Looking for some good business ideas to start

Hello everyone, I hope you're all doing well. Many people have transferred their offices to their homes, proving that a business can begin and continue while in quarantine, even during lockdowns. So, while I'm in quarantine, I'm going to start a business. Can anyone here recommend some good business ideas to start? I have a few ideas already, but it's always good to have more possibilities. However, I am unaware of the practical actions that must be followed to establish a firm. Is there anyone who can give insight on this? While talking with a friend about this, he mentioned Ontario Business Central, so I went to their website and read a blog about how to start a business while in quarantine. Has anyone here used their services? Are they up to standard? I found their site to be quite interesting, and it gave me some insight into how to establish a business. Is there anyone else who has a better idea? Please share your ideas in the comments section. Thank you.

the world is full of possibilities these days with the internet connecting everyone.
I would first start with a self inventory I guess it could be called.
do you have skills or training, education or learned a trade that allows you to create or make or fix something. for example do you make wind chimes or have a talent at making stained glass or anything, maybe you enjoy making recorders and flutes out of bamboo. or maybe you like fashion and clothing or shoes. maybe you know how to make web sites or enjoy coding. or maybe you like yard sales and have a knack for knowing what is highly resellable and valuable.
. since I suffer from physical limitations I could do what could when I could usually just a few hours a week taking some pictures of some stuff and selling it on eBay just being honest with descriptions means a whole lot.
I started using eBay when it first got going about 1999. and watched a whole bunch of different business get started there. from a woman that would go to yard sales and resell clothing on eBay and a guy that would get old broken lawn mowers and take them apart and sell each little part individually--now is a huge business called joes lawnmowers or something like that. I once met a guy that went to school and learned refrigeration. he would get broken ice makers and whine chillers, fix them and sell them for big bucks. he was selling stuff outright instead or repairing other peoples broken stuff so he was not under any pressure to perform for a waiting customer.
just a few ideas. my personal opinion would not take a bunch of hard earned savings and invest in some business idea without trying out starting small and see if there is money to be made and you enjoy what you are doing.

it is a good suggestion to start on a shoestring. if its a bit of money but lots of time you are putting up as your investment, its hard to go that wrong if it flops. start slow and build, like anything, we inch along.

i can definitely make a suggestion and i have thought about soliciting this kind of help...like try to make craigslist posts or some where to try to inspire people to take up as a business - representing artists. the thing being...that you could get some different works and crafts of many small time producers who may not have the time or skills to market them, and then you would market them and get a commission each time you sell for them. so it could be a combination of people willing to send you small amounts of samples and inventory to list on wesites, etsy, ebay, square space and maybe set up a type of "co op" page and build a mini website...when you would then do the listing photographing and selling for them and maybe take 30-40 percent of the selling price. you could also have it where instead of people sending you artwork and crafts, they just send you pictures, or a smaple...and then they do the direct mail;ing once you sell.
ah some food for thought. this is good if you already have a small product that you make and want to sell, and so you beef it up with several other artists works to get bigger and more notice. and to make a small profit along side your own craft work, while helping out your crafty friends who arent naturally inclined to marketing.

well anywho i have some experience with some of the practicalities, although i am in the US it is similar.it can be very intimidating and overwhelming to deal with everything associated with a legitimate business, if these are your concerns, but one step at a time and as you get bigger you naturally tend to slowly  level up and keeping the paperwork straight as you figure it out as you go along.

some basics i have gleaned from 20 years running my micro crafts business - keep good records, automate that even...like with accounting software, this is something i have found very useful as it finally freed me from stupid quickbooks a free online accounting software that automate deposit and expenses from a bank account ---> https://www.waveapps.com/

* open a separate business bank account, and try to run all business expenses through your business account. this makes everything much easier, to track it, for tax purposes nd to have good bookkeeping should you need it for any reason. because you have an account that has the majority of your expenses all in one place.

as far as paying yourself wages, well theres a lot of ways to do it, i suppose this is one of those things you figure out as you go. but in the begininng it s better to not withdraw much money, just keep reinvesting what you make back into it for a while. depending on what you are doing there can be a lot of upfront work ...where you may work for months where theres no profit...you know everything takes time to build up.

as far as legal paperwork, and the like...well i cannot help you much there, for one because you are in canada, but i have done some things. applied for a tax ID number as a business, and keep everything simple. in the US you can run a small business as a "doing business as " name, or your own name...and most of the time if you are small you do not technically require a business license. you do though in certain industries need to be registered within the local towns and state, and this process is usually pretty straight forward as filling out forms and paying a small fee. there are some industries where you need insurance too, though, and different things ike food has restrictions...if you are going into peoples houses and etc...employing people...then in those types of small business you generally want a licence, to be registered with the state and to carry a heft insurance policy. in small time work from home stuff, usually you dont need any of that.

Emma--keep us posted, let us know how it goes. I love to watch success in action
was thinking about this more--and got me thinking maybe like mccormick way way back may have started by being farmers growing spices and herbs and they started putting them in bottles and now it like a billion dollar business-- plus I like growing herds