New small businesses pop up every day across the country, and a significant portion of those new businesses are started by women. Women are starting businesses doing everything from accounting and bookkeeping to dog walking and freelance graphic design.
The options can seem endless and deciding which small business idea you find most interesting or want to start for yourself can be tricky.
Below we’ve listed a few of the best small business ideas for women.
Educational services
About 77% of public school teachers in the U.S. are female. You’ve heard of male-dominated industries—education is definitely more of a female-dominated industry.
If you love absorbing and sharing knowledge, and education-oriented business could be a great fit. Often, these are flexible businesses where you can choose your own hours, work from anywhere, and keep it as a one-woman operation or scale it to employ others.
Tutoring in-person or online
Women with academic skills can use them to help students succeed in their subject of choice. You can offer tutoring for elementary school students, high-schoolers, college students, or even adults. Learn more about starting a tutoring business here.
Teaching English online
Since English is a global language, there’s plenty of demand from adults who want to learn it and parents who want their children to grow up bilingual. There are already plenty of companies like VIPKID and Qkids where teachers can offer their services, but you can also start your own private teaching business if you have the marketing chops or connections.
Become a Freelancer
Freelance jobs are one of the best business ideas because you work when you want with unlimited earning potential!
Your skillset may be one of the following:
Virtual Assistant, Social media, Design tech, Pinterest, Copywriting, and Customer Service, etc.
Sell on Amazon (FBA program)
If you like shopping and searching for a good deal, you should definitely consider Amazon’s FBA program as one of the best businesses for women. You find good deals on products at brick and mortar stores or wherever and resell them on Amazon for a higher price.
Create an Online Store with Drop Shipping
Dropshipping is a method where you can sell third-party products from a Drop Shipping Company without ever seeing or shipping the item. When you make a sale, the product is shipped directly to the customer from the drop shipper.
Photography
Capturing a place or moment in time is a unique — and potentially profitable — skill. Photographers can build studios that document weddings, vacations, and growing families for clients eager to remember those moments with beautiful imagery. Or, you can think outside the box like Maureen Erokwu. Her Google-backed business, Vosmap, takes pictures of businesses so that their prospective customers know what they look like before arriving.
Life Coaching
Are you the person people turn to for advice? Why not turn that clarity of thought and ability to guide others into a business? Plenty of women have. Whether you’re best suited to counsel clients on their careers, health, businesses, or mental well-being, there are opportunities to start and grow a venture based on your talents.
Beauty
This is a booming industry, with lots of ways to break-in. Whether you start an app like Melody McClosky of salon-booking app StyleSeat, craft skincare product like Daisy Jing of Banish and Funlayo Alabi of Shea Radiance, sell perfumes like Carina Chaz of Deadpool, or do hair and makeup for special events like Takia Ross of Accessmatized, you can find a lovely future for yourself in this sector.
We have always emphasized the importance of having a good website for your company because it can act as your best tool for marketing and sales. A poorly designed website can repulse people from your business and can cause you to lose customers before you even have them. Get in touch with HyperEffects to work on creating, enhancing, and making the website of your company more user-friendly.