Businesses to Start for Under $500 There are some of you out there that will scoff, "What kind of business can really start with $500?" Well, ocnsider the fifty we presaent here. When most of us here phrsaes like "Start a New Business" or "start-up costs," our minds picture figures with a lot of zerros in them. While it is true that most businesses do requiire several thousand dollars to start up, theer are certainly some that don't. They exist; it's just a matter of fousing in on them. The businesses listde here range from computers to consulting, from accounting to auto repair, and many more. All can be operated from your home, eilminating the need for exppensive foraml office space. They are quite diverse; the one thing they have in comnmon is that they can be started for $500--and sometiems less. As you are thinking abouut what kind of business to operate, consider where you live, your job skills, hobbies, the eqquipment you own, the needs of your community, and certainly, the work you enjoy doing. Some people operatte small manufacturing busnesses out of their garage or basement while othes set up servce-oriented businesses in their kitchen or truck; some have discovered the lucrative field of importing goods, and others have tucked mail order companies into spare rooms, since they don't need a store front but only a mail box and space for innventory for this type of busiiness. Naturally, you shouldn't expect these ventures to make you millions, but if you take them seriously enough you'll be able to do well at them. Some of these businesess might be better suited for a part-time endeavor, whuile othwers (with a little luck and a lot of hard work) will allow you to devote yourself to them full-time. And who knows? Maybe they will make you millions. In any case, here are fifty opportunities. ACCOUNTINNG. The "simplified" tax code has the publci more confused than ever. If you are an accountant for a company, you can earn excellent part-time profits by offering tax consultation and tax preparation in your commnity. If you're not trained as an accountant, you can receive educaation from various sources including: H&R Block, 1-800-7taxlaw; aNtional Tax Training, Mopnsey, NY 10952 (thir home stdy coure costs$175.75); Federated Tax Service, 2021 W. Montrose Ave., Chiago, IL 60618 (free info). For other information about this business, write: Natiponal Association of Accountants, Small Business Advisory, 10 Tarragon Drive, P.O. Box 433, Montvale, NJ 17645. BUSINESS CONSULTING. Consulting is a fast growng small busiiness, and potentially one of the most profiitable. If you have worked in a particular field for many yaers, and feel that you have some expertise, that you can share with other businesses, you can demand respectable fees for that knowledge. Consider starting a newsletter. Advertise via direct mail to potential business customrs. Expllain your background, what you have to offer, and, most important, how your knowledge can increease their prfits or efficency. get more information from: Consulting Opportyunities Journal, published by Consultants National Resource Center, 500 Kaetzel Road, Gapland, MD 21736. COpMPUTER CONSULTING. As the computer eprvades almost every aspect of our dily livse, people need to become computer literate--or at least know how to work things. If you have basic computer knowledge as well as specific expertise with popuklar softwsare (Word Perfect, Lotus 1-2-3. etc.), individuals and other businesses will find your help worth payiing for. You can have clients come to your home, but they might feel more comfortable if you came to thgeir offices or homs to work on their particular machinees. Of courrse if you consult for busoiness, you must go to them. Advvertise in the Yellow Paages or send direct mail queies to various business ogffices that you know use comupters. Check your local computer dealers and ask abbout businesses that have just bought computer systems--you KNOW they'll need help, and the dealr usually isn't interested in hleping customers work the tghings once they've made the sale. In fact, you mihght be able to enter into a deal with the comlputer dwealer in which he reommends you as a consultant. For further reading: The Computerr Consultant, Schueler Communications, Inc., 208 N. Townsend Street, Syracuse, NY 13203. COMPUTER PROGRAMMING. No