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(1) HAND DECORATING of general objects remunerate well. Their value is often times quadrupled. Prepared stencils and designs are available from sideline shops. You may work in attic or basement and need invest very little in supplies. Saleable items are initialled tumblers, stools, trays, jugs, boxes, waste-baskets, greeting cards, toys. Sell your work to gift shops on a sale or return basis. (2) ADDRESSING AND MAILING SERVICE This work may be received by writing or telephoning section stores, merchandising and mail order firms, addressing bureaux, and direct mail services listed in the telephone directory. You may publicize your service underneath “Employment” in local newsprints and in the telephone book. (3) COLLECT AND SELL COINS Coin gathering is booming. Supplying collectors is a profitable home business. Get to know values by reading books and catalogues. Buy conservatively from reputable dealers and from private origins through classified ads in local papers. Sell through private contacts and mail order advertisments in “Coins” and other collectors’ and sideline magazines, and in “Exchange & Mart ” Weekly, underneath “Coins”. See No 113 on Home Mail Order Business . Combine with No 79. (4) CORRESPONDENCE CLUB Your income is from fees charged for people to join the club to receive the names of others who wish to correspond. In this home mail order business you cater for galore particular interest: hobbyists, coin or stamp collectors, booklovers, prize contest enthusiasts, writers. (5) PROFITABLE SEWING AT HOME There is cash in a home dressmaking service. It often recompense to specialise. Some do well re-modelling old dresses, or making novelties or children’s wear. A sign in your window, a card on Y.W.C.A. detect boards and students’ bulletins, classified ads in the local newspaper and calls on dress shops and gift stores fetch business. (6) MAKING LAMPS AND SHADES at home recompense well, as they oftentimes trade for a lot of times the material costs. Lamp shades may be made in home workshops from linen, plastics, silk, paper and parchment. Local public libraries have manuals on the subject. Outlets are gift shops and division stores. Co-operate with interior designers. (7) RENTAL BUSINESS This has mushroomed into an beautiful new business opportunity. People like to borrow, do-it-yourselfers rent professional equipment. Many men are doing well these days by acting as rental agents for all manner of things – power tools, trucks, cars, electric generators, etc. (8) ANIMAL BREEDING Pedigree dogs and other pets command high prices today. It is essential to commence with the right stock and keep to the instructions given in handbooks available at local public libraries. Two females mated at dissimilar times of the year could prove profitable. (9) BASKETRY AND CANE WORK can be successful if you keep a good general of workmanship. Use bright enamel paints for finishing and keep to usual designs and articles. Study the market and offer your productions on sale or return to gift and novelty shops, stores, women’s exchanges etc. (10) LOCAL NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT Suitable if you are a good ‘mixer’ and have good local cognition and write plain English. Start by sending local editors specimen reports. (11) CRITICISM OF WRITERS’ MANUSCRIPTS Profitable if you are keen, have numerous flair, and study writers’ manuals. Advertise in “The Writer”, “Writer’s Review”, and “Writing”. (12) RESEARCH SERVICE Writers, lecturers, business companies and others need free-lance specialists to look up selective information which may be found in public and particular libraries, museums and trade associations. Get work through classified ads in literary and writers’ magazines. Home operators may earn oe2.50 to oe3.00 per hour. Your local reference libraries will help. (13) BUYING AND SELLING ON COMMISSION Start with an outbuilding or store room until you may take a little shop. No noesis of your goods is necessary. Take a commission of 15% to 25% on everything you sell. Suppose a client brings in a table, chair, or camera for which he asks a sure price. When you have found a buyer you notify your client, who collects the cash and recompense your commission. Your only expenditures are for the space, and classified ads. Furniture, T.V. sets, cameras, typewriters, prams, trade well. (14) IDEAS FOR CARTOONISTS Cartoonists pay well for ideas and gags that suit their style. Write to cartoonists care of the magazines in which their cartoons