Instant Moneymaking Part-Time Businesses
Instant Moneymaking Part-Time Businesses
Introduction
You're
on the road to success - Congratulations! You bought this report
because you want information on starting a business, part-time at
first, without investing a lot of money, yet one that will quickly be a
money-maker. You'll find a number of
them here.
In each one
we give the basic concept of the business, what product or service it
provides to your customers, and how it is operated, and (if any are
necessary) what equipment or facilities or help will be needed.
But
whatever business you choose, remember that no business can succeed
without your effort. remember that determination and hard work are the
mother and father of success. If you supply those, and use the
information we supply, you can't miss. Good luck!
1. Television Computer Pictures
Lease
a computer printer and a video camera and a monitor screen that
produces large-size, high contrast portraits of customers in 30
seconds, while they wait. You will find this a sure-fire crowd
attracter, as the printer chatters away. Set upin a crowded resort are.
Charge at least $4 a picture, framed in a simple mat, almost all of
which is gross profit. Net cost of all materials, about 8 cents.
Hot source: The equipment to do this is available from
Sketch Division, 140 Wood Road, Braintree, Mass. 02184
2. Badge-Making
Rent
a small multilith printing machine and a badge sealing machine, and
using self-adhesive Presstype for typesetting, design and set cut
sayings for the badges. Sell as a custom service, making slogans to
order, or make a wide range of far-out sayings in bulk quantities and
sell them to local gift and novelty shops for resale.
3. Run a "Consignment Shop"
It
requires very little capital and accepts goods for sale from members of
the public and sells these items for them on a commission basis. You
might try a wide variety of items at first, to see what sells best and
most regularly.
4. Picture Framing, In Your Own Home
Relatively
inexpensive materials with a good sense of color and style and a
reasonable ability with carpentry tools, will build a large
custom-framing business, since people who spend money on art won't
skimp on the frames either, if they want a good-looking result.
5. Rental Equipment
Be
the source of supplies for do-it-yourselfers. Working only Saturdays
and Sundays, when they do, you rent out power tools, such as circular
saws, jigsaws, reciprocating saws, gasoline chain saws, electric
drills, electric planers, belt and orbital sanders, routers, paint
sprayers, wallpaper-removal steamers, staple guns, pumps, home cleaning
machines, Roto-tillers, and other equipment for daily fees. Operate out
of your garage.
6. Talent Bureau, For Kid's or Adults' Parties
Using
local ads, or your own contacts, line up 10 to 20 local entertainers,
magicians, comics, puppeteers and other talents, and supply them for
parties, club meetings and other functions. Have a list of films you
can also supply for the same, or other groups, which they can project
themselves, if they wish, or you will supply an operator.
7. Throwing Parties for Profit
Everyone
loves to go to a party, and nowadays some smart operators make a mint
running them for everybody who wants to attend. You can too! Hire a
hall and a band, plan to set up a bar (if you can get a temporary
liquor permit), and promote the hell out of it with ads, handbills,
bumper stickers and lamp-post posters. Special parties aimed at a
particular group do best, such as singles, or under-thirties, or
over-forties. This idea is especially good in college towns.
8. Start a Hobby Center
Make
money on your unused space (and maybe the power tools you've already
paid for!) Turn your basement into a woodworking center, your spare
bedroom into a photo darkroom, and your garage into a pottery workshop
with a wheel and a small kiln. Rent the space and equipment by the
hour, expand into more hobbies as time and money permit, and charge
additional fees for instruction in any of those fields you're good at.
9. Organize a Babysitting Service
One
of the troubles most people find is that their babysitter is always
busy just the night they want to go out. You set up a service, finding
good reliable teenage girls and boys, middle-aged or older women, and
act as a go-between, providing sitters whenever your customers want
them, collecting the fees, and paying the sitters. Advertise your
service, and handbills house-to-house locally being a good way.
10. Make Money From Your Hobbies
Are
you an expert at something that you do at home for fun? Then make it
pay off for you! If you're a gourmet cook, give cooking lessons in the
haut cuisine. If you're an accomplished painter in oils or water-color,
offer a portrait-painting service. If you're a skilled carpenter,
design and make custom cabinets to order. Almost any hobby you're good
at can be turned to making a profit if you think about it carefully,
and decide who could use your expertise - as a consultant in that
field, if nothing else. All you really have to do to get started is to place an ad!
11. Publish a Buy/Swap Paper in Your Town
Get
money from both ends in this sweetheart deal. Publish the weekly paper
with classified ads from the public offering stuff for sale, arranged
according to category, and charge the people for their ads (some
operators let them pay only if and when they sell, but in that case
charge them a percentage of the selling price, 5% for smaller items,
2% or 3% for automobiles), and then sell the newspaper (suggest price
is 25 cents) as well, through local newsstands and by subscription (in
the mail). Once you have a fairly decent circulation, local merchants
will also pay you for display ads, because they know people really read
buy and swap newspapers religiously cover-to-cover.
