothes shop. Buy new things are not everyone can afford. Yes, and there is almost no prejudice in society against clothes. You can buy goods at wholesale warehouses, to search for them there are special Internet sites. Worth second-hand clothing is quite inexpensive, and such a business does not require very much serious investment. It is important only to understand the topic and be able to look for good things of decent quality.

3. You can organize the sale of used phones. The new smartphone is operated for an average of a year and a half, after which the owner, as a rule, begins to select a model more fresh and prestigious. But many of the cramped fellow citizens will gladly buy an old phone at an attractive price. Statistics show a steady demand in this segment of the market.

4. Quite an unusual business idea - the sale of finished houses. The real estate market is in crisis. In difficult times, a solution in the rapidly falling demand may be a sale in the form of a "package" solution - a fully prepared house with a design worked out to detail, right up to the landscaping of the infield and the furniture layout of the rooms. This direction is worked out by home-staging experts, and, strangely enough, their services are always in demand.

5. Joint taxi. This service is gaining popularity. Organizing trips in the right direction with fellow travelers, you will save money and be able to spend time on the go and have fun.

6. Among the rather unusual ideas for business with minimal investments is a special website dedicated to the sale of goods with discounts. The ability to save in difficult times is especially important for any buyer. That is why a resource that acquaints the visitor with all the interesting offers in the field of discounts and sales will always enjoy stable popularity. The main revenue for such a site will bring advertising.

7. Services in a remote format. Some companies in the crisis reduce their own staff, and to solve planned tasks, experts on outsourcing. If you are able to provide such services, you can implement them in a format of remote work.

8. You can make money on computer games. Some of them are arranged so that users can receive money for their own actions. The project implies basically a platform on which participants create their own games, having received at their disposal the tools necessary for this. The author's income is also due to advertising, which will be accompanied by the process of the game. This is a good business for students who understand the topic.

9. Trade in a mass product. Most often in a time of crisis, exclusive innovative solutions remain unclaimed. Increased demand for mass (most necessary) goods for life and family. In order to save, many prefer to buy in bulk. That is why it makes sense to highlight the most popular positions in the world of everyday goods and organize their sale in large packages.

10. Organization of own collection agency. Debts - the problem is eternal, in a crisis - especially urgent. You can help people in their return or advise consumers about the legal subtleties of this process.

What good are troubled times

Let us clarify once again the advantages that the opening of one's own business brings in times of crisis.

1. Relatively affordable price of real estate.

2. Theoretical possibility of redistribution of the market.

3. Decrease (sometimes quite sharp) of competition.

4. Compliance of suppliers and their willingness to meet your requirements.

5. The opportunity to purchase materials and equipment at an inexpensive price on one of the many sales.

So, which of the creative business ideas deserve reader attention?

1. Recycle old tires

Every year in Moscow alone, at least 70,000 tons of old tires go to the landfill. In other cities, there are also a lot of them. It is subject to processing not more than a fifth of the total volume. The rest go into garbage or burned. Today, there are technologies for their utilization and processing with the production of special crumbs, which can be used in the construction industry - to produce concrete, lay roads, etc.

The purchase of a set of equipment will cost about 7 million rubles. Of course, to a beginning entrepreneur such a price may seem impossibly high. But it is possible at first to deal with the processing of the raw material, for example, splitting the tires in half, getting a semi-finished product on a special machine worth about half a million rubles. Further, the blanks are subjected to an abrasion procedure. In case of a successful conclusion of a contract for the supply of rubber chips in wholesale quantities to road workers and repairmen, the business will pay off completely and bring a good profit.

2. Stationary Photographic Print Kiosk

Pictures taken with modern gadgets and placed in Instagram, you can resort to a high-speed Japanese printer, print on premium quality paper and immediately offer the client. To organize such a business, you should conclude an agreement with the company that supplies such kiosks. A similar point "turnkey" will cost about 370 000 rubles. Do not forget to add the cost of renting a place in the mall and take care of the consumables, that is, packages of quality photo paper. Each of the packs designed for 2.8 thousand photographs, will bring revenue of at least 70,000 rubles. If you sell prints of 25 rubles. Per piece, the net profit will be at least 60,000 rubles.

3. Taxonomists

What it is? These are stationary innovative terminals. Such "boxes" allow you to choose among a variety of services. By pressing the desired button, you can call a taxi for free, order a pizza or flowers, a tow truck, courier services, book a hotel room and so on. The profit will be brought to you by those organizations that will place their contacts in your taxa. The device is usually calculated for 25 cells.

What is the price of the question? To buy and configure 5 terminals, you need about 175 000 rubles. A certain amount will need to be invested in advertising to attract customers. This will cost you 17-20 thousand rubles. Another 10,000 will be required to rent a place where taxis will be located. Add the costs of communication and electricity and wages to the employee who will serve them.

To estimate each of client contracts for one advertising space within a month you can in 3000 rubles. Thus, with five of your devices you will be able to profit about 370 000 rubles. monthly.

4. Luminous balls for the holiday

What it is? In the standard inflatable ball is inserted LED on batteries. Produce such balls of latex, fairly dense in comparison with the usual. After all, the glowing sphere experiences a large overload. The cost price of each LED is about 15 rubles, the same is the cost of a standard ball. Buying them in bulk, you will further reduce costs. 50 balls will cost you 500 rubles., Selling them at 100 rubles. For a unit, you can expect to earn from 5000 rubles. For one holiday, for which the customer will buy at least 50 pieces of your products. And we have holidays, as you know, regularly.

