Ways To Make Money At Home – WORKING FROM HOME – Ideas & Suggestions for those looking for work at home Jobs and Businesses.
LOAN BROKER
You can act as a loan broker and look out for the best loan terms for borrowers, arrange for the loan and earn a commission for setting up the loan. There are so many money institutions around that are in the business of lending money to people who need them for various reasons. Basically there are the commercial banks. Apart from those, there are other institutions operating as finance companies covering loans for buying property or a house. They also provide for personal loans and for business undertakings. These companies charge different rates of interests and for documentations as well.
You will have to scout around and find the best offer. You may also negotiate to work in synergy with these companies and ensure that the borrower gets the best loan arrangement around. Once you are armed with this, move around as loan broker and arrange for the loan at a commission. Print a lot of business visiting cards introducing yourself and pass around those cards. You can also approach people whom you think may need a loan. You will be surprised to find that a lot of people need a loan but are unable to arrange one.
A FISHING CONTEST
You can make a lot of money cashing in on peoples’ hobby. Fishing is one area where you can come in. To be successful you need to be innovative. Fishing enthusiasts are always looking for good areas to fish and feel satisfied and proud to show off if they bag a good catch. To capitalize on this, arrange a fishing contest where you charge a substantial fee. Make the contest interesting.
A very attractive way is to hold the fishing contest at a fishing stake offshore. Arrange with the fishing stake owner to use his place for the contest. Make it a two-sessions affair; one from early morning to midday and the other from midday to late evening. If it is convenient, you can also arrange for night fishing, as long as you keep the number of hours equal for every session. Arrange also to take the participants to the fishing area. Make the charge inclusive of that and offer to provide a meal.
Advertise widely in the newspapers and you will find people coming from many areas and even from out of town places to join the fun. Offer good and attractive cash prizes and you will draw a good crowd to enable you to make a handsome income. Hold this contest at regular intervals and at different locations.
TRANSPORTING CARGO
Transporting cargo has always been a good business and there is no lack of cargo to transport as well. Many companies nowadays prefer to hire transport companies to move their cargo rather than buy a lorry themselves to do the job. They save on driver’s salaries and also on off peak time layoff. They save also on insurance, repair, breakdowns and a paraphernalia of other inconveniences attached including traffic summons and under the counter payments. Hiring transport companies to move their goods save them all the headache.
You have a good business opportunity here. All you need is a good lorry with trailer and a good driver if you do not drive the lorry yourself. Advertise in the yellow pages. You will have to look for clients yourself in the initial stages until you are established and are able to make a contract arrangement with a number of companies to move their goods. You will not be short of customers if you establish a good name and provide good services to your clients. Customers only want their goods to be delivered safely on time. If you can ensure that, you have yourself a good future.
RESERVING HOTEL ROOMS FOR CONVENTIONS
This is rather a sneaky money-making trick but if done properly will bring in good money. In a year, there are so many big conventions being held in town. Hundreds of participants and sometimes thousands of them converge on the city to attend the conventions. They all need rooms to stay.
What you can do is prior to the convention, you book the hotel rooms in the area; book up to 100 to 200 rooms. This will cause a shortage of rooms at the time of the conventions and participants would be willing to pay a little extra just to be able to stay close to the convention halls. Though they will be paying extra for the rooms, they still save on time cost and the cost of traveling through traffic in the city to get to the convention halls. This is where you make money. Offer them rooms that you have earlier reserved at a higher rental. Sometimes people are even willing to pay double just to be near the convention site and save all commuting inconveniences.
If it is a political party convention, the party or candidates will pay for them and thus the rental does not matter any more. If you do not want to take risks with your money, you can arrange with hotel counters to keep reservations for you and arrange to share the profits. This would be more like it and all you have to do is wait for the profits to come in.
SPORTS CAMPS
Short-duration sports camp is a good way of making money. This can be done during the school holidays. Parents will enroll their children to join these camps for two reasons. One is to improve their skills art various games. The other is to keep them occupied fruitfully during the holidays to prevent them from getting bored and then get involved in untoward activities.
You can charga a substantial fee and parents will pay. Engage a few sports coaches to teach these children the various games which can include soccer, hockey, squash and whatever is popular in your area.
To attract the crowd, attach a personality name to the camp like ‘Ryan Giggs Soccer Camp’. All you need to do is to make an arrangement for the star to appear on a day and work with the kids. The camp would be filled to capacity and you can pay 25% of the profits to the personality concerned. Do this for education as well and you will find yourself busy and good money flowing in.
EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS FOR SCHOOLS
This is especially attractive when held close to an examination. Seminars can be held to show students methods of answering questions in an examination with special emphasis on the examination they are about to take. The best way is to make the arrangement through the various schools to provide students for the seminars. Parents can be charged a fee for the seminar.
Arrange for a few facilitators who are versed in the subjects to be discussed and select a suitable place for the seminar. The seminar can be conducted at camp sites and be called as ?Summer Camp Educational Seminar ? or it can also be conducted at a hotel. Payments charged for the seminar will vary with the duration and place.
Many examinations will take place especially toward the end of the year. So there is ample opportunity to hold a number of seminars and earn in the process.
Advertise in the newspapers and also locally through leaflets and word of mouth. You will know exactly what to do as you keep on conducting consecutive seminars.
IN-HOME PERSONAL TRAINER
This job is good for physical enthusiasts who really understand exercise and how to train with weights. If you are one, then this business is good for you. You can charge in the region of $40 per session and 4 sessios per week. That will account to $160 per week. If you have 5 clients, then you can earn up to $ 800 per month, working 4 days a week and 5 hours a day.
At any one time you do not need so many clients to keep your business going. Five is already enough but if you can handle longer hours and an extra day, you will make over a thousand dollars a month. That is good money.
To get customers, first contact physical therapy clinics and let them know of your service. You can also go to health food stores and make arrangements to post your advertisements. You can also advertise locally by distributing leaflets.
