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Creative Ideas for a Startup Business

by

Ian S. Campbell

It is the dream of many people to own their own business. You may share in this dream, but are having a hard time coming up with ideas about a startup business venture. You don\’t have to have a brick and mortar store to own a business. Many successful startup businesses have been started on the internet or around a kitchen table. It takes creativity, drive, and hard work to get your startup business off the ground. Here are some creative ideas for a startup business you may not have thought of before.

A niche website focuses on a particular niche and builds a business around it. Your website can be as simples as knitting tips, weight loss tips, car repair, or getting the best deal on a new cell phone. Anything you are interested in and good at can become a startup business. Websites are easy and many are free to create. Check out WordPress. It\’s not just for blogs. Entire websites can be built around the WordPress templates. Your goal is to provide useful and entertaining information people can use. You make money by offering products, selling advertising space, creating a premium membership to your site, and sponsoring affiliate marketing programs.

Start a poop scoop service. Yes you read it correctly, a poop scoop service is one of the fastest growing niche marketing startup businesses. Think about how many people have pets and need to clean up their backyards. If you canvas a subdivision, hire some college or high school kids, and invest around $10 for a poop scoop, you can have a thriving and growing business.

Design and distribute fliers for local businesses. If you have a flair for design, a computer, and a printer you have all you need to start a flier distribution service. Focus on small local businesses. These are the businesses which probably don\’t have a lot of money to put into marketing and advertising. If you can offer them this service at a reasonable cost, you can then hire some college kids to pass the fliers out and do the leg work. Your responsibility would be to design the fliers and find new clients.

Start a food delivery service. This is a hot startup business idea. All you need is a phone and a vehicle. Think about the last time you wanted something besides delivery pizza. How convenient would it be for you to be able to call up a deliver service, order the food you want, and have it delivered right to your door? Charge your customers for the food and a nominal delivery fee. This is one startup business that really needs a website. You can incorporate an order form into your website and have drivers on call to run the deliveries for you.

These are just a few creative startup business ideas. Brainstorm some ideas you have or a need you see that isn\’t being met in your community. Think of creative ways you can meet this need and you\’ve got the idea for a startup business.

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byAlma Abell

Let’s say that you are fortunate enough to be able to afford to live in the historic city of Lockport Illinois and commute to work in Chicago itself. Your home city grew up alongside the Illinois and Michigan Canal who had their headquarters close to their Lock #1. The canal is no longer operational but its route is now the Illinois and Michigan National Heritage Corridor and the area around the original lock has become one of the best conserved canal sights in the nation. The historical importance of the old canal has led to Lockport being also known as “The City That Made Chicago Famous”. All in all, it is a great place to live in; with plentiful parks, recreation areas and museums to enrich the lives of its inhabitants.

But, What About That 40 Mile Or So Commute?

You can take a Metra (Metropolitan Rail Corporation) train from nearby stations. The Heritage Corridor line runs out of Joliet; through your home city and only takes about 59 minutes to reach Chicago Union Station and (largely because it only runs around 3 trains per day) is not all that crowded.

For other lines like BSNF there are many more trains; but, the time taken goes out to 1 hour and 59 minutes and the trains will definitely be very full during both morning and evening rush hours. However, the available buses take even longer.

If Public Transport Sounds Tiresome – Use A Car

Since it is quite likely that you would wish to use a car to get from your house to the commuter station or bus stop; there is obviously a great attraction in driving to work. Especially, since Chicagoland boasts a good network of roads connecting the city to its suburbs. Depending on route and traffic conditions; commuting by car should take between 45 to 48 minutes and be not only door to door but slightly quicker and definitely more comfortable than public transport.

Which Marque Of Car Will You Use?

Statistically it should be a car from General Motors, Ford, Toyota or Chrysler since the latest (2014) figures show these to be purchased most often in the US. Should you support GM; you are more likely to buy a car made by their Chevy division since that is their best selling line that is still available under the old maxim of “a car for every purse and purpose”. New or pre-owned; for Chevrolet In Lockport; you may find it advantageous to go a short way out of town and check out the massive inventory at a dealership such as Hawk Chevrolet Cadillac of Joliet.

