Business: Creative Income Ideas

Creative Income Ideas

Written by Jonathan R Taylor

Ideas are a dime a dozen. It has been said we all have 2 or 3 ideas every year that if put into action, would make us wealthy. The problem is--most people don’t do anything with their ideas. Here are a couple of examples of those who have taken action on their ideas:

Jim Miller enjoyed planning celebration events, so he came up with repparttar idea of putting corporate picnics together for companies. He earns $1,500 to $7,000 net profit per picnic after all expenses and has also written a 355 page manual How to Start and Operate a Corporate Picnic Business which retails for $49.95. He also puts together kid’s entertainment parties as well. Check out his web site: www.kidsentertainmentbusiness.com.

Marco Johnson, 38, a firefighter from Lancaster, Ca. saw too many deaths in his profession that could have been prevented if someone at repparttar 103570 scene had taken action. He began offering medical training classes in 1997, teaching first aid and CPR. His wife, Sandra, organized repparttar 103571 time and place and secured repparttar 103572 students for him as well. In repparttar 103573 last seven years, repparttar 103574 demand has increased and he now employees 42 staff members and certifies 8,000 people per year in CPR and first aid. What started out as offering classes each week has exploded into Antelope Valley Medical College which now offers certification programs for medical assistants, vocational nurses, paramedics, and EMTs. The projected sales for 2004 are estimated to be close to $7.5 million.

So you want to start a business?

Written by Robert J Farey

So you want to start a business on repparttar

Internet?

What kind of business? Where do you start? What do you intend to do? Have you a product that you would like to sell? Or have you a service to provide? What experience do you have?

These are just repparttar 103569 basic questions you must ask yourself before you even think about starting a business.

The vast majority of web businesses are started by people who have no business experience whatsoever. They are under repparttar 103570 impression that all that you have to do is to set up a website, put a couple of adverts in a few ezines, then sit back and wait for repparttar 103571 money to start pouring in. Life is never that easy.

This brings us to repparttar 103572 question, "How do you start a business using repparttar 103573 Internet?" which can be answered in a number of ways. All of them quite legitimate. Ask a dozen successful internet entrepreneurs how they got started and you will probably get a dozen different answers.

This does not mean that if they were starting from scratch right now that they would follow repparttar 103574 same path. They will all have learned from repparttar 103575 mistakes that they made on repparttar 103576 way up. I know that I have.

How would they do it now? Remember that repparttar 103577 Internet is constantly changing. What worked a couple of years ago is not necessarily repparttar 103578 best way to go now.

How would I do it?

To get repparttar 103579 money coming in as quickly as possible, building a website would have to wait. The first thing is to have something to sell.

Ideally, something that can be delivered electronically. Something like an instruction book. There are hundreds of sites that will sell you repparttar 103580 rights to one or more of their existing stock of books. You can then sell it as often as you can and keep all of repparttar 103581 profits.

How do you sell it?

You need a system that allows your customers to download your book. You will also need a method of collecting repparttar 103582 money. You will then need a method of collecting repparttar 103583 email addresses of your customers so that you can make them a further offer at a later date. If you are new to repparttar 103584 internet this willrequire a certain amount of expertise.

There is an alternative way of doing it. Sign up to an affiliate program, repparttar 103585 owners of repparttar 103586 program will do all that is necessary regarding repparttar 103587 downloading and seeing that you get your just rewards. All you have to do is to sell it.

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