/SBI/ Small Business Ideas General

[Anonymous No.59023536]

Previously on /SBI/ https://archived.moe/biz/thread/58999200

Let us now have a general where we can discuss all things small business, sweaty start-up, how to start one, financing, etc. /Biz/ should have a place to sling ideas that do not involve shit coins. Here is a list of small business startup ideas.

RESIDENTIAL SERVICES
Lawn Care (fertilizing and weed control)
Landscaping
Pest control
Deck staining
Pressure washing
Window/Gutter Cleaning
Closet build out
Moving/Hauling
Tree trimming / arborist
Interior design
Home office build out
Maid services
Carpet cleaning
Childcare
Pet grooming
Pet care/walking/boarding
Thermal imaging – utility saving
Smart home Installation
Chimney cleaning
Pool services
Hot tub wiring/installation
Countertop epoxy design
Custom furniture refinishing
Window washing
Pavement power cleaning
Laundry services
Mirror installation
Foundation repair
Mold removal
Security installation
Custom lighting installation
Dog underground fence installation
Solar panel installation
Irrigation system installation
Storm shutter installation
Hurricane prep service
Grass seed service
Custom wallpaper installation
Fire damage remediation
On demand holiday decorations
Gardening services
Septic service / pumping
Garage door service / installation
Cabinet making / refurbishing
Aquarium installation
Secure package delivery box installation

Vehicle Services
Automotive Interior Repair <------ I'm doing this one and will be reporting in
Mobile oil change
Mobile car wash/detailing
Mobile tire sales/service
Mobile glass repair
Mobile mechanic
Mobile dent repair (paintless)
Mobile decal and wrap services
Locksmith

EVENT/SEASONAL SERVICES
Off premise bartending
Catering
Specialty food trucks (keep it simple and very fast)
Event DJ
Event management
Photography
Videography (wedding or corporate)
Photo booth rental
Porta Potty rental
Tents/Party rental
On demand cleanup crews
On demand junk removal / hauling
Casino tables and dealer rentals for events

[Anonymous No.59023543]

>>59023536
ENTERTAINMENT
Hunting guides
Hiking tours
Biking tours
Event management
Party rentals

PERSONAL CARE
Mobile haircuts
Mobile makeup
Mobile hair styling
Mobile massage
Mobile Pedicure/Nails
Personal style consulting
Personal assistant

TRADES/CONSTRUCTION
Electrical
Plumbing
Carpenter
General Contractor
Heating and air HVAC
Civil engineering
Structural engineering
Architecture
Asphalt / Concrete
Door/Window installation
Painting
Bridge Painting
Masonry
Carpet/Flooring installation/refinishing
Ceramic Tile installation
Fence installation
Auger Boring
Surveying
Septic tank install and service
Insulation installing (spray and standard)
Elevator installation and service
Asbestos removal
Welding
Warehouse storage rack installation
Roofing
Siding
Epoxy flooring / counter tops
Fire sprinkler system installer / detector installation
Excavation
Equipment operation
Pipe fitting

Business Services
Logo design
Graphic design
Videography
Drone Pilot
Customer service
Bookkeeping
Mobile Headshots
Cleaning
Bartending/Catering
Mobile fencing for festivals or construction sites
Porta potty rentals
Training video creation
Liquidation services
Furniture building (dorm, office, hospital, hotel, etc)

[Anonymous No.59023547]

>>59023543
47 sentences that'll make you more money than a 4 year business degree:

People buy with emotion, then justify with logic.

For every $1 you spend on email marketing, you can expect an average return of $36 (if you know what you’re doing).

Sell the transformation, not the product.

Tell prospects your price, then, shut the fuck up.

It’s easier to sell an offer that solves a pain than one fulfilling a desire.

Whatever business you’re in, study psychology, cognitive bias, and body language.

If your offer has a solid guarantee, it'll result in more sales than refunds.

Memes are one of the most powerful forms of marketing.

Copywriting is 80% research, 20% writing.

Your service/product should meet demand, not try to create it.

People don’t care about your offer, only what your offer can do for them.

Using pictures for written testimonials will make them more believable.

You don’t need a $2000 MacBook Pro, $967 logo, or a $87,000 degree to start a business.

You become wealthy by becoming valuable, then becoming scarce.

Quantify the timeframe of your offer.

