Home based business / income supplement.

I'm also looking for another source of income. Just started looking into vending machines actually.

Seems as though you can pay your way in with machines sold in site locations or buy run down machines and refurbish them.

Possibly having an offset account against a buisness loan would help initial cashflow.

Be interesting on anyone elses insight on the vending machine field

 

What about atm's?

 

I reckon you're thinking too small, I know you don't intend to go big but it's almost impossible to aim to only pull 10k from a business. Maybe possible if your only supplying labour but once you start involving stock and overheads even if they are small you need to be aiming for larger cashflow to pull anything reliably.

 

Good point and this also crossed my mind today. Just need to work out what to sell and where to source stock.

 

Wouldn't you need a shop front for this?

 

Better to concentrate on labour than stock if you are targeting those figures.

Just thought of something, can your wife write? Businesses with an online presence are always looking for content for their websites and will pay anything up to a few hundred dollars for good articles.

 

My understanding is this "online" stuff is phasing out writing and really pushing for more typing

No you can plonk them in the corner somewhere like a pub, servo, shop etc

I've never got around to looking it up

Or even the mobile ones now for markets! That's the go, how many times has the mrs bled you dry and you can never find an atm amongst all the stalls of crap! ... and get a few eskys and sell some beers too

 

Look after pets for the day, or over night. From kittens to rabbits, dogs and frogs. Great money for overnight stay. Have friends that use this service. You can target groups/professionals that need this service. You can even charge extra to pick up/drop off, additional grooming etc. You could take pics having fun with the owners pets during a walk or something and send em an sms, gold.

 

Too bad my wife isn't a pet lover

 

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