Business ideas 100 starting points to make money in the new economy chad grills

Business IdeasCopyright– Chapter 1 - Introduction What Do Businesses Look Like When They First Startup?. The Format for Each Idea – Chapter 2 - Technology and Technical ServicesMedia and

Business IdeasCopyright– Chapter 1 - Introduction

What Do Businesses Look Like When

They First Startup?

A Caveat about the Sharing EconomyHow Did They Get Started?

The Format for Each Idea

– Chapter 2 - Technology and Technical

ServicesMedia and Advertising Agency

Mobile AgencyData AgencySmart Homes Agency

RPAS and UAV Agency

Robotics and RPAS Security

Political Reform via TechnologyShrink Digital FootprintsVideo Agency

Graphical Content CreationTechnical Services

Automation and Time ProviderBusiness Validation

Marketplace

Technical ManufacturingApplied Exercise and Experiments– Chapter 3 - Creatives, Artists,Inspirational Leaders

B.E.D.SStorytellingExpert in New TechnologiesExpert in Your "Superpower"Non-Fiction Writing

Writing or Content Company

Audio Narrator

Artist in Residence

Stakes and Incentives as a Service

Text CoachRelationships Coach

New Media Agent

Podcast Network

ArtistHealth Results Specialist– Chapter 4 - Sales

Sales Consultant

TradesyCraftsSimplify as a Service

FlippingFood Truck– Chapter 5 - E-CommerceOnline School or University

E-Commerce Store

Drop Shipping– Chapter 6 - Platform and Marketplace

ArbitrageThe TransporterPet Services as a Service

Underutilized Asset Liquidation– Chapter 7 - Events and Activities

Events IntroAlternative Education

CampPerformance Based Service (Antifragile

Skill)Wine TastingCraft Beer Making and TastingWine Bar or Craft Brew Pub

Relationship Building EventsForced Public Speaking

Local Industry Event

MastermindBreak Into Event

Partner and JV Events

Hobbyist EventMultipurpose Event Space

Personal Training for Large GroupsMeditation, Mindfulness, or Technology

Detox Retreats and Conferences Group Meetups

ConsultingFiduciaries

Results-Based Consulting

Work With VC Backed Companies– Chapter 9 - Services, Agencies, and

ProductsPhysical Security

Senior and Home Care

Hiring and Staffing

Apprentice to a Serial Entrepreneur

Apprentice to a Pro

Holiday Helping Service

Life SkillsHigh-End Electronic Repair

Cooking ClassSkills and Trades

– Chapter 10 - Location Independent

OpportunitiesAdobe Creative Suite MasterHigh-End Designer

Front End Web and App Developer

Full Stack Marketer

Mobile / Swift Developer

Full Stack Developer

Data ScientistsQuality ControlQuick Technical Gigs

Researcher for a Prolific AuthorCelebrity Apprentice

Quarterly Aggregator

– Chapter 11 - Teaching, Curation, and

MediaTeach a HobbyCoaching Local Sports

Media Show, Radio, or PodcastSell the By-Products

News and Media Publication

Niche News Site

Teaching an Online Class

Public Speaking

Personal Standardized Test and

Credentials Tutor

Online TutorSocial MediaHigh End Newsletter or Subscription

Preventive Care

– Chapter 12 - Go Forth and Conquer!

ConclusionEndnotesNotes

Business Ideas

100 Starting Points to Make Money in the New

Economy

Copyright © 2015 Chad Grills

American Press All rights reserved This book

or any portion thereof may not be reproduced

or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book

review.

Printed in the United States of America, 2015

– Chapter 1 –

Introduction

What Do Businesses Look Like When They

business cards, file for an LLC, or planover coffee I think about businesses likethis: they have the potential to beginfrom a string of good ideas If the ideasare properly valued and the personcoming up with them continues thepractice of generating more and betterideas, the business has a chance to liveand breathe Once you begin offering aservice or product to others whocompensate you for the value you create,the business has officially begun.

Thanks to the Internet, there are moreways than ever to learn aboutentrepreneurship But the real learningbegins when we set up stakes andincentives, and squeeze ourselves until

we take action.

