Your crazy ideas. The craziest business ideas

Let's move away from adequate ideas a little, and talk about crazy business ideas. There are many original, creative personalities on earth. They realize their unusual view of the world in art, inventions and, oddly enough, in entrepreneurship. Other people may call their ideas "absurd, meaningless and completely frivolous."

Tattoos on the teeth

The fashion for decorating your teeth with small pebbles imitating diamonds has already passed. The new fashion trend is tattoos on the teeth. Not even a squeak, but a scream. The author of the idea is the dentist Steve Haward. He developed the technology of drawing images on the teeth, and now he is taking orders with might and main. According to him, tattoos with images of famous personalities (football and music stars), as well as images of animals are in demand.

creative coffins

Looks like the coffin builders decided to inject some fun into their grim work. Vic Fearn & Co has been making traditional-looking coffins for decades. But recently, creativity has awakened in them, and they began to make exclusive coffins to order. Now every resident of the UK can pre-purchase a coffin in which he wants to be buried. The company has already made coffins in the shape of a guitar, an airplane, a wine cork, a sports bag, a skateboard. And one particularly original client ordered a coffin in the form of a trash can, arguing that he considered himself garbage all his life, and therefore he was destined to be buried in a dumpster.

Vase for "splash of anger"

Stressful situations and angry tension happen in the life of each of us, and psychologists do not recommend keeping anger in ourselves. In order to quickly normalize the psychological state, it is necessary to “shout out” all the anger from yourself. But what if you're in a crowded place and just can't afford to scream in anger?

As always, original inventions from Japan helped to cope with this problem. All you have to do is step aside and scream into the vase. Yes exactly. The opening in the vase adapts to the shape of your lips, and its shape is designed in such a way that all the noise that the vase receives is suppressed. Having such a device, you will release your anger and not disturb others.

Space SMS

This idea is simply striking in its senseless absurdity, and at the same time huge profitability. Two students from the USA began to offer the service of sending sms-messages into space. To implement the service, they created a sensor that, by means of radio magnetic radiation, transmits the client's message directly into outer space. Everyone who wanted to send a message into space called a special phone number, spoke his message, and then the authors of the idea sent it into space in just a couple of minutes.

Calls, of course, were paid - on this students earned. There is absolutely no practical benefit from this service, however, enterprising guys were able to earn about one million dollars on it.

Sale of garbage

A good seller can sell anything, even junk. We don't know if Christopher Goodwin was in his right mind when he came up with this idea, but he decided to sell garbage through vending machines. Along with vending machines for coffee, gum and water, vending machines have appeared in America that dispense small bags of garbage. Dropping a coin in 25 cents, you get a neat bag filled with scraps of newspapers and checks, broken buttons, cigarette butts and other garbage. Who needs garbage, and even for money? This is also incomprehensible to us, but the crazy entrepreneur managed to sell more than three thousand copies of his “product”.

Child "to order"

Everyone knows the desire to quickly sneak away from work. Such a feeling overtakes people on the eve of the end of almost every working day. In America, employees with children officially have the right to leave work early - who needs to pick up a child from kindergarten, who needs help with school lessons, etc. Of course, childless employees look with envy at those who leave the workplace ahead of time. And they do not intend to put up with this state of affairs.

A New York company decided to help them with this, which began to produce special sets indicating the presence of children. In the set you can see photos with children, children's drawings, photos from children's holidays and more. The appearance of the child can also be chosen. Present all this to the boss - and calmly leave the workplace early. Realizing that the presence of children can be easily checked, this product is unlikely to be very popular. But an attempt to create an unusual business is definitely counted.

Shackles for Losers

Every parent who has a schoolchild is familiar with the problem of the unwillingness of the offspring to do homework. A company that produces a product called "Study Ball" offered to solve this issue in a somewhat cruel way.

