Connect organizations spending money with ways to save money.
Duringthelast recession, plenty of entrepreneurs scored by selling businessesondoing a phone bill audit. They took 30% of the first year's savingsand did thework for free. Today, there are countless ways businessescan save money usingtechnology and outsourcing, but few take fulladvantage. You can train them todo this and keep a share of the savings.
Thisrequirestruly creative thinking. There isn't anything that cannot beoutsourcedtoday - and outsourcing saves companies money. So throw your eyesout offocus and look around you. What do you see that can be outsourced byacompany that you know, that you can arrange. Put the proposal togetherandpresent it. Then ask as your fee a percentage of the savings. Thendo it again.
Connect like-minded people into a movement.
We'veseenplenty of headstrong bootstrapped entrepreneurs turn a blog intothecornerstone of a multi-million dollar empire. The secret: they don'twritetheir message for everyone. Instead, they use the blog as thecenter connectingpoint for a niche, and then go from there. It's easyto list the techsuccesses, but there are literally 10,000 other nichesjust waiting for someoneto connect them.
Theoperativeword here is niche - your corner of the world - that special groupthatis interested in the same things as you. Connect the niches - that isthisconnection. One message that suits all.
Connect people buying with people who are selling.
Youknowhow to use Craigslist and eBay to buy and sell... but most peopledon't.How about finding people in your town with junk that needsremoving, items thatneed selling, odd jobs that need filling... andthen, for a fee, solve theirproblems using your laptop and theseexisting networks? Imagine the power, justto pick one example, ofbuilding an email alert list of 500 garage sale bargainhunters. Everytime you email them, they show up. Now, you can walk into anyhome inany town and guarantee the biggest garage sale success they'veeverseen... and you have the photos to prove it. As long as you protectthe listand do for them, not to them, this asset increases in value.
Andthenbe super smart and take two of these ideas and tie them together. Dothegarage sales and write about them in your own newspaper.
When is the best time to start these new businesses?
Thebesttime to do any of these projects was five years ago, so that todayyou'dbe earning thousands of dollars a week. Too late. The second besttime to startis NOW. So don't delay and get yourself going and make2009-2010 a time toremember.
