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Sooz
19th September 2014, 11:46
Hi All,

This thread is not about investing, but rather ideas to toss about, for a simple small start-up business that anyone can do.

I was inspired by this:

The Start-Up Bringing You Good Times and Tasty Profits
September 19th 2014, by Tim Dohrmann, Melbourne, Australia

In today’s Tech Insider…a price that will leave a sour taste in your mouth…the unexpected, ideal restaurant experience…technology serving up a human connection…and more…

My jaw dropped yesterday when I saw the price tag.

I’m talking about the one attached to dinner at the most overhyped ‘pop-up’ restaurant in Australia.
Celebrity chef Heston Blumenthal will bring his ‘Fat Duck’ dining experience to Melbourne next year. Dinner — if you’re lucky enough to ‘win’ a seat in the ballot — will set you back $525. That’s excluding drinks, by the way.

I don’t doubt that Heston would put on a sensational meal.
Every mate who’s made the pilgrimage to the original Fat Duck, one hour out of London, tells me it’s amazing.
But if you think there’s a direct link between bill size and meal enjoyment, you’d better think again.
I’ve just found a tech start-up that understands that link better than anyone does. And based on its early momentum…this company has every chance of becoming the next tech titan.

Cuban buzz
If you pay top dollar for a restaurant meal and expect the time of your life, you’ve got things twisted.
The enjoyment you get from these kind of experiences comes when they exceed your expectations.
You see, I’ve dined at the swankiest end of Park Lane in London. I’ve had Michelin-starred chefs chat me through degustations in New York.

Don’t get me wrong…these were sumptuous, tantalising experiences.

But they struggle to match the buzz I got from a Cuban paladar.

‘Paladar’ comes from the Spanish word for ‘palate’. It’s a term that Cubans use to refer to privately owned, family-run restaurants in people’s homes.
When I rolled into Trinidad, on Cuba’s south coast, and a friend referred me to a paladar…I was sceptical.
This was eight years ago, long before Fidel Castro’s younger brother Raúl took power and opened the communist nation to foreign investment.
Back then, Cuba wasn’t renowned as a culinary destination. I discovered this shortly after touchdown, when I found the Cuban national dish is the ham and cheese sandwich.

That’s a direct result of the rationing, food shortages and general poverty that accompanied the decline and collapse of the Soviet Union…Cuba’s one-time most important trading partner. All of this meant the average Cuban prioritised survival…not haute cuisine.
So my expectations for a home-cooked meal were low.

But the spread our local hosts put on was outstanding. Fresh lobster, spicy crab, clams in green sauce, tangy mojitos...and the dishes kept coming.
My friends and I staggered out the door three hours later…several shades happier…and merely a few dollars lighter.
Our hosts that night in Trinidad understood a powerful secret. This secret is key to success in the restaurant game.
Good cooking is only half the battle when you want to impress a dinner guest. You need to provide hospitable entertainment.

That means making your guest feel at home. And what more comfortable place to do that than in your own home?
The lively Cuban spirit — friendly, vibrant, loud, cheeky, smiling — makes places like Trinidad an ideal home for this kind of business model.
But the secret to success behind the Cuban ‘paladares’ is opening up a market with enormous potential.
And if you think you have the skills, it could bring you a brand new income stream…
Serving a hunger for human connection

This basic fact of hospitality provided a lightbulb moment two years ago for two Israeli entrepreneurs.
Since 2007, Guy Michlin and Shemer Schwarz had watched Airbnb rise from strength to strength.
I’m sure you know about the opportunities that Airbnb provides for its hosts.

You can meet new people and make money by renting out parts of your home that you’re not using, if you join Airbnb’s platform.
In that spirit, Michlin and Schwarz’s start-up — EatWith — aims to provide you with a similar opportunity.
You can think of EatWith as ‘Airbnb for home-cooked meals’.
The platform provides a marketplace that connects diners with hosts. It enables that rare social experience where you get to know your fellow guests while you share an authentic, home-cooked meal.