"Study Ball" is a real shackle with heavy weights. They are fixed on the legs of a negligent schoolboy, the schoolboy himself is surrounded by textbooks and notebooks, and is engaged in lessons for the time allotted to him. Of course, for the idea to work, it is necessary to remove away from the would-be student everything that can distract him in the process of studying. Maybe soon the bosses will apply similar shackles to especially lazy employees?
Simulator of an opening beer can

All beer lovers are familiar with the very sound that a beer can makes when it is opened. That most pleasant "pshshsh". Japanese inventors have always been distinguished by their originality, and it was they who created the device called Mugen Beer. In appearance, it looks like a small tin can, when you open it, you will hear that very treasured sound. This device has no other functions, but many began to use it as a keychain.

Personal destruction service

And this business idea was born in Russia. Entrepreneur Anton Ilyenko created a company that provides services for organizing entire ceremonies for the destruction of personal belongings of customers. According to Anton, people often become attached to their belongings, and when they break down it is difficult to part with them. You can order a solemn funeral for old torn jeans, cremation of your favorite pillow, etc. The remains of things can even be sent on an eternal journey through space.

Pampers for brides

American salons of wedding dresses and accessories are gradually introducing a new product into their assortment - diapers for brides. This was invented in order to make the wedding ceremony and further celebration comfortable for the brides. If the bride suddenly feels the need to go to the toilet during an important ceremony, then she will not have to do this - because she will be wearing a special diaper. All you need is to change diapers from time to time. It is noteworthy that its cost is quite high, however, many wedding salons note a high demand for this hygiene item.

Socks for outsourcing

All male bachelors noticed that either they ran out of clean socks, and they had to leave the house in half an hour, or the second sock from a pair was lost somewhere. The urgent problem of all men was solved by the Swiss entrepreneur Samuel Lichti. He created the company BlackSocks, which took over the outsourcing of socks. Each man who became a client of the company was periodically sent to the house several pairs of socks. Samuel did not forget about the quality either - the socks for the clients were of the highest Italian quality.

According to the entrepreneur's personal calculations, using the services of his company helps men save about 12 hours every year. BlackSocks also began to outsource underwear.

Trampolines on the ceilings

As you know, the entertainment business is one of the most profitable, as people are willing to pay a lot of money to have a good time. Do you think that having fun jumping on a trampoline is only a child's activity? A creative entrepreneur from Las Vegas has created a trampoline for adults. Moreover, the repulsive surface in the entertainment halls is located not only on the floor, but also on the walls, and even on the ceilings. So you can just fly all over the room, and it's only $12/hour. Such entertainment quickly gained popularity, and now whole competitions in "trampoline sports" are held there.

DNA portraits

Making money by painting portraits of customers is a common thing for artists. But the artists Adrian Solomonovich and Nazim Ahmed decided to go even further, and create not just portraits with paints or pencils, but portraits from the DNA of customers. Artists literally paint with genetic material, or rather with amino acids. They have a different color, so the portraits are colorful and lively.

The creativity of the creative duo of artists was able to interest major galleries in New York and Tokyo, where exhibitions of works are regularly held. The artists themselves have already earned more than a million dollars from their paintings.

Fried Cola

The best chefs in the world often delight gourmets with their author's original recipes. But at the Texas Achievement Show, a programmer from Dallas surprised me with an unusual recipe.

Having fried noodles, strawberry jam and Coca-Cola in vegetable oil, he managed to become the winner in the nomination “The most original food product”. The finished dish was again watered with Coca-Cola, sprinkled with cinnamon and served to the visitors of the exhibition. It is not known whether this recipe received the attention of restaurants, but at this exhibition such an idea was a resounding success and brought its author a considerable cash prize.

car attraction

"Ferris Wheel" is perhaps the most popular and recognizable attraction in the world. In amusement parks, its presence has long become traditional. An entrepreneur from Holland decided to refresh the concept of the bored "ferris wheel".

He designed the wheel, which instead of the usual booths contains space for cars. If you want to ride on such a miracle wheel, your car is fixed by a special mechanism in the attraction, and you rise to a height of 30 meters inside your car.

The attraction is completely safe, as it has passed all kinds of tests and tests. Europeans already have the opportunity to feel the adrenaline, sitting in a car and being on the "Ferris Wheel" at the same time, and a savvy entrepreneur is reaping the benefits of his invention in the form of a decent profit.

