19 Low-Competition Business Ideas for 2026: Full Video Breakdown
Why Every Profitable Niche Comes Down to Specialization
Today we're talking about 19 of the most profitable business ideas with low competition. A lot of them are ones you've probably never even heard of before, and they are great opportunities right now.
Niche 1: Specialized Dog Grooming by Breed
First on the list is a dog groomer, but you need to be a specific type of dog groomer. It's best to specialize in specific types of dogs because they have specific types of problems. There are certain types of dogs that shed a lot more fur than others, and when you specialize in those breeds and focus on keeping them well groomed, that's going to be a better experience for the customer so their dog isn't shedding all over the house.
The Labrador Retriever, the German Shepherd, and the Golden Retriever are the top three most popular breeds in the United States. Out of those three, the Golden Retriever is the one that sheds the most. You could focus on either the most popular dogs or the ones that shed a lot, and specializing in those makes you even more valuable to customers.
There's a 31-year-old who makes $1.3 million a year with a dog grooming business. He said that he came to the US with two scissors and a Clipper, going from absolute zero to $1.3 million a year. Generally you'd charge about $30 to $90 per dog grooming session. Smaller dogs are typically more affordable and bigger dogs cost more because it takes longer and more effort.
These types of businesses are booming. The way any market works is it starts with generalists doing everything, and then at a certain point it gets to where you have to start specializing. That's what's happening in this market right now. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 2: B2B Freelance Writing
Next is B2B freelance writing. B2B means business to business, so this covers businesses that work with, cooperate with, and sell to other businesses. In the US alone there are 33.2 million businesses, so there's a massive market for B2B type content.
The way you do writing, content, online marketing, paid ads, or anything online is completely different if you're in a B2B market versus a B2C market. B2C is business to consumer. The way you talk to business owners is completely different than the way you talk to consumers, so you could specialize in being a B2B freelance writer.
Nothing replaces a good writer. Good writers can use AI to make their work better and work faster, but in terms of replacing writers, that's just not going to happen. B2B content writers make about $40 an hour, which is above average. B2B content writing is arguably a little easier to learn than B2C -- it's different, but the opportunity is strong. Opportunity score: 8 out of 10.
Niche 3: Online Math or Science Tutor
Next is an online math or science tutor. This is one where you want to try to specialize. You probably don't want to be just a generalist math tutor -- you may start there, but typically it's best to specialize in something specific.
For example, back in college, Shane tutored people on how to pass the PCAT, which is the Pharmacy College Admissions Test. He studied hard for it, scored well on it, and then basically just tutored other people on how they could get a good score as well. These were pre-pharmacy students trying to become pharmacists. He made over $100 an hour doing this as a college student.
If you find the right niche, this can be incredibly lucrative. One person works about 30 to 40 hours per week, charges $90 per hour, and is easily making over $10,000 a month as a tutor. Even as a generalist math tutor you'll probably make between $25 and $80 per hour, but the real money comes when you specialize. Opportunity score: 8.5 out of 10.
Niche 4: Resume Writer for a Specific Industry
Next is a resume writer. This is one where people have started as a side hustle and turned it into a multi-seven-figure-a-year business. You basically help people write their resumes so they can apply to jobs, get through to the decision maker, and hopefully get the job.
The secret here is to always niche down and write particular types of resumes. For instance, if you're an accountant, write accounting resumes, because you're going to be much better at those than a generalist resume writer. The more specialized you are, the more money you can charge -- it's all about supply and demand.
Generalist resume writers typically make about $30 to $40 per resume, and most of those resumes are very poorly written. People who write more specific resumes can charge hundreds of dollars or even thousands of dollars per resume. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 5: Eco-Friendly Cleaning Service
Next is an eco-friendly cleaning service. This is an environmentally friendly and sustainable cleaning service that doesn't use toxins and non-biodegradable cleaning agents. A lot of these toxins seep into your skin and get into your body, and breathing them in can cause allergy issues and other health problems. So there's real demand for a healthier alternative.
A normal cleaning service already makes really good money, but if you're an eco-friendly cleaning service you can charge an extra 20%, 30%, or even 50% more than a typical cleaning service. Starting out, you can easily make $25 to $60 an hour.
You can start by yourself and reach six figures a year on your own, and eventually hire employees to get to multiple six figures or even seven figures. A lot of physical businesses like this are underrated. It's probably a lot easier to start a physical business than an online business -- the ceiling isn't as high, but it's easier to just start making money right away. Opportunity score: 8 out of 10.
Niche 6: UI/UX Design Agency
Next is a UI/UX agency. UI/UX stands for user interface and user experience. As a UI/UX agency you'd help businesses design their websites to be very nice looking but also extremely functional and able to keep people coming back. You want to make your website as easy as possible to use.