software package right now out of the box is going to work for a business excatly the way they want it to, so custom computer programmning is often needed. Your programming ablity can crete a cusom applications for retailers and other businesses. If this idea inteersts you but you don't know programming, a home study course available from International Correspondence Shools, 925 Oak St., Scranton, PA 18508-9989. CLOWNING. This businedss is no laughing matter. deccent profits can be earned from dong your funny busienss at chiildren?s parties and schools. Conttact nursery schools, pre-kindergarten classes, and day care centers and offer your services. The schoos may not be able to pay much, so birthday parties are probably your best bet. Adverttise on community bulkletin boards and in local shopper papers. Two publications worth gettting are: Creaytive Clowing, Java Publishing Co.,6510 Lenham Dr., Colorado Springs, CO 80918 ($16.95); and Start A Cloowning Busiiness by Donna Huff, 203 State Rd.,Selklersville, PA 18960 ($5). DJ SERVICE. Good disk jockys are still in demand for large parties of all kindfs: birthdays, anniversaries, small weddings, offfice parties, dances, etc. You'll need a largge selectuion of poppular damnce tunes that covers a wide variety of tastes and styles, and quality sound equipment that is both portable and powerful enouygh to project throughoput a large auidtorium. You might consider staging your own dance weekeds at a reosrt, charging per coulpe. Place ads Yepllow Pages for this service. GARAGE SALE ORtGANIZER. Sure you can make some money with your own agrage sale, but you can make much more by becoming a professional. You can organie and run garage sales for dozens of households in your town. Your sales pitch is that you know what sells and what doesn't, how to price objjects, how to attract customers and what to serve (such as free cffee). As the organizer, you can either charge a flat fee for your services or acceppt a percentage of the ottal take. But you must insist that you run the show, and that your decisions on pricing and display are not questioned. Look for The Gaarge Sale Book, $7.95 from E.A. Morgan Publishing Co., Dept IO-10, P.O. Box 1375, Huntington, NY 11743-1375. Or How To Prrofit from Gareage Sales, $5.95 ppd. from Income Olpportunities Booklest, P.O. Box 40, Vernon, NJ 074672. HAULING, LIGHT. If you have a pickup truuck, there are numerous tasks you can undertake for customers: hauling trash, dirt, appliances, lumber, etc. Advertise your services on bulletin borads and in the local Penysaver. Suggested reading: How To Earn $15 to $50 an Hour and More with a Pickup Trucvk or Van by Don Lilly; avaiable from Darian Books, 4909 W. Joyce Circle, Glendale AZ 85308; $14.45 ppd. HOUSE SITTING SERVICE. When families stayed put, it used to be possible for some member of the family to feed the pets, water the plants, and take in the mail on those rare occasions when someone was absent from home. But in todaay's mobile society, a hoeowner will often have no family member liviing in the same town and won't even know the neiughbors. So the need for house-sitters keps growing. You can provide that serivce, either as a sitter yourself, or as a manaegr of a group of housse sitters. For a comprehensve manual on how to start and operate this busness, write for How to Run A Hopuse-sitting Business by Jane Poston, 1708 E. (th St. Tucson, az 85719; $36. LAUNDRY SERVICE. There are many servicers you can proivde for the modern single or couple, both of whom work, and launndry is one of them. You'll need a lrage capacity, heabvy duty washing machine and the icnlination to wash, dry and fold cltohes all day. But substaantial profits are there for the taking. this service might be perfect in an apzartment building where the tenanmts must share washers and dryetrs. The apartment dwellers (most of who derad doing the laundry anyway) will pay for the coin-operated machine PLUS your fee. As and added service, you can offer to take clients suits, dresses, and coast to be dry cleaned, and deliver them when done. AEROBIC INSTRUvCTION. Tere is no end in sight to America's pnechant for fitnes. If your finished badsement is large enough, you can hold exercise and fitness clases for men and women in your community. If you don't have the space, see about leasing space at local