5 Bizs You Can Start For Under $20
Whether you’re starting a business on the side while still employed elsewhere, a student or homemaker looking for extra income, or unemployed and trying to figure out what to do, there are plenty of opportunities for you to start up a side business inexpensively. It’s unlikely any of these will make you a living in the first few months, but they all have the potential to grow into full-time businesses.
1. Webpreneur
Spend the $20 on: $8 or less for a domain and $12 for a year of hosting (search for “$1 hosting”).2. Housesitter / Petsitter
Spend the $20 on: $2 on flyers to put up on bulletin boards, and the rest on classified ads in your local neighborhood paper (not a big city-wide one).3. Avon Independent Sales Representative
Spend the $20 on: $10 signup fee, and $10 on brochures and a few samples.4. Personal Services – Shopping & Errands
Spend the $20 on: $1 on flyers and the rest on classified ads.5. Tutoring
Spend the $20 on: $14 on a box of clean-edge laser or inkjet business cards and $6 on flyers.Photo by US Treasury.
Don on July 24th, 2009 5:49 am
Not really greta tips. How about a blog on cheap ways to be a webpreneur?
jay on July 25th, 2009 2:54 pm
This sounds impossible. There are definitely other costs that are being ignored.
Jaclyn Wells on July 26th, 2009 1:40 pm
I agree that even those above mentioned businesses i’m sure have some sort of other costs that were not mentioned such as gas money, part of a phone bill making follow-up calls, etc. But i’m sure they are very cheap to start up all of the above mentioned businesses.
ultrayellowpages on August 3rd, 2009 10:06 am
There are of course, many other good reasons for wanting to start your own business and, if it’s for you, it can be the most exciting, satisfying and rewarding thing you have ever done.
bill shor
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