Business Startup Ideas for Less Than $100 (Part I – Skills Based)

It is every everyone’s dream to start their own business. Who does not want to become their own boss? Sure, there are some risks to starting your business startup, but what do not have chances these days?

Starting on your own business carries both excitement and fear of the unknown. But beyond the fear of such risks, the idea of getting your hands on adequate startup capital can be terrifying.

Where can you find a business that can you can start with less than $100? Upon a closer inspection, however, we came up with a list of startups needing less than a Benjamin starting with these:

Tutorial Services

Whether online or offline, many students need help. Tap into your knowledge and skills and use that to start-off a tutorial business. Some make fair use of the growing number of video-based tutorial platforms, while others go the traditional route of tapping schools.

Handywoman

For those who love doing household repairs, be a “handywoman.” Break the rules on a seemingly “men only” skills-based door-to-door service business. All you need to do is invest in the right tools.

Menu Planner

If you are a dietitian by profession or have knowledge in the culinary arts, planning a menu for others can be a profitable business. Plan out other people’s meals can be a fascinating and good money-making experience.

House or Pet Sitting

Taking good care of other people’s homes or pets while they go on vacation somehow requires patience and a lot of knowledge about pets. Your first customers can be limited to friends, neighbors, family members, and friends of friends.

Garden Guru

For the perennial gardener, bring your green thumb to new heights with this one. All it takes is your gardening tools to start servicing neighbor’s lawns and gardens. To expand, advertising your services will cost less than $100.

Cleaning Services

You can offer specific niches like window or bathroom cleaning, for starters. To beat the growing number of such services, you may try offering “green cleaning.”; this is to provide cleaning services that only make use of environment-friendly all-natural products.

Interior Designing

This business requires creativity and a perfect circle of influence. Tap on homeowners, new property developers, business owners, and other property-based connections for referrals.

Catering

If you don’t capital for a restaurant just yet? Start by merely catering snacks to construction or office workers. Move up as you go along. All you need is your cooking skills and a kitchen.

Gadget Repair

If you are one with tech repair skills then, go for it! Fix computers, phones, modern lighting, etc. Go mobile or on-call for customers’ convenience and ease.

Pet Groomer

Have mile-long patience for taking care of pets like cats or dogs? Start your pet grooming business. You can start by taking good care of pets of neighbors, family members, and friends.

Book keeping

Though many businesses are into Quickbooks, Freshbooks, and other accounting software, some want things to be in order according to legal standards. Add tax preparation to the loop, and you now have a complete service. Use your accounting license and start fetching clients online or offline.

Painting Services

Do you have the skills to combine colors out of paint? Why not go to the business of painting homes, daycare services, and other institutions needing an artist’s touch? Not all painting services are handled by men. When it comes to meticulousness, women are fantastic to paint experts, too.

Upcycling Services

Other people’s trash can be turned into treasure. Showcase your arts and crafts prowess by buying and repairing old defective stuff then converting them into something extraordinary for re-sale.

Shutter fairy

Be an in-demand photographer. A good camera and an equal right eye can bring you places. Consider adding as an add-on service this: picture-framing or album-making.

Ultimate Reseller

Be a vendor of pre-loved items. Start with your garage sale then, slowly moving up into full-blown flea market vending. Christmas is an excellent way to start selling things at a bargain.

Conclusion

Other skills-based business startup ideas for less than $100 are home-based: daycare, exceptional kids caregiver, foreclosed property cleaning services, bartending, animal whisperer, packing services, virtual stylist, fashion designing, makeup or hairstylist, craft beer brewing, wine-making, pastry chef, and music or art instructor.

Find out what you are good at and invest time and effort in honing such skills; This helps usher passion back to business.

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By Alison Todd February 2, 2021