This idea for fast and easy cash, requiring not much start up moolah if you already have the equipment, was posted on Mark Cuban’s blog.
Mark Cuban. As in the hottie millionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban. As in buying a basketball team for fun Mark Cuban. So you know that if he cares enough to put it on his blog, it’s gotta be good.
The big idea?
Going door to door with a scanner and a laptop and scanning photos in for a charge. He’s suggesting a buck a photo which can add up ‘cause I know I have a heck of a lot of photos (cupboards bulging with travel photos that I never look at and never show, once you see one palm tree...).
Think of the older generations without scanners or knowledge of inserting photos in e-mails. Think of people like me that may be too lazy to bother. Think of the people wishing to sell on eBay if only they had a scanner to add a photo.
(Ironically, scanners are one of those computer pieces that I often see sold “free after rebate.” )
If I was to run with this idea (and believe me, I’m tempted), I would whip up some business cards. With any luck, the door-to-door thing (always a pain, I feel like an oversized girl guide) would be a one time occurrence. I’d get enough call in business to retire the Nikes.
Or as Markie baby (my pet name for him…in my dreams) writes “If you want to think big time, set up a service with the local drugstore and have people drop off their pics and you go by every day and return them the next day.”
The fast cash could become permanent cash.