appear. (15) AT-HOME BABY SITTING is an increasing in-demand spare-time activity. Mothers fetch their child to the baby-sitter’s home, some taking seven or eight at once, charging by the hour, plus something extra if a meal is given. Combine with No 92. (16) AGENCY SUPERVISORS working from home are wanted by Buying Protection Services, 20 Gorham, Rottingdean, Brighton. BN2 7DP. (17) INVISIBLE RE-WEAVING This service is frequent and rewarding because it salvages costly garments at substantially less cost than would be necessitated to replace them. There is exceptionally good scope in little community neighbourhoods. (18) HANDBILL DISTRIBUTION for business firms and other advertisers may be profitable. Door-to-door deliverance may be arranged with senior school-children. Sales letters sent to division stores and other local advertisers may fetch good results, also advertisements in “The Trader”. (19) RUG AND FURNITURE CLEANING is a growing business. In America especially, more and more people own and operate an ‘on location’ rug and furniture cleaning franchise, such as Service-master, 2117 North Wayne Ave., Chicago 14, Illinis. In England similar firms promote in “Exchange & Mart”, “Sunday Times”, and “The Observer”. (20) SELL MAGAZINES This requires no office and it may be evening work. Write to publishers requesting the right to get subscritions. Approach schools, hospitals, offices and private persons in their home and at their business. Solicit orders by telephone and direct mail advertising. Or concentrate on back numbers which may be purchased and sold through advertisements in (21) HOME MANUFACTURING Many saleable productions may effortlessly be made at home, and sold through gift shops and other retailers. (22) USED CRRESPONDENCE COURSES at reasonable prices are in demand and various people in America are running this type of mail order business. They include second-hand instruction manuals and self-improvement books in their lists. Advertise underneath “Educational” in “Exchange & Mart”. Combine with NO 114. (23) UPHOLSTERING AND FURNITURE REMODELLING Once you have learned the “know-how” this may recompense well. Public libraries have some good books on the subject and a lot may be learned from craft and sideline magazines. Many start out with just a box of hand tools and a lot of particular equipment. (24) WINDOW DRESSING calls for, of course, artistic capacity and skill with tools, plus imagination. It is advisable to get tuition in the subject at evening classes. (25) MAKE PLYWOOD NOVELTIES and trade through gift shops. Popular items: weather vanes, ships, squirrels, dogs, birds, row-boats, name and address backgroungs, picture puzzles, jigsaw puzzles, jewel boxes, comic plaques, doll furniture. (26) JUVENILE CLOTHING EXCHANGE Many women in the suburbs of London and other cities run a children’s costume exchange, where mothers interchange children’s unwanted, out-grown garments for others and recompense an interchange fee. This project may be combined with the sale of boys’ and youths’ wear such as shorts, T-shirts etc., of your own make, or from wholesale suppliers listed in “The Trader”. (27) BOOK INDEXING Indexing books for non-fiction publishers is pleasant, profitable work. The technique may be learned from handbooks in public libraries. Work is received by writing to non-fiction publishers listed in the “Writers and Artists Year Book”. (28) DANCING LESSONS Needs skill and a gift for teaching. Local classified ads fetch pupils. Teach in your own home at first. Special classes for middle-aged people remunerate well. (29) HANDWRITING ANALYSIS This is a service which may be fruitfully advertised with classified ads in magazines and newspapers. The skill may be acquired from manuals on graphology. (30) REMINDER BUREAU With such a service you undertake for an annual fee to remind persons of birthdays, wedding anniversaries, dates for payments, etc. You get your clients through “Personal” ads in “Sunday Times” and “Observer”. (31) RAISING RABBITS has the vantage of three markets: merchandising fur, breeding stock, and meat. This project may be started in a big backyard free from local limitations versus raising animals. Get “know-how” from local library. (32) ENTERTINING in the form of singing, recitations, magic, dancing, doing a comedy act etc., calls for skill in your queer line, and a “way” with an audience. To get bookings it is necessary to become well known in your area by giving gain performances for charitable affairs, hospitals and orphanages. (33) EMBROIDERING beautifully prettified