It’s a brilliant example of tech coming full-circle to bring people into closer personal contact.
Hosts gets to meet new people and make some extra cash while doing something that they love.
As a guest, you can break bread with open-minded visitors and locals, share stories and make friends.
EatWith vets hosts for friendliness, cooking ability and home ambiance.
Michlin says only about 4% of applicants make it onto the platform…and then, of course, guests rate hosts (and vice versa) to encourage a high-quality experience.
With 500 hosts in 160 cities across 30 countries, EatWith could be coming soon to a home near you.
Raising $8 million of Series A funding should speed up that process. Here’s hoping that money gets EatWith to Australia.

The new world order
If this business model seems familiar to you, that’s because it’s not new.
Whether it’s jumping into a stranger’s car through Uber, or staying overnight at a stranger’s house through Airbnb…people are getting more comfortable with paying for personal services through less formal channels.
This trend lets consumers save money and gives them exciting new options.
On the other side of the ledger, it lets people monetise previously untapped aspects of themselves. In this case, it’s a talent for hosting dinner parties.
The old guard will complain.

Long-established industries, be they in taxis, hotels or restaurants, can react in one of three ways.
They can lobby governments to regulate these new business models out of existence.
They can improve their own offering to compete in this new world.
Or they can wither and die.
Some call that ‘creative destruction’.
I call it collaborative consumption.

It’s the new way of the world, and you’re witnessing the trend take flight in real time.
Keep your eye on start-ups with a great collaborative idea like EatWith.
The company that gets this model right and builds itself to world scale will make millions in profit.
Not just for investors…but also for regular people with a flair for hospitality.
Cheers,

Tim Dohrmann +
Small-Cap Analyst, Australian Small Cap Investigator
Port Phillip Publishing Melbourne Australia

Sooz
19th September 2014, 11:52
Other ideas off the top of my head:

If you know someone who grows their own veggies, clean their house once a week in return for a box of veg and fruit.

If you are a hairdresser, cut people's hair in exchange for something - bartering in other words.

If you have a lawnmover and like gardening, get out there and earn some extra bux.

Set up a cleaning business, get regular clients and set your own hours. All you need is to have a reliable car. Use their products and equipment. Build up a reputation in your area as someone trustworthy.

Like the article above, if you love cooking, set up a weekly feast in your own home and charge a nominal fee, invite all the neighbours.

Any other ideas?

Sooz
19th September 2014, 12:16
If you are older and have vast experience in a particular industry, why not mentor a young person in exchange for yard work. (Better than paying for it).

If you have a bit of money in the bank, why not offer the landlord a years rent in advance in exchange for a discount.

Written a book or short essay? Post it free on Smashwords and Scribed and charge $2 a download. I have a short novella on Smashwords that's had 224 downloads. (It's for free because it's too complicated with tax issues to charge for it and I can't be bothered.) If I did charge $2 a download? There is $448 right there.

Can you write? Advertise yourself online as a writer.

Organisational skills? Advertise yourself online as a virtual assistant, organising diaries, appointments, writing reports etc for business people. There are websites to do that. To work for anyone anywhere in the world.

Like to cook? Set up a business delivering meals to the elderly.

Advertise on local noticeboards as a driver if you don't drink - drive people to pubs and restaurants and pick them up and take them home.

Everyone is good at something they like to do. Just have to market it. And be creative about it.

You are not going to make a fortune doing this, but a little extra cash is always welcome in this crazy old world.:tiphat:

Seikou-Kishi
19th September 2014, 13:14
This thread is called money making ideas but your ideas are bartering ideas... Sorta the complete antithesis of money making lol.

Most people have at least one skill, talent or hobby the products of which others value. I paint, breed peafowl and perform recreational hypnosis for fun, but others value these things and I'm able to channel that value into charity. Others could use the money for their own independence. I mentioned a few of these things on Ronin's thread about charity some time ago. People ought to re-engage their creativity.

Sooz
19th September 2014, 13:27
This thread is called money making ideas but your ideas are bartering ideas... Sorta the complete antithesis of money making lol.

