12 Great Business Ideas for Women Entrepreneurs

It is a good sign of the times that women are now looking for more autonomy, work-life balance, and financial freedom, particularly financial freedom. They are taking things into their own hands to get or do what they want rather than wait for anyone to get things done for them. What that means is that when it comes to entrepreneurship, women now own their own hustle real time more than ever before. They now settle for good business ideas that promise location flexibility, time and work schedule independence. Such business ideas are largely prevalent in women-dominated enterprises where other women entrepreneurs tend to be doing real good. Here are some of such great business ideas. 

1. Makeup Artist: Most women and even some men like to look real good if not most times but some of the times. The reason making up is presently a very huge industry where women really do well as entrepreneurs. Aside direct make up, they also make money from selling cosmetics, creams and other items that people can use on their own and in their own homes to look good.

2. Cleaning Business: There is hardly anyone who does not need cleaning. So, women can now make money from commercial/business/office, industrial and residential cleaning business. If you have the right equipment, you can do cleaning business hands-on or you hire the right help to assist you with growing list of orders. It pays well.

3. Personal Chef: Food is life and many people eat to live. For people who can afford it, hiring a personal chef to prepare special healthy meals for them is part of their comfortable living. Good Chefs get hired for this purpose and it is a business many women are good at by their natural endowments. These days, you don’t even need to own a restaurant to be a chef. More individuals and families are hiring personal chefs to cook in private settings. Good business opportunity there no doubt.

4: Event Planning: Always a busy world and people are getting things organized daily. Such social/business/religious events like retreats, conferences, parties, meetings, conventions, trade shows etc. etc. get organized daily. People always need talented event planners to put these events together. The demand is high and the pay is good when you know your trade well enough.
 
5. Interior Designing: This has to do with the aesthetics of your home/office where you spend most of your time. So, if you have the skills for interior designing, you can be in business fast enough by becoming a residential/commercial interior designer.

6. Tutoring: If you have the knowledge and the skills, one-on-one private tutoring is a good business idea. People these days arrange private tutoring for their wards right in the comfort of their homes. The demand is high for private tutoring in these days of prevalent pandemic restrictions and all.

7. Real Estate: You can purchase, renovate and flip valuable real estate properties to make money. If you prefer to keep properties and earn rental charges, you can purchase investment properties, find rent paying tenants and earn weekly, monthly or yearly rents depending on your preferences. If you want to sell properties, you can purchase, renovate and keep for a while to appreciate then sell at a good margin. That’s what making money on real estate entails.

8. Wedding Planning: Wedding planners are always in high demand. Because of the importance of a wedding in the lives of two lovers, good planning guarantees success and sweet memories. Wedding planners make money by costing venues, decorations, transportation, music, food and drinks as well as souvenirs to prepare their charges. That helps to remove a lot of work from the wedding partners leaving them enough time to appreciate and cozy up to themselves more prior to their wedding. Many people don’t mind paying for wedding planning because it helps a great deal to save them from stress.

9. Graphic Designing: This business requires a lot of technical skills to get going. If you have the skills, you can make good money from online business owners by helping them to design logos, landing pages, websites, and hero images and email campaigns. Any online activity with pixels needs good graphic designing to bring out the real aesthetics needed for attraction. Even though there are online tools like Canva people can use for self-help designs, these tools don’t adequately take the place of good graphic design experts who bring in the human touch.

10. Dropshipping: This is one business model of having to sell products without even having to set eyes on them or touch them. Through this model, you can advertise products for a product merchant, process orders for the product merchant while the merchant delivers the products to the buyers. That way, you are able to sell products without storing them in your home or a warehouse. It is one great way to sell products without risking inventory issues.

11. Life Coaching: Coaching isn’t just for sports or sporting activities even though you can earn money there too. Aside career advice, many people sometimes need life advice as well. With the requisite knowledge and experience you can provide services as guidance for good living and healthy life.

12. Etsy Shop: Etsy shop is a very popular online marketplace to sell hand crafts and sculptures. It is one great marketplace creative entrepreneurs can make good money. If you have the skills to make unique hand made products like carvings, sculptures, paintings, etc. etc., Etsy shop is where to go and sell them to make money.

20 Outdoor Small Business Ideas to Get Anyone Employed

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Many young people these days are finding it difficult to get structured employment. Many remain so for a very long time because they don’t like working in the outdoors. For those who love the outdoors, there are very many outdoor businesses you can start that let you enjoy entrepreneurship and fresh air at the same time. Below are 20 of such business ideas and they are suitable for anyone who loves working in the outdoors to get employed full time or part time.

