Educational Business Ideas
Do you enjoy teaching both adults and children? You can make this into a business. You can teach your hobby, sell lesson plans or even develop your own range of educational toys. Here are 10 educational business ideas:
41. Tutoring Students
From primary school to high school to university, all of these age groups could use your help in specific subjects.
How to start this business idea
If you did really well in matric or in a degree, you can tutor students to help them improve their marks.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you have enough students to keep your business sustainable, you can offer group classes for people studying the same thing or start an agency and recruit other tutors to take on more students.
42. Home Schooling Services
If you have teaching experience and qualifications, you can offer lesson plans, and educational programmes to numerous parents looking to home school their children.
How to start this business idea
You can assist parents in establishing a home-schooling education programme for their children. These programmes can be designed to meet the specific needs of the child.
How to keep this business idea successful
You can develop an online company and sell your educational programmes to parents across the world who are looking to home school their children.
43. Teaching Your Hobby
There is a market for classes for everything from martial arts, to arts and crafts. If you’re really good at your hobby you can start offering classes to others looking to learn it.
How to start this business idea
Advertise your hobby classes and teach others your favourite past time. Ensure you have enough space and materials to be able to teach a small group.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you have regular clients you can expand your offering, your space and your clients. You can even partner with other teachers and have multiple classes running at the same time.
44. Educational Toys
There is a growing demand world-wide for high quality educational toys for children of all ages. You could create, manufacture and sell these across the world.
How to start this business idea
You can design and develop the educational toys and games yourself or act as an agent for manufacturers. Once your toys and games are developed you can market them using home parties, flea markets, and sell to speciality retailers on a wholesale basis.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’ve established your brand you can expand your offering to other countries and expand your following.
45. Selling Lesson Plans
Teachers around the world are selling their lesson plans to reduce the amount of work done compiling new and unique lesson plans.
How to start this business idea
If you’re a current, past or retired teacher you can develop lesson plans for every subject and multiple age groups and sell them to other teachers.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’ve developed a steady flow of income you can expand your knowledge base. This will enable you to write more lesson plans in different subjects for various age groups, increasing your customer base.
46. Online English Teacher
Numerous countries are looking for English teachers, which has given rise to online teaching platforms that allow people to teach a second language online from anywhere in the world.
How to start this business idea
If you have a TEFL Certificate, are studying in English or are an experienced English teacher, you can teach English to second-language speakers across the world.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you have gained enough experience, and understand how the business model works, you can launch your own platform connecting English speakers to those looking to learn.
47. Employee Training
There’s a growing demand for specialised employee training. If you have the right skills and qualifications, you can offer employees specialised training.
How to start this business idea
Approach small businesses who are looking to upskill their staff in a specific course. If you offer to do the training from their business, you won’t need to invest in office space.
How to keep this business idea successful
Once you’ve gathered enough customers you can approach larger corporates, employ other trainers and buy or rent premises to offer numerous specialised training courses across industries.
48. Online Courses
If you’re high skilled in a particular topic you can create a publish online course for others to learn about your topic.
How to start this business idea
You create a course and publish it to online course platforms like Udemy or Coursera. Ensure you market your courses properly, whether online or in person. People can’t take your course if they don’t know it exists. If you’ve done this correctly your course could start making money passively.
How to keep this business idea successful
To expand this business, you can learn other skills, create other courses, or even start hosting your own online course platform.
49. Skills Development Centre
A skills development centre offers customers the opportunity to learn new technical skills. It can also provide aspiring and existing entrepreneurs with training and a place to enhance their creativity, efficiency and growth.
How to start this business idea
If you have technical skills, you can teach them to others. If you don’t have the right skills, you could employ others to train your clients.
How to keep this business idea successful
The more customers you have, the more teachers you can hire and the bigger your business can get. You could open more than one branch of this business.
50. Test prep coach
Students are continuously under pressure to achieve academically, whether in high school or university. You can specialise in a few tests and help learners achieve high marks.
How to start this business idea
You don’t need previous experience, you just need proof that you did well in that particular subject/test. Once you’ve developed a reputation for helping students boost their test scores, you’ll get plenty of referrals.
How to keep this business idea successful
To ensure this business idea remains sustainable you’ll need to keep up-to-date with current testing practices and any changes in your subjects.