Home Based Business Ideas Part 2 | Ways to make money at home

To go into this business you need a scanner, an inkjet 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 phots is by sending them to photo repairing service. You can provide that service.

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.

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 embrellas 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 magination 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 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 BALLOONS 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 ballons 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 stallowner 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 ariel 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.

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