Creating Your Own Business Seasonal Business Ideas Fall
Creating Your Own Business
Seasonal Business Ideas • 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
Carpets for College • Clean carpets with your own machine
Able Body Advertising • Make a sandwich board and advertise for local business
Manuel Labor • Do any job that require manual labor “Manuel” Labor
Flyers for U • Create flyers for local businesses. Print free sample. Charge for copies. E L P M SA Flyers For U
Mow on the Go • Mow lawns with your own mower. Mow on the Go
Hoe on the Go • Hoe weeds with your own hoe Hoe on the Go
Details, Details • Wash & detail cars Details, Details
Maid to Clean • Clean Houses Maid to Clean
Pressed to Impress • Iron clothes for people Pressed to Impress
Grafix • Design logos, flyers, or other graphics Designs
Frozen Delights • Sell ice cream from a push cart Please note: The selling of food items may require a permit.
Promotional Ideas • 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
My Own Business Ventures • 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 Disclaimer: Selling at school is not allowed
Don’t Give Up • 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.
Business Ideas: • Babysitting • Landscape maintenance (mow lawns, do weeds, install sprinklers, 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: • 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: • 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. )
Tips for Signs & Flyers • 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
Sample Signs & Flyers Disclaimer: It is a federal offense to place flyers in or on a mailbox
Sample for Signs & Flyers
Sample for Signs & Flyers
Ideas for Business Cards
Ideas for Brochures
Ideas for Door Hangers
Lemonade Stand http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=ywmk. R 5 lc. Sx. I
Silent Reading • 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
On Your Own
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