 

Lawn Mowing Service

Many homeowners always need help to maintain their lawns. By starting a lawn mowing business, you can provide regular maintenance services to local homeowners and businesses on agreed terms and fees.

Landscape Photography

If you’ve learned how to take photographs, armed with a digital camera, you can spend your time outdoors taking photographs of the beauty of nature that you can then sell or license online to make money.

Gardening Service

Tending flowers and ornamental trees for home owners is a good business. If you are good at gardening service or you like to work more with flowers and plants other than basic grass, this is your calling.

Landscaping Service

For a good business, you can focus more on big landscaping jobs for homeowners or businesses that are looking to re-do or add some exciting landscaping elements to their outdoor spaces. If you are good at it, the pay is very good.

Lawn Cleanup Service

Even though it may be messy and not too glamorous, homeowners especially those with pets, also need a way to keep their lawns neat and free of any poops and animal messes. By providing a cleanup service for them, you get to spend a lot of time outdoors making money as a result.

Plant Nursery

If you prefer to spend your time outdoors working on growing your own plants, you can raise saplings for ornamental, decorative and fruit trees for sale from some road side gardens. This business can be very lucrative if know what you are doing.

Roadside Produce Sales

Fruits and vegetables in season sold at roadside stands is a good business opportunity. By the time you get well known in the business, you can take orders by phone then make supplies to homes and offices.

Livestock Farm

Chickens, rabbits, pigs and many other food animals can be raised in a livestock farm outdoors if you have the proper training, space and equipment. Great business idea if you know what you are doing.

Pest Control Service

You could start a pest control service where you work specifically in people’s yards and around the perimeter of their homes. With the right chemicals and equipment, you can help homeowners keep rodents, roaches, bees, termites, mosquitoes and even snakes in check

Car Washing Service

This is fairly very popular in many urban centers where many people drive cars daily. If you are good at it, you easily build up a very high customer base which keeps you busy outdoors most of the time.

Window Washing Service

This is a specialized cleaning service for homes and offices. With high rise buildings, you need special equipment and the pay is very good. People who don’t have the time, equipment, personnel or even the desire to clean their own windows can form your target customer base.

Gutter Cleaning Service

Building a business around providing gutter cleaning services can allow you to build up a base of customers all year round. Helping to clean out the gutters around their homes/offices helps the environmental sanitation efforts of such neighborhoods and you make money as a result.

Food Vending

People must always eat and many are always in a hurry. A good business idea is to sell to these people various dishes that are popular at fairs and sporting events. Ice cream, popcorn, biscuits, doughnuts, peanuts and cakes can be sold at outdoor stands at different events throughout the year.

Mobile Retail Boutique

Very many female bargain-hunters always shop here. They like to patronize mobile retain boutiques on the go. Anyone who loves retail business opportunities can set up a mobile retail shop in a camper or similar setups then hawk around areas with high human traffic like fairs and similar outdoor shopping events.

Coffee/Tea Snacks Cart

Busy people like shoppers and tourists always like to get refreshments on the go. Setting up an outdoor coffee/tea snacks cart at local sporting events or a thoroughfare that’s popular with pedestrians is a good way to get patronage.

Newspapers Stand

Setting up a newspapers stand in a very busy street corner is one great way to get employed outdoors. Your ability to call out headlines to passers by quickly gets your business noticed and patronage soars.

House Painting Service

House painting is another specialty that should give you the opportunity to spend a lot of time outside, especially if you specialize in exterior paint jobs.

Outdoor Fitness Classes

You can be a fitness expert teaching classes on the go outdoors. For fitness savvy entrepreneurs, you could start a business offering outdoor fitness classes in yoga, jogging and hiking.

Ice Cream Stand

For people who simply want to sell a product outdoors, ice cream is a popular outdoor favorite. A busy street corner or areas around event centers like stadiums are good locations for the business.

Driving School

Everyone needs to know how to drive before applying for a driver’s license. Offering driving lessons to fees-paying learners is one great way to make money working outdoors.

 

Private Entrepreneurship as Foremost Key to Wealth

In his book “How to Be Rich” J. Paul Getty states that “the first rule is to be in business for yourself.” This is the only way you can make money and make your money work for you. Of course wealth grows the fastest when your money works for you. The fastest and most dependable way to wealth is through self-employment. Salaries were designed by avowed capitalists to keep workers permanently dependent on their employers. In extreme cases, just to keep the workers alive and whole enough to work and earn their wages. There are no salaries designed to make anybody rich. The key to wealth therefore is found in self-employment. In self-employment, your earnings are in direct proportion to your efforts. You can therefore plan, project, execute, evaluate, direct and attain desired results all within a specific time frame. In summary, you are always in control of your progress. Achievements therefore are easily attained as projected. This is what makes the difference between wage-employment and self-employment. This is the point many youths and unemployed people find difficult to appreciate.

