With our business idea, we need to distinguish between wanting to recover the full capital invested and wanting to know when our business will break even, that is, the point at which our monthly income exceeds our expenses (electricity, insurance, wages, etc.) and leaves us an amount of money to save or spend personally.
It has always been said that a business is not profitable until three years have passed, and I don’t agree. It is also said that a business’s break-even point (income − expenses = profit x) is usually reached after six months. I don’t agree with that either.
Depending on how much debt we took on before carrying out our business idea, in some cases the full capital invested is recovered in 15 years, while in other businesses that were properly structured from the start, it is recovered in one year.
This does not mean that a business that takes longer is any less profitable, far from it. That is why we gave some ideas in a previous article on how to start a business with no money. I recommend reading it.
Nowadays, both the businesses we can start on the internet and those we can start at home sometimes require minimal investment, and we can recover the capital invested in a couple of months.
And if online businesses aren’t your thing, here is a list of business ideas with a quick return on the capital invested:
- A spa: although the investment in a spa is usually high, everyone agrees that it is one of the highly profitable businesses with the fastest recovery of the capital invested.
- Tourism-focused businesses: a list of business ideas related to tourism, a sector with little investment and a quick return.
- A business selling advertising: minimal investment and cheap raw material, since one client pays you to sell and another pays you to buy.
- Full-service car washing: again, minimal investment, so it is usually profitable from day one.
- 10 business ideas with no investment: ideas for making the most of your hobbies or skills and, as the title says, you need no initial investment.
These are some business ideas with a quick return on capital for the simple reason that the investment is minimal, except for the spa, where, according to the experts, break-even comes quickly, as does the recovery of the investment.
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