12. Do Custom Photo Developing
Quality
is essential, and speed is generally also required, although you can
charge a premium for rush service. If you already have an elaborate
dark-room set-up in your home, so much the better, but if not it can be
fitted in anywhere you have room, the basement being ideal, since
windows are not a requirement. You must be able not only to develop and
print every normal size of film from 35 mm to 8" x 10" but handle
enlargements up to a minimum of 30" x 40", and preferably 5" 8*" or
more, and do copying both of opaque material and slides. An ability to
offer retouching, restoration and coloring as well is helpful, even if
you have to send that specialized work out.
13. Publish a Part-Time Jobs Directory
Make
this a newsstand book, as well as offering it, with small ads, by mail
order. List all the possible jobs people can get part-time, especially
angling it at college kids on vacation, teachers after school hours,
housewives with time on their hands, and moonlighters looking for part-time second jobs.
14. Run a Children's "Explorer Club"
Take
kids on Saturday and Sunday outings. Ten kids each day, to zoos, farms,
theaters, children's shows and sports events. A small micro-bus (rented
and, or eventually bought) can be used to travel in. Many parents are
delighted to have weekend days to themselves, even though it costs them
some dough.
15. Be an Instructor
Teach
whatever you know. Your trade, profession, cooking skills, a second
language, woodworking, chess, photography, knitting, karate, bridge,
auto repair, etc. People will pay for good lessons in these useful and
enjoyable skills.
16. Run a Floor Scraping/Polishing Service
You
buy or (at first) rent, a heavy-duty machine, and do the cleaning and
waxing of fine, hardwood floors. If the floors are in very bad
condition, machine sand them and them completely refinish them with
modern super-durable polyurethane finishes.
17. Operate a Children's Hotel
This
is sort of a "boarding house" for kids while their parent go away for a
week-end or two-week vacation. Requires a large house, and preferably,
a large yard or grounds, swings, slides, and facilities useful for
kids. Must be done very responsibly and carefully. Also, don't take
very young children (less than 9 or 10 say) because they may require
too much dressing, feeding, etc.
18. Start a Mail-Order Business
Write
a booklet about something people really want to know about, print a few
hundred copies, and place some small ads. You'd be surprised how much
money you can make. Sell modern copies of out-of-print uncopyrighted
material or books. Or sell something unusual you make at home,
providing that it is something really useful to your prospective
customers. Or sell some of your ideas such as #2 badges, #37 genealogy,
and others.
19. Operate a Xerox Copy Center
The
secret of this is not just selling one or two copies of each original
(although on a 300-page original manuscript, that can add up too), but
using one of the latest high-speed high-quality mass-production Xeroxes
so that you can compete with the guys operating those quick printing
services, by turning out 100 or 200 resumes, letters, or circulars
just as fast, and probably a great deal faster, for the same (or
potentially less if you want to be competitive) money as they charge.
This way you have two kinds of work, giving you twice as many
customers, and twice the profit opportunity, and with the right
location, a chance to clean up.
If you want to offer even more
services, and have the space in your shop, as well as the potential
customers, you can offer Xerox reductions (New York Times-size page
down to 8-1/2"x11"), and Xerox copies in full-color, which are
remarkably good. The color machine will also make color copies directly
from 35 mm. color slides in one quick step.
Of course, you
can consider using other brands of xerographic copiers, such as IBM,
Kodak, Savin, Canon, Minolta or others, but although you may
theoretically save money, make sure of their service policies, and that
they have field servicemen in your locality, or you may find yourself
stuck with a copier on the fritz for a week, which could ruin your business.
20. Be a Local News Correspondent
For
big city papers some distance from your town. When an event occurs in
your area you write the story for those papers (they have
correspondents in many big places but not in most small towns or
isolated areas) and they pay you for it. This is known as being a
"stringer". If you're good with a camera, take photos to accompany the story.
21. Campground Store-On-Wheels
Use
either a panel truck or a camper body on a pick-up truck chassis. Go to
public park areas and campgrounds selling charcoal, paper plates,
water-melon, ice cream, eggs, milk, bread, insect repellent,
sunglasses, newspapers, etc.
22. Create a New Tour-Bus Service
Even
in affluent America, not everyone has a car, and even those who do
often prefer to leave long trips to a professional bus driver. and
although there are bus tours offered to some familiar places, there are
still so many interesting, even exciting, places people would like
to go to, if they were offered the chance. Here's where you come in.
You must be creative about it, and study all the six-State areas around
your hometown, to discover some original and different places to travel
to on day trips which will "turn on" your prospective customers, and get them to sign up.
The
rest is easy. You get competitive quotes (from commercial bus
companies) for a quality bus to do the round-trip, with a suitable
stopover at the destination point (enough to do the sights, shop and
maybe eat as well). Then you figure you tour price per person so you
can make a profit even if the bus is only half full or so. Then you
have a safety margin - and if you sell every seat you will do very well
indeed.
Then all you have to do is sell. You put little ads in
your local papers, paste up flyers wherever you can (supermarkets are
good), contact local travel agents (of course you give them a
percentage on what they sell for you), local hotel clerks, etc., and
you also contact women's clubs, religious groups, fraternal societies,
factory social organizations, and so on (they may take a whole bus, or
even two, and you give them a special price, naturally).
