Eco-friendly and healthy products
Separate waste collection
After several less successful business projects, entrepreneur Sergei Baltaev invested 150,000 rubles. to a small waste recycling project in the small town of Mendeleevsk in the Republic of Tatarstan. The entrepreneur specifically chose an idea that will always be in demand. Baltaev was convinced by statistics according to which a family of four produces 2,000 kilograms of garbage per year.
Currently, several dozen containers for recycling plastic, paper and glass have been installed in the city and neighboring communities. Baltaev and his partner plan to reach a monthly profit of 100,000 rubles. subject to the purchase of one hundred containers.
The project received not only noticeable information support in 2017, when its launch coincided with the year of ecology, but also a 10 sq.m office in the city administration building, as well as a 300 sq.m box for equipping a waste recycling site.
Read about the sources of development and commercial benefits, business model and state interest in the article “How to transfer separate waste collection to business tracks.”
Microgreens
The Santa Green project managed to recoup the initial investment of 100,000 rubles. in a month. The Zarechnev family of entrepreneurs came up with an idea for growing microgreens in one of the restaurants in St. Petersburg.
Microgreens are young sprouts of leafy vegetables that are used for decoration and cooking. It can be basil, peas, broccoli, sunflower, mustard. This product fits organically into fitness trends and is in demand among athletes.
At the start, the partners grew all the greens in a storage room in their own apartment - at the same time, they independently learned to care for the plants and eventually developed an automatic watering system. When the business expanded, the plants moved to a separate room and began to freeze there - the heating and ventilation system solved the problem.
Now all additional investments in the business pay off almost instantly; the product is in demand due to the demand for a healthy lifestyle and high competition among restaurants. Every month the project works with new clients - they are provided with trial orders, and later prices and quantities are agreed upon with them.
SantaGreen receives new orders thanks to Instagram and contextual advertising. In the future, the partners hope to launch a restaurant based on their project.
Read about the first successes and difficulties, the market and prospects in the article “How spouses from St. Petersburg make money from microgreens.”
Where to invest?
It is a well-known fact that money must constantly work, and in recent years, this phrase has become more true than ever. Inflation in Russia is growing every year, eating up a share of your budget.
To reduce the unpleasant process, the best option is to consistently invest extra money in a variety of investing trends. If you approach this issue wisely and understand the niche, you can not only reduce risks, but also increase your own capital.
How do you know where to invest your money? It all depends on how much money you have, how much profit you want and how much risk you are willing to take. Yes, you were not mistaken, there are always risks, because the higher the capital and the greater the risk, the greater the reward will be in case of success.
Here are a number of ideas for investing in Tomsk:
- If you have a small amount, the best and safest idea for investing money is to open a deposit account at a bank. The profit may be small and one-time, but the likelihood of risk is reduced to zero. The advantages include passive income and minimal waste of time. Sovcombank and OTP Bank have excellent deposit options for Tomsk residents.
- A similar idea for investing money is buying fed bonds. loan An alternative deposit option in which the money goes not to the bank, but to the state. A very reliable investment method, it is longer-term, but 10-12% more profitable.
- Purchase of securities on stock exchanges, mutual funds. A good option for owners of money from 200 to 300 thousand rubles who are ready to take risks. Profit can grow up to 20-30%, but no one will provide you with any guarantees.
- Precious metals are always relevant. Every year the cost of silver and gold is growing, but there is one big drawback - the long process of generating income.
- Always a reliable and proven type of investment is buying real estate in Tomsk. In addition, purchased square meters. meters can later be processed into a personal business with high profitability (renting out, for example).
Creative spaces
Coworking space for beauty artists
Alena Kozyreva from Yekaterinburg experienced first-hand the difficulties of working as a private makeup artist, who often has to move from place to place and carry a lot of cosmetics and tools with her. Renting a studio with a future business partner and a teacher at a beauty school helped solve the problem.
