Offline business ideas to start

Not an easy one, I'll tell you that much!

It takes A LOT of time and effort to build up a business to making $1,000/week. Don't plan on finding a quick "get rich quick" scheme here. Frankly, none exist.

HI there,

If you can get a job for $12/hour and work 12 hour days, you'll be able to achieve that. Any fast food restaurant can help you out there.

That'll achieve what you want. Oh, but you'll have to work for it, sorry.

All the best,

Sasha.

Thanks don I was thinking about doing like a Town Magnet directory putting 15 to 20 business on it and charging 150 to 199 at each business my only problem is not knowing who to use as a supplier and the quantity to use

Thanks to the others who were posting I'm looking at low start up business with high profit margins etc.

Offering web design service to tons of people (lol I know, so original, right?). It's basically a numbers game, build 3 websites per week for $350e/o and you can earn a little over $1000.

Sell 2-3 burial insurance policies door to door to Seasoned Citizens.

All you need is your Insurance license, appointment with a few carriers, and a list of 55-80 year olds.

Been down the insurance road before not much fun to sell and need many contacts befor e a sale

Sell anything! I say stick to business to business. You can either cold call and try selling over the phone or you can go door to door to businesses to sell services.

Some services you can sell:
Website design
Mobile website design

You can also go straight to consumers. Do you have good attention to detail? Then start a cleaning business! All you need are some starting cleaning supplies and a strong work ethic. Go door to door during Saturday and Sunday and say,

"Hi, my name is ________. I own a local cleaning company here in town. Have you ever considered providing more time for yourself and/or your family and having someone else clean your home?"

Offer 1 hour of cleaning free and do a great job. In one weekend you can have 3 or 4 clients. Do a good job and keep knocking on doors and you will be building a good business quick. In fact, I worked for a guy who did this exact thing and got his cleaning business to 14,000 gross/month in just 6 months. There are two keys here: keep knocking on doors, ask for referrals and - most important - do a GREAT job. Most cleaners are very mediocre. They are a dime a dozen. A good cleaner is golden and people WILL refer you.

If you don't like scrubbing toilets on your hands and knees, then try another business. It isn't glamorous - but it isn't hard either. A dog waste removal company. Charge $10 per week for one visit a week at a house with one dog. Charge $15 per week if they have two dogs and then $18 per week if they have three.

Offer services where you come by more than once a week too - maybe one dog, 2x a week at $15, etc.

Go door to door and knock. "Do you have a dog?" "Do you like cleaning up its little turd nuggets?" etc. Make them sign a one year contract.

All you need is a industrial strength dust pan with a long handle (so you dont have to bend down) and then a long stick with a broad flat surface and some nice work boots. Walk around the yard and use the long handle to scoot the poop into the dust pan. You never have to get too close to the poop. Empty the pan into a bag and go to the next house. You can do a medium size yard in 5 minutes. Take 5 minutes to get to the next house and you are making $60/hr.

I know a guy who actually did this and he has over 100 clients - in a small town in Wyoming too! That is over $1000 a week - just like you wanted.

NOTE: check your local laws. You might need a business license to do these. You may also need insurance. Even if insurance isn't required, I suggest it. You can get a policy for a small business for $500 a year - and they usually will let you pay it monthly. Just a suggestion to CYA.

Sell the services you learn about on the WF:

Web Design
SEO
PPC
Social Media

One business can make you that per week if you actually take the time to build your business for the long-term, and not just to make a quick buck.

I start giving email services to small business

I talk to offline business owners in my area and i don't really do hard selling i just talk to them in friendly tune i ask bunch of questions and before i leave they are ready to give me the business.

most of the offline business owners donot even know any thing about auto-responder effectiveness..and the use of auto responder.

after asking series of question i give them the presentation layout which can be useful for their business.

simply create their aweber account via my affiliate link off course and then i tell them to direct your customers to that web page so they can sign up with promotions and discounts ...

this is very simple but very effective business model for their business and it works very well.

and i design series of emails for their customers via their aweber account and after designing just 5 to 7 follow up emails i am usually hands free for rest of the month and get paid on monthly basis

i hope that helps
thanks
Shami

I used my lawnmower and some cardboard signs around town to get myself out of a jam a while back. In Australia I was charging $300 a day for garden work. If you want to do it legit though you need to get insurance etc, but as a side thing it can be pretty good, need trailer and a few minor tools. It's not for everyone but it worked for me!