NIGHT OPEN STALL FOR FISH AND VEGETABLES
People normally visit fish markets or supermarkets to buy fish and vegetables that they require. Fish markets are normally very crowded in the peak hours of mornings. Some people may have gone to work and would have no time to visit markets then. In the supermarkets you don’t get really fresh fish and fresh vegetables. So how do you come in?
You can start a night open stall and start selling fresh fish and vegetables. Many people will find this a convenient arrangement for them to just drive and drop by at your stall to buy fresh fish and vegetables during their free hours of the night rather than to have to wait for morning to go to the market to buy them. There are times also when people need the fish for the night itself, for whatever reasons of their own. Your stall will come in handy.
If you start one in your vicinity, you will get all the business and earn a good income. To be successful, make sure your fish and vegetables are really fresh. Make arrangement to get them every day for the night. When you find your business good, do not start to take customers for a ride with stale fish and no-so-fresh vegetables.
GAS TREATMENT FOR BETTER ENGINE PERFORMANCE
The active ingredient in gas treatment or gasoline additives is simple methanol alcohol. Everything else is basically filler. When a quantity of methanol is mixed with a gallon of gas, it does make your engine run cleaner with other additional benefits. You can start this business by producing engine oil additives under your own brand name and special packing of 8 ounces ( good enough to be mixed with one tank of gas.
You can buy a 5 gallon can of methanol from a chemical dealer and start your operations. Prepare plastic bottles and labels to go with the bottle. Have your own brand name to make it look professional. Pack and start distributing. You will make very good profits on this business if you price your product well and find a good outlet to distribute and sell.
Contact workshops and give them a good discount on each bottle. You can also arrange with MLM companies to include your product in their lists of products for distribution by their distributors. If you can get one MLM company to deal with you, you have good money coming.
RESTORATION SERVICE FOR OLD PHOTOGRAPHS
To go into this business you need a scanner, an ink jet printer and some photo-manipulation software. You can make extra money by repairing and restoring old photographs for people. Almost every family has old photos of people they love and want o keep the memory if they have passed away. These old photos may have been slightly damaged due to improper care and need to be restored. After a long time people usually do not have negatives of these photos in their keeping. The only way to restore theses photos is by sending them to photo repairing service. You can provide that service.
You can charge a good price and make good profits to restore these photos . People will pay if you can do a good job. All you have to do is scan the original photo fragments, reassemble and ‘clone’ pieces that are missing and then print the final result onto some high quality photographic paper.
If you advertise your business widely, you will find a lot of people coming in to get their photos repaired and restored. There is a lot of business in this area of the
sentimental.
WRITING A BOOK WITHOUT HAVING TO WRITE IT
Yes. You can start writing a book without having to write it yourself. All you need to do is to get a handful of experts to agree to send you an original essay on a given subject. All you have to do is to compile these essays into separate chapters and then edit them. Once you have done the editing and make a few additions and subtractions here and there, it becomes your book.
You can then submit it to the publishers to get it printed and distributed. You don’t even have to sell the book yourself. The publishers will do it for you and pay you royalty for the book.
Keep writing books on different topics and get them to the publishers and you will have a steady stream of income through royalties. Think up interesting topics that appeal to the young and old alike. Books of great controversy will be consumed by the market very fast. Be aware of current controversies and cash in on them.
SUMMER CAMP SITES FOR RENT
Rural property in a remote location is quite inexpensive if you can identify one. You can buy or lease an area of say around 10 hectares and convert it into a camp training site . Build and provide all the necessary natural facilities needed to fulfill a motivational training camp.
MLM companies and corporate organizations and schools need this kind of camp sites for training. They prefer the camp sites to hotel halls because it is more interesting for participants and more natural.
You can charge these organizations and make money throughout the year. If fact, you can also create training schemes yourself and conduct them at your site for a double profit.
Advertise and make contacts with MLM companies, youth organizations , corporate bodies and schools and let them know what you have to offer. You will be swarmed with bookings.
PROJECT PAPERS FOR BANK LOANS
Banks will only consider giving out business loans for projects that are viable and have a low margin of risk. Apart from that banks will want to know the current operations of the company intending to secure the loan. Banks will also look into the available assets of the company and what guarantees that can be provided in the form of property mortgage or third party guarantees. The specific purpose of the loan is also looked into and finally how the loan is to be repaid. All these will have to be documented and presented to the lending bank.
Most or in fact almost all companies are not conversant with this kind of paperwork and will always seek professionals to prepare the project paper for them. This is another line of business that you can enter especially if you have banking background or have accountancy skills. If you do not have them and are willing to learn quickly how it is done, you can also make this your business. Actually it is not that difficult. You will have to assemble all the pertinent data that is required by the bank and write them in the standard format of project paper presentations. Learn this if it is necessary.
Advertise and let people know your line of business and you will soon have your phone ringing for your services.
PROMOTIONAL UMBRELLAS
Due to the tough competition as always happen in the business world, every company wants to be ahead of the others especially in an effort to woo customers. Many advertising gimmicks have been employed. One is the use of umbrellas with the company name and logo displayed on the open umbrella.
This is popular among MLM companies and photo studios. Sometimes organizations use this form of advertisement too although not for commercial reasons. Whatever it is, the point is that there is a good demand for umbrellas for advertising. You can cash in on this.
Contact an umbrella factory and arrange to have umbrellas of special designs for special purposes. You need not have a big assortment of umbrellas initially. Just order the ones that you are going to sell currently to companies that need them.
Make arrangements with the companies concerned by offering to deliver custom made at a special price. Approach as many companies as possible and you will have a substantial business.
CAR CARE – THREE IN ONE AND DELIVERED
Every car owner knows that they have to have their cars washed and tuned from time to time. Apart from that the cars need to be washed. Every time when this has to be done, the owner feels uncomfortable. It is not so much the necessary costs that go with it but the time it will take to get the car ready again. This accounts for why delays occur in having cars tuned or engine oil changed.
