Home Business Ideas Part I
Here are some great ideas to work from Home.
I. Sell Kitchen Utensils and Gadgets.
Every home has a kitchen, every kitchen has a cook in it, and every cook needs utensils, time-savers, helpers. It's that simple. You carry a sample with you, get a chance to demonstrate, if need, be, and the appeal does the rest. Women take pride in their kitchens, and men love a gadget. It's a "natural." Manufacturers are eager to sell through local agents, and offer good commissions. Some such agents make as high as $50.00 a day. The companies have often sales training managers who will train you. If you are ambitious you can, in turn, train local persons to sell under you, and thus earn an "over-ride" on their sales.
There are dozens of cookware and gadget manufacturers, some of them like Club Aluminum, Chicago, or Stanley Products, New York, operating unique plans of "parties" or gatherings in homes, with prizes for the women who arrange such home gatherings, which the salesman sells. Others (like Saladmaster Sales, Inc., 131 Howell St., Dallas, Texas, as an example) operate very intensive local agent plans with sales helps, premium catalogs, four-color sales presentations, advertising with local "leads" furnished and sound moving pictures for selling and training. Contact also such firms as Central States Mfg. Co., 4500 Mary Ave., St. Louis, Mo., Neal Products Co. Harboro, Mass.
II. Sell Greeting Cards, etc.
It is amazing how the greeting card, which was once rather looked down upon, has climbed up in sales. Well over 100 million dollars worth a year are now sold. It has gotten so that people feel slighted if you don't send them anniversary, birthday, holiday, sick and other cards! This makes a great opportunity. Stores make a lot of money out of them-money which you can make if you bring the right cards direct to people, and give them a "break" in price. Sell them on the idea of buying in quantity, ahead of time, rather than one at a time, at higher unit prices. You can make as much as $50.00 selling 100 boxes of cards.
There are now dozens of large greeting card firms offering wonderfully artistic assortment for selling by local agents, and it is an all year business, with additional items to sell to established customers. Work up a trade with regular customers.
Contact such firms as New England Art Publishers, North Abington 805, Mass.; Southern Greeting Card Co., 216 S. Pauline St., Memphis, Tenn.; Creative Card Co., 2505 Cermak, Chicago 8, Ill.; Universal Co., 569 Main St., Paterson, N. J.; Garrecht Co., Telford, Pa.; Seejay Sales Co., 2416 N. Oak St., Chicago 47, Ill.; Hedenkamp Co., 361 Broadway, N. Y.; Cardinal Craftsman, 400 State Ave., Cincinnati, O.; Sunshine Art Studios, 5 Warwick Ave., Springfield, Mass.; Fanmour Co., 200 5th Ave., New York, N. Y.; Artistic Card Co., 950 Way St., Elmira, N. Y.; Harry Doehle Co., Nashua, N. H.; Regal Greeting Card Co., Ferndale, Mich.; Cheerful Card Co., White Plains, N. Y.; Friendship Studios, 605 Adams St., Elmira, N. Y.; Diehl's, Buffalo, N. Y.
III. Sell Brushes and Related Items.
You probably know that the Fuller Brush organization pioneered the way in large-scale door-to-door selling of brushes, and has made dozens of persons millionaires, and gives thousands of persons a handsome income. Everybody needs not only one, but many kinds of brushes, and there are now a dozen different concerns using local door-to-door sales agents on commission. The brush salesman has made a good name for himself and is usually welcome in any household, for he carries many types of brushes not readily available in retail stores. Connect up with a good maker of brushes and go to work--you will likely make sales without meeting too much resistance. Contact Fuller Brush Co., Hartford, Conn.; Stanley Products, 150 Bay St., Jersey City, N. J.; Donald Brush & Products Co., Mickle St., Camden, N. J.; George H. Erb & Son, East Greenville, Pa.; The Artmoore Co., 1319 N. Third Street, Milwaukee, Wisc.; V. F. Garrett Co., Dallas 1, Texas; Harper Brush Works, 404 Main St., Fairfield, Iowa; The Concord Co., 527 E. 137th St., New York, N. Y.
