The small business industry is flourishing today due to the lack of full time jobs available in most areas of the United States. Those of us fortunate enough to have some savings leftover are investing in ourselves to help make ends meet. One low cost business startup for the Bayou City area is the Houston, Texas popcorn popper business. This is relatively low cost investment to start a new small business, and has always been a big seller in malls, and shopping centers in the Harris, and Montgomery county areas.

There are plenty of companies that sell used commercial popcorn machines, that are practically in new condition and will allow you to save several hundred dollars up front on your initial business capital. People tend to not understand this business totally, and will fail if they do not fully take advantage of certain situations with location, and multiple streams of revenue. Yes, you can just go to the busiest mall in the area like The Woodlands Mall, or Memorial City Mall, and set up a popcorn kiosk business. But, there will always be severe slow times that you will be doing nothing more than reading a magazine while you wait for new customers to come by, and buy some of your movie style popcorn offerings.

One business plan that will serve the popcorn machine business is to have two business in one, and the other would be to sell popcorn gift baskets. After your peak selling hours each day, you can utilized the same equipment to create the gourmet popcorn inventory that will be placed in the gift baskets, and sell them right there on site, and with an online store as well. This will greatly improve the profit model you are trying attain by being self employed, and will take the mom and pop business you always wanted to a level of profitability much faster.