Breakup Bureau

Bernd Dressler is considered the author of the following idea, however, such a service is already quite common in many countries. It happens that couples break up, and there is no escape from this. Few people are able to easily survive a breakup with a loved one. The service provided by the breakup agency will help to cope with this unpleasant moment. A specially trained psychologist will inform your (already former) partner that you have decided to part with him. And for a fee, he will also provide you with psychological support and help you understand why the separation did happen. Making money on parting sounds cynical, but the idea works, and quite successfully.

alcohol bra

A startup called The WineRack has launched sports bras for sale that come with a secret compartment. Small containers are built into the bras, which can be filled with any drink (including alcoholic), and then consumed through a special tube.

It is noteworthy that this bodice performs two functions at once: it will make its mistress drunk and make her bust at least 2 sizes larger - a liquid-filled bra visually enlarges her breasts, however, if a girl starts drinking from it, her breasts will literally “melt” on eyes. Such a bra with a secret is especially popular during social events, concerts, sports competitions, etc.

snowball maker

Snow fun is loved by both children and adults. When the first snow falls, you just want to go and play with snowballs, arrange snow shelling with friends. One problem is that the hands get cold quickly from the snow, and even with wet gloves it’s not very comfortable. This problem was solved by an absolutely ingenious, and at the same time simple idea - a device for making perfectly even round snowballs, or as it is also called a "snowballer". It looks like a tongs device that can create a beautiful snowball in a couple of seconds, while your hands will remain dry and warm.

Drowned logs

A unique idea for making money came to George Goodwin back in 1970. The American was an avid lover of river fishing and spent many hours doing this activity. He noticed that at the bottom of the river there are a large number of flooded logs. At that time, a lot of forests were cut down, and wood was valuable. George decided to organize a sale of logs that he fished from the bottom of the river. He personally cleaned and dried the logs, and then sold them.

It would seem, who will buy old logs that have lain for some time at the bottom of the river? However, the enterprising American was able to make more than three million dollars from this idea.

tail extension

Of course, horses absolutely do not care what length and volume their tail has. But for riders at the races, this information is of great importance, and judges at various animal shows pay attention to this element. All this prompted American businessmen to start building horse tails. This service is very popular among horse breeders, especially when preparing horses for races and competitions. In the assortment of companies, artificial tails of various lengths, volumes and colors - from natural brown, white and black to gold and silver.

Throughout history, people have made a huge number of truly amazing discoveries, which were preceded by brilliant ideas. We are willing to bet that when these very ideas were voiced, then most likely they also seemed completely insane to people at first. Sitting on a chair in the sky watching your favorite movie during a flight? Inject weakened viruses into people to keep them healthy? Total madness! However, this is exactly what surrounds us now. Who knows, maybe one of these crazy ideas from the CrazyIdeas forum on Reddit will also someday become a common everyday item? No matter how stupid, funny and crazy these ideas may seem, in any case it would be very interesting to see them in reality.

If in the elections the item "against all" wins the most votes, then the elections must be held anew, but with all the new candidates

If someone is imprisoned for rape, and then found not guilty and released, the one who gave false testimony himself should spend the same time in prison as the wrongfully convicted

Make poaching illegal only if weapons are used. If you want to try to kill a shark, lion or rhinoceros with your bare hands, then you can freely do it

Every day, hang the Mona Lisa painting in different parts of the Louvre. This way people can spend more time looking at other paintings while they are looking for it.

Reality show where billionaires try to live on minimum wage for at least a month

Allow kids with stupid names to change their parents' names when they turn 18

A gym where the more you go to workouts, the less you pay for a membership

Reality show with "gays"

According to the plot of the show, there should be 11 gays and one straight in the house. Gay people have a goal - to find out which of them is straight. Each week, kick one out until the straight is kicked out or until there are only 2 members left. If gays figure out the straight, they will receive $ 1 million, but if the straight remains among the last two participants, then he receives the money.

And now the most interesting: none of the men in the house are gay and each of them thinks he is the only straight man.