Most people have at least one skill, talent or hobby the products of which others value. I paint, breed peafowl and perform recreational hypnosis for fun, but others value these things and I'm able to channel that value into charity. Others could use the money for their own independence. I mentioned a few of these things on Ronin's thread about charity some time ago. People ought to re-engage their creativity.

Point taken, however some are bartering ideas, some are money making ideas. Are we going to split hairs?

The idea of the thread was to get people thinking creatively of how to manifest a little more money into their lives using their own skills and passion - whether that is in exchange for goods/services or money is beside the point.

Of course if one is able, it would be nice to deliver one's skills to charity. That is not always the case for everyone on a shoestring budget.

Sooz
25th September 2014, 07:44
It seems everyone is doing it a bit tough these days and it's only going to get worse imo, given what is planned for us.

Here is something I stumbled across that may be interesting to some. Renting out your car when you don't need it. It's not for everyone, but worth it to keep in mind.

No need for any up-front costs. Have a look, video inside the link on how it all works.

This is based in Australia but there must be someone else doing it elsewhere around the world. And if they aren't, get it started yourself!

I'm an entrepreneurial ideas person, I'm not good with tech 'grunt' work.;) There are many on here with the tech skills to get something like this up and running.

Check it out.

http://www.carnextdoor.com.au/is-it-for-you/rent-my-car/

sandy
26th September 2014, 01:21
Great idea Sooz, especially for seniors who use a vechicle much less than working people. Either rent theirs out when not in use or rent one and save the costs of insurance,maintenance, etc.............. I would sign up for the program if there was such a thing here in the boonies where I live ....................fantastic idea for urban areas for sure!!

ronin
27th September 2014, 12:08
i went to a fair once where there was few stalls and what they had to offer was utter cheap crap.
i watched with interest the amount of people who flocked the stalls wanting to win these cheap stuffed toys.
honestly they where terribly made and nothing special.
but because of the lack of stalls on offer i figured the people just needed to spend,no matter on what as they where on a day out!
it reminds me of a hive mind mentality!

be creative and enjoy what you do or want to learn.
soap making can be as simple or creative as you want it to be.
the more creativeness the more interest you will attract.

but the most important is that you enjoy what you do and you see in the person that you are are selling,using or require your gift is enjoying it also.

i do not have this gift,but my partner does and i can see the love that she puts into whatever project she is working on works for her.
people respond to it and appreciate it!

Sooz
29th November 2014, 10:44
Hi All,

I think from now on, things are going to be very financially unstable. I received this in my inbox today and found it quite valuable.

Food for thought?

Cheers,
Sooz


You Don’t Have To
Have an Original Idea
To Make Money

November 29th, 2014
Simon Munton in Melbourne

The ‘law of attraction’ is something that’s quoted widely in self-help books. The idea is that your thoughts are like magnets: bad thoughts create bad situations and good thoughts create happiness, success, wealth and prosperity. You may believe this to be true.

Some say the theory dates back to 3,000BC. Legend has it that William Shakespeare and Julius Caesar believed in the law of attraction. There are many others who will swear blind the power of positive thought brought love, riches, happiness and abundance into their lives... Me? I don’t buy it. I don’t believe that concentrating your thoughts on something is enough to make it happen (or not happen). In my experience, positive results require ACTION.

But hey-ho. If it works for you, fine. Having a positive outlook on life is never a bad thing. In any case, whether you believe in it or not is largely irrelevant to today’s Esky. I bring it up merely to highlight the proven profit power of something else...

Public domain material

Come on – keep up! Now... you can make money online selling other people’s products on a commission basis. Your cut can sometimes be as much as 40-50%, net of shipping costs.
But if you sell your OWN product, 100% of the profit is yours. That’s where the real money is. But there’s a problem: how do you go about writing your own eBook, producing your own 12-part home study course, or burning and duplicating your own DVDs? Where will you find the time to sit down and do all that? Isn’t it simpler to sell other people’s stuff – ready-made products – on a commission basis?
Well, yes... but you’ll never make HSV-in-a-day money doing that.

So... What if there was a way to sell someone else’s hard work AND keep all the cash yourself?“Who in their right mind would let you do that?” You ask. Someone who has been dead for 70 years, I reply.

