Best business ideas to implement as a business are very rare. However, it all depends on the place which you are going to start your business idea at. If you are to start your own business idea in town, you should choose the best business ideas for township place. In this article i cover the best ideas to start from home.

When you look at our country’s economy, you will realize the rate at which unemployment has taken toll. Many African youth are unemployed; we reach the age of 30 still unemployed. This is derailing the country’s economy if young people are not working. This is the reason why I came up with the best ideas for Africans to start at home.

If you don’t know what business idea to start at home, my dear friend I got you covered. Please don’t go anywhere.

20 Best business ideas to start from home

1. Nail Business
2. Catering Company
3. Cleaning Services
4. Car wash
5. Blogging
6. Event Planning
7. Baking and distributing road site snacks
8. Graphic design
9. Fish farming
10. Social media management
11. Clothes and wears
12. Freelancing
13. Snail Farming
14. Animal Feed Production
15. Tutoring
16. Fashion Design
17. Food Stuff retail
18. Computer training center
19. Vegetable farming
20. Hair and beauty services

I have just laid out a foundation for you on what business idea you can depend on while you are still looking for a job. Before I go deeper to explain each business idea, I want you to know something about being an entrepreneur.

To be an entrepreneur, you must be patient. Sometimes business becomes slow, sometimes you get rejected and you may feel like giving up. Before getting in the business world, I want you to look at your character and decide whether you think you are ready to be an entrepreneur. If you are ready, let us look at the above business ideas together

1. Nail Care Business

If you are a female who is not working, you can start nail care business. The good thing about nail care business is that it isn’t expensive. All you need is to buy those artificial nails, glue, and other kit tools needed in this business. To learn more about this business, please make sure you go through this link how to start a nail business.

2. Catering Business

In almost every weekend, there is an event that is taking place. Whether it is a funeral, a kid’s party, birthday party etc. In all these events, there shall be a need to do a little cooking and preparation for that work to be successful. As a result, starting a catering business can help you to overcome your financial struggle.

All you need is volunteer to help. I know we all think that volunteering is useless, or we think people are taking advantage of us because we are vulnerable and desperate for a job. My dear friend, if you don’t volunteer, nobody will know how good your work is. Besides, you don’t have connections or a business portfolio, so you will have to cater at 1 or 2 events at low prices or for free!

3. Funeral Food catering business

One day there was a funeral in my village, I went to that funeral. I was a church member in that funeral. You do know that church people get a special meal right! The food which was prepared there was so delicious. I started asking around who cooked them. I learnt that it was a woman who does catering, and this time around she was doing funeral catering.

You see that by just cooking at a funeral, that lady made an impression. If you don’t have clients yet, volunteer. It maybe 3-5 times before you spot your first client. To find more about this type of business visit how-to-start-your-own-home-based-catering-business. I am only picking sites which seem to have more appealing user interface so that you can be attracted to read.

4. Cleaning Services

Cleaning service business can be effectively done in the urban areas. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t make it a success even in the rural areas. Depending on the cleaning services you will provide, you will need different tools that will help you to do the work effectively.

You can provide gardening services, you can also clean compounds and do landscaping. You can also offer to do washing for people. But washing for people will require you to own a washing machine so that you do it effectively. When you start, you can do it manually, then upgrade to using a machine.

Here is a list cleaning services you can provide Cleaning services to provide.

5. Car Wash

Almost every day people need their cars to be washed. What a good way to start generating income via this business idea. The good thing about starting a car wash is that, it is cheap to start it. What you will need is water, washing fabrics, and liquid sunlight.

We are talking about essential things to start with, you will improvise as your business starts growing. The other things you will need are a broom, or a bigger brush and a polish to polish the tyres.  I will cover this topic more when i write an article on it.

6. Blogging

Blogging is one of the most common type of business to start from home. Many people around the world have started doing it. Some of them have become billionaires by starting a blog.

Just a rough estimate, Linda Ikeji from Nigeria is one of the multi-millionaires who make thousands per month. Yaro Starak, Neil Pate, Gary Vee, Allison Lindstrom, Ryan Robbinson, Tanya Aliza, Miles Beckler, Karen Evans and Susie etc. All these people make money through blogging. If you want to know advantages of blogging, please visit this link advantages of starting a blog.

If you want to start a blog right away, then read this link to choose a blog topic or niche how to choose a blog topic. If you want to learn how blogs make money visit ways-of-making-money-from-home-through-your-blog.

7. Event Planning

One of the business you can start is event planning. You brain storm ideas on how you can make an event stunning. Here is a list of things you need to know before you start an event planning business. event-planning-business-startup-checklist.

8. Baking and distributing road site snacks

One of the businesses you can start from home is selling cookies at road site. You can even sell snacks at roadside. Yes to some people, it may seem like it is a shameful business. But the question is, would you rather starve because of being afraid people will laugh at you?

This is an honest business, take it and pursue it. At my work place, there is this lady who sells home baked buns, Chelsea buns and rock buns.

I can tell you that every morning she leaves there having sold all of her cookies and scones. She is making a hell of money while you are sitting at home afraid of what people will say about you.

It is time to make hay while the sun shines, stop giving too much attention about what people are saying. People will always talk, just start building your empire right now. This is the right time to start your own business.

