Decorative Window Painting Small business for Artists

Window painting is done all year to attract customers and bring in business. Window painting is a form of advertising most often use to promote special prices and sales. You’ll notice this at car dealerships on an almost constant basis.

Large window displays grab potential customers attention. They are in essence an effective way for store owners to advertise.

Some business owners use the service of window artists to create the feel of the store, design permanent logos and display feature prices. Once you’ve realized it you’ll see window paintings just about everywhere. Just think about furniture stores? They always have a big display most often done by professional window painters.

The Benifits of a window painting business
You’ll be working for yourself enjoying your own schedule, you can work as much or as little as you like. As a window painter you can work full time or part time and you’ll have the freedom of creative expression.

As a skilled window painter once you’ve gained some experience and become efficient you can make as much as 50.00 per hour.

During the Holiday Season you’ll notice a big spike in business.
The holidays will be here before you know it and if you’re creative and want to earn some extra money this year, you just might want to get started now painting decorations and designs on store front windows.

In keeping in line with the scope of pennyroll.com of course this business can be started with a small investment.

What do you need to get started?

Paint (acrylic craft paint)

Brushes

Sponges

Ladders (for large store front windows)

Window Cleaning Supplies

Scrapers

Stencils and Patterns

Getting Started as a Professional Window Painter

When you’re just starting out and if you’ve not painted a window decoration or advertisement in the past I recommend practicing first on your own windows or contact a few business owners in your area and offer you’re service for free to gain a bit of experience. Let them know you’re goal is to gain experience in your new business. Most small business owners will be happy to help out a fellow small business owner and if you do a great job for them you’ll not only have a new paying client the next time they need an advertisement done but will most likely pay you for your first work in the form of a tip.

Be patient this is a skill and will take some time to become efficiant and get the hang of it but as you learn you’ll be earning money. It’s a win win situation.

Take pictures of your work. A quality portfolio will do wonders when offering your services to new clients.

Don’t be intimidated talk to business owners every day and before you know it you’ll be well on your way to painting your first window.

Ask for referrals. Business owners know business owners. Simply asking for referrals will result in new clients.

Create flyer and business cards to leave with everyone you contact but don’t let this be your only approach. Many people getting started with a small businesses of this nature get nervous when approaching and selling their service and as a result simply rely on leaving a flyer and business card. A flyer and business card are good second and third level approaches but not without talking face to face or at least on the telephone first.

More business to start for less than $100.00

How can I start a blog and actually make money?
I think the first inclinations a person has when coming online to earn money is creating a website and or blogging. It’s simple they say, just start writing about something you’re passionate about then profits will roll in. Many read stories about individuals who created a blog, placed Adsense on the blog then became millionaires or started earning a substantial income. It’s just that simple. Right?

So what does everyone do? They pick a topic, many times a broad topic, start writing content add a few adsense units and expect to earn big money, retire and move to the Bahamas.

The money starts to trickle in .20 cents .50 cents a dollar on occasion. I just have to write more content and bam I’ll buy my plane ticket and some sun screen.

In the beginning it was easier to accomplish this goal with Adsense alone. When Adsense was new and web surfers were clicking like wildfire links not realizing they were advertisements. In those days some publishers were earning big money from Adsense alone.

Adsense and other ad networks are still a good option in my opinion, I use them and you can still earn money but I recommend that not be you’re only form of monetization (Earning Money).

Blogging for Money
If you’re planning to earn money with blogging, avoid the mistake many new bloggers have made over and over again. The mistake? Don’t forget to monetize your blog.

How do you actually monetize a blog?
This is a big question, and there are many answers. You have to consider the topic of your website and if you’ve done any research about blogging then you’ve probably heard of niche blogs and websites.

Niche Blog
Before we get into how to monitizeing you blog make sure you know what a niche is and that you’re focused on choosing the right niche for you.

A niche is simply a sub category of a larger topic. For example, if  the topic “pets” is an  interest, if you want to blog about household pets, consider just how large a topic it is. Can you handle writing everything about every type of pet a person may have?

It’s large in scope. Generally speaking people have all sorts of pets from dogs, to cats, from gold fish to ferrets. A niche is to choose a smaller sub category of the broad topic. How to care for your ferrit would be a niche of the larger topic pets. So you can see it would be much easier for an individual blogger to cover the entire topic, caring for you ferret.

This can be taken to yet another level, consider a Micro Niche “The best diet for pet ferret”. This is even easier to handle and has a number of benefits of it’s own.

Creating a niche or even a micro niche is better for many reasons. First it’s easier for an individual to cover the topic. Second there is less competition. When a person visits a search engine and performs a search for “what should my ferret eat?” The odds of you ferret diet blog has a much better change of appearing higher in the results. As opposed to “Pets” where you’d be competing with the big player in the pet industry, such as Petsmart and Petco.

Now back to earning money (monetizing) your website/blog.
I’ll continue with the example from above, ferrets, and their diet. Of course at this point you’ve created content and you have 10-20 solid pages of useful information related to ferrets and their diet.  Now, how might you make money from this?I guarantee you can’t just write it, put Adsense on it, and make enough money to move to the Bahamas. Well actually there is a technique for doing this with Adsense alone. What you would do is create your micro niche promote it until it’s earning a dollar or so each day then duplicate the process on a number of small niches and you’ll have you online income. But that’s not what were talking about today.

Like I mentioned using ad networks such as Adsense or contextual ads in not a bad idea and can add to your online income as I discussed in multiple streams of income. But don’t stop there.