The market isn’t “saturated”, your offer just sucks.

You can be terrible at sales calls if you have a great offer.

There’s no such thing as too high of price, only too little value.

Specific words and numbers are more believable than broad ones.

A happy customer is the most powerful form of marketing.

Sales is about listening.

Marketing is about empathy.

Use the words “you” and “your” in your copy to make it more engaging.

Use headlines to steal attention and hooks to keep it.

An average product with great marketing will outsell a great product with bad marketing.

When stating your price on a sales call, say “It’s a one-time investment of __,” not “The price is __.”

[Anonymous No.59023550]

>>59023547
Charge “high” prices so you can deliver more value for your clients.

Selling a good product in a bad market is a losing battle.

Handle objections in your FAQ section of your landing page to increase conversions.

Your sales pitch shouldn’t be over 2 minutes.

Never sacrifice your reputation for money.

To grow at the start, say “yes” to many opportunities, but to continue growing, learn to say “no.”

Social proof + scarcity + urgency + risk free guarantees + bonuses = irresistible offer.

Use Power Thesaurus to replace boring words with strong ones to increase conversions.

The less you care about making sales, the more you make.

It’s okay to fire clients that are a pain in the ass.

If you don’t think you can help a prospect, be honest.

There will always be a market for health, wealth, and relationships.

Compete on value, not price.

A 5th grader should be able to understand your writing.

If what you sell is confusing, nobody will buy.

Use the same words and phrases as your target market to increase conversions.

Study talented fiction writers so you know how to write engaging stories.

Your 0 to hero story is one of your most powerful marketing assets.

Persuasive writing sounds conversational, not academic.

People want to see pictures of your product or service in use.

If you wouldn’t work with someone for a year, don’t work with them for a day.

Give value with 0 expectations and you’ll get 10x returns in the long run.

[Anonymous No.59023577]

>>59023536
fuck off midwit

[Anonymous No.59023582]

Last thread
>>58999200
https://archived.moe/biz/thread/58999200 had some pretty good ideas. What I got from it was
>dog shit removal
>tuck pointing
>fence/deck staining
>pressure washing
>solar panel cleaning

[Anonymous No.59023594]

>>59023577
Stick to your pajeet coins Samir. You'll be rich any day now to send money to village. Fuck outta here.

[Anonymous No.59023605]

>>59023594
you just fucking copy pasted a list of jobs and made a retard newfag general. low effort. low iq. moron.

[Anonymous No.59023617]

>>59023594
here is a tip. your small businesses fail because you're stuck in analysis paralysis, do not plan, do not execute, expect to hit the ground running and are a lazy retarded faggot. i think its safe to assume you have zero marketable skills so either get learning or start bulk shipping chinese junk. just start.

[Anonymous No.59023657]

>>59023605
>you just fucking copy pasted a list of jobs
Yeah and what about it?
>>59023617
>here is a tip
no thanks
Last thread went quite well with multiple supportive comments to keep it going. Even a few that said it was the best thread for a long time.
Only of couple of shitheads showed up.
Point it, people appreciated it as an alternative to the usual fare. As you can see /biz/ is a literal shithole and has leaked into this thread with your presence. If you want to contribute, do. If not, lurk or go away. If you want to be an insufferable cunt, let your immediate family who hate you have the pleasure of experiencing it. Not innocent people.

[Anonymous No.59023669]

>live in central Jersey
>full of spics and orthodox Jews
I’ve worked the minimum wage circuit and know that they love public hang out spaces. Bowling alleys, public parks and party places that kind of shit. I just need a gimmick

[Anonymous No.59023673]

Any tips/ideas for starting up a gardening business? Have put together a poster and have basic tools. Also have a small collection of clients already but nothing too big.
Only thing that seems tough is getting enough consistent $ to make the work worth it. Pressure washer? Upsell?

