Category: Female Entrepreneurs

Need A Business Idea

Here are 55 Great Business Ideas

Need A Business Idea

Today, tens of thousands of people are considering starting a home based business, and for good reasons. On average, people can expect to have two and three careers during their work life. Those leaving one career often think about their second or third career move being to their own home. People who have been part of the traditional nine-to-five work force and are on the verge of retiring from that life are thinking of what to do next. The good news: Starting a homebased business is within the reach of almost anyone who wants to take a risk and work hard.

$1,500 or less to start up

1. ACCOUNTANT
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Create a flier outlining your services. Before you do that, you need to know what those services will be. Do you want to simply do bookkeeping for a small business? A more involved level of accounting would be do actually work up balance sheets, income statements, and other financial reports on a monthly, quarterly, and/or annual basis, depending on the needs of the business. Other specializations can include tax accounting, a huge area of potential work. Many business owners don’t mind keeping their own day-to-day bookkeeping records but would rather get professional help with their taxes.

2. BICYCLE REPAIR

In many parts of the country, this business tends to be seasonal, but you can find ways around that. Rent a storage unit and offer to store people’s bicycles over the winter after you do a tune-up and any needed repairs on them. If you want to cater to the Lance Armstrong wannabes, you can have business all year round. These road race riders are training through snow, sleet and dark of night. Some of them work on their own bicycles, but many of them don’t, so you can get their business all year. And if you keep Saturday shop hours, you can be sure you will have a group of enthusiasts coming by to talk all things cycling.

3. BOAT CLEANING
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Boats that are hauled out of the water for the winter or even just for mid-season repairs will need the hull cleaned. And depending on the type of boat, it is a good time to give a major cleaning everything else too–the decks, the sleeping quarters, the head, and the holds. Start by approaching homes that have a boat sitting in the yard. Or you could market your services to the marina to contract you to do the boat cleaning it offers to customers.

4. BUSINESS PLAN SERVICE
Has expansion possibilities

Offer a soup-to-nuts business plan, including market research, the business plan narrative and the financial statements. Plan your fee around the main one that the client will want and offer the others as add-on services. You can give clients an electronic file and allow them to take it from there, or you can keep the business plan on file and offer the service of tweaking it whenever necessary. Have business plan samples to show clients–and make sure to include your own!

5. CHIMNEY SWEEP

Learning to be a chimney sweep may mean nothing more than apprenticing with someone already in the business. By becoming a chimney expert, you can combine a chimney sweep business with a chimney inspection service–covering more than just whether or not the chimney needs cleaning but whether the chimney is in good working order or in need of repair.

6. CLEANING SERVICE

There are many directions you can take this business. If you want to work during hours when no one else does, you can focus on office clients. You can focus on retail businesses and keep your customers clumped into one or two blocks. Restaurants are in great need of daily thorough cleaning and can be a great source of steady clients. Perhaps you would be more interested in house cleaning. Many times with cleaning services you don’t have to spend lots of money on advertising or marketing because your customers will come by word of mouth.

7. COMPUTER REPAIR
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Study the main types of software that system users will want–word processing, photo manipulation software, mail merge, spreadsheet, design and especially security software. Investigate all the components–monitor types in all their varieties; keyboards, from wired to ergonomic to wireless; mouse types; as well as peripheral components like printers and scanners. Become completely familiar with all the ISPs (internet service providers) available in the market area you plan to cover. Establish yourself as the guru who can meet the needs of the personal computer user, the small business or a larger corporation.

8. CONSULTANT
Has expansion possibilities

To be a consultant, you need to have an expertise in something so you can market yourself as an advisor to others looking to work in that area. Perhaps you managed several large warehouses in your career with a drugstore company, you did all the marketing for many years for a large shoe manufacturer or you set up a chain of beauty supply shops or take-out restaurants. You can use this experience to help others do similar things without making the same mistakes that you made along the way.

10. EBAY ASSISTANT

Do you have items lurking around your household that you could sell on eBay? Figure out your asking price and decide whether to auction it or put it in your eBay store. Then decide if you want a minimum bid and how long you want the auction to last. You will want to establish a PayPal account to use for transactions. The eBay website provides all the information you need to know to get up and running with an eBay business.

11. EDITORIAL SERVICES
Has expansion possibilities

Here are some of the editorial services you can provide from the quiet of your own home:

  • Copyediting. This is where fact checking takes place, and where grammatical, stylistic and typographical errors are caught.
  • Proofreading. This is the last stop for a “finished” piece. The proofreader makes sure the copyediting changes have been properly made and no new errors are created in the process.
  • Indexing. There are indexing courses available and you can get indexing software.
  • Developmental editing. A developmental editor works with a manuscript on big-picture things like organization and content issues.
  • Book doctoring. This is an editorial service provided for manuscripts written by experts. They create a manuscript as best they can and then a book doctor puts it into publishable shape.
  • Ghost Writing. As a ghost writer, you actually do the research and write the book and someone else’s name is attached as the author.
  • Copywriting. Also known as business writing, this is writing that promotes a product or a service.
  • Book writing. Do you have an expertise in something professional, such as accounting or interior decorating? Or personally, like knitting? Why not write a book about it?
  • Magazine article writing. Magazines and newspapers are a great way to get your writing published before tackling the daunting task of writing a whole book.
  • Web page content provider. Providing content for a web site is a good way to make some money writing.

12. ELECTRONICS REPAIR
Has expansion possibilities

This business is similar to the computer repair business, but you will take on all sorts of electronic equipment besides just computers. With smaller electronics, you will need to be prepared to have customers bring their repair projects to you, as you would have difficulty recovering the cost of driving around picking up broken equipment and returning it. You may also want to encourage people to give you their old electronics so you can use them for parts.

