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20 PROFITABLE Businesses That Make A LOT OF MONEY at Christmas · SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS

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Speaker 1: The business that brings in the most money on this
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Speaker 1: entire list doesn't require a storefront, a machine, or any experience.
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Speaker 1: All you need is paper, tape, and a pair of scissors,
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Speaker 1: and nobody takes it seriously until they hear how much
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Speaker 1: people charge per hour. While a lot of people wait
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Speaker 1: until January to start the year off strong, others are
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Speaker 1: already getting paid in November. December is the one month
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Speaker 1: of the year when people will pay without thinking twice
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Speaker 1: for just about anything they don't want to do themselves. Today,
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Speaker 1: I'm bringing you 20 businesses for the Christmas season, and
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Speaker 1: each one comes with a full breakdown. How much it
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Speaker 1: costs to get started, who your customers are, and how
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Speaker 1: much people who are already doing it are bringing in.
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Speaker 1: 20 businesses, 20 ways to be on the receiving end
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Speaker 1: of the money this Christmas. And pay close attention, because
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Speaker 1: number three is a job that lasts just two months
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Speaker 1: and earned one man more than $ 10, 000. And don't leave
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Speaker 1: before the last one, because it's the only business on
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Speaker 1: this list that starts on the exact day all the
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Speaker 1: others come to an end. Let's get started. I'm Pablo,
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Speaker 1: and this is Successful Entrepreneur. Business one, cleaning before decorating.
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Speaker 1: The boxes of Christmas decorations have already been brought down
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Speaker 1: from the closet. They're sitting there on a couch nobody
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Speaker 1: has vacuumed since March, right next to a window covered
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Speaker 1: in a year's worth of dust. And nobody wants to
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Speaker 1: put up a beautiful, sparkling Christmas tree in the middle
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Speaker 1: of all that dust. That's why, in November and December,
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Speaker 1: thousands of families do the exact same thing. Before they decorate,
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Speaker 1: they give their homes a deep cleaning. And more and
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Speaker 1: more often, instead of doing it themselves, they're paying someone
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Speaker 1: else to do it. This business doesn't require any special talent.
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Speaker 1: All it takes is a room, a bucket, good cleaning products,
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Speaker 1: and a willingness to work hard. And here's what nobody
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Speaker 1: tells you. Your customer isn't actually buying a cleaning service.
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Speaker 1: They're buying time, right in the one month of the
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Speaker 1: year when nobody seems to have any. The reality is
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Speaker 1: that this is physical work. And in December, everybody wants
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Speaker 1: it done during the same week. So if you don't
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Speaker 1: start organizing your schedule in November, you're going to run
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Speaker 1: out of available time. What's the first step you can
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Speaker 1: take tomorrow? Give your service a clear name, something like
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Speaker 1: pre-Christmas tree cleaning. Offer it on specific dates in your
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Speaker 1: apartment buildings or neighborhoods community group. And ask every customer
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Speaker 1: for before and after photos. And how much are people
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Speaker 1: paying for this? On home service platforms, Christmas cleaning services
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Speaker 1: are averaging $ 48 an hour. $ 48 to get a house ready,
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Speaker 1: so that just a few hours later, it'll be glowing
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Speaker 1: with Christmas lights that somebody else is going to hang up.
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Speaker 1: And listen closely to this. That somebody else could be you, too.
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Speaker 1: Business 2. In-home Christmas decorating. Think about it for a second.
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Speaker 1: You're already inside the house. You've left it spotless. The
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Speaker 1: customer is happy, and those boxes of Christmas decorations are
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Speaker 1: still sitting there, unopened, staring right at both of That's
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Speaker 1: the perfect moment to say the one sentence that turns
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Speaker 1: one service into two. What if I decorated your house
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Speaker 1: for you too? Because so many people love seeing their
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Speaker 1: homes decorated for Christmas, but they hate dragging out boxes,
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Speaker 1: untangling lights, and climbing onto a chair to put the
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Speaker 1: star on top of the tree. And here's what I
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Speaker 1: liked most when I researched this. These are two separate businesses,
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Speaker 1: each with its own price. To the customer who hires
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Speaker 1: you to clean, you offer decorating services. To the customer
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Speaker 1: who calls you just to decorate, you offer to clean
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Speaker 1: the house first. One customer, two separate charges during the
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Speaker 1: same visit, and the customer provides all the decorations, so
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Speaker 1: you don't have to invest any money in buying them.
