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10 Business Ideas Requiring No Financial Investment to Start With

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The recession changes people attitude toward money and employment.

More people are becoming frugal, more entrepreneurs are becoming bootstrappers, and more ex-employees are entering entrepreneurship.

All three of the above combined, you would want to start a business that requires minimal investment. Take heed, there are business opportunities that involve no financial investment to start with – Not even a dime.

10 business ideas to start requiring no financial investment

  1. Online business / make money online
    Blogging, SEO/link building, online freelancing, selling goods online are some of the example of online business and make money online. Many online business requires nothing down – This is why the potential is extraordinary, despite harsh competition.
  2. Virtual assistance (VA)
    Helping others to get their job done is well-sought after – You can start with zero investment by offering your services in forums, classified sites and other public domains. The best bet – Join a VA network.
  3. Intermediary services
    Intermediary services were thought to become obsolete due to the Internet. Not exactly. Product sourcing, product distribution and contracting services, and many other intermediary services are here to stay. Due to their busyness and time constraints, business people do need other help no matter how easy to DIY their search for new products or business resources.
  4. Organising services
    Event and wedding organising are two of the most common organising services. Personal assistance and personal shopping are the niche in organising services.
  5. Tutoring
    Helping school children and students to ace their school subjects or tests can be lucrative. Teaching math, tutoring English and such are simple and free to start. Get the buzz from your neighbours and you’re off the ground.
  6. Brokerage services
    Real estate brokerage, business brokerage, investment brokerage – The list of brokerage services is endless. In exchange for a certain amount of commission, brokers use their expertise in winning buyers on behalf of sellers.
  7. Consignment products sales
    Looking for the right supplier to arrange for a consignment is rather trivial – Not many want to engage in such a risky product sales strategy. However, finding one would be a great way for you to sell products without any investment involved.
  8. Consulting and training
    Experienced professionals and business owners can offer their expertise to help other individuals and organisations succeed.
  9. Freelancing
    Graphic design, web design, and copywriting are some of the example of freelancing. The competition is stiff, but the ability to create a business out of it is rewarding.
  10. Down-payment-enabled business
    I’m not sure whether to include this or not, but this is what many often overlook as one of the better business strategies. Either you offer products or services, ask for down payment (even full payment) up front. This way, you have the capital to produce the ordered products or perform the requested services – No financial investment involved on your side.

Most of the zero-financial-investment business ideas I present are service business – With that said, I recommend you to explore any other service business opportunities, as no business is thriving in today’s recession better than service business.

Ivan Widjaya
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Author profile pictureIvan Widjaya is the Owner/Editor of Noobpreneur.com. He is a web property investor, blogger and web property maker, and currently manages and writes for My Web Estate. He also runs a web design business, Chalcedony Design, specialising in Wordpress theme creation, and plenty other web business.

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5 Responses to “10 Business Ideas Requiring No Financial Investment to Start With”

  • Mel says:

    Hey Ivan,
    thank for sharing all this info.
    my question is; How to do it? where to start… I just go to those sites? and take it from there ?
    I mean how does it work in the real life… services like ..consultant,or personal shoppers etc. how i get paid , can you guide me a bit please..
    thank you,
    Mel

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Hi Mel,

    Thanks for dropping by :)

    The “how” and “where to start” parts are always challenging – In fact, in my own experience, finding out to answer those questions take about 80% of my time investment to start a business.

    The best place you can start from here is the search engine – Google (or Yahoo!) about them and read as many info as you can. Don’t get too overwhelmed by the wealth (or lack) of search results… Get some legitimate info, and take it a bit further – Going to forums… You can start asking some (probing) questions there. You can also use Yahoo! Answers or Mahalo to ask questions and get some great ideas from the members.

    I hope this helps to get you started…

  • Amit Gupta says:

    Hey Ivan,
    thank for sharing all this info.
    my question is; How to do it? where to start… I just go to those sites? and take it from there ?
    I mean how does it work in the real life… services like ..consultant,or personal shoppers etc. how i get paid , can you guide me a bit please..
    thank you,

  • Noobpreneur says:

    Amit,

    The number one place (in my case, at least) to start is: Online forums!

    Seek niche forums (e.g. if you are a webmaster, you should go to forums.digitalpoint.com; if you are a graphic designer, you should go to forum.howdesign.com; etc.) and start involving yourself in them – ask questions, offer opinions, see what other members are doing… bid on projects, create a project yourself, etc. Soon, you’ll see that there’s a need to fill and you can make money filling those needs.

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