[Anonymous No.59023677]

>>59023669
Also current job is a public school teacher, doing a long term stint that by the end I can pay off student loans with

[Anonymous No.59023805]

>>59023673
try a raised bed garden business
go to their house and install the raised garden.
upsell them vegetable plants
plant them
make it to where all they need to do is harvest water and harvest them
upsell them a package, raised garden install and yearly subscription for you to remove last years, plants, fertilize dirt, plant new plants.

at one point the purpose of gardens was to lower overall food costs. today the reason for it is so that you don't die by eating the poison they sell for food at the grocery store. what is better than organic at the store? growing it yourself. Sell the idea to rich people to be self sufficient with organic food. Maybe upsell them installing chickens and rabbits. have them subscribe to a daily service where you go there and feed the chickens and rabbits, remove some weeds from garden if needed.
upsell them a drip irrigation system on a timer so they don't even have to water the garden.
basically you could set them up to have a mini-homestead. if they lights turned off they could still eat. upsell them classes on canning their surplus or do it for them for a fee.

[Anonymous No.59024234]

Hello frens. I am looking for entrepreneurial advice. I will do what I can to keep it brief.

Basically I have been selling health insurance in a 1099- Independent Contractor position for the past year. The company I work for requires me to be "captive", so for better or worse I only have acces to 3-4 Private plans and the ACA Marketplace (Obamacare).

The problem is the business. In insurance, legally there is a requirement that all leads need to have put in a "request" saying they were looking for insurance. Basically dumbasses that go online or through social media trying to get quotes– they get sent to me to try to help. That's the legal way, and its what I've done for the better part of a year. I wish I could leave it at that, but most of these people are brokies that end up cancelling for one reason or another and they end up hurting my business reserves when they do that.

Most people, in the office I work at– run a different play. They "self-generate" leads. They look up people's information online and send mass texts trying to sell insurance to individuals that never put in a request. It's illegal solicitation, and I've done what I can to not go down that route. Common "self-generated" leads include Realtors. People who's contact information is easily accessible online.

Unfortunately, my back is now up against the wall and I find myself having to dabble in the dark side. I honestly come to /biz/ not to confess, but to ask for advice as to what kind individual's I should "self-generate" and if possible, for places to find their contact information. Hacker shit lol. Independent contractors are prime targets. Preferrably not Realtors or Truckers since they are historically the most spammed.

Any suggestions? Feedback?

[Anonymous No.59024271]

>>59024234
Man, just thinking about insurance pisses me off. I can appreciate this is your trade and you are trying to do it ethically. But, I kind of feel like insurance is a scam anyway. The moment they need an MRI for the growth in their brain it gets denied by the insurer for one reason or another.

Why don't you try to start a concierge medical service in your city. Enlist medical providers, radiological providers to be part of a coop. People pay X amount of money per year as membership. If they need to go to the doctor it is covered by membership. Everything from imaging to surgery. But they can only go a limited amount of times. So you can get rid of the hypochondriacs. But you also take care of people that need it.

Regardless, the entire medical industry is the biggest fucking scam ever and you should get out of health insurance and do real work. You shouldn't have a conflict of interest doing slef-generated leads because the insurance industry is already a compromise of good morals. Besides, after covid most people are aware that modern medicine is a fraud controlled by big pharma. doctors don't even know how to cure diabetes. They give patients medicine to make their body cope more until it cannot, instead of telling the patient to stop fucking eat altogether until the body heals and can again tolerate insulin. Cancer cures are well known now too. You'd be better off starting a health support company where people could call you for you to tell them to put the candy bar down or shame them to go on a walk. I'm not the picture of health but the human body can heal itself if it is not compromised with toxins.

[Anonymous No.59024308]

>>59023677
>public school teacher
i'm sorry to hear that. How much do they pay you, $40k? At least you get summers off and some extended holidays. I can't imagine getting forever-loans to pay to be educated in order to be a public school teacher.

Anyway, you shoudl just conisder it a job that puts food on the table until you can do something else. Best part is, you have your weekends and nights. Make sure you don't assign too much work that will make you work nights grading shit.

Next thing you are going to do is hustle, not so you can be debt free. But so you can start a small business that makes a shit ton more money than your current occupation. Being able to pay off the student loans is a bonus. Even more of a bonus is if you do a cash-heavy.

I'd say start walking door to door and offer to stain fences and decks. You can already see who has a fence visually from the public road so already you have a 50/50 chance of a sale. You have to pressure wash the wood before you stain so offer to pressure wash other stuff or clean the gutters. Offer to come back yearly to clean the gutters/trim stuff/pressure wash stuff. Remember, you want a subscription service. Staining wood is a one time thing. But maybe word of mouth provides you with more work you can handle and you no longer need to upsell. Staining wood is easy as fuck with a spray gun, it appears.