9. Graphic Design

If you are good with graphics, whether you graduated from a university or you didn’t, that doesn’t matter. As long as you are good with designing, my friend, please you have to take this serious. Start a business out of this.

You can start by printing samples on your own t-shirts or jackets for people to see them. Once a person sees good graphics, he or she will ask as to where you bought that particular wear. That is where you will start telling people that you are the one who designed it.

Here is a little secret I want to tell you. I am a bit jealous of people who studied graphic design or advertising. The reason being, the business world has become digitalized nowadays.

We deal with electronic marketing, in order for you to leverage digital marketing, you should at least know basics of graphic designs.

Even if you don’t know all about graphic design or advertising, you can still do it. Platforms like pinterest has the best graphics ever! All you need is to imitate some of the things and go to canva to start your designs.

10. Fish farming

This type of business is effectively in places where there are large collection of water reserves. For example, if there is a dam nearby, or if there is a fish pond. The absence of these things will make your job a lot harder. But here is the link where you can learn how to start a fish farming.

11. Social Media Management

Social media management is the process of analyzing social media audiences and developing a strategy that’s tailored to them, creating and distributing content for social media profiles, monitoring online conversations, collaborating with influencers, providing community service, and monitoring, measuring, and reporting on social media performance and ROI.

12. Clothes and Wear

People need something to wear as a way of covering their bodies. If you have clothes you no longer use which are in good condition, you can wash them and go sell them in town.

I am trying by all means to cut the cost price of starting a business. If I were to say, go sell clothes you bought, the problem might be you don’t have money to start. But if you collect clothes you no longer use, it is cheap because you don’t need capital to start.

There are so many people that sell second hand clothes in town. Some people even import them. This shows how much they make money from second hand clothes.

13. Freelancing

Freelancing is one of the ways of making money from home. You can join online sites like fiverr, freelance.com, and many others. The downside of this business is that some of the online sites don’t accept people from Lesotho, so this is going to be a problem.

Another problem is that, some of the sites require a sign up subscription fee so that you can have access to the freelancing gigs. The question is, how will you be able to pay for sign up subscription yet you are broke!

From my own perspective, if the owners of such sites were to take commission instead of upfront payment, it would be better. We would be able to make money using online freelancing.

So far I haven’t heard of anyone in Lesotho who has made money online through freelancing. But if there is anyone, just comment below this article and shout his or her name.

14. Snail Farming

For a detailed information please visit snail-farming on smallstarter.com

15. Animal Feed Farming

Animal Feed Farming is one of the cheap businesses you can start at home. You can start first by cutting grass and reserve it for later use when it is winter. During winter animals struggle for food. If you have money, you can buy animal feeds and sell them. It is a very profitable business too.

16. Tutoring

In every class at school, there is that student who struggles to grasp a concept in one of the subject easily. Starting a home tutoring can help you to make money at home.

As of this writing, the whole world is facing an educational crisis due to covid-19. In some schools students attend in shifts. There are days when they don’t go to school.

If there are subject you know very well you are good at, consider tutoring students and charge for your services. But hey, hey, as you start, don’t be expensive, you will not get any clients if you are too expensive.

Have ever heard of a saying that “a happy client spreads a word about your services?” This is what I want you to do. Put your best while tutoring, those students you are tutoring will spread the word about you and boom you will find your tutoring business grow.  

17. Fashion Design

Fashion industry is one of the booming industries with new fashions making appearance every year. This shows how much potential an individual can earn a living from it.

Who knew that nowadays (as of this writing) people would be wearing torn clothes which come from a market or a retailer! In the past, if a trouser got torn, we would knit it. Nowadays we see people purchasing torn clothes from the shop.

The first time I saw this I was shocked. But it is a common fashion. That is what we wear nowadays especially in summer.

If you know how to design clothes, design them and wear them. Take pictures, put them on social media. You can ask your friends to try clothes you design. That is how you can market your business, or rather seek for some influencer and have them wear your clothes. But it is never easy to have them wear your clothes once they are popular.

18. Food Stuff retail

Food stuff retail is one of the businesses you can start, but this one requires a lot of cash. Shoprite, spa, and pick ‘n pay are the obvious examples.

19. Computer training center

Many people don’t have computer skills. This is the opportunity to leverage and start a computer training center. You may design programs for your training center. For example, you can teach people how to use Microsoft Office package or teach them typing skills and many others.

20. Vegetable farming

Vegetable and Fruit farming are one of the businesses you can start from home. These businesses are profitable because each and every day we need vegetables in our meals. Schools need vegetables to feed students, hotels need them for their clients who are staying at their hotels.

Khafung Farm Fresh (a youth cooperative in Berea district in Lesotho) being one of the cooperatives we started with my colleagues is practicing this business. You too can start it, if you can manage to grow 10,000 cabbages, you can make good money out of that.

21. Hair and beauty Services

Making people’s hair is a profitable business if you know how to do it. Women spend most of their money on hair braids and many other hair related services. You can start this business from home and make money from it.

Finally, we have come up with 20 business ideas you can start from home or without having to spend much as capital. The ball is in your court, it is up to you which business you want to start. As for me, I would like you to comment below and tell me what you think about these ideas. Until next time, ciao!