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Creating Your Own Business

Creating Your Own Business. Fall: raking leaves, cleaning gutters, growing pumpkins to sell for Halloween, Winter: gift wrapping, hanging Christmas lights, painting windows, Spring: weeds Summer: growing vegetables to sell. Seasonal Business Ideas. Clean carpets with your own machine.

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Creating Your Own Business

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  1. Creating Your Own Business

  2. Fall: raking leaves, cleaning gutters, growing pumpkins to sell for Halloween, • Winter: gift wrapping, hanging Christmas lights, painting windows, • Spring: weeds • Summer: growing vegetables to sell Seasonal Business Ideas

  3. Clean carpets with your own machine Carpets for College

  4. Make a sandwich board and advertise for local business Able Body Advertising

  5. Do any job that require manual labor Manuel Labor “Manuel” Labor

  6. Create flyers for local businesses. Print free sample. Charge for copies. Flyers for U SAMPLE Flyers For U

  7. Mow lawns with your own mower. Mow on the Go Mow on the Go

  8. Hoe weeds with your own hoe Hoe on the Go Hoe on the Go

  9. Wash & detail cars Details, Details, Details Details, Details, Details

  10. Clean Houses Maid to Clean Maid to Clean

  11. Iron clothes for people Pressed to Impress Pressedto Impress

  12. Design logos, flyers, or other graphics Grafix Designs

  13. Sell ice cream from a push cart Frozen Delights Please note: The selling of food items may require a permit.

  14. Discounts for first time customers • Coupons • Volunteer your way into a job • What do you offer that others don’t? • Customized shirts/uniforms • Mention that you are saving money for college Promotional Ideas

  15. Pac-Man Stickers • Used Items • Suckers • Copy Machine • Sports Bottles • Gum Ball Machine at home (M&Ms) • Gum Ball Machines in Businesses • Graphic Design • Video Yearbook • Wooden Reindeer My Own Business Ventures Disclaimer: Selling at school is not allowed

  16. Door-to-door salesmen expect failure 90% of the time. They get turned down 9 out of 10 times. • They realize they must visit 100 houses to make 10 sales. • Focus on the 10% that say yes, not the 90% that say no. Don’t Give Up

  17. Babysitting • Landscape maintenance (mow lawns, do weeds, install sprinklers, plant plants, trim bushes, pick up dog poop, rake, etc.) • Website developer • Computer training • Graphic design (create logos, flyers, signs, etc.) • Painter • Dog walker • Pet sitter • Wash and groom pets • House sitter • Clean gutters Business Ideas:

  18. Car detailing • Tutoring • Clean houses • Lemonade stand • Handyman (or woman) • Pass out flyers with coupons (25 cents each for those returned to the business) • Write articles for online websites like Ezine.com, Howthingswork.com, and Wiki.com • Sell handmade items on http://www.etsy.com/ • Photographer • Videographer • Resell items bought with coupons Business Ideas:

  19. Window washer • Paint seasonal pictures on windows • Be a personal assistant • Clean/organize garages, cupboards, closets, desks, etc. • Cook • Recycle • Pool cleaner • Paint street numbers on curbs • Make address signs with wood and a router • Gum ball machines/vending machines • Party planner • Teach (swim lesson, crochet, knitting, sewing, guitar, piano, another language, etc.) Business Ideas:

  20. Use a larger font for the name of your business • Add a logo • Put contact information (name, phone number, email address, website address) • Use a catchy slogan • List your products/services • Limit the amount of text on the page • List your experience or special skills • Print in color Tips for Signs & Flyers

  21. Sample Signs & Flyers Disclaimer: It is a federal offense to place flyers in or on a mailbox

  22. Sample for Signs & Flyers

  23. Sample for Signs & Flyers

  24. Ideas for Business Cards

  25. Ideas for Brochures

  26. Ideas for Door Hangers

  27. Lemonade Stand http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywmkR5lcSxI

  28. Read pages 109-135 in the book entitled “Cool Stuff” They Should Teach in School by Kent and Kyle Healy • Take down one page of Cornell Notes Silent Reading

  29. On Your Own

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