Alright, let's start off with the first one, and some of these you're going to notice are pretty Niche but I think that's the important thing here. This isn't just like a generic list of like start a dog walking business or you know start a lawnmowing company, which you know can be good companies but you've probably heard a lot of before. So, these are going to be pretty different. Let's start off with the first one here, which is a ghostwriting service. On LinkedIn, a lot of people just kind of have a LinkedIn; they don't really feel like they use it very much. But the truth is, if you can start a ghostwriting service for other businesses and you can get them new clients from creating content that shows up in the feed on LinkedIn, this can be extremely valuable. I know people who pay hundreds of dollars per month as a service for someone to do ghostwriting on LinkedIn. Basically, just going to companies, whether this is local businesses or preferably like any type of SAS Company, software companies, or any other types of influencers and saying, 'Look, you need to start posting content on LinkedIn.'
Option number two for a business idea going into 2025 is an email newsletter business. Now, the reason why this is one of the best businesses to start is because you can basically become your own Media company for almost no cost. So, you can use a service called beehive. I'll leave a link to it down below in the description, but with Beehive, this is an email newsletter platform so you can run your newsletter on this. We have newsletters here at Santal Media for a variety of different niches that we run, we operate, they're pretty much automated. We have someone writing them every single week, he writes them, he sends them out, we put sponsors inside of those newsletters, and so these are free newsletters that we send out and we make money on this. It's really like the definition of passive income is having an email newsletter.
So, business idea number three is to create a specialty food service that goes direct to consumer for different types of food that you can't get at the grocery store. So for example, I buy Wagyu steaks online from a couple of different suppliers, and I do that because I can't get them at any of the grocery stores around me. So you could take this concept and really run with it in a number of different ways. You can get really creative. For example, there's this company that my parents buy salmon from; it's called Wild for Salmon, and it's just wild-caught salmon from Alaska, I believe.
Alright, so option number four for a business opportunity, this is one you can do from your home you might have heard of it before but I still think it's going to be one that has a lot of potential this year and that is to start a digital marketing agency. Now I want you to think about this in a different light than what most people think of. Most people when they think of starting an agency, they think of building a website for their dentist office down the street or like running an Instagram page for their local ice cream shop.
Okay, so the next business opportunity is going to be a meal prep and delivery service. Now there are a lot of people who don't eat very well or they have to get Uber Eats all the time and there's a big Market opportunity for this especially if you live in a big city. Now you don't have to be a professional shef to offer meal prep or private Chef Services trust me on this I've paid my friends who are not like professionals they're just pretty good at cooking food they enjoy cooking food and I have someone who comes over once a week and makes food for me and it’s for the rest of the week right so I have dinners I can just reheat them I have lunches I have all these things ready for me they make sure that all my groceries are in the fridge it’s just great cuz like for me I don't like cooking I don't like the process of going to the grocery store and you know figuring out like what am I going to eat on Tuesday I don’t know honestly I don’t care I just want someone to do that for me me and you know I'm just luckily in the position where I I can afford to do that but there’s a lot of people who are in the same position as me where they would be willing to pay money for someone to do that for them so if you're pretty good at cooking you enjoy cooking you enjoy that task then this could be something that you could market to people in your local area as a meal prep meal delivery service to help people out and this one is pretty straightforward now getting clients for that can be a little bit difficult the best way is probably going to be through word of mouth so once you get one or two customers having them introduce you to their friends or other people if they really like your work it’s going to be pretty easy to get you know maybe five or 10 clients and this can end up being a full-time business operation that you could be running just like that.
Okay, so the next business opportunity is going to be a fishing boat charter. Now this one's very niche, I understand not everyone likes to go fishing or know even knows how to go fishing but I realize this could be a really great business when I went down to Florida this winter and we paid like $800 to have someone take us out myself, my brother, my parents, we paid him $800 to take us out on his boat down in Florida just for the day, you know, we woke up in the morning did it, and we were back by sometime in midday I think he was doing two different charters in the same day making $800 from us and probably $800 from the afternoon group so this guy was making about $1,600 for one day of just taking people out fishing I mean that’s can be a really great business opportunity if you do that a few times per week you can make a few thousand dollars per week from being a fishing boat charter service now a lot of people are going to say well I don’t own a boat I can’t afford to buy a boat and so an idea on this would be even leasing a boat from someone who already owns one and saying hey look I’m starting a charter business can I rent your boat from you for $1,000 a month right and that might sound a little bit expensive but if you can make $10,000 a month from that then it can be a pretty great opportunity there so approaching people who own boats and seeing if you can either lease a boat from them or find a way to maybe partner with them where they own 10 or 20% of the business in order for you to use their boat and you give them some of the profits like a profit share opportunity could be really interesting but I think that this one is just a really cool gig that I personally would like to start and I think you can make a really good living from this now this is not going to be like a billion dooll business.
So, the next business opportunity is to start a print on demand business. Now, print on demand; we also have videos on this that show you how to start a print on demand company. The reason why we like this is that it’s pretty similar to Drop Shipping in the sense that there's really not much of an overhead cost for you to get started with this. So you can use something like Gelato. I'll leave a link to it down below, but with Gelato, you can design different things whether this is t-shirts or hat or different types of merch, and you can promote these and you only are going to be paying for when these products are actually purchased.
The final one that I want to share with you, and this is just a business opportunity that I made a lot of money on when I was in high school and when I was in college, is an auction flipping business. So this is something you can on the weekends and you can make a lot of money from this. What I used to do is I used to go to farm auctions and a variety of other auctions; I would go in the morning Saturday mornings I would buy products and then I would resell them on Craigslist, resell them on Facebook Marketplace, and even reselling them on things like eBay or Depop as well.
Q: What is the first business idea mentioned?
A: The first business idea mentioned is a ghostwriting service for LinkedIn.
Q: What is the second business idea discussed?
A: The second business idea is an email newsletter business.
Q: What is the third business idea presented?
A: The third business idea is a specialty food service direct to consumer.
Q: What is the fourth business idea suggested?
A: The fourth business idea is a digital marketing agency targeting political campaigns.
Q: What is the fifth business idea proposed?
A: The fifth business idea is a meal prep and delivery service.
Q: What is the sixth business idea highlighted?
A: The sixth business idea is a fishing boat charter business.
Q: What is the seventh business idea mentioned?
A: The seventh business idea is a print on demand company.
Q: What is the eighth business idea discussed?
A: The eighth business idea is an auction flipping business.