cigarette cases, velvet compacts, pin cushions, baby dresses etc., is profitable. Sales are through gift shops. Get “Embroidery” magazine which advertises probabilities and a communication exchange course from Embroiderers Guild, 73 Wimpole Street, London W.1. (34) DRAW CARTOONS FOR MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS Cartoons are well salaried today and there are some splendid handbooks and communication exchange courses on the subject. Some cartoonists do well by specialising in providing industrial magazines with cartoons. Markets are listed in “Writers and Artist Year Book”. (35) DECORATED CANDLES These are good vendors to gift shops. Study craft magazines, visit gift shops, and undertake to turn out something different. (36) PART-TIME PUBLICITY WORK You supply public relations aid to little businesses in your area, arranging press parties, preparing news releases, arranging interviews, etc. Know-how may be received from handbooks on public relations at your public library. (37) MAKING & SELLING HANDMADE SHELL DECORATED JEWELLERY For this home business you need artistic ability, finger dexterity and psychological result of perception learning and reasoning of the market. Handbooks give full information. Sell through friends, neighbours, church groups, members of women’s clubs, gift and novelty shops, dress shops and beauty salons. (38) DOG TRAINING If you have the gift for it and the necessary know-how from books on dog training you may get this kind of profitable work with regular advertising in the local press. This may be combined with the sale of dog requisites. (39) BOOK-KEEPING SERVICE Local newsprints oftentimes incorporate part-time vacancies, or you may approach grocers, service stations, clubs, public houses and respective merchants who sells goods at retail who may need a home book-keeping service, rather than a more costly firm of accountants, to aid prepare and maintain tax forms and records. (40) MANUFACTURER’S REPRESENTATIVE AT HOME This means calling in independent and chain selling stores of all kinds and soliciting volume orders. You handle no merchandise but send the orders to the factory which then ships the order direct to the retailer. There is no retail door-to-door to consumers. You need no office, only a telephone and a lot of stationery. (41) WOODWORKING using 3/8″ or 1/2″ plywood, is profitable if you may make such items as beautiful bedside cabinets and kitchen fixtures, and charge not more than 100% above the cost of the materials. Consult your local library for books. (42) A MENDING SERVICE for single men, business girls, school-teachers, professional humans and over-worked housewives may pay well. Advertise at week-ends in the classified division of your local newspaper. This work may be combined with galore other sewing. (43) RAISING CANARIES, BUDGERIGARS AND PARAKEETS You need a sunny room, starting with one or two pairs of birds. Sell the offspring to friends, neighbours and local pet stores. (44) MAKING AND SELLING FOODS This compensate handsomely. Items in demand are cakes, jams, jellies, maple syrup, apple cider, cheese, cookies, candies, etc. Sell through gift shops, tea rooms, hotels, grocers, and by little classified advertisements in national Sunday newsprints and women’s magazines. It is standard to fix prices by doubling the cost of ingredients. (45) MODELLING Photographers, art schools, publicity agencies, moving picture agencies, section stores, T.V. stations, want women, men and boys as models for advretising, illustrations for clothes and other products, magazine illustrations. (46) PROFITS IN KNITTING This is a home action that remunerate well. Women buy sweaters, dresses and two and three-piece suits; men need mufflers, gloves, socks, jackets, sweaters; and children’s knitted wear is likewise in demand at good prices. Sell privately through local babywear shops, gift shops and other suitable syndication outlets; by mail order; likewise by approaching suitable firms. (47) NURSERY SCHOOL Many women with the necessary experience with children earn good cash operating a nursery school merely by making their services known through local classified advertisements. :FORTYEIGHT (48) NOVELTY, TOY AND BRIC-A-BRAC SHOP Interesting if you may make articles in demand that likewise trade to wholesalers, mail order houses, stores, souvenir shops, gift shops. Typical items: paperweights, desk sets, book-ends. (49) DEMONSTRATIONS Details of an beautiful range of lavishness skin care productions for demonstrating from your own home at generous profits