Sunday, April 20, 2008
Start a mail order business which promoted the craft of making ornaments and models from shaping wire. Design and make up a complete kit for beginners. Include this kit in your catalogue, as well as tools, design ideas and row materials for wire craftworkers.
Friday, April 18, 2008
#67 Money Making Idea
Begin a crafts enterprise which turns out wirecraft ornaments. These ornaments are free-standing, 3-D objects which consist entirely of wire: the wire makes the outlines. The ornaments might be in the shape of: aeroplanes, helicopters, people, animals, boats or bicycles.
#66 Money Making Idea
Write and publish a newsletter for those who want to start a successful business. The newsletter might for example, discuss effective ways of: Selling, managing, generating ideas, locating suppliers and finding customers. Use your local library service to research these topics.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
#65 Money Making Idea
Set up a holiday companion introduction service. Your service matches and introduces single people who do not have anyone to go on holiday with. Place classified ads in numerous publications to attract clients. Or produce a publication which lists people who are looking for holiday companions.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
#64 Money Making Idea
Start a singles contact magazine or newsletter, each issue might include both small ads from people looking for partners and editorials of interest to single people. Use press and magazine advertising to build up a list of subscribers.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
#63 Money Making Idea
Give personal tuition in your own home on how to write good English. Advertise your service by placing cards in windows of local newsagents. Point out the advantages of taking the course, such as getting a better job and helping the children with their homework.
Monday, April 14, 2008
#62 Money Making Idea
Write a non-fiction book which may, for example, be about a hobby. Enlist a book printer to produce copies of the book. Sell these to the market that would be interested in the contents. You might, for example, place ads in hobby magazines.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
#61 Money Making Idea
Begin an enterprise which make model paper products for dolls and dolls' houses. These might include: Newspapers, money, stationery, napkins, paper hats, Christmas cards, etc. Sell these products by mail order to doll makers and collectors.
Friday, April 11, 2008
#60 Money Making Idea
Publish a "Which?" newsletter about newsletters. As the number of newsletters and subscribers is ever increasing, there is a gap in the market for a newsletter which comments on and judges the value of the others.
#59 Money Making Idea
Bring out a series of plans for woodworkers, soft toy makers, leather workers and other craftworkers. Either sell printed copies of these plans at wholesale prices or sell the reproduction rights. Then any craftworker or hobbyist can start a mail order business selling the plans.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
#58 Money Making Idea
Compile and publish a monthly bulletin which informs subscribers of poetry competitions they are eligible to enter at home and aboard. Target your recruitment campaign for subscribers at practicing poets.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
#57 Money Making Idea
Set up a business which produces a quality audio cassette library of nursery rhymes. Alternatively, produce a series of cassettes which feature X-rated nursery rhymes for adults. Sell these by either getting them stocked in bookshops or by starting a monthly club.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
#56 Money Making Idea
Write and sell articles or books about starting a business and making money. Sell the manuscripts to publishers of business opportunity books, newsletters, magazines and newspapers. For a start, Jon Murray Information Services, 114 Duke Street, Edinburgh, EH68HR will welcome any manuscripts for approval and possible purchase.
Monday, April 7, 2008
#55 Money Making Idea
Take metal rods and tubes of different diameters and cut into slices. Arrange the slices to make pictures and patterns. Mount these pictures and sell as craftwork. Or produce kits for making pictures with slices of rods and tubes. Use mail order to sell these kits to craftworkers.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
#54 Money Making Idea
Use wooden jigsaw pieces to make earrings and necklaces. Add a hand painted design to the side of the jigsaw piece not covered by a part of the picture. Call your jigsaw puzzle jewellery. Sell from a stall at fairs, car boot sales or get it stocked at trendy shops.
#53 Money Making Idea
Start a service which cleans wire baskets and supermarket trolleys. Baskets and trolleys often spend most of the day on a dusty floor or outside, open to the elements.
Friday, April 4, 2008
#52 Money Making Idea
Write to overseas publishers of English language newsletters and offer to act as the distributor for their newsletter in this country. In your letter to the publishers outline the benefits they will gain if they let you distribute their newsletter.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
#51 Money Making Idea
Begin a business which deals in old and new American and British comics. This business might:
1) Sell comics by post from a catalogue.
2) Operate a comics of the month club for specialised collectors
3) Run a comics stall at fairs and markets.
1) Sell comics by post from a catalogue.
2) Operate a comics of the month club for specialised collectors
3) Run a comics stall at fairs and markets.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
#50 Money Making Idea
Produce a correspondence course about how to write good poetry. If most poets received a small amount of tuition about how to compose poems, their work would improve dramatically. Sell the course by advertising in literary and women's magazines.
