Hey, Mama. Here are profitable business ideas from home. These ensure you can start and run a business that will bring in money, from the comfort of your own home.

We are going to look into five profitable business ideas from home. You can find more business ideas on my Tik Tok account.

Business Ideas from Home

The list below, explains the business in detail and offers suggestions to upsell

• Drop Shipping
• Subscription Box
• Sell on Yaga
• Veggie Garden Starter Kit
• UGC Agency

Drop Shipping Business Idea

Yes, I know, drop shipping can sound scary because of the countless scams. But I believe this was caused mainly by South African not having drop shipping companies. We have had to rely on the American and Chinese companies, and this came with a set of problems.

Things like not being able to fully guarantee that your supplier is legitimate, and the shipping times were just ridiculous in the fast-paced world.

Enter Wonderprint!

Wonderprint is a print on demand platform that connects vendors to local printers. It is the Printify of South Africa. We no do not have to worry about shipping times. And it is also easier for you to verify suppliers, if you need to. You can start your drop shipping business from the comfort of your home in a day.

Wonderprint has products that you can customise and load onto your store. When you make a sale, Wonderprint will fulfill the order for you. It is that simple. And it is completely free to start.

Some Products on Offer

The Pro and Cons of this business idea from home

Subscription Box Business Ideas from Home

Before you walk away, hear me out. Create a subscription box that is valuable. For example, you could start a subscription box for women who are in perimenopause. These are women who are looking for natural ways to reduce or eliminate perimenopause symptoms. You definitely have to do your research, bonus points for partnering with a certified herbalist.

Your onboarding system can ask women to fill in their current symptoms and you can create customised boxes. A valuable subscription box is a guaranteed way to ensure recurring revenue. If herbs are not your thing, you can try these business ideas from home.

Bread Subscription

Almost every household in South Africa consumes bread on a daily basis. You don’t have to serve the whole of South Africa, just your area. How it works? Your customers pay upfront for your home baked bread and then you deliver it to them once or twice a week, depending on your customers’ needs and what works for your business. This business is ideal for someone who loves baking, because you will be baking for most of the week. The upside of a bread subscription is that you know how much you need to bake every month.

It may sound silly, but bread has skyrocketed in South Africa and if you can offer people some reprieve on a basic necessity, you will secure your bag.

Possible upsell(s)

1. For subscription boxes you can create limited editions and seasonal boxes.
2. Charge small business owners to be included in your subscription box.
3. Your own products.

Natural Hair Products

Another box is a natural hair products subscription box. You can also customise this by asking your potential customers details about their hair and their hair routine. How often does your customer wash their hair? Do they know what type of hair they have? You can also offer tips on how to test their hair type etc. And then offer a box that solves their problem. Or maybe your customer doesn’t have a problem they just forget to restock their products.

You can either make your own products or partner with business owners who already sell hair products

Business Ideas from Home Sell on Yaga

Look around your house and in your wardrobe, I am sure you have things you no longer use. That baby car seat, ma’am your baby is 10-(enter side eye). Let it go. There is a new mom out there looking for an affordable car seat for her brand-new baby. That dress you bought four years ago with hopes to wear it one day when all the gym time pays off, sisi, let that go. What about the cake pop maker you used that one time and it’s now gathering dust? Wipe that thing down and list it on Yaga.

Have I convinced you to turn some of your stuff into cash? Now, let us talk about best practices to succeed on Yaga.

Yaga Best Practices

• SEO friendly descriptions. You need to make sure your items are searchable.
• Well-lit images and have multiple angles of the same product.
• A full bio tell your visitors what to expect from you. The days you ship, whether they can contact you for more details about an item.
• A clear and eye-catching logo and store name (make sure your store name is SEO friendly too)
• Send a “thank you” message to people who purchase from you.
• Ship an item with a small inexpensive gift. (Not necessary but, sweet.)

Possible Upsells

1. Reach out to other store owners and offer to write their product descriptions
2. Offer to market their stores

Veggie Garden Starter Kit

This business idea from home is for the Mama who loves playing with soil. Start your own veggies garden and document this process on your social media. This is how you will attract your customers, especially on platforms like Tik Tok and Facebook. These are the two platforms South Africans spend most of their time.

At harvest time, share some of your produce with your neighbours or adopt a children’s home to donate to and document all of this. Please, do not record children or anyone without their consent. The content is solely to help you gain followers.

How do you make money? Offer online consultations on how your customer can start their garden and offer a starter kit. The kit must have all the seeds your customer needs and planting and nurturing instructions. Create paid video content teaching your customers how to nurture different types of vegetation. Build an entire community around veggie gardens.

Possible Upsells

1. Start the garden for your customer
2. Charge for maintenance
3. Sell your branded seeds. Keep and dry the seeds you get from your produce, package it and sell it.
4. Sell at markets

Open a UGC Agency

A UGC agency business can be started at home and big brands will love you for it. What is UGC? UGC stands for user generated content and brands love content generated by their product of service users. The reason brands love this type of content is because it is authentic. It is real people sharing their experiences with their brand. You can make it easier for brands to find the people who love their brand.

How to start?

Create a multivendor website where people can sign up and make a video submission of them using a brand a requirement. Then reach out to the brands you want to work with, send them video links to the people who showcase their respective brand. When the brand agrees to use the video(s), you then send them an invoice. Once the brand pays for the video, you then pay your artists.

Possible Upsells

1. Offer your artists online classes on how to best showcase different brands to improve their chances of working with a brand.
2. Create a premium sign-up option- offer these artists first to brands and create banner ads for them on your website.

Conclusion

Business ideas from home are possible the process needs you to be creative and start something you absolutely love. It is important to make sure it solves a problem or fulfills a desire. So, make sure you audit your skills and interrogate your values before you embark on a new business.

Until next time, I wish you the courage to live the life of your dreams.

Bye, Mama Xx