The Lazy Man's Way To Big Money Fast!

Forget about the usual ways

When the average guy thinks of enjoying himself he sees himself spending a lot of money to do it. He calls a travel agent to have a whole trip arranged and it cost him a fortune. If he desires to live in some kind of luxury housing, he either gets up the enormous rent payments or he just doesn't live there. Well, you can forget about doing things that way.

We're going to tell you how to obtain gracious living accommodations which will cost you little or nothing, how to travel luxuriously and make a profit while doing it, and how to use every resource available to enjoy life and make money too.

Where are you going to live?

Have you ever thought about house-sitting? That's where you reside in a mansion, in order to take care of it while the owner is away. And the way some wealthy people travel or spend time away from home, that mansion may be all yours, so to speak, for 8 to 9 months of the year. There is usually one car that goes along with the house and you may even be supervising a couple of people who do the everyday chores and maintenance.

Putting your home on display

If, however, you own your own home, but you would like it to be decorated more elaborately, you might try to arrange with an interior decorator and/or a furniture company to provide the decoration and furnishings in exchange for being allowed to bring potential customers to your house to show what a good job they do. The best prospect to approach for this kind of arrangement is a decorator or furniture dealer who has just started his business in your area, and is therefore eager to have a top-notch "real-life" display.

There are other unusual and shrewd ways of arranging to have a very nice place to live when you're going to be traveling. For example, consider the following idea.

Uncle Pierre wants you

Would you like to live in France, or any other country, for business or for a long vacation? You may be able to exchange homes with a French family; they will live in your home here while you live in theirs in France. Of course, the locations, both here and there, must suit both parties, and the length of time involved must be coordinated also. But it's worth doing because it can give you a "home away from home." Contact the embassy of the country you'd like to live in and they'll probably be able to help you arrange it.

Traveling for business is good business

Whenever possible, make all your trips, even if they are really vacation trips, provably serve some aspect of your business so you can deduct the cost of them from your corporation's profits. The tax rate on corporation profits is 48%, so it makes good sense to deduct the cost of your trip from your overall profits. That could save you up to half the cost of the trip; Uncle Sam will, in effect, pay it for you! This can be done very often if you are in business in which traveling is a necessity, such as import/export. If you are a travel agent you will often be invited by airlines, cruises, hotels and resorts to travel or stay with them as their guest; they hope, of course, you will then send your travel agency customers to them. But this can work also if you're in a business or occupation, like advertising or public relations or writing, where you can give them free publicity in return.

Or you might want to be the organizer of a charter tour. You then have an even wider choice of when and where to go, and you as the organizer travel free. You should even pick up a handsome profit besides, if you handle it right. First you must find people who want to go. Often the easiest way is to choose people who are already affiliated in some way; they work for the same company or belong to the same club or church. Then comes the choice of where to go. You might question them, giving them the choice of place or you may start to make some tentative preliminary enquiries about 3 or 4 places and have them choose one of those places. Get an advance deposit of at least 20%. You'll need this advance money to arrange the charter flight, places to stay, local transportation and sightseeing at the vacation spot, and so on. It also ensures that those who make the reservations will actually go because the deposit is not refundable (after a certain date).

A bonus for doing business in other countries

Our government wants to help you do more business overseas. Before you go, therefore, contact the Department of Commerce. They will arrange for you to meet people in each country you visit who are in your industry and related fields. The Commerce Dept. won't guarantee it, of course, but if you play your cards right, these potential business associates will wine and dine you and act as warm hosts in their native countries. It not only costs you nothing; it promotes business and lets you meet people who can really show you the best of everything in their countries.

Traveling at Government Expense

Have you ever thought of getting paid to travel--of living and working overseas? Uncle Sam now has over 230,000 of his citizens working for him abroad. And you don't have to be a scientist or technical specialist to be one of them. Persons with clerical and office skills, as well as those with administrative abilities, are needed. So are plumbers, machinists, woodworkers and painters.

