Here’s 5 more Business Ideas from my Idea Diary:

Idea #1 : Start a newsletter - Food Allergy News

Target Market: People suffering from allergy (On further research you will find several sub niches within this group)

Content idea: Write or Report about personal experiences/interviews, tips, latest medical information , product news.

Hint: Start your research with US govt. online resources.

Revenue Generation: Post your newsletter online sprinkled with Google Adsense and related affiliate programs.

When you have about 12-20 issues, select themed articles from your back issues and sale them as a separate package.

Idea #2 : Food Writer’s Resource Guide

Target Market : Food Writer’s/Cookbook writers

Content idea: Online Resources and marketing tips for freelance writers, cookbook authors and publishers.

Revenue Generation: Create a Newsletter for Food Writers. Accompany your newsletter with a paid resource directory for cook book Writers. The directory should be designed such that they can easily find things like - resources neatly organized for researching about food , related marketing and articles submitting sites, listing of newsletters dealing with food and recipes where they can syndicate articles or advertise, etc.

Your aim should be to save time for the Food writers and help them to find what they want to stay ahead in their market.

Use your newsletter as a marketing vehicle for the resource directory. Depending on the content and design of your directory, you can charge $47-$67 per year.

Idea #3: Create an Online Distance Education Directory

Target Market : Students (Adults) those who cannot afford to travel across the countries and are looking for long distance education.

Research shows that the demand for online distance education is increasing every year.

Content Idea: Searchable database of distance education courses with the details of programmes offered by the various universities (ex- Canadian universities, Australian universities etc.).

An useful additional bonus or an upsell will be a ‘how to guide’ detailing the step by step process about how to apply and enroll….” an insiders viewpoint for overseas students.”

Revenue Generation: Depending on the number of programmes you cover for each university and the details , you can charge $37 -$47 to access the directory

You can use this idea for any other niche where the people involved in the industry need to do a lot of research.

Idea #4: Create Family Vacation Guide (for a specific country)

Target Market: Affluent families looking for information on planning short and long vacations

This is a fun project and if you love to travel it should be an easy service to start for foreign travelers visiting your country

Content Idea: Places to see , what to do, tourist special attractions, culture and tradition , heritage tours of your country, culinary tours, historical tours .

Revenue Generation : Paid newsletter /Membership site . Additional revenue form ’Insiders Travel Guide’ CDs.

Idea #5: Discount Travel Deals for Senior Citizen

Target Market: Senior citizen (possible subniche -Single Women, Old couples)

Content Idea : Practical & timely info on vacations preferred by travelers in this age group. Information about the discounts and often things they can get free ,with details about what age the discount is available for; possible value added service, physical addresses and contact numbers to easily get more information.

Revenue Generation: monthly/Yearly subscription based newsletter OR newsletters supported by advertisement and travel related Affiliate program.

There you go… 5 business ideas you can use as a base to start your research about what you need to do to implement these ideas or use them for brainstorming the possible variations.

However, ideas are of no use if not acted upon. Create an action plan and work accordingly.

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