#48 Money Making Idea

Start a newspaper and magazine roadside stand. Ask established newspaper vendors how they got started.

#47 Money Making Idea

Publish a monthly audio cassette for one trade, such as newsagents, grocers, hair salons, booksellers, etc. Each cassette should give: Trade news, management tips, suggestions for improving sales, etc. Organise a direct mail campaign to recruit subscribers.

#46 Money Making Idea

Produce a cataloguing system for record collectors. This system might consist of a card index box with pre-printed index cards. Each card has a printed section for the name of the artist, record and record label. Sell this cataloguing system through record shops or by mail-order.

#45 Money Making Idea

Start an enterprise which reproduces classic poems on postcards and posters. Also do framed prints of classic poems. Sell these from a stall in an antiques or crafts markets or get them stocked at souvenir or gift shops.

#44 Money Making Idea

Set up a mail order business which sells motorcycle memorabilia. Put together a catalogue which includes: video, films, photographs, books, instruction booklets, old magazines and newspapers, etc. Advertise your catalogue in motorcycle magazines.

#43 Money Making Idea

Call door-to-door and offer to buy unwanted furniture. Or use local media to advertise your interest in buying second-hand furniture. Sell what you buy from free ads in local papers, or start your own second-hand furniture shop.

#42 Money Making Idea

Devise quizzes which test a persons vocabulary. Sell these to a magazine or newspaper on a regular basic. Alternatively you might do quizzes which test a persons knowledge of a regional dialect. Sell these to regional papers or magazines.

#41 Money Making Idea

Start a service which arranges for people to have their original pop lyrics set to music. This service is to satisfy the vanity of lyricists. Offer client a complete, low cost package. Attract custom by placing ads in the music press.

#40 Money Making Idea

Prepare a mixture of dried herbs for adding to bathwater. Invent a brand name for your product like "(your surname) Original bath Herbs". Package each mixture of herbs and get them stocked at various retailers.

#39 Money Making Idea

Make leather and wooden souvenir luggage tags. These tags might feature the name of a holiday town and a popular scene. Get your tags stocked at shops visited by tourists.

#38 Money Making Idea

Cut out prints and illustrations from old books. Frame them and sell to wide range of shops and from a stall at a market fairs and car boot sales.

#37 Money Making Idea

Buy old bibles and hymn books from churches and education authorities. have the pages shredded and use as stuffing material for 'bible' or 'hymn' pillows, teddy bear and other soft products. Also do 'bible' confetti and stuff bottles to make bottled bibles.

#36 Money Making Idea

Use fabrics to make soft cases for pencils, spectacles, scissors, bibles, money and other small items which are either potentially dangerous or need protection. At first, make a diversity of products until you discover which are the most popular and profitable, then specialise.

#35 Money Making Idea

Earn a living by buying gold and silver jewellery from people who need instant cash. Because their need for cash is greater than their desire to get a high price, your mark-up can be good. Only buy jewellery which you know you can re-sell quickly for a profit.

#34 Money Making Idea

Put together your own catalogue of jewellery making supplies. Locate the sources of products by doing the routine work of the mail order trader: write to potential suppliers. Throughout the country there are thousands of craftworkers who would welcome a new catalogue.

#33 Money Making Idea

Earn money by selling gold chain by the inch at public events such as fairs, markets and exhibitions.

#32 Money Making Idea

Create a folder of sample sales letters for all occasions. the letters might sell: advise, maintenance products, a service which gives free quotes, etc. Sell these folders by direct mail to small businesses.

#31 Money Making Idea

Produce 'Add-One' drama video cassettes. Professional actors and actresses perform a play on video. However, there is one character missing from the video. This character is played by a viewer of the video. the viewer learns his or her part and becomes part of the play at home.

#30 Money Making Idea

Use small sea-shells strung together to make necklaces. Find a trade source of small sea-shells and either set up your own production line or employ homeworkers.

#29 Money Making Idea

Start a crafts business which uses interesting foreign coins to make jewellery. Incorporate coins into pendant bracelet, brooches, necklaces and earrings. Alternatively, make jewellery which features reproduction coins from the ancient world.

#28 Money Making Idea

Make a selection of children's prayer plaques: Wooden wall plates which feature popular prayers. the prayers might be painted onto or burned into the wood.

#27 Money Making Idea

Found and run a school of investment. Give tuition to solo students and to groups about different types of investments such as shares, gilt-edged securities, unit trusts, USM, antiques, stamps, arts, etc. For each area covered, prepare lesson plans and follow these closely.

#26 Money Making Idea

Write and publish a manual about how to make money from property. In the manual include chapters on: Buying and selling land, buying properties for conversions and renovation, investing in property, etc. Use direct mail and press advertising to sell by mail order to business opportunity seekers.

#25 Money Making Idea

Set up and run a school of window dressing. Organise one-day or two day seminars for established shopkeepers who want to learn more about this aspect of their business. Also provide course for those who would like to take up a career as a window dresser.

#24 Money Making Idea

Publish a newsletter which has the title "Ambitious Persons Way to Wealth" or "Clever People Don't Word hard". The contents of your newsletter might be in a vein similar to Joe Karbo's "The Lazy Man's Way to Riches".

#23 Money Making Idea

Bring together a range of brassware ornaments so you can have a stall at crafts fairs, antique markets and car boot sales.

#22 Money Making Idea

Make wooden noughts and crosses games. Drill nine holes in a small square block and paint on a grid. Next make ten pegs and pint on each peg an 'O' and an 'X'. Place the grid and pegs into a clear bag and staple on a product card.

#21 Money Making Idea

Set up a home-improvement business which modifies the exterior of houses to give them a Tudor appearance. Your service will include the fitting of ornamental oak beams, giving exterior walls a white covering and adding metal grids to windows.

#20 Money Making Idea

Decorate everyday objects with pressed flowers. Add an inlaid design of pressed flowers to trays, coasters, jewellery boxes, paperweights, picture frames, wall-hangings, desk sets and table tops.

#19 Money Making Idea

Start a manufacturing business which is devoted to making doorstops. These doorstops might range from the humble wooden wedge to the more exotic and unusual. Package them in polythene bags, staple on a printed card and get them stocked at gift shops.