Depending on where you’re located, the transition from the sweltering heat of the late summer to the bone-chilling flurry of early winter storms can be a rather brief one. While snowy days incite memories of time spent by the fireplace sipping hot cocoa and playing board games with the family or building snow forts outside, the wintery weather also presents a number of opportunities from the perspective of opening a small business. Sure, driving in snow isn’t a fun experience for everyone, but do these innocent flakes of frozen water from the sky have to be all that bad? We don’t think so.
Snow And Small Business Can Mix
The Commercial Finance Group has a reputation for supporting small businesses of many types and sizes, including companies that specialize in services related to the colder parts of the year. As there are, of course, different seasons in the year, there are also specific needs that come with each season. This means that this is a good time for business opportunities and for smart entrepreneurs to identify and cash in on any business venture that’s specific to a particular season.
If you’ve launched your own small business but you just don’t have the proper funding to continue growing your company, our commercial lending solutions can help! Learn more about small business lending through asset-based loans by visiting this page here. Continue reading on to check out some of these lucrative small business ideas this winter season.
Open A Coffee Shop
Coffee will never go out of style, and neither will the modern workforce’s dependence on caffeine. Besides, during the winter, people take more hot coffee to work than they usually would due to the fact that they need something to keep them warm from within. Who doesn’t enjoy waking up to a nice, stimulating cup of piping hot joe when it’s cold and wet outside? The colder seasons are the best time to run a hot beverage business, and as millions of Americans would agree with us on this one, coffee is king of all the hot beverages.
Run A Towing Service
People tend to experience more car problems during the winter due to the low temperatures, and breaking down in a snowstorm is no doubt worse than breaking down on a picturesque summer afternoon. While winter is an ideal season for optimal business as a tow truck company, you can still earn all year round without depending on just the winter season to offer your services.
If you’ve ever wanted to be a local hero by getting people out of a sticky (and cold) situation, running a tow truck business is a good way to go about it.
Storage Facility Services
People tend to have a lot of things, and these things aren’t always useful items. So, when it gets close to winter, a lot of people try to save space in their homes by packing up things like summer clothes, decorations, and other odds and ends that they won’t need to access during the winter. The problem is that many people just don’t have the room in their homes for this extra storage space, so you could come in with the much-needed solution of a local storage facility service.
Owning a storage facility will help ensure that people have a safe and secure place that people can store items they don’t need and keep these items locked away until they are one day (when things finally start thawing out) needed again.
Snow Removal Services
Why didn’t we mention this small business idea earlier? Good question, but this is certainly a logical business idea when it comes to wintertime. Now, if you live in the south or somewhere that doesn’t get a lot of snow during the winter, then you’re probably better off investing your time and money into another small business. But if your area sees multiple feet of snow or even more each winter season, then you know that business will be booming.
From lazy single-family homeowners with a strict HOA to elderly homeowners who can’t get around to shoveling their front walkway, having a snow removal business in an area that sees a lot of snowfall is a valuable service that many will instantly pay for without a second thought. At the end of the day, who really wants to shovel a bunch of snow off their driveway? The employees of your snow removal business, of course.
Run A Christmas Tree Farm
This profitable cash crop during the holiday season may not be the typical green plant that comes to mind, but selling real Christmas trees to the local community is a great way to make some side money during the holidays. The trees themselves are usually pretty low maintenance and can be done as a part-time job or even a hobby, while still allowing you to pull in a pretty good chunk of cash year after year.
Before you consider investing in a small business like a Christmas tree farm, make sure that you have some land to grow the trees on, as well as the green thumb to take good care of them.
Stay Warm And Grow Your Company With CFG
The winter season presents a number of challenges to businesses around the country, but it also offers a bounty of opportunities for you to capitalize on. For timely small business loans, commercial loans and the best asset-based financing you need to optimize your small company, work with the financial professionals here at The Commercial Finance group. Questions? Reach out to us today.
