This business idea is for the person who has an artistic side, and likes to play with graphics and altered art ideas.
You could use your skills to offer a product that everyone will enjoy, especially new parents - customized name posters with the origin of names and various meanings of the name.
Your target market will be parents, especially new parents.
You can create and design the posters yourself and then have them printed through
Cafepress
or a local printer.
The great thing about Cafepress is that it’s print on demand, so you don’t have to carry any stock, they will print the poster for your customer when the order is placed.
Offering a customized name poster with the origin of baby's name and various meanings of the name should be a fun product to offer.
And the more creative you can get with the presentation of the name and meaning using graphics, photos, altered art, etc., the more in demand and popular your posters will be.
Of course, this will appeal to the parents of newborns, but also to all parents. Therefore, your target market will be parents, especially new parents.
Choosing a name for a new baby is always fun for the parents to-be. Once the baby is born and you have been introduced to the new little one in the family, this makes a wonderful gift idea.
Parents naturally choose their favorite names to give their children, so this is a great way to bring attention to the name they have chosen for their new little one.
Depending on what you put into the printing of these posters you should be able to ask at least $20 a piece for them, depending on the size.
You could also offer them mounted and framed for an additional fee, if you choose too.
Since many people may want to give these posters as gifts this would be a good idea to offer framed options to them if you want to expand your business profits.
Since you are targeting new parents, make these posters available to them by advertising in parents magazines, blogs, baby product sites, Pediatrician offices, there are an endless list of ideas.
Check all of the Pediatrician offices in your area and see if you can leave a sample, framed of course. Maybe you can leave a framed poster in the waiting room using the name of the doctor.
Also check out small baby and children’s boutiques, gift stores, book shops etc., and see about working out a commission deal with the owner to sell your posters through their shop.
Remember that today, many names chosen are interchangeable for boys and girls alike.
So you may want to offer a generic version, female version, or male version of many of the popular names that parents are choosing.
You might also offer a spot for unusual names that are impossible to find.
Allow these parents to give you these names and the reasons that they chose to name their baby a certain name.
Sometimes, parents want to name a child after a family member and need to masculinize, or feminize, the name.
So they will give a child an unusual name, and it might be nice to offer these parents a custom service for a little more money.
You could design a poster just for them, stating on the poster why the parents chose the name and whom their baby is named after. Then give the background of the original name.
This is one of those small business ideas that would be great for an
online business.
Just make sure that you build a website that is easy to use, and easy to place orders with.
If it is too difficult to order your posters with the proper information, people will give up and look for something else to give as a gift.