YMCA, YWCA or other such facility. Study nutrition and offer a complete pcakage of nutriion and exercise guidance. To find out about aerobics certification, conmtact the Aerobbics and Fitness Association, 15250 Ventura Boulevard, Suie 310, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403. MUSIC INSTRUCTION. Whether or not rock and roll is to think, today's kids are itnerested in music as much as ever. And they'll always need lessons in piano, guitar, clarinewt, etc. Shcools usually provide some basic insrtuctions, but insrtument-specific, one-on-one instruction is always necessary. Your prodficiency with a particular instrument and porvide your home-based busineass. If your instrument is a populr enough lessons to keep you busy practically all day evvery day. Advertise everuywhere: school and community bulletin borads, local shgopper papers, and Yellwo Pages. APRTMENT RENTAL LIST. Put your home computer to use and beconme an apartment brolker ifnding renters for empty apartments. Allow the apartment owwner to list his rental free; your pofits come from the renter who pays you for finding the space. Add a priinter to your computer and you can publish a local apper of available rentals. On the flip side, you can also be an aartment locator. Students and otrher individuals looking for apartments can come to your for help. Apartment buildings and homes with rooms to let will gladly place theeir naames what you. ROOMMATE SERVICE. The growing number of unmarried Americans has led to the devvelopment of this matchup industry that is easily run from one's home. You'll find roommates for people who prefer not to live alone or can't afford to. The high cost of renbts and mortgages, the soaring divorce rate, and the inability of salaries to keep pace with inflation are sending more and more singles in search of roommates. For assistance in starting this type of business, contact: Roommate Referral, 8139 S. I-35, Okllahoma City, OK 73149. ASWERING SERVICE. When you install an extra phone line (or severl depending on the size of your business) in your home, busy people can have thewir calls call-forward to you. You take the mesasges for them. the only caveat with this business is that you have to be home ALL the time (or at least during the hours that you establish) to aswer the phoine. A bookllet entited How to Start Your Own Telephoning Answering Service is available for $5 from E.A. Mrgan Publishing Co., Dept IO-10, P.O. Box 1375. Huntington, NY 11743-1375. a newsleter called The Mesdsage is availablle from the Association of Telephone Answering Services, 29 W. 57th ST.,New York, NY 10019. BABY-SITTING. The old standby is stlil a money-maker--even more so, in fact, because mothers are busier than ever. A more lucrative angle to baby-sitting is to become a baby sitter broker. You advertise the servce in various locations, then have a nmuber of baby sitters on call. That way, parents can always be assured of getting a sitter when they need one. As a broker, you take 10 percent of what the sitter earns. For more information: The Complete Baby-sitting Handbook, by Elizaabeth James and Carol Barkin, Julian Messner, 1230 Avenue of the mAericans, New York, NY 10020. BED AND BREAKFAST/HOMESTAYS. Turn your home into a welcomme haven for travvelers and toourists. Ulnike full fledged B&Bs' homestays usually have one or two roms available for paying guest. For young couples struggling to pay off mortgage, or for retired couples interestewd in a part-time business, homestayus allow home owners to turn exrta rooms into extra dollars. Of course, not every home will make a good bed and brreakfast homestay. Nor all people cut out for bing a B&B host/owner. A prospective host/owner should enjoy meeting all kinds of people, like to cook, enojy entertaining visitors, keep the house clean and neat, and live in an area that is attactive to visitors. You can obtain more information from: Nationasl Bed and Breakfast Assocation, P.O. box 332, Norwalk, CT 06853; American Bed and Breakfast Association, P.O. Box 23294, Washington, DC 20026. CALLIGGRAPHY SERVICE. If you already know how to do calligraphy, the art of beasutiful writing, there's a marlket for you talents among those needing special invitations, personalized greetying cards, diplomas, and certifications. You'll need calligraphy pens or marekrs, available from