Offer a product that everyone will enjoy, especially new parents. Customized name posters with the origin of names and various meanings of the name. Your target market will be parents, especially new parents. You could charge $10, or more, per poster. You can create and design the posters yourself or outsource the work to another company. For example, you could use CafePress or a local printer.

This is why offering a customized name poster with the origin of baby's name and various meanings of the name should be a fun product to offer. Of course, this will appeal to the parents of newborns, but also to all parents. Therefore, your target market will be parents, especially new parents.

Choosing a name for a new baby is always fun for the parents to-be. Once the baby is born and you have been introduced to the new little one in the family, this makes a wonderful gift idea. Parents naturally choose their favorite names to give their children, so this is a great way to bring attention to the name they have chosen for their new little one.

You can create and design these posters yourself; if this is something that you enjoy doing and feel you are good at it. If you are not so talented, you can outsource the work to another company. You can use companies like CafePress or a local printer to make these posters for you. Making these available to people is the whole idea and it should prove to be a challenging business idea.

Depending on what you put into the printing of these posters you should be able to ask at least $10 a piece for them, depending on the size. You could also offer them mounted and framed for an additional fee, if you choose too. Since many people may want to give these posters as gifts this would be a good idea to offer them if you want to expand your business profits.

Since you are targeting new parents, make these posters available to them by advertising in parents magazines, blogs, baby product sites, Pediatrician offices, there are an endless list of ideas. Check all of the Pediatrician offices in your area and see if you can leave a sample, framed of course. Maybe you can leave a framed poster in the waiting room using the name of the doctor.

Remember that today, many names chosen, are interchangeable for boys and girls alike. Therefore, you may want to offer a generic version, female version, or male version of many of the popular names that parents are choosing. You might also offer a spot for unusual names that are impossible to find. Allow these parents to give you these names and the reasons that they chose to name their baby a certain name. Sometimes, parents want to name a child after a family member and need to masculinize, or feminize, the name. So they will give a child an unusual name, it might be nice to offer these parents a custom service for a little more money. You could design a poster just for them, stating on the poster why the parents chose the name and whom their baby is named after. Then give the background of the original name. This custom service would be a great idea for a Web business. Just make sure that your website is easy to use and easy to place orders with. If it is too difficult to order your posters with the proper information, people will give up and look for something else to give as a gift.

Resources:

http://first-name-meanings.com

http://www.ssccwebcreations.com/

http://www.namesandmore.com

http://www.babychatter.com

http://allinaname.com