Apartments as seen on TV

I recommend that real estate agents should compare homes for sale to well-known pop culture homes so that buyers reading the ads have a feel for the place before going to see it. Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of Dynasty, Dallas, and Falcon Crest.....or a Eldon Tyrell's apartment from "Blade Runner" or Anderton's apartment in "Minority Report" ?

Even better idea to rent apartments styled after television shows - shopping for apartments and all the styles that different offerings include are named like "The Ambassador", or "The Wilson". I want to get an apartment that looks like Jerry Seinfelds! Why don't apartment builders style their offerings after diggs on famous shows. Apartment styles could be called, "The Seinfeld", or "The Fraiser"..Or "The Ally Mcbeal" etc.... You get the picture.

This is quite similar to my earlier post idea on the Hollywood Celebrity Business.

How to turn Pennys into Dollar

It seems that a lot of people have change stored up in their house just waiting to exchange it at the bank. But who really has the time to lift those heavy bottles of coins? But once you do lift that lump of change out of your house, you have to take it out just to exchange it at the bank again! Why not just save time and energy and pay someone do it ?

Make an appointment and give an estimate of how much change you have, and the guys will be at your door in less than a week. Once the coins have been counted by a machine tested for great accuracy, you'll get it exchanged for cash in no time. Who can beat the price of a flat rate of $20.00 + 5% of the total amount of change ?

Small businesses/Arcades/Grocery- The second part of this business will be to resell these quarters to small businesses/arcades/groceries or any other business that needs coins. Is there any website that someone can direct me into to find out how much (if people are already doing this) banks are charging to sell coins?

Appliance Testing Rental Business

I've been seeing the commercials lately for vacuum cleaners. They look pretty nice, but I have no way to judge whether what they are saying is true or not. Now this basically applies to vacuum cleaners but I think it would work for most small appliances e.g. blenders, air purifiers, etc.

The main selling points for most products is performance. It it doesn't work right, it's a waste of money. I believe there should be either a business or a branch of each manufacturing company that provides what is basically a rental service with an eye towards you buying their product. If I want to try out Vacuum X, I would call and they would send me the vacuum cleaner. I can use it in my home, spill things and clean them at my leisure, basically test out all the features of the machine in my home, under my home's conditions (my dog's fur, my kids' messes, my messy hobbies).

The company would have arrange for me to buy the item in "2 easy payments" - first payment for the rental period and the second payment to keep it.If I have enjoyed the experience with my vacuum cleaner I will keep it, if I haven't I just send it back or ask for a different vacuum and so on until I find a machine that meets my needs.

This would probably work best for smaller appliances, but I guess it might work with bigger ones. I just don't see many commercials about refridgerators or washer/dryers and how great they are. Not to mention what a hassle it would be to install these for the trial period.

Do you have any questions or comments about this strategy? Share them with us....

Virtual Laptop for Every Child

Instead of one laptop per child, why not many virtual desktops per public computer? The best solution perhaps isn’t to put hardware into the hands of every person, but rather to maximize the number of people who have access to a PC.

Whether in an Internet café, village kiosk or schools, a PC equipped with these virtual software gives each person who logs in a customized environment—complete with programs, preferences, bookmarks, buddy lists, and so forth. That way, even though many people may use the machine each day, it feels “personal” to each one. In addition, it could be a service that lets subscribers securely store an unlimited number of documents, photos, videos, and other data—as well as gives them the ability to share those files easily with other users.

This is really possible now with the unlimited amount of online storage space offered by the internet. Think about it....a whole new market here !

Work from Home Scam

Many of us would like to make a little extra money in our spare time. But how do you find a legitimate job ? With the internet, how do we know which are actually scam like most envelope stuffing and refund processing jobs.? The answer maybe this......."Rat Race Rebellion" is a website that offers work at home job leads and resources which help you sorts through work at home offers. It lists offers from legitimate companies, gives ideas on how to find jobs, and shows warning signs a job may be a scam. Not a bad start to your first entrepreneur venture.

