Business Trends
A few business trends that will dominate in 2022. Pay close attention to these business trends when creating a startup. All the trends and trends of 2022 are listed in the Trends section.
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Key business trends for 2022
1) The e-commerce market will grow aggressively. Companies will continue to move into e-commerce. The shift from physical stores to digital shopping accelerated by about five years during the crisis year.
2) Blockchain will be actively adopted in many business industries. There will be more startup companies based on blockchain technology.
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3) Alternative payment options will continue to grow in the new year. Another trend that will continue in 2021 and beyond is the dominance of alternative payment options. Contactless payments at retail globally have increased by 69% since January 2020. (Contactless credit and debit cards or mobile payments).
4) Remote working will persist and become commonplace in business. During the pandemic, not only small businesses but also large businesses have moved to part-time or full-time remote work modes.
5) Companies offering digital (virtual) services will continue to be in high demand. The pandemic has led to increased demand for certain types of digital businesses related to new technologies, virtual health and fitness. These include cybersecurity, home fitness, meal delivery, gaming, home improvement and telemedicine.
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Organization of special tourist tours and services
Organize a specialty travel company to cater to the individual preferences of people’s travel lifestyles. A starter learning tour designed for individual travelers, a gastronomic tour focused on specific food and dietary preferences, eco-tours, family tours, or even an age-based travel company, can all be implemented by a startup for different demographics.
Create author tours to non-tourist, undiscovered places in the States and Europe.
Certain areas of the business did not suffer during the coronavirus and even proved profitable.
Almost a year has passed since the crisis began – enough time to take stock and draw conclusions about which businesses were successful and what entrepreneurs should be doing in 2021.
Create an app focused on air travel and airports
Travel and tourism won’t be the same anymore, the pandemic crisis has hit the travel industry hard. But this time opens new opportunities for entrepreneurs, there are already services for subscription to air tickets, applications tracking opening of borders of countries and entry rules. In times of crisis there are new trends and business trends, it’s a great time for start-ups.
Take the stress out of planning people’s weddings by offering an interesting, engaging wedding trip to the islands, or the world’s top attractions. Create wedding trips for the newlyweds and take them to exciting places around the world.
As an additional idea for a wedding travel agency – arrange for several couples of newlyweds to go on a collective wedding trip after the wedding in a good fun company with a guide, photographer and videographer.
A new business idea in this direction is to organize cool wedding trips for several couples of newlyweds in an adventure format with the creation of a movie or series of videos on YouTube. The trick is a wedding adventure with a guide and personal videographer + photographer (such a wedding trip the newlyweds will remember for a long time). Or it could be an individual, original author wedding trip for one couple.
Open a co-working space
Take advantage of the growing popularity of remote work these days by creating a modern co-working space that solves all the pain points of entrepreneurs. Not everyone is comfortable working from home – co-working is a great space for remote work of specialists of different kinds of activity.
Choose a comfortable place, rent a space, or build it from scratch. Set up the co-working space with comfort for entrepreneurs, create attractive services and flexible prices.
As an idea for creating a co-working space, you can rent space in an abandoned culture house, movie theater or an empty office building. Or on a mutually beneficial cooperation to join an office real estate company to revitalize their empty office space.
Start a business of preparing delicious and healthy food + cooking and catering
There are many interesting ideas in the field of food and healthy eating, consider three here. In our fast-paced world everyone is busier than ever, millions of people order not very tasty and ordinary food in cafes and restaurants. A few business ideas in this direction:
Create a startup focused on food waste collection and disposal
Creating a startup focused on food waste collection and disposal in your city or region is a very relevant business. This business idea can not only bring you serious outside funding, but also get support from the city administration. In addition, this service will help save money grocery stores and restaurants (they can become your partners).
For cafes, restaurants and supermarkets, food waste is a definite “headache”. If your startup will solve the problem, it’s a success.
How do you make money in this business? There are several options. Your company can charge for regular waste collection from customers, recycling and selling the product to farmers and agricultural companies, manufacturing and selling specialty products for different industries (like organic fertilizer), etc.
Benefit from the demand for organic and plant-based products
Eco-products are a trend. Plant-based products are a fast-growing market. Starting a vegan supermarket, online store, or producing a variety of meat-free organic foods can be a recipe for success for start-up entrepreneurs.
Consumers today are increasingly interested in natural products that help them live an all-natural or more eco-friendly lifestyle.
As an additional idea in this niche is the sale and delivery of meal kits (ready-made kits of organic or farm-to-table food according to recipes).
Meal kit services are becoming increasingly popular among busy people who don’t have time to store at the store and prepare healthy meals. The meal kit industry is expected to reach $11.6 billion in sales in the U.S. alone by 2022.
How the business works. Customers choose recipes online; these are prepared meal kits with pre-cut and measured ingredients along with cooking and preparation instructions. The meal kits are delivered to customers’ homes on the day they choose. Specified information, such as calorie counts, allows consumers to adhere to dietary requirements. Recipes for meal kits can range from specialty vegan foods and eco-foods to national and exotic cuisine.
Start a dropshipping business
Dropshipping is an e-commerce business model; it does not require you to purchase items in advance. The business is about finding consumers and selling goods through different channels, with the dropshipping company taking care of the stock and shipping of the goods.
The company pays you a certain percentage for selling the goods. Having studied the market, the competition, finding the right product, this business can be profitable for people who know how to do e-commerce.