Get to the point you can get 75% of your teaching salary through your side hustle, then quit teaching and dedicate all efforts to now primary hustle.

[Anonymous No.59024480]

I want to start a septic truck business. Can I lease a truck? I’ve got excellent credit. Also is there a class I can take? I don’t know sheiiit about the process. Anyone done it before?

Maybe lease septic truck. Hire someone that knows how to use the truck. Pay them $500 a day to do it and also ride with them to teach you. Sit back and seek new customers. When the employee driver needs time off, you go do the rounds. From what I understand there is a 1 month wait time everywhere before they’ll schedule so very high demand. And can charge $700 to $1k per septic tank. Also buy Porto potty for $1k. Rent them
Out for $150 a week. 7 weeks it’s paid off then rest is profit. Now we got passive income, just need to pump my rented portpotties weekly. Hire someone on upwork to build website and also employ SEO to make your site show.
Truck can do 5 or more jobs a day for at least $750 = $3,750. Give the driver $750 even. Leaves $3k. Say each day the truck operates it costs half that, or $1,500, you’re still bringing in $1,500 profit. Let’s say you operate 5 days a week for 45 weeks a year (giving you 7 vacation weeks a year!) comes to $337,500 profit a year.
If I have good credit and get a HELOC to lease a truck and other startup costs, isn’t this a formula for instant riches? I think yes if A-you find a good septic truck driver willing to work for $168k a year w/7 weeks off, $25k Christmas bonus, B-driver prefers working for someone instead of doing it as a business for themselves, C-almost unlimited demand for the service.

[Anonymous No.59024524]

Has anyone here done drop-shipping? I want to sell to zoomers as we have some in the office and they are hyper-consumerist. I feel like I could make some easy sales feeding low quality goods from alibaba into their hands directly.
What's the process to do this? I was looking at Amazon warehousing as they seem to do everything for you, but I don't know how that works really.

Do I have to leave my house at any point in the process, or do I just sign up to Amazon and then point my shipping address on like Alibaba to the Amazon warehouse?

[Anonymous No.59024941]

>>59024271
>They give patients medicine to make their body cope more until it cannot, instead of telling the patient to stop fucking eat altogether until the body heals and can again tolerate insulin.

This.

Pharmaceuticals can't make money if people are not sick.

[Anonymous No.59025992]

>>59024271
It absolutely is a scam. This is what the original uproar over insurance companies that led to Obamacare was about. Unfortunately, Obamacare didn't really solve many of the issues. In a lot of ways it was basically a loveletter to the insurance companies, while telling citizens they fixed the problems.

[Anonymous No.59026000]

>>59023536
I really want to start an ecom brand but margins are low, don't have front capital. Probably will do some kind of agency (lead gen or email marketing).
I am a Product manager in tech but I don't really like tech desu.

[Anonymous No.59026383]

>>59023536
token salesman. you make some powerpoint slides where you announce that you are working on something that sounds like once solved allows you to sit on your ass and collect fees forever, like the "onchain ai training data provision problem" or something. then collect money from retail while producing nothing but slides, maybe hire someone without morals that can code for appearances

[Anonymous No.59026712]

>>59026383
>token salesman
is this token something that exists in real life? or a shitcoin? or you tell me what this token. since you could not explain it, i doubt a 10 year old could understand it, therefore a shit idea likely.

just pick up dogshit. that is not a joke. people making 6 figures.

[Anonymous No.59028297]

Bump

[Anonymous No.59029733]

Is it even possible to sell junk from estate sales online? Anyone flip stuff online from local sales?

[Anonymous No.59030750]

>>59023536
If anyone has a clothing business, I would be willing to work for free if you could mentor me.
I'm struggling with finding manufacturers that aren't corner cutting jeets. And a couple of other things like building a website that isn't *powered by fagify* soulless corpo slop atrocious UI.
I have my brand design, name, logos, trademarks. Starting with t-shirts and eventually moving onto other things

[Anonymous No.59030771]

>score DOT org
There you go bro, something to look into. This site provides volunteer mentors in a multitude of fields of business. Look into it you may find what you are looking for. Good on you for trying to find someone that knows what to do so you don't have to reinvent everything for yourself. Good luck.

[Anonymous No.59030826]

>>59030750
If they're all corner-cutting jeets then maybe that's a sign you should manufacture clothes.