999 Money Making Ideas

#68 Money Making Idea

2008-04-20T08:10:00.000-07:00

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.

#67 Money Making Idea

2008-04-18T23:15:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-18T09:05:00.000-07:00

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.

#65 Money Making Idea

2008-04-17T08:24:00.000-07:00

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.

#64 Money Making Idea

2008-04-16T07:36:00.000-07:00

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.

#63 Money Making Idea

2008-04-15T08:28:00.000-07:00

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.

#62 Money Making Idea

2008-04-14T06:25:00.000-07:00

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.

#61 Money Making Idea

2008-04-12T22:47:00.001-07:00

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.

#60 Money Making Idea

2008-04-11T19:57:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-11T08:05:00.000-07:00

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.

#58 Money Making Idea

2008-04-10T06:32:00.000-07:00

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.

#57 Money Making Idea

2008-04-09T05:51:00.000-07:00

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.

#56 Money Making Idea

2008-04-08T07:32:00.000-07:00

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.

#55 Money Making Idea

2008-04-07T07:33:00.000-07:00

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.

#54 Money Making Idea

2008-04-05T23:53:00.000-07:00

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

2008-04-05T07:02:00.000-07:00

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.

#52 Money Making Idea

2008-04-04T08:20:00.000-07:00

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.

#51 Money Making Idea

2008-04-03T06:40:00.000-07:00

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.

#50 Money Making Idea

2008-04-02T08:46:00.000-07:00

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.

#49 Money Making Idea

2008-04-01T09:12:00.000-07:00

Bring out a correspondence course about how to write short stories for profit. Sell from newspaper and magazine ads and charge anything up to the average weekly wage (paid in installments) depending on the contents of the course.

#48 Money Making Idea

2008-03-31T06:23:00.000-07:00

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

#47 Money Making Idea

2008-03-29T22:44:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-28T22:42:00.000-07:00

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

2008-03-28T08:11:00.001-07:00

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

2008-03-27T06:42:00.000-07:00

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.