(81) PLASTIC CRAFTWORK
can be carried out on a card table at home. Manuals are readily
obtainable showing how to make jewel boxes, paperweights, candleholders,
pen-holders, cigarette boxes, costume jewellery and ornamental plaques
for gift shop outlets.
(82) THERE IS MONEY IN CARS
first in selling used or new cars, second in running a motor insurance
agency. You can buy used cars cheaply at weekly auctions and sell
for excellent profits from home. Advertise in your local paper under
cars for sale. Details of a motor insurance agency are obtainabe from
Gambles and Childs Ltd., Quebec Street, Leeds.
(83) PART-TIME SECRETARY
Many women do secretarial work at home for dentists, doctors and
lawyers who do not require a secretary all day. They call for the
client's recordings from a dictation machine and perform the work
at home, at a considerable saving for the client. Other likely
customers; ministers, associations, mail order frims, stores,
restaurants, gas and electric companies. Freelance secretarial
vacancies are dealt with by Freelance Secretaries, 36 Cavendish Road,
Chesham, Bucks. (Tel. Chesham 2620). Enclose a stamped addressed
envelope when writing.
(84) POTTERY CRAFT PRODUCTS
can now be made at home at low expenditure on kits and clays from
craft supply houses. There is a good market for gaily-decorated
tiles for hanging on walls, decoration of fireplaces, etc., small
pitchers and mugs, vases and flower bowls.
(85) PROFITS FROM PLASTIC LAMINATING
There is a demand for this service because so many people have
documents and papers they want to preserve from deterioration by
having them covered with a layer of plastic that is airtight.
Business firms want photos, cards, maps, charts, clippings, etc.,
protected. Firms that show you how to get started advertise in
"Exchange & Mart".
(86) PET OWNER SERVICE
Shampooing and boarding pets is a sought-after service in
higher-income areas. Poodle clipping is also in demand. Your local
public library probably has books on dogs and clipping. Cards
displayed at newsagents and classified advertisements in local
newspapers bring this kind of business.
(87) LOCATE OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS
This pays well. You place two-line classified ads in literary
periodicals such as "Books and Bookman", "Times Literary Supplement",
"Time and Tide", offering to find scarce books a "free search service".
You insert other ads indicating specific titles wanted in "The Clique".
As offers come in you fix the price to your customer (double or treble
the price you are quoted) on a postcard. Contact several large
secondhand book dealers, tell them that you are in the book finding
business, and get their prices and terms. Useful manual:
"Money from Old Books" (see page 12) from your authorised distributor.
(88) TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICE
Such services are used by lawyers, doctors, repair men, contractos
and others who are not always able to have someone to answer
'phone calls'. Many housewives, shut-ins, married couples and others
find that a telephone answering service pays well. A monthly fee is charged.
(89) COMPUTERISED BOOK-KEEPING/ACCOUNTING SERVICE
Using a home P.C. and software such as "Sage" or "Pegasus"
accounting packages you are able to offer a fully computerised
book-keeping and accounting service including; purchase ledger,
profit and loss accounts, sales ledger, nominal ledger, profit forecasting.
Book-keeping and VAT returns are the bane of all small/medium
businesses. Many will be happy to off-load on to your service
allowing them more time to actually running their businesses.
Hard copy of ledgers are printed out for use by chartered accountants
for submission to inland revenue and customs and excise officials.
Fees are negotiable but œ25 per hour should be the minimum aim.
Contact local Chamber of Commerce for names of potential local
businesses and run classified ads in local/regional newspapers.
(90) TOY MAKING
calls for a keen interest, market study and initiative; in demand are:
tricks, games, game boards, masks, educational toys, models, puppets
and any other types. Felt for soft toy-making is obtainable at low
prices from Griffiiths & Co., 6 Hanover Street, Merthyr Tydfil and
from B.Brown(holborn) Ltd., 32 Grenville Street, London E.C.1 Kits
are available from Cuddlycraft Supplies, Lewes Street, Brighton, Sussex,
and from Hobbies Ltd., 78a New Oxford Street, London W.C.1. Eyes,
squeaks and growls for soft toymakers are supplied by Swisscross Ltd.,
202 Tulse Hill, London S.W.2. Get know-how from project books and
popular hobby and science magazines and from toymaking manual available
from Christine Veasey Publications, Elm House, Elm Street, London, W.C.1.
In this home-shop field an original idea can make a fortune.
(91) TEACH TYPEWRITING
Many stenographers take a typing class at home in the evening,
using rented typewriters and ads in local papers. Combine with NO 110.
(92) A LIST BROKING SERVICE
can provide a good income, spare-time or full-time. List Broking
is big business in America and is a fast growing field in the U.K.
It is the use of one firm's mailing list by another non-competing firm.
Operating such a Mailing List Exchange is easy and profits are high
. Instruction manuals on the subject are advertised in the various
mail order journals.
(93) CHINCHILLA BREEDING
is equally profitable. This can be undertaken at home since most people
have a spare corner or cupboard under the stairs to keep the cages.
Chinchillas are becoming extremely popular animals hence this can
become a very profitable croft business.
(94) WEDDING VIDEO SERVICE
offering a personal video of this special occasion is a profitable
usage of a "camcorder". Many young brides want a living momento of
their wedding-day. œ20-œ30 per copy can be realised for 1-2 hours work.
Up to a dozen copies can be sold from each ceremony. Advertise in
your local paper. A "camcorder" can be purchased as cheaply as œ450.
(95) TYPEWRITER REPAIRS
A home typewriter repair service can pay well. Get business through
office supply stores and small classified advertisements in local papers
at weekends.
(96) WATCH REPAIRING
can be highly profitable. A watch repairing course is offered by
Watchcraft, 121 The Broadway, Wimbledon, London S.W.15.
(97) STENCIL CUTTING
for churches, clubs and business firms pays well. It is simply
typing on to a wax stencil (without the typewriter ribbon). Erasures
and corrections are made with a liquid which may be bought at any
office stationery shop. Combine with Bo. 110.
(98) SELLING OCCULT AND METAPHYSICAL BOOKS BY MAIL
is interesting and can be profitable. In England a reliable advertising
medium for such books is "Prediction"; in America "Fate". Source of
supply: New Knowledge Books, P.O. Box 9, Horsham, Sussex. Combine with
No. 114.
(99) SILK SCREEN PRINTING
can be excellent home business. The process is used for greeting cards,
posters, show cards, personalised place cards, etc. This method of
printing by stencils through tautly stretched silk in a frame is easy
to learn and there is no scarcity of manuals.
(100) T.V. REPAIR SERVICE
is a good spare-time business. There are useful manuals on the subject.
