How to Start a Personal Shopping Business

If you love shopping, has discriminating taste and loves dealing with people, you may consider starting a personal shopping business. As a personal shopper, you will make purchases for other people or provide advice while the client shop.

The personal shopping service has grown through the years mainly because people simply don’t have time to shop [...]

How to Start a Bookstore Business

The book selling business is a very competitive business. The intense competition from online giant Amazon.com plus the big bookstore chains such as Barnes and Noble and Borders has put huge pressures on profit margin and made it difficult for independent booksellers to thrive.
But if you have been dreaming of starting a bookstore, I suggest [...]

10 Most (and Least) Profitable Businesses to Start

Forbes.com has made a list of the 10 Most Profitable Businesses to start, which are:

No. 1: Accounting Services = Average Pretax Margin: 25%
No. 2: Legal Services = Average Pretax Margin: 21. 6%
No. 3: Dental Services = Average Pretax Margin: 20.9%
No. 4: Specialized Design Services = Average Pretax Margin: 17.6%
No. 5: “Other” Health Practitioners (e.g. Chiropractors, [...]

Business Idea: Selling Merchant Accounts

One business you can do from home, whether full time or part time, is to sell merchant accounts. There are a number of merchant account providers, including big companies such as Card Service International or smaller outfits such as Vantage Card Services.
In this business, you tap businesses accepting credit cards processing to use your merchant [...]

Business Idea: Starting a Bakery Business

The bakery industry was hit by the growing obesity problem and the popularity of low-carb diet. But according to a report by the Business Trend Analysts, the market for bakery products remains quite healthy with the U.S. manufacturers sales in 2005 estimated at around $35.2 billion.
So if your dream is to bake the most wonderful [...]