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999 easy to start biz ops: 480-489

Monday, October 6th, 2008

The click that could change your life…..

480. Produce vanity poetry audio cassettes or videos. Pay a celebrity to read a poet’s work to a video camera, or make a recording on audio tape. Your service might also include producing copies of the recording on audio or video cassettes for distribution.

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481. Write booklets or produce audio cassettes about different aspects of making a career in the music business. For example: ‘How to be an independent record producer’, ‘How to get a recording contract’, ‘How to form your own group’, etc. Use small ads in the music press to attract buyers.

 

482. Stain sawdust with different colours of ink. Fill clear bottles and jars with the coloured sawdust so that attractive patterns are made. Also pictures can be built up on the sides of bottles if different colours are carefully arranged. Sell as souvenirs or ornaments.

 

483. Open a television and video school. Organise practical courses in television and video production. Buy a second-hand closed circuit television system, rent or lease a hall and use this as the premises of the school.

484. Start a music tuition agency. Offer to tutor potential students in popular musical instruments. Call your agency a school of music. Start by using advertising to recruit both part-time tutors and pupils.

 

 

485. Begin a business which organises trips to rock and pop concerts, and football and rugby matches. Your service obtains the tickets and provides a coach  or mini-bus to take fans to the venue.

 

486. Design and make fashionable clothes for children. You might sell them direct or through agents at party plan.

 

487. Use soft toy materials to make a puppet-like toy which gives children their medicine. A small soft toy has a clip attached to one hand. A parent puts the spoonful of medicine into the clip and controls the hand so that it appears that the puppet is giving the medicine. Sell by mail order through ads in women’s magazines. Biz ops are all over the place……

 

488. Make household hall letter boards. A board is criss-crossed with coloured elastic. Letters are slipped behind this elastic and thus easily displayed. Have them stocked at stationers and gift shops. Or sell by mail order.

 

489. Use wood to make desktop stands for holding reference books such as dictionaries, trade directories, map books and telephone directories. Have these stocked at bookshops and stationers or sell by mail order.

Biz ops can be huge…..

 

999 newbie biz ops: 540-549

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

You don't dare click here…..

540. Make money from wines by taking an empty van to a wine growing region and bringing it back full. Sell the wine directly to restaurants, off-licences, and free houses. Build up a list of business who will buy wine from you on a regular basis.

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541. Publish a newsletter about cocktail drinks. In each issue include: information about new and classic cocktail drinker tips, the best way to make drinks, new cocktails which you devise yourself, etc. Your market includes all businesses licensed to sell drinks. 

 

542. Specialise in organising trips to vineyards and beer festivals. Issue an annual or quarterly brochure which gives full details of all the holidays you are planning. Advertise in beer and wine publications.

 

543. Sell by post plans for hobby electronic construction projects. Buy plans from established electronics hobbyists and compile a catalogue of plans for sale. Find and sell plans through adverts in electronic hobby magazines.

Biz ops are all over the place……

 

544. Begin a party plan business which sells self-instruction and ‘how to’ books, cassettes and courses. Add a competitive edge to the business by producing many of the products yourself. 

 

545. Write and publish a series of booklets on how to turn various hobbies into businesses, for example, ‘How to start an electronics business’. Other hobbies might include: stamp or book collecting, photography, angling, and video making. Sell through ads in hobby and business opportunity magazines.

 

546. Produce a questionnaire which is designed to find out if one person really loves another. Place classified ads in magazines for teenagers or women which read : ‘Does he really love you?’. Send respondents a questionnaire and process it for a charge. Or design a questionnaire which can be assessed by the client.

 

547. Learn the art of I Ching. Then, earn a sideline income by persuading party hosts to pay you to give readings to guests. 

 

548. Produce and sell from national publications a home study course about how to play the piano. Pay an expert pianist to devise and write the course. 

 

549. Make a series of cookery instruction videos. These should teach people how to make all kinds of dishes and foods. Start a postal business to rent or sell these videos.

Biz ops can be huge…..