Home Business: Make Money In Your Own Coffee Business

Make Money In Your Own Coffee Business

Written by C.S. Deam

A 2001 survey by repparttar

National Coffee Association indicated that over 100 million people drink coffee on a daily basis and that nearly 60 million more occasionally consume coffee. Based on average drinking habits, repparttar 117195

daily coffee drinker will consume multiple cups per day - totalling hundreds of millions cups of coffee being consumed every 24 hours.

Such enormous consumer demand coupled with repparttar 117196 growing trend toward gourmet coffee presents an opportunity for repparttar 117197 enterprising coffee lovers to take their double shots at generating income while working in an industry which makes their coffee passions percolate.

Coffee-loving entrepreneurs can choose from a wide range of opportunities available to find ones that best matches their tastes. Interested in starting small? Start with a couple machines and a cart. More grande ambitions? Consider a coffee shop franchise.

The Specialty Coffee Association of America's "Market Report" forecasts that repparttar 117198 number of coffeehouses in repparttar 117199 U.S. will grow to 15,000 by repparttar 117200 year 2006. Will one of those coffeehouses be yours?

You can take a couple different paths can to starting your own coffee themed business. One option is to buy repparttar 117201 equipment and supplies yourself, building your own identity and business systems. The other option is to purchase a franchise and benefit from their proven image, proven systems, and established supply chains. Let's look at some examples of coffee related businesses that you could start for yourself.

If you choose repparttar 117202 independent route you can use a wholesaler such as Mr. Churro's to help get you started. Mr. Churro's is Miami-based wholesaler of professional grade machines for making espresso, coffee, and hot chocolate. Beyond acquiring equipment from Mr. Churro's you would need to work out other details of your business details on your own. For example, you would need to find a coffee bean supplier, find a suitable business location, and also learn how to run a coffee business.

10 MORE Ways to Make Money with your Digital Camera

Written by C.S. Deam

1. Pet photos - advertise a Pet Photography business where you photograph pets with their owners. Most owners won't struggle to take a photograph with their pet all by themselves. You can be repparttar

one who makes it easy on them. Not only can you charge for repparttar 117194

service and your time, but you can offer repparttar 117195

photograph in it's digital form or as a print that you can mail to them later - either created by your own photo printer or by a photo processing service.

2. Fishing contests - be around at repparttar 117196 end of a fishing contest to take photographs of repparttar 117197 contestants that didn't even think about bringing a camera. Most fishermen are more concerned about fishing than carrying cameras, and most fisherman also want a picture of their stringer full of fish or repparttar 117198 big one that they're going to have mounted.

3. Parades - be in position to get great shots of folks and floats in repparttar 117199 parade and sell repparttar 117200 prints back to repparttar 117201 individuals or to their family members. The folks who take part in repparttar 117202 parades are often way to busy to take pictures before or after, so someone who captures them in action might really be doing them a favor - and a profitable service.

4. Landmark and tourist photographer - if there's a famous landmark in your area, offer your photography services to tourists who want their photo taken in front of it. Even if repparttar 117203 tourists are carrying a camera and get someone else to take their photo, often repparttar 117204 camera won't be digital with a display so it means repparttar 117205 tourists won't know how repparttar 117206 picture turns out until they're long gone. With your digital camera, you should be able to show them it's a good picture.

5. Graduations - preschool, high school, or college graduations offer dozens, if not hundreds of opportunities to capture a significant moment in someone's life. If repparttar 117207 family members of repparttar 117208 graduate aren't located in as good a location or don't have as good a camera as yourself - you'll have even greater opportunity at getting repparttar 117209 shots they couldn't.

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