subject: Money Inside Your House, Out Of The Box [print this page] Business opportunities are present everywhere; it is just a matter of noticing them. Whether its a service, wholesale, or a retail business, if you are in the right mood to start your career as an entrepreneur, youll never run out of cows to milk your money from. Take a day to think about it. Stay at your house; sit at your favorite spot, notice the things that you would not notice on a regular day. Even inside your dusty house, there is an idea presenting itself, you will just have to entertain it.
Look through your window, and see your car. You could earn money by mediating between someone whos selling car parts and someone whos in search for one. If you are involved in a special endeavor, you could certainly find money in your niche. If you are a painter, an art exhibit still sells. If you are a musician, you could also serve as a middle man between a seller and a searcher of music equipment.
However, the gigs that are easier to find are already crowded, so to speak, everybody is doing it. If you have the time, dig deeper to the more unnoticeable things. Printing logos on coffee mugs is one, breeding reptiles to sell is another. If you see a tree through your window, consider finding a cheap source of bonsais then sell it at a higher price.
You could also focus on a single piece of product and ask yourself how can you contribute to its production? Consider that pizza delivered to your house. Sure you could sell pizza, you can also study how to ferment cheese, make a dough, plant spices, et cetera. Probably you did not find an opportunity on the easiest, yet the most unnoticed you could also produce boxes to pack food. It pays to be an out of the box thinker. Gadi Leshem succeeded by being it.
Look at your carpet. Dont you wonder how many people it feeds? The one who produces and supplies the thread, the designer, and dont forget to include the people that placed all the materials together to the carpets final form. The one who retailed that carpet also profited from it, and of course, the cleaners. There are a lot of things you could do with single furniture that you do not notice. Gadi Leshem, a multi-millionaire, earned its fortunes from his carpet installation company.
Gadi Leshem is president and C.E.O. of Cover-All Inc. It is a company that installs carpets. 95 percent of its business is done with Home Depot. Now, did you think about installing carpets? Did you think out of the box? Leshem did, and his fate could be yours too.
