[awayoflife]

Look into buying a computer with the equipment that is needed to charge per go on the computer. For example you may set it to $1 for 10 mins or something like that. Place the computer in a waiting room or somewhere where people are bored or high footfall traffic. Make sure the location is secure and you might need to employ someone to fix the computer if it breaks. That will be a large cost. Split the revenue 70/30 with the landlord or along those lines.

You should have a small profit after one year in which you could maybe buy another one or 2. At the end of year 3 you should have at least tripled your money.

[awayoflife]

You could design a Christmas card with a picture on the front with something to do with your area. By area I mean it could be your city, although something more local would be more effective. Spend time thinking about what could be important to the citizens, such as a painting of/from the area.

Use all high quality material and ideas. Have some printed, but try not to spend over 1000. You could hire a photographer to take a shot of some type of landmark near you maybe (agree a fee with him before hand - during these times you will have some bargaining power so try to reduce the price, say you are a kid or something)

Then find some small stands that would hold a card and go around as many shops in the area that you chose. Tell them that you will give them say .50 of every one that is sold in their shop. But tell them it is a local thing and they would be seen as supporting the locality...you get the idea.

Maybe you could sell in packs of 3? All the same picture or different, up to you. Charge maybe 1 per card, so you make 2.50 for every sold (and then you subtract expenses- Make sure you do not spend over 1 on producing a card - work this out before hand)

[CKrecicki]

Stop spending so much money, none of your business are going anywhere with all this micro costs. Choose a skill your good at, get a client base, hire employees based on your accounting reports, delegate your business, then expand.

[awayoflife]

CK I know that what you are saying is the most effective way. However, the main problem here is lack of skill and ideas..

[Sportsfan12]

I sent you a PM that is a very lucrative.

--Reginald

[entrepreneurrebel]

Originally Posted by pjj1020

How are you doing now?

After about a year I closed up shop. Selling with a 2-3% profit margin allowed me to compete with the big wigs like (Ingram, TD, Stampede, ect) but in the end they had more people doing what I and only a few other were doing. I did get close to selling the company (merely for my contacts) but they dropped out of the sale. That part probably sucked more than actually closing. I was pretty excited.

But like said before no hard feelings with my competitors. I learned a great amount information and knowledge and actually have contacts with my competitors to go into reselling. But I taking what I learned and sticking to the service industry.

It doesn't take money to start a business but the drive. Mine just ran out for this one.

[entrepreneurrebel]

Originally Posted by awayoflife

CK I know that what you are saying is the most effective way. However, the main problem here is lack of skill and ideas..

BS, do you not understand the time you live in. You have the ability to literally run a business bootstrapped on $0 dollars. Expensive software needed to start a company has become open sourced, your writing on this forum so you a computer, warehousing if needed is inexpensive, start with a home office, use word of mouth marketing (don't understand it study it), PBX (grasshopper), server ($6 a month), office supplies (acquire them from your job), stop being afraid of cold calling and call potential customers (no means yes, you just have to convince them), and failure isn't the worst thing to happen. The worst thing that is listening to everyone else and not listening to yourself.

My first business was SEO company back in 2004/2005. I didn't start it to make many but to understand the art of SEO. I invested $500 and came out with $4000 by the end. When I started I had no clue what and how SEO. I invested in books and built a website (learned HTML also) and bought the software saved me webceo. By the end of year I called it quits and came out understanding html, marketing, accounting, professionalism, how ebay sucked, and alot of contacts in the porn search business. I was not easy I worked 2nd shift, start my AA and didn't sleep much that year. But trust me it was worth every waking minute I spent on it.

[Freddy700]

I am going through the same thing two. I am in college and I don't have my own website, and as well as not very artistic. What type of business should I look into to get something small going that could generate an income, but as well has the potential to grow?

[awayoflife]

Originally Posted by entrepreneurrebel

BS, do you not understand the time you live in. You have the ability to literally run a business bootstrapped on $0 dollars.

Now you are just after calling my comment BS? Ok, I said that what is needed by the person that started this thread is ideas to make money with $2000. Now why did you call my comment BS when I brought back this discussion to ideas. You then go on to say how you started some business with no money... It is pretty irrelevant here. This person does not care what you have done for free. He wants ideas for businesses that he can set up for 2000 or less.

So before you call someones comment BS, please sort out what you are going to say and add something constructive. Otherwise your comment is BS..

[hawksurfer]

That is the million dollar question. I would probably try some sort of forex trading.

[JamesK]

since you have absolutely no ideas, wire it to me and I'll give you $2500 in a week
we can go at that rate for as long as you want

I buy things at 40% of what they are worth and sell at 80% what they are worth. You do the math :]

I just sold an Alpine amp today for $280 that I paid $60 for yesterday
So yeah, give me the money and I'll give you a portion of the profit back

[Freddy700]

are you saying you know where you can buy this whole sale or r u just lookn on craigslist for cheap things n then just reselling them? I got a brand new wii the other day for 150, sold it for 220. I no how to sell stuff, i just need a place to find things at a good wholesale price

[JamesK]

Ah somewhat. Craigslist is a great place to start. But then again, I know a lot of people..
Like I can name off 10 people who have a grand to drop on 20" wheels that I come across for $500 brand new with tires and all..

So money is there to be made..Just need to get funding to start dealing with larger priced items. I've only lost money on one item and it was a $15 4th gen nano that turned out not to be fixable

[stuckatUSP]

CASINO .... just kidding. Everything the people posted above sounds like a good plan. Dont just go throwing it away. Make sure you have a plan and there is evidence that there would be a positive return.

Good luck

[skyhigh007]

Can you still make money by creating websites? Does anyone know which industry people still need to create websites?