Entrepreneurs Day Ideas 2024 Edition

Updated on 21 October 2024

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Entrepreneurs day

Entrepreneurs day 2024 is an exciting time for students and business owners. This is the day where we celebrate entrepreneurs and business owners who can look forward to more customers in their stores. It also presents them a great opportunity to launch new products or services. If you are an entrepreneur and you want to take advantage of this day but are not sure how, we’ve got some entrepreneurs ideas for you.

Entrepreneurs day is not only a date for business owners but also a day for school learners to showcase their creativity, baking and cooking skills and their sales skills. Schools also use entrepreneurs day to teach children how to calculate profits, losses and how to equally divide money amongst each other.

In this article, we explore some of the best ideas for entrepreneurs day ideas for 2024 that can be used in business and school.

Handmade Jewellery

If you or your child are really creative, you can make jewellery to sell. You need a jewellery pliers and side cutters and a place to create your jewellery. To make it easier for yourself, you can just purchase a jewellery making set from platforms like Takealot.

How much you spend on your jewellery will determine how you price it. Your pricing must be balanced, meaning the product must be affordable but still make you a profit.

Custom Artwork

Custom artwork is a great idea for entrepreneurs day. Your artwork can go on any canvas meaning you can offer to paint canvases, sneakers, jackets, t-shirts and mugs and plates. To create your best artwork on the day and in a short time span, you must pick designs that are easy to draw but still eye-catching and unique.

You will need fabric paint, normal paint, paint brushes and a paint palette. The cost of your equipment will help you determine your pricing as well as the surface that you paint on (sneakers, jackets, mugs etc.). The bigger the surface the more you charge and vice versa.

Phone Accessories

Because almost everyone has a smartphone, selling phone accessories is bound to make you a good profit. You can create your own accessories or buy some and then customise it. Also, you can make a good sales strategy by letting people choose their own customisations.

You can order your phone accessories in bulk from wholesalers like Alibaba and Temu. Much like the other ideas, your costs will determine your pricing.

Food Items

Food items are always a big seller on entrepreneurs day. You can sell anything from baked goods, healthy snacks, sweets, chips, hot dogs to braai meat, the list is endless. To make even more money at your food stand you can also include beverages that people can purchase.

Food is not cheap so your pricing needs to be put in such a way that you will make a profit. You can go buy your snacks and sweets from wholesalers and for the cooking items too. Meat can be bought at butcheries which tend to be cheaper than food retailers.

Custom Photographs

If you have a camera you can offer to take photographs for people and print them on the spot. You can add props that your customers can use for their photographs. You can sell the photographs in bulk packages for example R 30 for 5 pictures (individual) or R 50 for 3 group photos.

If you already have a camera all you need is a printer. Pocket printers cost about R 2 400, or you can buy an Instax camera which prints pictures on the spot without the need for a printer.

Homemade Toys

You can make your own toy line to sell on entrepreneurs day. You can make plushies, puzzles, sock puppets and little toy cars or wire cars. This will be a very popular stand on entrepreneur’s day as most kids like toys and most parents will buy them for their children.

The cost of the material of your toys will help determine your price for each toy.

Games Stand

Much like any fun fair, you can create your own games stand where people can play various games to try to win a prize. You can do an egg in a spoon race, golf ball aiming game, or water gun target hitting game. The list is endless.

This idea might constitute a lot of work and items, but it’s bound to make you a lot of money. For example, you can charge your customers R5 for the egg-in-a-spoon race or R10 for 5 balls for the target hitting game.

These ideas are just an outline of how you can approach your entrepreneur’s day. You can take any of these ideas and change them to fit your vision. Get the right materials, make your products, determine your pricing and get selling! Enjoy Entrepreneurs Day 2024!

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