I’m talking about works that exist in the public domain. You can get them, re-package them as your own... legally... and sell them. Public domain is a term that describes literary, musical, artistic and educational works that are no longer – or never were – protected by copyright. It might be that they were created before copyright law was introduced... or they may have fallen into the public domain because their copyright term has expired.
Because these works are not protected by copyright law, anyone can take them, reproduce them, modify them and sell them without paying a penny in royalties and without having to credit the original author or creator.

This is exactly what Australian TV presenter Rhonda Byrne did in 2004.

This ‘secret’ made Rhonda
$40 million in 2 years

Rhonda found a 1910 book called The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles in the public domain. The book was all about the law of attraction, and how you can use it to bring wealth, happiness and abundance into your life, simply by concentrating your thoughts, yada yada yada.The book had fallen out of copyright. So Rhonda was free to take it, use it, reproduce it and sell it, in any way she wanted. So she did. And a few months later, the global phenomenon known as ‘The Secret’ was born. First, as an Internet-only pay-per-view film, which became a huge viral / underground hit.

Then as a book, which has now been printed in 38 different languages. It’s rumoured that the success of The Secret book, film and DVD made Rhonda around $40 million in two years.
In 2007, Byrne was listed among Time Magazine's list of ‘100 people who shape the world’.

Not bad for the world’s most successful copy and paster!

Now I’m sure Rhonda has worked hard for her success. There’s no doubt that she’s a very clever businesswoman. She has repackaged Wallace Wattle’s work very well – the marketing for her products is extremely slick, and she’s acquired quite a following online. Even I bought a copy.

My point: Rhonda didn’t create this work from scratch. It was based on someone else’s idea. She re-interpreted it and repackaged it.You can do this, too

If the idea of making money on the Internet excites you – but you don’t have either the time or talent to create your own product to sell – this is virtually on a plate for you. There’s a huge stockpile of public domain works available; hundreds of thousands of books, articles and pages there for the taking... and this cache grows daily.

Whatever kind of information product you want to create: fitness, investing, gardening, self-help, knitting, pets, you name it; there’s a huge stash of ready-made content online that you can grab for nothing, republish on the Internet in whatever format you’d like, sell on as many times as you like for as much money as you like – and, best of all, trouser ALL the profit!

The information is all there for you. You just need to know what to do with it. Here are three suggestions – they may not make you the same money as The Secret has made for Rhonda Byrne, but we’ve all got to start somewhere...

1. You could update and rewrite the book, and sell it online – through a website, through a network of affiliate marketers or through an email, if you have an email list.
2. You could break the work up into chapters and sell each chapter as an eBook / report ... or the whole thing as a multi-part home study course
3. You could even record yourself reading the book out chapter by chapter – then create a set of videos you can sell as a home study course.

Of course there’s *some* work involved whatever you decide to do – but it’s a lot less hassle than having to write the whole blummin’ thing yourself, from scratch.

A word of advice though. Check the copyright laws VERY carefully before you start copying and pasting huge swathes of someone else’s work.
Laws governing when works fall out of copyright differ from country to country. So make sure you know where you stand before you re-publish any work.
If you’re interested, visit one of the specialist public domain websites. The most famous of these is ‘Project Gutenberg’ – named after the doe-eyed actor from the Police Academy films.
Not really... it’s actually named after Johannes Gutenberg, the fifteenth century German printer who propelled the movable type printing press revolution. You knew that, didn’t you?
You can visit the Project Gutenberg website here: www.gutenberg.org

See: you don’t have to have an original idea to make a heap of money. You don’t have to be the world’s greatest thinker or the world’s greatest writer to have a bestselling book or DVD.

You just need to know where to find works that have fallen out of copyright, and reproduce them.

Whatever money you make from these sales is yours – no royalties, no profit-sharing, no commissions.
Hoorah!

Simon Munton
Editor, The Escapologist

Fitzroy Press
South Melbourne VIC 3205

norman
29th November 2014, 16:26
hehe.............

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