13. EVENT PLANNING
Has expansion possibilities

One of the first things you need to do is visit every potential event location with which you plan to work. Work with the marketing manager to tour each site and learn what is available at each location. Start a database that will allow you to sort venues by varying features–the number of people each site holds, if there is AV equipment available on site, will you need to arrange for rental chairs, etc. Then when you are beginning to plan an event with a client, you can find out what the key parameters are for the event and easily pull up the three or four sites that meet the basic criteria. and engagement parties, etc.

14. EXPERT WITNESS SERVICE
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

One way to make money in this field is by being an expert witness yourself. If you have an expertise that could be useful in legal cases, you can market yourself to attorneys to act as an expert witness. Another way to be active in the expert witness field is to play a sort of matchmaker, matching attorneys up with expert witnesses for their cases–either for the defense or for the prosecution. Expert witnesses for big money cases can be expected to fly anywhere to testify. There’s no reason your database of witnesses can’t be from all parts of the country.

15. FINANCIAL PLANNER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

To start, you should go through the certification process so that you can label yourself a CFP (Certified Financial Planner). Your certificate shows that you have expertise and credibility, and this differentiation will help people choose you as their financial planner.

For more information and details on certification, click here. http://www.cfp.net/become/Steps.asp

16. FLEA MARKET
Has expansion possibilities

People love to spend weekends rummaging through tables full of other people’s unwanted items, looking for treasures. Make sure to change your layout and put new stuff out for sale often. You want people to come back time and again to see what’s new. You don’t even have to have that much new stuff to make things look new. Just moving an item from a table to the top of a bookshelf might get it noticed, even though the item has been in your inventory since you first started having sales.

17. GOLF COACH
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Let the local public courses know about your coaching business. Cultivate relationships with the staff and encourage them to recommend you as a coach. Another place to look for customers is the corporate world. Golfing is a game that business people use to develop relationships outside the office. You do need to be a better than average golfer to develop a reputation as a golf coach. You also need to be a good teacher, know how to be motivational and be willing to work with many different types of people.

18. HOME ENERGY AUDITOR
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

All homeowners are always on the lookout for ways to save on their utility bills. You can come to their aid by providing them with an audit of their house and giving them a breakdown of how they could accomplish real savings in heating, cooling and electrical use. You can go one step further and do the implementation and installation of some of your suggestions in their home yourself. Do a complete appliance audit, with efficiency ratings and calculations based on the age of the appliance. And don’t forget the water heater!

19. HOME INSPECTION
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

In order to be successful, you will want to establish contacts with real estate agents who can recommend your services to customers. The home inspection field is one where you will need to do constant updating of your education and knowledge. New products are constantly coming out on the market–if you only know about decks made of wood, you will not know how to inspect and assess the new materials on the market, such as composites that are made to look like real wood. Also keep apprised of all safety updates of materials and issues with things like off-gassing, carbon monoxide production, and other chemical precautions.

20. HOUSEHOLD ORGANIZER
Has expansion possibilities

You can choose either to do the organizing work or to come in to a home and consult on the things the homeowner could do to better organize. Have a portfolio of different organizational scenarios in different rooms in the home and talk with the homeowner about the style he or she likes. Create checklists and questionnaires to understand how the family uses the home. Are the kids wildly busy with after-school activities? Or are they usually home after school and want access to their toys? Do they share rooms? All of these things will help you tailor an organizing plan and become the family hero.

21. IMPORT/EXPORT SPECIALIST
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

If you don’t already have work experience with importing and/or exporting, you will have a longer learning curve. You can start by learning the basics and hosting educational sessions to teach others what they need to know to get started in import/export. That alone would probably gain you your first couple of clients. If you keep going with educational seminars and expand your reach to outside your immediate region, you could probably develop a sufficient and ongoing customer base very quickly, but be careful not to outpace your learning curve!

22. INTERIOR DECORATOR
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Market your talents to building contractors. People purchasing new homes can often be overwhelmed with the choices and possibilities in home decorating. Design some questionnaires for each major element and each major room in the house. Find out how the homeowner will use the home–are there children? Pets? Does the woman of the house wear high heels? Do the home’s residents neglect to remove shoes? How will each room be used? Where might task lighting and ambient lighting be most appropriate?

23. JEWELRY MAKING
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

There are many different ways of getting into the jewelry business and many different types of materials with which you can work. Working in metal will probably require the most in the way of specific tools. You need to be able to heat the metal to manipulate it, and you need metalworking tools to cut and engrave it. But there are many other materials that you can work with to make jewelry–glass, plastic, beads, feathers, even wood, to name just a few.

24. MARKETING COPY WRITER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

If you can write copy that gets people excited about purchasing what your client has to sell, you can make good money in this business. Unless you are highly experienced from working in the copywriting field, take a course. There are online courses or classes at community colleges and universities that can give you a leg up in getting savvy at writing copy for brochures, catalogs, advertising and, of course, marketing copy for the web.

25. NOTARY PUBLIC/JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

In most states in the U.S., a notary public is a state officer who is authorized to witness and attest to the legalities of certain documents by signature and stamping a seal. Most states require that you pass an exam and a background check. It costs very little to become a notary and your income from notary work is negligible. A justice of the peace typically performs wedding ceremonies. States have varying rules and procedures for becoming a JP and performing services. Becoming a JP and/or notary public does not cost much money. And it is not a big moneymaking venture! Many states set the fees you can charge for JP services. JPs can add additional fees, and often do, including travel and hourly rates for additional meetings such as rehearsals, other prep time and any special requests.

26. PERSONAL CONCIERGE

This business is for someone who is supremely efficient and has the ability to make things happen. People who hire you will expect things when they want them and you need to be able to come through with not only what they want, but with a personal touch and a smile on your face. The most likely clients for a personal concierge service are top executives who find themselves at the office by 7 a.m. and are there most nights until 9 p.m., leaving them very little time to do all those things that often need to be done during those very hours.