Submitted by: Jerome Ford

In the Music Biz, marketing makes the difference between artist and musicians succeeding or failing. There are a few marketing key terms that you should know to be able to market your music successfully. This article deals with the first and most important marketing technique – branding.

Branding involves creating symbols that potential fans or “targets” will associate with you or your product.

Those symbols, when combined and attributed to your brand, are then known as your brands identity.

Branding is reflected in everything you do or say as an artist or musician.

The pictures you take, Your autograph signatures, your name, logo, interviews, cover art and anything audible or visual should all be taken into consideration when developing your brand identity.

If your music brand is still young (under five years), be careful of everything you do or say in public.

Remember the Dixie Chicks? The Dixie Chicks were on top of the world until the day Dixie Chicks lead singer Natalie Mains made disparaging remarks about George W. Bush while overseas. With those remarks about George W. Bush, the Dixie Chicks branded themselves as “unpatriotic”. Hundreds of radio stations immediately yanked the Dixie Chicks music off the air. Be warned, watch what you do or say very carefully.

Back in the day, artists had publicists who would coach them as to what to say or do. Of course this often made the artist’s feel like puppets, but this practice usually kept the artists brand integrity intact. If you are a artist or musician be calculated about every thing you say or do. If someone hits you with a question you don’t want to answer, say something like “no comment” or “I’m all about music right now”.

Another thing to consider is your target market.

Find no more than two markets or genre’s to market to. I’ve worked with aspiring artist who say “I can sing all kinds of music”. Being a versatile singer or performer is a great thing, but not when building your brand identity. The majority of humans need to be able to categorize things in their minds in order to find a spot for them in our minds. Picture the human brain as a fleshy computer. It has many folders with many files. If your target can’t file your product into one or two categories (genres) instantly, you will be deleted.

It’s best to pick one or two genres -max, to market to. E.g. jazz and blues, hip hop and r&b, folk and country etc.

Build your own brand Identity – don’t let the public do it for you.

Recently, Arctic Monkeys sold over 300,000 using only the internet to market their music. Arctic Monkeys came out of nowhere with their CD “Whatever They Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not”. Arctic Monkeys got lots of free press but not the kind they would have liked. News articles and radio features about Arctic Monkeys all said the same thing -“we don’t know who they are or what they stand for”. Well that’s no way to build a brand.

With all of the free press Arctic Monkeys have received you’d expect them to be on every American teens lip’s. Not so. Most American Teens don’t even know Arctic Monkeys exist. Arctic Monkeys allowed the press limited access to their brand and the press did what they do best when the details are missing – they fill in the blanks with speculation.

If you are a young brand don’t let this happen to you. Tell the public what to think and say about you through press releases and brand building activities.

Let your brand account grow before you take deposits out of it.

With branding, consistency is builds equity. Once you have built your brand identity and start to get some good attention, leave it alone and let it create value for you. Consider your branding efforts as putting money into an interest generating account like a 401K. The more you put into the same account the more interest you’ll get. The more interest you get the more money you’ll get. Get it?

Artists and musicians who change their brand identity often don’t have much success establishing a solid brand identity and have a much more difficult time getting people to remember who they are or why they should buy that brand.

What you are shooting for is brand presence.

To have brand presence, you’ll need to pick a target market, you’ll need to build the associative symbols that represent your brand, you’ll need to handle your young brand with care, you’ll need to limit where and how you market your brand, you’ll have to tell people what your brand symbolizes, you’ll have to invest in your brand and let it grow for you without changing it.

As you follow the steps above you’ll see your brand grow and give you a return on your investment.

About the Author: Jerome Ford is a 20 year radio and records marketing expert and Vice President of Succeed In the Music Biz at

simbiz.info

. Jerome has worked directly with many major and indie label stars. Feel free to contact Jerome at Jerome.ford@simbiz.info.

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