Do you dream of having your own business?

[IncyWincySpider]

I'm always trying to come up with business ideas and trying to think through ways in which they would work. Does anyone else do this? Or did you do it and then actually start up on your own?
What sort of business ideas have you considered/started?

Most of my ideas I just couldn't see going anywhere or would be a lot of hard work for relatively little gain.
A few recent thoughts were:
Local/organic food shop + deliveries as I haven't been able to find anything truly local to me.
Website + shop selling handcrafted items - a bit like a craft fair in a shop.
Running a shop is inflexible and neither of these ideas are scalable.

Have also been toying with a personal finance related idea but I don't have any finance qualifications or the time to gain them so didn't think I could make it work without falling foul of financial services regulation. Had a brainwave the other day and came up with a new angle which I don't think would be affected by regulation. Now I just need to find the energy to try and do some more research and do something about it!! can't see that happening for a while!

[Matilde]

Yep! all the time!!!!

I still think everyday about my children's clothes online retail business and about the 100 reasons why it would flop .

I am also thinking of starting a local El Club Espanol (this is like Le club francais you may have heard of) but again I mostly think about why the hard work wont be financially worth it at the end.

I am not having the most positive day.

[pooch]

Yes and that is why I went for it!! It really isn't as daunting as you first imagine. I was so scared of starting up so I did things little by little and I finally launched my business in May. It took me nearly two years of planning but I am so pleased I did it.

Also, what I did is, when I found out I was pregnant I reallly did tonnes of stuff while on maternity leave and now I am concentrating on my business while getting paid my maternity leave So if it doesn't work out I still will have a job to go to at the end of my leave but positive thinking... its going to work out, its going to work out....

Just start researching and getting things moving little by little. Also really important to write down a business plan so you know what you want to achieve. It doesn't have to be pages but just jotting down your main idea etc. I am constantly tweaking mine.

Matilde, I would definitely send Lucas to your el club espanol if you had one

[scatterbrain]

All the time, but I can't think of a skill I have that people would pay for!

SB

[cartchick]

Yep, and I do

Now I sometimes dream about being an employee again






nah, not really!

[minigirl]

me too.

[Princess Fiona]

All the time, but I can't think of a skill I have that people would pay for!

What SB said

[cheeky_biscuit]

DH has his own business. When he decided to go for it, I was just about returning to work from Mat. leave to part time hours - my wages after childcare did cover our mortgage and council tax, but hardly anything left over. Fortunately it went ok. It does get stressful at times, and DH can't switch off, but our lifestyle is so different to when he was working - and so much better!
Go for it.

[sapphire]

I work for myself and I took a huge risk doing it but life is too short and sometimes you've got to take a risk and just go for it!!

[Jamtart]

I would love to own my own health and beauty spa and have a range of skincare with my name on it! I want to start by running my own beauty salon and I am going to go back to college evenings to train as a nail tech in Feb and full time in sept to do beauty therapy! Its been a dream of mine for years and now I can start to make it a reality.

Also this is totally different but I have always dreamed of owning my own cafe bar thats a cafe by day and cocktail bar come nightclub by night!