🎓Consulting and coaching business ideas

Consulting starts cheap — no stock, no machines, just the experience you already have. The catch is what you are selling: your own hours. However high you push the rate, the day still has the same number of hours, and illness, holiday or a quiet month lands straight on your income.

Here are 48 ideas, from bookkeeping and marketing advice through technical audits to coaching and training. Each entry gives the launch budget, the margin, the steps and the risks. The way out of the hourly trap is productising — packages, templates, courses, retainers — and the catalogue flags where that actually works.