Low cost business that can make $1,000 a week = web design.

You can pick up the phone and with a half decent script cold call 100s of businesses a day until you land clients who are willing to either have a site built or a current site redesigned. If you can't design websites, just outsource the work to someone. There's no reason why you can't achieve you $1,000 a week plus much more with just 1 client!

Went out today and sold 8 people on the magnet directory only went to 12 business's ... Not to bad for a $1200 day!

Step 1: Get a list of small businesses. Localizer lead tool, hoovers subscription, jigsaw, infousa, whatever.
Step 2: Get an auto dialer. Callfire is great. I use MobilCTI Power Dialer app for Android.
Step 3: Make 200 calls a day pitching, say, your $200 service.
Step 4: In the evening, perform services for any sales closed.
Step 5: Rinse & repeat, adding additional step to follow up with any interested leads from a few days ago.

That's a thousand calls with five sales (one out of 200, or 0.05%) needed to reach the goal.

Any other ideas out there ?

Clean carpet, paint, clean houses, use your skills to do minor repairs around houses as a handyman, mow lawns, detail cars, office car washing, clean fleet vehicles, clean offices, etc.

What kind of budget are you working with?

Whatever, business you plan on doing, make sure to have a reputation...some testimonials. No, business will shell out serious money, to those that are new. Do a favor for your circle of influence (doctor,lawyer, whoever you see all the time) and get them testimonials and you have a way better chance of getting paid, 1000s a week...compared to 100s a week.

Businesses, need to trust you and make sure you are legit and actually can help them...

I will also tell you this, do not waste your time with businesses that are tight on their budgets. Seek businesses that have money, spend money and are not tight. It is easier to reach, your goal with businesses that have and spend more money!

My motto is: Work with 10 businesses, that bank you $1000 profit per month, than working with 100 businesses that bank you $100....Higher priced services, bring in higher profits and a lot quicker!

There are numerous, types of services that you can offer. It all depends on what your interest are and what skills you have.

Good luck!

Years ago when I was selling real estate, when times were slow, I would send out 100 postcards to non-resident condo owners, meaning they are landlords. I would offer to clean, paint and spray for bugs. (I didn't know spraying for bugs without a license was illegal!) Other times, I would contact investors and out-of-town owners of single family homes and offer to maintain the yard. Because I focused on a particular type property owner, I got a pretty good response. I got so busy one summer that I had to recruit my teenage daughter to help me in my "lawn business."

I actually got a few listings from the relationship that developed with some of the propert owners. They didn't know I was personally cleaning, painting, murdering bugs and cutting grass. It was all ancillary services of my real estate business!

This was hard work, and HOT in Florida! It isn't something I would want to repeat, but it paid the bills and kept me out of a financial hole.

Good luck to you.

Working on a budget with a 1000 or less to start up a business don alm is very known for these kind ... Thanks for the additional posts so many different ideas ..

How To Make $4,800 With Auto Discount Cards

This is a great money making idea i have done a few times over the past few years and it works really well, as it's a win, win for all parties involved and everyone makes money.

WHAT IS IT ?

A double sided discount card 4x5 in size that offers free and discounted automobile services, such as a free oil change, a free battery charge, 50% off an inspection and so on.

HOW IT WORKS ?

Contact in person a local neighborhood auto repair service station and offer the owner to help them increase their business at no cost to them. Get the service station owner to agree to honor 20 specific free or discounted services. You only need one auto repair service station to agree to work with you and your in business.

WHY IT WORKS ?

In order for the consumers to take advantage of all the free or discounted services, they have to visit the service station many times and this gives the service the ability to build a relationship with the consumers and keep a good percentage of them as life long customers even after they have used up all of the free or discounted services on their auto discount card.

HOW TO MAKE THEM ?

Using a computer with a basic desktop publishing program such as Print Shop, just copy the design of the example auto discount card shown above or create your own design and then using color card stock print the auto discount cards 4 to a page, then cut them out using a paper cutter. If you don't want to design and print out your own auto discount cards just make a mock-up design of how you want your discount to look or use the example shown above and take it to a local printer and have them design it, print it and cut them out for you.

