Portrait Photography business. Capture your clients' perfect poses as a portrait photographer. Business Overview Calling all hobby photographers! Why not profit from your skills by starting a portrait photography service? As with pet photography, you can work at it full-time or part-time and operate the service on a mobile basis by going to your client's home, office, or business, or from a homebased studio requiring clients to come to you. Also, like pet photography, you can...

Kennel business. Business Overview Starting a dog kennel has numerous and varied requirements that must be carefully planned for and researched prior to starting the business. The investment needed to establish a dog kennel from the ground up can easily exceed $150,000, making this business venture one that should only be tackled by a seasoned business pro with experience in the industry. However, with that having been said, I have a close personal friend who has successfully...

Building History Guides business. Building guides can bring the past to life for locals and tourists. Business Overview Are you seeking to start a very interesting and potentially profitable desktop publishing business that can be operated from home on a part-time basis? If so, perhaps you should consider starting a business that specializes in writing guides about local historical buildings in your community, as well as features display advertisements promoting community...

CD Racks business. Sure Mp3s have taken some of the gusto from CDs, but like vynal, people are still going to need a storage solution. Business Overview Like many of the products featured in this chapter, manufacturing CD racks is a very easy and inexpensive business venture to set in motion. The CD racks can be manufactured from wood, plastic, or iron in various shapes and sizes and CD storage capacities. Like many manufactured specialty products, the design and type of...

Jewelry Boxes business. You've got to have a love for details, artistry and functionality to make this business sparkle. Business Overview Jewelry boxes can retail for as much as 10 to 20 times of what it costs to build them, making this a potentially very profitable homebased manufacturing venture. This is the type of manufacturing business that will let you be very creative in design and in the materials selected for the construction process. Or in other words, 'think outside...