Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers

Work At Home Business Ideas: Print Brokers

Can you imagine a work at home business that is always in demand, thrives in any economic condition, and requires no special skills other than the ability to read and write?

Can you imagine a work at home business you can start on Monday for less than the cost of a tank of gas, and can have people practically begging you to take their money by Friday?

Believe it or not, there is such a business. It is called print brokering. Starting and operating a work at home business as a print broker may just be a perfect business.

Think about this for a moment. Business people need business cards, printed forms, and documents. Every business, club, group, or organization in any town, city, or county... need and use various printed forms and documents in doing business. And, they all need these forms and documents over and over again. Virtually any business or business person uses at least two or more types of documents or forms that need to be printed.

As a work at home business print broker, you simply take orders and forward them to printers who do the work for you wholesale, and then ship the work to your customers.

Operating a work at home business as a print broker is quite straightforward, and will grow to make as much money as you desire without paying a penny for advertising or getting more customers. How is this be possible? It is possible because of a concept in the print business known as co-op printing. One customer's non-conflicting document is printed on the back of another customer's document.

Using this concept, you, as a print broker, can easily grow your work at home business to make as much money as you desire... without spending one red cent on advertising.

Here's an example: Norah's beauty shop needs to drum up some more business, and Norah decides to have 1,000 flyers printed up on color paper to distribute locally. Local printers would charge about $50, plus tax for the job. You offer the same service for $40... if Norah allows you to print your non-conflicting discount printing services flyer on the back of her flyer. The beauty shop saves 25% on the cost of printing, and you get 1,000 of your advertisements printed and distributed free or charge.

The beauty shop is happy, and you are happy. It is a win-win situation for both of you. However, note what just really happened: you were actually paid to advertise and grow your work at home business because your printer only charged you $25 for the order. 1,000 people and businesses will see your discount printing services... which will cause more orders to come rolling in without any effort or expense on your part. And, you can repeat this free money making work at home business growth technique as often as you desire by offering co-op printing services to other customers and businesses.

Be careful with this technique, however. Many work at home business print brokers have used this technique too often, and found themselves overwhelmed with orders that they cannot handle on a quick enough basis.

There is probably no other work at home business you can imagine that is so easy, costs so little to start, recession proof, and actually pays you to grow it.

Of course, this is a simplistic view of this work at home business. There would still be a lot of legwork to set up the business, find and strike deals with discount printing services, and do your initial advertising. But I think it is an intriguing idea.

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Bill Brine-Lead Generation Master
PO Box 121, Amherst, NS B4H 3Y6 Canada
Ph: 902.667.0798
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