Yes, it’s true! You really can start your own small business right from home, in just a couple of days for under $100. And in some cases you could be started in just a couple of hours or even just a few minutes.Just Wait Until You See How Easy It Can Be!!There will be 3, no scratch that 4 unique small business ideas presented here. I decided to show you the single best long term business idea (that my wife actually does as well) as the BONUS business idea. I was going to save it for another article but decided to let you discover it here as an extra bonus.Each business idea will be given in brief overview format, but should contain enough information so that you can get startedThen please share this article with your friends via Face Book and your other social media centers. They will be glad you did and will be excited you thought enough of them to share it.#1 Become A Local Business Booster Hero!The idea is very simple. What do all business owners want from their businesses?More money.So, you are just going to help other businesses make more money.Here’s how you do that.You make deals with local businesses like Restaurants, Dentists or even Car Dealers that they will pay you to deliver leads to them.Don’t worry doing it will be easy!you’re just going to give every business you deal with exactly what they really want, which is more customers. Once you have delivered the leads for even just a short amount of time you will become their hero. You will be the one who they always take your calls. Why? Because people like you a whole lot when you make them money. How you do that is by sending them more customers.All businesses want more customers because more customers = more money.As an example: Dentists will pay you $25 per phone call when you get their phone ringing with people who need dental services. A Pizza Parlor will pay you $5 for every person who calls in and orders a pizza.It’s much better for the business to pay you when their phone rings than to pay for huge advertising and nothing happens. Businesses routinely pay thousands in advertising in the hopes that they may get some new customers from it and most of the time they see very poor results. But with your service they don’t pay until the phone rings with a potential customer so it’s very cost effective for them.You have your local business clients print you coupons with really great deals on them. B.O.G.O offers tend to work really well. They are offers where you Buy One Get One free or 1/2 off etc… Everyone loves a pizza coupon where you buy one large pizza and get a 2nd large pizza free. If it’s a dentist maybe they give 50% off initial cleaning and exam or a family deal where the 2nd person gets their cleaning and exam free. Anyway, those are the TYPE of coupons that work best.They print them with your callfire.com phone number in them. Call fire is an internet telephony company that will give you a phone number to put into each businesses coupon and they will re-route the call to that business, track the call and give you an itemized printout that you can use to bill the business (your client) with. We have no affiliation with call fire whatsoever, they just work well and are really cheap.When You hand out the free coupons with huge discounts on them you can staple many businesses together and make a mini coupon book. That way you’re handing out several coupons to each person.Each offer will pay you differently. Like a Dentist might pay $25, a sit down medium priced restaurant $7, a florist $3 and a Pizza parlor $5So, how can you get these in people’s hands?This is only limited by your imagination, but here are just a couple of examples:1. Handing them out at colleges and sports games as people are leaving.2. Get plastic door hanger bags that only cost about 1 cent each in quantity and hang them on doors.3. Thumbtack 5-10 to community post boards at grocery stores etc…4. Post them on College info boards. Nearly all schools have info boards where people post their band fliers or I lost my dog notices etc..There are hundreds of ways you could come up with if you just sit and brain storm for a few minutes.Call Fire will count up all the calls that went to each business and you just bill them your agreed amount per call at the end of the month.As you can see this is a super simple business that anyone can start in just a couple of days with under $100. And you can scale it up by hiring other people to distribute the coupons.And your next business is… Business #2 The Deal HunterWith your Deal Hunter biz you simply shop super sales in your area.Find items at 75% off and sell them on Craigslist or eBay at 50% off which doubles your money.For this one you would need to live in a decent sized town or city.There is always some store that is having a huge sale or going out of business. To find them look at your local newspaper, online newspaper or Google your town name + sale or + going out of business, you should find plenty.You then shop them and pick up items at 75% off or more that you like and know would sell well on Craigslist or eBay at 50% off retail. If you like the item then you know other people will too and it will sell well. If it’s a really hot item you can buy several and as soon one sells list the next one.This business model is good if you just want to work part time. In the final bonus business you will discover a model with massive full time potential.The next business idea is… Business #3 The Auction HoundIn your Auction Hound business you will simply go to prepaid bid online auction sites for your merchandise instead of shopping sales in the Deal Hunter above.These are sites like quibids.com where you buy the bids before you bid on items.In this way you will be able to get very good deals on truly hot items.I won’t explain all of their rules in this article but the deals you can pick up at auction sites like quibids have real potential.Then once you have these deals in hand you simply list them on eBay and Craigslist.If you do your bidding correctly and really learn the system you should be able to sell your items at the same price as the cheapest resellers on eBay and still make decent money.NOW for your surprise bonus, saving the VERY BEST for last…Business #4 The Online Price Buster!With your price buster business I will show you where you can get an insanely valuable report dirt cheap. In it you will discover how to find all the very best wholesale vendors for nearly any item you could ever dream of selling.The real value of this is you won’t just get an old outdated suppliers list that lots of other people have.No, no, no!Instead, YOU will discover the insider method of how to instantly find rock bottom price wholesaler’s so you can watch your profits soar!You see, lists get old and outdated. BUT, once you discover the secret to uncovering incredible wholesale connections in mere seconds you become an unstoppable business force!Plus, when new products are launched by big companies you can jump on them super fast and profit quickly! Then you list them on eBay, Craigslist and Amazon (yes you can sell on Amazon too!)Here’s how fast you can react with this system. You can see a new product launch in the news, find a wholesaler in seconds and have your listings up on eBay, Craigslist and Amazon etc.. all in under an hour.But ONLY when you know the secret…
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What Are The Greatest Changes In Shopping In Your Lifetime
What are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime? So asked my 9 year old grandson.
