Any good ideas for entrepeneur-ing?

[GammaAzazel]

Lol, I kind of want to get some money on the side, if you know what I mean. I was just wondering if theres any way to go about being an entrepreneur and what not. I figured I'd ask people, instead of reading words on a website, it would be easier and more personal this way.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

you can start a dollar store for about 15 grand. Those stores are almost all profit if you can get a good cheap space to put it in.

 

[GammaAzazel]

I was thinking about doing something with cafepress, I heard its good business, but I mean...I don't know how I would go about it without accidentally violating third party laws. Lol.

 

[doih]

People can't really answer this question without knowing what your skills are, what experiences you have, what you enjoy doing, etc.

 

[GammaAzazel]

Well, I love drawing, I'm ok at coming up with something on my own, but I'm really good at taking a few reference pictures and molding them into one drawing, as well as looking at something and drawing it directly, I love superheroes and movies. I have photoshop CS5 and love it. I work well with it. I'm only 19, so not much experience doing anything professionally. I love playing music, I'm in a band, but its going nowhere.

 

[The Guard]

Sell lemonade.

 

[redmarvel]

Shovel snow.

Actually, if you're a good artist, you could offer to do Murals. Put ads up at the local hardware store. Figure out how long it would take you to do a decent mural covering an entire 12 x 12 wall. Then figure out what you want to be paid an hour. Then pad the figure you come up with by 50% for materials. Only problem is you'll have to make sure you do some decent idea sketches for prospective clients first - so they get an idea what you can do.

 

[GammaAzazel]

Shovel snow.

Actually, if you're a good artist, you could offer to do Murals. Put ads up at the local hardware store. Figure out how long it would take you to do a decent mural covering an entire 12 x 12 wall. Then figure out what you want to be paid an hour. Then pad the figure you come up with by 50% for materials. Only problem is you'll have to make sure you do some decent idea sketches for prospective clients first - so they get an idea what you can do.

We don't get snow. : ( Our winters are dry, our summers are hot and wet.

The mural thing wouldn't be too bad, but not a lot of people go for that kind of stuff in town. But I've been thinking, lots of kids like to play guitar, I can, I could teach around here. But I've tried teaching before, no one is serious about it. I'm just kind of in between jobs right now and the town I am in is a very big military town, There's a base not a 5 minute drive away from my house. So most of the in town jobs go to marines or marine wives. So it seems the only way to make it is to start my own business.

 

[SuperFerret]

Step One: Eat a lot of Taco Bell
Step Two: Cultivate the parasite eggs and larva you'll inevitably get from such food.
Step Three: Sell said parasite eggs and larva online as a way to get thin quick.
Step Four: Profit.

 

[AndThePickles]

My dad's girlfriend has made a lot of extra cash by selling snacks at work. She also makes crafty things for the holidays and sells them.

 

[Erzengel]

Try entertaining rich businessmen.

 

[Wolfwood]

Enter into undeground bloodsport tournaments.

Or look around in your community, find a need for something and then fulfill it.

 

[OctaviusINC]

1. Buy cheap suit.
2. Buy a cane.
3. By a top hat.
4. Buy a monocle.
5. Get a curly mustache.
6. Talk in a British accent.
7. Find local business of importance and go to it.
8. Burst into important meeting wearing #1-5.
9. Start talking uncontrollably with many hand gestures (doesn't matter what you ACTUALLY say, just throw in big/important words like "stocks", "foundation", "oil", "business", "transaction", "net gross", "trolley car" or even your made up "entrepreneur" word etc.)
10. If previous steps are followed correctly, businessmen will think you're very "much to do", "gentlemanly", and of "great importance".
11. Business men pull out their check books.
12. Tell them amount desired.(Remember to have an account open for the alter ego you desire)
13. Take checks and leave.
14. Cash checks immediately.
15. Use cash for whatever you please.*



*If more cash is needed, go through steps at a different business or a new meeting with new businessmen. Repeat until satisfied.

 

[GammaAzazel]

1. Buy cheap suit.
2. Buy a cane.
3. By a top hat.
4. Buy a monocle.
5. Get a curly mustache.
6. Talk in a British accent.
7. Find local business of importance and go to it.
8. Burst into important meeting wearing #1-5.
9. Start talking uncontrollably with many hand gestures (doesn't matter what you ACTUALLY say, just throw in big/important words like "stocks", "foundation", "oil", "business", "transaction", "net gross", "trolley car" or even your made up "entrepreneur" word etc.)
10. If previous steps are followed correctly, businessmen will think you're very "much to do", "gentlemanly", and of "great importance".
11. Business men pull out their check books.
12. Tell them amount desired.(Remember to have an account open for the alter ego you desire)
13. Take checks and leave.
14. Cash checks immediately.
15. Use cash for whatever you please.*



*If more cash is needed, go through steps at a different business or a new meeting with new businessmen. Repeat until satisfied.

Lol, this made me laugh harder and harder every number. :P

Actually, if you're a good artist, you could offer to do Murals. Put ads up at the local hardware store. Figure out how long it would take you to do a decent mural covering an entire 12 x 12 wall. Then figure out what you want to be paid an hour. Then pad the figure you come up with by 50% for materials. Only problem is you'll have to make sure you do some decent idea sketches for prospective clients first - so they get an idea what you can do.

I'm actually really concidering this...I think a lot of people would dig it here, hell, I could maybe even try it on the intarwebz!

 

[Anita18]

My bf isn't a super-good artist but he definitely has his own drawing style. He's now gotten it into his head to sell illustrations on iStockphoto. So if you have a cute/distinctive drawing style, doing that could be an option.

He just submitted his first illustrations this week, so we haven't heard back yet. I figure if he doesn't get anywhere, he won't have spent any money so it'd be just a fun experiment.

 

[chaseter]

I discovered a little side internet business that I have been doing for a year now. I have made over 10 grand.