You can start a business offering a three in one service; car wash, oil change and tuning. As an added attraction you can offer to get the car delivered to the owner as soon as they are ready. That will be convincing and many car owners will appreciate the service. It saves them the boring time waiting for the job to be done.
You can charge a small delivery service fee; customers would not mind as long as it is reasonable. Be courteous, polite and make every car owner happy with your service. Soon you will have more business than you anticipate. Apart from making money for the services, you will also earn from selling the engine oil or whatever replacement parts that the car needs.
RENTING TENTS FOR EXHIBITIONS AND CARNIVALS.
Individual or groups who run expositions or exhibitions do not normally keep tents in store for the events. It is too cumbersome a job to keep inventory. They prefer to rent the tents from other companies.
You can keep a good stock of specially designed tents suitable for expositions or carnivals. Make it modern where you can install a fan in each tent. See also that there are at least two plug points for each tent for use.
You can also have a team of workers to erect the tents for you. You need not employ them full time, but call them whenever there is a job to be done and pay them based on the specific job. Exhibition groups normally prefer to have everything ready set up for them.
Advertise your service. You may also contact groups that normally hold exhibitions from time to time. Work in synergy with them and you will prosper.
SELLING LECTURE NOTES
Freshies at all universities and institutions of higher learning are normally overwhelmed by the fact that they are accepted into the institution and for the first time feel proud that they are part of an institution of higher learning. They are usually oblivious to what is going on around and only focus on their new undergraduate ‘status’.
You can catch them there. At the initial moment of time they will buy anything with the university logo to take home when they return to their hometown. You can print T shirts or whatever souvenirs for sale.
One thing that will catch their imagination and will grab without much ado is lecture notes. You can compile lecture notes of the previous year, bind them and start selling. Get hold of good past year notes and do a little bit of campaigning and you will have a business. Dealing in the previous year’s notes alone is enough because there are so many subjects to cover. Done properly will bring a good harvest of earnings.
DELIVERING SCHOOL BOOKS TO PARENTS
Every year when the school reopens and children are promoted to new grades, the children will need a new set of books. This is the time when parents will have to spend time hunting for the prescribed texts from book stores in town. It is not as easy as always thought to be, when it comes to getting the full set of books prescribed. Parents often face headaches when the stock runs out or certain books are unavailable. They will face the inconvenience of having to hunt around the bookshops around town, not necessarily with positive results.
You can start a business in getting orders from parents and them deliver the books to them. There would not be much to do because every year the titles of the books are almost the same, maybe with slight changes. This you can laise and find out from the Ministry of Education or the local education office. Get the list early and contact parents to place the order.
You don’t have to carry stock because you can laise and work in synergy with a local book stores that would have the stock ready for delivery. Arrange a commission for yourself and everybody wins.
ON-THE SPOT CAR OIL CHANGE
I have not seen this business done. I wonder why. If you start the business now you will have a monopoly market, at least in the initial stages. Every 3,000 miles every car needs an oil change. Normally the owner will have to take the car to the oil change people and wait for the oil to be changed but you can reverse the procedure. Instead of the customer coming to you, you go to the customer and get the oil change on the spot.
Having an oil change at gas station / petrol kiosks or wherever it is now involves a couple of inconveniences, which includes time. Sometimes you don’t get your oil changed immediately if the place is busy. Waiting time may sometimes be killing.
Now if you provide the service to get car owners to change their car oil on the spot and fast, you will attract many motorists. All you need is a small van to carry the engine oil with you and simple tools for the job. To get customers, pass around business visiting cards . You can also call car owners and inform them of your service. From time to time you would have accumulated a good number of customers to keep you busy and the money coming in.
SELLING BALLONS TO CHILDREN
The total cost of making a helium balloon is about 10 cents. If you go to places where there are a lot of children gathering, you can sell each for a dollar and make a hefty profit. All you need is some balloons of different sizes, some strings and a tank of helium.
Nowadays balloons are designed in various patterns and this will attract children’s attention even the more.
Go where there is a fun fair, an exhibition or even children’s playground may be a good place to go especially on holidays.
This is a business where the cost of investment is peanuts but the percentage returns is high. Not many people will want to do this business. That accounts for why we seldom see balloons sellers. You may not be rich selling balloons but neither will you be one just contemplating what to do and not doing anything at all. The business is good, the money is good. Take it.
ORGANIZING FLEA MARKETS
If there is no flea market in your area and in areas where the potential effective demand is good, do not wait for things to happen. Take this as an opportunity to start a business. Organize a flea market in your area and in other areas as well.
Set up stalls and rent out to people who would like to display and sell their goods there. If you could set up fifty stalls and rent each for fifty dollars a day, you would be able to collect two thousand dollars daily and for a month duration you could collect a cool sixty thousand.
You need to pay the local authorities for the business license according to the duration of the flea market. Apart from that you will have to pay for electricity and amenities which may be made available by the authorities. If you are using tents, you will also have to pay for the tents .Then there are the assistants. But deducting all these expenses, you will still make a handsome profit.
Once you collect payments for the whole duration of the market exposure, there is not much to do as each stall owner takes care of his stall. The only thing you must make sure is to have an electrical man as an assistant. The lights may be out during the night due to overload. Attend immediately and everything will be fine.
SELLING GREEN BEANS SWEET PORRIDGE
Expertly prepared by an experienced cook, green beans sweet porridge is a delicious treat that keeps customers coming for it again and again. This is an Eastern delicacy and can be served at any time of the day. The trick is to serve the porridge hot. Cold porridge loses a part of its exotic taste.
You can sell it at your own food and drinks stall or even at flea markets. Where you sell it does not matter. What matters is that it must be deliciously prepared. It is not that difficult to prepare green beans sweet porridge but the recipe must be right. You must learn the exact combinations of dessicated coconut milk, brown sugar , water level and amount of green beans to be mixed. Learn from an expert or you can engage the person to cook for you while you learn the trick.
