Good Business Ideas for Women
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Women seeking to juggle career and family life may find they can strike a balance between both by starting their own businesses. Entrepreneurship can provide women with a chance to make their own schedules, allow for flexibility regardings child care and encourage them to pursue a passion, leading to enriching and rewarding careers and experiences.
Home-Based Ideas
Find a passion and run with it, starting small if necessary. For the busy mom, working at home can provide the flexibility needed to run errands and keep an eye on the children during after-school hours. A child care business, craft business or dog-walking service can all be run from the home. For women with baking or cooking skills, careers baking cakes and sweets for celebrations, providing catering services for small gatherings or corporate functions and canning homemade products, such as salsa and spaghetti sauces, can succeed. Those with a green thumb may enjoy selling home-grown fruits and vegetables at produce markets on the weekends.
Professional Services Options
Women transitioning from the corporate world to their own businesses can often use their current skills to capitalize on the demands and needs of current and future clientele. Accountants, lawyers and financial analysts can open up shop in a small office complex or a home office. Those with talents related to beauty services can start their own salon or spa. Personal care businesses, such as those that assist the elderly, can provide private clients with much needed flexibility and compassion. Other options include starting a nanny service, tutoring service or pet-sitting service.
Additional Ideas
Put your organizational talent and eye for detail to work. Start an interior design services business serving both commercial and residential clients. Become a personal assistant and help those with busy lives keep track of appointments, plan vacations and run errands. Make your client's life easy by completing the grocery shopping, picking up the dry cleaning and mailing packages. For those with an interest in the outdoors, consider operating an outfitter store. Trendsetters and fashion-forward individuals can find success by opening up a trendy boutique; those with a love for pets can translate this same idea into a pet boutique.