You can dress up in green chroma key suits, run into the news studio and interfere with the weather forecaster. None of the viewers will understand what is happening

Put up an empty terrarium in a pet store labeled "chameleon" to see how long people stand and stare before they realize there's nothing there

Microwave that plays YouTube videos for as long as you enter to heat food

Google should tell you if you're the first person to google this query

Voice assistants like Siri, Alexa and Alice should only work if you say "please" and "thank you". It could improve the relationship of people to each other

Google's self-driving cars must have an "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that will take you to a random location when pressed.

A video game that feels like a kid's rpg only as long as you follow the linear storyline, but that gets more unsettling, creepy, and serious the more you deviate from the story path

The essence of this plan is simple - to create a list of goals, desires, ideas and craziest dreams that you would like to fulfill and experiences that you would be interested in experiencing during the time allotted on Earth.

Why do you need a list

Think about the last few years of your life. A good friend of mine once rightly pointed out that we identify with our place of work and increasingly say WE- “we bought a quarry in South America”, “we bought 5 helicopters and 10 Mercedes”, “we increased revenue by $100 million” and so on. But when you go deeper, you understand that no one went further than Ukraine, I saw a helicopter only in the air, and the maximum amount of money that I held in my hands was 1000 salary dollars.

It's time to understand what is "I" who wants to jump with a parachute, travel around the globe and do a dozen different stupid things that are embarrassing to tell children about. Think of yourself tired but happy when you accomplished something important. You experience the bright moments of your life in your head hundreds of hundreds of times. Now imagine that you have a LIST of 100 items and you have made a commitment to yourself to implement about 3-5 items from this list every year. Just think how much happier you will become, how much new you will learn, how the psychological situation in the family will change. It will be just cool!

What to do in life

Everything is extremely simple and takes no more than 10-15 minutes for one brainstorming session. Personally, I created a document on my computer desktop in which I write down my dreams and desires at regular intervals. I try to understand what I want and how much this or that activity will make me happier.

In order to simplify the task of creating your list, I recommend that you answer the following questions:

What would happen if you passed away tomorrow? What is the most important thing you would like to do in this case today?
What would you do if you had unlimited time, money and resources?
What countries and places would you like to visit?
What feelings would you like to experience?
What moments would you like to witness?
What is the most important thing on your personal scale of values you would like to achieve?
What craft would you like to learn?
Who would you like to meet personally?
What would you like to achieve in different areas of your life (social, family, physical, spiritual)?

Refer to these questions as many times as you need to build your personal wish list. Take as much time as you need for this. Read the following list for further inspiration.

101 things you can consider in creating your list of tasks for life

1. Travel around the globe

Visit all countries of the world
Visit all the wonders of the world
1001 places to see before you die

2. Learn a new language

3. Try a new profession in a field completely unfamiliar to you.

4. Get to your ideal weight

5. Run a marathon

6. Take part in a triathlon

7. Take up some new sport. Here are some examples:

Technical sports: archery, golf, bowling, skating, figure skating
Water sports: kayaking, rafting, wakeboarding, diving, yachting, swimming

8. Go to the mountains and go skiing

9. Learn to ride

10. Quit the Job You Hate

11. Follow your dreams

12. Mind your own business doing what you love

13. Achieve financial independence through your passion

14. Contact teachers from your past life (school, college) and thank them for the fact that they greatly influenced your life