Green beans sweet porridge goes well with sliced white bread. Those who frequent the stalls will ask for sliced white bread to dip into the porridge and eat. It is the perfect combination. If no one is doing this business in your area seize the opportunity and you will thank yourself for doing it.
SELLING RAIN-X
Every driver knows that it is difficult to drive in heavy rain, especially when your windscreen is foggy. In a really heavy rain, sometimes drivers simply stop by the road side due to extremely poor vision. And if your car wiper becomes inoperative even during a light rain, the inconvenience is unthinkable.
Now, you can drive in heavy rain even in the darkness of the night, without difficulty.Thanks to the newly invented Rain-X; a chemical that you rub on the windscreen of your car to make sure that water will not stick to the windscreen. In the course of a heavy downfall, water just runs off the glass with the aid of the wind blowing as you drive; the faster you drive, the faster will the water run off. You do not need to operate your wiper as you drive in heavy rain. Vision will be very clear and while others have to stop by the roadside, you can joyfully drive on.
Drivers who know and have used Rain-X will not want to drive without it. Once you introduce Rain-X to drivers, you will have an ongoing business. You can buy wholesale at 2 dollars for an 8 ounce bottle and easily retail it for 10 dollars. The profit margin is very good. If you stick to the business long enough, you will be making a steady handsome income just selling Rain-X.
ARIEL PHOTOGRAPHS OF EXCLUSIVE RESIDENTS AND LAND PROPERTY
Over ninety percent of property owners never get to view their property from the air and it would be inviting for them to see their farms and bungalows from the new vantage point. If you have a good camera and a friend who can team up with you to fly you, you can start a business taking photographs from the air. If you have a good video camera, you can take the pictures live. Once that is done you can approach those property owners and sell the photographs or CDs to them. They would not reject your offer and since there are many exclusive property around you will make a handsome profit.
Another way to do the business is make an arrangement with the property owners to give you a contract to take Aeriel photographs of their property. Ask them how they want it to be done. That way you can guarantee a sale and at a special price.
Since not many people are doing this kind of business, you can start one of your own.
WORKSHOPS FOR VEHICLE BREAKDOWNS
You might have noticed a towing truck plying up and down a highway. The truck is actually scouting around for vehicles that are stranded due to engine breakdowns.
In the event there is a vehicle breakdown, the truck will render service to tow the vehicle to the nearest workshop for repairs. Usually the tow truck belongs to the nearby workshop and thus will tow the vehicle to the very workshop. It is a good business as workshops will charge extra for the towing service and emergency repairs. Some unethical workshops may even charge double the normal price of repairs, taking advantage of the unfortunate driver. I recommend you do otherwise and only charge the normal fee with additional charges for towing.
You can set up a workshop, buy a tow truck and engage a driver to ply the highway close to your workshop. If you do the business right and fair, you will not only create an income for yourself but also do a valuable service to drivers who are unfortunately stranded on the highway due to engine breakdowns. If you are fair in your dealings, people do not mind paying a little extra for the timely help. Charge reasonably and people will take note of your workshop and come back for repairs and you would have created yourself a steady income. Word of mouth will work in your favour.
TEACHING A SECOND LANGUAGE
If you are proficient in a couple of languages, you can start a business teaching a second language. Many people would want to learn a second language for many reasons. Students want to learn in preparation for exams while people contemplating to go abroad will want to have a good knowledge of the language and want to be able to converse in the language.
There is a good demand by students and adults alike, to learn English and be proficient in the language. If you are proficient in English, you can start a home business to give tuition in the language. Do not give a shot in the dark but get a good course as your guide to systematic teaching and your students will love that. They will catch on with the language fast and your reputation will soar.
Advertise locally by inserting flyers in newspapers. You can also insert a small column in the local newspapers letting people know about your service. There are always demands for such a service.
Charge a reasonable fee either by the hour or as a one-time payment for a complete course. If you can render a good service, you are guaranteed of an ongoing business that will snowball into something big.
INLAND TOURIST GUIDE
The trend is to be an urban tourist and show around places of interest in the city which normally include historical places and remnants of colonial rule. However we seldom hear of guides that deviate from the normal and take tourists to places of the interior and introduce tourists to the real local culture where they can see first hand how people of the land really live, how they dress in their traditional community and what they eat daily and have been eating for hundreds of years since. It would be interesting for tourists to sample the life of the indigenous inhabitants of the land; staying in their huts, dress like them and eat their food. Tourists can also try their hands at craft making, join in the hunt and fishing, and work with the natives in the fields and join them in the dances and games. That will give them a fulfilling experience they will never forget. That is actually what most tourists look forward to beyond the confines of the urban attractions.
If you are an adventurer and know the interior well, you can start a tourist guide agency of a special kind; specializing in inland tours and home stay. There is a big demand for this kind of service and you will be swarmed with bookings if you advertise right.
RIVER HOUSEBOATS
This is a good business to start if you are living close to a river that is broad and deep enough and runs through the town or city into the sea. You can create one of the best attractions for tourists and locals alike, to spend their leisure hours joyfully.
Start a river houseboat business in the area. Build a houseboat of reasonable size that can take in at least 40 adult passengers. Have a built-in restaurant where passengers can eat and enjoy themselves while the boat travel up and down the river.
You will have a double income here; one from charges for the boat ride and the other for the food served at the restaurant. Buy a good second hand boat and make the necessary alterations conforming to the design of your houseboat. Paint the boat and make it look extraordinary.
I am sure apart from the tourists, local parents will want to entertain their family to a lunch or dinner in the houseboat. The children will love that. One important point to remember is to take precautions to ensure the safety of your passengers.
START A BLACKSMITH SHOP
Blacksmiths have been in existence since the discovery of metal and fire. In the old days, apart from producing tools for farming, blacksmiths were busy producing all kinds of swords, spears and such weapons of war for the army of the king. Individuals also fashion their weapons at the blacksmiths. Producing weapons of steel was a laborious job in those days as the fireplace will have to be taken care of manually and fires burning continuously.
