If you've always wanted to work for yourself and love walking in the great outdoors, you can start a fun small business that will not only keep you in shape but put money in your pocket at the same time. If you live in a city of decent size there are ways you can make money walking through the streets of your home town, enjoying the fresh air, and scenery while interacting with others. In the world of fun businesses, this one ranks high on the scale of enjoyment. Here are some ways to make money walking in your local area:
Offer Local Graveyard Tours
Yes, it sounds a bit spooky but there's a market for this type of service. Study the history of some of the local graveyards in your area. Do research at the library to locate interesting facts about who's buried there and any ghostly tales you might be able to uncover. Design an hour long tour that guides people through the graveyard and highlights interesting sites along with a few unsettling stories. Advertise your graveyard tours on bulletin boards in your local area and wait for the response. You can hold your graveyard tours during the day, or if you're really brave schedule them for after dark. You'll more business than you can handle around Halloween.
Sponsor Art Walks
If you enjoy fine arts and have a few interesting galleries and art museums in your area, you can make money exposing people to work of local artists. This can make money for your two ways. You can charge recipients for the cost of the tour while charging a small fee to the art galleries for being included on the walk. You would first contact local art galleries and see if they would like to be included on your walks. The gallery owners could serve coffee or other refreshments to make the tour guests feel welcome and might give a short talk about the gallery. You and your guests would walk from gallery to gallery enjoying the art work and refreshments at each stop. The final stop on the tour could be your local art museum where you would highlight some of the finest artistic masterpieces and give a short talk about each exhibit. A good place to advertise would be at your local libraries and your local arts council.
Boutique Shopping Tours
If you love to shop, this is an ideal fun business for you to start. Most cities have lots of small boutiques that aren't heavily advertised. Why not sponsor a Saturday morning boutique walk? As with the art galleries, you could charge each boutique a small fee for being included in the walk as well as collect a fee from each walker. You could showcase each boutique on the tour with a brief talk about what they have to offer and then give each participant a chance to shop before moving on to the next location .You can bet a lot of boutique owners would love to take part in your tour as it would be an inexpensive form of advertising for them.
If you use your imagination, you can come up with a variety of other local walks would be fun businesses to start. People love the idea of getting their daily exercise while doing something enjoyable. Why not give these fun business ideas a try in your local area?