27. PERSONAL TRAINER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Advertise your services in places where everyone goes, like restaurants and grocery stores. Having a website is a good idea–people want some privacy in their decision-making when it comes to getting fit. They can go to your website and determine if your approach to personal training is an approach that would work for them. It is important to emphasize the safety aspect of using a personal trainer. You can help clients get fit and avoid injury.

28. PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Your job, in the case of rental units, will be to make sure the property is running smoothly. For seasonal properties, you will most likely spend your management time making sure the property is ready for seasonal visits and well-maintained when no one is around. If the owners go away for six weeks in the winter, the property manager makes regular checks on the property. You will be the contact number if the security system operator needs to contact someone about a breach in security.

29. SMALL ENGINE REPAIR E
xperience, training or licensing may be needed

Most community colleges offer some level of engine-repair courses. Another way to learn would be to take a part-time position at a repair shop or a rental facility where you could learn on the job, although you will want to be open about your plans. You should be prepared to work on push-behind lawn mowers, riding lawn mowers, generators, garden tools such as rototillers and edgers, chainsaws, wood chippers and snowblowers. You need to decide whether you’ll want to take on bigger jobs, such as tractors, snowmobiles and ATVs; space may be your decision-maker.

30. SOLAR ENERGY CONSULTANT
Experience, training or licensing may be needed
Has expansion possibilities

As a solar consultant, you can basically conduct a home inspection and give clients a report on their solar options for their particular home and site. This can range from full-fledged general solar installations that generate electricity to simple solar walkway lighting. You might want to start by working in a solar products company to become knowledgeable in the solar energy field. However, to be a consultant, it is often best not to be affiliated with any one company or product and be able to recommend products and options across the field of solar energy.

31. TAX PREPARER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Most tax preparation franchises offer courses, seminars, and training to get you ready to work for them. You will learn a lot about tax preparation while working for them before going out on your own. There is a lot of educational support out there to learn tax preparation and all its complexities. And there are lots of individuals and businesses willing to spend a few hundred dollars a year to have someone else prepare their taxes and keep watch for tax breaks or tax burdens on their behalf.

32. TAXIDERMIST
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Today’s world of taxidermy isn’t exclusive to preserving real specimens. Taxidermy also refers to recreating a specimen using completely artificial materials. Taxidermy schools where you can learn the trade are located almost throughout the country, typically as courses over several weeks specializing in certain levels of expertise, from beginner to master’s level. Like any enterprise, there are taxidermy conventions that you can attend and learn about the latest techniques and materials.

33. UPHOLSTERING

If you have a knack for sewing, upholstery repair might be a perfect business for you. One of the best ways to learn how to upholster is to get some discarded upholstered furniture and start tearing it apart. Many books and some videos are available to help you learn this trade. Often furniture ready for upholstering will also need repairs. Have a list available of furniture repair people you can recommend to your customers. Or you can take the piece in, have repair people you work with do this work for you, and add it to the overall cost. You can also learn to do this work, especially minor repairs, yourself.

34. USED BOOK SALES

Almost everyone has a few boxes of books stashed away in the house somewhere. Why not make a business out of them? In order to gain customers–especially repeat customers–you will need to have some regular shop hours. Make your shop known for something-a specific category (or two) of books, having some first editions for sale, all paperbacks a dollar and all hardcovers two bucks, and/or a swap program. Maps, illustrations, postcards, greeting cards and magazines are good sidelines to include in your shop.

35. WEDDING PLANNER

You will need to be up-to-date on wedding trends and fads, dress styles, color trends–almost everything under the sun! Offer your customers an ala carte menu of services, from helping pick flowers, the wedding gown and bridesmaid dresses to picking the venue and hiring the caterer. Before you open your business, shop at all the wedding shops, and even pretend you are a bride-to-be to see what kinds of services the wedding gown shop provides and how they treat potential customers. You need to know every detail of the business to give the accurate impression that you are the go-to person for anyone planning a wedding.

$1,500 to 3,000 to start up

36. APPLIANCE REPAIR
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Every household has a number of appliances, large and small. You can work on your own or on contract with appliance stores to cover their warranty service calls–or, best of all, you can do some of each. Plan to start slow and build your customer base on recommendations and referrals based on work well done. Consider developing relationships with contractors to be the go-to person to install appliances in newly constructed houses.

37. COMPUTER TRAINING
Experience, training or licensing may be needed
Has expansion possibilities

If you are proficient in both Macintosh and PC, you should offer training in both types of computers. You could probably make a living helping seniors learn how to use the internet and e-mail to keep in touch with their loved ones, who are now commonly spread around the country. Err on the side of caution in this business. People do not want to know all the details about what makes a computer work. If you overload them with information from the beginning by explaining bits, bytes, and megapixels, they will stick to their paper and pencil forever.

38. DESKTOP PUBLISHER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

You can use desktop publishing software to create newsletters, magazines, books or even marketing materials. You can create the content for your desktop publications, or you can pay a writer to create the content for you. Alternatively, you can advertise your desktop publishing services to design and create newsletters and books for others with their content.

39. FENCE INSTALLATIONS

Fences are everywhere. And they don’t last forever, so they need to be repaired and replaced with a certain amount of frequency. The most common fence material is wood. However, vinyl has become a popular fence choice due to its longevity and relative freedom from maintenance. Wrought iron is another common fencing, especially in urban environments. You can have fun shopping for vintage wrought iron fencing at salvage yards.

40. FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Despite the proliferation of the internet, print media is here to stay for the foreseeable future! Fliers, newsletters, magazines, information sheets, letters and advertisements are just a few of the types of print media that business hire freelancers to create for them. Websites and online advertising need graphic design services as well. Even if your expertise is only in design, offer the works for potential clients, including the editorial creation and the printing and even mailing of the final piece. You can line up regular freelancers for those parts of the job you can’t do.

