Small Business Ideas

In 'Never Get a Real Job,' serial entrepreneur Scott Gerber covers everything that's necessary for a start-up to produce revenues. Its value is that it blows up the glamorous myths and great expectations about launching a business. ...

New York City greeting card designer and store owner Jill-Anne gives customers who purchase $50 of merchandise their own pole dance, reports CBS New York. The pole is installed amidst the cards in her Allen Street Store in lower Manhattan. And all of this, plus when she plays her guitar in front of the store, ...

America is the land of hoarders. When hoarders run out of room in their houses, they often branch out into storage units. Then comes the day when hoarders can't pay the storage fees. They might be so obsessed with hoarding that they don't pay attention to their financial affairs. After three months of not ...

MLM Company: Avon Maria Marsala was just 14 years old when she begged her mother to sign the papers for her to be able to sell Avon door-to-door in Brooklyn, N.Y. Maria was an avid user of Avon products and thought selling them would be glamorous and fun, but more importantly she didn't want to work at her ...

The Minimal Change industry. That might be the name you can give the new kind of service or product you offer customers and clients who long for things to be as they once were. Actually, as Calvin Trillin describes in The New Yorker, this approach to business isn't new, at least not in much of New Orleans. ...

Does this sound familiar? You have a job, but decide to leave it to have a baby and stay home. After a while the sleepless nights and lack of adult contact make you feel isolated, and the fact that you are not bringing home a paycheck makes you feel like you're not contributing. This is exactly what happened ...

Lindsay Lohan could be the role model for creating your own job, reports Portfolio. Like many job searchers, Lohan has hit a wall in the kinds of jobs she's been pursuing, especially in film. Therefore, she's contemplating turning something she knows well into how she can make a living. For Lohan that's the field ...

Hosting teen parties in Manhattan that are free of alcohol and drugs has been a money maker for Ricky Smith. Smith collects about $15,000 for each party, which parents are thrilled to pay, reports the New York Post. ...

Anti bullying books, lectures, seminars, interventions, group training, Web kits, lobbying, and programming for television and films are big business. So big, in fact, that they are creating a new niche for start-ups. Bloomberg Business Week discusses this fresh marketplace but only in the sub niche of the ...