Now that you’re the foremost expert on providing useful information on the ferret diet you can now begin promoting ferret foods.  If you don’t have any ferret food to sell, don’t fret this is where you’ll partner with companies who do have the ferret food you seek (affiliate marketing).

For example you could join the Amazon affiliate network and provide links and reviews of ferret food products. And to further monetize you blog you can branch out to other ferret supplies as well.

Now as the expert I can say with authority (which I’m no authority on ferrets) This is the Best Ferret Food on the face of the planet and without it, your ferret will not be as healthy as he could be. So don’t hesitate click this link and help your ferret feel healthier then he ever has!

A visitor will be more likely to believe such a claim from a person who’s put this much effort into the topic.

Now you’ll have two streams of income. First Adsense income and now Amazon commissions.

Again  you shouldn’t stop there either because you can easily add another stream of income. You can now partner with an industry leader. PetSmart Affiliate Program Each time you generate a sale you’ll earn a commission. And you’ll have the opportunity to offer discounts on products and services as well.

Again this is an example and can be done with just about any topic under the sun. But remember keep the topic you choose manageable, don’t bite off more than you can chew.

A few tips and suggestions when getting started
Brain storm ideas that interest you then refine them down to a niche. But don’t go too far into a niche. This should be maximizing not limiting. If the topic were footwear refined to socks, you might want to stop at socks before you refine it to for example cotton socks – You don’t want to loose the customer who would rather have synthetic material socks.

Choose a niche with some competition (you want at least some interest in the topic) but not too much competition. You can use tools such as Adwords keyword tools to help refine a niche.

Finding individual affiliates can also present a problem so consider joining a network instead. It’s better to join a network of affiliates.

What is an affiliate network?
Share A Sale is respected in affiliate marketing circles and offers 3,000 different products from 2,600 merchants. An affiliate network is simply one stop shopping for affiliate programs you may be interested in promoting.

Finally if you’re interested in starting a blog or website I recommend owning it. What I mean by owning it, is simply that, register your own domain name, something you can promote, print on a business cards, leave links online etc. Don’t get a sub-domain as you’re primary website.

What is a sub domain?
A sub-domain is a unique web address through a larger website. mywebsite.blogger.com is an example of a sub-domain. You can have a sub-domain and blog just not as you’re primary.

Multiple Streams of Income
Hands down the best way to make money is by implementing  the use of multiple streams of income.

What is a Multiple Stream Income?
A Multi-Stream Income is simply defined as earning an income from multiple sources as opposed to one source, a  traditional job is a good example of a single source income.

This isn’t to say that a person shouldn’t have a traditional job but to insure it with additional income from another source or multiple sources. This way you’re not left holding the bag if the company you work for can’t afford to pay you, goes out of business, if you were to be laid off or fired.

Multiple streams are a better way to earn money simply due to the fact that if one stream fails you have a back up in place. An example, let’s say you have a job and are paid 100.00 per day. If you loose that job you loose the entire one hundred dollars a day income, however if instead you have one hundred ways to make a dollar a day and loose one you will still have 99 dollars a day.

Corporations use Multiple Stream of Income
Most of the worlds successful corporations use this technique to generate profits. In the corporate world these are known as conglomerates.

Take for example The Coke a Cola Corporation, the list of product they sell under different brand is simply immense. Coke Products If soda all the sudden becomes unfashionable to drink then they hold the market on bottled water.

So How can you create a Multiple Stream Income?

Because the idea of creating multiple streams is defined as creating several incomes, the sky is the limit. Any number of  ideas be combined to accomplish this goal.

Once you’ve committed to the idea of deriving your income in this fashion you’ll find it easier to start multiple small incomes then to find one or two large incomes.   If you’re new to finding smaller incomes there are plenty of options available.

Selling Products and Services
Selling products and services online is one potential opportunity to start earning money. This can be done in two ways both passive and initiative. Iinitiative  meaning you will be working for you’re income. Listing promoting shipping products and services.

I define Passive incomes as, you’ll have little or nothing to do once the initial work has been completed, however the initial work can take time and if you want to grow the passive income, truly it never actually becomes passive because you’re always promoting it Howver you can take a break and the passive income will continue to generate income.

Obviously passive incomes are nice to have and I think a must have if you plan on generating your income in  multiple streams.

Once source of income could be a low cost home based business, if you’re looking for new ideas visit the Home Based Business Ideas Directory these are all low start-up cost home based business.

Affiliate Marketing
Both a passive and active income affiliate marketing is a superior way to earn extra money and/or a full time income.
I don’t recommend ignoring this avenue I did and for too long. Who knew it could bring in such a valuable source of income.

If you’re interested in promoting products I highly recommend:
ShareASale This is in my opinion the best affiliate network available.

Consider Commission Junction

and Google Affiliate Network

Each of these are affiliate networks they aggregate affiliate programs.

I’ve personally found success promoting the following and I personally use them, I think you should use the programs that you promote. My top three are:

Cashcrate

Opinion Outpost

Inboxdollars

Essentially you can create as many streams to earn money as you can personally handle. Management is key to earning money in this fashion. Personally I filter everything through one email address, then pay close attention to everything that comes through. This way I never miss anything. Always keep up with the mail that arrives.

Other projects I’ve had that worked well to provide an ongoing income, offering e-books on eBay. Again I make it a point to only provide high quality useful information no matter what the effort. The most important tip I can offer, make absolutely sure you stand by the products and services you offer.