Let’s face it, parents are willing to spend when it comes to their kids’ wellfare and interests. Hence, doing kids business work very well. Kids these days are exposed to all sorts of experiences from a young age, some even starting pre-school at the age of 2.
Here are five business ideas targeted to the kids or parents market that you can think about, and hopefully they will spin your thoughts into more possibilities. Look out for more business ideas on this topic in future posts.
1. Arts and crafts schools
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Many parents send their kids to such informal learning classrooms normally located in malls so that they learn to get creative from young. Besides, it is also fun for the kids to dabble in some artwork while the parents go shopping! From drawing classes to learning clay works, kids have a variety of arts and crafts courses they can sign up for these days.
2. Pre-schools, nurseries, kindergartens
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Education is a must for toddlers these days, it just depends on when they get started. For some parents who aren’t able to find babysitters or baby care centres that work for them, they resort to sending their young toddlers to pre-schools or nurseries. And when they get older, they then proceed to join kindergarten classes. Before, we used to start kindergarten at the age of 6, but now, some are starting as young as 3 to 4 years of age.
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Fashion is always the in thing. People need to be clothed and we all want to be well dressed all the time, whether it’s for work, going out or for functions. Better still if we can be well dressed for less!
These days, many fashion stores are mushrooming, not only in malls but also on cyberspace. There are many net entrepreneurs who sell their fashion items online either from an e-commerce site or from blogs. And these have become the acceptable channel of purchase for many customers.
If you’re thinking of jumping onto the bandwagon to start a small fashion store, be it a physical store or an online fashion store, read on below for ideas and resources on how to get started.
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If you are completely new to this business, you may want to start small and part time (if you hold down a full time job). Do some market testing before you head into this business big time. You need to see how you can tap into the market and find a niche amongst all other fashion retailers before you spend big money on this business.
Start by researching all kinds of fashion boutiques offline and online to give yourself some knowledge of the fashion industry. Study the trend of what people are selling and what people would buy. Then you need to think about what fashion line you would like to get into, is it going to be clothes, bags, shoes, jewelries or a bit of everything to offer a one-stop shop? If it is a clothes business, what kind of fashion do you want to enter into? Korean and Japanese designs, American or European designs, etc. If you want to go into jewelries, are you going to offer any kind of jewelries or would you want to specialize, say Swarovski crystal jewelries, silver jewelries, etc.
Once you have decided on your fashion products and concept, you need to look for affordable suppliers who can best deliver to your needs. Do lots of homework to check out who has the products as well as quality of products that you want, wholesale prices that fit your budget, delivery options that work for you, as well as payment methods that are acceptable to you. You may want to work with more than one supplier for variation of products that they each have to offer.
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It’s my personal opinion that being a wedding planner is such a pleasant job, because a wedding is always good news and you’re surrounded by a lot of merriment, excitement and love. Of course, planning a wedding is not easy and is even a stressful job to get everything perfect and on time, but which other job doesn’t come with stress?
If you’re playing around with the idea of being a wedding planner, here are some tips that may help you to get started. This post will talk about some of the things you can do to gain experience and what other homework you may need to dabble in to get yourself more familiar into the whole process of planning for a wedding.
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Of course, if you have planned your own wedding, you would know what to expect. A fickle minded bride, a rather opinionless groom (or maybe it’s because the bride wants things her way and he’s just being smart in letting her make the decisions!), and a very long checklist of things to do. You will probably get your feet wet to start planning for a wedding months ahead, or sometimes even a year ahead of the actual day.
The first thing you need if you want to be a wedding planner is experience. No one would hire someone who does not know what it takes to plan a wedding without glitches. Even if you have just one time experience in planning your own wedding, it may not be good enough for someone to pay you the money as a wedding planner.
So what I would suggest for you to do is to start offering your wedding planning services for free. The easiest way of doing this is to offer your help to family members and friends who are getting married. If you still find that you are not getting enough practise after helping to organise relatives and friends’ weddings, you can always extend your services to friends of your relatives and friends. Just get them to pass the word around that you’re a “wedding planner in training” and offering them your service for free.
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