Turn Around Your Craft Hobby Business

There are many simple craft hobby business ideas people are making a living.

Here is an interesting simple business idea of how one such homemaker use the compact cassette tape and turn it into a small lamp. Here's the link.

 

Turning your creative hobby into a business means learning the secrets of where to position your crafts in front of hundreds of thousands of buyers - and not just at craft shows. If you're considering starting a craft hobby business and work from home, there has never been a better time.

There are many sites where small entrepreneurs sell everything from original artwork and greeting cards, to jewelry, bags and clothing. Below are some example to get you started on simple and small home business ideas:

Etsy.com

Loungeluxe.com

ehow.com

Mightygoods.com

Make Money with Operating Manual

This is an easy home business idea. The biggest pain is when you need a product manual and can never find one when it's been misplaced only to be further disappointed by the company you gave your money to by purchasing a product that they no longer supply a manual. It would be nice to go to a centralized location that has information and the manual on every product ever made.

This would be a global website that has the repair manuals, consumer guide service manuals, technical details and specifications, all in one website for every product in the world. Example of such may include full-series of factory shop manuals for each vehicle. And I think this would be a great idea for video game instructions too - considering half the ones you rent are missing theirs.

The website could be divided into two parts: (1) freebie area where end users can upload manuals not listed and share them and then (2) a pay section for the official manuals involving sensitive information which you can sign up for a 3-year subscription fee. This could be a powerful way to get lots of attention from frustrated product owner.

Do you have any questions or comments about this home business idea? Share them with us.....

Are you a Entrepreneur ?

1) An entrepreneur cannot share his/her burden, especially during the start-up stages. Even though others may be around to support whether, physically, psychologically or financially, the fact is there will be many moments of doubt, worry, and uncertainty that only the entrepreneur can bare. You must have the passion, the grit, and the vision to see through the dark moments. You must understand the length of the journey you have to take- so that you will stay the course.

2) Ideas are everywhere. They are a dime a dozen. Passion is good. But at the end of the day, it is the SHEER WORK that matters. When there is no one else who can do the job, you have to be willing to do it, whether it is to deliver the goods yourself, drive the truck, big or small, when the job has to be done, the buck stops with the entrepreneur. There is no cushion or buffer as in the corporate world where there may be many departments, and protocols, and a CEO can simply fire someone who cannot get the job done. For an entrepreneur, the job MUST get done, and he/she must find the way.

3) People will appear. Amazingly enough, if you put in the effort and stay the course, people will come. Especially for social enterprises which are even tougher than commercial enterprises because of its dual objectives (profit + meeting social cause), as people see the effort being put in, word will travel, and people will come to help.

Kiyosaki RichDad Blog

Wow! I cannot believe this ! Robert Kiyosaki of RichDad fame left a comment in my "Ebay Thank You Card" Blog

I am ecstatic to be one of the first he choose to network with and I believe he is rapidly networking with many more bloggers. It's indeed an honour to be one of his first Top 10 Bloggers. You can see that he started out his blog just last week on 16th April 2008.

Incidently, thanks to him, I also stumble upon one very interesting and popular blog from Nigeria, Telenovela Love Garden This blog is creating quite a buzz itself too. So look out on your blog and let me know if you are one of them ! Happy Blogging !

Images courtesy of Rich Dad.com

Santa: "I killed Jesus"

I just want to take a break from my regular updates on business ideas and focus on this interesting website i come across.

On Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ, children around the world awake early to scramble for and salivate over their brand new consumer products, singing songs about Santa Claus and decorating their homes with homage's to the new religion. Jesus lurks in the background of the festivities, an uncomfortable reminder of how far the celebrations are from anything he once stood for. Santa Claus provides a much better spokesman for a festival and a society based on rampant greed and materialism.

I felt that we need to bring home this message clearly to the kid's which we so adore and the misconception that was caused by corporate marketing people exploiting sales and the like.

Here's the link to this wonderful site.