Every business starts with an idea. If someone hasn’t thought of it yet, or the market is still low in competition, it’s the prime opportunity for you to implement your idea into a business plan and start working! The key is a great business idea, which are hard to come by, but sometimes the most unusual or strange business ideas are exactly the ones that will be most successful and high-earning.

Read on below to find out some surprisingly successful ‘unusual’ business ideas.

1. Crime Scene Cleanup

A crime scene cleanup business, for example, provides an unusual but important service, because of the need to properly remove biohazards from a crime scene. This business requires a high level of expertise and discretion, and the owners must build and maintain a reputation to succeed in the industry.

2. Mobile Laundry Mat

Something that a lot of people have to do is take their clothes to a laundry mat simply because there’s not washer or dryer in their apartment.  If you know someone like this in your area then you know there’s a business to be made. This idea does take some money to get started but all you have to do is get a washer, dryer, and a generator that you can use, and you are good to go. The nice part about this is you will be able to gain clients and then you will know where to go every so often for more clothes to wash.

3. Poop Scooper

This business helps you take care of the mess made by pets like dog poop, or cat poop, which could be within the home or outside on the lawn. There are people who don’t like to hold poop, or don’t like to clean up poop, just call the poop scooper! This business doesn’t require much, the workers work with plastic bags and shovels.

4. Anonymous Scents Deliveries

This service is built on making deliveries anonymously. As the title says, so it is. When you have a friend that doesn’t smell too good and telling them seems really awkward and could sound like an insult to the person you’re trying to help. Anonymous scents deliveries take care of all that for you to avoid any means of misunderstanding.  This service offers products like colognes, deodorants, perfumes, even bathing soaps and shampoos.

5. Put up a Unique Dating Website

You can make money on the web by matching like-minded individuals.  You can focus on individuals who have special needs; you should be very tactful and sensitive about how you host your website since you want to invite, not discourage and offend your target market. You can cater to HIV positive individuals, people with physical and learning disabilities, and other persons with special needs. Indeed, you will be helping the dating scene by matching people who have similar interests and experiences.

6. Be the Download King

With the busy lifestyle of most people, downloading favorite music and video can be a time-consuming hassle. You can help these people download music and videos to iPods and other gadgets, which will help you deposit some cash to your bank accounts.  You might think this downloading service is unnecessary, but there are such creatures as technophobes in the technological world. You can help them enjoy the benefits of technology, even if they do nothing else but the products and services.

Now over to you…

What’s your favorite unusual business idea? Please share your opinion with us!