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In today's issue...
Real Home Business
Examples...
With 150,000 subscribers, I get a lot of email. And I welcome
it. It keeps me "in the loop" and what I'm hearing a lot lately,
is how the economy is affecting people's lives.
Personal accounts of lost jobs and slower businesses have
been increasing over the past weeks and months. It's no wonder
-- with the dollar sinking in value, the price of everything is
going up.
On the flip side, I'm also hearing from lots of folks who've
managed to open a new income stream. Today I'd like to share a
few of their examples. While these businesses may not make a
million dollars, they do generate increasing income, AND they
were started with little or no money. Maybe they'll spark an idea or two in
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I have five examples I'd like to
show you today. The first three are localized businesses that
anyone can emulate in their own area. The final two are web
based examples of people turning their interests into income
online.
Example #1: Home Checking Service
Jen is a hard working
30-something who puts in 40-50 hours a week at her regular deli
job. Yet with an $800 a month rent payment, a car payment and
well, you know... all the rest of the bills that continually
flow into her mailbox, making ends meet can be difficult.
But a regular "kind deed" she's
been doing sparked an idea for a business. Jen lives in an area
where lots of residents migrate south for the winter. Most of
them leave their homes unattended. Every week or two she had
been checking on the home of a local doctor and he'd pay her
when he came back in the Spring.
Jen figured, why not offer this
service to other local residents? So she put up a simple
one-page website explaining her service,
RhodeIslandHouseWatch.com.
She included a letter from her
first customer and carefully listed all the local areas she
served. This helps her get search engine traffic when people
search for a service like hers plus the town they live in.
Next she made up a flyer and
posted it on local community bulletin boards, in supermarkets
and local shops. She called a few real estate offices that deal
with seasonal rentals and offered her services to their clients
at a discount rate.
Before long she may just be
earning more from this "part-time" venture than her regular job!
Lesson: Look for
opportunities like this in your local area. Home watch services
and even housesitting is a growing business anyone can profit
from.
Example #2: From Yard Sales to
Craigslist
Warren loves going to yard sales
and flea markets. During the summer he resells the goods he
finds by holding his own weekend yard sales. But during the
winter, his basement gets kinda full.
This winter he needed some extra
cash to pay for a tank of heating oil. If you use oil to heat
your home in the winter, you understand just how much extra cash
Warren needed.
So he took his digital camera
into his basement and started taking pictures of everything he
thought he could sell for more than $20. In the span of
two hours, he had more than 40 items ranging in potential resale
value from $20 to about $100.
He had heard about ebay for
selling items but didn't want to deal with shipping and paying
commissions. So he figured he'd try Craigslist instead.
Craigslist.org is a classified site that serves more than
500 cities in 50 countries. It gets millions of visitors a week, is 100% free
to use and it deals only locally. That means lots of eyeballs to
see your offers, but no commissions to pay, and no shipping
hassles!
Warren sat down and started
posting all his items for sale. Minutes later, the phone rang --
even before he got to his 4th item. Warren was dumbfounded. Why
hadn't he tried this before today! Yes, minutes after posting an
ad he had sold his first item. (I can vouch for this, as I
posted an ad on craigslist last year for a french door I had
left over after a remodeling job - I sold it literally 4 minutes
after posting it. In fact, I sold a $14,000 Jeep on Craigslist
too!)
In the span of two weeks Warren
sold 28 of the 40 items! His
wife was much happier. She could now make it to the washer and
dryer without going through a maze of Cabbage Patch Kids,
artificial trees and strange looking car parts.
Warren was happy because he
heated his home for the rest of the winter and still had enough
money left over to "restock" the basement this Spring! As a
matter of fact, he went out and bought himself a new digital
camera and a laptop to make his new "business" run faster. After
all, one man's junk is another man's er... business!
Lesson: When things get
tight, sell off some of the extra stuff you have laying around.
