Making Money with 6 Unique Businesses (And How You Can Too!)

Money Bizwiz Team
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When it comes to profitable niche markets, many people like to stick with proven, tried-and-true markets such as finances, health, or software. But there are a few bold, adventurous souls out there willing to try almost anything to uncover an undiscovered market just hungry and waiting to spend.

Here are six weird examples of niches that not only fill a need but have also found a thriving fan base to sell to – and how you can duplicate their efforts (without getting those odd looks when asked “What is it you do again?”)

AnyBots

Market Served: Business travelers who need to be everywhere at once

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Anybots – The Next Best Thing to Being There?

Let’s say you’re the manager of a variety of enterprises. Your job forces you to travel often to oversee factories, labs, warehouses, and offices at every step from production to promotion. It’s a lot of time wasted, a lot of money spent, and a lot of jet lag to recover from.

That’s where Anybots comes in. Marketing themselves as “virtual presence systems”, this little camera/scooter device lets you remotely drive around and check out various processes without actually being in place. This new method of experiencing remote collaboration is being coined as “mobile telepresence” and lets the robot’s owner/driver see precisely what the robot sees, anywhere at any time.

In one case study, an AnyBot was used by a child after recovering from a bone marrow transplant. Although the child was confined to his hospital room, the robot enabled him to go to school, visit his friends, and “be there” for his brother’s birthday party. For business owners, an AnyBot lets them multi-task from wherever they are and stay up-to-date on new findings, progress, and other work without having to travel.

In short, AnyBots have the potential to pay for themselves in a single trip, without having to force businesses to rely on email, telephone, or video conferencing when scheduling conflicts and time zone differences get in the way.

What You Can Learn from AnyBots

  • Make it easy for people to try your product. Once it’s in their hands, they can experience it fully for themselves and see just how it integrates with their life and daily routine.

  • Even though studies have shown we’re not very efficient at it, people love the idea of multitasking.

  • Consider a process (like business travel) from every angle – what could you improve upon or do differently?

Bakon Vodka

Market Served: People who want the best of both worlds.

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Bakon Vodka is serious about bringing unique flavor to the market

If you’ve been online for any length of time, you already know about the internet’s love affair with bacon. Shirts, keychains, and even scented candles have all tried to capture the essence that is baconly love – but few products do it as exquisitely as Bakon Vodka.

Now you might think that bacon-flavored vodka breaks all the rules – but after having been featured in Maxim, Fox, CNN, and NBC, people are starting to talk. A 93-point tasting panel was conceived to try and describe the flavor, and as of this writing, over 17,000 people agree: bacon-flavored vodka is a hit.

And before you think this is a fly-by-night product – Bakon Vodka is in the market for the long haul – laboriously describing their product’s creation process, along with recipes, contests, and more. Reviewers have chimed in with their own suggestions, ranging from tailgating ideas to cocktail competition winners.

Even Conan O’Brien got on the bacon-loving bandwagon back in 2009 by announcing “A Seattle company is making bacon-flavored vodka…the hardest part of making it? Getting the pig drunk.”

What You Can Learn from Bakon Vodka

  • Sometimes, you can take two things people love and put them together to create something extraordinary.

  • When you do that, make sure you take the time to carefully research, understand, and test the market to make sure they’re receptive to the idea.

  • Look for ways to ingrain your business products with people – recipes, parties, tasting panels, all of these build exposure and pique curiosity.

And so on…

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