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Service business ideas: skills, scope and first tests
36 service business ideas in 6 categories, compared by skill, start cost, time and the cheapest honest first test — plus how to choose the one that fits you.
Open guideChoose business ideas based on your skills
Start from what you can actually deliver, your time and budget — then match to ideas. A skills inventory, hard limits and a simple fit check.
Open guideStart
Offer
Productized service: define scope and acceptance
What a productized service is, the five fixed parts, five common models, 12 examples in a table, and a step-by-step way to productize your own service and price it.
Open guideWrite your first service offer
Who it’s for, the problem, the deliverable, the limits, a price hypothesis and one next step — on one page, with a worked example.
Open guideValidate
Business idea validation: a practical first test
Validate a business idea in 7 steps: name the riskiest assumption, pick the cheapest test, set a decision rule first and read the evidence honestly.
Open guideCustomer discovery interviews that reveal real demand
Run customer discovery interviews: who to talk to, 25 neutral questions about past behaviour, what never to ask, and how to read the answers.
Open guideTest business demand without building a website
Use a one-page offer, a sample and permitted contact routes to test demand before spending on a site — with the rules that apply to outreach.
Open guidePlan the cost of a small business test
List time, tools and a spending cap before the test — and count your own hours. A budget table and a stop-loss rule.
Open guideTest
Improve
Use them as they are.
One-page service offer
A clear format for your first offer: who it’s for, what you deliver, the limits and one next step.
Used in BuildUse templateCustomer interview script
Neutral questions about recent behaviour, with space to record original words.
Used in TestUse templateBusiness validation plan
Hypothesis, method, period, target and the decision rule — written before the test.
Used in TestUse templateYour first real test can start this week.
Free to start, no card. See the models that fit you, open a ready-to-run kit and plan your first 10-day test.
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