Is there a business where it's easy to make money?
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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.olivebrown said:
Convenience stores in a half decent location should turn over 16-20k per week or 30k+ in great location, profit is in region of 18-20%. Even one that does 12kp.w will give a decent living but may have to put 8 hours a day in it.
I would have thought this was a route to absolutely NOT making money easily.I'd be surprised if the convenience store near me turned over £3k a week, barely see a soul going in there, it'd have a good margin and I'd imagine the owner owns the premises but even so.
beko1987 said:
I have no doubt that part of the cost is buying the 30 years of experience, and fair play to the guy. But 93% of the work he does will be simple point, shoot, present to the client, touch up quickly, print cheaply and present.
I wasn't knocking the guy, and it looked like he had some expensive kit, but the possibility to print money out of 'mundane' jobs looked high to me! We turned up 5 minutes early and had to wait for him to finish with the previous person, then when we left we met his next client. If he can do say 9 bookings a day, at say £600 average spend, that's £5,400. Obv vat, tax and wages for his daughter (who was doing the meet and greet) would eat out of that, but it wouldn't take much effort on his part to increase that more!
In my opinion he won't be taking that much a month let alone a day.I wasn't knocking the guy, and it looked like he had some expensive kit, but the possibility to print money out of 'mundane' jobs looked high to me! We turned up 5 minutes early and had to wait for him to finish with the previous person, then when we left we met his next client. If he can do say 9 bookings a day, at say £600 average spend, that's £5,400. Obv vat, tax and wages for his daughter (who was doing the meet and greet) would eat out of that, but it wouldn't take much effort on his part to increase that more!
Freds said:
A close friend of mine runs a courier business from a home office. In short he has a contract with Amazon to deliver parcels, he has circa 70 drivers therefore 70 vans on contract hire, all the staff are self employed and earn circa £120 a day, the bottom line to this brief breakdown is that he nets £50 a day from each operative.
Apart from this being nonsense, I hardly think the operational management of 70 drivers will ever be an easy way to make money.twoblacklines said:
The 2 easiest ways I have found are digital content creation and then using that as a platform for consulting. You can easily charge £1-3k per hour (if you actually give the right advice) if you can prove you know your industry.
1-3k AN HOUR!!!!I can't believe anybody or any company would pay that.
I accept there are worlds out there I know little about but an average of £2000 an hour sounds incredible.
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