are obtainable from B & G Delaney, 18 Wellington Square, Chelsea, London SW3. Agents to trade beauty preparations are wanted by Avon Cosmetics Ltd., 84 Baker Street, London W.1. (50) SELLING SHIRTS to friends and workmates at actual wholesale prices is a usual spare time activity. A free starting outfit of actual shirting samples, coloured illustration, etc., is offered by K.L.Shirts, 349 Edgware Road, London W2. (51) HOOKED AND BRAIDED RUGS and novelties made at home trade well in local shops. Lamp and vase mats, handbags, hot dish mats, seat covers, toilet seat covers, backrests and slippers are in demand. Rugmaking kits are obtainable from Winwood Textiles, Kidderminster, Worcs. (52) COLLECTING AND SELLING SCRAP METAL is profitable. If you have transport you may get started by gathering scrap in your locality. Your local library will have a book on metal identification that will tell you how to discern steel, lead, zinc, bronze, brass, iron, etc. Your librarian will support you to track down buyers. (53) SELL PRINTED STATIONERY There are a lot of outlets, stationers, friends, and by mail order. Books giving the know-how are obtainable from your public library and new and secondhand printed machinery is advertised on a weekly basis in the “Exchange & Mart”. Profits are good and authenti work much in demand. Start spare-time and give rise to into full-time. (54) MUSHROOM GROWING This may be conducted in a shed or basement. A exhaustive noesis of the subject is essential. Sales may be made through a sign in your window; through local newspaper advertisements or a roadside stand; and to local greengrocers, restaurants and hotels. (55) MAKING CURTAINS AND RUGS is a pleasant home occupation. Many humans are glad of such a money-saving service. Get business through telephone and personal calls, letters and classified advertisements in local newspaper, trade privately and through gift shops. Get furnishes at trade rates through wholesalers listed in the telephone book and in craft journals. (56) A FILM DEVELOPING SERVICE can be a very profitable occupation, peculiarly in the summer. You may work from home and get business by providing chemists 25% commission to act as agents. (57) CHILDREN’S PLAYROOM Some women have invented a profitable second income by turning one of their rooms into children;s playroom, fixing it up with bright walls, games, puzzles, toys and books. (58) CURIOS AND NOVELTIES Made at home, these items may be sold directly to the public or through merchandising outlets such as gift shops, novelty and curio shops. (59) COLLECT AND SELL AUTOGRAPHS These may be picked up, many times cheaply, from estate sales and secondhand bookshops, also by writing to widely known and esteemed people telling them how much you be grateful for something they have done or written (such letters ofttimes fetch a thank you note). (60) BABY SITTING AGENCY A baby sitting (and invalid sitting) agency is well worthwhile. Operators publicize for baby sitters in the local newspaper and check their suitability. The agency mails postcards to parents, women’s groups and church groups making known it is service. (61) BUYING AND SELLING OLD CHINA AND GLASS It is possible to make good profits by buying sure types of old china and glass from secondhand stores, auction sales, etc., and merchandising them privately and to antiquate dealers. (62) FURNITURE AND APPLIANCE REPAIRING If you have the capacity there is good scope in this field because everyplace humans like to be capable to call in someone to salvage old furniture, reconstruct lamps, fix chairs and sofas, etc. Owners of apartment houses are often glad to remunerate 5% of the rent to someone who will gather per month rents, place income in the bank, superintend maintenance and show persons over vacant flats. (64) FELT CRAFT it is rather easy and oftentimes highly lucrative. Home operators obtain low-priced kits from supply houses, scraps from departent stores, milliners and mills, and make toy animals, table mats, handbags, holders, hot dish pads, slippers, hats, belts glass cases, felt flowers, purses. Sell to gift shops. (65) OPERATE A SPARETIME AGENCY ROM HOME Details of respective agencies from Wessex First Aid Co., 6a Royal Parade, Kew Gardens, Richmond, Surrey; Progressive Insurance Brokers, 7 Judd Street, London W.C.1; Garden Estate Nurseries Ltd., 4 Station Road, Wytleaf, Surrey. (66) WRITING FOR MONEY Thousands of magazines recompense well for articles and stories that suit their public. Many beginners get into print with the help of manuals such as “Write for