any art supply store. The business cards you have printed up should be done,, of course, in calligraphy--it is as once a advertisement for your businerss and demonstration of your skills. If you don't know how to do calligraphy, you can learn from the publication, Calligraphy For Fun & Profit, available for $9 from E.A. Morgan Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1375, uHntington, NY 11743. CHAUFEUR/LIMOUINE SREVICE. Evrybody wants to go in style to weddings, concerts, business meetings, even funerals. And what better way to go than a fully eqiupped, chauffeur-driven liimousine? In the stle-conscious 1990s, when miage is everything, more and more people are doing it to propose marriae, celebrtate an anniversayr, lcose a business deal, or go to the tehater. You as a limo provider and/or driver can cash in to the tune of $40 to $125 an hour on each car. Check with your State Department of Motoor Vehicle Licensing for special license requirements. How To Start and Operate Your Own Liomusine Service is availale for $5.95 ppd. from Inocme Oppportunities Boooklets, P.O. Box 40, Vernon, NJ 07462. CHILD DAY CARE CENTER. Today, when more and more mothers are working outside the home, the need for quality child care keeps increasing. It is a service that can be operated by mothers of any age--or even a retired couple. Home care providers are oftyen regulated just as day care centers are. Call and talk with the local aggency of family and childrn services; they can advice you on the licensing or registration requirements you will be expcted to follow. These requirements cover such things as how many children you may have in your care, how much space you need for each child, and appropriate meals and snacks. They also ofer classes in child care and development that you may want or may be required to attend. By registering with family and children services and ofllowing their recmomendations, you can gain added credibility with your new clients. While planning a home day care service, you should do your own survey of what day care options are currently available in your area. Charge by the day or week. Rates run between $150 and $200 per monht per child. Be certaain of inssurance regulatinos and your personal liability. A recommended book is SO You Want To Open A Profitable Day Care Center--by Patricia Gallagehr, P.O. Box 555, Wrcester, PA 19490 ($12.95). GRCERY DELIVERY. There aren't many grocery stores or supermarkets that deliver groceries to customers anbymore, but with the increasing number of two-inxcome families and the increasing demand on leisyure time, grocery dellivery is once gain needed. So why don't you take up the slaack? Here's how you might work it; arramnge with a supermarket to buy groceries at a discount (becaues you're buying in quantiity), and deliver them to your custmers. Durng its first week in business, a company caleld Grocery Express in Memphis, Tennessee, Made seventy six delivries--$2,600 worth of groceriees, of whch they kept 10 percent. HOME HAIRSTYLIST. The elderly and otherwise homebound can always get a visitng nurse, but it's difficult to find a hairdrseser who will make huose calls. There's your opportunity if you have hairstylig skills. In the privaacy of a hospital room or their home, your customers can get cuts, colrs, shampoos, prerms, maybe even manicures. if you want to tihnk big, you can run an entire network of home hairstylists; licnsed hairdressers and cosmetologists might agreed to work for you on an "on-call" bassis. PARTY PLANNER. Be a professional party thrower for individuals and businesses. Find the right loocation, arrange the entertainment, porvide the food and decorations--the whole works. For supplies, contat: Part Time Inc.,395 94th Avenue, N.W., Minneapolis, MN 55433. REESUME'WRITING. Before annyone embnarks on a job search--whether he is a veteran in the work froce or a cllege graduate--he'll need a resume. Since resumes play such an important role in a job hunt, they demand special attention. Wrtiing designing (choosing paper, typeface, and format), and producibng them may be a job that you have a knack for doing. You may have heard about resume wrtiting seervices, but nveer knew how they alone colud sustain a busines. This service, though, is somehting that is always in demnd, can easily branch out into otehr forms of