Archive for November, 2008

How to Use Social Networking to Promote Your Business

It shouldn’t be news to anyone that social networking sites are dominating the Internet. From MySpace to Facebook, people spend a lot of time online interacting with others on these highly-frequented social utilities. But what you might not know is that you can and should be using these social networking sites to promote your business. The greatest thing about social networking sites is that they inherently create business leads. Just think, if I’m going to create a profile, I’m going to list what types of things I’m interested in, how old I am, where I live, where I went to college. Virtually anyone can access this information and therefore so can you.

Freelance Photography

Turn you passion for taking pictures into a full-time business. If you have a good eye and a good camera to match, you can take and print photos for a very good income. Plus you’ll be able to enjoy the scenes where you live and take part in all the best social functions. You may want to take a few classes at the local college about picture composition as well as developing/printing methods to achieve different looks. You’ll also want to take some of your best photos and turn them into finished products to shop around either to retail stores or to show potential customers.

Dream Dinners

Cooking is your passion and you’d like to share it with others. If this sounds like you then a Dream Dinners Franchise is the perfect opportunity for you. Dream Dinners allows your customers to pre-make dinners using ingredients you provide to make nutritious home-made dinners for their families. The dinners are then frozen to be used on an as-needed basis by busy parents.

Doula Service

Doulas are a very helpful resource for soon-to-be and new moms. Doulas providenon-medical care in order to help women through either the birthing process (as birth doulas perform) or how to care for a new baby in the house (as postpartum doulas perform). Because there are two kinds of doula service, you can specify which would be your specialty. There are courses you can take to become a certified doula. When you are certified, you can add your information to the national doulas listings, which will help pregnant women locate their nearest doula to provide service.

Worldwide Brands Inc. - dropship wholesaler

Worldwide Brands Inc. helps make the connection between you and the suppliers you need. You can find a sourced for almost anything you could possibly want to sell online, and you’ll have a direct relationship with the supplier for the products you choose. This is a great way to find a huge variety of items at the best wholesale prices so you can sell the items of your choice in the method of your choosing.

  • eBay Auction or eBay Store
  • Amazon.com
  • Yahoo Stores
  • Any other established marketplace
  • Your own custom online storefront

Dine-In Delivery Franchise

“Domino’s Pizza became a $5 billion business doing one thing very well. Learn how you can use their secret to  build your own local empire. HINT: It has nothing to do with cooking pizzas! Discover a business that can … 

  • Provide a huge income in your first year of operation 
  • Become profitable almost immediately
  • Give you time freedom
  • Be set up and ready to run in weeks, not months
  • Generate positive cash flows month after month
  • Be run in your part time from any location … including your home!”

Fitness Center or Motivator

Obesity is a huge problem in this country. You can help be a part of the solution and make some money to put in the bank at the same time. By helping motivate people to lose weight, you’ll be their guide to feeling better and leading a more active lifestyle. There are some very different ways you can run your company, and each of them will be more successful if you have some training and expertise in the field of fitness and weight loss. Consider taking some courses at a local college related to the human body and nutrition.

Desktop Publishing

If you have a passion of your own and are pretty good at writing, you can turn those skills into an income stream. The big key is to select something that not only has a market of readers but also something you are interested in. You wouldn’t want to write about growing grass every day unless you really were interested in how grass grows. Consider your hobbies, interests, passions, or topics that you want to do a lot of research about - or just something you will have a lot to talk about.

Young Chefs Academy - children’s cooking school

“Picture a joyful kitchen, full of inspired children creating culinary masterpieces and filling the space with laughter and learning… Welcome to Young Chefs Academy, where we transform an already favorite place in everyone’s home into something quite extraordinary! This has become the premier cooking school for kids that has grown to over 100 franchises offering this exciting life enriching program to children and communities in over 24 states and Canada.”

The Senior’s Choice Inc.

The Senior’s Choice is the nation’s largest membership network of independent senior care providers. If you are looking for an organization to help you start your senior care business from the ground up, we have all the answers. We’ve thrived since shaking up the in-home senior care industry with our arrival in 1999. Since then, we have helped hundreds of satisfied members realize their dreams of owning a business that is both financially rewarding and emotionally satisfying. Our expert training, combined with our immense array of operating systems, training manuals and policies and procedures, will get your business up-and-running and headed down the road to success.”