Archives: 2007 December

Although the national obsession for group exercise has begun to level off,
estimates claim 23 million Americans participate in aerobics in health clubs
and exercise gyms.
This includes people enrolled in programs run from community facilities,
YMCAs, and gyms, to dance studios in shopping malls.
This figure represents 10% of the US population who exercise occasionally,
definitely a fraction of what [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $2,500
Average Start-Up: $5,000
Revenue: $12,000
One Person Business: Yes
The CD is entitled: “This CD Can Make You Filthy Rich”, and it’s about
producing how-to CDs - a concept whose time has come. At $15 each, plus
$3 shipping & handling, the producer of CD will gross $18,000 selling 1,000
CDs.
The production cost [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $10,000
Average Start-Up: $100,000
Revenue; $100,000 - $2.5Mil
Profits; $25,000 - $250,000
One Person Business: Yes
The high cost of maintaining a full-time employee contributes to the growth
of the temp-help business.
Advancement in computer hardware and software enables companies to staff
mean and lean, preferring to hire temps during peak seasons rather than lay
off workers [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $1,500
Average Start-Up: 10,000
Revenue: $25,000 - $5Mil+
Profits: $20,000 - $1Million
One Person Business: Yes
In this information Society, we have an insatiable appetite for knowledge.
Add to this our desire to network with people who share our intersets,
professionals in our own trade.
For these reasons, seminars and expositions have continued to grow. At a
time when the explosive [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $500
Average Start-UP: 10,000
Revenue: $25,000 - $250K
Profits: $10,000/Month
One Person Business: Yes
Most Travel Clubs are organized on the premise of building a sizable
membership capable of negotiating discounts with various travel providers.
The Travel Club makes money earning a commission every time a member
purchases airline tickets, books a hotel room, or goes [...]

Yellow Pages, a California-based research company has been extensively
doing studies on U.S. ZIP (Zone Improvement Program) Codes. They can now
predict, with certain percentage of accuracy, what you ate for breakfast
based on your zip code.
ZIP Codes are the smallest, most organized accumulation of information by
which we can evaluate the demographic flavor of a given area.
From [...]

Maps serve a purpose. People use them for directions. They trust them and
depend on them to get them where they want to go. It tells them where the
local attractions are, and other places if interest, particularly among
tourists - the people who use maps the most.
Considering the credibility and the power of maps as a printed [...]

The next money-maker in the long distance telephone business will be
focused on the way we buy and pay for long distance service.
PAY PHONES & OTHER STUFF
In the last 4 years, technological advancement in telecommunications
services has opened doors for entrepreneurs to make money selling Ma
Bell’s services.
Private-Party-owned Pay Phones spread like wildfire, and 25Cent-Per-Minute
Long Distance Flat Rate [...]

Although this money-making is continuously being marketed as “a way to make
money with your answering machine”, new technology has actually rendered
this idea obsolete.
With the proliferation of voice mail, fax-back service, and very inexpensive
computerized voice processing systems, the answering machine, with its
limited one-call-at-a-time capacity, is no longer ideal for making money.
With the advent of these new [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $2,500
Average Start-Up: 10,000
Profit Margins: 50% to 75%
One Person Business: Yes
Brandel Communications is currently developing a newsletter that will be
released on Compact Discs, mailed to you once every two months.
The subscription rate is $195 a year. (Our production cost: around $3 per
CD. With 6 CDs a year, our [...]