In 2020, the girls invested 300,000 rubles in launching a coworking space. and began to promote it among novice craftsmen who cannot afford to rent a full-fledged office, because they have already invested quite a lot of money in training and purchasing consumables. Workplaces in the beauty space are rented by 30 professionals: they can rent a place for an hour (RUB 100), a whole working day (RUB 800) or for 15 days a month (RUB 6,000).
This is the case when professional sales did not help attract clients, but online promotion worked, and more specifically, advertisements on Avito, professional public pages and Instagram. A significant number of clients are former students of the beauty school teacher; they receive a discount on the rental of a workplace.
Soon the founders intend to turn BeautyFree into a professional community where artists can learn from each other.
Read about the rapid launch of the project and the human factor in the article “BeautyFree: How a coworking space makes money for beauty professionals.”
Center for Psychological Excellence
Transformational games by Evgenia Ganina help to quickly work through psychological problems, and at the same time 80% of clients remain in the center for deeper therapy. The entrepreneur learned business skills while developing an MBA program at the Ural-Siberian Institute of Business.
Games lasting two to three hours turned out to be a good alternative to multi-day psychological master classes. They combine group therapy, trainings, master classes and coaching consultations, helping to manage stress, lose weight, and form relationships. Each game takes a month to develop.
The game involves six people who do not know each other, and consists of five to seven stages. At the end of the game, a person must find several ways to solve the problem.
Initial investment - 300,000 rubles. - spent on renting and furnishing an office, teaching aids, games, books. The main expense items now are rent, purchase of new teaching materials, filming and editing of educational courses.
Evgenia Ganina tries to minimize costs, but maintain quality - this is how she managed to save on renting space in the center and furniture for her office. Now the main financial goal of the project is to buy your own premises.
Read more about an unusual business idea in the article “How to monetize psychotherapy using games.”
Features of the region
To start your own business, you don’t have to spend millions. It is profitable to start from a retail outlet. Select business ideas in Saratov that will take root based on several facts about the city:
- 844,858 people call themselves Saratov residents. The city ranks 17th in terms of population. And if the negotiations on unification with Engels end positively, then the Russian Federation will have one more millionaire city.
- The official history of the Volga region city begins in 1590. But perhaps he is much older. Encampments of ancient people were found in the surrounding area.
- Traffic jams, problems with roads - there are typical features of a large, albeit provincial, capital city.
- There are dynamics in investment activity. The region rose by 10 places in a couple of months, and as a result, in January 2020, it took 10th place in the corresponding ranking of the Invest Foresight magazine.
- The city is developing and being built up.
Let’s answer the question: “What business to open in Saratov?” by examining several solutions. Here, an entrepreneur has room to grow in any direction. We offer ten options for what kind of business you can open in Saratov.
Handmade
Production of wood products
The family workshop of Ruslan and Elizaveta Kurashov earns more than 1 million rubles. per year on wood products. Average monthly revenue is 100,000 rubles, 15-20 clients contact them per month, and the couple managed to open a workshop with virtually no investment or experience working with wood. They simply read books, watched educational videos and studied forums.
We were able to save on renting premises by working in the garage, then in the boiler room at the dacha and in my parents’ former clothing store. Promotion didn’t cost anything thanks to the capabilities of VKontakte and Instagram. City markets helped us find new clients.
Subsequent investments in the workshop over three years approached 400,000 rubles, of which 105,000 rubles. Elizabeth’s severance pay upon leaving the bank went towards the purchase of a milling machine, and 300,000 of the profits reinvested in the business from investments went towards the purchase of a laser machine.
Now entrepreneurs are building a production workshop with an area of 70 square meters. m with workspaces, a paint shop and a warehouse for materials. There are plans to increase capacity, purchase new machines, distribute goods, and expand the team.
Read more in the article “How a family workshop earns more than 1 million rubles a year from wood products.”
Blacksmith's workshop
Anna Biletskaya changed many professions in different fields before trying herself in blacksmithing. In 2008, she moved from Astrakhan to Altai and ordered a grip from a local craftsman. When the entrepreneur saw the forge and anvil, she wanted to master the unusual craft herself. She began studying in the evenings, rented a room, and now makes lanterns, barbecues, fireplace grates and chandeliers from iron, bronze, brass and copper.
