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.

 

Great Blog Posts to Get Links and Traffic

Most bloggers blog for a reason, to get links and traffic! Some people blog but never seem get these results. For such people, it is best to ask, what kinds of posts should I write to get more links and traffic? According to experts, if you are able to bring some powerful post types into your blog, your content will begin to work wonders on social media while also generating a lot of grassroots in-bound links. Now, that’s great if you ask me. Get your blog to draw from the following resource areas and it will attract traffic.

Expert advice: Online, everyone is looking for answers and solutions to many and varied problems. Hooking up to an expert is one good way to get results. A quality advice-post generally sticks to one topic and provides in-depth information on it. If your topic manages to provide the advice people are hungry for, they usually hook up with good backlinks and traffic.



Espousing a popular and trending point of view: Helping to deepen and expand a popular and trending matter easily helps to get attention for a blog! Because people always like to have their world-view affirmed, if your blog can articulate something a lot of people agree with, the people who agree with you will champion your post. Even the people who disagree with your viewpoint may still link to you, simply because their response won’t make any sense if they do otherwise. Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter help such posts to go viral easily and the benefits are immense.

Powerful and relevant tips: Everyone wants to know how to get things done in our highly competitive world. If your blog can provide quantifiable lists of tips, it becomes very attractive to readers who want explained in just a few seconds what a visitor stands to receive in return for their attention.

Best-of lists: Many people rely a lot on expert judgment. If your blog authoritatively provides a resource list useful to many readers, it will benefit from bookmarks and even votes for it just on face-value alone. That is one credible and effective way to spark up traffic and links to the blog.

Powerful and arresting headlines: Many bloggers already know this. The more the power a headline packs, the more attention it gets. When others link to you, it’s usually done in the space of a paragraph or even a single sentence which caught their attention. Most times, a really outstanding headline is all it takes to get traffic and links to a blog.

Q&As with high profile experts: Everyone wants to hear from experts and high profile people who have made it. In that quest, interviews with well-known bloggers, professionals and successful business persons always seem to get links, comments and traffic particularly through social media.

Ranked resource lists: Products reviewers and researchers wield a lot of clout on social media. At each year’s end, when such people come up with a list of best-of products/services in their own judgments, they usually get a lot of attention. These people are effective because many people are constantly searching online and elsewhere for the ‘best’ of everything, a term that promises high quality. That is what attracts attention to ranked lists and naturally, debates, links and traffic follow.