Most people have literally hundreds or even thousands of dollars
worth of items in their house, that then never use! With
Craigslist you can easily turn it into cash, and maybe even make
a business out of it.
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Example #3: Senior Citizen
Assistant
Frances is a Florida resident who
works full-time to make ends meet. One day her boss calls with
bad news. They're being forced to eliminate her position. Her
job will be history in a few weeks.
What next? Start looking for
another job in this tough economy? She knew she'd be lucky to
find something that paid as much as her old job.
One of her favorite things to do
is help her elderly neighbors. As a senior citizen herself, she
knows how lucky she is to be independent and still able to
drive. The people she helps are happy to pay her a small fee for
all her trips to pick up medicine, take them to doctors
appointments and go shopping for them.
In her local area about half the
residents are seniors -- it dawns on her that this could
generate a full-time income if she wants! So rather than look
for another job, Fran decides to try something different.
She puts a simple website up to
attract more local residents to her services. Naturally, she
chooses a keyword-rich domain name,
http://www.SarasotaPersonalSeniorAssistant.com. This helps her get
search engine traffic from people looking for help in her area.
Next she grabs some free business
cards at VistaPrint.com and includes her website address on the
cards. She gives some cards to her clients, leaves them in
senior centers and churches -- and bingo! Fran is off and
running, literally. The extra exercise helps her stay young and
she's finally her own boss.
Lesson: Some of the things
you already do can be turned into a business. And businesses
like personal shoppers are a growing trend. That's because
people are happy to pay a small fee to save themselves from
life's everyday hassles.
Side
note: You may have noticed that Jen
and Fran above have very similar sites. That's because their sites
were built using a template I include with my
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Now for
some more examples.
(Both of the people in these last
two examples did not want to do a local business. They
preferred to stay home and make money. They also didn't want to
have to build a website. So they used the new
Video Affiliate Marketing platform Scott Britner and I put
together.)
Example #4: Pizza Making
The first video based example is
from a pizza aficionado...
No, you can't eat a pizza at this
website. But you can do the next best thing. You can discover
the secrets to making a great Mexican style pizza at this
pizza video site. (As a pizza lover I watched this video
closely and even went out to buy the ingredients.)
In the process of teaching people
the art of pizza-making, the site owner earns income from a
great pizza making product sold at clickbank. The site own also
earns money many other ways. I'll bet you can think of something
you love and turn it into an income stream too!
Example
#5: GPS Reviews
Here's a great example of technology
selling technology. I don't know about you, but GPS navigation
devices can seem a bit intimidating at first glance. But they
are definitely worth taking a few minutes to clear that hurdle.
I have GPS navigation in my car and
when I bought it I had no idea I'd use it as much as I do. If
you have ever hassled with finding a location, getting lost,
using those long drawn out mapquest directions or simply reading
or folding maps, you need a GPS device.
But deciding which one to get can be
a nightmare. That's why this smart marketer decided to help GPS
shoppers by showing them different GPS devices in action. Review videos
that compare competing products, is perhaps the best way to
explain the best (and
worst) features of the most popular devices on the market. So
which device do you think looks easiest...
Garmin 880
Magellan Maestro
Navigon 2100
TomTom 720
Notice that
this smart marketer too, earns commissions from GPS sales, adsense commissions,
amazon.com commissions and more.
Lesson: As both video based
examples above show, helping people learn something new, or
helping them make informed decisions, can be great ways to make
money on the Internet.
In closing...
As I explained at the outset of
today's gazette, these business may not make a million bucks.
But they are easy and very inexpensive to start. After all, lots
of people are not trying to get rich, they're happy to just make
some extra money to take the pressure off.
I'd love to hear how you've managed
to generate an extra stream of income too! If you have a story,
email me at Jim@bizweb2000.com - who knows I may share
your story in an upcoming gazette...
To YOUR success in business and in
life,
Jim Daniels - JDD Publishing
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