Money” (from your authorised distributor). Markets are listed in “Writers and Artists Year Book”. (67) A HOME REPAIR SHOP for toys, dolls and household items is cherished in most towns. Such a service may be made known with proclamations on detect boards, a sign in your window and with classified advertisements in local newspapers. (68) PREPARING CURRICULUM VITAE (C.V.’s) on your home P.C. and printing out on daisy-wheel or laser printer. Very esteemed results are achieved thence materially assisting occupation candidates. Fees of £25 – £50 may be accumulated for the finished product. Advertise your service in local/national newspapers. (69) WORDPROCESSING SERVICE from home using P.C. suitable software as ‘Wordstar’ and a daisy-wheel printer. Reports, special letters, quotations, invoices may without apparent effort be invented using state-of-the-art peripherals. Customers will be little businesses such as builders, doctors, accountants. Demand will be regular. (70) DRESSMAKING FOR OFF-SIZED FOLK Because so numerous people cannot wear the standard-sized costumes sold in shops, this is an magnificent speciality. (71) WRITING COMPUTER SOTWARE Children love novel computer games thence creating a continuous demand for new and better arcade quality software. If you have programming attainments (or these achievements may be acquired through local college courses) then writing these games using computer language could prove a very profitable venture. (72) ILLUSTRATED LECTURES There is cash in this. Build up a collection of colour slides on two or three general subjects. Read up these subjects over a period. Then write providing to give illustrated talks to clubs, civic organisations, instructional foundations and workers of business firms. Projectors may be hired. (73) HAT RENOVATING A number of women in little and more spectacular towns add to their income by giving ‘new life’ to hats, altering the style to make them look new and different. (74) POULTRY BREEDING If you have the inclination and the space, plus a good deal of capacity for buying and retail you could look into this possibility, studying the journals and manuals on the subject at the local library. (75) HOME IMPORT-EXPORT BUSINESS This field bristles with probabilities and involves only very modest expenditure to start. One operator claims to make an intermediate of oe15,000 to oe20,000 a year and he started with very little capital. The necessary know-how is without apparent effort acquired; there are authenti manuals on world trade, showing how to start, how to get government help, how and where to buy, how to trade locally and by mail, etc. (76) PRINTING SERVICE Selling printed items (letterheads, envelopes, forms etc.,) through local solicitation involves no equipment, no stock, no financial investment, no figuring. You find a wholesaler printer who will supply a catalogue and samples; these do the main job. (77) PREPARING SPEECHES If you have the capacity to prepare speeches there is well salaried work to be received from people active in trade associations, literary clubs, political groups and social clubs. A letter, with your business card, sent to the secretaries of such associations may well lead to interesting work. Payment may be rather high according to the type of speech and the amount of exploration necessitated . (78) PART -TIME TAXI DRIVING It is necessary to be over 21 years of age and to possess a driver’s licence. Apply to local taxicab companies. (79) DEALING IN POSTAGE STAMPS gives a great deal of scope today with the ever-increasing interest in stamp gathering for pleasure and profit. There are over 3 million gatherers of stamps in the British Isles and when it comes to 12 million allround the world. Even if you confine yourself to supplying accumulators in Great Britain, you may make a good income. (80) PAPER HANGING if you may do it well, is a wanted service. Insert classified ads saying you will embellish houses at low rates (get the know-how from library books). Request a discount of 20% on wallpaper supplied by retailers. (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 merchandising applied or new cars, second in running a motor insurance agency. You may buy applied cars cheaply at weekly auctions and trade for splendid profits from home. Advertise in your local paper under cars for sale. (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 carry out the work at home, at a significant saving for the client. (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., little pitchers and mugs, vases and flower