Facebook is one of the first companies that really adopted UI/UX, and that's what made them take over the market. Their website was so easy to figure out that even older people who had no idea how to use technology were able to easily navigate it.
There's an example of a one-man design agency doing UI/UX that makes a million dollars a year, just by himself with no employees. You can easily reach 100K per year or up to multiple seven figures running a UI/UX agency. From an employer's perspective, it often makes more sense to hire an agency for this rather than a full-time employee, since it's more of a contract engagement. Opportunity score: 8.5 out of 10.
Niche 7: Social Media Consultant for a Specific Platform
Next is a social media consultant. This is someone who specializes in a particular social media platform, or in social media in general, and consults with businesses on strategies for growing their presence. To give an example, there's a consultant who does strategy consulting specifically for Facebook-related businesses.
An easy way to start is to offer gigs on Fiverr or Upwork, but after some time you'd want to start your own consulting agency. One consultant charges $70 an hour with over 3,000 orders -- you can do the math there. Social media consultants generally make about $53 an hour, and even if you just get hired full-time you can make over six figures per year.
The recommendation, as always, is to specialize and niche down in a particular type of social media that you're already really good at or know a lot about. Content marketing is delivering the highest ROI of any traffic acquisition channel right now, and social media is everywhere. Opportunity score: 9.5 out of 10.
Niche 8: Twitter Copywriter
Next is a Twitter copywriter. Twitter is a great platform right now -- not only for making money but also for networking. There's an example of someone who made $50,000 in two months from freelancing with just 199 Twitter followers.
If you want help making good content on Twitter, you're probably going to hire a Twitter copywriter. Twitter copywriters typically charge about $10 to $100 for a single tweet. For 20 tweets a day, you'd be making anywhere from $200 to $2,000.
There are now Twitter copywriters making seven figures a year. This is still a really good time to get into it -- in fact, it's an even better time than a couple of years ago. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 9: Digital Marketing Agency
Next is a digital marketing agency. There are literally countless examples of people making a full-time income doing this. Jimmy Nicholas built his niche-focused agency from nothing into a multi-million dollar agency in less than 7 years. The average range for digital marketing services in 2024 is about $2,500 to $12,000 per month, so landing a single client could essentially put you at a full-time income.
As always, niche down. Don't offer everything to everybody. Offer a very specific thing to a very specific person to solve a very specific problem. That is how you make money in business. If you're trying to offer everything to everyone, that's why it's not working.
A good path into this is to first get hired in a digital marketing role. You get paid to learn digital marketing, and then after you've built the skills you can start your own agency on the side. It doesn't take that long to land a digital marketing job, and from there you can build toward starting your own agency. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 10: Online Course Consultant
Next is an online course consultant. This is basically where you consult on how people can create an online course that actually gets their students results. There's a difference between an information-based course and a results-based course.
What's just as valuable as telling students the right information is leaving out the wrong information -- and even the mediocre information. The goal is a super straight line from where the student is to where they want to be, with anything that doesn't follow that straight-line process left out entirely.
Most coaches and course creators make the mistake of putting too much in their course. They overpopulate it, which overwhelms students and causes them not to get results. On Fiverr, consultants in this space charge about $295 for a package. You can start there, get your first few clients, and then build your consultancy from there. Opportunity score: 7 out of 10.
Niche 11: Specialized Catering or Meal Delivery Service
Another great business opportunity is a specialized catering or meal delivery service. You'd specialize in a particular type of diet -- vegan, keto, carnivore, whatever diet people in your local area really want or whatever you genuinely enjoy cooking yourself.
If you've ever followed a specific diet, you immediately see the value here. It's actually really difficult to cook for a specific diet and to know that you're getting food that truly follows the dietary guidelines. If you can create a service where they don't have to worry about any of that -- they know they're getting tasty, healthy food that follows their diet and saves them a bunch of time -- they're going to pay you really good money.
For vegans, who make up about 3% of the US population, people typically pay about $30 per person per meal at restaurants. If you serve 20 vegans per month, that's $600 a month with a single person. As your client list grows, before you know it you'd probably be making over $10,000 a month. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 12: Virtual Event Planning Agency
Next is a virtual event planning agency. This could cover any number of virtual events -- virtual conferences, virtual webinars, virtual challenges. Companies run virtual challenges to bring awareness to their product or service, educate their audience, and eventually drive sales. These can be incredibly successful and lucrative.
The virtual event market size was estimated at about $78 billion in 2023 and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 18.8% from 2023 to 2030. Tony Robbins once held a virtual event with over 400,000 attendees over a seven-day period, which required significant technology infrastructure to support everyone.
Virtual event planners on Upwork typically charge between $20 and $100 per hour, and you can make more than that if you start your own agency. As always, make sure you specialize in particular types of virtual events. Opportunity score: 8 out of 10.
