I am also familiar with this Jacksonville firm SAFETY TECHNOLOGY. Their huge catalog of security locks, stun guns, and protection products will amaze you. They wholesale – you retail. A popular biz opp since 1988.
SMARTY-TAG makes identify theft products that you attach to thinks you don’t want stolen – like your dog Ralph. You can be a distributor for $100 and protect Ralph and more
This may not be a glamorous occupation, but it is a noble one. People can not afford new equipment and are often reluctant to answer ads in the newspaper.
PEMED (www.pemed.com/) is the largest supplier of used medical equipment in the world and will give you a great catalog to see whay types of equipment to look for in garage sales, junk shops, and newspaper and online ads
CALAGRAPHICS is an advertising firm out of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. It has been in operation since 1984 and offers for $35 a MLM mail order set-up with CME Inc (which I can not locate). They are found in many publications so I ask if any reader has ever worked with this firm?
LET me know your experiences with any of the MLM firms shown all over the web.
Years ago my daughter wanted stars on her ceiling so they would shine like the sky at night. I looked into STARSCAPES INTERNATIONAL years ago and their ads are very inviting. I also saw a franchise that cost close to $4,000 and realized that you can purchase glow paint at most paint stores. We painted our own and now that her bedroom is my office, I look at my own sky.
Is this a viable home business? Possibly, but you can start it for about $250. Like a lot of franchises, is the label worth the price-tag in this economy? Visit STAR-MURAL and tell me if it does not resemble the more expensive brand. How many people can name a brand in this category?
This is an occupation that can service small business and professionals (lawyers, contractors), but it also leads itself to servicing the senior market. There are just so many tasks from grocery shopping to delivery of eBay products to the post office. When the weather gets bad, elderly people fear injury on ice walkways.
In recent years there has been growing popularity of exercise programs where mothers can take their babies in strollers and actually get a workout to lose some of that newly gained weight.
While we think the franchise fees and costs are high, you can get some great ideas about this home business by looking at: Stroller Strides LLC (www.strollerstrides.com/) and StrollerFit Inc. (www.strollerfit.com/)
The Internet has allowed people to operate a pre-packaged travel agency from their homes. The real trick is getting customers and the best way is having a niche operation and run Google Ads at people who are specifically looking at unusual travel adventures. Here are some firms to examine.
CRUISINFREE.COM is a Rhode Island firm that specializes in cruises and has associates for $299. One of the largest of these online firms is CRUISES INC, out of Fort Lauderdale. You can start at their base set-up of $495.
MYFREETRAVEL is usually more expensive. If cruise travel is your dream, then compare the services and costs of these firms and research evaluations that are online.
There are so many travel agency franchises with little technology and limited resources, it is hard to evaluate them. The key to the business is finding a niche of travel you love and using all the established agency tools to be a success. Be careful to find out what are your options and what you control in advertising and web page content.
PRESTIGE TRAVEL is a local firm that I know have been serving agents for 18 years. A large company with great services and options is GLOBAL TRAVEL, whose websites have always impressed me. They have a $299 agency package. Do you like cruises? Some of the niche franchises are too costly, but look into CRUISES, INC since 1982 with 400 dealers.
CLIENT BIRTHDAY is actually a software package which produces birthday cards and newsletters describing important facts and fun information. It is a quirky way to send out unique birthday greetings for professional people like physicians and consultants to send their clients. Business spends a lot of money trying to keep existing clients on their roll.
HOME BUSINESS INVENTORY is a software and training program that helps you enter the home inventory business. The software can do collections of valuables so it can branch into some related services.
Many businesses recognize seniors and offer a lower rate or special discounts. Seniors are more and more active on the web with blogs and mega-sites. It could be logical to develop a local or area website that accumulates the coupons and offers and services that help seniors save money.
Besides links to senior-related products, organizations, and government services, this type of website attracts GoogleAds and story commercials (text ads)about physicians, hospitals, and senior-related firms.
The Health and Beauty industries remain a source of home opportunities despite the recession. HEALTH ABOUNDS distributes Isagenox nutritional cleansing products and is revising their product lines with $39-50 kits.
L’BEL COSMETICS offers a diversity of beauty products for distributors. Much more hip is STREAM COSMETICS which makes airbrush cosmetics and tanning products. The SCENTSATIONAL SHOPPE offers over 800 herbs and oils in a global perfume store which is well-planned and direct
There are thousands of family-operated gas stations and wayside restaurants where advertising could be added. The big firms like ALLOVERMEDIA (a good idea site) handle gas pump and frozen billboards (ice box wraps), but often miss the restrooms where localized ads and nearby attractions would work.
DID YOU KNOW?: You spend one second with a TV and radio or Internet ad, but the average ad in a restroom is observed for one minute.
The Internet and viral advertising has caused a general panic across the advertising industry, but it also allows for home business operators to enter the field of experiential marketing and ambient marketing. (I suggest you look up the scope of these two terms.)
People wearing product shirts hand out samples to people heading to a concert. Portable kiosks featuring free coupons at the parking lot of a beach. Cars and trucks flaunting advertisements parked by the convention center.
ROLE MODELS IN ACTION is one of the most unusual children’s opps I have ever seen – kids dress up and are photographed in the costumes of occupations they want to be when they grow up. This is a business? Visit the website.
Or how about being THE FAIRY TALE PRINCESS and visit schools? Wow – I couldn’t be successful at this unless we can have a fairy tale gnome.