41. GIFT BASKET SERVICE
Has expansion possibilities

Finding a niche is the best way to start out in the gift basket business. Are you a dog lover, horse lover, or exercise guru who could put together baskets that hold the things that people with this interest would like? Do you already create a product that a gift basket could be built around? Have you made your own soaps for the past 10 years? A gift basket that included one or two of your soaps, hand lotion, a scrub brush and manicure kit could be a lovely basket to receive.

42. GRAFFITI REMOVAL

Create an arsenal of cleaning products that can clean almost every kind of product (paint, chalk, markers) from every kind of surface (cement, wood, pavement). The best way to conduct a graffiti service is to offer a subscription-like arrangement. Once a month or whatever interval makes sense for your clients, go around to their property and clean off the graffiti. Charge them a monthly or quarterly fee and make it simple for everyone–they don’t have to think about graffiti, and you just do your job.

43. HAIRSTYLIST
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Hairstyling is a popular business that can be quite lucrative. Generally a home based hairstylist business is likely to be started by someone who has already has a cosmetology career and wants a change. If you already have your cosmetology training and license, and loads of experience under your belt working in a hairstyling salon, you probably have a following that will follow you right home without any hesitation.

44. HERBAL FARM STAND

You need to decide whether you will sell your herbs as live plants, picked or cut in bunches and packed, or dried. If you plan to market to cooks instead of gardeners, you will want to sell your herbs either fresh cut and packed in sealed bags, or dried and sold in baggies. You can also consider a “pick-your-own” arrangement; however, be aware that herbs are more delicate than most P.Y.O products. You may save your garden a lot of strife and your plants a lot of wear and tear if you do the picking.

45. LANDSCAPER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

If you have a knack for this type of work, a degree won’t be necessary. Most people want their yards tidied up in the spring, their lawns mowed in the summer, their leaves removed in the fall, and their shrubs and driveways ready for winter snow. You will also want to offer garden work such as spring planting of annuals and perennials; vegetable garden preparation, planting and fall cleanup; pest control and watering. You can offer tree care service. There is plenty to do in the yard that has nothing to do with plants: stone wall restoration, fencing, irrigation system installation.

46. MASSAGE THERAPIST
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

You will want to become certified in massage therapy to be able to effectively market your services. Courses that lead to certification include not only information on human anatomy and physiology and the effects that massage has on both, but also on how to make a business out of the field of massage. You could do either a certification program or an associate’s degree and stay within the $5,000 scope of this book.

47. MOVING SERVICE

Lots of people who are moving want to hire someone to do the heavy lifting for them. You can leave the large-scale, long-distance moving to the big moving companies. Your work can be the local, moving-across-town or to the town-next-door jobs. These are the ones that people start off thinking perhaps they could do themselves, and it will be your job to convince them otherwise. Your signs around town will tempt them to let you take care of that part of the move, while they are busy taking care of those other 500 items on their list.

48. MUSIC LESSONS
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

You want to stick to the instrument(s) you know, but you may be a skilled enough musician to offer lessons on several different instruments, or those in a particular class, e.g., stringed or woodwind.You can decide to take on individuals or classes, depending on space and availability of instruments. Public schools are continually reducing their commitment to art and music classes for students, so you can try to work with the public school system to supplement their efforts in those areas.

49. PHOTOGRAPHER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Making money as a photographer can be done in a number of different ways. You can specialize in one area, the most common being weddings. There are niches you can explore for photography: portraits of people and their pets, families, and homes; photographs of holiday events, birthday parties or Christmas cards; the possibilities are endless.

50. RUG CLEANING

You will need to learn how to work with all kinds of carpet fabrics, from synthetic to wool carpets. Decide whether you will take on valuable antique carpets and family heirlooms; if so, you will want to get specialized training in how to handle these carpets and the specialized ways of cleaning them. Learn how to get tough stains and odors out of carpets–such as dog and cat odors–and your services will be in great demand.

51. WEBSITE DEVELOPER
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Many courses exist (many of which, logically, are offered online) where you can learn the language of website creation and can learn about the details, like how to set up shopping cart systems, security concerns, etc. You will, of course, need to learn about each company you design for. What is the atmosphere of the company that you need to reflect in the website design–is it wild and contemporary, meaning brilliant colors and fun graphics? Or will more classic colors like black, navy blue and maroon be more appropriate?

$3,000 to $5,000 to start up

52. BED AND BREAKFAST

Do you have a room that has its own bathroom and is private from the rest of the living space? Are you near attractions such as a tourist area, sports stadium or venue for a large annual event? Or is your home in the country with spring peepers, summer crickets and crisp fall nights that could give a city-dweller a weekend of peaceful living? Say you can rent the room for $150 a night for Friday and Saturday nights 48 weeks a year–that’s $14,400 in revenue! Utilize what you have and create a unique experience.

53. CHRISTMAS TREE SALES

If you want to start a Christmas tree farm, you need to plan ahead. It takes approximately seven years for a Balsam fir–perhaps the most traditional Christmas tree–to grow from a small sapling to a 5- to 6-foot tree. Selling your trees yourself is the best option. Consumers come to the property, pick the one they want, and you harvest it for them. The other option is to buy your trees from a wholesaler and sell them either in your yard or in a vacant lot that you rent from Thanksgiving to Christmas.

54. DAY CARE
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Perhaps you love children. Perhaps you have children of your own and the idea of taking care of a few more for part of the day appeals to you. Child-care needs continue to soar in the United States. Many people prefer the option of their child being cared for in a home environment while they are at work, opposed to a more institutional-like setting. These things mean that a homebased childcare business can get off and running immediately.

