(101) SELLING INSURANCE
This is growing enormously and the future market is very great.
Most insurance companies have training facilities. Men and Women act
as sole proprietor, operating their own business in their own time.
See No. 82.
(102) SIGHT-SEEING GUIDANCE AND LECTURING
is usually seasonal work. It is necessary to be a fluent talker and
know how to handle people. Become familiar with the points of
interest you will talk about from handbooks at your public library.
Apply to sight-seeing companies in your area.
(103) SECOND HAND BOOK SERVICE
Books can often be bought cheaply at private sales, from markets and
side-street secondhand bookshops, and through classified advertisements
in "Book Market" and "Exchange & Mart" (under books). They can be sold
to specialist booksellers and through classified advertisement under
"Books" in "Exchange & Mart". A list of books to look for worth œ6 to
œ850 per volume, is given in the manual "Money from Old Books", available
from the distributor of this manual. Combine with No 114.
(104) DESK TOP PUBLISHING
Armed with an Apple Macintosh computer and software such as "Pagemaker"
and a laser printer (total outlay for second-hand equipment ....see
'Computer for Sale' in "Exchange & Mart"....as little as œ3500) and
a few hours home training from the 'user friendly' manuals accompanying
this equipment you have the basis for a ready made business.
Charge œ25 - œ40 per hour for preparing the artwork for letterheads,
manuals, business cards, etc. Customers will be small printers, large
printers with overspill, mail-order dealers.
(105) MONEY FROM YOUR CAMERA
Sizeable incomes are being made by free-lance photographers.
Clubs often want group shots of the membership. Home portraiture
pays well. Local business firms buy pictures of their products.
Retail stores want photographic show cards. Picture postcards of
your town may sell well through local newsagents, stationers and
gift shops. Many find it profitable to contact business firms offering
to photograph merchandise for illustration in their sales literature.
"The Writers' and Artist' Year Book" contains a detailed list of firms
wishing to buy all types of photographs. Correspondence courses are
advertised in "Amateur Photographer". Agencies that consider photographs
for syndication at best prices are: Keystone Press Agency Ltd.,
Keystone House, Red Lion Court, London E.C.4. (Tel:353 9634), Associated
Press Ltd., News Photo Dept., 83/86 Farringdon Street, London E.C.4.
(tel:583 1691).
(106) HANDYMAN SERVICE
Profitable odd jobs for local householders include furniture repairing,
patching up cement, simple plumbing, washing cars, sharpening lawn
mowers, garden tidying, fixing labour-saving devices, shelves, etc.
With the help of the popular manuals available anyone can give first
aid for the metal fitting and utencils in the house. It is often
possible to pick up commission through work obtained for paper hangers,
plasterers, carpenters, etc.
(107) 'TRAINING VIDEO' MAKING
Many small and medium sized companies place much emphasis on group
training. This is very time consuming in terms of staff employed
on training tasks. Offering a 'training video' service will attract
such customers. A training session is 'video recorded' and the company
use this to impart the required skills to groups of their employees.
(108) WRITING SHORT PARAGRAPHS
Most people can write tips on household management, cookery, child care,
etc. Jokes, anecdotes, children's sayings, business-building gimmicks,
etc., are in demand. Many such items receive sizeable cheques from
magazines. Combine with Nos 66 and 77.
(109) MAKE AND SELL COSTUME JEWELLERY
Home-made costume jewellery sell well to jewellery outlets, gift shops,
hairdressers shops, clothes boutiques, and by direct mail. It is
possible to start with limited capital. Read books borrowed from
the local library, study trade journals, and literature issued by
manufacturers of fittings and supplies. Catalogues from Leisurecrafts Ltd.,
Romford Road, London E.12. Write also to Gemcraft, 96 Grove Vale,
London S.E.22.
(110) HOME TYPING
pays well if the right techniques are followed. Business firms,
professional people and associations in your area need typing done
by free-lance typists. Authors need novels, short stories, plays,
non-fiction books and articles typed and they are easily reached
through classified ads in writers' and literary magazines. Type
name lists for business firms such as department stores and mail
order houses. See "Money from Home Typing" (from your authorised
distributor).
(111) COLLECTION SERVICE
Many people with the ability to write good letters have done well
helping business firms with their overdue accounts. Sample collection
letters given in handbooks from public libraries can be adapted to
suit various types of businesses. Charge customers from 10% on all
money brought in.
(112) TELEX/FAX/PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE
Communication and fast coying are vital requirements of modern
businesses and executive professionals. Second-hand fascimile and
photocopiers are cheaply available. You can charge 10p per photocopy,
œ1.00 per minute for fax transmission and œ1.50 per min for telexing.
Advertise your service in classified sections of local newsapapers.
This business can be dovetailed with an existing business or run from home.
(113) HOME MAIL ORDER BUSINESS
You can start and operate a profitable mail order business at home
with limited capital if you go the right way about it. Starting with
almost no capital it is possible to make œ100 a week part-time and œ700
(and much more) full time. "I've found mail order a wonderful, a proven
way to make high profits in spare time, at home. I think it is the finest
spare-time business of all", writes James Carr, author of a well known
Mail Order Course. "You can start anywhere", he writes, "using your kitchen
table for an office. You do no personal selling. You can start with a
modest amount of savings and grow big. Possibilities are practically
unlimited if you use these techniques (described in his course).
A home mail order business changed my whole life".
Fortunes have been made by selling books, manuals, folios and
correspondence courses by mail. Other sound lines are selling gifts,
novelties, kitchen gadgets, stamps to collectors, running an envelope
addressing service, list broking service or print agency. Mail order
know-how is essential and obtainable from such courses as those
described on the LIBRARY page of this DISC.
(114) SELLING SELF-HELP AN 'HOW' BOOKS BY MAIL
This is the most satisfactory type of mail order business. Easy,
pleasant and profitable, it is an ideal spare-time or full-time activity,
especially suitable for the beginner in mail order. We do not know of
anything else that can be sold as easily and with as little capital as
books. They bring continual repeat business for related books. No
licence is needed to sell books. Bookselling by post in the way we
recommend provides the easiest, most inexpensive way to get mail order
experience. Certain types of books are not easily available in local
shops - such as self-help and 'how' books. Your prospective customers
run into millions. People buy more books of this type every year.
We specialize in such books which sell well by post: manuals on additional
income, spare-time earning, practical reference books, popular
psychology guides, health manuals and occult books. Typical classified
advertisements you can insert are "INCREASE YOUR INCOME! Free list
of money-making manuals" (Your name and address). Manuals on Spare-time
earning, Mail Order etc., List Free"
"Moneymaking Opportunities for Homeworkers. Details free".
These advertisements costing under œ15 each are suitable for the
"Employment: Various' section of "Exchange & Mart" and classified
sections of "Saturday Tit Bits", "Homemaker", "Reveille",
"London Weekly Advertiser", "Do-It-Yourself", "Yorkshire Evening Post",
"The Trader", etc., You can start in this field on a shoe
string - just the cost of your first few classified ads and a
supply of circulars and manuals from us. Tested circulars such
as "Money-Making Manuals" can be supplied.
(115) CRAFT WORK
Because good craftsmanship is scarce today home craftsmen can readily
sell attractive work through gift shops, furniture stores and other
retailers, also privately. Unusual bookshelves, bookracks, bookends,
novelties, wireworks, marquetry, leatherwork, etc. Addresses of
handicraft materials and hobby kit suppliers are usually obtainable
at local public libraries.
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