This post is part #2 for How To Make Money On Demand – Ideas to help you get started and/or create creative ideas.

Shoe Shine (Pick-up & Delivery)

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Description:

Shoes tell a lot about a person, or so I hear. Men want to have nice looking shoes but don’t want to have to deal with the actual shoe shining. You could offer a shoe shining business where you go pick up the shoes from the customer, shine them and return them to the customer either the same day or next day.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

Let’s assume you go to an office building or two and over the week you get 100 customers or 100 pairs of shoes. If you charge $7 to $10 to shine the shoes that would be $700 to $1,000 that week you would have made. You could more than likely get these people to be repeat customers on a weekly or bi-weekly basis.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Do your home work as always. Find out what the going rate is for a shoe shine.

2. Get your supplies you will need.

3. Get some tickets and bags (cloth bags would be good) to put the shoes in to keep track of the shoes.

4. Promote your service.

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

The cost to start will depend on the type of supplies you get. You can however start it for a small amount.

(Up to about $175 Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

If you build up a large customer base you will want to consider possibly hiring teens to actually shine the shoes. You could pay them by the hour or per shoe shined. This can be an excellent money making opportunity.

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Sell Baked Goods

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Description:

My sister and friend made $500 in one day from selling chocolate covered strawberries. Do you like to cook or bake? You could sell what you make and generate some nice income. Remember, my sister and friend made $500 in one day.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

If you baked cookies and packaged them nicely, you could turn around and sell them at car dealerships to the salesmen, hair salons, etc…

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Determine what you want to sell

2. Do the numbers to make sure you can and will turn a profit.

3. Put together your plan and work your plan.

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

Depends on what you do.

(Up to $150 or more Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

Wally Amos “Famous Amos Chocolate Chip Cookies” started out giving away his cookies. He has grown the Famous Amos brand into a multi-million dollar business. The thing he enjoyed has made him into a millionaire. You could do the same.

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Broker Cars

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Description:

Real estate brokers earn a 6% commission on every house they sell. That would amount to $6,000 every time they sell a $100,000 house. You could be a car broker. You could offer to do all the work for them for a 6% commission, many people will take you up on your offer. The owner of the car would clean it up and confirm that it’s running. Then you do the same thing a real estate broker does. You will advertise the car for sale and then “show” it to prospective buyers.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

If you sold a car for $10,000 your commission would be $600. This could be a $60,000 a year money maker easily.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Get your game plan together.

2. Put together a contract that you will use with the owner of the car.

3. Advertise your broker service

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

You will probably do newspaper advertising so your cost will not be that great to get started.

(Up to $150 Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

There is no limit to the amount of money you could make with this venture. You could end up with a small lot of cars that you are selling for people.

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Preschool Time

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Description:

Preschools don’t always have the money to have permanent language, art and music teachers. If you can speak a foreign language, or if you’re an artist or if you have musical ability you could be paid to go and teach the children once or twice a week for an hour or two. If you get several preschools to hire you, you are in the money.

Scenario of Income Potential:

Not sure, this is your homework assignment.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Put together your program that you will teach.

2. Locate all the preschools/daycares in your surrounding area.

3. Put together a proposal for the preschools/daycares.

4. Get yourself hired!

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

This will depend on what you are going to teach and what supplies you may need.

(Up to $250 Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

If you think outside the box you can develop this into a thriving business.

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Installation Person

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Description:

There are an abundant amount of people that still do not understand how to connect up various electronic equipment that they purchase. If you are someone that does understand how to connect these types of devices you can make some money. A good way to find customers is to go to your local audio-visual stores and have them to recommend you to their customers for a percentage or fixed fee. Many people will gladly pay you to set up their equipment and give them some basic training on how to use their new toys.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

The skies’ the limit, there are people daily that need help with connecting their equipment.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Read up on various electronic equipment that you plan to set up.

2. Do your home work and locate retailers.

3. Put together a proposal for the retailers and go get your service started.

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

This one will not cost you much. You might get some business cards (make them on your computer) and have a t-shirt with your business name on it (a logo on it would be good also). (Up to $50 Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

This venture could be something that you grow into a huge business. You could hire people to work for you.

Warranty Package

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Description:

You can create “warranty packages” to sell to service companies or tradesmen, like plumbers, electricians, satellite installers, etc. Let’s say an electrician goes out to a customer’s home to fix some wiring, he can up sell the customer. He might say something like “We’re offering a Worry-Free Warranty that might interest you for $99.95 a year.” “If there are any wiring problems over the next year, you simply call this number and someone with come out and fix the problem.” Many people will buy this warranty even though the home owner will probably not need to actually use the warranty. This will be PROFIT to the electrician. You will simply show them how much extra money they can make. You will create the contracts, warranty certificates, sales literature to give to customers, operations manual for information on running the warranty, etc. You can look at existing warranties to see how they are set up for ideas. You could create these types of turn-key programs for all kinds of service companies, for $1,000 or more each.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

Once again the sky is the limit.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Do your home work first.

2. Put a sample program together.

3. Go sell the turn-key program to a service company.

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

Because everything can be done on a personal computer the basic cost will be ink and paper.

(Up to $50 Start-up cost)

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

This can be a HUGE MONEY MAKER and a chance to make $1,000’s as you put together and offer this program to businesses.

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Cable Television Ad Sells

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Description:

A secret in cable television is the government-mandated policy of leased access. Cable operators in every city are required by law to sell you leased access to one of their cable channels at a predetermined rate. The minimum

time you can buy is 30 minutes. When you contact a cable operator, they will act like they don’t know what you’re talking about and/or try to sell you regular advertising time. But it’s the law, and they have to sell it to you, so be persistent. Once they sell you leased access time, you can then re-sell that time (YEP!!) in 30 or 60 second time slots to area advertisers at deep discount rates. Let’s say you get 30 minutes of air time for say $25, and then you sell sixty 30-second ads at $25 each. Cha-Ching you just made $1,475 profit.

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Scenario of Income Potential:

This could make you $100,000’s a year. If you sold advertising for everyday and made a $1,475 profit you would make $7,375 for 5 days of advertising.

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Getting Started (Quick Start):

1. Contact your local cable providers and get the advertising rates.

2. Once you have the rates start selling advertising to local businesses.

3. If you have the ability to video the commercials that is another income stream.

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Estimated Start-Up Cost (Basic):

The cost will be whatever the advertising cost is.

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Advanced Growth (A Business Is Born):

The income scenario above says it all. You can grow this into a money maker like no other. You could expand from one city to the next. You could buy more and more ad time.