        
Are you currently employed and unhappy with your employment? Are you underemployed? Are you looking for a job? Do you want to make more money in your current business? This article will be of immense help to you if you take pains to appreciate what it is saying. Do not be deceived, businesses are not scarce and will never be scarce. It is only ideas and jobs that are scarce. They have been scarce and will continue to be scarce until people resolve to do something about the way they think. If you can do something about how you think and what you think about, you can do something about your ideas. Your poor status and unemployment disposition can therefore be changed. This article is very apt in that quest.

To succeed in self-employment and private entrepreneurship, you need leverage, a solid and dependable leverage. “Give me a point of support and I will move the world” declared the great physicist Archimedes when he tried to demonstrate the usefulness of a lever. An ordinary bar with a fixed support can move the world if the support is strong enough. This support is what Archimedes needed as leverage for the Herculean task of moving the world. The good news is that you are not Archimedes and your problems are not as big or as heavy as the world. You therefore need a smaller leverage. This article hopes to ginger you up to acquire your own leverage. You too can make it just like those you currently admire or even envy. You have a right to respectable work and decent living. I believe it is a right and not a privilege for you to live a good life. But first, you must decide to do something about what you do and how you are doing it to earn a living right now!!!

How to Work Your Way Out of Poverty

To get ahead in life and step out of poverty, there is no other way than to work. There is no substitute to work. The harder and smarter you work, the wealthier you become. You need to work if you want to earn money and live a good life. The commonest measure of wealth is money but wealth is not all about money. While wealth is abundance of valuable possessions including money, “money is a unit of value, a medium of exchange, a standard of deferred payment.” Payment for goods and services which result from efforts of people either individually or collectively in form of work is usually done with money. A large accumulation of money usually translates to wealth.

Obtaining money is done in one of or a combination of four ways namely:

1.    You can earn it.
2.    You can borrow it.
3.    You can beg for it or
4.    You can steal it.

The first three are legal while the fourth is illegal but they all involve some measure of work but in varying degrees of intensity. However, striving for and earning money legitimately in form of work is the most dignified way of obtaining money. The more productive work one does therefore, the more money he or she earns. “The amount of money you earn is in direct proportion to the demand for what you do your ability to do it and the difficulty of ignoring or replacing you.”



“Work is the foundation of business and the source of all prosperity.” Work is an “activity in which one exerts strength or faculties to do or perform something.” The direct result of work is a Product or Service which can be sold or exchanged to obtain money. That some strength or exertion (that is work), is required before money is made stands as the main reason why some people have money while others don’t. The ranks of the poor are populated by those who can not work for one reason or the other. Many will work and work hard if they find suitable engagements. Those who make and accumulate wealth do not necessarily do different things; they do things differently. This separates them from the poor. You must have the strength, ability and willingness to perform or do a duty or render a service before you can aspire to make money. Those who attempt to get something for nothing usually end up disappointed because the law of “Cause and Effect” is a natural law. You must put in something to get out something in compliance with this natural “Law of Reciprocity.” No human activity has ever succeeded to break this law without unpleasant consequences.

You can decide to work and earn a salary or you can decide to work for yourself. However, I must point out that the surest and fastest way to wealth and comfort is through self-employment. At some point in everyone’s life, it becomes inevitable that you will be self-employed. If you work for someone and you earn a salary, one of three things must happen to end that relationship. The first is you could resign, second is you could be retrenched and thirdly, you could retire. When any of these happens, self-employment and private entrepreneurship becomes imperative.

Research findings indicate that nearly 80% of workers are reluctant to work because many find themselves in jobs they do not like. Do we need to search too far why poverty is endemic in our world? Something needs to be done to check this reluctance. People must on their own find and do only those things they like to do. This is private entrepreneurship. To get ahead in life, you must know the work you are doing, believe in it and like it too so as to obtain maximum output and rewarding results. The only viable way out of our vicious cycle of poverty is through self-employment and not 9-5 jobs. Self-employment is all about going into business for yourself. Even if you now work for someone, you still need one or more additional-income enterprises on the side if you ever hope to escape poverty.