I. Sell Kitchen Utensils and Gadgets.
Every home has a kitchen, every kitchen has a cook in it, and every cook needs utensils, time-savers, helpers. It's that simple. You carry a sample with you, get a chance to demonstrate, if need, be, and the appeal does the rest. Women take pride in their kitchens, and men love a gadget. It's a "natural." Manufacturers are eager to sell through local agents, and offer good commissions. Some such agents make as high as $50.00 a day. The companies have often sales training managers who will train you. If you are ambitious you can, in turn, train local persons to sell under you, and thus earn an "over-ride" on their sales.
There are dozens of cookware and gadget manufacturers, some of them like Club Aluminum, Chicago, or Stanley Products, New York, operating unique plans of "parties" or gatherings in homes, with prizes for the women who arrange such home gatherings, which the salesman sells. Others (like Saladmaster Sales, Inc., 131 Howell St., Dallas, Texas, as an example) operate very intensive local agent plans with sales helps, premium catalogs, four-color sales presentations, advertising with local "leads" furnished and sound moving pictures for selling and training. Contact also such firms as Central States Mfg. Co., 4500 Mary Ave., St. Louis, Mo., Neal Products Co. Harboro, Mass.
II. Sell Greeting Cards, etc.
It is amazing how the greeting card, which was once rather looked down upon, has climbed up in sales. Well over 100 million dollars worth a year are now sold. It has gotten so that people feel slighted if you don't send them anniversary, birthday, holiday, sick and other cards! This makes a great opportunity. Stores make a lot of money out of them-money which you can make if you bring the right cards direct to people, and give them a "break" in price. Sell them on the idea of buying in quantity, ahead of time, rather than one at a time, at higher unit prices. You can make as much as $50.00 selling 100 boxes of cards.
There are now dozens of large greeting card firms offering wonderfully artistic assortment for selling by local agents, and it is an all year business, with additional items to sell to established customers. Work up a trade with regular customers.
Contact such firms as New England Art Publishers, North Abington 805, Mass.; Southern Greeting Card Co., 216 S. Pauline St., Memphis, Tenn.; Creative Card Co., 2505 Cermak, Chicago 8, Ill.; Universal Co., 569 Main St., Paterson, N. J.; Garrecht Co., Telford, Pa.; Seejay Sales Co., 2416 N. Oak St., Chicago 47, Ill.; Hedenkamp Co., 361 Broadway, N. Y.; Cardinal Craftsman, 400 State Ave., Cincinnati, O.; Sunshine Art Studios, 5 Warwick Ave., Springfield, Mass.; Fanmour Co., 200 5th Ave., New York, N. Y.; Artistic Card Co., 950 Way St., Elmira, N. Y.; Harry Doehle Co., Nashua, N. H.; Regal Greeting Card Co., Ferndale, Mich.; Cheerful Card Co., White Plains, N. Y.; Friendship Studios, 605 Adams St., Elmira, N. Y.; Diehl's, Buffalo, N. Y.
III. Sell Brushes and Related Items.
You probably know that the Fuller Brush organization pioneered the way in large-scale door-to-door selling of brushes, and has made dozens of persons millionaires, and gives thousands of persons a handsome income. Everybody needs not only one, but many kinds of brushes, and there are now a dozen different concerns using local door-to-door sales agents on commission. The brush salesman has made a good name for himself and is usually welcome in any household, for he carries many types of brushes not readily available in retail stores. Connect up with a good maker of brushes and go to work--you will likely make sales without meeting too much resistance. Contact Fuller Brush Co., Hartford, Conn.; Stanley Products, 150 Bay St., Jersey City, N. J.; Donald Brush & Products Co., Mickle St., Camden, N. J.; George H. Erb & Son, East Greenville, Pa.; The Artmoore Co., 1319 N. Third Street, Milwaukee, Wisc.; V. F. Garrett Co., Dallas 1, Texas; Harper Brush Works, 404 Main St., Fairfield, Iowa; The Concord Co., 527 E. 137th St., New York, N. Y.