Nowadays modern technology has replaced the old blacksmiths fireplace. It is easier to soften iron and mould into whatever shapes that are required. Swords and farming tools are still required and are in demand. The blacksmith’s business is still alive though not many people are seen involved in it. That would be good for you if you opt to start the business.
PROVIDING PLOUGHING SERVICE TO FARMERS
If you happen to live in an area where farming is done on a large scale, you can start a business renting your ploughing machine to farmers during the preplanting season. Alternatively, you can engage a worker to do the ploughing job for you while you make arrangement with farmers to plough their fields for a fee. Since it would make their jobs much easier, farmers will not hesitate to engage your services provided the charges are reasonable. That you can find out from discussions with farmers.
You can start with a farmer or two but soon your services will be required by most farmers. If you can invest in a harvesting machine, you will have yourself another related job during the harvesting season. That double income is worth considering
BE A VERSATILE LOCKSMITH
Normally a locksmith sets up a stall at the corner of a shop house and starts operating, selling locks and keys of different designs and sizes to customers who visit his stall. This is a stationery locksmith who waits for customers to patronize his business. The idea of a versatile locksmith is rather new. You can set up a stall and have an assistant to take care of the stall while at the same time you can act as a mobile locksmith, operating on the spot where you are needed. For this you need to advertise and distribute a lot of business calling cards to inform people of your services.
Every day dozens of people get locked out of their homes or cars and they need a locksmith to solve their problem. To be locked out of your own home or car is very embarrassing and inconvenient. Due to faulty door locks, a person can be locked in his own bathroom. This is even more embarrassing and can cause panic. People who face problems of this kind are prepared to pay a good price for a locksmith to get their problem solved. You solve their problems and you have a good income waiting.
Distribute tiny little stickers that have your name and phone number on them and have people put these stickers on the top part of the drivers’ side window or on the inside of their windshield.
CATERING FOR OTHER PEOPLE’S PARTIES
If you are a good cook and have tested recipes, you can make a good income by catering for other people’s parties. The secret to this kind of business is in the cooking. You will have to create a reputation by cooking food of super delicious standards. This will create lots of word-of mouth customers and soon the whole town will be buzzing with your reputation and orders will flow in to the extent that you will not be able to handle them unless you expand the business and employ assistants. However, do not make the mistakes many others make. When you have established a reputation for your cooking, people definitely look forward to your personal cooking. Do not make the mistake by delegating others to do the cooking.
Under whatever circumstances, you must always do the cooking yourself if you want your customer stream to flow in your favour. If you delegate others to do the cooking, you will run the risk of experiencing a dwindling customer flow. You can get assistants to do the necessary preparations and also for serving but when it comes to the cooking proper, make sure you do it yourself. That is the only way to do this business well. For additional incomes, you can rent tables and chairs and even tents to the host.
STEAMING AND REDYEING CARPETS
Carpets are replaced not necessarily because of wear and tear but also for many other reasons. You can help business and individuals save a lot of money by offering to steam clean and redye their carpets. This is a good business and involved a simple process if you have the necessary equipments. You can buy a steam cleaning equipment and dye applicator and start marketing your business in the yellow pages as well as the newspapers. Set up an office and let people know the business you are in. Do not forget to show your potential customers how much savings they will make by employing your services.
It is possible to dye 2000 square feet of carpet a day. An average room may take only a few hours to complete; steam clean and dye and retails for $100, most of it for labour and profits. Once the business is set up and, assuming you can do a professional job, do vigorous marketing and you will be surprised to find out that there are more business than you may have made it out to be.
Hotels, landlords and individuals are all your potential customers. The trick is, apart from rendering professional service, make sure you let customers know how much they will save by engaging your services.
SELLING DATING IDEAS TO YOUNG MEN.
Most of the young men dating for the first time will just emulate the standard stereotyped approach to dating. It is all dinner and a movie and then home. This stereotyped approach is already dull but maybe excusable for the first date but done repeatedly it becomes a big bore. When at a loss for ideas, the man usually fumbles and does things that make him look like a silly novice. It will take away much of the macho in the man. Sometimes it makes the girl wonder how in the world has she landed with this immature kid.
Under the circumstances, you will do these novice lovers a big favour if you can write a small book of ideas on how to make dating interesting. Expose that for the first date it is alright to go to the movies and dinner but there are other ways to make dating interesting to both parties. For example a boat ride to a nearby island and walk on the sandy beach in casual dress while eating ice-cream is definitely a departure from the ordinary and would be memorable and interesting. A weekend fishing trip is another. There are as many ideas available as you care to think and imagine. Write the book and sell. It would sell like hot cakes and there is a lot of money there.
REASSEMBLING KNOCKED-DOWN FURNITURE
There are importers who import exotically carved wooden furniture from Indonesia as knocked-down products. By importing on a knocked down basis, a lot of import taxes are waived and the products can be imported cheap as knocked-down furniture requires very much less container space than assembled ones. Transport costs can be considerably cut down.
Once they are imported into the country, they require reassembling before they are sold to customers at a higher price, sometimes four times the capital cost. If you have the skill of assembling or can engage people who can assemble knocked-down furniture, you can start a business in that direction. Buy the furniture cheap. Then you need to assemble the parts, smoothen the surface with sand paper and apply varnish and shellac to make it look expensive. Your also need to reupholster the the chairs with the color tradition of the Indonesian and you will have yourself a perfect set of furniture that will fetch over a $2000 each. There is money in this and it is definitely worth exploring the possibilities.
REFINISHING WOODEN TABLES AND CHAIRS
There is a lot of wooden tables and chairs being sold cheap at a yard sale. You can get them for $10 for each table that has been painted or with fading varnish. Then buy the modern and fantastic refinishing chemicals and you can straightaway get to work refinishing the tables at the rate of one table per one afternoon. And sell the refinish table for ten times its cost.