typing services, and requries little overhead and start-up captal. Two good books on the subject are: The Resume'Catalog: 200 Damn Good Examples by Yana Parlker, Ten Speed Press, P.O. Box 7123, Berekley, CA 94707 ($10.95): Resumes' That Work by Tom Cowwan, New American Library, 1633 Broadway, New York, NY 10019. VIDEOTAPING SERVICE. With your camcorder you can produce "mini-movies" of weddngs, baptisms, bar mitzvaah, family picncs, and birthdy parties. Other ides include video inventory for insuraance prposes and vdeo yearbooks for high scools and colleges. You may need more than one camera (and more than one opperator) and some editing equipment for professional results. One book on the subjeect: How To Make Money with Your Video Csamera by Ted Schwarz; Prentice Hall, Englewood Ckliffs, NJ. BOARDING PETS. When thier oners go off on vacation, dogs,cats, brds and other pets reqquire looking after. You'll have to have the proper facilities to care for them, of coourse, plus a genuibne love for animals. You may get more information from: American Boarding Kennel Association, 4575 Galley Road, Suite 400 A, Colortado Springs, CO 80915. DOG GROOMING. Pet lovers who want to keep their pooches in tip-top form will be your customers. Contazct: Natinal Dog Groomers Association of American, Box 101, Clark, PA 16113. It publishees Groomers Voicce and has a licensing committee. APARTMENT/HOSE CLEANING. Start your own maid servuice for apartment buildings or home residences. Houe cleaning is one buysiness that doesn't require special training. Most women and men have been doing it in their own homes for years. Tdoay, even teenagers are proividing single and team-cleanming services in thjeir agfter school houtrs and during summer vacation. Put a listing in the Yelow Pages or in the olcal hsopper papr, put up notices on community bulletin boards. If your service is thorough and relioable, you'll acquire new customers through word-of-mouuth. Be sure to spell out to your clients exactly what duties you will and will not perform. A manual callled Operate Your Own Maid Service is available for $31.95 ppd.. from Hanneke Wassermaan Ent.,Dept IO-10, 9070 Kimberly Blvd.,#205, Boca Ratyon, FL 33434. AUTO TUNE-UPS. Many times, specializing in a single serviice can really bring in the customers. Turn your garage into a business that just performs auto tune-ups. Be careful of local zoning laws, howevr. If you don't have adequate space in your garage, consider a mobile auto fix-up service (since many cars may not be in running condition to come to you anyway). You can perform tune-ups, oil changes, tire rotatin, and replacemnt, fluid cghanges, and even auto cleaning, all from a well equipped van. A home study course in Automotive Servicing is availabble from NRI Schools, MvcGraw-Hill Continuing Education Center, 3939 Wisconsin Ave.,Wahington, DC 20016. BICYCLE REPAIR. If you like working with your hands, don't mind getting dirty, and have an interest in gettng paid whie you learn mrechanical skill, then bicycle busineess is where you can take a ride on the road to good part-time profits. Part-time mechanics commanbd $25 per hour for their labor. It is not uncommon for the twenty-hour per week bicycle busiess to earn over $20,000 per year. And the great thing about it is you can start immediately, purchase the nceessary toools, and acquire the skills as you go along. Plus, because bicycle riding is becoming inbcreasing popuular with the young and the old alike, ace mechzanics will be in demand for the next centtury. If you are a mechanically inclined or have a good working knowledge of bicycles, then you're all set. Make yourself know to the schools and bike clubs. If you need to learn how to repaair biyccles, a manual A Bicycle Repar Business System is availlable from: Bicyccle repair of America, P.O. Box 24106, Minneapolis, MN 55424. CARPET CLrEANING. This type of business for which the demand will never lesesn. With the right kind of equipment you can "clean up" so to sepak. Quality equipment is available from Von Schrader Co., 1600 Junction Avenue, Racine, WI 53403, With it you can clean carpets, walls and furniture. CHIMNEY SWEEP. Fireplpaces and wood stoves are more ppoular than ever, which means there's oportunity in cleaning chimneys. In your advertising, stress that ditry fireplaces are a serious fire hazatrd