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I have seen a couple of guys here in Pueblo that have started mobile auto detailing operations. They come to you, at work, or at home. Both seem to be doing well enough. Maybe not getting rich, but keeping busy.
Another idea, one which I am my family are involved in is a franchised route distributorship, where we have a van going business to business selling high quality candy, nuts, dried fruit, mostly in 1lb. packages. We sell to the employees, not to the business for resale. This is NOT a get rich quick scheme by any means. It does take a lot of time and effort. We have one of these distributorship's, as well as 2 stores now. It does require some investment. If your interested, e-mail me and I'll give you the web address of the parent company which does contain a lot of information on both the products and becoming a distributor. This is a family owned and operated business, based in Colorado, now entering it's 28th year. To give you an idea of the size of this company, there are distributors in 39 states, and 27 retail stores in 8 states.
Good Luck with your endeavors!
I have seen a couple of guys here in Pueblo that have started mobile auto detailing operations. They come to you, at work, or at home. Both seem to be doing well enough. Maybe not getting rich, but keeping busy.
Another idea, one which I am my family are involved in is a franchised route distributorship, where we have a van going business to business selling high quality candy, nuts, dried fruit, mostly in 1lb. packages. We sell to the employees, not to the business for resale. This is NOT a get rich quick scheme by any means. It does take a lot of time and effort. We have one of these distributorship's, as well as 2 stores now. It does require some investment. If your interested, e-mail me and I'll give you the web address of the parent company which does contain a lot of information on both the products and becoming a distributor. This is a family owned and operated business, based in Colorado, now entering it's 28th year. To give you an idea of the size of this company, there are distributors in 39 states, and 27 retail stores in 8 states.
Good Luck with your endeavors!
Last edited by rikfish; Apr 18, 2004 at 11:25 AM.
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This may not sound like a great idea, but I tell ya, being a single mom, I've looked high and low for someone that can help me out with various things at the house that I either dont know how to do, or cant do. Things like installing a satellite dish and running antennae wire to another room in the house. Couple of weeks back, I had a tree split in the backyard and it ended up resting on my neighbors fence. Now, I have a chainsaw and I know how to use it, but I couldn't manage cutting this tree down without damaging the fence. Another thing- my lawnmower's not wanting to start, probably a spark plug or carb job, but again, out of my area of expertise. The list goes on and on...
My point is that there may be an opportunity in a handyman type thing. I know i'd love to find someone trustworthy to help out, and I wouldnt mind paying a fair price for the help. I have several friends in my situation that would also be glad to know of someone they could trust enough to have in their homes to help with some of these types of things. I hesitate to just call someone up out of the phone book to do these things simply because I don't want to advertise that I live alone w/ just a couple of little kids. That may sound paranoid, but hey, just read the paper and the paranoia can easily be justified.
My point is that there may be an opportunity in a handyman type thing. I know i'd love to find someone trustworthy to help out, and I wouldnt mind paying a fair price for the help. I have several friends in my situation that would also be glad to know of someone they could trust enough to have in their homes to help with some of these types of things. I hesitate to just call someone up out of the phone book to do these things simply because I don't want to advertise that I live alone w/ just a couple of little kids. That may sound paranoid, but hey, just read the paper and the paranoia can easily be justified.
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