There is a very big difference between a table that has been painted and one that is refinished with new varnish and shellac. A painted table is ugly but one that has its paint completely removed and has been refinished will reveal the beautiful original mahogany, oak or walnut underneath. Suddenly refinished tables become desirable and will fetch a high price.
You can do the same with chairs too and whatever that is made of wood for that matter.
BUILDING A WELL EQUIPPED SEMINAR HALL
Seminars of different kinds are being held in almost every town and thus the need for seminar halls. At present the trend is to book hotel seminar halls in a package with the food and rooms that go in package. This is expensive. If the hall alone is required, the charges for the hall is high. As such only big organizations can afford to cruise on the charges and the small ones will have to sidestep the expensive arrangement. Since the hotels are the only options, small organizations will have to hold their seminars in small hotels on a shoe string budget.
Judging by the number of seminars held per year, you can start building a special seminar hall fully equipped with wide screen, video projectors and lap top for rent.
Since you are not operating a hotel, you can charge a low rental for the hall. This will attract all kinds of organizations that are looking to save unnecessary expenditures. For extra incomes you can offer to provide food at moderate prices well below those charged by hotels. If you are the first in your locality to start this business, you will prosper. Think about it.
HOSTING A COMPETITION WITH VOTING BY SMS
Think of something that can go on television and excite a big audience, maybe a folksong competition. Hold it once a week, covering the preliminary rounds, moving into the quarter finals, the semi finals and the finals. Have many preliminary rounds before you go to the quarter finals. Elimination is done through SMS counts (This is where you make the money). After deducting for prizes and a paraphernalia of other expenses, and sharing the income with the media,you may still find yourself a substantial profit of a few hundred thousand dollars per show season.
To embark on this project, you will have to make prior arrangement with the television company to put your program on show and then make arrangement with cellular phone companies regarding the percentage of income from SMS. Once that is ready, approach a few known folk singers and musicians to act as judges and chief judge for the competition. Discuss and finalise payment for their services. You will also need a good compere to steer the course of the competition on stage. Once that is set, advertise in the newspapers. The television company you will be working with will readily advertise too. If you do this properly, you will be in for a shock when you end up with a lot of money after the show. It is not difficult but involves some serious work on our part.
A MACHINE SHOP FOR METAL WORKING
This is a good business opportunity. Set up a shop and buy metal working machineries that can cut and mould steel into various designs. Most of your business will come from vehicle workshops that need replacement parts for vehicles. Not all vehicles replace their engine parts with the original. Even Mercedes Benz can use cloned parts especially those that has nothing to do with the engine block or pistons, rings and valves. For most vehicles, there are many parts that can be replaced by cloned creations. When you are in the industry, you will know this.
Workshop operators will always approach machine shop operators to get these cloned parts. With the advancement in technology, you don’t have to be surprised to know how perfect the cloning can be done. Digital technology is fantastic.
If you laise with enough vehicle workshops you will have a lot of work on your hands. And you can never know what other organizations will enlist your services if you really have up-to-date metal working digital machinery’s. Be the first in your area to start one.
ROCK CLIMBING FACILITY
Rock climbing has become a popular sports activity. For that you need to build a structure about 20 to 30 feet high to simulate a man-made mountain with various hands and footholds. Anyone who desires to climb the facility as a sport will have to wear a safety harness. He will be suspended from a rope which passes through a pulley in the ceiling and controlled from the ground. As he climbs the rope is drawn in such a way that should he slip and fall, he will only dangle from the rope, after which he will then be lowered to the ground for another attempt. He can try to reach the top for as many times as he cares to attempt. He is charged by the hour at the rate of $10 per half hour. You can easily make $100 for a 5 hour session as there will be many youths who would like to try their climbing skills.
Alternatively, you can invite participants to a rock climbing competition and offer cash prizes. Each participant will have only one chance to attempt and the time to reach the top is recorded. The fastest wins the prize. You will find many youths joining in for the fun of the competition and also for the cash reward. You make money by charging an entrance fee.
REBUILDING CARBURETTORS
If you are familiar with car engines, you will know that car carburetors can be built by replacing certain parts and fixing them. Carburettors that have been used for many years can be renewed and made to perform like new again. There is no need to discard these carburetors and replace them with new ones. If you start a business renewing worn out carburetors you will save car owners the money for buying new carburetors which will be costly. You can sell the rebuilt carburetors for half the price of a new one and make money. Both you and the car owner will end up on the winning end.
Set up an office and advertise your services. You can also insert an advertisement in the newspapers and distribute flyers to car owners. If you could and have done a few good jobs, word-of-mouth advertisements will work in your favour and you will have more work than you anticipate.
RENTING MOSQUITO MAGNETS FOR EVENING AND NIGHT OPEN AIR PARTIES
You can easily buy a couple of mosquito magnets that draws mosquitoes to the instruments instead of to people in the vicinity. These mosquito magnets emit a smell that simulate that of human beings. The smell will draw the mosquitoes towards the instrument and when they are close enough, these mosquitoes will be sucked into a tank. As much as 20,000 to 30,000 can be sucked in leaving the area free of mosquitoes.
You can rent your mosquito magnets to groups that have garden parties in the evening or at night where there are plenty of mosquitoes that will disrupt the parties. Charge a reasonable rental and customers will thank you for the service.
People who live in mosquito infested areas may approach you to buy the mosquito magnets. You can arrange to sell them the product and make an extra income.
PHOTOCOPY PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE
Usually photocopy shops wait for customers to come to do the photocopying for them irrespective of whether the customers want to duplicate one single copy or a set of 100 copies and more. This requires the customer to drive to the shop, and that involves time and transport costs. If the amount to be duplicated runs into hundreds of copies, customers will be required to wait for the service to be ready. Should the customer leaves the job to be done and then collect at a later time, more time and transport cost is involved, and everybody knows that time is a valuable commodity.You can start a photocopy service of a different kind??pick up and deliver service.