Niche 13: Modern Office Interior Designer
Next is a modern office interior designer. Offices are trying to get people to come back after everyone got a taste of the remote work lifestyle and loved it. To do that, they're making their spaces look like Google headquarters -- super fun, hip, awesome, a place you'd actually want to be. This is a really good niche to go into right now.
Interior designers typically offer their services for around $40 to $70 per hour on Upwork. If you specialize further in modern office interior design, working specifically with businesses rather than residential clients, you can charge a lot more than that. Opportunity score: 8.5 out of 10.
Niche 14: Nano Brewery
Next is a nano brewery, which is a small-scale brewery that produces limited quantities of craft beer. In certain parts of the United States, craft beer is extremely popular, and a lot of people only want to drink beer from nano breweries. There's a 23-year-old who bought a $150 home beer brewing kit and turned it into a six-figure business.
You can charge a lot more than typical beer companies because you're making craft beer -- something that is superior, not mainstream, and homemade, which a lot of people prefer. You can sell it to local businesses, and a lot of local businesses actually like to support other local businesses.
Opportunity score: 7 out of 10.
Niche 15: Online Bookkeeping and Accounting Agency
Next is an online bookkeeping and accounting agency. As an entrepreneur who travels the world, Shane went out and tried to find online accountants and bookkeeping services that catered to his specific situation -- not having been back in the US in over two years. He had a really hard time finding a bookkeeping or accounting service that knew anything about that situation.
This all comes down to specializing. Find people who are in specific situations that make their tax situation different from other people's, and then help those people. Find those niches -- that's how you really grow a business like this.
There's a guy who posted on YouTube about how his bookkeeping business replaced his $100,000 salary. Importantly, you don't need to be an accountant or a CPA to start a bookkeeping business -- bookkeeping and accounting are completely separate things. This one is especially profitable around the end of the year and into tax season. Opportunity score: 7 out of 10.
Niche 16: Ghost Writing for a Specific Platform and Audience
Next is ghost writing. You'd want to specialize in a particular platform -- for example, becoming a Twitter ghost writer. It's even better to specialize further and become a Twitter ghost writer for a specific niche, such as people who sell info products online or people who own SaaS companies.
The need to create content is intense. A lot of people have already built a good reservoir of content and basically just want a ghost writer to go in, read their content, extract the interesting bits out of it, and then post it all across social media. There's a story of someone bootstrapping a million-dollar-plus ghost writing business from rural Ohio.
Ghost writing businesses in general have been blowing up in the last few years. Twitter is just one example -- there are lots of other platforms and niches to specialize in. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
Niche 17: Selling Supplements and Vitamin Products in a Specific Diet Niche
Next is selling supplements and vitamin products. Again, you want to specialize and niche down. One thing that's really hot right now is the carnivore diet. There are going to be people who make like $100 million selling supplements related to the carnivore diet -- it's something worth looking into.
The US dietary supplement industry is a $50 billion a year industry. There are tons of stories of people who started massive businesses in this space. One person turned $5,000 into $10 million selling supplements on Amazon. Make sure you sell good quality supplements, build a good reputation, and sell into the right types of industries. Opportunity score: 8.5 out of 10.
Niche 18: Installing Smart Home Technology in Wealthy Neighborhoods
The last one is installing smart home technology, specifically in wealthy neighborhoods. This includes hooking up Alexa, Siri, or similar systems to different smart home devices so you can tell it to turn your lights on, control the air conditioner, and so on. You can even integrate AI with it now -- it's really impressive what you can do with this type of thing.
This is going to be a massive market. There will be businesses that probably get up to $100 million a year in this space. It's relatively new and still in its infancy, but it is absolutely going to be a massive market. Opportunity score: 9 out of 10.
I like how he recommends you take something you did as an occupation (an accountant), and then think about how you would create a resume for someone looking for a job as an accountant. This type of cross pollination of skills is a great way to find niche markets that are very profitable for your skillset.
So, when you see him mention a broad concept like "Social Media Manager", which you have already heard about, pay attention to how he then narrows that nice down to being a specialist on a certain platform, with a very specific topic that you cover. It's the specialization that has you stand out and make others choose your service over the generic option.
Look for situations that make something common difficult. That is a golden nugget when it comes to finding profitable niche market business ideas. This is one way that "scratching your own itch" can become very lucrative. He gives the example of struggling to find a good bookkeeper and accountant who dealt with digital nomads. That is one specific situation that was being under served, and would make an excellent niche market to enter.
You can take the great advice Shane gives in this video, and pair it with Rochelle's excellent ChatGPT prompt method that utilizes HIT, and you're going to find a niche in the market in the shortest time possible.
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