Discover the best businesses to start in 2024 with high gross margins, including product, agency/service, coaching, and software. Get insights on building successful software by solving problems, targeting boring industries, improving first-time user experience, and prioritizing customer retention.
Launching a profitable product business requires pre-selling, direct-to-consumer sales, and investing in the brand.
Successful agency or service businesses focus on market pain points, productized services, recurring revenue, and scaling with systems.
Deep dives
Best Businesses: Product Business
A profitable product business requires three key strategies. First, pre-selling through platforms like Kickstarter or Indiegogo to validate demand without losing money. Second, focusing on direct-to-consumer sales to bypass retailers and avoid cash flow issues. Third, investing in the brand by using premium products, leveraging word of mouth, generating positive reviews, and seeking press coverage to drive traffic.
Best Businesses: Agency or Service Business
Successful agency or service businesses focus on a strong market pain point, offer productized services with a clearly defined outcome, generate recurring revenue by selling ongoing service contracts, and scale with systems by replacing yourself with checklists. These four elements enable agency owners to deliver value, maximize profitability, and avoid burning out.
Best Businesses: Coaching and Consulting
Coaching and consulting businesses thrive by selling expertise, adopting strategies like education-based marketing (providing valuable information for free to build an audience), building a community of like-minded individuals, and leveraging strategy sessions or one-on-one interaction to create transformational experiences for clients. By embracing these principles, coaches can overcome self-doubt and build successful coaching businesses.
Best Businesses: Software
Software businesses can achieve high gross margins by focusing on certain key aspects. These include creating sticky products that solve daily business problems, targeting more stable and less competitive industries, designing a smooth first-time user experience (Fatoui), and prioritizing customer retention. Retaining existing customers is crucial for maximizing a software business's profitability over time.
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Best Businesses to Start in 2024 and Strategies for Success
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