Win £100 for your best 'Business on a Budget' idea.
If you had a ton burning a hole in you pocket, what business would you launch?
We want to find out the best businesses to launch on a budget,
so give us your tuppence worth and each month we'll give one of you
£100 to do just that!
Here's how to enter: Head over to our facebook
page and submit your idea to the wall (those of you a little more
adventurous, might like to submit your idea in video form!).
Once you have submitted your idea, get promoting! Post it to
your facebook profile, tweet it on twitter, just do what you can to
get people to 'Like' it. Each like counts as one vote, with the
winner being the entry with the most votes to its name.
Each day this page will be updated with the latest entries,
simply click 'Vote' beneath each entry to be taken through to that
entry on facebook.
Good luck!
Here's all the entries so far...
Sajeda
Patel My idea is making bespoke party bags/favour boxes for
occasions. This is at least a 50% profit business because the
resources can be bought cheaply in bulk from wholesalers and there
is big market for this out there at the moment.
Vote
for Sajeda's idea
Lauren
J Smith I would invest the £100 in getting a professional
set of 4 proptypes of my invention, a removeable wipe clean
shoulderstrap for highchairs, car seats & shopping trolleys.
Then I would take this to Princes Trust to get a start-up loan to
be able to patent it, then once I have the patent I would approach
retailers to get their interest and then hopefully secure
enough order to justify getting it manufactured! And after all of
that I will go on Dragons Den and see if they will invest in
me!
Vote
for Lauren's idea
Claire
Hobbs I would start a window cleaning round, invest my £100 on
basic equipment and then get cleaning!
Vote
for Claire's idea
Charlie
Baron With the London 2012 Olympic games coming up i would
invest my £100 on over 100 Great Britain flags at a cost of 50p
each. I would then sell them for around 4.99 on ebay or by hand
outside the Olympic venue. This should make a 600% profit of around
£600
Vote
for Charlie's idea
Emma
Cella The business I would launch is a shoe with pockets so
when your on the dance floor on need to worry about dancing around
your handbag.
Vote
for Emma's idea
Matthew
M Hooper The business I would launch would be my own window
cleaning company I would buy a bucket, a second hand wooden ladder
and call myself Soapy Joe.
Vote
for Matthew's idea
Sandy
Hallett Mse For £100 I could start my business as a self
emplyed temp - That would be enough for me to use as an advertising
budget and travel. I would advertise myself as a self employed temp
which would save companies a lot of money through temp agency fee's
etc..
Vote
for Sally's idea
Beth
Fenn With £100 I would start a business where for a token fee
you can register for e-mails or texts when your fave programme(s)
are uploaded onto iTunes. It could even be free if I could make
money by attaching an advert from a company to the text or mail
instead of charging the customer :)
Vote
for Beth's idea
Toni
Quandt With my £100 start up I would buy 100 pound shop candles
and charge people £2.99+p+p via ebay
Vote
for Toni's idea
Tina
Meenan I would buy scrap material and make activity blankets
full of pockets for people in nursing homes with Dementia. The
nurses could fill the pockets with each persons individual keep
sakes or items of interest to the person. This would be wonderful
and cheap way of helping people and making a successful
business!!!
Vote
for Tina's idea
Jemma
Louise Beynon I would start up mobile tanning, i would just
need to buy the equipment needed and then i would be ready to
go!
Vote
for Jemma's idea
Chris
'Blinky' Driscoll Business on a Budget..... Facebook
marketing, the easiest way to generate a lot of 'likes' for your
page in my opinon, we did it for Stop, Drop, Rock! Clothing
communicate on the page, then create a competition, to win one of
your products etc, nothing too high value. All people need to do is
suggest your page to theirfriends, write on your wall to say they
have done it, then set a target, we set it at 2000, when you hit
that target, choose 1 person who suggested your page to
win.
This means for the cost of a product you have increased
your marketing network, appeared on lots of peoples histories and
facebook profiles and raised your profile lots. We had about 1500
likes in under a week, 1000 of which were in the first 24
hours.
Vote
for Chris's Idea
John
Frugal Lakey with £100 i would set up a
personal shopping service, where i live there is alot of old
peoples independant homes and sheltered accomodation. i would print
flyers , arange with the managers, buy crates / boxes etc. i would
offer them a weekly service and charge just a small % for this
service.
The problem i think they face is not being able to carry much
themselves, a friendly face to see each week, ordering small
orders, not internet savy to order online through tecso,
asda,etc. to get them interested i would offer £20 out of the
£100 prize fund on a raffle, first order gets a ticket, and end of
month the raffle gets them £20.
Vote
for John's idea
Aaron
Boardley My business idea: Personalised underwear. Everyone
walks round with low-slung jeans proclaiming that their name is
Calvin Klein or Tommy Boxfresh...well I'm not Calvin Klein. Or
Tommy Boxfresh. Or Mark Sandspencer for that matter. I'm Aaron
Boardley, and I want my pants to proclaim so.
Seriously though, custom printed and embroidered t-shirts are
standard businesses now, why not custom embroidered box-short
waistbands? They're current;y impossible to find. I want to start
that revolution.
Vote
for Aaron's idea
Amanda
Wilson The business I would launch on a shoestring would be a
personalised greetings card company. This is actually something my
14yr old daughter will be doing as part of her BTEC Enterprise
course. The money would come in very handy for her!
Vote
for Amanda's idea
Luca
Massaro If i had a spare £100 to blow on an idea, i'd set up a
simple site and branding for: The '140review'. Products and
Content reviews suitable for Twitter. A website dedicated to
reviewing products in 140 Characters. Daily reviews of any
product with either a professional or fun aspect. Perfect for
Retweets and topics can vary across the board.
EG: @140review New Andrex Range: Soft & smooth on the butt,
makes other toilet paper feel like sand paper. Perfect for
effective wiping. (insert url)
The url will go to the 140review.com site and there a more in
depth review can be read in a (read more) drop down or external
links to product sites for purchase.
Vote
for Luca's idea
closes: 31 October 2010