American companies also send people abroad

Don't forget the huge corporations if you're thinking of a job abroad. Such companies as Citibank of New York, Johns- Manville, IBM, International Harvester, Westinghouse and many more, have Americans working for them overseas; and the pay scales in many of these companies are higher than for their workers in the same jobs at home. And there are jobs working for foreign governments or private foreign companies that often pay well and are quite interesting besides. For example, in those countries where oil is being produced in huge quantities (such as many of the Middle Eastern countries) there is a need for people with experience in this field. What's more, the general increase in wealth brought by the oil industry in those countries produces a huge growth in the construction of roads, buildings, factories, bridges, hotels and many more things. People are needed to build and operate all of these; if you've got the skills in demand, you can certainly land a job, what's more, being there at the time when things are growing may let you in on the ground floor of other moneymaking opportunities. In fact, if you're the adventurous type, you'll not only probably make more money abroad, but have a great time, too!

Don't just be a Customer, be a Reporter

Generally people pay to go to a restaurant, sports event, theater performance or movie. But reviewers don't pay; that is, if you write about movies for any publication, no matter how small or hinky-dinky the paper or magazine is, you, the reviewer, see the movie free. The same goes for restaurants and other events,. But in order to keep this gimmick working time after time you should really be reviewing these places for some publication. This isn't as hard to arrange as you might think. Many small papers can't afford a large staff so they are looking for people who will write for them for little or no payment. But who should that non-payment bother you? After all, the genuine credentials they give you as their reviewer lets you enjoy all those great leisure activities for free. And with VIP treatment, too.

Making money while you're absent

If you own the right kind of property, you can make money as an absentee owner. Owning an apartment building is a fairly uncomplicated process that can bring in good money. Your manager or superintendent runs the building but all the rents are sent directly to you. When any fuel oil is delivered, or anything else for that matter, the bills are sent to you. When the manager needs outside repairmen to work on the building, he has them send the bill to you. Thus, since you control all the cash flow (in from the rents, out to pay bills) you can be totally in charge yet you need only devote a few hours once in a while to actually go and look at the building to make sure your manager is taking good care of it.

If you must pay, then pay as little as possible

Ok, let's face it; the above methods, good as they are, may not always be available to you. You may actually have to pay to travel and have a good time. Well, you can still travel in style yet pay very little. The trick is to know that high- quality, low-priced alternatives are available. For example, your airline fare will most likely be your biggest expense. So try not to take a scheduled airline flight at the height of the season leaving in daylight hours on a weekend.

If you can, avoid the regular flights and get on a charter flight. Under recent law, charter flights are now freely available to individuals. You don't have to be part of a group. What you must do, though, is book your flight well in advance. And if you can't avoid taking a regular airline, then fly at night in the middle of the week. And even if your trip is really a vacation, try, nevertheless, to do something connected directly to your business while there. That's because airlines generally offer a better price to a vacationer who buys a round-trip ticket and stays on vacation for three weeks or more.

Most business trips take only a few days and that round trip fare is higher. But if you take a 5 week vacation, say, and conduct business for 8 days during those 5 weeks, then you can deduct from your taxes your air fare and your expenses (hotel, food, etc.) for the 8 days you were conducting business.

So go ahead and get your share of the good life; just remember it's even more fun if you can make a profit or save money. You didn't get the money you have by being wasteful or careless. Enjoy yourself, sure! Just watch what you're doing so you'll have plenty of money to keep on enjoying yourself.

37 Instant Moneymaking Part-Time Businesses

Introduction

You're on the road to success-Congratulations! You bought this report because you want information on starting a business, part- time at first, without investing a lot of money, yet one that will quickly be a money-maker. You'll find a number of them here.

In each one we give you the basic concept of the business, what product or service it provides to your customers, and how it is operated, and (if any are necessary) what equipment or facilities or help will be needed.

But whatever business you choose, remember that no business can succeed without your effort. Remember that determination and hard work are the mother and father of success. If you supply those, and use the information we supply, you can't miss. Good luck!

1. Television computer pictures

Lease a computer-printer and a video camera and a monitor screen that produces large-size, high contrast portraits of customers in 30 seconds, while they wait. You will find this a sure-fire crowd attracter, as the printer chatters away! Set up in a crowded resort area, charge at least $4 a picture, framed in a simple mat; almost all of which is gross profit. Net cost of all materials, about 8 cents.

2. Badge-making

Rent a small multilith offset-printing machine and a badge sealing machine, and using self adhesive Presstype for typesetting, design and set cute sayings for the badges. Sell as a custom service, making slogans to order, or make a wide range of far-out sayings in bulk quantities and sell them to local gift and novelty shops for resale.

