MONEY
MAKING BUSINESS IDEAS FOR WOMEN
Here is an
excellent collection of Money Making Business Ideas for Women which can
be started with little training and investment All these ideas are capable of
producing additional income. Most of these business ideas for women can
be conducted in the comfort of home, in between household chores, during
weekends or at your leisure. All of these small business or home business
ideas do not require extra help, some are extensions of hobbies or skills
developed or acquired from childhood. For women, working from home is often tied
into the need for personal balance. Many professional women are opting out of
the corporate world to free up time for children and aging parents. Home
Based Business Ideas are a hot topic but experts are quick to say this does
not mean the home office is fluff. These Business Ideas are intended to
stimulate you imagination. Only you can make the decision based on your own
experiences, qualifications, interests and the current market in your community.
As you compile your list of possibilities, take a critical look around your area
and find just the right combination & start preparing for a successful
business operation.


Adult
Day Care Center. Operate a center to look after elderly and/or handicapped people.
Offer refreshments, games and activities and assistance but not health
care.
Alterations. Replace buttons, let out cuffs, shorten sleeves, turn collars
repair tears for clothing stores, laundries and cleaners who do not already
offer this service.
Baby Clothes. Specialize in bargain-priced new and hand-me-down infant clothing
and supplies. Offer an alteration service, take in trades to refurbish and
resell.
Baby Sitting. Go to client's home by appointment and stay with the children for
hourly fee. Charge extra for two or more doing housework or for taking the kids
out.
Carpet Cleaning. With steam shampoo equipment, clean and renew
residential and commercial carpets. Contact rental agencies, apartments and
condos for wholesale jobs.
Child Pick-up Service. Pick up and deliver client's
kids after school, theater, games. Pick-up, deliver to parties, charge extra to
stay with them until mom returns.
Cloth Labels. Make and sell small orders of fabric labels for small
businesses and home crafters on your embroider machine. Offer lower prices for
repeated orders.
Cooking Lessons. Give gourmet/regional cooking, baking lessons
in your specialty from your kitchen or by appointment in your student's
kitchen.
Custom Knitting. Take orders for hand-knitted sweaters, stockings and
sets. Make more fast sellers between orders, attach your labels to all
products.
Dancing School. Instruct others in your dance specialty in group or
individual classes. Be sure to "showcase" students to encourage them and
publicise your business.
Doll Making. Use ceramic moulds, hand paint and finish fine dolls to sell to
collectors, children and stores. Advertise in classified ads, attend doll
shows.
Freelance Writing. Starting with local articles; sell or even give to
local papers to be published. Work up to articles and stories that sell
easily.
Handbags. Specialize in ladies handbags. Make them in your "factory" to
retail or wholesale, or buy and stock a wide variety of sizes, styles, colors
and prices.
Hanging Plants. Specialise in hanging plants of all sizes and
descriptions. Display when in peak condition in various types of attractive
pots, holders and hangers.
Horoscope Service. Provide horoscope/ astrology
information to clients. Prepare manually or use your computer program to select
and print out the information.
Product Demonstrations. Contract with food brokers to
demonstrate consumer products (prepare and give out samples) in supermarkets and
shopping malls.
Product Broker. Buy a quantity of a product wholesale preferably at a
close-out price and advertise it as a "one-time special" locally. Sell leftovers
at close-outs.
Tailoring. Use your skills to custom tailor men, boys and women's garments
including jackets, uniforms, suits from your home "shop". Attach your own
label.
Telephone Canvassing. Contract with salesmen or businesses to obtain leads or
potential customer information for them from your telephone operation. Charge by
the lead.
Miniature Gardens. Create various sizes of garden-like displays of live
plants for hospital sick rooms, boxes for balconies, rooftop planters, offices
and residences
Neighbourhood News. Compile, publish and distribute a
neighbourhood newspaper or newsletter with local news, opinions and interesting
features. Include lots of subjects; sell space for opinions, announcements and
advertisements.
Become an Instructor. Teach whatever you know. Your trade,
profession, cooking skills, a second language, woodworking, chess, photography,
knitting, karate, bridge, etc. People will pay for good lessons in these useful
and enjoyable skills.
Advertising Service. Arrange for the design, printing and distribution of
advertising/ announcement flyers, mail outs and ad campaigns for clients for fee
plus commission.
Artificial Plants. Make your specialty artificial flowers and plants. Sell
a selection of arrangements, baskets and special occasion creations; take custom
orders.
Beauty Aids. Sell general or specialized beauty supplies in your home salon or
by appointment. Represent established lines and/or sell you own
brand.
Bonsai Plants. Grow or buy and arrange into attractive pots or arrangements.
Retail from your home, through ads, or wholesale to flower shops, greenhouses
and nurseries.
Calligraphy. Easily learned by artistic person: work through ads and stationary
stores. Print fancy menus, show cards, place cards, invitations, announcements,
etc.
Ceramic Flowers. Learn to fashion, color, fire and arrange ceramic
flowers, both singles and in arrangements. Display them for sale; teach the art
in your "ceramic shop".
China and Glass Dealer. Collect and deal in antique and interesting china and
glass items. Buy and sell at auctions, private and public sales and through your
advertisements.
Clipping Services. Review newspaper publications for contracted subjects
like special announcement, mention of client products or information. Sell to
agents and merchants.
Companion Service. Accompany lonely, ailing or elderly people alone
temporarily, on shopping trips, to and from the doctor, on short tours or when
traveling longer distances.
Curtain Laundry. Wash, stretch and pleat
curtains in your home laundry. Be sure to learn fabric requirements and have
insurance. Offer installation and sell liners.
Custom
Tailoring.
Offer the luxury
of hand made clothing: shirts, skirts, coats, uniforms, suits. Good service to
add to alteration business when you feel competent to start from
scratch.
Home Study Courses. Sell or rent new/used home study courses. Buy new
courses on sale, buy courses back from students. Sell locally and by mail
order.
Jewelery Sales. Sell inexpensive to fine jewelery to friends, through
party plans, direct from advertisements, or wholesale to local stores. Compare
suppliers regularly.
Live-In Agency. Check out both prospective employers and workers.
Charge fee to find a reliable widow to stay with elderly person who would
otherwise have to go to a home.
Party Packages. Make up and market complete
party packages with innovative games, masks, favours, stunts and entertainment
for various age, size and interest groups.
Party
Planning.
Take complete
charge of customer's planned party: decorate, schedule activities, send
invitations. Arrange entertainment, catering and clean-up.
Sewing
Classes.
When qualified,
hold sewing classes in your home. Offer full courses as well as special "how-to"
classes for specific techniques. Sell material and supplies to
students.
Talent Agency. Locate and list people with unusual talents. Charge a small
listing fee. Send lists to talent agents, producers, show managers, and
actors.
Tutoring. Provide assistance by appointment or scheduled classes to students
of your expertise, whether academic or technical skill.
Wedding
Consultant. Plan and coordinate weddings from start to finish: decor, guests,
dresses, schedules, catering, photographer, etc. Receive fee and
commissions.
Used Books Sales. Buy, sell and trade used books: novels, reference,
science, text books, college/school books, even collector editions from your
home.
Talent Bureau for Kids or Adults' Parties. Using local ads or
your own contacts, line up local entertainers, magicians, comics, puppeteers and
other talents, and supply them for parties, club meetings and other functions.
Have a list of films you can also supply for the same, or other groups, which
they can project themselves, if they wish, or you will supply an operator.
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