Fireplace Installations business. Homeowners will cozy up to this installation service. Business Overview Wood-burning, gas, and alternative fuels - you can sell and install all of these types of home fireplaces if you are considering starting a fireplace sales and installation business. The best way to operate and market this kind of new business venture is with the assistance of a fully operational fireplace showroom. There are hundreds of fireplace options, mantel options...

Welding business. The torch to success may be lit with a welding business. Business Overview The main and most important requirement to starting a welding service is that you must have a welding trade certificate. Providing you do, owning and operating a welding service can be extremely profitable. A welding service can operate from a fixed location or on a mobile basis. Of course, a full-service welding business will provide both options to its clients. Establishing a billing...

Automobile Paint Touch-Up business. If you like cars -- and making them look their best -- this may be the business for you. Business Overview The future is bright for a mobile automotive paint touch-up service, especially when you consider that there are more than 130 million vehicles registered in the United States. Bumper scuffs, key scratches, stone chips and just about every other type of minor automobile paint damage can be quickly and easily fixed at the customer's site...

Career and Personal Coach business. Help bring out the best in people as a career and personal coach. Business Overview As a career and personal coach -- a combination mentor, cheerleader, sounding board and advocate -- you'll work with clients to help them achieve success in their business and personal lives. You'll spend a half-hour to an hour per week listening to their ups and downs and providing both business and personal goal orienteering and guidance. You might work with...

Cartridge Refiller business. Help businesses save money and recycle by refilling inkjet and toner cartridges. Business Overview One of the fastest-growing service businesses today is ink cartridge recycling. Ink and toner cartridges used in most photocopiers, fax machines, and laser and inkjet printers can be recycled by simply replenishing the ink or toner supply, thereby keeping them out of landfills and putting profits in your pockets. This creates a wonderful business...

Adventure Travel Agent business. Business Overview How about ice-climbing in Finland, deep-sea fishing off Australia, base-jumping in Africa, or a Mayan ruins tour in a hot-air balloon? Have fun and earn incredible profits arranging the adventure of a lifetime for clients by starting a specialty adventure travel agency. Forget about run-of-the-mill tours of Paris and those mundane amenity-packed hotels in the Caribbean, and concentrate instead on your client's need for...

Consignment Furniture Store business. Give furniture a second life by selling it again. Business Overview A furniture consignment shop can stock everything from a 100-year-old highboy to a 10-year young sofa. Just as in clothing, the trend these days is toward recycling, finding delightful ways to make everything old seem new (or just beloved) again. Furniture is one of the fastest-growing segments of the resale industry, with more and more nonfurniture consignment stores...

Exhaust Hood Cleaning business. Business Overview In many regions of the United States and Canada, restaurants are required by health board regulations to have their kitchen exhaust hoods and filters cleaned on a regularly scheduled basis to prevent bacteria growth and to eliminate the potential for grease fires. Needless to say, given the vast number of restaurants in North America, an incredible opportunity exists to start a restaurant exhaust hood-cleaning service and cash...

Framing Service business. Preserve memories for your clients with a framing service. Business Overview What must you have and know in order to sell framing and matting services? Framing and matting experience is helpful, but with a little bit of practice and trial and error, framing and matting can be mastered by just about everyone. Tools and equipment are also necessities. If you are purchasing standard-size frames from wholesalers, only basic tools will be needed. If you...

Community Directory Boards business. Find business in creating helpful community forums. Business Overview Do you live in a busy tourist area of the country? If so, perhaps you should consider starting a business that installs, markets and maintains community directory boards. Community directory boards are simply an outdoor board, covered in protective glass or plastic, featuring information about the local community that they serve. Information featured can include a map of...