3. Run a "consignment shop"

It requires very little capital, and accepts goods for sale from members of the public and sells these items for them on a commission basis. You might try a wide variety of items at first, to see what sells best and most regularly.

4. Picture framing, in your own home

Relatively inexpensive materials with a good sense of color and style and a reasonable ability with carpentry tools, will build a large custom-framing business, since people who spend money on art won't skimp on the frames, either, if they want a good- looking result.

5. Rental equipment

Be the source of supplies for do-it-yourselfers. Working only Saturdays and Sundays when they do, you rent out power tools, such as circular saws, jigsaws, reciprocating saws, gasoline chain saws, electric drills, electric planers, belt and orbital sanders, routers, paint sprayers, wallpaper removal steamers, staple guns, pumps, home cleaning machines, toto-tillers, and other equipment for daily fees. Operate out of your garage.

6. Talent bureau, for kids' or adults' parties

Using local ads, or your own contacts, line up 10 to 20 local entertainers, magicians, comics, puppeteers and other talents, and supply them for parties, club meetings and other functions. Have a list of films you can also supply for the same, or other groups which they can project themselves, if they wish, or you will supply an operator.

7. Throwing parties for profit

Everyone loves to go to a party, and nowadays some smart operators make a mint running them for everybody who wants to attend. You can too! Hire a hall, and a band, plan to set up a bar (if you can get a temporary liquor permit), and promote the hell out of it with ads, handbills, bumper stickers and lamp-post posters. Special parties aimed at a particular group do best, such as singles, or under-thirties, or over-forties. This idea is especially good in college towns.

8. Start a hobby center

Make money on your unused space (and maybe the power tools you've already paid for!). Turn your basement into a woodworking center, your spare bedroom into a photo darkroom, and your garage into a pottery workshop with a wheel and a small kiln. Rent the space and equipment by the hour, expand into more hobbies as time and money permit, and charge additional fees for instruction in any of those fields you're good at.

9. Organize a baby-sitting service

One of the troubles most people find is that their baby-sitter is always busy just the night they want to go out. You set up a service, finding good reliable teenage girls and boys, middle-aged or older women, and act as a go-between, providing sitters whenever your customers want them, collecting the fees, and paying the sitters. Advertise your service, handbills house-to-house locally being a good way.

10. Make money from your hobbies

Are you an expert at something that you do at home for fun? Then make it pay off for you! If you're a gourmet cook, give cooking lessons in the haute cuisine If you're an accomplished painter in oils or water-color, offer a portrait- painting service. If you're a skilled carpenter, design and make custom cabinets to order. Almost any hobby you're good at can be turned to making a profit if you think about it carefully, and decide who could use your expertise-as a consultant in that field, if nothing else. All you really have to do is get started is to place an ad!

11. Publish a buy/swap paper in your town

Get money from both ends in this sweetheart deal. Publish the weekly paper with classified ads from the public offering stuff for sale, arranged according to category, and charge the people for their ads (some operators let them pay only if and when they sell, but in that case, charge them a percentage of the selling price 5% for smaller items 2% or 3% for automobiles), and then sell the newspaper (suggested price: 25 cents) as well, through local newsstands and by subscription (in the mail). Once you have a fairly decent circulation, local merchants will also pay you for display ads, because they know people really read buy and swap newspapers religiously cover-to-cover.

12. Do custom photo developing

Quality is essential, and speed is generally also required, although you can charge a premium for rush service. If you already have an elaborate darkroom set-up in your home, so much the better, but if not, it can be fitted in anywhere you have room, the basement being ideal, since windows are not a requirement. You must be able not only to develop and print every normal size of film from 35mm to 8"x10" but handle enlargements up to a minimum of 30"x40", and preferably 5'x 8' or more, and do copying both of opaque material and slides. An ability to offer retouching, restoration and coloring as well is helpful, even if you have to sent that specialized work out.

