Have a few minutes on break right now so I'm going to start the thread I promised in the other bidness thread I posted. Everyone should feel free to add your own business ideas, questions, thoughts and so on. I don't want to see any of the cf folk here suffer in the great depression that is upon us, and I've always been a big proponent of not relying on government and DIY.
One thing we can be sure of, breeders aren't going to suffer in this economic crisis, in fact, they are the reason for the crisis. It's time to write your own tax refund, and this thread is all about business ideas on how you can do that. These business ideas are based on my own, as well as the experience of others. I don't think you can expect to make a million, but refunding yourself taxes you've paid out for the breeders may mean the difference between eating dog food and having a chicken or for vegetarians, some tofu in your pot.
So let's get started and have some fun with this!!! X
Psychic ReadingsSpecializing in love and relationships. Welfare moos are the biggest consumers of love and relationship psychics. This is an excellent way to collect some tax refund money, especially if you market and target your "psychic services" just for single moos. Typical topics for readings: Am I praygunt? Am I getting praygunt soon? Does he love me? Will he come back? and so on. Work up a cheat sheet of canned cards and readings that put a positive spin on everything. Learn some "hot" reading techniques... by asking the moo her first name, date of birth or running searches on her email/screen names YOU CAN FIND OUT A LOT about these whores because they all have "myspace" and moo site profiles. Dazzle the moo with "things you could not have possibly known about her" by collecting information this way. If no information about her is available online, "cold" reading techniques are the next best thing. Cold reading are generalized statements that fit just about every welfare single moo. Think about all the things you already know about these whores, then incorporate that into your "psychic reading."
MommybloggingDust off all those old baby pics of yourself, or hit the local thrift store and go through their stacks of old scrap books and photos and set up your own "mommy blog" complete with brat pics and all. All you need is a little experience photoshopping or using another photo editing program to guss up the photos. Domains are cheap and so is hosting. Check out affiliate programs and text advertising programs you can run on the site. This requires some webmastering skill, if you want to pull it off better than 99% of the moo bloggers out there. Advantages: These generally target a more monied breeder demographic. Moos that stay at home while the wallet brings in the cash love to shop online and spend all day on mommyblogs.
Baby Shower PlannerWeddings are out, baby showers are in... at least for the breeders. This has a wide demographic, going from rich to welfare breeders. Some of the most expensive and outrageous baby showers are in the welfare demographic. While the taxpayer picks up all the childcare, medical, housing and food expenses, this frees up the breeder and their family to throw one or more expensive baby showers with thousands in gifts. You'll want to get a piece of this action. You'll want to set up a website, and a general template plan that you can mod and sell to each breeder based on the "theme" they'd like to have for the shower. One idea here is that as the planner, you also design and include baskets of "shower favors" games and gifts. You can do this totally online with shipping, or offer the service locally.
Homework "helper" As discussed earlier. Doing homework for the brats and getting paid for it. There are 1001 places online to advertise your "homework helping" service and a number of different ways to accept payment. Some of the freelancing websites have a section just for "homework help." Everyone knows exactly what this is, but it's not mentioned or discussed. Remember, you are selling "example papers" and "example homework" never agree in writing that you are "doing homework" -- take the assignments, do them, collect your cash, keep your trap shut. That's how it works. Some of the bigger "homework services" have people working for them doing the writing, you can make more money this way if you operate as a service and have people working for you and splitting the fee with them on some percentage you agree on. You take responsibility for the advertising and finding the jobs and coordinating payment, and other people do the writing.
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As we go along here, if there is enough interest, we can start discussing payment services, affiliate accounts etc. Paypal is one, but there are many many many many others.