21 Profitable Business Ideas for Creative Entrepreneurs

 


 

There are numerous businesses that utilise a person’s artistic skills. Here are several ideas to get you started in finding the right one for you. If you enjoy making crafts, you may want to sell them at a craft bazaar, a crafter’s mall, or through a retail store, either wholesale or on consignment. Crafts can also be sold through catalogue companies, through home parties, or magazines like “Country Marketplace”. Some cities have outdoor markets where crafters and artisans can rent a booth to sell their wares during the spring and summer on Saturdays. I have noticed that the booths that have the crafter or artist present, working on his or her craft, usually sell more. Here are 21 Profitable Business Ideas for Creative Entrepreneurs.

If you don’t have enough high-quality craft bazaars in your area, and you have a talent for displaying merchandise, you may want to consider hosting a bazaar yourself. This can be a great way to earn money during the Christmas shopping season. To host a bazaar, you will need to rent a building such as a school gym, church hall, or empty retail location. Or you can present the crafts for sale in your home. You can rent out tables to each individual crafter participating in your bazaar, or you can display everyone’s merchandise together, and charge a commission on everything sold.

If you are good at teaching crafts, you may want to market yourself to local craft supply stores, retirement homes, and convalescent homes.

If you are great at designing original craft projects, you can design and sell craft patterns and/or kits.

Here is a list of more businesses the artistically gifted may want to consider:

1.  Personalised Christmas Ornaments

Start Your Own Business Making & Selling Personalised Christmas Ornaments.

2. Stencilling

Start Your Own Stencilling Business

3. Decorative Sign

Start Your Own Decorative Sign Business

4. Stencils for Interior

Designing and selling stencils for interior decorating

5. Cake Decorating

You could market your services to people planning their wedding, caterers, wedding consultants, etc.

6.Clip Art

Creating clip art for sale to teachers, business people, printers, etc.

7. Quilting

If you love quilting, you could repair quilts, design quilt patterns and kits, teach quilting, or make quilts to sell. You may want to specialise in one kind of quilt, such as memory quilts, which include family photos transferred onto the quilt squares.

8. Steam Stencilling

Designing and selling rubber steam Stencilling sell these wholesale through rubber stamp stores, or retail through a catalogue or home parties. You could offer free or discounted stamps to the hostess for inviting her friends to her house to listen to your presentation. You may want to teach stamping classes at your local community education program, etc. in order to market your stamps to more people.

9. Window painter

Paint holiday scenes and sale info on restaurant and store windows.

10. Decorate home exteriors for Christmas

You can market this business with flyers passed out in more expensive neighbourhoods. You’ll want to keep a portfolio of your work to show potential customers.

11. Candle making

You can sell your handmade candles at country stores, gift stores, craft bazaars, or through home parties.

12. Custom Cards

Making custom Christmas cards, birth announcements, wedding invitations, etc., using Dover clip art, photos, etc.

13. Design and sell jewellery

One example: You can collect a large selection of old earrings, necklaces, watches, bracelets, pins, chains, charms, etc. by shopping at garage sales, estate sales, secondhand stores, flea markets, etc. Then you can disassemble the pieces and glue them with other pieces to create beautifully, one of a kind pins and broaches. I have seen these sell very well at craft shows and bazaars.