15. Find out who inspired you the most and thank him/her for it.

16. Become a mentor to someone in need.

17. Learn to play a strategy game on the computer

18. Try yourself in an extreme sport - jumping from a bridge, skydiving, skydiving, etc.

19. Climb the mountain

20. Make a big surprise for someone

21. Do something significant and important in someone's life.

22. Do good things for 5 strangers without expecting or receiving anything in return.

23. Write a book about something important to you.

24. Travel in a hot air balloon

25. Sing your favorite song to a large audience

26. Try yourself in a volunteer program

27. Befriend at least 5 strangers on the street

28. Meet the dawn

29. Meet the Sunset

30. See the Northern Lights

31. Witness a solar eclipse

32. Sleep on the grass during the starfall

33. Plant your own tree and watch it grow

34. Get yourself a pet

35. Give a speech to a large audience

36. Write a letter to your closest friends and tell them how important they are to you.

37. Make a mega party

38. Completely change your style (hair, clothes, makeup)

39. Learn to appreciate the taste of wine

40. Take an etiquette course

41. Become a matchmaker - introduce friends and acquaintances to each other

42. Go on a blind date

43. Go to college and radically change your specialty

44. Learn to play a musical instrument (piano, violin, guitar)

45. Win an argument for money

46. Attend dance classes (tango, ballroom, salsa)

47. Get into creating art

48. Hitchhike

49. Backpack for several weeks in unfamiliar places and cities

50. Pack your bags and go to an unknown destination for a couple of days.

51. Swim with dolphins

52. Live in another country for a few months

53. Make a movie

54. Take part in some project on TV

55. Tie a scarf

56. Create your dream home

57. Cook the most delicious meal of your life for your family

58. Bake a cake for someone special

59. Live a few days in the forest

60. Visit the desert

61. Live 4 seasons in 4 different countries

62. Read a book on a topic you've never been interested in

63. Volunteer at a hospital or nursing home

64. Fly a kite

65. Sleep in a haystack

66. Call the support service (internet, water delivery, taxi) and thank them for their work

67. Try being a vegetarian for a month

68. Try being a vegan

69. Try a raw food diet

70. Make some origami figurines and give them to strangers

71. Curb Your Biggest Fear

72. Travel by sea

73. Tell your 10 friends and acquaintances about your list and encourage them to create the same

75. Experience the power of meditation

76. Take part in some socially important movement

77. Visit Japan During Cherry Blossom

78. Bury the hatchet with all those with whom you have quarreled in the past.

79. Organize a picnic

80. Do something totally crazy and different from you.

81. Travel First Class

82. Hit the top ten with a dart in darts

83. Visit a volcano

84. Fly in a helicopter

85. Dine with someone you only dreamed of being together with.

86. Tell your parents that you love them.

87. Go on a cruise

88. Try being a waiter for a month

89. Fall in love (more than once is better)

90. Be in love for a long time

91. Organize the most romantic date of your dreams

92. Visit a castle in Scotland

93. Change the world

94. Help someone in need

95. Learn Sign Language

96. See the Mona Lisa in the Louvre

97. Participate in a costume party

98. Win some competition

99. Learn to wake up at 5 am

100. Have at least three children

In moments when you get bored and you get stuck in a routine - do something from your list and you will fill your life with vivid impressions and remind yourself that "I" is much more important than "WE".

About the author:
He worked for several years in large Western corporations (KPMG, ADIDAS, WEATHERFORD). At the moment I am working on several online projects (the main direction is the creation and promotion of online games). By my example, I try to show that anyone can become a profitable entrepreneur.
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How does it happen that someone comes up with a business idea that seems to everyone else just crazy and has no right to succeed, but it (the idea) shoots and makes her generator a millionaire and even a billionaire? Why do some people decide to implement the most insane idea and ... win, while others have been looking for “their” idea for years and lose over and over again?

What is it - a special vision, an inhuman faith in success, some quality of the founder that only he has and no one else? What is the reason?

Entrepreneur's Lucky Case

My personal opinion (IMHO) much here depends on the case. Yes, yes, many businesses at the start were not conceived by their creators as super-successful. Everything just came together, as they say: "at the right time and in the right place."

Please understand me correctly in order to succeed in business, you must have many qualities of an entrepreneur, no doubt. But luck, a happy occasion ... must be present.

I will give an example not from business - the Lake cooperative. Look, which of its participants in the past currently holds government posts?

Do you think that many of the statesmen would be at the peak of their success now, if it were not for the chance that allowed them to successfully join the shareholders of this cooperative? And Mr. Miller, before he became the head of Gazprom, with whom did he work side by side in St. Petersburg?