13. Publish a part-time jobs directory

Make this a newsstand book, as well as offering it, with small ads, by mail order. List all the possible jobs people can get part-time, especially angling it at college kids on vacation, teachers after school hours, housewives with time on their hands, and moonlighters looking for part-time second jobs. 14. Run a children's "Explorer Club"

Take kids on Saturday and Sunday outings. Ten kids each day, to zoos, farms, theaters, children's shows and sports events. A small Micro-bus (rented and/or eventually bought) can be used to travel in. Many parents are delighted to have weekend days to themselves, even though it costs them some dough.

15. Be an Instructor

Teach whatever you know. Your trade, profession, cooking skills, a second language, wood-working, chess, photography, knitting, karate, bridge, auto repair, etc. People will pay for good lessons in these useful and enjoyable skills.

16. Run a floor scraping/polishing service

You but or (at first) rent a heavy duty machine, and do the cleaning and waxing of fine, hardwood floors. If the floors are in very bad condition, machine sand them and then completely refinish them with modern super-durable polyurethane finishes.

17. Operate a children's Hotel

This is sort of a "boarding house" for kids while their parents go away for a week-end or two-week vacation. Requires a large house, and preferably, a large yard or grounds, swings, slides, and facilities useful for kids. Must be done very responsibly and carefully. Also, don't take very young children (less than 9 or 10, say) because they may require too much dressing, feeding, etc.

18. Start a mail-order business

Write a booklet about something people really want to know about, print a few hundred copies, and place some small ads. You'd be surprised how much money you can make. Sell modern copies of out-of-print uncopyrighted material or books. Or sell something unusual you make at home, providing that it is something really useful to your prospective customers. Or sell some of our ideas such as #2 badges, #37 Genealogy, and others.

19. Operate a Xerox copy center

The secret of this is not just selling one or two copies of each original (although on a 300-page original manuscript, that can add up too), but using one of the latest high-speed high-quality mass production Xeroxes so that you can compete with the guys operating those quick-printing services, by turning out 100 or 200 resumes, letters, or circulars just as fast, and probably a great deal faster, for some (or potentially less if you want to be competitive) money as they charge. This way you have two kinds of work, giving you twice as many customers, and twice the profit opportunity, and with the right location, a chance to clean up.

If you want to offer even more services, and have the space in your shop, as well as the potential customers, you can offer xerox reductions (New York Times-size page down to 81/2x11"), and Xerox copies in full-color, which are remarkably good. The color machine will also make color copies directly from 35mm color slides in one quick step.

Of course, you can consider using other brands of xerographic copiers, such as IBM, Kodak, Savin, Canon, Minolta or others, but although you may theoretically save money, make sure of their service policies, and that they have field servicemen in your locality, or you may find yourself stuck with a copier on the fritz for a week, which could ruin your business.

20. Be a local news correspondent

For big city papers some distance from your town. When an event occurs in your area you write the story for those papers (they have correspondents in many big places but not in most small towns or isolated areas) and they pay you for it. This is known as being a "stringer." If you're good with a camera, take photos to accompany the story.

21. Campground store-on-wheels

Use either a panel truck or a camper body on a pick-up truck chassis. Go to public park areas and campgrounds selling charcoal, paper plates, watermelon, ice cream, eggs, milk, bread, insect repellent, sunglasses, newspapers, etc.

22. Create a new tour-bus service

Even in affluent America, not everyone has a car, and even those who do often prefer to leave long trips to a professional bus driver. And although there are bus tours offered to some familiar places, there are still so many interesting, even exciting, places people would like to go to, if they were offered the chance. Here's where you come in. You must be creative about it, and study all the six state area around your hometown, to discover some original and different places to travel to on day trips which will "turn on" your prospective customers, and get them to sign up.

The rest is easy. You get competitive quotes (from commercial bus companies) for a quality bus to do the round-trip, with a suitable stopover at the destination point (enough to do the sights, shop, and maybe eat as well). Then you figure your tour price per person so you can make a profit even if the bus is only half-full or so. Then you have a safety margin-and if you sell every seat you will do very well indeed.

Then all you have to do is sell. You put little ads in your local papers, paste up flyers wherever you can (supermarkets are good), contact local travel agents (of course, you give them a percentage on what they sell for you) local hotel clerks, etc., and you also contact women's clubs, religious groups, fraternal societies, factory social organizations, and so on (they may take a whole bus, or even two, and you give them a special price, naturally).

