Fast Money Plan: 2 Businesses You Can Start On A Shoestring Budget
Fast Money Plan: 2 Businesses You Can Start On A Shoestring Budget
Surefire Businesses You Can Start Today
There are thousands of businesses you can start on a shoestring budget without a large investment, but do return profits fast, hence a fast money plan.
These businesses can also be started with practically no money and generate income almost immediately.
If you’re looking for such a quick start business, it might be because you are in a time of financial need right now.
Maybe you’re just overcoming a health problem, or you’ve recently left a job with no savings to fall back on.
Or maybe you’re newly separated from your spouse, and looking at the prospect of supporting yourself for the first time in years, or even the first time ever.
Whatever the difficulty may be, you’ll find a solution here.
If you are short of cash and feeling anxious to get your life on a more prosperous track, the following possibilities are designed to minimize your initial cash investment.
1. Prepackaged Lunch Specialties
For some of you who work in the restaurant industry, now is the time to think out of the box as never before.
Many years ago, I was amazed to discover one of my office co-workers was selling her homemade, prepackaged hot dogs, sandwiches an lemonade from the trunk of her car.
She was providing delicious, inexpensive lunch specialties that are fast money-makers where ever there are large numbers of workers, sports venues downtown areas near office buildings, factories, construction sites, and colleges.
Spend a day visualizing what food services operate in the area.
Are lunch wagons and food carts serving the area?
If there are a lot of food vendors, this means there are large numbers of potential customers.
Canvas offices, talk with people to insure that you have a market.
Find out what foods people are most interested in buying.
Your best advertising will be fliers listing selections and prices, and distributed in or outside office buildings and factories.
Concentrate on quality, not variety.
Plan three or four daily items, perhaps one being the special of the day.
change the special each day, but repeat the sequence each week.
Buy as many of your supplies as possible in bulk from low-cost grocery stores or restaurant wholesale outlets.
They sell bulk coleslaw, potato salad, and the like, as well as paper supplies.
Prepare the food specialties in the morning so that they’ll be absolutely fresh and neat.
Dress well, and smile.
If all goes well, you can live off of your proceeds immediately.
This is a cash business!
2. Hauling And Moving
You don’t even have to own a truck to get into this business.
Start out by renting one each time you get a moving or hauling job.
One out of five people move each year.
As do a substantial number of businesses.
You won’t handle large or interstate moves, but you can handle a lot of smaller moves.
And then there are all those people who aren’t moving, but who want to discard an old refrigerator, oven, or broken-down chair.
Or need to have garden debris or an old fence hauled away (some of these items can be sold).
Call yourself a trucker and not a mover to avoid licensing and regulatory problems.
Have your customers take responsibility for breakage on their own insurance so that you can avoid high insurance premiums.
Customers usually don’t mind that you’re uninsured; your low rates make up for it.
Sometimes you’ll have to pay for a damage out of your pocket if you’re careless.
Promotion
To promote your business, hire a Fiverr freelancer and post attractive fliers on bulletin boards and telephone poles:
“MOVING/HAULING. $17/HOUR.
Light Moving—Local and Suburbs.
555-555-6544
If you’re interested in moving/hauling for college and university dormitories, title your flier:
“STUDENT MOVERS”
Students are always looking for movers/haulers to move between dorms, on and off campus.
All fliers should have tear-off tabs with your phone number at the bottom and a website.
Place ads in Craigslist and penny savers.
Leave fliers or business cards with college fraternities and dorm managers, churches, Real Estate agents, apartment managers, furniture and appliance stores, scrap metal companies, secondhand stores.
Keep in touch with them regularly so that they will refer business to you.
Your hourly charge includes the travel time it takes to get to and back from the job.
Rent the truck when you need it.
You can also rent a hand truck, dolly and furniture padding.
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For many jobs you may need a helper or two, usually your friends.
When hauling away junk, your hourly fee is not all the income you can earn.
Much of this junk has value and you can sell it at garage sales, flea markets, used furniture stores, thrift stops, through Craigslist classified ads, and antique dealers.
Appliances, rare books, lamps, paintings, antiques, old China, furniture, tools, office furniture, rugs, musical instruments, and all sorts of collectibles are just some of the things you may discover that could have value and bring you good money.
Read: Guide On How To Flip Secondhand Appliances
Some items are salable just as you receive them.
Others, like furniture, toys and appliances might need a good cleaning, a little paint, or minor repair.
As soon as you’ve set aside enough of the profits to put a down payment on a used truck or van (used mail or UPS van), you’ve got your own real business.
Promote it and you’ll soon have two trucks driven by people you hire.
Delivery Service
You can add delivery work to your business to keep your calendar full.
Contact large appliance stores and lumber dealers.
Run ads for both your moving/hauling service and your delivery service.
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