55. PET SITTING
Experience, training or licensing may be needed

Starting a pet sitting service requires almost nothing in start-up costs. You do need some general credentials that will cost little or nothing to acquire. Your list of credentials should probably include personal pet ownership–if not currently, at least in the past–as well as other pet-related experience, including working at a pet food store, an animal hospital or other animal-related business. You will need to spend a little to become “bonded.” This is known as “honesty insurance,” and ensures your clients that you won’t get their house keys and make off with their valuables (or that they’ll get their money back if you do).

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Happy New Year Women Entrepreneurs

I Wish You All The Best In Business

 

Happy New Year Female Entrepreneurs

Happy New Year Women Entrepreneurs!

Good Day God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs, I pray you are well.

I hope you are enjoying the New Year and walking in your purpose.

It has been a busy time here in my home for me and hubby. Ladies, do you know that God makes our house a home? I love knowing that the Almighty is always right here with me. He is the reason for my success and I give Him all the glory.

What’s been going on with all of you? Are you doing what you love? Have you been working to grow and prosper your businesses, God’s virtuous women entrepreneurs?

Is there anything you need help with? If so, please feel free to email me with questions, but only if you’re serious. I say this because I keep getting email requests to write for my blog only to respond and then no response.

You can find my email address at the bottom of this post if you need help in your business.

If you’d like to hear what I’m up to please continue reading.

I have been reevaluating my plans and path, along with my many goals. At the end of January 2022, I will be introducing my newest venture for my skin care line, Beauty and the Face.

My plan for BATF is to continue making body butter recipes for women and men. I love to hand craft moisturizers that contain skin quenching ingredients that can make everyone’s skin more healthy and beautiful.

Now onto my newest thing. I am in the process of introducing my hair growth product to my customers in a few weeks. This is an exciting time for me. I know the results and feedback will be positive. You can best believe that I am looking forward to blessing women who need my newest line of products.

Enjoying healthy hair with the right blend of essential oils is vital to growing a head full of healthy hair!

My hope for you ladies, is that your business continues to thrive and may God continue to rain His blessings upon you abundantly.

Blessings,

Cyndi

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Help for Small Business Owners

How Small Business Owners Can Find Community Groups And Networking Opportunities

How Small Business Owners Can Find Community Groups And Networking Opportunities

Looking for support as you navigate the challenges of running a business? Online resources and books are a great place to look when you have questions. Another option to consider: Finding local, national, and online community groups where you can engage with fellow business owners who can relate to your situation.

Here are some places to get started as you look to build out a support and community network as a business owner.

Local Chamber of Commerce

Local Chambers of Commerce vary across locations, but they’re an excellent starting point. Usually, for a small membership fee, small business owners can expect to find opportunities for networking, events, discounts, mentorship, and professional development sessions. It’s also a good place to learn about local groups more specific to your business.

You can find out more about your local Chamber of Commerce here.

SBA local assistance

On top of its funding programs, the U.S. Small Business Association also has a network of district and regional offices. Like a Chamber of Commerce, a local SBA office is likely to host in-house activities and have a network of local partners — such as mentors from Small Business Development Centers, Women’s Business Centers, and Veterans Business Outreach Centers — for training, coaching, and discussion.

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Seller Community

The Square online Seller Community network helps you find answers, share best practices, and grow your business with fellow entrepreneurs. The Seller Community also hosts digital events and offers a Beta program with access to newly designed features and tools before the rest of the world.

Some recent examples of Seller Community discussions and posts:

Local affinity groups

When Công Tử Bột, a Vietnamese restaurant in Maine, was recognized in the New York Times as one of America’s favorite restaurants, the owners posted on Instagram to highlight the work of local affinity groups that help make businesses like theirs possible, including Unified Asian Communities, Tender Table Maine, and Portland Outright.

There are more organizations like this across the country that offer support, community, and opportunity for traditionally underrepresented groups across all types of businesses.

SCORE

SCORE is a mentor service for small businesses, offering a network of experts advice at in-person chapters or remotely via email, phone, and video.

Reach out directly

If there’s a business or business owner you admire, don’t be afraid to network with them directly and ask for time to connect. Strike up a conversation in person, send an email, or reach out via a message on social media. Many business owners love telling their stories and offering their perspectives to entrepreneurs looking to follow their path.

Square has the tools to run your business — on your own terms. To help celebrate businesses paving their way forward, we partnered with Forbes on the Next 1000 initiative to spotlight bold entrepreneurs and share their most valuable lessons. By sharing firsthand experiences, we’re helping businesses celebrate resilience, build skills, and explore what’s next. See how Square works, and get more expert guidance for the next era of small business.

Work in power,

God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs

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What Goes Into An Effective Sales Funnel?

She gets a funnel, he gets a funnel, you get a funnel! It may be no surprise that everybody is talking funnels these days. 

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the idea of a systemized process to get your buyers to take a certain action is by no means a new concept. In reality, a “funnel” is just a fancier term for getting your customer from point A to point Z. The only things we’ve refined and perfected as marketers are the modalities and steps we use that ultimately lead to better conversions. 

Before diving into the steps, one should examine the overall objective of their funnel. Is it to upsell a client? Are you targeting repeat customers or brand new prospects? Do you want to lead them to your page to purchase a complementary product? Alternatively, is this the first intro they’ll receive to your business? 

So, how do we give clients (and ourselves) foolproof funnels that convert for every type of customer along the buyer’s journey? 

Start With The Problem Or Need

While we always follow best practices for funnel creation, we should first take a step back and ask: What does the client want first and foremost? In an ideal world, what is the precise outcome they are looking for? Once you have a clear picture of what they’re looking for, you’ll know what copy to include that speaks to their ideal outcome. 

Next, examine every step of the buyer’s journey. I’m not talking about a plug-and-play buyer’s journey. Dive deep into different target markets (potential clients and customers for your client), and think about the thought processes, the hurdles and the pondering they may do before finally making a purchase. 