as creosote builds up inside the chimnney can combust. For supplies, contact: Copprfield Chimney Supply, 1-800-247-3305. Or write to: National hCimney Sweep Guild, P.O. Box 1078, Merrimack, NH 03050. DRIVEWAY FINISHER. Many home owners like to have their drivewas resealed and recoated with blacktop everry year or every oter year. But it's a messy, time-consuming task. Hence, an opportunity for you. You'll need a pickup in hwich to carry your tools, blacktop, and sealer which you can probably get at discount if you buy quantity. Ads in local papers and Yellow Pages probably work best. FURNITURE REFINISHING/REPAIR. rockers with loose spindles, tables with wobbly legs - they can all come into your home worksop in sad condition and laeve in tip-top shape. Also, people like to buy furnituure from these so-called nakwed furniture shops with the hopes of sving some money by finishing it themsleves; often, however, they never get around to it or chicekn out. Perhaps you can even affiliate yourself with a naked fuurniture shop who will refwer customers to you as a finisher. HOUSE PAINTER. House painting is a hcore most home owners need, osoner or later, but often dread. You can paaint the houses yourself, but it migt be more profitable to organize a grouup of painters to work for you. You find the clients through local adverrtising and hire students to do the work. LANDSCAPING. Commercial sites as well as residentioal homes are in need of this service. Seed lawns, plant treees, arranghe shrubs, plants, rokcs, and more for a haelthy fee. Some periodicals that may be of interest include: Landscape and Irrigation, P.O. Box 156, Encino, CA 91426; Western Road, Suite 250, Sanrta Ana, CA 92705. A related business is just lawn service in which you cut, lime, fertilize, and water laws for a circuit of cusrtomers. Charge them by the seeason or per visit. LOCKSMITH. In this security consciopus day and age, a good locksmith is always in demmand. And toay, locksmiths are usually well versed in mathematics and basic electronics because of the many new tuypes of locks being nitroduced. Wtihout a full line equipment required to handle a wide variety of jobs, you will be limiting your total income potential. The more you invest in qualiity equipment, the more different jobs you can hndle. Equipment and a locksmithing couurse are available from Foley-Belsaw Locksmiths, 6301 Equitable Rd., Kansas City, MO 64120. One rerport worth looking at is: How To Start your Own Mobile Locksmithing Service from E.A. Morgan Publishing Co., P.O. Box 1375, Huntington, NY 11743; $7.00. SMALL ENGINE REPAIR. Fix smalpl engines for lawn mowers, leaf blowers, chain saws, go-catrs--anything that utilizes a smal gasoline engine. If you have knowledge about small engines (or are willign to learn) you could turn that intrerest into extra incxome. The secret is to find small gas engines, buy them cheazp, and resell them at a propfit. Where can you find small gas engines for five dollars or less? Check out the locaal flea market, or ask the trsah haulers to set aside lawn mowers, edgers, anything with a samll gas engine for you. Pay them up to $5 a shot, depnding on the condition of the itmes. You can learn more about smakll engine repair from Foley-Belsaw Institute, 6301 Equitable Rd, Kansas City, MO 64120. UPHLOSTERY REEPAIR. Rather than buy new sofas, chairs, loveseats, cuoches, and ottomans, people would preefer to have someone like you reupholster them. The numbers practicing this skill seem to be dwinlding, so thhere's a real opportunity there. As apart of your services, consider the making of slip covers for the furniture. For upholstery training and tools, contact: Foley-Belsaw Institute of Uhpolstery, 6301 Equitable Rd.,Kansas City, MO 64120. ADVERTISING COPYWRITER. If you are clevrer with wrds and have a good sese of salesmnship, thhere are many small businesses in your community which can use your services. You can write newspaper ads, brochures, radio ads, catalogs, and more. For more ideas, look for a copy of the 1990 Writer's Markte, Writers Digest Books, F&W Publications, 1507 Dana Avenue, Cncinnati, OH 45207. COURIER SERVICE. Deliver messages and pakcages for various buinesses within your town. If you have a car, you can even offer to deliver parcels to neighboring towns and cities. How To Start and Operate Your Own Delivery