5. Brick "Lego"

Externally, these bricks resemble a children's designer. In each of them there is a pair of holes and the apex protruding above the surface. As a result, the bricks are inserted one into one and are cemented not with cement mortar, but with special glue. To establish their production, you will need to open your own mini-factory. To begin with, there will be enough space of 50 square meters. To buy equipment will have to spend about 600 000 rubles. With a unit cost of about 15 rubles. And the release of about 2,500 pieces of bricks during each shift, it is possible to receive over 800,000 rubles for each month (22 working days). The payback period of such an enterprise is about two months.

6. Bar of useful drinks

An alternative to conventional ice cream are nowadays frozen yogurt and a variety of useful natural beverages - from protein cocktails to a variety of desserts and varieties of coffee. Place such a bar can be on an area of 6 square meters. From the equipment you will need to buy a router for obtaining frozen yogurt - the price of the issue is about 180 000 rubles. Equip point will need to be a bar, chairs, trash can. It will be required to issue permits and purchase raw materials, having initially invested at least 250-300 thousand rubles. The amount needed as an initial investment will be approximately 600,000 rubles, and the expected profit, provided that a yogurt bar is installed on the territory of a large shopping center, will amount to no less than 120,000 rubles. monthly.

7. Zoological hotel

For the province, this is a rather unusual business idea. A lot of families keep dogs and cats, not to mention hamsters, guinea pigs and more exotic species of animals. Sometimes the hosts go on business trips or on vacation, and the problem arises of the device of the pet. The hotel for the animals will prove to be such an owner very opportunely. The offer can be expanded at the expense of the services of a veterinarian, driver, dog hairdresser and other professionals who provide the full range of services for your target audience. For the rental of suitable premises and salary for employees, it is necessary to provide for the beginning about 100 000 rubles. The license does not require this activity.

If you estimate the cost of the service per day in an amount equal to 300 rubles (depending on the type and content of the animal), then each of the customers will bring you from 1000 rubles. The payback period of this business is one and a half to two months, especially those services are in demand during the summer holidays.

8. Crayfish breeding

This is one of the business ideas of unusual production. You can grow crawfish in the pool or pond. The main thing is to arrange delivery of females with live caviar to the breeding site. With a purchase price of 100 rubles. Per kilogram to get at the output of about 80 kilos of goods you will need an initial investment of about 8,000 rubles. Rent pool will cost 50 000 rubles., The reservoir - about 180 000. The payback of this business is very, very large. After all, a kilogram of cancers costs at least 400 rubles per market. The weight of one adult cancer is about 300 g. Acquiring 500 females that will bring descendants, you can go out to profit (after deducting all expenses) in the area of one and a half million rubles.

9. We earn on traffic arbitrage

This is one of the actual ways to generate income in the network. He works as a regular store - we buy cheaper, we sell more. The goods in this case is traffic, and the store-site is a well-developed blog, website or forum. Traffic is purchased on specific resources, then redirected to your site, where available, for example, contextual advertising. Part of the visitors passes through the ads, providing the owner of the resource a fairly tangible profit.

The most unusual business ideas of the world

A lot of business ideas can be gleaned from reading about what is happening abroad. In Germany, a successful businessman hires paid dancers to low-level discos. There is such a service as meditation on a farm with cows. It is offered to relax and calmly solve complex issues to office workers and businessmen. To the category of psychological services is parting service, where for a fee you will get rid of stress by reporting a break with an unwanted partner with the help of a specially hired person.

There are long-term storage services for letters on demand. In Japan, you can order the dispatch of your letter to the addressee already 7 years from now. And yet in modern Russian reality, most similar business ideas of unusual services are, more likely, exotic. Few will dare to organize something like this in our country in conditions of crisis survival.

What is closer to Russians

Much more popular may be ideas implemented by many enterprising compatriots - business for students, schoolchildren and housewives, not to mention serious entrepreneurs. We are talking about the development of turn-key sites, the organization of tanning studios, the production of construction foam blocks in the home, hairstyle design, the organization of private cleaning companies, training in tenders, private schools and kindergartens, and interior design services.

Entrepreneurs offer wholesale of any goods, even the most exotic, weddings in unusual conditions (including abroad). Under an individual project you will build a cottage, make a jewelry or an author's toy, organize a sea or river cruise, offer a lot of funny and useful things like a cookie with predictions of the future. Someone breeds cats of elite breeds, and someone organizes foreign language courses, including online (via Skype). Many are engaged in wholesale trade of everything - from building materials to fruit.

It is very common business in the field of passenger transportation or the production of useful products in health, for example, pillows for pregnant women. Are not empty and such niches as the sale of cars that already have a run, the production of all sorts of souvenirs and handmade products. The choice today of all kinds of repair works, organization and installation of video surveillance systems is huge. The organization of festive events and the opening of sports clubs equipped with the most modern simulators are in demand. Internet advertising agencies are widely opened, accounting, animal maintenance and treatment services are provided, landscaping of loggias and balconies, garden plots, production of artificial Christmas trees for New Year holidays.

Other interesting (unusual) business ideas

Custom-made everything from wooden furniture to author's educational toys. Are offered to sew curtains of the most refined design. If necessary, you can find any lessons - vocals, painting, dance skills. The services of special machinery, the rent of construction equipment are in great demand. Competent and enterprising people open legal agencies or are engaged in outdoor advertising. Someone is able to organize a whole tourist network or produce promotional videos. Artists-masters make wonderful jewelry or art forging products.

Organized rental of anything - mopeds, large-sized children's toys, household appliances. Without problems, you can find services for the production of 3D models or 3D advertising on asphalt. Very popular event-agencies, the specialization of which is the organization of holidays and any events. On the Internet people earn on contextual advertising and the organization of their own online stores. Those who are not too friendly with modern technologies, sew to order, provide services to carers and look after children.

In short, business ideas (both unusual and not too good, but well-proven) in our day - a dime a dozen. The main thing - do not sit still, turn on the creative and show perseverance in achieving the goal.