HOW TO SELL THEM ?

There are a number of ways to sell the auto discount cards. Here are 2 suggested ways to sell them.

OPTION 1:

Sell them door to door yourself or hire sales people on a commission basis. Here is an example script to use:

How are you today? I'm (your name) from (service station name your working with) Do you or a member of your family own a vehicle? (this question will almost guarantee the desired yes answer) Great! (hand them the auto discount card to look at) As you can see there is a free (pick any free service and explain it) all together there are 20 free or discounted vehicle services a total of ( figure out the total amount of savings the auto discount card your selling has and tell the customer this amount) , but today If your interested I can sell it to you for just $10. Would you like to buy one now?

OPTION 2:

Work with a nonprofit organization, church, youth group, etc. that needs to raise funds. Offer to let them sell the auto discount cards at say $10 to consumers and for each auto discount card they sell they get to keep $5. You will need to up a contract outlining all of the details of your agreement. This protects both you and the group your working with should any misunderstanding occur.

PROFIT POTENTIAL:

500 auto discount cards sold at $10 each by yourself grosses $5,000 less estimated expenses of $200 for printing and gas, etc. leaves a net profit of $4,800.

500 auto discount cards sold sold at $10 by a sales person or group grosses $5,000 less 50% or $2,500 is paid to the sales person or group, plus minus $200 for printing leaves a net profit of $2,300 for you.

Good Luck!

Martin

Great ideas everyone

mold testing lead gen, I bought a mold testing kit ($8 retail at Lowes? but cheapass to make or buy wholesale) for my GF after smelling mold in her townhome. Do some advertising (keywords like "mold my town") and give these things out for free. after 2-3 days when mold starts growing in the test dish the homeowner will be calling for immediate help. Once you find mold in an apartment or townhome complex, you could target the rest of them sending them a free kit and that their neighbor just discovered mold. Very valuable hot lead to sell$$$$

especially in hot humid flood prone areas that use A/C often

There is a genius here guys, and not just a genius, seems like a hard worker too, Midasman09, simple but inspiring, I like your stuff. I have SOME question for you though lol:

When you do Sell Ad Space On Magnet Directory, what is usually the size you use for the whole thing, and what kind of size for Ad Space (or it varies). And most importantly how many businesses do you try to put in this magnet? Also how can you charge these people monthly? Do you have a different edition every month? If I am a home owner I really don't want a magnet directory every month, maybe every season is good. And most most importantly how do you distribute? Door to door, mass mail, or I was thinking hiring homeless people to simply distribute these at gas stations and streets all over, give them a job, help em out too, this charitable way of doing it might help businesses buy ad space too, to be a part of noble cause. But thing is I want to distribute these to 45000 homes, what would be the most effective way and what kind of costs am i looking at.

You could install door viewers for $25-$30 per install.

I sell them as a 1000 magnets distributed to peoples home... plan on going to each business once a quarter to pick up checks .. Do this is several area towns and have a nice business built up fast and yet very effective ..

Wouldn't be on a monthly bases but any how we will go with that as an objection... Well mr customer I completely understand about how the magazine will get to more customers but let me ask you this how many times is the customer going to look at your magazine ad once? Maybe twice? Than throw it in the trash.... How often are they going to go to the fridge once maybe twice a day ? I much have my magnet on a fridge for a much longer duration with 1000 customers rather than thrown in the trash after one look in a magazine ad....

Will it work everytime no ... Will it work most of the time? Yes

Nice, should've thought of that....me dumb dumb lol

Find 4 business owners to pay you $1,000 for Local SEO, Search and Social Media Marketing. Easy Peasy.....

I was thinking of charging $450 for 3 months Per Advertiser but it gets distributed to 10,000 Homes... You think most people would say yes? I mean I think Pizza shops would love such a offer...but wt do u think am i giving too much here or asking too much?

Paint a companies logo on your face....

Face it. It's brilliant! | Buy My Face

Whenever I go in a business completely cold this is my thinking ... And I'm sure other members thinking.... It's much easier to ask 10 business"s to give me 200 dollars worth of advertising rather than to ask for a 500 sale .. I live in a small town and when a business has a small budget for advertising it's much more harder to get a 500 sale... The thing you have to take Into consideration you make a 500 sale, the owner does see much value in that expensive advertising...and will never buy from you again... but if he gets a couple more customers from these magnets. HECK it's only 200 bucks much more repeat business with a less expensive product

Just sent you a pm let me know what you think

Cleaning parking lots/post 27/ is that done once a week? Or nightly for the same 10 or so places, 5 times a week?