The goal of this exercise is to decipher how each ad (or stage in your funnel) will affect them, both emotionally and psychologically. 

There are many ways to optimize the perfect funnel built for conversions. Will your funnel include an eye-catching lead generation piece, a stunning landing page or an e-book and video sales letter (VSL) that really speaks to the audience and provides the value they’ve been dying to discover?  

Let’s run through a solid five-stage funnel process and examples of content you might include with it:

1. Awareness Stage

First impressions are everything. Just as you want to go on a few dates before you put a ring on anyone’s finger, you’ll want to warm up new leads so they become familiar with your brand. Try pieces that really dive into the psychology of your target market’s problem or, similarly, tell a strong brand story. 

2. Lead Generation

A strong lead generation piece usually acts as a teaser. Oftentimes it asks your potential customer to download a valuable piece of content where they have to share their email address. Aim for catchy headlines and “clickable” content. You might offer an e-book that lays out step-by-step action items to help coaches bring in new clients, for example. 

3. Landing Page

A landing page is a specified page that includes a unique selling point (USP), hero image, benefits, social proof and, of course, a strong call to action. This piece is focused on one sole outcome: getting the prospect to take a specified action. 

4. VSL

A video sales letter is a short “elevator pitch” that allows prospects to get to know the speaker and builds brand awareness and loyalty. Your video sales letter should include similar aspects of your landing page but can be done all through audio. 

5. Thank You Page

A funnel wouldn’t be complete without a strong thank you or follow-up page. After all, the best way to receive brand loyalty is to let customers know how grateful you are after they have made a purchase. These items help you create repeat customers who will tell others about your brand. 

Creating a complete funnel is no easy task. If you skimp over any of the steps, your customers will drop off like flies. Pay attention to the beginning stages, especially, as this is where your market research is done. Speak your target customers’ language. Be the solution to their problems. And lastly, guide them through a seamless sales process.

By Solomon Thimothy, CEO of OneIMS. A sales and marketing guru who has built a number of successful companies over the last decade. Read more at Thimothy.com.

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Your Power To Get Wealth Is Inside You

Your Power To Get Wealth Is Inside You

Happy Saturday Morning Entrepreneurs,

 

I am in my office preparing to start my day which consists of designing and marketing my beauty products business.

Brilliant Ones, when the Lord woke me up this morning I gave Him thanks and I began to rejoice because this is the day that He has made.

After that, I delved into God’s word to hear His voice. I asked the Holy Spirit what He wanted me to do today. He spoke my heart and mind and said, get on Canva and start designing your marketing material for Love for the Skin. Creating and designing my own marketing pieces is something I have been doing for years and I love it.

Before getting too busy today I wanted to write this post for you and I hope it blesses you.

As I was reading Scriptures this morning God’s word says in Deuteronomy 8:18, But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is He that giveth thee power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant which He swore unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

When I think about the gifts that I have, my talents and my skill set I give God thanks because these things are what I use everyday to get wealth.

Using the power that God has given me, I make money and I create a lifestyle that I love.

How To Use Your Power To Get Wealth

 

If you’re a business owner and money is not flowing from your business the way you expect it to, then you have to implement some new strategies to change it immediately.

Here’s how you can make that happen.

  • Write out the perfect marketing plan.
  • Come up with some unique slogans, titles and taglines.
  • Open up Canva and start designing. They have pre-made templates to make it easy for you just in case you’re not a designer or don’t enjoy designing.
  • Use your brand colors to make your materials pop.
  • Upload them to your websites.
  • Make a whole new page to let your customers and clients know what you have new products or an extra added service that can improve some are of their life.
  • Offer a discount for a limited time. Send out monthly newsletters and promote on Pinterest, Instagram and other social media outlets.

The hardest part is getting started so I say just do it because your power to get wealth is inside you.

It’s time to take your business to yet another level. You can do it. Have faith in God and believe in yourself and your business. Remember, your power to get wealth is inside you.

Blessings to you forever and always,

Cyndi

Email: cyndisdesignz@gmail.com

www.godsvirtuouswomenentrepreneurs.com

Whose Playing On Your Team

Kobe Bryant Was One of the Greatest To Play The Game of Basketball and He Knew His Teammates Well

Whose playing on your team

Over the years the Los Angeles Lakers have enjoyed many championships.

Talk about a winning team. There seems to be something special about Laker Nation!

They have been victorious for many years. This is just a part of their tradition it seems.

I also believe that the main reason for their long lasting success is that the entire organization knows what they are doing. Furthermore, they know how to run a successful business while building prospering teams every season.

From the owner of the Los Angeles Lakers to the general manager and coaches, they know what it takes to win games.

The chemistry is hot and the players are definitely highly skilled.

Most of them have above basketball IQ’s and that’s exactly what it takes to be victorious year after year.  

Their unique skill sets compliment one another and harmoniously they play in rhythm like an orchestra that makes amazing music.

When Magic and Kareem, Kobe and Shaq played together they were blessed and highly favored.

Do you know whose playing on your team

Women in business have a brilliant way of creating powerful teams that know exactly how to run a business.

Let me get right to the point.

Each person on your team gets assigned specific tasks depending on the knowledge and skill set.

Those tasks must be completed in a timely and professional manner.

I cannot begin to stress enough to you the importance of not just completing the tasks at hand, but to work together to get things done. This is the master key to wealth, success, riches and prosperity. 

While your team members are working together to ensure your success, you can then focus on all the other things that help you to keep the foundation of your business standing.

Also, it is equally important to put time to each task required because just as quickly as these duties have been completed, more will be forth coming or waiting on the next list of things to do.

And when you, a phenomenal, kind and patient boss and entrepreneur use your authority to command your team members to work diligently and consistently, reward them generously because they are a part of your remarkable winning team.