The workshop was launched in 2012 with a benefit from the employment center - 58,800 rubles. Later Anna received a grant of 300,000 rubles. Now her house in the village of Belokurikha is a workshop and a museum at the same time.
Construction of the house cost 2 million rubles, reinvested from the project's profits. Every day approximately 30 visitors come on excursions, daily revenue varies from 2,0000 to 10,000 rubles.
At first, promoting the project and finding clients was not easy, but Anna’s personality and her workshop quickly became famous thanks to media attention - now the entrepreneur, in addition to excursions to a private museum, conducts master classes and participates in international exhibitions.
Read more about how the only female blacksmith in Siberia is taking her business to the international level.
Specialty stores
Wine cabinet store
Entrepreneur from Yekaterinburg Evgeny Morozov switched from a wine boutique and wine tastings to an online store of goods for storing wine in 2011, when the profits from the original project began to be only enough to pay employees. The entrepreneur already had suppliers of wine cabinets, and this is where the business model grew.
Since 2011, the store has been selling wine cabinets, accessories and furniture for wine cellars and restaurants, including foreign manufacturers such as Smeg, KitchenAid, VacuVin, Dometic. Over six years, the demand for glasses, decanters and wine coolers has increased several times.
The emphasis in promotion is on private clients - for example, reviews of new products on the YouTube channel help with this. But so far, 50% of orders come from wine boutiques and restaurants.
According to Evgeny Morozov, in this business you first need to create a customer’s need for a product, and then offer the product itself - this is easily doable thanks to Instagram, Yandex.Market and Yandex.Direct.
As customer incomes decline, less expensive products are now popular: wine glasses, decanters, corkscrews, pumps, cooling jackets. The number of orders with a low average bill is growing.
Morozov wants to launch a separate inexpensive franchise project - a wine rack with accessories for storing wine, which restaurants and wine boutiques can install on their premises and receive additional income from it with a high average bill.
Read more about how to make money by storing wine when your clients' incomes are falling.
Used book store
In 2020, an entrepreneur from Vologda decided to sell off her home collection of old books, inspired by her own online marketing course. Today, in a new location in the city center, the store sells 500-700 books a month at very low prices and makes a small profit.
The starting capital of 60,000 rubles, invested in a cash register, three-month rent and furniture, paid off only after a year due to the wrong location. A year later, the project was restarted in the city center, Tatyana Yastrebova ordered cheap furniture from friends and collected 600 books to start sales. The first clients came after an announcement in the city public on VKontakte.
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Details
The store does not accept books from customers: complex reporting to the tax authorities and higher prices are deterrent - the added cost for sales makes a book worth 50-80 rubles. cheaper. Each book is photographed and posted in an album on social networks, and there is an SMS newsletter about new arrivals.
Tatyana buys large personal collections, which are sold on Avito, Yulia and city bulletin boards. Approximately 2% of books are sold to other cities. The average price of books is 10-50 rubles; you can earn money due to quantity and low purchase price. Military literature, Russian and foreign classics, and collected works are popular. Now the entrepreneur is preparing to launch an online store.
Learn how to make money selling old books.
Hair salon
The idea of this business is not new, but there is always a demand for it, especially in a city with a population of millions. The modern rhythm of life dictates new rules, according to which an establishment that provides a full range of services, from men's haircuts to children's haircuts, as well as manicures and pedicures, will be profitable.
The middle class hairdresser is considered the most profitable. Business requires quite large investments - rent, renovation and design of premises, purchase of equipment and furniture. The main condition is high quality of services - people are willing to pay to look good, but in this area they do not always get the desired result. Therefore, the high profit of a hairdressing salon depends on the quality of services.
Online courses
Online style lessons
Natalya Semenova from Yekaterinburg began her career as a stylist in 2009 and already in 2011 founded a style school, which eight years later turned into an educational space of 500 square meters. m in the city center with 30 practicing teachers. In 2020, the entrepreneur launched an online direction, which brought her more than 1.5 million rubles in less than a year. revenue.
