999 untapped biz ops: 480-489

Saturday, November 29th, 2008 at 11:42 am

The click that could change your life…..

480. Produce vanity poetry audio cassettes or videos. Pay a celebrity to read a poet’s work to a video camera, or make a recording on audio tape. Your service might also include producing copies of the recording on audio or video cassettes for distribution.

481. Write booklets or produce audio cassettes about different aspects of making a career in the music business. For example: ‘How to be an independent record producer’, ‘How to get a recording contract’, ‘How to form your own group’, etc. Use small ads in the music press to attract buyers.

482. Stain sawdust with different colours of ink. Fill clear bottles and jars with the coloured sawdust so that attractive patterns are made. Also pictures can be built up on the sides of bottles if different colours are carefully arranged. Sell as souvenirs or ornaments.

483. Open a television and video school. Organise practical courses in television and video production. Buy a second-hand closed circuit television system, rent or lease a hall and use this as the premises of the school.

484. Start a music tuition agency. Offer to tutor potential students in popular musical instruments. Call your agency a school of music. Start by using advertising to recruit both part-time tutors and pupils.

485. Begin a business which organises trips to rock and pop concerts, and football and rugby matches. Your service obtains the tickets and provides a coach or mini-bus to take fans to the venue.

486. Design and make fashionable clothes for children. You might sell them direct or through agents at party plan.

487. Use soft toy materials to make a puppet-like toy which gives children their medicine. A small soft toy has a clip attached to one hand. A parent puts the spoonful of medicine into the clip and controls the hand so that it appears that the puppet is giving the medicine. Sell by mail order through ads in women’s magazines.

488. Make household hall letter boards. A board is criss-crossed with coloured elastic. Letters are slipped behind this elastic and thus easily displayed. Have them stocked at stationers and gift shops. Or sell by mail order.

489. Use wood to make desktop stands for holding reference books such as dictionaries, trade directories, map books and telephone directories. Have these stocked at bookshops and stationers or sell by mail order.