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Hot Garage Investments

Here’s the lowdown Go to the built-up, urban area on the edge of a city near you, somewhere that’s full of narrow streets and Victorian terraced properties. You’ll know somewhere close to you, most likely. The supply of garages is severely limited – they’re few and far between. Home-owners with…

Writing About Home Businesses: 6 Toymaking

TOYMAKING Toy making can range from very basic soft toys intended for heavy and frequent handling, to a range of specialised items intended more for decoration or celebratory reasons than play. Into the latter category come such as the now highly successful Teddy Bear gift service which, operating on a…

Writing About Home Businesses: 5 Picture Framing And Model Making

PICTURE FRAMING AND MODEL MAKING Here the demand is for high quality craftwork, which if it can also come at a realistic price, will command a steady stream of eager customers. As for so many other craft and art services, a wealth of ‘how to’ books are available to guide…

How To Sell A Car (or anything else for that matter)

How To Sell A Car I seem to have struck a nerve… I don’t like upsetting people (well not much!) but when it results in money dropping into my bank account, I’m prepared to grin and bear it. If you ever have to write advertisements or sales letters, the lesson…

Writing About Home Businesses: 4 Jewellery

JEWELLERY Jewellery is another craft product which can take on many varied forms, from inexpensive and sometimes gimmicky ornamentation, to expensive and just as elaborate and highly personalised creations. It’s another craft for which a wealth of appropriate ‘how to’ publications, craftwork periodicals, local authority and correspondence courses exist. In…

Writing About Home Businesses: 3 Engraving

ENGRAVING Another prospective kitchen table enterprise, here one can offer various options to those seeking engraving whether for decorative, celebratory, or commemorative reasons, or else simple seeking to have their personal possessions engraved and consequently made less likely prospects for the opportunist thief. Consult Exchange & Mart’ and craft magazines…

Psychedelic Walking Stick Anyone?

Here’s something you might not have thought about. The people who are about to get ‘old’ were watching The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix in the 1960’s. Do you think they’ve changed so dramatically that they’ll happily settle for the same drab and lacklustre products that their parents and…

The Need For Good Secretarial And Office Services (a beginners guide)

For those who can turn out neat and accurate typing within set deadlines, a regular and often very high income awaits them. This might not be a business with any place in the ‘get rich quick’ category, but certainly it will provide extra cash for family commitments, and for offsetting…

Writing About Home Businesses: 2 Tuition

COACHING TUITION CORRESPONDENCE COURSES Whatever it is you do best, you owe it to yourself and to others to pass your knowledge on. And so we find the keen and proficient swimmer taking classes in the local pool the experienced typist teaching his or her skills to others; the…

10 Ways To Make More Money, Anytime You Like

One in four Britons are now making a second income through renting out their possessions, skills and time, new research by Gumtree.com suggests. Could you join the “entrepreneurs” and make a healthy second income to help tackle your debts, boost your spending power, or save for your family? We looked…

What Is Meant By Selling ‘OFF-THE-PAGE’

Here the item is described via advertising in appropriate publications, or by display advertising or usually less costly lineage advertisements in classified advertising sections. The reader is requested to send the price of the item advertised, following which the dealer will complete the transaction by fulfilling the order to the…

Writing About Home Businesses: 1 Collecting

ANTIQUES AND COLLECTORS’ ITEMS Not always an area in which any specialist knowledge is required of the businessman or woman, the world of antiques and collectors’ items can be as basic or as specialised as one might wish it to be. At one end of the scale, there are…