Since the mid-1950s, Americans have brightened up their homes and neighborhoods with Christmas lights. It has become a holiday tradition for many families to decorate their houses with cheerful and bright Christmas lights. Unfortunately, this tradition comes with a lot of work. And some Americans may just be too busy, too exhausted, or physically unable to complete this task. That’s what a holiday lighting business is for! If you enjoy decorating homes with Christmas lights, this seasonal job (with some year-round work) may be for you! The following steps might help you launch a Christmas/holiday lighting decoration service.
You have probably done this, but have you looked in more than one newspaper? More sellers may advertise in a cheaper weekly paper than in the most popular daily, depending on the area. Look at newspapers online as well. classified online may be archived for weeks, meaning you can search for homes still for sale that don’t happen to have an ad in this weeks paper version.
However, you still have a budget and not everybody can afford to spend $1,000 or more on a Prada, Gucci, Coach, or Clutch handbag for the summer. These can get very expensive and if you want to own more than one of the best handbags for the summer, then you cannot spend too much on just one. Here are 5 of the best shopping tricks to help you find cheap summer handbags that are also designer originals.
First open a Facebook, Twitter and YouTube profiles; use your name for these purposes your personal brand is the way to go. Make these accounts Public so that prospects can find you. Spread the word about what you are doing, and as you develop new skills, you share the rollercoaster ride and what you’ve learnt with inevitable followers. Why?? Because we like to buy from people we know – like – trust and they will get to know you and to gain knowledge from you.
Employers – This is where most people are looking for online data entry jobs. If you actually want to work for a company doing transcription work, typing up reports or inputing data, this type of employment is a bit harder to find. However, there are membership sites that list thousands of these types of jobs and update them on a frequent basis. The one-time fee you pay covers training, online support, and keeping the information on the available jobs current.
As soon a you join a new giveaway, you should start promoting it. Although many will offer you prewritten emails for your lists, you should rewrite these, or write your own. If you don’t have a list, you can always use other promotion techniques like Jiji, Squidoo lenses, article writing, or some other technique you feel comfortable with.
There are pretty big differences in the amount of money that you can make depending on how you choose to sell. Just remember, if you take the time to sell them yourself, you will make more money than if you were to sell them just to “get quick cash”.
Most newspapers have “Yellow Page Ads” where you can run an ad every day for a month. Those are the most effective, since customers may miss a one-time-only ad. Alternately, you can run both types of ads if you can afford it – perhaps one one-time only ad, and a full months worth (say November) of ads in the Yellow Pages section.
The numbers: Mass Mailings are deemed successful with a 1-2% Response Rate. If a personal letter is done right, a 10-20% sales rate (not Response Rate!) can be achieved!
The real “secret” to making money using free classifieds is to build a portfolio of products. Have more than one product you are marketing. The more products you market, and the more ads you have, the more money you can make.