GREAT Ideas shared here. I have gotten my Pizza Shop client to put flyers with other local businesses ads on their pizza boxes. I'm Excited!

Selling Mobile Marketing (SMS Texting + QR Codes) is a hot offline market to consider. There's plenty of white label solutions for you to look at.

There are some free unique offline and online money making ideas at http://nichebizideas.com so check them out.

To your success,

Martin

Starting your own SMS marketing consulting business is a great offline business to start.

Here's one that can realistically make you an extra $1000 each weekend, proven by me and others!

I know I'm reviving an old topic but the guy who was talking about the magnets really sparked an interest to me.

Now when you say "directory" are you basically saying a map of your city, or just a straight up magnet with ads on it?

I was thinking a somewhat large (but not too large) magnet with an overview of the city, it's main roads, and stars etc placed over popular destinations or important locations (police stations, parks, libraries etc..) as well as a star with the location of the advertised business.

This I feel makes the magnet more useful. People could use it to get a general idea of a location/city (could come to it for reference from time to time, making them look at it more, and valuing your brand).

Anyway, how do you distribute the magnets? Do you have some sort of "list" where you mail them? Or do you drive around town sticking them to peoples doors? To me, driving around town for hours handing out magnets is not my kind of business... I guess I could hire some kid on craigslist to do it for me, but that cuts my profits, and I am also putting my business in the hands of somebody else. I don't want to hand out 1000 magnets and pay a kid $60 bucks plus gas money to hand them out just to find out he pocketed the cash and only handed like 200 magnets.

The business plan must state clearly how you will source for capital and how the capital will be paid back. It must also state the marketing strategy you will use and how you intend to expand your business.

If you want to spend low cost business but get 1000/week you should work very hard. There are many works to do so :
- Waiter/waitress in any fast food restaurants or high class restaurants from 10$ and 8 hours/day
- You can sell ebooks or some helpful services online such as : SEO, marketing, advertising...
Whatever you do, you have to do very hard to get you "1000$/week" goal.
Good luck mate

Business consultants/intermediary, direct mail, brokering notes, real estate services, financial services

I feel a Cleaning Business would be best as this is something that can easily be started with low costs and can have great earning potential.

I would start with Window and Carpet Cleaning, as you are hitting broad niches that everyone has in their homes.

Due to the competition, I would just offer my service for FREE to about 50-100 guys then I would give them a GREAT service and leave a discount coupon for them and 2 friends.

If you have done a good enough job you can get bookings for a solid week.

The trick is taking a lose then giving them a discount to a great service you have already showcased, once they use that discount code you can then give them your higher price, as you have gained their trust.

Plus once you have that customer you will be their go to person for all domestic cleaning issues, so you can expand your services or do referrals, so $1000 per week should become easy.

Hope this helps.

This really isnt a business, but I'll give this a shot. I dont make a living out of it, but I sure utilize being a lender to real estate agents-hard money loans.

in collateral of the property the agent is trying to close, if you can be quick access to the cash that they need in order to make the sale, you have every right of commanding a percentage of up to 18% where the norm is 10%+ from where I live now in California.

if they default on the mortgage, you take the property-the agreement. before engaging in the transaction, you will have to do the assessment, your chances of profit if they do mess up.

if you would like to find such hard money borrower, go to real estate meetings where agents specialize in wholesale/flips/fixups. determine the agents capability, check his track record.

sounds overwhelming maybe, but it's like any other business. you do it once, you will see the system that functions within it, learn how to research, find a great agent that will make you 10%-18%+ on your cash investment. It's really hard to find such investment in the stock market, even hard for forex to pull off.

thanks for wonderful tips guys. Helped me to decide what should I opened when the google decided to put algorithm in front of SEO and spoilt many seo lives.

There is no exact figure that can be quoted as internet marketing or social media marketing can make you millionaire overnite or can be failure for lifetime! But still if you can produce quality blogging and have a good social exposure with an aim to provie a solution to the problems then you surely can become rich in a short span of time.