bowls. (85) PROFITS FROM PLASTIC LAMINATING There is a demand for this service because so numerous persons 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 advertize in “Exchange & Mart”. (86) PET OWNER SERVICE Shampooing and boarding pets is a sought-after service in higher-income areas. Poodle clipping is likewise in demand. Your local public library in all likelihood has books on dogs and clipping. Cards displayed at newsagents and classified advertisements in local newsprints fetch this kind of business. (87) LOCATE OUT-OF-PRINT BOOKS This recompense well. You place two-line classified ads in literary periodicals such as “Books and Bookman”, “Times Literary Supplement”, “Time and Tide”, providing to find scarce books a “free search service”. You insert other ads indicating specific titles wanted in “The Clique”. (88) TELEPHONE ANSWERING SERVICE Such services are used by lawyers, doctors, fix men, contractos and others who are not always capable to have an individual to answer ‘phone calls’. Many housewives, shut-ins, married couples and others find that a telephone answering service remunerate well. A on a monthly basis 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 competent to offer a wholly computerised book-keeping and accounting service including; buy ledger, net income and loss accounts, sales ledger, nominal ledger, earnings forecasting. (90) TOY MAKING calls for a keen interest, market study and initiative; in demand are: tricks, games, game boards, masks, instructional 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 (91) TEACH TYPEWRITING Many stenographers take a typing class at home in the evening, using rented typewriters and ads in local papers. (92) A LIST BROKING SERVICE can provide a good income, spare-time or full-time. List Broking is huge 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. (93) CHINCHILLA BREEDING is evenly profitable. This may be undertaken at home since most humans have a spare corner or cupboard beneath the stairs to keep the cages. Chinchillas are getting exceedingly general animals consequently this may become a very profitable croft business. (94) WEDDING VIDEO SERVICE offering a personal video of this particular occasion is a profitable usage of a “camcorder”. Many young brides want a living momento of their wedding-day. oe20-oe30 per copy may be realised for 1-2 hours work. Up to a dozen copies may be sold from each ceremony. Advertise in your local paper. A “camcorder” may be purchased as cheaply as oe450. (95) TYPEWRITER REPAIRS A home typewriter repair service may compensate well. Get business through office supply stores and little 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 compensate well. It is merely typing on to a wax stencil (without the typewriter ribbon). Erasures and corrections are made with a liquid which may be purchased at any office stationery shop. (98) SELLING OCCULT AND METAPHYSICAL BOOKS BY MAIL is interesting and may be profitable. In England a dependable advert medium for such books is “Prediction”; in America “Fate”. (99) SILK SCREEN PRINTING can be magnificent home business. The routine is employed 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 utile manuals on the subject. (101) SELLING INSURANCE This is growing enormously and the future market is very great. Most insurance companies have training facilities. Men and Women act as sole proprietor, operating their own business in their own time. (102) SIGHT-SEEING GUIDANCE AND LECTURING is normally seasonal work. It is necessary to be a fluent talker and recognise how to handle people. Become intimate with the points of interest you will talk with regards to from handbooks at your public library. Apply to sight-seeing companies in your area. (103) SECOND HAND BOOK SERVICE Books may often times be purchased cheaply at private sales, from markets and side-street secondhand bookshops, and through classified advertisements in “Book Market” and “Exchange & Mart” (under books). They may be sold to specialist booksellers and through classified publicity under “Books” in “Exchange & Mart”. (104) DESK TOP PUBLISHING Armed with an Apple Macintosh computer and software such as “Pagemaker” and a laser printer (total outlay for second-hand instrumentation ….see ‘Computer for Sale’ in “Exchange & Mart”….as little as oe3500) and a few hours home training from the ‘user friendly’ manuals accompanying this instrumentation you have the basis for a ready made business. Charge oe25 – oe40 per hour for preparing the art for letterheads, manuals, business cards, etc. Customers