Neurons@Work

Many sports manufacturer makes lots of money selling swimwears. Consider high-tech swimsuits manufacturer such as Speedo’s new LZR Racer, Arena, Adidas and Mizuno, research and development has helped them elevate their brand names to new heights. Many high fashion brands churn out sexy swimwear to capture some of this lucrative market.

However, there is much potential in modest swimwears that targets the Muslim community. At example of companies who is quitely earning money selling Islamic swimwear is Bestburkini which provides full covered modest islamic swimwear to accord with aurat rule. Better known as burkini or burqini, it comes in different sizes, designs, and fitting with detachable head cover for extra modesty.

So, to all fashion designers out there. Start carving yourself a niche here.

Website: www.bestburkini.com/

If you have strong interest in electronics, why not start a store that provides all kinds of supplies for people who want to build robots, electronic gadgets, or anything else that moves, beeps or flashes?

Consider VEKIT, an online shop that provides educational science and electronic kits to schools, students and hobbyists. Their emphasis is  to provide learning using the most exciting way through hands on explorations and experiments. Definitely a better way to learn electronics.

 Website: www.vekit.com/index.htm

Sometimes, it pays to be specialized in something instead of trying to be good in everything. Consider Quantum, the world’s largest supplier of tape drives.

Founded in 1980, Quantum is the leading global storage company specializing in backup, recovery and archive solutions. All of Quantum’s resources are dedicated to providing backup, recovery and archive solutions such as tape drives. Quantum offers focused expertise and customer-driven innovation to increase its competitive advantage against storage generalists such as system OEMs and primary storage providers. In addition, Quantum has the global scale and scope to support a worldwide customer base along with a comprehensive portfolio of systems, software, devices and services.

So the next time you are starting a business, make sure that you don’t end up spreading yourself too thin.

There is a new type of business concept in Sweden and its called ACNE. ACNE stands for “Ambition to Create Novel Expressions”. This Swedish label is a multi-disciplinary company consisting of clothings, films, furniture design, architecture and their own world-class publication. 

Their stores are designed in a very attractive manner somewhat recreating an artist’s studio. Everything in the acne store including the lights, tables, cabinets and racks were designed and made in Sweden and can be purchased by interested customers.

This is what I call maximizing opportunities to sell.

Another business that targets only women customers between 18-30 years old who’d like a change from sweet mixed drinks. 

A Dutch wine for women Sophie & Sophie is rosé wine “refresher” sold in small bottles. A wine ‘refresher’ is made from a combination of wine, dealcoholized wine, and freshly pressed grape juice, which leaves a drink that tastes like semi-dry wine, but only contains 5.5% alcohol, and half the amount of calories in real wine.

The wine is sold in stylish little bottles, containing enough ‘wine’ for two glasses. Just enough to give the drinker a good feeling without the risk of getting too drunk. Time to introduce this in the wine of the month club.

Talking about specialty shop, this company sells everything under the sun for horse care. JeffersEquine.com aims to provide the best discount horse supply and horse care product selections available anywhere. Products range from horse supplements, equine products, tack, vaccines and medicines.

With their centre of operations in Dothan, Alabama, they are one of the largest privately owned catalog and eCommerce animal health supply retailers. Even if you can’t find the horse product you need, you can put in a personal request and their customer service representatives will do their best to meet your needs.

There are many horse owners out there in this region as well that may need this kind of one stop centre. This may be your next breakthrough.

Business opportunities can come from overcoming everyday problems. Take for instance “Poof”, a toilet deodorizer that eliminates stinking odour after doing your “business”.

A common problem that plagues most people is leaving the toilet smelly after using it especially if the toilet is in someones home. The inventor of Poof overcame this problem by trapping the odors in the water so you don’t just cover up smells but preventing them from escaping from the water. That made them millionaires today.

So, the next time someone complains about something, it may just be another opportunity waiting to be discovered.

The market for home decoration is no doubt a growing trend. People are getting more and more into beautifying their homes using antiques, artifacts, paintings and etc.

Consider Mode de Vie, a Malaysian company who has partnered with My Maison, Australia to distribute M Squared range of product. Their focus is on contemporary designed products with over 600 new designs being churned out every year. All products come in limited quantity and with unique shapes. Products that they offer are vases, kitchenware, wall art, sculptures, oil burners, candle holders, photo boxes and etc. All products are also sold at affordable prices.

This is an idea which you can consider but to make your life easier, you can contact Mode de Vie as they are looking for investors.

Website: modedevie.biz/

With the Beijing Olympics starting today, there are many opportunities for the people in China. One such way was to actually earn money using their mascots.

The Fuwa (Good-fortune Children) are the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. They consists of five members: Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying, and Nini. The five mascots incorporate fish, giant panda, fire, Tibetan antelope, and swallow designs respectively, and each also represents one of the five Olympic Rings. When the five names are put together, they form a pun on the phrase “Beijing huanying ni” which means “Beijing welcomes you”.

There are many entrepreneurs out there made their millions by just selling dolls e.g. Ugly Dolls. So start using your creativity and start selling your own dolls.

If you have a good network with hotels, how about starting your very own specialty pool floats shop? Looking at the number of swimming pools available, without a doubt there is money to be made. Items that you can offer can range from pool toys to floating chairs, baby floats to pool rafts and many other pool products. By doing so, you can help provide a fun environment in the pool. Collaborating with hotels, shops can be opened near swimming pools providing you visibility to potential customers.