Archives: 2007 December

The guy who thought of giving away free rolls of film every time you have
your films developed at his photo center - is a genius!
You know the rest of the story, and so do thousands other photo centers
around the world who copy this excellent promotion.
STRETCHING DOLLARS
A budget conscious market is always out looking for a [...]

It is not the intention of this publication to proliferate or encourage
sexually oriented merchandise. However, as an observer of entrepreneurial
activities, this medium would be naive and pretentious to ignore a
profitable, legal business that could possibly be of interesdt to others.
The concept is plain and simple. Renting video tapes is profitable business.
Renting adult videos [...]

Minimum Start-Up: $500
Average Start-Up: 15,000
Revenue: $35,000 - $1 Mil+
Profits: $20,000 - $500,000
One Person Business: Yes
Auditing is not a matter of magic. If you have the patience to sort through
regulatory tariff and have a keen eye to spot billing inconsistencies, you
can conduct an audit.
UTILITY BILLS
Auditing utility bills has become one of [...]

A Florida video-grapher produced a How -To wedding planner tape and sold
over $250,000 worth of videos in just 12 months. Think about it: If you sell
your video for $25, all you need to do is sell around 80 videos a week, or
325 videos a month to gross $100,000 a year.
A typical “small” production can [...]

VIDEO YEARBOOKS
These are growing in popularity. They usually consist of short scenes of
important high school events, such as sports, clubs, candid “people scenes,”
still photo montages, and other memorable items for the students. A well-
edited hour-long video should be able to be sold for $15 to $30, depending
upon the editing complexity of the video [...]

If you have cable, you’ve no doubt seen local advertising on most of the
channels. There are three ways a local business could produce a commercial.
One, they could do it themselves (and we all know what that looks like); two,
they could have the local cable business do it for them (which can also look
quite amateurish); [...]

This is, in my opinion, THE business to get into with your videocamera.
You only need one camera, decent video skills, little expenses and supplies,
and, if done right, very low marketing expenses. Besides your videocamera,
you’ll need an instant camera and an engraving tool, which together should
be able to be found for under $100.
Here’s the business [...]

I love to travel, but I also love to be ”as close to nature” as possible.
One of my favorite places in the world is Death Valley and I’ve been planning a motorcycle trip out there for a long time. Here’s the problem: I don’t own a motorcycle.
Motorcycles are also large and noisy.
Voila! Enter the motorized bicycle.
You probably aren’t even aware such a product exists, but for under $500 you can [...]

Special event videos are much simpler and a lot less worry than videotaping
a wedding ceremony. In many cases, you’ll only need one camera, one
microphone, and little or no editing. You’ll charge less, of course, but
your profit margin will be higher.
You can provide this service to any professional person or group - attorneys,
salespeople, financial [...]

There is a huge potential market for wedding videos. Just look in your local
paper any summer week and see how many weddings there were. Since almost
every household in the country has a VCR, you can bet that almost every
wedding has a video. Keep in mind, though, that there is also big competi-
tion [...]