If you are looking forward to opening a home-based business in the near future, we have great news for you: there are lots of niches which are predicted to be extremely successful in 2017. While certain market sectors are saturated, and others are declining and becoming obsolete, there are many evergreen opportunities and brand new products and services in demand.
When you plan to open a business, even a small home-based one, it is important to be able to project into the future and see whether the hot trend of today will be around in a few years, or you will be left with an investment and no market share at all. This is why we are very wary about sharing “hot trends” because they tend to be transitory.
However, when we do make a recommendation, it is because we believe that it is a solid business idea with the potential to grow over the years and help you be financially independent. Therefore, we are confident enough to recommend these strong home-based business ideas for the coming year:
1. Nutrition Coach
Staying focused on a diet is difficult, especially for people who have a long history of unhealthy eating habits. The new surge of awareness for the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle, including a balanced diet, has created a niche market of people who need advice and support to keep their diet plan and not cheat on it.
As a nutrition coach, you will talk to your clients, keep track of their progress, make sure that they reach every milestone in the diet plan and be there for them when they feel depressed and ready to abandon the healthy diet.
2. Professional Blogger
If you want to start a blog and get rich, you are about 5-6 years too late. General purpose and personal blogs are very hard to monetize these days, except for the case when you have an exceptional talent for writing. However, companies who want to ace their content marketing are continually on the lookout for blog writers specialized in their specific industry.
Financial services, medicine, law, IT and many other niches are the most active in seeking out freelance blog writers to maintain official company blogs and provide content for their social media marketing.
3. Children’s App Developer
Nearly three quarters of children have access to a smartphone – if not their own, then their parents’. This creates a specific niche for designing and building mobile apps for children. Right now, there is a rising demand for age appropriate entertaining and educational apps for children. Parents want to make sure that children spend time on smartphones in a useful manner and are engaged in online activities adequate for their age.
4. Adult Coloring Book Author
Rest assured, the term “adult” does not imply anything beyond the realm of propriety. It simply means that these coloring books are targeted at adults: they have more complex designs and approach topics which are familiar to adults.
Adult coloring books have become very popular as a stress relief method and it has all the chances to remain an ongoing trend, much as crossword puzzles. Whether you decide to create printed coloring books or eBooks which can be filled in with colors using image editing software, you have all the chances to start a successful home-based business.
5. Very Specific Niche Business
People love details and are very keen to work with a business which covers a very specific need. From makeup tutorials for wedding or parties to very high heeled shoes for petite women, specific niches will always have a place of their own among the mainstream businesses.
So, if you believe that your business idea is way too specific to be viable, go ahead and test it anyway – you may find out that you are about to offer exactly what a lot of people in your local community were looking for.