Due to high unemployment rate in Africa, people are busy researching on which business ideas to start from home. Not only is that, they are also busy searching as to which businesses can perform better than others in a certain region or country or city.

I today decided to help such people with good business ideas, good business ideas to start from home. In my list, there shall be small profitable business ideas to start from home.

Oh hey, if you missed my past two articles regarding business ideas, access them here: 21 Best business ideas to start form home in 2021 and business ideas to start during winter.

As you go on with the list, you will realize that I included best profitable ideas which you can start with low investments yet they will in return give you high profits. Without going any further, let us delve more on the list.

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12 Profitable Business Ideas

• Delivery and courier Services
• Apps and website development
• Companies that are offering experiences
• Online coaching and tutoring
• Offering Legal services
• Solar power
• Agri business
• Education
• Retail
• Payment solutions
• Real Estate
• Financial services

Best Business Ideas to Start from Home in 2021

From the above list, i would like to select the best business ideas for Lesotho. Many Basotho nationals are employed and what a good way to overcome unemployment than starting your own business! You can start little by little, big companies that are operating out there, some of them started small.

Business ideas or opportunities in Lesotho

• App and website development
• Solar business
• Agri-business
• Education
• Payment solutions such Point of sale
• Financial services

If you in Lesotho and you might have skills to code or develop websites, there is a lot of market out there, you should pursue it. You will thank me later. Agricultural businesses in Lesotho are easy to start, why don’t you start one! You can start an educational channel on YouTube and teach people about certain things in life. For example, you can teach people how to take care of their chickens or sheep.

Delivery and courier services

The evolution of the new era of technology has made more online purchases. As a result of this, people are looking for companies to deliver their products they bought online.

The reason for this is that, most of the existing courier companies are a bit expensive because there is a little competition out there. If you have enough money to spare, and you are looking for venturing into entrepreneurship, this is the type of business to go for.

Apps and web development

I already stated that technology is evolving at such a high rate. If you have skills on how to code a website, or you have skills on how to develop a website or an app, consider this a lucrative skill to make you thousands of bucks.

Even if you know nothing about app and web development, you can go to sites like Udemy, Alison and many others and take app and web development course.

There are many programming languages on web design. You will have to do a little research as to which is the better app or web development language. Based on your research, you be able to make a decision.

Companies that offering experiences

Starting a company that offers this kind of service can be a good way of making money. What I mean when I refer to “offering services” is adventure. If you can start a tourism company which specializes in tour guides, you can make plenty of money.

The new pandemic being covid-19 has cost people to take tours. As a result, once the rate at which infections take place drop, people are going to fly to other countries for adventure.

If you are living in Lesotho, well my friend, you can grab this opportunity with both hands. The reason being that, in Lesotho, there are so many untapped business opportunities.

You could start a company in this niche and start a website on google sites. After that, market it so that you are known, then you will be surprised to find that you make a living out of this.

Now that many countries are still under lockdown, whether partial or total lockdown, you should start now and establish your brand right away. If you can start doing this right now, by the time cross border journeys are permitted, you shall have built your business.

Online coaching and tutoring

One of the famous business ideas you can start from home with little cash is online coaching. If you happen to be good at something in which you can teach people, consider starting a business with it.

Almost every day, people are searching online to learn a new skill. You can go to YouTube and search whatever it is you are good at to find how much search volume searches for that kind of skill you possess.

You can also use the google keyword planner to find the best result on how to start an online coaching.  After that, you can decide on which platform to start your business on.

You can take your lessons via zoom, YouTube or on google meeting with your clients. The choice is literally yours here, you will chose the platform which you feel comfortable with.

Offering Legal services

If you are in the sector of law, and you haven’t got a job yet. You should start a law company or firm, offer people your services at reasonable prices.

The way the internet has evolved, people are doing many illegal things online which can lend them in hot waters. When that happens, be there to offer your services. It is useless to wait until you get a job, start now.