This book contains 100 businessesideas that could each be started today.The goal of this book and these businessideas is to help build your creative orbusiness "fitness." Part of that fitness isdeveloping an abundant mindset That'swhy there aren't 7, 30, or even 50business ideas here; there are 100 Theend results of successful businesses wesee every day in the news were neverstarted from just a single idea Theywere started, grown, and finallysucceeded only after a succession ofhundreds, thousands, sometimes tens ofthousands of ideas This concept of ideageneration is so important, yet

overlooked in our modern world.Nietzsche famously said,

"In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering."

What Nietzsche and every greatbusiness tycoon have known is that theyhad to develop the ability to have anendless stream of ideas One idea wasn'tgoing to cut it It was only after

developing the mental fitness togenerate, select and properly order theirideas that they were they able to get fit

When you're in great business shape,you have so many ideas and it's hard tovalue or use them appropriately You let

go of the mindset that great ideas arescarce You recognize that if you'regoing to start a business you must beready to solve any problem, at any time.It's in this zen-like state of "businessshape" that you'll be able to utilizeideas The ideas presented in this bookcan definitely be successfullyimplemented, but my hope is that theseideas will help spark a series of yourown ideas – ideas that are perfectly

suited to wherever you're at in life

This list of 100 business ideas isdesigned to build that fitness needed toideate, reject, order and sift throughideas By mixing them with your ownexperiences, skills and ambitions, Ibelieve you'll stumble onto somethingamazing If you blend that with takingmassive action and never stop coming upwith great ideas, there is no stoppingyou

All these ideas are just startingpoints They can be modified (andshould be) however we see fit The goal

is to just begin, and get ourentrepreneurial muscles working

immediately We can look at the ideasbelow as businesses, experiments,micro-businesses, or incentivizedexperiments with stakes What mattersmost is that we get started so that we canget learning.

A Caveat about the Sharing Economy

The mainstream media and most ofthe technology industry love the phrase

"sharing economy." This is an annoyingphrase on a few different levels, mainlybecause we're not sharing anything; themarket for everything has just becomemore liquid Technology has loweredsearch costs and allowed people to dobusiness with one another much moreeasily These people aren't sharinganything; they're buying and sellinggoods and services (albeit temporarily).Just because the mainstream media turns

its nose up to what business looks like

on a small or local level doesn't mean

we have to use the language and termsthey give us The "sharing economy" is ablessing to anyone who wants to buildhis or her entrepreneurial muscle It's anopportunity for each of us to startbusinesses more easily and create value

in the economy for everyone else alongthe way

The platforms and businesses thathave helped make the economy moreliquid, such as AirBnb, Lyft, Uber, andeven DogVacay, allow us to becomeinstantly more entrepreneurial We canbegin the learning curve today and getpaid to learn the right things These types

of businesses provide anyone theopportunity to start their own micro-business immediately, on a marketplaceplatform that is continually beingperfected to please both partiesinvolved This opportunity is in starkcontrast to most MBA andentrepreneurship programs where wepay to study often outdated business casestudies This formalized style ofeducation and college training iscertainly socially acceptable andperhaps easier to explain or justify toour family But all the ideas below put

us on the path of real learning They allare designed to spark ideas or invite us

to take the real actions necessary tolearn about business and

entrepreneurship The best lessons andlearning we'll always remember comesonly through practice All the 100 ideasbelow are about practicing and aboutmaking money, instead of paying to studyold examples.

Many people don't take theirbusiness ideas seriously enough becausethey forget the humble nature from whichall businesses grow This is natural and

to be expected After all, traditionalmedia focuses most on the polished endproduct of entrepreneurs They oftenleave out the humble beginnings that all

of us are capable of achieving today.Before we jump into the list of 100business ideas, let's briefly review how

a few well-known entrepreneurs first gottheir start.

How Did They Get

Aaron Levie, CEO of Box.com:

Started many small web designbusinesses and experiments

Tracy DiNunzio, CEO ofTradesy.com: Rented out herapartment via AirBnb to make extracash while she was learning and

building what became Tradesy.

