Is there a business where it's easy to make money?

[Don]

blueg33 said:

Setting up LinkedIn and then selling it.

1. Copy Facebook idea but say its aimed at professions
2. Set up cheap website that is clunky and not user friendly
3. Tell everyone its great for professionals (mainly you get them to tell each other)
4. Sell for $26bn

Creating any massively scalable and popular web based service is astonishingly difficult technically. Then there's marketing it - that's almost impossible in a sea of wannabees. The list of things LinkedIn or Instagram or any of those sites had to overcome to get where they are is amazing.

Easy? I think not...

Although the tech in LinkedIn is probably only worth 1bn out of the 26...

[jammy_basturd]

Plus, LinkedIn was one of the first business orientated social networks. There is a reason why there have been no new successful social networks since Facebook 12 years ago!

[Terminator X]

Hairdresser - people always need their hair cutting unless they are bald of course.

TX.

[essayer]

Surely the obvious answer is a printing press?

[DSLiverpool]

I found it today - their is a guy in Liverpool fitting EV charging stations (public big ones) like crazy, he is one guy and a team of subbys and they are stacked out.

[Thankyou4calling]

srebbe64 said:

You laugh, but when my kids were young they'd go to a friends party and come away with a business card. I'm handed said card by my son who wants 'Mr Clown' for his party. I phone him up and quotes £120 (20 years ago) and I book him. He turns up, does a half hour magic show, making the kids laugh, and hands each of them a card. I chat to him as he leaves and he's got half more gigs to get to that day! Genius. For every ten or so cards he gives out it generates a gig - so self perpetuating business with zero overheads!

Hmmmm if you still have the details i'd tell the cops, never trust these kids entertainers. Clowns, jugglers, face painters. Mostly odd at best.

[markcoznottz]

uber said:

Think big and do not restrict yourself to the area you live in. I spend most of my time in Scotland but 90% of my work is in London where we get paid a lot more for the same service than we would in Glasgow / Edinburgh.

This. Be prepared to travel. I know someone earning big money in France welding cooling systems for nuke reactors and associated tech. It's all contract though, living in a porta cabin onsite, eating pot noodles, and working amongst French staffers who barely acknowledge you are there. Not for everyone especially with kids/wife but very lucrative.

[Andrew[MG]]

DSLiverpool said:

I found it today - their is a guy in Liverpool fitting EV charging stations (public big ones) like crazy, he is one guy and a team of subbys and they are stacked out.

You've been looking at that area for ages! Thought you'd have started, built it up and sold it by now

[uber]

DSLiverpool said:

I found it today - their is a guy in Liverpool fitting EV charging stations (public big ones) like crazy, he is one guy and a team of subbys and they are stacked out.

I had a look at this before for private application but could not see enough revenue to use sub contractors. If you have a good source of kit at the right price I would relook

[Femur]

srebbe64 said:

You laugh, but when my kids were young they'd go to a friends party and come away with a business card. I'm handed said card by my son who wants 'Mr Clown' for his party. I phone him up and quotes £120 (20 years ago) and I book him. He turns up, does a half hour magic show, making the kids laugh, and hands each of them a card. I chat to him as he leaves and he's got half more gigs to get to that day! Genius. For every ten or so cards he gives out it generates a gig - so self perpetuating business with zero overheads!

Yes that sounds likely

[dudleybloke]

Femur said:

srebbe64 said:

You laugh, but when my kids were young they'd go to a friends party and come away with a business card. I'm handed said card by my son who wants 'Mr Clown' for his party. I phone him up and quotes £120 (20 years ago) and I book him. He turns up, does a half hour magic show, making the kids laugh, and hands each of them a card. I chat to him as he leaves and he's got half more gigs to get to that day! Genius. For every ten or so cards he gives out it generates a gig - so self perpetuating business with zero overheads!

Yes that sounds likely

When I started this clown thing, I thought it would be nothing but glory. You know, the glory of being a clown. I tell you, it's hard, tiring work. But when I see the smiles on their little faces, I just know they're getting ready to jab me with something. .Homer Simpson.

