19 Currently Lucrative Small Business Ideas For Everyone

1. KEEP FIT INSTRUCTOR
These days we're all that little bit more health conscious, as we seek to ward of illnesses and the effects of growing older.  Few of us though want to put a great deal of effort into the process.  

Not for us the long hours of playing squash, or jogging in the park.  But give us a little exercise class, to music perhaps, and that's a different matter entirely.

  2.  INVENT - A - GAME OR CREATE AN APP
Who wants to be a millionaire, Monopoly, the Rubik Cube, and Trivial Pursuits are among the most popular games and pastimes of today, and surely none can have disappointed their creators in the handsome dividends they provided.

3.   PHOTOGRAPHY BUSINESS
You don't have to outrank Lords Snowdon or Lichfield to take great pictures of junior's birthday party, for parents who profess not to know one end of a camera from another.  

You do though need a little better than the 'point and press' type camera, though not necessarily one that requires much setting-up of buttons and selectors before you even set eyes, or eye, upon the viewfinder. 

4. PRACTICE AND TEACHING COMPUTERS REPAIRS
If you decide to offer this much-needed service, you can make many customers, Some people are useless with anything mechanical, let alone anything with a brain superior to mine.

 5.  COMPUTER DIAGNOSIS SERVICES
Similar to the teaching of computer basics, there is a great demand for help when things go wrong. 

6.  MINIATURE MODELS OF LOCAL AND HISTORICAL INTEREST
Models of local buildings, especially those with some significant historical interest or miniature statues of people with local or national historical appeal, will always have a large and eager market.

7. CRAFTSMAN MADE JEWELLERY
There is as always a great demand for designer jewellery, the more unusual the better.  

If made from local stones, such as Whitby jet, even beach pebbles or local shells, so much the better, especially if sold to the local tourist trade.

8.  PARTY AND CATERING SERVICES
Almost all of us enjoy house parties, dinner parties, even children's parties. Not all of us though, relish the thought of long hours preparing for the event, only to find we're too tired to enjoy the fruits of our labours. 

Someone who can undertake the preliminaries on our behalf, leaving us to enjoy the party free of hassle, must surely be worth paying highly for.

9.  CHILDREN'S ENTERTAINER
If like me, you hate the thought of leading children in an endless round of 'Farmers in his Den' and 'Ring a Ring o Roses', then have you considered doing what I now do - hire a children's entertainer.

10. TELEPHONE BUSINESS CENTER
This facility is much in demand among small businessmen and women who work outside of the home, yet need telephone contact with potential customers

11.  GROWING FRUITS AND HERBS FOR SALE
An easy one this, and not requiring much in the way of time and attention, it's a moneymaking proposition that could easily survive alongside other ventures. growing and selling houseplants. 

Here we have a product in constant demand by old and young alike, whether for their own use or else as gifts for the vast majority of us who take pleasure in adorning our homes with a natural form of ornamentation. 

Not a full-time occupation in terms of the attention growing mushrooms requires, but certainly a way to provide an attractive second income.

 12.  SPECIALIZING IN MAKING TOYS, DOLLS, TRAINS, ETC
At Antiques Fairs, Flea markets, and Collectors' Fairs, many traders make a good living simply by specializing in those collectors' items sometimes referred to as 'Juvenalia'. 

Because they specialize, they are the traders to whom the collectors turn when they want to dispose of collections, thereby ensuring an adequate flow of stock.

13. SELLING OF BOOKS BUSINESS
Either sell cheaply all books that come your way, or specialize in books on such as local history, biographies, specialist subjects, e.g. dogs, railways. 

Sell at local car boot fairs, Collectors' Fairs, selling paper ephemera'Ephemera' is the grand name given to paper collectables: tickets, adverts,magazines, books, stamps, advertising inserts and letterheads, etc. 

The older the better, these items are in great demand by collectors at the Collectors' Curios, falling within the scope of 'collectables', are as the name suggests, items that are just that little bit different.

14. SPECIALIST IN A MUCH-NEEDED ITEM e.g.  buttons, socks, ties, items relating to railways, etc. Once you decide to specialize, you must deal in almost every conceivable item or design within your chosen area.

15. WRITING COLUMNS OR CREATING ARTS FOR THE PRESS
Here lies a potentially very lucrative opportunity indeed. Most magazines and newspapers offer cash rewards for readers letters, jokes, anecdotes, recipes and such.

16.  PREPARING CURRICULUM VITAE FOR PEOPLE
A curriculum vitae consists simply of the biographical details, both personal and career-related, of persons wishing to change jobs or seek advancement, training and so on.

17. TREASURE HUNTING
Treasure hunting can uncover some of the rarest of specimens used by our ancestors, and in turn can provide handsome rewards for the discoverer when sold, usually by auction.

18.  ACCOMMODATION ADDRESS SERVICES OR HOUSING AND REAL ESTATE AGENT
This business can be operated from home or from small office premises. 

Look at advertisements in 'Exchange and Mart' from people operating a similar service.

19.  UPHOLSTERY/CARPENTRY AND FURNITURE MAKING
Many families seek not to constantly change their furniture, but to have much-loved pieces repaired and reupholstered. 

As an adjunct to upholstery we find individuals and firms specializing in the stripping of furniture, removing the years of polish and grime from antique or more recent items, and restoring them to their former glory. 

Have a wonderful day.

Note: These are only suggested opportunities, not all may apply to your area or location, but make do with the ones that may apply.