Little Guy Business Ideas
Subtitle: 100 Ways to start make a living for under $1000.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Business friends
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Business Cards 101
Especially business cards that take more than 10 seconds to figure out what you do for a business. A business card is nothing more than contact information written down in advance and when you want to give a person your contact information for them to keep.
Example #1
How long does it take to figure what the owner is trying to say? Maybe all they want to do is give away cheap photographs, one day of the year, on St Valentines Day?
The cursive type is too small & distracting. The business owner is distracted by the "Photographer" in her. She does not sell her business on value but on cheap price. Would you refer this person? I wouldn't because she does not know what her value is.
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EXAMPLE #2
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What I look for in a business card.
Tell me how to contact you in and what you do in less than three seconds. Make the card legible as I wear glasses and cant see #1 font. Point of contact continues a telephone, fax, website and an address.
If you don't have an address then how can I tell where you are from? Are you serious about your work or will you return my call in two weeks after the water stopped leaking in my basement?
Logos and graphics are distracting if they are not directly connected to the business. People end up wondering what the abstract logo has to do with the electrical wiring in your house.
GIVE the business card away! When handing out your card, give them two. Maybe that person will refer you to another prospect. Mark your calendar when you started handing out that stack of 250 cards. This will tell you how fast your are giving them away.
Carl Slicer
Monday, January 10, 2011
Hobbies can be a business
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Government for business
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Aluminum Scrap or soda cans.
Aluminum Scrap or soda cans.
Easy source to find and the most common metal mined on the earth surface.
We all know about precious metals like gold & silver but what about the other metals. Like steel, copper, aluminum etc?
I use www.Kitco.com for my daily quote updates on metals. Gold hovers around $1400 an ounce & silver is ready to break through to $30 an ounce. But what about aluminum cans?
It takes 32 (12 oz) soda cans to make a pound of scrap aluminum at 16 ounces per pound. In Connecticut the deposit on a soda can is $0.05 per can. That produces $0.80 per pound for deposit.
BUT in December 2010, the prices of Aluminum (AL scrap) is around 7 cents per soda can.
Being 2 cents more than the deposit means that 40% more than the Conn deposit.
You can purchase a soda can crusher for $7.00 at Amazon.com if you want to store AL in a 32 gallon trash barrel will run you $15.00 at your local hardware store. The trash barrel is easy to cover and easy to move when full.
Use $1.00 a pound as your guide. In 2010, the average scrap for Aluminum was $0.9723 a pound. NOTE: What scrap dealers will pay for AL cans in 2010 average was $0.70 a pound. To melt down the metal the melting point is 3600 degrees Fahrenheit. This temperature is very hot and it would be rare to find a smelter.
I think as Aluminum soda can collecting is similar to collecting change in a jar. How many cans can you collect in a given year?
Carl Slicer.
Refer: www.MetalPrices.com, www.Kitco.com