5 Legitimate Businesses That You Can Start With An Investment of Less Than INR 5000/-

In the current times, a good business which can give you a sustainable income is the need of the hour.

But low investment business ideas are a boon for:

• Already employed and looking for a little side income
• Student looking for money to pay your expenses
• Homemakers wishing to generate some income from home
• Unemployed who are looking for a kick-start to their career

If you fall in any of the above categories, then these business ideas that follow are only for you. They might not help you make a complete living in the first few months, but definitely all have the potential to grow into full-time businesses.

Here are 5 Legitimate Businesses That You Can Start With An Investment of Less Than INR 5000/- And Get Successful!

1. Enterprising Webpreneur

You would need to create a good looking website where you upload the original content. And then find some appropriate affiliate programs that’s where your revenues are going to come from. Next, learn everything you can about search engine marketing and promote the heck out of your site. Go all out to promote the site. Last of all, set aside time every week to put new content on the site, delete dead links, and make other maintenance. Now do this three or four times, and you’ve chosen your topics well, you will start generating money from your website. You will have to take care of the marketing and content maintenance part on your own initially, till you start to make money and can re invest in the business.

2. Consulting Service Provider

Becoming a consultant is not difficult at all. If you have a skill of doing something better than the most people do, and you know that you can teach it to others, you are all set to become a consultant. You may also be helping others to start-of their businesses, or teaching them how to make a house search. For the consulting business, you need to build a solid network and capitalise on it.

3. Pet Sitting Services Provider

If you are an animal lover, especially dog and cats, you are in for this business. Many working people look for appropriate places and someone to take care of their pets while they are away working or going out of town for few days. All you need to set up this business is to turn you living space into a place comfortable for pets with all the toys and accessories. You will need to learn some imperative skills on handling pets and also, do not forget to keep the nearby vet clinic addresses and numbers handy.

4. Breakfast and Lunch Delivery For Office Goers

If you have good hand in cooking and you know a few dishes really well, you can start to deliver food in office workers, especially breakfast and lunch. You can start with buying few raw ingredients and few tiffin boxes, may 10-15 to start with. Once your business grows, you can multiply the number of boxes and dishes too. This can prove to be a lucrative business, because many working in  hectic jobs, do not have time to cook and who would say no to a decent home-cooked meal.

5. Avon or Amway Independent Sales Representative

Cosmetics and lifestyle products are actually a recession-proof business, because it’s an inexpensive way for people to feel good about themselves. Avon is the largest consumer direct sales company in the world, with annual sales of nearly $6 billion. In business for well over 100 years, they have both a highly reputable product line and one of the few highly reputable multi-level marketing structures (in fact, they invented it). Similar is the case with Amway. They offer fashion and wellness products in addition to their beauty products. While these companies may interest work from home mothers or other women looking for easy jobs,  a fairly substantial number of men have actually been very successful as business reps to these companies.

All you have to do is, buy a set of their products and start to build your downline with more business reps like you.

Keeping in mind these low investment business ideas, we are sure you can explore a little more and find out what suits your interest and start building a business around it.