23. Run a pet hotel service

For dogs or cats or both. People will pay high fees to ensure high-quality care for the animal they love. Separate kennels for each animal is essential. Good food and adequate care and attention must be assured also. You can hire responsible teenagers to help you. Advertise with posters in pet shops, veterinarians' offices; and if they're cheaply available, get the mailing lists of local ASPCA groups and other animal welfare groups, as well as membership lists of dog and cat clubs.

24. Sell second-hand kids clothing

Children usually outgrow their clothes rather than wearing them out. So many families have such clothing left around. You collect it, paying nothing or as little as possible. Then you resell it; you can do the selling by ads, handbills or through your church or community groups.

25. Breed tropical fish

This requires only a moderate amount of space and a small investment in equipment. Properly done, it needs only a small amount of your time yet can make you a good profit. You can obtain your beginning stock from the large wholesale dealers. You can sell direct to consumers (the hobbyists) or to stores in your area.

26. Make plastic engraved signs

All you need is a simple-to-operate machine that engraves lettering in various styles onto sheets of plastic of many colors, finishes and sizes. Perfect for signs for merchants, banks, doctors, dentists, schools and colleges, private front doors, and many other uses.

27. Sell Christmas Trees

Seasonal, but if you have the time in the few weeks before Xmas, can be a good money maker. Find a vacant storefront or lot, or space inside a larger building where people pass by. But be sure to order a supply of trees enough in advance. And if you own country land that is not being used, consider growing the trees yourself. Your first crop can be ready in four years, with steady crops from then on.

28. Open a rubber stamp business

Manufacture them in your basement. The materials needed are cheap, and the finished stamps can be sold to many people: storeowners, offices, individuals. You can market them by mail and through local merchants.

29. Camper's equipment rental service

With urban living, the back-to-nature movement is growing and camping is becoming very popular. Rent out tents, sleeping bags, portable propane stoves, chairs, etc. Demand identification from customers and reliable security (keeping one of their credit cards is good).

30. Operate a key-safety service

Each customer is sold a special tag to put on his or her key ring. It says "Drop in any mailbox" and has the address of a post office box that you rent. (Don't use your home address for the same reason your customers shouldn't have their home address on their keys--dishonest people finding the keys will come prowling around). You assign each customer's tag a code number from a list that you deep. When someone's keys arrive at your post office box, you return them to him, for another fee.

31. Be a used car buying consultant

With a knowledge of cars, plus the proper test equipment (for checking the engine, transmission, brakes, front-end alignment, and chassis), you go with your customer to check out the used car he is thinking of buying. Advertise your service next to the ads offering used cars for sale. After a while you will get to know people in this field and you can pick up more money by acting as a middleman in sales between private individuals.

32. Sell "loss leaders" for a profit

This may sound contradictory but is isn't/ Supermarkets aren't the only ones who use loss leaders. A good mail-order idea is offering a cute item (worth much more) for $1 in women's magazines, giving prompt delivery and including with it stuffers (ads with order blanks) for half a dozen more expensive items. The repeat business on the other items makes the $1 offer profitable.

33. Baby items rental service

You rent everything needed for a baby's care, stroller, play pen, high chair, etc. When the customer's baby outgrows them, you rent to the next couple. Of course, you must advertise, and also send direct mail pieces to all couples with new births (get their names from hospitals and newspapers and list brokers).

34. Operate a "give a party" service

You rent out everything needed for a party, tables, chairs punch bowls, table cloths, cutlery and napkins. You can also supply waitresses and bartenders, finding them through agencies that supply temporary help such as Manpower. But if you can find good workers yourself, you can save the agency fee and make more money.

35. Operate a miniature slot car racing track

In your basement (or wherever you can fit it) build a large and elaborate miniature slot car racing track (with at least 6 or 8 slots). Local kids, and often adults, pay you by the hour to race, using either your cars or theirs. To boost interest you can hold monthly contests with trophies.

36. All-service service

You line up the specialists in fixing almost anything and take care of getting them customers by delivering handbills to homes and placing ads in supermarkets and local papers. They pay you 5% of every job you refer to them, which can soon add up.

37. Genealogy for people who want "roots"

You seek out the records in public or university libraries, county courthouses and elsewhere, as necessary, for a sliding fee, depending on the size of family, difficulties in getting information, geographic dispersion, and other factors.