Ilan Zechory, Co-Founder of

Genius.com: Started selling hisservices as a licensed hypnotistbefore co-founding what becameGenius

Richard Branson, Founder of The

Virgin Group: Started sellingadvertising space in a magazine hestarted before the magazine actuallyexisted

Marc Cuban, Founder of many

companies includingBroadcast.com Now Cuban is a

VC on Shark Tank, Creator ofCyberDust and Expire, as well asother products and apps Cuban gothis start in business through

bartending, selling powdered milkdoor to door, and then learningabout software by selling software.After he had been fired from his jobselling software, he started acomputer servicing company to fixall the problems he saw at hisprevious employer.

Tim Ferriss, Author, and Angel

Investor: Got his start with aconference for speed reading and

an audio program about how to getinto an Ivy League College; then hestarted a business selling a singleworkout supplement throughwebsite, phone, and mail orders

Travis Kalanick, CEO of Uber:

Got his start with a business he

founded with a neighbor Theytutored large groups of students forthe SAT.

The examples of small starts areeverywhere The difference betweenthose which started small and stayedsmall versus those which started smalland grew large is only mindset

When someone pays us for a product

or service we render, we make his orher life better At that moment, we aredoing our part to rebuild America Thatgap between the cost of what we createand the value it brings to someone else(our margin) is real philanthropy at its

core There isn't anything moreAmerican than creating value wherenone previously existed

Creating businesses is also afantastic mental and financial insurancepolicy When we know we can start withnothing and build multiple incomestreams, we gain a rare type ofconfidence There are few things moresatisfying than knowing we can loseeverything we have yet still find a way

to make money

We open more options to ourselves

by cultivating the ability to startbusinesses Once we've built thatentrepreneurial skill, we can be dropped

anywhere in the United States and within

a few months be up and running, makingmoney by moving resources from areas

of lower yield to higher yield This isthe ultimate optionality and freedom.There isn't a better path to crushing ourown fears

There is no reason to wait Theultimate foundation of business skillsstarts with many small ideas like theones listed below The real learning lies

in doing things that require hard work,courage, and bravery An examplewould be looking someone in the eyeand asking them to write you a check orsend payment of $495 for your services

The Format for Each

Idea

Obviously, every business idea herewon't be perfectly suited for you Thepoint isn't to get overwhelmed or boggeddown thinking you have to test out all

100 ideas Rather, the idea is to read thelist of 100 ideas at your leisure Alongthe way, there might be something thatstrikes your fancy An idea might jumpout at you because your life experiences

or existing skills have uniquelypositioned you to get started As a rule

of thumb, business ideas where we canfigure out the next step or action item toget started are the ones we are well

suited to explore

The more we take action, runexperiments, and start side businesses,the more we'll learn what those nextsteps look like After enough practice, itbecomes second nature to identify theseries of steps required to turn ideas into

a cash generating business

This list of 100 business ideas

is meant to be a healthy snack Eat them

up and enjoy, but they purposefully don'tcover every detail or intricacy of thebusiness They are meant to be creativefuel well suited for you to use whereveryou are at As you read them, and anidea jumps out at you, here are some

questions you may want to ask yourself:

The Idea

Is this a good fit for me?

If so, why is it?

Do I have a specific skill set orknowledge base that will give methe upper hand?

Does it excite me?

Can I think of the next step to take

to get started?

As a rule of thumb, if you can take thenext step to get started, this is a greatsign that the business idea is perfectlysuited to you, your network, and current

business acumen

Now let's jump into the business ideas!

– Chapter 2 –

Technology and Technical Services

Media and Advertising

Agency

Find out how a business is currentlyadvertising and then begin exploringnew advertising techniques, platforms,

or distribution channels that might beuseful to them We can either teach themhow to use this new tool or offer to buyadvertisements for them through this newchannel

There is no better time to start a

media or advertising buying agency thatproduces results If you can buy ads forclients and demonstrate a positive return

on investment, your skills will always

be in demand This is a type of businessthat you can understand by just figuringout a new advertising product on a

social network For instance, a newtechnical advertising product such asFacebook Dark Posts is a great place tostart learning about an advertising

product that your potential clients aremost likely not using

Or, you could learn a simple

technical advertising tool like

retargeting display advertisements Themajor social networks will always havenew advertising products which

businesses are too busy to learn That'swhere your media or advertising agency