For customers that require more than a hundred copies to be duplicated, you can arrange to pick up the master copy, do the duplicating and then deliver the duplicated materials to the customers. You can calculate and add in charges for delivery and come up with a slightly higher charge per copy. Customers will not mind the extra charge since it would still be cheaper than if they are to go to the shop personally. Time cost would be erased and so will the extra travel inconvenience and the waiting.
TAKING CHARGE OF PETS
Nowadays almost everybody has at least a pet animal, either a cat or a dog. People with a soft spot for animals will not leave their pets alone whenever they want to go on a holiday. They will have difficulty feeding the animals while they are away. They may try to leave some food behind but there is no telling what may transpire. Many are worried to death to leave the animals for a long spell of time and will look around for facilities that would take care of the animals while they are away.
If you are a pet lover yourself and find great affinity for animals, you can start a pet care centre. You can advertise through the newspaper or send flyers to residents in your vicinity telling them of your service. That would provide a great relief for people who want to leave their pets when they are away for a holiday . Charge a reasonable fee, taking into account the food to be provided and the duration of the service. Handle the animals professionally and you will not find yourself without clients.
SELLING CHILDREN’S CLOTHES
The baby boom and changing trends in children’s wear have given rise to a lucrative business selling baby clothes. You can go into this business and make a good income.
Find out about the latest in baby’s fashion wear and deal along those lines, apart from dealing in ordinary everyday wear for babies and small children.
There is a lot of money there because parents really go all out to shower their affection on babies and also to accommodate the whims of their small boys and girls.
Apart from mothers and fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers also have a special kind of affection towards their grandchildren. They will also be looking for clothes to buy for their grandchildren. That adds to the customer pool.
Children grow very fast and outgrow their clothes just as fast. You can offer to buy used babies clothes and resell them. That would be an extra income for you.
MODEL MAKING
If you have a flair at model making and can make good models of various kinds, you have architects, engineers and developers as your clients. These people deal in businesses that require them to demonstrate in three dimensions the products they are designing. They require good models of buildings, rooms, trees and landscape for this. They will appreciate your services and will be your regular customers should you be able to come up with the type of models that they require.
These people realize that drawings and photographs of the intending finished product is not giving the impact they desire anymore. House buyers especially wants to have a good idea of what they are buying. Models do the trick here.
Sometimes models are required to simulate a whole township on the table. Plenty of models are required here and would provide you with a good business. There is money for you if you can really create good models as required by these architects, engineers and developers.
COLLECTING ROCKS FOR AQUARIUMS
This business does not require any special skills. Anyone can do it. Gathering various specimens of rocks and stones for use in aquariums is interesting. You may not have realized that there are many kinds of rocks and stones out there that have taken interesting shapes and sizes due to erosion by weather and wind. In the rivers with fast flowing waters, you will find even more interesting rocks and stones of various sizes and species. These stone will greatly enhance the attractiveness of aquariums and would provide an interesting environment for the fish to swim by and hide. Using these stones, corals and sand, you can simulate an ocean bed in a reasonably sized aquarium.
You can collect these stones and rocks and sell them to commercial as well as home aquariums and collect a good income. You can cultivate this as a hobby to earn a good partime income. As you move on and many commercial aquariums get to know what you are doing, you may find your hobby develop into a lucrative business. Do not hesitate and go for it.
OPERATE A POOL SALOON
There is a good demand for good pool tables especially by young budding pool players. You can start operating a pool saloon if you can rent an area where you can place at least two pool tables comfortably. Space in a shopping complex is most suitable for this purpose. It would be good if you yourself is a pool player and know the rules of the game of pool in and out.
Start renting the tables by the hour. You do not have to attend to the pool table because all pool players know the rules of the game and can take care of the score themselves.
To keep the tables busy, promote a competition with cash prizes. Charge an entrance fee for the competition and get some big companies to sponsor prizes. You will attract many pool players and make money in the process. To operate this business, you need a license from the authorities and buy two good pool tables. It would be easy to advertise if you operate in a shopping complex.
PARK AND RIDE
In certain countries, there are restrictions for vehicles to enter the city with only one passenger during peak hours of 7.00 am to 6.00 pm. This is to avoid an intolerable traffic jam in the city. You need a full car load to qualify. A lot of people on the way to work have to pass through the city and with ordinary commuters also going to the city, the roads will be completely jammed and traveling will be at a snail’s pace.
Once in the city, then there is the problem of finding a parking space. All this adds to a high cost of commuting apart from all the attendant inconveniences involved if one is to drive into the city in his own car.
You can start a badly needed service to help solve part of the problem. Find an open space outside the city and operate a parking area. You will need also a medium-sized van with an efficient driver to complete the scenario. People need not drive into the city. They drive up to your parking area, park their cars and from there they take a ride to the city in your van. Your van will also take them back to the their cars once they have finished whatever they need to do in the city. Customers only pay for the parking and the ride to and from the city. You will make a good income this way and in the process help to ease the traffic jams and eradicate the inconveniences of driving and finding parking spaces in the city.
OPERATE A MODELLING SCHOOL
With so many beautiful and versatile ladies around who want to go into the limelight, there is no reason why you cannot operate a modeling school. This business becomes even the more viable if you can team up with a professional model trainer and if you have wide and close contacts with advertising agencies that need models for their advertising slots. If you go into this business then, you will not only make money but you may run into a big contract with established advertising agency.
While your professional partner trains the ladies, you do the liaison work and scout around for talents. Charge an entry and monthly fee to be trained at your school and collect a commission for every model that is hired for advertisement. You will find this business a very interesting and fulfilling enterprise. Apart from making money, you will get to know the big guns of the film industry and big business corporations that hire models for advertising.
GOLDEN AGE EXCELLENCE ORGANIZATION
If you have excellent organizing abilities and know a lot of ‘big guns’ in society you can start an organization for people of the golden age and harness individual capabilities to serve the public. Make it a non-profit organization that can solicit private and public donations for its operations. Arrange for government grants in areas of the possible. As an organizer, create yourself a job as manager of the organization with a steady handsome salary and you are guaranteed of a good income.
