8 Profitable "Pandemic-Created" Business Ideas for 2021

welcome to the new reality where businesses are working online where old-fashioned brick-and-mortar stores are closing because people don't go outside they just stay home welcome to a new reality and today i wanted to make a video that i think a lot of people were expecting i wanted to give you some ideas of small businesses that you can start in a couple of weeks i know a lot of people who are very pessimistic these days you know the world has changed it would never be the same you know my company went from being a study abroad booking platform sending people to study abroad it's now pivoted to online tuition and eighty percent of our revenue is now coming from online services and yes i'm a little sad that we had to pivot and that our team had to change but at the same time i see a lot of opportunity in this new world and i wanted to share some ideas that i would have started myself if i had passion for them remember before starting any business ask yourself would you like this business's problems because it's really easy to imagine yourself when the business is growing and you have all of the dollars coming to you but ask yourself what if things don't go as smoothly as i expect at the beginning would i still be happy to solve this business's problems and if your answer is yes then start and try and give this business a go idea number one deep cleaning services in march when the lockdown just started happening uh in san francisco i started seeing a lot of ads we're gonna deep clean your apartment so a lot of people wanted to make sure their apartment sanitized maybe they had guests staying with them maybe they just want this extra layer of cleanliness in their place and i know a lot of friends who actually use their services a lot of cities introduce rules where you have to deep clean your business before letting people in there are additional measures of sanitizing everything that you see around yourself especially if you're working with people so this could be both a bit of sea business and a bit of b business by b2c i mean you going to people's apartments people's houses by the way a lot of people have started using their rooms that they have never used before because they need additional space for their offices or for their kids to study from home and then you can be a bit of b service where you partner with other companies who need recurring services from a deep cleaning company and then you can have this recurring revenue and by the way having recurring revenue is the best when you have someone who pays you on a monthly basis that means you spend time not in acquiring new customers but on actually perfecting your service business idea number two i.t and cyber security consulting this is something that i started to personally think about when i realized that you know everything is online now i can't really hide things in an apartment because i just travel all around you know we have all of these bank accounts we have a lot of customer data we have all of those things that could be hacked and even if i think of a regular person who just has all the passwords how do you protect this how do you make sure nobody accesses your bank accounts and i've heard horrible stories of people you know there was this guy from malay who was trying to raise money and he met someone from russia who asked him to go to thailand and for a fundraising meeting and they kidnapped that person and stole everything from his bank accounts and after that story i was like how do i protect everything that belongs to me and i'm pretty sure you guys when you started doing everything online you were like how do i protect everything and being a specialist who knows how to protect passwords how to protect access to banks how to add this different layers of security this is something that's really in high demand these days especially by people who had to go from offline to online where they don't know any apps that they can use where they're like how do i store my passwords so this is a great opportunity for you guys if you want to make this kind of a freelance job and list your services on a website but make sure you have a lot of reviews and make sure you get a little word of mouth because you know you won't just trust a person who you found on craigslist you would really want a recommendation if you guys are wondering marina but there are so many ideas out there how do i know which one's trending right now this video is brought to you by a company called the hustle and they have this ultimate knowledge cup called trends the thing is when i've heard about it i was like this is a genius idea they have a lot of things that they talk about in trends but they would send you different graphs of keywords that are trending so what are people looking for and you will be able to see what's in demand right now and in this way you will be able to think oh maybe i should pivot my business this way or maybe that way so basically this is a 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theaters oh my god who'd have known right i see some parking lots being converted to drive-in movie theaters because we missed this experience we missed being in a crowd watching a new movie eating popcorn driving movie theaters were really popular in america if you are by any chance running a parking lot or maybe you know someone who has a free parking lot and doesn't know what to do because parking lots downtown san francisco i remember the rates were like 15 per 10 minutes now they're all empty and the downtown is really empty why not start a movie theater there why not have people come there and enjoy movies all together the next idea filmmaking slash studio design consulting services let me tell you what i'm talking about a lot of my non-video friends started reaching out to me at the beginning of pandemic and they were like marina what's the best sound to purchase what's the best mic what's the best camera how do i make my background blurry how do i create a studio that's really really good looking because everything is now through zoom and people raise money through