As I thought of the question the local Green Grocer came to mind. Because that is what the greatest change in shopping in my lifetime is.
That was the first place to start with the question of what are the greatest changes in shopping in your lifetime.
Our local green grocer was the most important change in shopping in my lifetime. Beside him was our butcher, a hairdresser and a chemist.
Looking back, we were well catered for as we had quite a few in our suburb. And yes, the greatest changes in shopping in my lifetime were with the small family owned businesses.
Entertainment While Shopping Has Changed
Buying butter was an entertainment in itself.
My sister and I often had to go to a favourite family grocer close by. We were always polite as we asked for a pound or two of butter and other small items.
Out came a big block of wet butter wrapped in grease-proof paper. Brought from the back of the shop, placed on a huge counter top and included two grooved pates.
That was a big change in our shopping in my lifetime… you don’t come across butter bashing nowadays.
Our old friendly Mr. Mahon with the moustache, would cut a square of butter. Lift it to another piece of greaseproof paper with his pates. On it went to the weighing scales, a bit sliced off or added here and there.
Our old grocer would then bash it with gusto, turning it over and over. Upside down and sideways it went, so that it had grooves from the pates, splashes going everywhere, including our faces.
My sister and I thought this was great fun and it always cracked us up. We loved it, as we loved Mahon’s, on the corner, our very favourite grocery shop.
Grocery Shopping
Further afield, we often had to go to another of my mother’s favourite, not so local, green grocer’s. Mr. McKessie, ( spelt phonetically) would take our list, gather the groceries and put them all in a big cardboard box.
And because we were good customers he always delivered them to our house free of charge. But he wasn’t nearly as much fun as old Mr. Mahon. Even so, he was a nice man.
All Things Fresh
So there were very many common services such as home deliveries like:
• Farm eggs
• Fresh vegetables
• Cow’s milk
• Freshly baked bread
• Coal for our open fires
Delivery Services
A man used to come to our house a couple of times a week with farm fresh eggs.
Another used to come every day with fresh vegetables, although my father loved growing his own.
Our milk, topped with beautiful cream, was delivered to our doorstep every single morning.
Unbelievably, come think of it now, our bread came to us in a huge van driven by our “bread-man” named Jerry who became a family friend.
My parents always invited Jerry and his wife to their parties, and there were many during the summer months. Kids and adults all thoroughly enjoyed these times. Alcohol was never included, my parents were teetotallers. Lemonade was a treat, with home made sandwiches and cakes.
The coal-man was another who delivered bags of coal for our open fires. I can still see his sooty face under his tweed cap but I can’t remember his name. We knew them all by name but most of them escape me now.
Mr. Higgins, a service man from the Hoover Company always came to our house to replace our old vacuum cleaner with an updated model.
Our insurance company even sent a man to collect the weekly premium.
People then only paid for their shopping with cash. This in itself has been a huge change in shopping in my lifetime.
In some department stores there was a system whereby the money from the cash registers was transported in a small cylinder on a moving wire track to the central office.
Some Of The Bigger Changes
Some of the bigger changes in shopping were the opening of supermarkets.
• Supermarkets replaced many individual smaller grocery shops. Cash and bank cheques have given way to credit and key cards.
• Internet shopping… the latest trend, but in many minds, doing more harm, to book shops.
• Not many written shopping lists, because mobile phones have taken over.
On a more optimistic note, I hear that book shops are popular again after a decline.
Personal Service Has Most Definitely Changed
So, no one really has to leave home, to purchase almost anything, technology makes it so easy to do online.
And we have a much bigger range of products now, to choose from, and credit cards have given us the greatest ease of payment.
We have longer shopping hours, and weekend shopping. But we have lost the personal service that we oldies had taken for granted and also appreciated.
Because of their frenetic lifestyles, I have heard people say they find shopping very stressful, that is grocery shopping. I’m sure it is when you have to dash home and cook dinner after a days work. I often think there has to be a better, less stressful way.
My mother had the best of both worlds, in the services she had at her disposal. With a full time job looking after 9 people, 7 children plus her and my dad, she was very lucky. Lucky too that she did not have 2 jobs.