What are the best sources of business ideas and opportunities? How do i find business opportunities? How do i know the best business to start? How do i develop creative and innovative business ideas? Many entrepreneurs all over the world have confirmed that there are many sources of business ideas, such as: sources of new viable business ideas, sources of entrepreneurship ideas and sources of business opportunities. Below, I will be sharing with you some of the most common sources of investment ideas.

1. Hobbies
While having fun at what they enjoy doing, many people have started businesses. Converting hobbies into money making opportunities has worked for very many entrepreneurs. For instance, if you love to travel, perform arts or into hospitality you can look at starting a business venture in the tourism sector. Examples of hobbies that make money include sports, cooking, piano playing, photography etc.

2. Experience
Many investors find it convenient to choose business ideas in line with their background. This because they understand the terrain better. More than half of business ideas come from experiences at work place. For instance,

3. The Media
You can also get business ideas from the mass media in the following ways:
A. study commercial adverts on business needs and sales of entire businesses
B. extract information from reports on changes in fashions or consumer needs e.g healty eating, weight loss.
C. sieve through adverts for popular skills demanded e.g security, catering, web design.

4. Exhibitions
If you take time to study most exhibitions, you would be able to discover the nature of new products and re-branding ideas of existing products. Through talking with sales rep, manufacturers and end users, you will be able to find a gap to fill to start your own business.

5. Surveys
Surveys can either be done online or offline. Talking to neighbours, co-workers and family members about a particular product or service is a form of informal survey. The essence of carrying out surveys is to gather complaints from dissatisfied customers of new and existing products, you will be able to generate ideas to fine-tune your own investment so as to include improvements and changes
most people would like to see.

6. Complaints
Anytime you hear a customer complain about a product such as I wish there was...if they had...etc there lies an idea for investment. You can either set up a competitor business with such firms offering a better product or sell that idea/ product for improvement to the company directly. Talk to people, read comment and reviews on blogs and browse popular forums to gather complaints about that product.

7. Brainstorming
Brainstorming involves using creative thinking to generate business ideas to solve problems. The first step is to identify a problem or question and then Brainstorming is a technique or creative problem-solving as well as for generating ideas. The overall idea is to come up solutions as many as possible. When sourcing for business ideas through brainstorming you should avoid criticising the ideas of others on your team, allow even the wildest of ideas, allow large number of contributions and don't hesitate to merge and improve upon other people's suggestions.
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