When you are good to your team members, they will go the extra mile to make sure that you are victorious.

So when you are choosing your team members make sure that you get the right pick be it in the first round pick or the 3rd round pick, just know who it is that will be playing on your team.

Will it be an outstanding dedicated persistent consistent team player who you can trust to pass the ball to every time you need to score? Do you know whose playing on your team?

Giving God the Glory,

Cyndi

GVWE

 

How To Generate More Financial Wealth

Using Your Creativity To Generate More Income

How To Generate More Financial Wealth

God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs,

Thinking about how to create more income from your businesses for your life can be a real challenge.

I know because for such a long time I struggled like crazy trying to generate more income for my lovely family. All of my businesses had the potential to be highly lucrative and net me great profits, but I was unsure how to go about creating my financial wealth.

Lost and absolutely confused when it came to making a lot more money, I knew something had to change as quickly as possible.

Money, it seems, can be hard to get and sometimes even harder to keep, but here’s the thing; I knew I had the skill set and ability to make as much money as I wanted and even deserved, but it was not happening for me as I expected it to.

Even though money was and continues to come from sales from my website and social media platforms, I wanted a six to seven figure income. How was I going to accomplish this goal of making a whole lot more money, you might be asking.

There are tons of ways to make a tremendous amount of money. Doing things the traditional way when it comes to building a powerful business is good, but sometimes you have to do things a little differently if you really want to shake things up, in a great way, when it comes to working your business.

Would you like to know what I’ve done to get more money flowing into my empire?

Now is the time and this is the path, walk on it

How To Generate More Financial Wealth

First, I had to go to the Holy Spirit and ask for His help. He spoke to my heart, changed my mind and helped me to focus more on my business than ever before. He told me to be consistent and stay persistent. 

He also told me to add more products to my business.  The more products that you have the more money you can make.

The Holy Spirit told me to renew my marketing strategies. I had an amazing marketing system in place and I needed to continually add to that system in order to stay successful. It is essential to have wonderful marketing strategies incorporated into your businesses.

So if you desire to be more successful than ever, use your extraordinary gifts, talents and skill set in a way that you have never used them before. Get excited and get creative!

The social media platform called Facebook to help you generate more financial wealth

Another way that you can generate more income is Facebook Ads. Ads, and more ads.

Facebook is one of the best platforms that you can use when it comes to business.

If you have a business page on Facebook I suggest that you utilize it to the fullest.  Learn how to work that page. Grab yourself a pen and pad and start writing your ads. Make sure they are relevant to your business.

Also, give your customers and potential customers detailed information about your products. Make them click that link. They will be glad they did because you have amazing, life-altering product(s) or service.

Enjoying the fruits of your labor begins with you. Wherever you are in business or if your business is not where you want it to be, think about all the things that you can do to make your business flourish.

Don’t be in a rush. Take your time and think. Get in a quiet place and think about the direction you want your business to flow into.

Please visit God’s Virtuous Women Entrepreneurs to learn more about how to generate more financial wealth.

To God Be All the Glory in Jesus’ Powerful name, Amen

Cyndi

www.beautyandtheface.com

www.godsvirtuouswomenentrepreneurs.com

www.everywomanslifelovingjourney.com

www.wreathonmydoor.com

 

 

 

 

 

Give Yourself A Nudge

Awaken Your Entrepreneurial Spirit, Give Yourself A Nudge

Give yourself a nudge

Give yourself a nudge and awaken the entrepreneurial spirit in you!.

The other day I had an excellent conversation with my daughter that I’d like to share with you.  The reason I want to share our talk with you is because if you are thinking about starting your own business and you have doubts, perhaps this short reading will help you make up your mind.
 
Currently, my daughter works as an executive in the corporate offices at a prestigious hotel. She told me that the Lord is nudging her to start a business of her own.  She has yet to heed His call because she is a little hesitant. Even though she has started putting the pieces to her puzzle together with the help of the Holy Spirit, she has yet to turn in her LOR.
 
Why? Because of fear. Yes, my daughter is a little fearful of walking away from a career that has been a good part of her life for 6, soon to be 7 years.
 
I believe in my heart that my daughter is ready to be her own boss. She has everything she needs to start a flourishing business from the door, yes, at this very moment, but her heart must continue to guide her, not me. I can only offer words of advice as the Holy Spirit tells me to relay to her. She has to make the final decision for herself and as she is guided by the Holy Spirit, I know she will heed His call on her life at the perfect time.
 
When we decide to walk by faith and not by sight and we trust God, oh but God!
 
By slowly executing God’s plan for her life through her new website and podcast, Joy In The Journey, she is setting up herself for amazing success. Putting things in place for new beginnings is how she will start to eliminate fear one step at a time is some of the advice that I gave her.
 

Give Yourself A Nudge With Words of Encouragement!

So here’s how the rest of the conversation went between us. 
 
I told her to trust God first and foremost. It is essentially important that she understands that God is going to enable her and bless the works of her hands when she’s ready to become an entrepreneur.
 
I said, “Listen, Jenna, if you truly believe and feel, (you know that nudging that I talked about), that God is telling you to start your own business, you can best believe that God is going to guide you every step of the way.  Not only is He going to guide you, but He is going to introduce to you a team of awesome individuals who are going to help you to execute His plan for you”.  
 
God is going to bring the qualified along, with the anointed, to take your business to a level no other business has gone, which is fenced up to heaven. He’s already given her the tools, from birth, and the resources He has awaiting her, never-ending!
 
At the end of our conversing back and forth she agreed with me.
 
My daughter has made up her mind to do things decently and in order which to say, she will be staying in her current position for a moment. She is continuing to build her empire one brick at a time because she doesn’t want her dynasty to fall.
 
She is very careful to take her time to erect her building on a strong foundation of wisdom, knowledge and understanding. Success awaits my daughter and at the moment she is beginning to smell the roses.
 