Do you want a business example? Please. One of my acquaintances, who borrowed money from me for cigarettes back in 2000, in 2001 accidentally met his institute acquaintance on the street and who had connections (a relative) at one large enterprise.

Word for word, but they took advantage of this connection, created a business, and a few years later my friend became a real dollar millionaire. Random meeting.

Entrepreneur Passion

Many startups start with the passion of their creators. Passion allows many who win to overlook the seeming craziness of an idea that is obvious to everyone else.

After all, really, doesn’t an ordinary fisherman look stupid for half a day, sitting on the shore in the desire to catch a couple of roaches the size of a child’s palm?

Perhaps one day he will catch a huge fish, shouting to the whole wide world: “Ide” !!! and he will be hired to work for central television.

This is the example and passion of a fisherman.

Just like in my example with the fisherman, entrepreneurs start their own business, which is completely non-obvious and ... win.

The Crazy Team

You will be doubly lucky if you unexpectedly not only discover a passion for some crazy thing, but find the same "crazy" people who can believe in you and your "crazy" idea.

As a rule, in order to realize an idea, and even more so a crazy one, you need to have a team of like-minded people who believe in this idea with the same passion as you do.

We bring to your attention a few "crazy" ideas that were considered as such at the start of the business by many ordinary people, and which made their generators very rich people:

pet rock

Now imagine this picture: 1975, a bar where several friends "thump like an adult" and, as usual at a bachelor party, pour out their souls to each other.

Suddenly, the conversation with wives and girlfriends turns to pets (the devils thump). Everyone, as if on cue, begins to complain about their dogs and cats. And you need to walk with them and take care of them, but in general these cat-dogs are not their passion, but the wives and everyone are already pretty tired of it.

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The most sober (judging by the results) of this company was one Gary Dahl. Almost jokingly, he suggested: "Sell your dogs and cats, and instead of them, take a stuffed animal into your house." Everyone laughed and forgot.

But Gary did not forget this unexpected idea. Further reflection led him to the conclusion that many would not like a stuffed animal. Still, it resembles the death of an animal. Then it dawned on Harry. You need to make pets out of ... stones!

Now imagine that such an idea comes to your mind and with it you go to your loved ones with an exclamation like: “Mom, dad (wife, husband) I want to become a millionaire selling stone dogs "! Oops??

What do you think your loved ones will say? Will they call a psychiatrist right away or will they think? I would call right away.

However, Gary did not calm down and created a business offering stone cats and dogs to everyone. Well, nonsense, same, nonsense of pure water!

This seemingly nonsense in a few years made Gary a dollar millionaire and one of the most successful entrepreneurs in his city.

Most notably, along with the stones, Harry sold houses for stone dogs and even instructions for ... attention, stand, do not fall ... instructions for training stone cat-dogs.

Well, what can I say?

Photochronology of life

Imagine that you had the idea to start a business that makes and sells small devices that record everything you do during the day every half an hour. https://getnarrative.com/

Not only do you record all the events with the help of photographs, but also store them and then upload them to the network. This was invented by Swedish innovators and did not fail.

By creating a small device that is attached to a shirt collar or jacket lapel and selling it for $279, the guys managed to earn several million dollars in a few years.

Facebook

The success story of Mark Zuckerberg has already set the teeth on edge for everyone. Volumes of studies and "scientific works" have been written, but I will still give it as an example. Do you know why?

Yes, because at the time of the loud procession on the planet of the social network MySpace, creating almost its analogue, and even more so hoping for success, is real madness.

But Mark took a risk (I suspect he did not even think of taking risks, but just doing what he liked) and ... became the gravedigger of the world-famous and prosperous social network MySpace.

Craig Newmark, the founder of the business (eng. Craigslist, literally - Craig's catalog by the name of the founder) back in 1995, selling places on his site for a small fee, for the possibility of placing an advertising offer, and did not dream of big business.

He did not suspect that his business in many years would become not just successful, but super-successful. Craig just did what he was interested in. In fact, Newmark created one of the first free classifieds boards, where anyone can post an ad about a job, buying an apartment, a car, etc.