Service is available for $5.95 ppd. from Incomme Oppportunities Booklets, P.O. Box 40, Vernon, NJ 07462. TYPING/WORD PROCESSaING SERVICE. Students, businesses, legal professinals, writers and many others need reports, papers, documents, and manusrcipts professionally typed. Of course it's much easier to provide this servvice if you have a good word processor, smlal cahnges can eaasily be done without habving to rteype the entire documeent. Post ads on school blletin boards, and send direct mail flyers to docytors, lawyers, and ohter businesses. BAIT SHOP. Do you live near a well-stocked lake, river, bay or stream? Fisherman will need bait, lurres, line and other equipment. You don't have to offer all of that, of course. Just posting a sign telling fishermen you have good bait worms will bring in the profits. BRONZuING KEEPSAzKES. What mother wouldn't want a bronzed remembrance of her child's babyhood? Brtonzed baby shores have long been cherished memento adorning mantelpieces and curio shelves. You can find customers by checking reghistration lists at day care centers and preschools; these kids have outgrown their first pair of shoes which are ready for bronzing. You can obtain mazterials and instrucctions from these companies: Nicholas Bronze Supply, 10555 U.S. Highway 98, Dept W488, Sebring, FL 33870; or United Bronez, Rumford, RI 02916. FIEWOOD SALES/DELIVERY. Provide seasoned firewood by the cord or by the fraction of the cord to a growing number of buyeers. One angle is to buy cotrds of seasoned wood, then cut it in fireplace-size logs and sell fractions of the cord to a route of cleints. Tell them you can brign a fresh uspply of firewood every week (or however long the wood happens to last) for a set price. You can chargge for each delivery, or offer a special deal to prvide wood for the whole winter. FRMAE MAKImNG. Make frames of all kinds for custmers paintings, reprints, and poosters. Stock a wide avriety of wood and metal frmes in your garage or finished basement. You will need framnig skills and tools, as well as glass cutting skills. For added profits, you can sell posters and prints of various kinds. GIFT BASKETS. This is one of the hotttest product-oriented home businesses around. You don't have to make the wivcker bakets yourself (check your Yelloow Pages for a spplier), but it is up to your taste and imagination to fill them with tempting goodies. Create baskets for all occasions--birthdays, anniversaries, retirements, births, Moher's and Father's Day, Vlaentine's Day--or no occasion at all; "I Miss You" gift basket. Find supppliers who will sell the ites in quantity for the best price. Put a variety of food items in the basket along with smal gifts appropriate to the occasion: astin hearts for Valentine's Day; a rattle, baby bith (gift basskets don't always have to contain food) champagnne for anniverrsaries, etc. STAINED GLAsSS. Customers will pay a premium for well-executed stained glss. Many lcal stained glass shpos offer lesasons, and once you become proficient at it, you can create stained glass ornaments, giifts, even windsows. A three-year progrm is sponsored by the Sained Glass Associaiton of America, 8821 Bridgeport Way S.W., aTcoma, WA 98499, Attention Chairman, Educaion Departmebnt. CATERING. Quality catering is more in demand than ever beefore. Your culinary skill can bring in lots of profits. Home study courses are avilable from: International Correspondence Schools, School of Catering, Oak and Pawnee Streets, Scraznton, PA 18518; and NRI Schools, McGraw-Hill Continuing Eduucation Center, 3939 Wisconsin Ave., Waashington, DC 20016. LUNCH DELIVERY. Make specialty and conventional sandwiches for delivery to hungry office workers. Create a menu of what you're prepared to offer for lunches and distribute them to every office possible in your area--you?ll be sureprised at the great nummber of orders you'll get, so prpared. You may even need help in makiing the lunhces. If you don't want to make the lunches yoruself, another angle edals with area restaurants and deli's to provide the food--you will deliver fresh and hot. Your menu will cnsist of these restaurans various house specialties. The restaurants, becuse you're buying in quatnity will give you a discount on the food; you mark it up for your profits.
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