My Title: ” What’s the Best Small Business to Start in 2011, for 2012” is partly a question and partly an answer to an email I received last week, an email that is quite frequent in varied ways.  I have several people ask via comments on this website, email, and telephone calls what the best way to start a home business is, or they might ask what is the best small business to start right now. It’s almost like having someone ask what the hottest band is right now or the best CD to buy at virgin.

Let’s face it we are in the age of the “Start-up” so to speak.   Starting a small business today can cost as little as a hundred bucks or so and more and more people everyday are looking at becoming an entrepreneur as a serious option.  I don’t have an industry or specific franchise business idea, or anything of the like to recommend.  I like the Internet and business models that utilize the Internet to make money.  I’m always asked to put that in a box. It’s tough.  I wrote an article quite a while back that became very popular on the Internet, it was titled, “ The Best Business to Start for a Beginner in 2011” You can go read that and learn what I feel are some of most important criteria for deciding what the best business to start is given you particular situation.

Another popular article I read talked about the most successful Internet businesses to start and gave three examples. Either way you chalk it up you have to be forward thinking enough and patient enough to know that any business you start in the next few months won’t pay off for a while.  At the beginning that’s a pain, but it’s also what creates opportunity in the long run.  If it were easy, everyone would do it right?  I mean if you were guaranteed a paycheck next week, it wouldn’t be a business it would be a job, right?

Choosing the best business to start is often times more practical than entrepreneurial, I get that. …. And I’ve done that, I know how it works.  One of the things I always like to tell people is to think about what they really want.  Most of us want to feel successful, we want to apply ourselves and we really do want to achieve.  When you start a small business it really pays to think about what you want the business to provide for you.  Most of us are more than willing to pour our hearts and souls into a new business idea, but what are you expecting it give back in return?  Many business ideas will never give you time freedom.  For example, success in a service type business will usually only earn you more work.  Everyone will want YOU to do their landscaping or replace their muffler, is that success to you?

The business I manage online is great. It is specifically designed to do exactly what I  want it to do and it performs very well. I’m not exactly sure what you would call it or what box you would put it in, I’ve wrote extensively on what I feel the best Internet business model is online. I wrote another article on Internet business ideas that make money, it gives you a couple way to start making money online.

There are literally thousand of good ways to make money online, and I even wrote a post titled  “Step by Step Way to Make Money Online“…. Imagine that.  there are business opportunities that are packaged for people who already have jobs, there are small business franchise ideas that thousands are starting every month, there are literally thousand of smart ways to start a business in in 2011, but most all of them won’t offer rewards until 2012, so get started right away.

While your here share with us you opinions and ideas about what you feel is the best small business to start in 2011 or share you new 2012 business ideas in the comments.

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As many of you know I’m always looking for smart home business ideas or small business ideas operated from a mobile platform or a home office.  Anyway, I came across a unique find while visiting the folks at www.GetEntreneurial.com today. It’s actually a PDF, an E-Book of something like… 300 and some unique business ideas from around the world. I believe these are the business ideas that their main site highlighted during 2007, you’ll have to check.  I visit the site frequently and they always seem to have the newest home business ideas and business start ups.

Most of the home business ideas you see advertised online are “prepackaged” home based business

Bright Ideas, Bright Business Ideas.

opportunities.  The ones in this free book are not. They are entrepreneurial originals that people put together and launched.  From niche fashion business ideas to online business ideas, they vary widely.  With new business ideas literally giving birth to thousands of start up businesses a day, a person could probably make it a full time job seeking out the most notable ones.

Well enough from me, go ahead and down load or read a copy of this top business ideas book.  A better idea would be to save a copy, so you can read it whenever you like. (145 pages of business start up ideas, from online business ideas to pet businesses, you name it, they are all new business ideas that people just like you decided to bring to life!

Click—> Here <— to Down Load or View the Book.

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I wanted to share some thoughts on small business ideas and the trends and thoughts that come with small business ideas and popular investment behavior.  Real estate has been, for decades, a popular small business idea.  Most people consider it an investment, but that is debatable. I’m not talking about current markets or the economic turmoil in our midst today. In general real estate is not an investment.

A good small business idea?

Real estate investment are just that, investment ideas, well thought out business deals that have built in return mechanisms. Middle class America is taught be real estate marketing, banking institutions, and general advertising that a house is a real estate investment, its not.  Most houses are not real estate investment, just like most guns aren’t murder weapons.  I guess a good point that could be inserted here is that its smart to get your small business ideas from someone who doesen’t  have a hand in the game. Bankers sell money, real estate agents sell hope… or houses I mean.  And when they work together, the simple investor won’t have a chance.

Simple Small Business Ideas.

Small business ideasthat have gained tremendous success and popularity have usually been simple. While implementing a great small business idea is usually much more complex.  Riches have been made in manufacturing, distribution, and now information and technology. This reminds me of a story I told a friend when he asked, “What are you up to these days?”.  I’ll share that story here. Before I do, if you are an entrepreneur, or interested in small business, subscribe to the updates and you’ll get them in your in box. I am interactive with readers and invite you leave comments or email ideas and questions, it gives me something to write about.

One story I like to use, a hypothetical one, to illustrate what the information age offers, that the industrial age really doesn’t. Back to the real estate idea.  Sticking with conventional thinking, if you were to buy 5 houses for $100,000.00 each it would cost $500,000.00, plus commissions and closing costs, but just forget that for know, were just pretending….

Now if you were to rent each of those houses for $600 per month, you would theoretically have a cash flow of $3,000 per month… Keeping it simple here, just go along with it. Oh, I almost forgot, do have a half a million dollars? No? Oh, OK, so actually, keeping it simple again, lets just say in 20 years, you will have 3k per month in passive income.(rentals are not passive, and you wouldn’t earn close to 3k) we are pretending.

Now let’s look at an information age business idea and look at a few differences. I don’t care if you think real estate is the best thing since nursing homes, it does not matter to me….

Here is my example: Let’s say you have some special knowledge or information that would either save someone a significant amount of money ( let’s use $400 bucks) or a significant amount of time (let’s say a month)…

what is the best small business idea?

What small business idea would work? What kind of information? Doesn’t matter. Chances are if your interested in something so are other people, a hobby, a career, life experience, sports, reading, writing, fixing things, whatever, doesn’t matter.

Lets say you put that information together in an easy to read format that would help a person solve a few specific problems or save them a significant amount of money. Maybe even help them be more healthy. Ok your going to put this together in an information product format (people can do this for ya) with video and audio, maybe a workbook and even a DVD. Know you know and I know it is worth $400 bucks. It is a good small business idea, your neighbor might even buy it. Since you don’t know everyone and maybe you stink at sales, you’ve got to use the Internet, a simple website, and some smart marketing to get some initial exposure for your product and price it cheap…. Maybe $50 bucks (easy math) OK, here’s the point. If your new information age business idea sold two copies, programs, or reports, per day, anywhere in the free world, only 2, you would earn $3,000 per month, and in this case, it would be quite passive.

Kinda cool, huh?  Just one way to illustrate the power of  the information age and how entrepreneurs are taking small business ideas around the globe. Is everyone and entrepreneur? No, but everyone could stand to earn an extra 30 or 40k per year in a passive way part time, right? I think so. Everyone may not be an entrepreneur, but everyone does have a small business idea.

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