23. Run a Pet Hotel Service
For
dogs or cats or both. People will pay high fees to ensure high-quality
care of the animal they love. Separate kennels for each animal are
essential. Good food and adequate care and attention must be assured
also. You can hire responsible teenagers to help you. Advertise with
posters in pet shops, veterinarians' offices; and if they're cheaply
available, get the mailing lists of local ASPCA groups and other animal
welfare groups, as well as membership lists of dog and cat clubs.
25. Sell Second-Hand Kids Clothing
Children
usually outgrow their clothes rather than wearing them out. So many
families have such clothing left around. You collect it, paying nothing
or as little as possible. Then you resell it; you can do the selling by
ads, handbills or through your church or community groups.
25. Breed Tropical Fish
This
requires only a moderate amount of space and a small investment in
equipment. Properly done, it needs only a small amount of your time yet
can make you a good profit. You can obtain your beginning stock from
the large wholesale dealers. You can sell direct to consumers (the
hobbyists) or to stores in your area.
Hot Sources:
Betta Tropicals Inc., 1310 Unionport Rd., Bronx, NY
Tropa Co., 1685 3rd Ave., New York, NY
26. Make Plastic Engraved Signs
All
you need is a simple-to-operate machine that engraves lettering in
various types onto sheets of plastic of many colors, finishes and
sizes. Perfect for signs for merchants, banks, doctors, dentists,
schools and colleges, private front doors, and many other uses.
Hot Source for the Machine:
New Hermes Engravograph from New Hermes Inc., 20 Cooper Square,
New York, NY 10003.
27. Sell Christmas Trees
Seasonal,
but if you have the time in the few weeks before Christmas, can be a
good money maker. Find a vacant storefront or lot, or space inside a
larger building, where people pass by. But be sure to order a supply of
trees enough in advance. And if you own country land that is not being
used, consider growing the trees yourself. Your first crop can be ready in four years, with steady crops from then on.
28. Open a Rubber Stamp Business
Manufacture
them in your basement. The materials needed are cheap. And the finished
stamps can be sold to many people, storeowners, offices, individuals.
You can market them by mail and through local merchants.
Hot Source: The machine and a financing plan to buy it are
available from: Rubber Stamp Division, 1512 Jarvis Ave., Chicago,
IL 60626
29. Camper's Equipment Rental Service
With
urban living, the back-to-nature movement is growing and camping is
becoming very popular. Rent out tents, sleeping bags, portable propane
stoves, chairs, etc. Demand identification from customers and reliable
security (keeping one of their credit cards is good).
30. Operate a Key-Safety Service
Each
customer is sold a special tag to put on his or her key ring. It says
"Drop in any mailbox" and has the address of a post office box that you
rent (Don't use your home address for the same reason your customers
shouldn't have their home address on their keys - dishonest people
finding the keys will come prowling around). You assign each customer's
tag a code number from a list that you keep. When someone's keys arrive
at your post office box, you return them to him, for another fee.
31. Be a Used Car Buying Consultant
With
a knowledge of cars, plus the proper test equipment (for checking the
engine, transmission, brakes, font-end alignment, and chassis), you go
with your customer to check out the used car he is thinking of buying.
Advertise your service next to the ads offering used cars for sale.
After a while you will get to know people in this field and you can
pick up more money by acting as a middleman in sales between private
individuals.
32. Sell "Loss Leaders" for Profit
This
may sound contradictory but it isn't. Supermarkets aren't the only ones
who use loss leaders. A good mail-order idea is offering a cute item
(worth much more) for $1 in women's magazines, giving prompt delivery
and including with it stuffers (ads with order blanks) for half a dozen
more expensive items. The repeat business on the other items makes the
$1 offer profitable.
33. Baby Items Rental Service
You
rent everything needed for a baby's care - stroller, playpen, high
chair, etc. When the customer's baby outgrows them you rent to the next
couple. Of course, you must advertise, and also send direct mail pieces
to all couples with new births (get their names from hospitals and newspapers and list brokers).
34. Operate a "Give a Party" Service
You
rent out everything needed for a party: tables, chairs, punch bowls,
table cloths, cutlery, and napkins. You can also supply waitresses and
bartenders, finding them through agencies that supply temporary help
such as Manpower. But if you can find good workers yourself, you can
save the agency fee and make more money.
35. Operate a Miniature Slot Car Racing Track
In
your basement (or wherever you can fit it) build a large and elaborate
miniature slot car racing track (with a least 6 or 8 slots). Local
kids, and often adults, pay you by the hour to race, using either your
cars or theirs. To boost interest you can hold monthly contests with trophies.
36. All-Service Service
You
line up the specialists in fixing almost anything, and take care of
getting them customers by delivering handbills to homes and placing ads
in supermarkets and local papers. They pay you 5% of every job refer to
them, which can soon add up.
37. Genealogy for People Who Want Roots
You
seek out the records in public or university libraries, county
courthouses and elsewhere, as necessary, for a sliding fee, depending
on the size of family, difficulties in getting information, geographic
dispersion, and other factors.
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