[Shnozz]

NewChurch said:

The Spruce goose said:

I think bot mining/playing. like programing bots to play online poker whatever and make small sums of money based on a probability to you (usually against humans0 aim to make about £5 per hour. Have 100 of these playing 24 hour = profit.

If you are smart enough to program a bot that is actually is +ev in today's games, and you are able to make it undetectable, you've just wasted a few thousand hours that could have been spent on something actually productive long term. Online poker is not the answer to anyone anymore.

I was chatting to a PH'er (or certainly someone who had attended a PH organised meet) who did just that a few weeks ago. Utterly fascinating it was too. As for it being undetectable - certainly not. And in fact "welcomed" insofar as a close eye was paid to where his business was placed so as to know where the market was out of equilibrium. Oh, and the way global markets were structured meant that it was never inside Europe.

[DSLiverpool]

Andrew[MG] said:

You've been looking at that area for ages! Thought you'd have started, built it up and sold it by now

If you met him you would see he has talents I lack in spades! he is an engineer and has contacts in the council - kerching! Symphony EV if you want a gander ;o) trust your well chum

[DSLiverpool]

uber said:

DSLiverpool said:

I found it today - their is a guy in Liverpool fitting EV charging stations (public big ones) like crazy, he is one guy and a team of subbys and they are stacked out.

I had a look at this before for private application but could not see enough revenue to use sub contractors. If you have a good source of kit at the right price I would relook

Lee the chap can do it all if you can get the sites, he is a character and I was impressed with his drive but its just him and his Mrs (and a shed load of chargers)

[silentbrown]

bristolracer said:

London property' did 15% last year.
Buy property for 1 million sell a year after and make an easy 150 k gross.

Stamp Duty: £73,750
Agent's fees, survey, conveyancing?

[Zoon]

srebbe64 said:

You laugh, but when my kids were young they'd go to a friends party and come away with a business card. I'm handed said card by my son who wants 'Mr Clown' for his party. I phone him up and quotes £120 (20 years ago) and I book him. He turns up, does a half hour magic show, making the kids laugh, and hands each of them a card. I chat to him as he leaves and he's got half more gigs to get to that day! Genius. For every ten or so cards he gives out it generates a gig - so self perpetuating business with zero overheads!

He has to travel to said gigs, get business cards printed, buy white facepaint and magic tricks.
All overheads.

[uber]

DSLiverpool said:

Lee the chap can do it all if you can get the sites, he is a character and I was impressed with his drive but its just him and his Mrs (and a shed load of chargers)

Can you PM me his URL, would be good to see what its all about

[DSLiverpool]

uber said:

DSLiverpool said:

Lee the chap can do it all if you can get the sites, he is a character and I was impressed with his drive but its just him and his Mrs (and a shed load of chargers)

Can you PM me his URL, would be good to see what its all about

Sent - I see potential for a well connected gent such as yourself.

[Hoofy]

srebbe64 said:

Hoofy said:

Children's parties. It may be the hardest thing you've ever done, though, if you are unable to control hyper, excited children. You watched the Apprentices die on their feet, didn't you.

You laugh, but when my kids were young they'd go to a friends party and come away with a business card. I'm handed said card by my son who wants 'Mr Clown' for his party. I phone him up and quotes £120 (20 years ago) and I book him. He turns up, does a half hour magic show, making the kids laugh, and hands each of them a card. I chat to him as he leaves and he's got half more gigs to get to that day! Genius. For every ten or so cards he gives out it generates a gig - so self perpetuating business with zero overheads!

It's not quite as easy these days but I do get a fair few referrals.

[bristolracer]

silentbrown said:

bristolracer said:

London property' did 15% last year.
Buy property for 1 million sell a year after and make an easy 150 k gross.

Stamp Duty: £73,750
Agent's fees, survey, conveyancing?

Keep up gross I said,

It's a tongue in cheek post
Most rich people I know spend all their time and effort earning it
The Ferrari never turns a wheel, the home cinema is never switched on, they are never there or simply don't have time.