Business Equipment. Buy surplus equipment from bankruptcy sales and auctions. Store
and clean-up, but do not repair, let buyer do that. Advertise bargain prices for
qualified buyers and sell at double or triple of your
investment.
Beauty Salon Business. A basic beauty salon can be started with
light to moderate capitalization. More full service beauty salons and day spas
may require more capital to get started. The amount of capital needed to start a
salon or spa business will vary depending on the type of services you offer, the
salon and spa equipment required, the basic fixtures and administrative
equipment required, the opening inventory of products you offer, and deposits
for rent and utilities.
Collection Agent. Represent one or more commercial agencies. Solicit delinquent
accounts for collection from local businesses for a percentage of monies the
agencies collect.
Coin Searching. Buy rolls of coins from banks, whatever denomination you can
afford. Search through them for coins worth over face value. Keep all of these
and replace with regular coins and trade back in.
Collections. Accumulate collectibles (glass,
matchbox, baseball cards, comic books). Make up from common specimens, start
collections to sell to beginners. Sell valuable pieces individually to
collectors.
Concession Booth. Operate a booth or stand at a recreation
area, flea market, shopping mall or parking lot. Sell your own products and/or
consignment items. Carry some attractively priced items just to attract more
customers.
Distress Sales. Buy household items cheap at auctions and
close-out sales. Clean them up and sell as your own right out of your living
room because you need the money, and never because you have new or better
things.
Flyer Distribution. Hire kids or adults to distribute ads,
samples, coupons, announcements door-to-door or on parked car windows. Charge
extra to record occupant reactions. Contract with individual businesses and
advertising agencies.
Client Listings. On your computer, input and maintain customer
or business information: customer information, purchases, credit records,
employee information, etc. Provide periodic and custom sorts including mailing
lists to clients.
Library Research. Use your talent and the public library to
provide research data, technical details and background information for clients
who need their 'homework' done. Charge by the hour, page or a flat fee for your
time and effort.
Pen Pal Service. Advertise in both home and overseas
publications for correspondees. Charge for addresses or for a subscription to
your club news with paid advertisements placed by those seeking Penpals. Sell
names to mailing list brokers.
Hanging Plants. Specialize in hanging plants (flowers, ferns,
vines) of all sizes and descriptions. Display for sale when in peak condition in
attractive pots with interesting holders and hangers. Advertise that you take in
trades.
House Cleaning. Offer one-time or periodic house cleaning
services. Perform the heavy tasks (shampoo rugs, clean stoves, wash windows, wax
the floors, defrost). Have a check-list of jobs to be done and agree on price
beforehand.
Home Handyman. Perform handyman services for those who can not or do
not have the time. Advertise clearly what you do, keep your appointments and
guarantee your work to the extent of your hourly wages. Save customers expensive
service calls.
Miniature Gardens. Create various sizes of garden-like display
containers of live plants for hospital sick rooms, boxes for balconies, rooftop
planters, offices and residences. Include instructions for care to make your
products last.
Property Portpolios. Prepare photograph and property description
folders. Make up folios for private parties to make sure their property is shown
in the best possible light, and for real estate companies to use in sales
presentations.
Promotions. Organise community and commercial promotions: order
bumper stickers, posters; arrange for news releases, interviews, photo sessions.
Plan agenda, schedule workers, coordinate events for a fee or percentage of
profits.
Surplus Sales. Buy
bargain priced items at auctions and sales. Store neatly in a secure area,
advertise to find buyers who need and will pay for them. Open your warehouse one
or two days a week or sell large items by appointment.
Baby-Sitting
Service. Baby-sitting is a tried and true way for any responsible teenager
to make money. Any community that has families with small children needs
baby-sitters. However, it is extremely hard to find trustworthy and reliable
baby-sitters who are available on a regular basis. Your business would provide
in-home baby-sitting services.
Word Processing. Produce interim
drafts and finished professional letters, manuscripts and documents for
students, lawyers, writers and businesses. Make provision for client editing and
subsequent re-writing, as a part of your service.
Magazine
Subscriptions. Sell a variety of magazine subscriptions from your
home-office. Use gimmicky ads, give credit for leads and prizes for multiple
sales. Do lots of telephone canvassing. Have a special attention every
time you call a customer.
Compiling Mailing Lists. Compile mailing lists from various local and
wider area sources - buy voting registration lists, check on buying tax and
license lists. Sell names to brokers or keep current and rent them yourself on
self stick labels.
Would you
like to start Home Based Business and make money from home?
First-time entrepreneurs often find it easy to start a business from home
and grow it into a full-time venture complete with an outside facility or
office. Starting a business from home is a good way to test the entrepreneurial
waters while saving lots of money on overhead such as rent, utilities, insurance
and more. Work from Home Business is booming. More and more people are
starting home business every week from their homes. These range from small
part-time micro-business ventures to franchises. Local governments are easing up
on the stipulations that have prevented many living in residential areas from
running an enterprise from home. Are you ready to join the
boom?