As she heeds God’s every word and obeys His commandments she already knows that success is imminent. It is my prayer that my daughter will continue to be patient and where her business is concerned, well let’s just say she is wealthy. To God be all the glory.
 
Be blessed now and forever,
 
Cyndi
 
 
 
 

Lets Finish The Year Strong Starting Today

Let’s finish the year strong starting today.

Today when my son called me, I told him that he needed to clean up his office and organize the papers in his office. He said, “I did it already”. I said, “Good; it doesn’t make sense for you to have that beautiful office with papers covering every inch of your desk and floor”.

He then went on to tell me that he told my youngest son, his baby brother, that when 2021 arrives they are going to do things differently.  I remember him telling me that same exact thing last year about 2020. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom and with all thy getting get understanding.

Lets Finish The Year Strong Starting Today

Women entrepreneurs, I want to make a powerful suggestion to you.

If you have plans for restructuring your business, do it today. Do not wait until the year 2021 to incorporate your brilliant ideas to continue building your business.

Here are a few suggestions to help you to get clear on your strategies so that when 2021 ushers in you will be way ahead of the game to explode sales. You don’t want to be bombarded with those tedious things that can make your head spin.

Let’s Finish The Year Strong Starting Now!

You may want to:

  • Clean up old emails. Delete them from your files.
  • Be sure to unsubscribe from any emails that do not serve you in any way.
  • Make and name new file folders on your computers and place all relevant files inside that folder.
  • Throw out any old papers that you do not need.
  • Clean out your desk drawers. Get rid of any old pens that do not write!
  • Get rid of old notes to yourself that you don’t need.

Once you’ve gone through this list or whether you have your own list the goal is to finish the year strong and bless your business.

Women entrepreneurs, you are remarkable ladies. Continue using gifts for they, like you, are rare. You are rich, abundant, prosperous and amazing. You can do this. If you feel stuck or if you get stuck, walk away, come back and allow the Holy Spirit to speak to your heart. It is then that you will flourish and be at ease moving forward to complete the tasks before you.

Be blessed amazing women of God,

Cynthia

www.everywomanslifelovingjourney.com

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Don’t Be Afraid To Ask For The Sale

Don’t be afraid to ask for the sale is my new mantra! And a great successful mantra it is to have.

Being an entrepreneur means stepping out of your comfort zone and doing well, the uncomfortable.

What may feel uncomfortable to you is the very thing that is going to propel you into prosperity and success.

I want to share a short story with you if you don’t mind. It is a brief and to the point kind of story.

Some of you  may know that I founded Beauty and the Face, along with my other precious pearls. I love what I do and I enjoy passing my blessings on to others in endless ways.

When I started out talking about skincare, it was because I had this one minor skin problem that seem to blossom every month and I wanted to share my journey with the girls who lived on the side of my face without an invitation.

Beauty and the Face was birthed and I am hand whipping body butters that I and my customers adore.

Don’t Be Afraid To Ask For The Sale And I Asked For The Sale!

November and December are usually very busy for me due to the Christmas Season.

Even though I shop super early for my family’s Christmas gifts, I always find myself doing a million things to ensure that we all get to enjoy the Christmas season all year long. I enjoy it so much that I go above and beyond baking cookies, brownies and cakes so that my husband gets to enjoy his sweet treats all season long. It brings me much joy knowing that my boys’  stomachs are smiling.

This season I have been extra busy hand crafting O Shea butter creams for my customers. My new scents came out in the fall and then I introduced my Christmas scents with pride and joy.

When the first day of December came in I gladly presented my body butters to my Facebook friends and family and received about four large orders in multiples. In all the large orders that I receive I give a beautiful gift that I order from Macy’s every year since I’ve been in business. My customers love this special gift that sparkles and shines.

Gifting, I believe, should be a large part of any business. It sends a loving message to the customer that you truly appreciate their business. I am grateful when I get orders for my body butter creams no matter how small or large. There is a sense of gratefulness when orders pour in because I know that I am giving my customers a high quality product that makes their skin feel skinsational. This is extremely important to me.

Do you want to know how I was able to procure more sales for my Shea body butter business? You got it! I asked for the sale and I did it clothed with confidence and faith.

I said to myself, Cynthia, be super bold and ask for the sale.

It was then that I picked up the phone and sent text messages to those who have never tried my product and I asked them if they would order a 4 oz jar of love from me. Out of the five that I asked, four said yes. The task was effortless and I am thankful. The excitement that overcame me gave me the inspiration to ask for more sales. My heart is still singing and not so much because of the money that I made, but because my customers get to try an amazing skincare product that really does glow their fibers.

There was one friend who, when I asked for the sale, went all around the globe, just being real and honest, and came back, never answered, but continued her own conversation as if I had never asked her to make a purchase from my online store. I was disappointed, not that she didn’t buy the body butter cream from me, but for the mere fact that she never even answered my request.

I told myself I will not be asking her to purchase anything from me again. There’s a history there and I won’t go into the details, but I wanted you to know that even though you may know what the answer will be before you ask the question, don’t be afraid to ask for the sale because you probably already know that not everyone you ask is not going to buy from you.

And so I say that I am happy that I opened my mouth and asked for sales.

I am deeply thankful that I stepped off of my comfort path to ask for what I wanted. God’s word says you have not because you ask not. Now I don’t know if this verse of Scripture applies to every situation when it comes to business, but I do know that if I want something, I cannot be afraid to ask for what I want or desire.

Get your business out in the forefront and let the world know what you are doing. If you are selling a premium product and you’ve tested it yourself and it works a true miracle for you and you know that it has the potential to work for your customers, then tell them about it and then go ahead and ask for the sale…they will be glad you did when your product arrives.

No go and don’t be afraid to ask for the sale!

Be blessed,

Cynthia

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