Starting with a few dozen simple ads (by the way, the design of the site has not changed since its inception), the site now processes up to 20 billion views per month.

How much do you ask such a "site" earns?

Analysts and commentators report varying numbers for craigslist.org's annual revenue, ranging from $10 million in 2004, $20 million in 2005, and $25 million in 2006 to possibly $150 million in 2007. . It’s even scary to think about income in 2014.)

PayPal

Another crazy idea was to create a payment system that would be trusted by millions of users around the world. Indeed, in order to make payment transactions in the PayPal system, each user must transfer all the data about his credit card.

Can you imagine? No, now, when the service is turning over billions, it is not difficult to imagine this, but at the dawn of the formation of a business, many would have twisted their heads and would have said for sure, pointing their finger at the founders Peter Thiel and Elon Musk - “crazy”.

Let's add some more "pepper" to this story: we are talking about the 90s, when there was no wide literacy of the planet's population in dealing with virtual payments, but in simple terms - oh, how tight it was.

As of 2014 PayPal operates in 203 countries, has more than 137 million registered users. The past "madness" of the founding fathers today brings them multimillion-dollar profits annually.

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Amazon

Another and very revealing story of madness - Amazon.com Again, we have to repeat that now everyone is smart and understands how much and how this online store earns, but imagine the distant 1994.

Who then thought to sell books through the Internet? Selling books via the Internet, when there were dozens of bookstores at every step in any city and people mostly read books in paper form.

But there was such a person - Jeff Bezos, who "muddied" such a business. "Muddied" and did not lose. As of 2013, the company earned $274 million in net income.

If the strategic objective of a business project is to solve one or more problems of a certain group of people, then such an undertaking can enrich its owner in a short time. The larger the group of people whose problems the businessman solves, the higher and more stable the earnings will be.

In order to determine what difficulties compatriots have to face in everyday life, it is enough to take a closer look at your life and the life of your surroundings. If you have imagination and a desire to earn money, interesting thoughts will not keep you waiting long. Try to think of a way to implement them and don't discount even the most desperate ones. Examples of success are crazy ideas that entrepreneurs have earned and continue to earn millions of dollars.

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What you need to organize a non-standard business

At the heart of most crazy business ideas is the desire to perform a burdensome task for another person. One example is . The problem can be caused by lack of time, personal characteristics, unwillingness to engage in routine duties, or, conversely, the desire to diversify your life with vivid impressions.

When offering non-standard services to people, a businessman must be aware that he will have to show all his communicative, organizational and entrepreneurial abilities to the maximum so that the business does not turn into an unbearable burden, but attracts customers, has a perspective and generates income.

Let's consider the scheme of organization of business processes on the example of a bureau of individual services.

The concept of this type of business is to perform any necessary work for the client: from walking the dog to buying socks and going fishing together with the company.

In order to provide these services in a small city with high quality, you will need a staff of at least three people who are just as ambitious, active and friendly. It is not necessary to immediately register employees in the state, you can conclude contracts with them for the performance of individual works.

The company should develop a reasonable pricing policy. The cost of services should be understandable and acceptable to customers.

Also, the company should have a schedule for the execution of work with an emphasis on quality assurance and safety of the result. The client must be sure that nothing threatens him and his relatives.

So, for example, if a client ordered a “no queue” service, the task of the bureau is to fill out a detailed application and offer the client options for solving the problem.

Money will be needed to promote the business. Production of advertising, its placement in popular publications and prominent city venues. Promotion of the enterprise through regional groups in social networks and work on its own image.

For the first time, you may need at least 3 thousand US dollars. For this money, you can rent an office (by the way, consider also), pay for communication services, the Internet and transportation costs. In the absence of start-up capital, you can save on the office by organizing a workplace in your own apartment.

Profit

In order to earn 60 thousand rubles a month, the average cost of services rendered per day must be at least 2 thousand rubles. In fact, this is three or four orders a day.

An entrepreneur can reach such a result after two or three months of constant active work. The main thing during this period is to gain regular customers, as well as learn how to work with new services and expand the circle of acquaintances.