Name: 6 Business Opportunities That Will Get You Ahead of 99% of People
Uploaded: 2026-01-22T00:13:16.000Z
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These are the six smartest, most profitable businesses that you can start in 2026.

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And as the co founder of a $100 million company, there are only a handful of businesses I would personally start right now if I wanted to build a million dollar business in 2026.

So here are the six business opportunities that are quietly making millionaires.

First, we're starting with boring AI businesses.

AI is a booming industry projected to grow between 20 to 40% annually with gross profit margins as high as 70%.

And here' you don't need to be an AI master to start.

You can partner with a freelance developer, test one simple tool and sell it into a market that you already understand.

You see, when AI first exploded, everybody thought that the winners would be the next OpenAI.

But most of those billion dollar opportunities are already gone.

The real money is now in hyper targeted boring tools.

Think of AI that auto generates quotes for contractors or a personal CRM for estheticians that not only track client history, but also automates personalized upsells and follow ups.

These aren't flashy ideas, but they save professionals hours of time every week and they're willing to pay to get their time back.

So just ask yourself, what's one high friction repetitive task in an industry that I know and how can AI automate it?

It might even be worth putting that prompt into AI to give you an idea.

See, that's where the opportunity actually is.

Whoever builds those tools doesn't just get customers, they win entire markets.

That's why one simple idea that solves a quote unquote boring problem can be the foundation of a multi million dollar business.

I'm actually taking my own advice because my team is currently working on solving very specific niche problems for roofers.

I have been going on roofing on sites over the last handful of months because I see a massive opportunity in being able to leverage AI to solve problems that roofers every single day struggle with.

When it to generating leads, following up with those leads, training their salespeople on how to work those leads in order to get them to conversions.

And there are hundreds of industries that could take the same approach and you could start that business.

When you think about the traditional roofing business owner, they are a roofer first.

They are not traditionally business owners.

They don't have some formal background in really understanding how to take a lead, engage that lead to get a conversion and do that as quickly as possible while ensuring that they are on top of their reviews, their hiring, their financials and all of the other business related tasks.

So being able to solve for them those business related functions using AI is of such high value.

And being able to do it at scale is the opportunity that we're taking advantage of.

And you too could do this for just about any industry where there is a technical person that started the business but needs help with the business aspects of the business.

And AI is uniquely positioned to solve these problems.

And the business owner is uniquely positioned not to solve these problems using AI because they're so busy running, running their businesses.

The next business is hybrid wellness clubs.

Hybrid wellness clubs are projected to grow 10 to 15% annually with margins up to 40%.

For boutique models, you don't need a gym or medical office to start.

A beginner could launch this with something as simple as a curated supplement box paired with a zoom coaching call.

You can partner with a nutritionist or a personal trainer and build a monthly subscription and layer in accountability through WhatsApp, check INS or a private community.

The key to this is you start small and then you expand into more advanced options like DNA testing or wearables as you grow your client base.

So why is this such a great business idea?

Well, think about the shift that took place after the pandemic.

People lost trust in the traditional healthcare system.

So now everyone wants to be in control of their health and they will pay a premium, a lot of money in order to have that feeling of control and get true results.

These business ideas work because people don't just want to get fit, they want to live longer, they want to perform better and they want to belong in a like minded community.

So when you combine help products with coaching and accountability, you're not just selling supplements, you're selling an identity, you're selling a belonging.

The key to being able to charge more is through adding value.

In this business model, anybody can go to a Walgreens and buy supplements and their life is not going to change.

But when you can create a community with accountability, where people feel like they are a part of this new identity and that they are able to get results that they're looking for, it literally changes their life.

It changes their confidence, it changes the way that they show up for themselves.

And so this concept of community mixed with accountability that targets personalized health and wellness for somebody is the game changer.

And to the extent that you can do this at scale using different community and accountability platforms, you will be successful.

Because people want you to help them and they want actual change.

And what is required with actual change isn't just giving somebody A workout isn't just giving somebody a supplement.

It comes with the process of changing their identity from where they're at.

Not feeling great, feeling unhealthy, maybe even having some health related issues to transforming to be around a group of people who are active and doing the things that they see themselves doing.

So yes, the product matters and the effectiveness of the product matters whatever it is that you're selling.

But don't underestimate or undervalue how much value you are creating in your business model by using accountability, follow up and community.

The third business model with massive potential is home services.

This market is growing 10% a year between now and 2030 with built in margins of between 10 to 20%.

But you don't have to do the manual labor yourself.

Beginners can start with picking one service like plumbing, roofing or pest control and running it like a modern operator.

Use Google Ads and Yelp to bring in leads to hire contractors to do the jobs and focus on scheduling and sales and customer reviews.

You see, once your system works in one part of the city and grow into other parts of the city so that you're able to dominate with real market share in that city.

The worst way to grow and expand a business is to have one business in Phoenix, Arizona and then think that the market is tapped.

You could have between 10 to 15 successful roofing businesses in the Phoenix metro area.

And then you get to leverage your brand, you get to leverage your hiring practices.

You get to leverage into the grassroots movement that you've created for your individual business by growing and expanding inside your existing market.

But the first step of that is doing it with your first location, creating the system, getting the model in place to then be able to rapidly leverage that and expand to other locations.

Most H Vac companies stay small because they don't have modern systems.

They don't have a great phone solution that allows calls to be recorded and then that person to be coached.

They don't have an updated CRM that is sharing metrics and how quickly leads are being followed up with.

But a modern business owner who understands the lead cycle and can leverage tools like Google Ads, service titan stacks, reviews and offers subscriptional services and plans all of a sudden has turned their boring service business into something that is generating recurring revenue and able to expand into new cities.

Not just doing the work, but systemizing the business and the Cool.

Part of this is, yes, it's going to be transformed by AI, but we are always going to need these traits.

We are always going to need to service our homes, to service buildings, to make sure that the spaces that we occupy while we're all using AI actually can keep us safe, actually can protect us from the weather.

And so I see this as not just a 2026 opportunity, but an opportunity over the next decade to be incredibly proficient in.

And if you start today, you can build true wealth.

And the truth is, most people just ignore these industries because they are the opposite of sexy.

The demand is urgent and the competition is weak, although it is starting to grow a little bit stronger.

If you can run operations with a bit of tech and marketing, you can dominate entire regions while everyone else is trying to make it in an oversaturated online business space.

Next up is a popular one, social media, coaching and consulting.

This is a market that is growing between 10 to 20% a year with margins of 20 to 40%.

And you don't need a huge agency to start.

In fact, I would recommend not even working with an agency because most agencies are so large and are antiquated that they can't even make the progress and get the results that you're looking to create.

Well, beginners can do this by picking one industry and one format.

What I mean by that is pick and stay in one industry.

Become an expert in chiropractic businesses, become an expert in real estate businesses.

Become an expert in servicing a roofing business.

Do not create a business around all sorts of different types of industries.

Figure out one industry and then stay on one platform.

So for an example, TikTok for real estate agents, YouTube for fitness studios.

Build a simple playbook, get results for your first client and then scale.

You have to focus on getting the results for your first handful of clients.

And you might think that it needs to be YouTube for fitness studios.