105 Service Businesses to Start Today
Consumers love convenience. They always want things to be cheaper, faster and better. This is why they love specialty-services entrepreneurs.
Check out the following ideas to see what you can do.
Personal Services
- Mobile pet grooming
- Collectibles search
- Diaper delivery
- Dry-cleaning delivery and pickup
- Mobile locksmith
- Graffiti abatement and removal
- Golf-club cleaning
- Self-defense instructor
- Adventure tours
- Pet sitting
- Court-paper serving
- Mobile massage
- Mobile mechanic
- Personal chef
- Tailor/seamstress
- Porcelain repair
- Resume/cover letter service
- Mystery shopping
- Tax-form repairer – prepare tax forms for businesses and individuals.
- Wedding-guide publishing
- Mobile detailing and car wash
- Used-car inspection
- Professional organizer
- Tutoring
- Power washing
- Windshield repair
- Private investigation
- Business plan consulting
- Unpacking and packing services
- Business travel management
- Carpet dying
- Hospital bill auditing – help patients understand their hospital bill.
- Specialized staffing
- Bookkeeping
- Computer repair
- Referral service
- Freight brokerage
- Video brochure
- Executive search – match employers with the right person for opening in their company.
- Computer consulting
- Long distance reselling
- Limousine service
- Office relocation service
- Language translation
- Office plant maintenance – water, prune and fertilize offices’ plants.
- Professional office consultant
- Office support service
- Miniblind cleaning
- Apartment prepping
- Debt collection service – track down delinquent debtors and get paid when they pay your clients.
- Catering
- Restaurant delivery service
- Seminar promotion
- Window washing
- Valet parking
- Professional organizer
- Power washing
- Marketing and Sales
- Sales lead generating
- Public relations agency
- Proofreading and copywriting service – create catchy and error-free copy for your clients.
- Direct mail/coupon
- Mailing services
- Sales training
- Welcoming service – greet newcomers in your neighborhood with a package of samples and coupons from the local businesses.
Home Services
- Unpacking and packing service
- Handyman services
- Home entertainment installation
- Debt/mortgage reduction service – help people reduce their debt by offering them alternative structures of payment.
- Pool services
- Lawn care
- Home inspection service – assess homes for issues like foundation abnormalities and structural damage, then connect them with contractors for repairs.
- House painting
- Local moving service
- House sitting
- Home decorating – if people are always complimenting what you have done with your home, try your hand in decorating houses.
- Miniblind cleaning – keep miniblinds clean for home, offices and the buildings around you.
- Pet supplies and food home delivery
- Custom closet systems – look for long time closet accumulators and new homeowners. They are your potential clients.
- Window washing
- Residential cleaning
Computers and Technology
- Computer repair
- Computer consulting – use your computer knowledge to benefit newbies who want to learn a thing or two.
- Internet research
- Website designer
Children’s Services
- Children’s party planning
- Child care
- Child identification program
- Children’s fitness
- Children’s transport service
- Baby proofing
- Kids’ computer training
- Nanny placement – help busy parents find a nanny.
- Infant/new mother home care – when new parents come back from the hospital with their infants, help them get settled by offering in-home support and care.
- Tutoring
Event Services
- Photography
- Personal shopper/errand runner
- Family history video – film personalized accounts for families such as births and weddings.
- Mobile disc jockey
- Wedding planning service
- Event planning
- Limousine service
- Photo birth announcements
- Videotaping service
- Reunion organizing – help a big high-school class or big family come together.
