Are you artistic with a flair for creating unusual designs from wood and on the look out for a way to make money from your talents? If so you might consider creating cut-out decorations such as you'll often see decorating roofs and gardens, and often in the shape of animals or letters forming names or messages, sometimes featuring products sold or made by the business for which the cut-outs are made.
If you like this idea you have the choice of making and selling your work or rent them to business and private clients.
Several reasons explain why people purchase or hire novel decorations like these and typically they are for decorative purposes or to announce a special event.
Whatever the reason, if your designs are novel and your handiwork is good, you're going to get lots of repeat renters and buyers and plenty of word-of-mouth recommendations from satisfied clients.
To achieve the highest profits you have to cover most or all of the usual reasons people celebrate in such high profile style, such as birthdays and new business openings, weddings and anniversaries, birth of a baby or coming of age.
The more novel and unique your designs the more popular your business will be and the less competition you'll face from rival companies.
It pays to be different, very different if possible and you should create unique or very unusual designs to cater for customers preferring quirky over commonplace designs such as bundles of party balloons, stork carrying the new baby, wedding bride and groom.
They're the sort of designs your rivals will also be producing, and that means you will be sharing your market with them.
Not so, however, where your designs feature uncommon animals such as elephants and giraffes, or the baby is shown arriving in a hot air balloon without help from the stork, or your lettering is colored bold and bright as compared to other people's basic pastel designs.