Many students came to school in Yekaterinburg from other cities and countries; some could not come and offered to bring the intensive course to their city. This is how the idea of online courses was born.
This business model requires minimal investment, especially if it is launched on the basis of offline education with teachers, administrative staff, premises and filming equipment. Due to the fact that the school was already recognizable, it was possible to save approximately 100,000 rubles on promotion. The main difficulties were associated with obtaining an educational license for an online school and passing inspections and examinations by supervisory authorities. This also took about 100,000 rubles.
In the basic package, students study the materials independently; in the extended package, they receive support in working with their first client after completing the course. The average tuition fee is 8,500 rubles; in 2020, almost 200 people graduated from the school.
Read more in the article “Fashion in e-learning format: how much can you earn by teaching style?”
Author's course on style
Tsvetana Sofronova began her career as a stylist, organizing fashion shoots with photographers in the Volga region. This is how she managed to find clients to sort out her wardrobe and purchase things. For 100,000 rubles. she launched local signature style courses and paid for them within a month.
In 2014, the entrepreneur moved to Moscow and launched her own online style course with an average cost of 5,000 to 30,000 rubles. depending on the level of training. The average bill per client is 5,000 - 6,000 rubles; during the existence of the project, more than 300 people completed the course.
Read about competitive advantages, market conditions and working with personnel in the article “How an image maker became a successful entrepreneur.”
Programming courses for children
The market for additional children's education is also looking at the online route. For example, Roman Likhach from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk also became interested in alternative education and launched programming courses in three areas for 25 schoolchildren. The entrepreneur recruits students using Instagram, where he has 3,000 followers, and prepares separate programs for the summer months.
RUB 300,000 was spent on renting the premises and purchasing furniture. There are plans to create an online course - the website and program are already ready, all that remains is to shoot and edit the video.
Read about sources of attracting clients, the trend towards alternative education and going online in the article “How to launch programming courses for children with a loan.”
Education and leisure for children
Platform for tutors
Albina Borzina and her colleagues, teachers of a regular secondary school, together saved 70,000 rubles. to launch the platform for tutors “Smart Owl”, we rented premises, made repairs, purchased manuals and completed all the necessary documents. Their first clients were their former students from school. And now there are about 500 people.
Young projects related to tutoring are often quickly closed due to the inability to work with children and interact with parents. “Smart Owl” was able to solve this problem and paid for itself within a month. The center teaches 11 school subjects, choreography, provides psychological support and preschool classes. The cost of classes varies from 400 to 700 rubles. at one o'clock.
All methods of promotion are used: website, corporate newspaper, leaflets, word of mouth. The main expense item is rent. The founders have so far abandoned the idea of online courses - this makes it more difficult for children to concentrate and learn the material.
Read about market expertise and competitive advantages in the article “How teachers from Irkutsk became entrepreneurs.”
Children's quests
In 2020, entrepreneur Mikhail Vorobyov began conducting team quests for children and adults, in which the presenter gives the children puzzles and codes, and at the end they find a cache of sweet gifts. There are 22 quest scenarios; the entrepreneur comes up with the scenarios and details himself. The average cost of participation is 500 rubles.
Over four years, Mikhail Vorobyov’s company Happy Quest organized more than 2,000 events in Nizhny Tagil with a total number of participants of more than 15,000 people and earned more than 7 million rubles. Now the entrepreneur is registering a trademark for the European market and is preparing to launch his project on the Czech market.
Read about business performance, franchising and starting in the Czech Republic in the article “How to earn more than 7 million rubles on children’s quests in the region.”
Fishing business
Since ancient times, the Astrakhan region has been famous for its fish. In the Volga floodplain there are several dozen species of fish that are simply not found in other regions of Russia. And if you organize the delivery of river fish to the central regions of Russia, you can make very, very good money. And if, in addition, you establish smoking or drying of fish, then the business can become year-round, because few people will refuse to try dried chukhon with kvass.
A short article about the fish business.