Your brains are going rusty when you get out of the game for a long time. You can start as early as when you are still a student to offer your services. Make hay while the sun shines, don’t wait for bad times to start.

Solar power

In the rural areas, there is so much darkness. If you were to start a solar power business in those areas where there is no electricity, you can make thousands of bucks.

Running a solar business can help you to get a financial freedom. Take for example my country being Lesotho, many people in the rural areas don’t have electricity.

One thing I will tell you is that, people living in the mountainous areas of Lesotho are rich; they rear sheep, and goats which gives them a lot of profit when selling their wool and morehair.

It is a struggle for them charge their cellphones. But if some solar dealership company can come to their rescue and sell them sola powers, they might even manage to use those solar panels to light during the night.

Agribusiness

This is the major income source for African continent. Since most African countries lack many technical skills, we are more focused in agriculture. Other countries in Africa have taken leverage of agribusiness.

They have started producing crops and being the major suppliers to many retail and wholesale shops. In return they get more income and this helps grow their countries’ economies.

As an individual, you can still start an agribusiness. Maybe you can be able to get financial freedom. In Lesotho, there is a new retail shop being Enrich holdings. If you managed to buy their shares, you can supply them with your fresh produce and earn a decent income.

Education  

In Africa, there is a high rate of poor education facilities. Many people reach tertiary level not knowing how to even use a mere computer. In some areas, it becomes a dilemma during rainy seasons for children to get school education.

In the rainy season, rivers overflow this inhibiting children to cross the river and go to school. If someone were to start a school whereby each student maybe M30 or 30ZAR, and teach those children, African content can have more people who are educated or at least literate even if they don’t go far with school education.

Retail

There are new emerging franchises each year, if somehow someone were to grab a new retail shop franchise such as Stadium food, spar, pick ‘n pay, shoprite etc, he would get an enormous cash in his or her pockets.

Payment solutions

There are many emerging methods of payments in Africa and across all the world. If you were to join the new one and go start it in a place where it hasn’t spread to, you can be able to keep a lot of clientele. Therefore you being able to get financial freedom. I keep mentioning this word because my aim is to help unemployed people and those who want to start businesses with new ideas for a business.

If I were I to take Ecocash wallet payment solution which is produced by the Econet Telecom Lesotho, you will find that you can build a business out of it.

The reason I am saying this is that, many people use the Vodacom Mpesa payment solution. This leaves a huge gap for ecocash services. If you can market well your business, you can manage to get a high clientele rate to any payment solution.

In other countries solutions such as paypal, skrill and many other payments can help individuals to start a business on them.

Real Estate

When we talk about real estate we talk of buildings. If you have enough money to buy or built houses, you can an insane money with them. You can rent them to individual people to live in them, or you can rent them to companies and firms for business use.

On the other hand, you can build houses and sell them at higher price if you want. It all depends on what you want to do with your estate.

Financial Services

If you graduated in the finance field, my friend, you can offer people accounting services. You can audit company’s books on a certain price and make good money from your services.

Here is the mistake that people do make, they think just because there are too many companies offering such services they don’t stand a chance. No, no that is not how it is. Whether there can be many people, as long as you do marketing the right way, you will still succeed.

More people doing a certain business type is a sign of potential income or money being there. So go for it, but you will have to work hard to make it a success. Sometimes it may take a prolonged time before you can reach a financial freedom, but don’t quit, keep hanging in there.

Most profitable businesses in Lesotho

When you start a business, you should assess as to whether this business idea is profitable. If from your assessment you find that the business idea you chose is not profitable, my friend, i suggest that you change that particular idea. N

Which business idea is the most profitable one?

• Retail business idea
• Payment solutions
• Agri-business
• Solar powers

Lastly, we get to the end of profitable business ideas article. In this article, we learnt that, there are so many ideas out there a person can start a business on. These ideas are in the agricultural sector, in the finance, in the technology, education and retail sectors. All we need is to conduct our research so that we can manage our businesses to make it a phenomen.

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