zoom they pitch their products through zoom they present themselves and they really want to look good you don't want to use your old-fashioned camera anymore because you know i'm jumping on calls with people and i'm like oh my god are you a professional filmmaker these days because everything looks amazing and i know a lot of people in silicon valley they bought professional light they bought professional cameras connected them to their laptops and you know some of them spend thousands of dollars on that and i know it can be done cheaper some of them spend days researching different products i would love to have a person who would come to me or i will take a picture of my room and he would say okay you need to replace your background with this you know buy this tool buy this decoration buy this light put it here put this camera here and i want to look amazing and i know a lot of people who would be grateful for such services so if you guys know how to set everything up if you know how to decorate studios you know how to set up lighting and what are the best cameras to use for video conferencing that this opportunity is for you again as always you can list your services on a freelance platform you can serve some of the first clients for free just for your view or maybe for a commendation and then you start building your kind of small personal brand you know instagram page maybe make some videos on youtube and then you start growing and then you start receiving orders the next idea is virtual personal training and i know a lot of gyms are opening up my previous building just announced that they're opening the gym and people need to sign up to use it but anyways i don't want to go back because i still think that if you are in a room with a lot of people and somebody doesn't know that he's sick and because you're breathing heavily there is a higher chance of getting infected so i'm like and because i have a family because i have a kid i'm like okay i'll just train at home and this is what i'm doing i purchased an online course from a familiar blogger who i really like she looks amazing and i just use that course to exercise at home but ideally i would love to have someone train me using my camera because that just creates more responsibility because some days i'm like too tired to exercise whatever i would just cancel my training because it's a recorded video anyways but if i had someone who would coach me online that would be an amazing opportunity and i think i will start doing that next month once i have more free time so if you've been training people offline if you were working at a gym i think this is time for you to convert your services to online and you can do one-to-one coaching or you could do group classes through zoom the next idea is your old boring web design and you'll be like marina but this has been a trend a decade ago basically what's happening these days a lot of people who were used to offline who said you know i'm gonna stick to offline i'm not gonna go online they are forced to go online and i know a lot of people who don't know how to use tilde and vx and i know these are all pretty simple web services but still you need to have some taste you need to know how things work in order to build a website and again if you have experience in that if you can create banners if you can run ads start reaching out to people start offering your services because this is something that people need they might not be actively looking for your services right now but if you come to them at the right time and the right time is now and tell them you know for this price i would be able to bring your services from offline to online and you will start selling online you know i will enable consultation scheduling for you i will tell you how calenly works i'm going to tell you how zoom works like basically this whole web design slash conversion of an offline business to an online business is a great opportunity these days if you're looking for platforms to find customers i can highly recommend fiverr.com freelance.com if you're into design there is a great platform 99 designs that i used as a customer myself there's craigslist there is thumbtack there are so many platforms out there i recommend just creating a portfolio and uploading it everywhere and then doing some work for free to get some reviews the next idea is called a ghost kitchen you need to check your local regulations but basically in some states you can start preparing meals in your kitchen and delivering them around the block because what's happening these days is people spend a lot of time at home a lot of kids are staying at home so moms are busy both controlling kids whether they're doing their homework and listening to their zoom classes then they have to make their work done they have to make sure the house is clean and then they have to cook so a lot of people who used to go to restaurants who used to rely on lunches and dinners provided by their company for example on campus they need to cook at home and they don't want to do that just like me so they start ordering from restaurants and a lot of restaurants are converting to ghost kitchens because they don't need to serve inside they just need to have a small space to prepare those meals and if you like cooking if you check your local regulations and they allow this you can start a ghost kitchen in your home and the last but not the least mask making and i know a lot of people are already making masks but you know creating a stylish mask and i think we're still gonna need them for at least a year and a half i don't see this going away too fast and a lot of countries have mandatory masks everywhere and there is a cool case of a company called taki it's a seattle-based company so basically it was a gift wrapping business but when this whole thing started they used all of their raw material that they had for wrapping gifts like all the cloth that they had they started producing masks and they sold over 20 000 masks by this day and they have seen an incredibly high demand in mask making additionally there are 20 000 new mass making shops on etsy thank you guys.