I'm in a rural area and have some land/space. Over the years I've thought several times about starting a dealership for something I was looking at myself. At one point it was Chinese ATVs, at another point it was robot mowers, then trailers at another.

Anyway, I'm starting to think about it more seriously. Trailers (when I looked into them) seemed to have terrible margins and there's enough competition around that I'd just end up sitting on stock forever, I believe. I have decided against anything Chinese because of parts supply being a total wildcard.

I have been thinking about hydroseeders. The downside is that the equipment sales are probably low volume. But on the plus side, I could sell the seed, mulch, dye, and tackifier products as a supplier. That's probably a decent revenue stream on consumables. BUT, I need a dry place to store those, and my only barn is on the full side at the moment. Not a total deal breaker, but I feel like I'd have to rent a warehouse or something. Could be done.

A conversation with AI suggested a few interesting ideas - one being mosquito misters, and equine misting systems. That's an interesting one - the margins look pretty decent and I'd supply the consumables as well so it's decent recurring revenue.

I'm fine with online and/or walk in sales (or realistically it would be by appointment, most likely, but I think I could support walk in, in the future). I'm going to have to advertise or sell a product that has good advertising support from the manufacturer because I'm on a dead end road - it's not like a sign out front will bring people in. I've got maybe 100k to play with. I do have experience running a home service business and I'm great at dealing with people, as well as handling the growth side of the business. I'm technical and hands on - I can provide service for what I sell, but I don't really want to end up running a full time repair shop either - so something like mowers is probably out.

My background is mixed between mechanical and tech/software. I'm currently operating a land clearing business and have run a small tech consulting company in the past. My interests are mechanized toys, equipment, music, and the great outdoors (hiking, camping, kayaking type stuff), and I play hockey several times a week so that's my biggest single hobby/interest and my biggest network of people. Although I'm not sure there's anything in the hockey market I can/am interested in selling - I don't want to open a retail store and I don't want to install backyard rinks for a whopping one week a year lol.

Anyway - I'm curious if anyone has ideas or suggestions about products that would be a good fit for me as a dealer or I guess even more of a distributor. Happy to answer more questions if I've left gaps. Thanks in advance!

Firstly, please try not to read any of the other comments right away - to avoid influencing your answer. I'll put some filler/notes at the bottom to add scroll before the comments.

Scenario:

You own a house on a few acres outside the city. The back 80-100 ft of your property is completely overgrown and inaccessible - a bunch of thorns and viny stuff mixed with small trees. You definitely can't get your mower into it. You asked your neighbor if his tractor could handle it. He said no, it's too dense and the trees are bigger than what he can cut. You want that last 100 ft back as yard/usable space. You tried cutting some of it down yourself with hand tools or power tools, but it's brutally slow going, plus thorns and poison ivy make it miserable. You're done trying to do it yourself and are ready to get outside help.

Question:

What would you type into Google? Give me your first 3 searches - including how they'd change if the first one didn't get you the results you wanted.

Context / filler:

I own a small, local business that's only a few months old. I'm trying to do my own SEO work, and I'm a little bit mentally boxed in with keywords so I'm curious what others think.

NOTE TO MODS: To be clear, I am NOT trying to influence my SEO with this post, and I am NOT trying to conduct any "market research" - the business already exists and has already replaced my previous full time job. I do see the rule, "We are not here to help your SEO," but I take that to mean, "don't post here to try and show up on Google." I'm just genuinely asking for help with what people might search for because the service that I provide is not well-known by name. I will not name drop my business or location in this post or its comments. In fact, I'm being intentionally a bit vague because I don't want to influence the readers' thoughts before they comment. However, if there's a better place for this, please let me know. Thanks!

Extra filler to take up more space:

This is just to make sure readers need to scroll a bit before seeing the comments - so they can form their own thoughts without influence. I'm not sure if it's necessary, maybe everyone will just say the same thing anyway. But just in case it helps get unique and genuine answers.

I wanted to run an idea by the folks here. I run a small forestry mulching business, focusing on residential and recreational landowners. A lot of my work is cutting trails for off road toys, or just pushing back the wilderness to expose usable land for pasture or building sites.

I plan to start getting in the local parades, pulling my machine with me. But I want to throw something out for the kids, and advertise to the parents.

I thought rubber snakes would be funny, and also promote the idea of pushing back the brush. Really, there aren't many snakes in my area. But I don't want to give some old lady a heart attack or something, so I was thinking of getting like neon colors so they're obviously fake. And having my business and phone number printed on the belly.

Good idea? Stupid idea? Any better ones?

I want my info printed on something that's likely to be taken home, rather than just handing out cards so people have more "trash" to deal with as they pack the kids up after the parade is over.