New Small Business Ideas That Just Might Work
A Home Business Article Contributed by Sharon Hill
Your Small Business Idea May Be Crazy, but It Just Might Work
To prove that, let's take a look at some of the wackiest small business ideas and the associations or firms that created and managed them.
A Man with Many Small Business Ideas
Ross Stokes is author of "227 Unusual Business Ideas, " available as a download from the web. His background includes many creative, successful, wacky business ideas. Growing up on a farm gave him many opportunities to make money. He drove tractors, caught and sold eel, harvested hay, contracted with other farms to milk cows, hired himself out as a babysitter, built and repaired fences and grubbed thistles. From this odd assortment of jobs he saved enough money for a car and a college education.
Stokes' next foray into entrepreneurship, after a brief stint as a teacher (ho, hum) was as a possum hunter. He and a friend sold the possum fur. Then he got the idea for his small Top Hat chimney sweep business. From there he segued into financial analysis programming all over the world. That company started in London, where he taught himself the fundamentals and contracted out to several firms - Avis and Gillette, for instance.
Then he and his wife bought a 4 wheel drive and traveled to Africa, where they took people on safari (for a price of course) and traded goods such as meats and seafood from Mozambique to Zimbabwe. In New Zealand he started a cable company, and set up satellite communications networks in Australasia.
To Get Your Look at Several Wacky Small Business Ideas That Worked
A visit to his site, www.227unusualbusinessideas.com will not only offer you the opportunity to order the book of wacky small business ideas but also to sign up for an ezine that will offer 7 small business ideas at no charge.
One wacky idea, for instance, is an origami boulder. I don't want to give away the details - just go to the site and give your name and email and you'll have 7 new small business ideas at no charge. To order the complete book is $47. There are other helpful small business offers that may generate an additional creative idea or two. These are included free of charge when you order the book.
"Free Brainstorming Guide, " $47 value, gives you three ideas that the site touts as creating an avalanche of new business ideas in under two hours. Ookle, Instant PDF Bookshelf, " another $47 value, lets you search, sort and catalog all the PDFs on your hard drive. A free report by Jeff Paul, usually priced at $29, is entitled, "How to Make $4000 a day, Sitting at Your Kitchen Table, in Your Underwear." I imagine wearing clothing would generate the same result, though.)
This book is a true story about phenomenal mail order business success. Bonus number five, called "Immediate Money Immediately, " valued at $19, is written by two successful Internet marketers that purports to give readers 11 ideas that will make money on the Internet overnight. The $35 value final bonus is "Discovered - 505 Odd Enterprises, " was written way back in 1946 but still has some good business ideas to share.
