Archive for December 13th, 2009
Crazy Money Making Idea: Hauling Junk
After retiring from journalism, Lawrence Breer was looking for something to do and realized he had a pick-up truck that he could put to good use. So he started running ads in the local paper, offering his services to haul trash and junk from people’s garages, reports WalletPop. Breer says, “It turned into a bonanza.” [...]
Crazy Money Making Idea: Walking Advertisement
Dan Strong owns a business called StripWalker, which sounds dirty but isn’t. Starting January 1, for three hours a day, Strong will be walking along the Las Vegas Strip, wearing company’s T-shirts all day, and Twittering and texting about his experiences, all to promote his advertisers, reports WalletPop. It seems like a solid marketing idea. [...]
Crazy Money Making Idea: Playing A Patient
Betsy Hiebert is a wife, mom and grandmother in Manitoba, Canada. She holds several part-time jobs, but the oddest one is an acting gig (of sorts). Hiebert plays a patient at a teaching hospital, reports WalletPop. I’m given a script to follow,” says Hiebert. “I have to act as a patient with specific ailments, and [...]
Crazy Money Making Idea: Mystery Parker
Brian Hartley used to be a counterintelligence agent for the Army, now he’s going undercover — at parking garages in Boston, reports WalletPop. I get by, by undercover parking at garages in the greater Boston area and rating everything from the paint on the walls to the smell of the staircase to the cleanliness of [...]
Crazy Money Making Idea: Renting Storks
Not real storks, mind you. Rather, wooden or plastic stork signs alerting everyone that a baby’s just been born, reports WalletPop. Amy Stone, 40, never dreamed she’d find herself involved in such a quirky niche market, especially after her career as an executive for Federal Express, but the Memphis, Tenn. resident needed to do something [...]
