Business ideas for the production of building materials

Starting your own business is a great opportunity to realize yourself and provide a stable source of income. But where do you start? In this article, you will learn how to organize production at home, and what ideas you can give preference to.

Home production features

Many aspiring entrepreneurs face a number of challenges when setting up their business. Home production requires not only the organization of the workspace, but also the official registration under the law of the Russian Federation. In most cases, this is an individual business, which can be registered both in a simplified form and as a patent. At the same time, be prepared to regularly pay taxes and keep accounting records.

You also need to understand that any production at home requires an initial investment. They may be needed to purchase raw materials, equipment and even advertise your services. For small production, 30-50 thousand rubles may well be enough. But a serious enterprise, which will develop in the future, will require at least 100-300 thousand rubles. But you have the big advantage that you can save on rent and hired labor. After all, in home production you are your own boss.

How to organize home production?

First, you need to decide on the direction of work. In this case, you should take into account not only your skills, but also the need of the population for your services. It is possible that your city does not have enough seedlings for gardeners or not enough shoe repair shops. In order not to be mistaken with the choice, analyze the infrastructure of your settlement, ask around your friends or conduct a survey of townspeople on a social network.

Before starting your production at home, determine the sales market. You can agree on regular deliveries to various stores or post photos of your products on the Internet. The main thing is that your product is in demand and is relevant to the consumer.

You should also take care of advertising your services. After all, the income and the number of buyers and customers will directly depend on this. You can post an ad in a local newspaper or organize a group on a social network. Everything will depend on the contingent of potential buyers. Older people are used to finding information in print media, while young people spend most of their time on the Internet.

Cooking - Small Home Production

If you can cook well, then this is a great excuse to create home cooking. Very often office workers and simply busy people need delicious meals. But there is not always the opportunity and time to prepare food on your own. In this case, you can offer your services. Set meals can be prepared daily and brought directly to the client at work. At the same time, you can get a permanent customer who will pay for your work on a monthly basis.

And if a real confectioner lives in you, then make custom-made birthday cakes. You will be surprised, but this service is very popular. After all, beautiful and unusual cakes are a decoration for weddings, name days and many other celebrations. Moreover, the price for one product, as a rule, is not less than 3 thousand rubles.

Custom-made clothes are a great idea for needlewomen

Today there are various ways to make money. You can work in a narrow specialization organization or for a private entrepreneur. Or you can organize your own business - mini-production of any product. The payback of this type of activity depends on many factors.

Garage production

Everyone who has a garage space at their disposal tries to use it to organize their own business. Production can be of different scales. It all depends on the skills of the novice businessman and his investment.

The following products can be produced in the garage today:

• metal structures ;
• building materials;
• various industrial and industrial products.

Some businessmen manage to create a mini-alcohol plant for the production of alcohol.

Note. Illegal conduct of such activities threatens the entrepreneur with administrative punishment. Therefore, it is best to register everything.

Distillery at home

Initially, it is necessary to determine for what purposes the products will be produced. These areas can be:

• pharmaceuticals ;
• alcohol production;
• chemical industry;
• perfumery and cosmetics.

It is also necessary to select the raw materials for the production of alcohol. As a rule, the following agricultural crops are used in the technological process:

• grain ;
• potatoes ;
• sugar beets;
• fruits.

Today, the production of building materials is one of the most promising areas of small and medium-sized businesses. Neither the crisis, nor the change of government, nor other global problems will affect this industry. After all, construction is carried out all year round, no matter what. Therefore, in our new article, we would like to consider what business ideas exist for the production of building materials with minimal investment.

We take into account the specifics of the business

Before starting such a business, the following factors need to be considered:

• Seasonality. Some areas of construction are highly seasonal. For example, in the winter, the extraction of rubble or stones is rather difficult.
• Transportation. Considering that building materials are often large-sized goods and are supplied in large quantities, specialized transport equipment for delivery and loading / unloading will be required.
• Terrain feature. For example, there are regions where they prefer not to build houses of wood or, conversely, refuse buildings from foam blocks. In this case, you should not try to sell such products there.

Equipment and technologies

For the production of building materials, you will need complex and expensive equipment, which should be operated by specialists with experience. Therefore, in addition to the considerable costs of purchasing a production line, you will also need to hire qualified personnel.

If you are on a tight budget, you can buy used machines. In addition, this equipment often allows for retrofitting. Therefore, over time, you can always improve what you have.

Recently, many entrepreneurs who are associated with a business idea for the production of building materials prefer to buy Chinese equipment.

This makes it possible to start your own business with minimal investment. Such equipment, unlike European counterparts, is much cheaper and, in most cases, is not inferior in quality at all.

Business Registration

You can register an individual entrepreneur or LLC. For the production business, LLC is better suited, since in the sales process you will need to conclude an agreement with large companies and bases. Individual entrepreneurs cannot conclude such contracts.

You will also need to obtain quality certificates for your products. Without these documents, you will not be able to successfully compete in the market. You can read more about the opening of an individual entrepreneur and an LLC, as well as about their differences, in our article "How to register an enterprise: choosing between an individual entrepreneur and an LLC"

Which direction to choose?

Business participating in trade chains “buy imported goods - sell to compatriots” is no longer profitable. There are many reasons for this, from geopolitical to economic. For Russian production of any scale, the green light is on today. How to navigate among the opportunities that have opened up, what can a small business put on?

Time for middlemen is running out

From the very beginning of economic freedoms in Russia and until recently, domestic small business preferred the sphere of trade and services. The business model was often elementary: we buy abroad, sell at home. Low competition, huge possibilities of choice ensured high profitability of projects.

* - with annual revenue up to RUB 1 billion. (2021 criteria)

The crisis, sanctions, a high dollar and a weak ruble dictate new rules of the game: competition in trade and services is increasing, demand is narrowing, and profitability is falling. The most significant decrease in revenue for the 1st half of 2021 was recorded in wholesale and retail trade, in cargo transportation. The time has come for small businesses to adapt to market changes: today, the production and implementation of innovative projects are in trend. It is here that there are many free / low-competitive niches. Let's see what is profitable for a small business in Russia now.

Assessment of the current situation in the SME sectors for the half-year

* - index of the current situation - expert assessment of the state of affairs over the past period Source: Research "Pulse of Small Business", Alfa-Bank, June 2021

Production prospects: where to look for profit

Imported products are now in any Russian stores: food, sports, children's, household, electrical and other goods. Often a product assembled from foreign components is hidden under the word “made in Russia”. Small businesses can successfully launch any of these products. The main thing is to identify what product, what quality and price will be in demand.

When deciding on production, it is worth taking into account the mood / preferences of consumers in the B2B and B2C sector. Russians - individuals buy less, save more. The direction of using free money has changed.

What Russians are ready to spend on