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City Travelers Love You

Bookshops and stores are full of travel information. There are maps and guides – some drawing out the routes and others recommending the places to visit. However, they all have a critical piece of information missing. This information is especially important for people visiting a busy city and its unavailability can ruin their trip altogether. This business is about making this information available. It's
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Customized Martial Arts Uniforms

Offer a service to customize martial arts belts, uniforms, or cloth weapons bags with embroidery. You could put the name on one side of the belt and their name in Korean (for Tae Kwon Do, for example) on the other side. You could also offer this service to the martial art's dojo instructors by offering to embroider the name of their business and their
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Collect Late Payments

The most important part of running a business lies in collecting and receiving payments from customers. However, this aspect of businesses is usually overlooked. Its need is realized only when customers fail to pay up their bills on time. They sometimes wish there was someone who could take over the tension of collecting payments instead of the businesspersons personally running after these people.


An Exotic Way of Money Making

It's a strange way to make money. Rather, it's a way to make money selling something strange. This is a business where you don't need to think about creating a niche for yourself since the business is a niche in itself. However, you need an important qualification for this business and that is – 'the urge to earn'.


Perfect Pets

We humans love our pets, don't we? This is a huge target market. Even I own a hamster. Create a website to help people sell their animals. It's difficult for people to find certain breeds of pets to buy and own. Your website can create sales worldwide. Charge listers a monthly or per-ad-fee for their listings. Make even more money by putting up affiliate
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Non-Allergic Cleaning Service

Start a cleaning service that specializes in performing cleaning services without the use of harsh, allergy triggering chemicals. You and your staff will use only cleaning products that are natural and much less likely to give your customers an allergic reaction. You can charge between $40 and $60 an hour for these services.


Home Schooling Parent's Website

Parents that home school their children have a hard time finding good information, resources, tips, and advice. Create a website just for them – a membership website where home schooling parents can share stories, tips, advice, etc. You could charge $10 per month per member.


Getting the Creepiest

If you love insects (and/or other creepy things) this can be a great career for you. You can breed and sell insects; worms, ants, spiders, or reptiles; snakes, turtles, lizards, etc. Alternatively, you could specialize in one in particular. Many people can't have the usual pets because of allergies or lease rules. You can sell them for a variety of charges, depending on the
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Painted Pumpkins to Celebrate Halloween

Everyone loves a great jack-o-lantern to celebrate Halloween. If you can paint, go with painting fantastic images on pumpkins and sell them – right from your home! You can charge anywhere from $3-$50 per painted pumpkin. Use your imagination and come up with many designs!


Professional Dog Grooming

It's just a fact of life; dogs are born with nails and fur. Unfortunately, they don't also have the opposable thumbs needed to trim their own nails and brush and clean their fur. This leaves the task of grooming to their owners or to a costly professional pet groomer. Do you have a natural affinity for dogs and experience with grooming them? If so,
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