Go about it legally by consulting lawyers on the legal aspects of the organization.
Since most people who are retired will not be active, you can take the reins and do all the planning and organizing; of course through consultations with the organization’s committee. If you are successful in convincing ex-top executives to join the organization, the organization will grow and you will not only earn a good salary, but will be able to establish your name as a charity organizer. Who knows, you might even receive a medal for your services.
HOME TUTORING
With education as it is and classrooms crowded, it is rather difficult for the average student to excel in his studies. For one reason, it is because teaching can only be done on the ?skim the surface’ basis with no special emphasis on driving home the salient points to each and everybody. It is simply not possible to do due to time restrictions and the race to complete the study syllabus. Bright students may catch up, the average a little and the mediocre left stranded.
Parents are becoming more aware of this scenario and many are worried about their children not making the grade expected. Parents will have to do something positive immediately. Now the trend is to look for qualified good teachers to tutor the children at home. Parents are not fussy about tuition fees as long as the tutors deliver the goods.
You can start home tutoring if you have the capabilities. The demand for the service is excellent and the payment satisfying. You can tutor each student for 90 minutes a day at the rate of $ 30 for twice a week per subject. If you work 6 hours a day and 6 days a week, you can easily tutor 10 students. That is a small number and will not be difficult to find especially soon as your reputation is tops. You can collect a cool $300 a week and that is good income while doing a good service to students and parents alike.
SELLING R.O.DRINKING WATER
For this business you only need to buy a few drinking water dispensing machines and place them at strategic places where a lot of people visit. Some of the suitable places you can opt for are bookshops where many people visit to conduct all kinds of transactions. The water dispensing machines are self serviced machines and customers can opt to buy the amount of water they need from 1 litre to 1 gallon just by insert coins in the coins insertion opening. Customers bring along their own plastic bottles. You can also arrange to sell plastic bottles in the event the customers need them. That would be an additional income.
On your part, you will only have to pay frequent visits to these water dispensing machines to see that they are working perfectly and take care of any breakdowns should that happen to occur. Otherwise, there is nothing much to do. I know of a number of people who cut themselves a steady good income doing this business.
HOME FOR ELDERLY BOARDERS
I happen to know of many people who have passed the age of sixty finding it difficult to stay with their married children under the same roof. The generation gap and different cultural tastes have always become a problem. Most of these people who are rather wealthy prefer to live away from their children who incidentally have their own family to take care of. It has become a truism that the main and the extended family cannot live like a hand in glove. In some cases, the artificial relationship is killing. Thus many residents of the golden age look elsewhere to spend their dwindling years in style and saviour the last nectar of the gift of life.
If you can bring yourself to be of service to the veterans of life and provide an interesting and fulfilling life for these people, you can start a home for elderly boarders. You can charge $1000 a month, inclusive of food and if you advertise your services, you will find enough people who will take your offer and maybe more than you expect. Be creative and think up activities that run parallel to their tastes. In fact you can consult them and work along those lines. If you are courteous, sincere and professional, more elderly boarders will join you.
BE A PROFESSINAL PHOTOGRAPHER
If your hobby is photography, you can upgrade your skills by enrolling into one of the professional photography course in town. Then with a good camera and armed with new knowledge on photography,you can create yourself a steady income by operating as a mobile photographer.
Visit zoos and bird park and places of interest where people go especially on weekends. Introduce yourself by distributing business cards to visitors to these places and offer to take their pictures or pictures of their children. Most people would be willing to oblige especially when they do not bring their own camera along.
You can either collect payments in advance and sent the photographs later or invite the clients to collect the photographs at your shop. Let the clients make their own decisions. But whatever it is, make sure you record the names and addresses of your clients.
Do not confine your operations to the weekends only. Find out when and where a wedding is to take place. Make arrangements with the host to allow you to take photographs of the occasion. You develop the photographs and sell them to the host. If you can bring along a video camera so much the better. You can record the wedding and sell CDs to the host and others present especially those who request their presence to be recorded on video.
START A MINI PROVISIONS SHOP
You can reserve the front portion of your house to start a mini provisions shop. Start small and keep growing, Start by selling rice, sugar, flour, cooking oil, tea dust, coffee dust and the daily necessities which may include mosquito coils, biscuits and bottled drinks. I feel the list is good enough for a start. Of course you can add to the list as your business picks up.
The secret to success is to be always on the look out for newcomers to the vicinity. These people have not yet built any loyalty to any specific place to get their daily supplies. Be the first to get to know these people and offer them a ‘welcome wagon’.
Offer to take their orders and deliver the orders to their front door. Offer them some gift items and special introductory discounts to make them really know you and establish customer loyalty to you.
Establish rapport with them and visit their houses. Do not forget to bring along a welcoming gift. Since they have not known anybody yet, you will have an edge over the others. If you work along this line and provide good service to your clients, there is no reason why you cannot be successful in this venture.
START AN EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE ACADEMIC INSTITUTION
There may be a number of private institutions already in the vicinity. Never mind that because you are not going to emulate them. You must start a private institution of a different kind — a specialist private institution specializing in the teaching of languages, science and mathematics only. By and large, students are not proficient in these three subjects of which they must excel to be in the top elite group.
Set an entry requirement to show that you mean business and thus pass on the confidence to parents. Set a high standard of discipline and let this be known in the prospectus and in your discussions with parents.
Employ experienced and specialist facilitators either from graduates or ex-educationists. For a start, don’t go for quantity but emphasise on quality. You may start with only three facilitators specialized in their different fields. Make sure you deliver the goods as promised. Make sure you walk your talk and you will have no difficulty getting students and charging a high fee for learning at your institution.
HOLD MOTIVATIONAL SEMINARS ON EDUCATION
If you plan it right and the timing is also right, you can hold a series of seminars a year and that will earn you an income good enough for a year. Target participants who are interested in being motivated in MLM, Online Business, Sales People and the like.
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Sincerely,
Bryan
www.profitmart101.com
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