Money Making Ideas

For the next of many money making ideas, we are going to make smoothies.

Gather together about $2,000. If you don’t have that kind of money,
get a job (or a second job), and save it. Then, once you have the
money, buy yourself a stand, a few blenders, five hundred paper cups, a
couple chairs, and a giant stack of paper. Now, if it’s not spring yet,
wait for it. Until then, keep saving money.

Buy Microsoft Word if you don’t have it already, and make a flyer. Be
sure to make big bold letters for the name of your store, and include
your phone number. Pick any name you’d like, but use your common sense.
After you’ve designed it, print off fifty copies.

Now comes the fun part. Go to every restaurant and strip-mall in your
town and ask if they would like a smoothie stand out front. This is
where your salesmanship comes in. Tell them about the benefits of
having smoothies outside to attract traffic passing by, and explain to
them that smoothies will be especially desired during these hot summer
months. Remind them of the fact that a large amount of traffic in your
smoothie stand will increase the amount of customers for that store or
restaurant. Now, this will be a difficult sell, so you may have to go
to a whole lot of restaurants. If you run out of your fifty copies,
print more and keep searching.

When you’ve found a place, decide with them on a date for your grand
opening. Go back to Word and make a new flyer. Make it similar to the
one you had last time, but put the address of your location above the
phone number; also, be sure to include the words “GRAND OPENING” with
the correct date underneath. Print off five hundred copies.

Take these flyers and go post them all over the town, put them
everywhere. It may help to get some of your friends or family to do
this with you; if you have a lot of money, hire some help. Put them
everywhere until you run out. Go home and rest. Don’t be frustrated
over the number of flyers that gets torn down. Most of them will be.
It’s the ones that stay up that make it worth it.

The next day, decide on a menu. You’ll want to keep it simple at first;
have maybe two or three items. Make sure they have common ingredients;
don’t have three items with all different ingredients. Print up a menu,
and glue it to cardboard. You’ll need some tacks, too, to post the menu
up on your stand.

A couple days before opening day, you’ll want to go buy fruit and
whatever other ingredients you might need, such as soymilk, orange
juice, or ice cream. Don’t wait until the day before, because you might
not be able to find the ingredients in time. You want an extra day for
safety. Don’t worry; fruit doesn’t rot in two days.

Finally, have your grand opening. It may help to have some music you
could play, but make sure no-one could be offended by it. Try to find
circus music or upbeat melodies without words. If you can’t get music,
don’t sweat it.

Congratulations! You should make more money than you probably
anticipated, unless luck isn’t on your side and rain comes. Oh well if
it does. Try again the next day. You’ll want to keep your smoothie
stand up as long as you decide, but be sure that you are saving at
least ten percent of that forever!