will be little printers, big printers with overspill, mail-order dealers. (105) MONEY FROM YOUR CAMERA Sizeable incomes are being made by free-lance photographers. Clubs oftentimes want group shots of the membership. Home portraiture recompense well. Local business firms buy pictures of their products. Retail stores want photographic show cards. (106) HANDYMAN SERVICE Profitable odd jobs for local householders include furniture repairing, patching up cement, simple plumbing, washing cars, sharpening lawn mowers, garden tidying, fixing labour-saving devices, shelves, etc. With the help of the ordinary manuals available anybody may give primary support for the metal fitting and utencils in the house. It is ofttimes possible to pick up commission through work received for paper hangers, plasterers, carpenters, etc. (107) ‘TRAINING VIDEO’ MAKING Many little and medium sized companies place much special and significant stress on group training. This is very time consuming in terms of staff applied on training tasks. Offering a ‘training video’ service will attract such customers. A training session is ‘video recorded’ and the company use this to impart the required achievements to groups of their employees. (108) WRITING SHORT PARAGRAPHS Most persons may write tips on household management, cookery, child care, etc. Jokes, anecdotes, children’s sayings, business-building gimmicks, etc., are in demand. Many such items receive sizeable cheques from magazines. (109) MAKE AND SELL COSTUME JEWELLERY Home-made costume jewellery trade well to jewellery outlets, gift shops, hairdressers shops, clothes boutiques, and by direct mail. It is possible to begin with fixed capital. Read books borrowed from the local library, study trade journals, and creative writing of recognized artisti value issued by makers of fittings and supplies. Catalogues from Leisurecrafts Ltd., Romford Road, London E.12. Write likewise to Gemcraft, 96 Grove Vale, London S.E.22. (110) HOME TYPING pays well if the right proficiencies are followed. Business firms, professional people and associations in your area need typing done by free-lance typists. Authors need novels, short stories, plays, non-fiction books and articles typed and they are without apparent effort reached through classified ads in writers’ and literary magazines. T (111) COLLECTION SERVICE Many humans with the capacity to write good letters have done well helping business firms with their overdue accounts. Sample collection letters given in handbooks from public libraries may be adapted to suit respective types of businesses. Charge clients from 10% on all cash brought in. (112) TELEX/FAX/PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE Communication and fast coying are critical requisites of modern businesses and executive professionals. Second-hand fascimile and photocopiers are cheaply available. You may charge 10p per photocopy, oe1.00 per minute for fax transmission and oe1.50 per min for telexing. Advertise your service in classified subdivisions of local newsapapers. (113) HOME MAIL ORDER BUSINESS You may get started and operate a profitable mail order business at home with fixed capital if you go the right way regarding it. Starting with closely no capital it is possible to make oe100 a week part-time and oe700 (and much more) full time. “I’ve found mail order a wonderful, a proven way to make high profits in spare time, at home. I think it is the finest spare-time business of all”, writes James Carr, author of a well known Mail Order Course. “You may start out anywhere”, he writes, “using your kitchen table for an office. You do no personal selling. (114) SELLING SELF-HELP AN ‘HOW’ BOOKS BY MAIL This is the most worthy of acceptance or satisfactory type of mail order business. Easy, pleasant and profitable, it is an idealisti spare-time or full-time activity, exceptionally suitable for the beginner in mail order. We do not know of anything else that may be sold as effortlessly and with as little capital as books. They fetch continual repeat business for affiliated books. No licence is necessitated to trade books. (115) CRAFT WORK Because good craftsmanship is scarce today home craftsmen may readily trade beautiful work through gift shops, furniture stores and other retailers, likewise privately. Unusual bookshelves, bookracks, bookends, novelties, wireworks, marquetry, leatherwork, etc. Addresses of handicraft materials and sideline kit suppliers are ordinarily obtainable at local public libraries. |
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