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Speaker 1: The hard part isn't hanging ornaments. It's dealing with other
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Speaker 1: people's personal tastes. Some customers are going to want their
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Speaker 1: Christmas tree decorated exactly the way their grandmother used to
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Speaker 1: do it, and that takes patience. If you don't have
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Speaker 1: any photos to show potential customers, decorate your own house
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Speaker 1: and two neighbors' homes at a low price, and those
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Speaker 1: pictures become your portfolio. And when night falls and the
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Speaker 1: family turns on the Christmas tree lights for the first time,
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Speaker 1: everybody gathers for the picture. You're not in it because
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Speaker 1: you're already on your way to the next house. If
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Speaker 1: you've already started doing the math on these first two businesses,
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Speaker 1: subscribe right now because we still have 18 businesses to go,
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Speaker 1: and I don't want you to miss the one that's
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Speaker 1: the best fit for you. Now we're heading outside because
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Speaker 1: the next business is the one I mentioned at the beginning.
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Speaker 1: It only lasts two months. and the amount of money
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Speaker 1: it brought in during that time is nothing like what
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Speaker 1: a regular job pays. Business three, outdoor Christmas light installation,
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Speaker 1: more than $ 10, 000 in two months. That's what one installer
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Speaker 1: discovered when he went back through his old invoices. His
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Speaker 1: company had earned all that money just by hanging Christmas
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Speaker 1: lights during November and December alone, and that's no coincidence
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Speaker 1: because nobody wants to climb onto a roof in the
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Speaker 1: middle of December. On home service platforms, hanging Christmas lights
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Speaker 1: pays an average of $ 54 an hour, more than cleaning.
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Speaker 1: The very thing that makes this business pay more is
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Speaker 1: also what scares people, the height. Many installers charge by
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Speaker 1: the linear foot, and installing lights on a second story
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Speaker 1: can cost twice as much as on the first. The
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Speaker 1: reality is that the risk is real, so you start
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Speaker 1: with single-story houses, a good ladder, and a partner to
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Speaker 1: hold it steady. And who's going to hire you, the
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Speaker 1: same neighbor who saw you cleaning and decorating the inside
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Speaker 1: of a house yesterday? And pay close attention to what's
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Speaker 1: coming next, because the next business has four major sales
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Speaker 1: dates in just a month and a half, and almost
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Speaker 1: everything gets sold before it's even cooked. Business four, ready
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Speaker 1: to roast pork leg, turkey, or pie. The mistake almost
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Speaker 1: everyone makes when selling food in December is trying to
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Speaker 1: cook an entire holiday menu. Roast pork leg, salad, rice, dessert,
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Speaker 1: and they end up running out of time, oven space,
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Speaker 1: and profit. The people who make money pick just one
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Speaker 1: product and make it the best in their area. And
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Speaker 1: they can sell it two ways, fully cooked or seasoned
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Speaker 1: and ready for the customer to simply pop it in
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Speaker 1: the oven. Listen to this. One market that normally sold
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Speaker 1: between 80 and 100 cooked turkeys during the holiday season
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Speaker 1: ended up selling 220. They had to stop taking orders
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Speaker 1: because they ran out of oven space. And that's the
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Speaker 1: reality of this business. Your oven is your limit, which
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Speaker 1: is why you sell through pre-orders and set a firm
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Speaker 1: limit on how many orders you'll accept. And it's not
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Speaker 1: just December 24th. There's also Thanksgiving. end of year gatherings
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Speaker 1: and new year's eve on december 31st december is the
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Speaker 1: month when people would rather pay someone else than do
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Speaker 1: the work themselves and every order proves it The next
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Speaker 1: business is the only one on this entire list that
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Speaker 1: you can start as soon as tomorrow with absolutely no
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Speaker 1: money in your pocket. Business. Five. Errand running and personal shopping.
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Speaker 1: You can actually get paid to wait. You heard that right.
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Speaker 1: In December, people are making money just by standing in line.
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Speaker 1: Standing in line to buy that sold-out toy, to pick
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Speaker 1: up an order, or to pay for something at the
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Speaker 1: mall on the busiest shopping day of the year. And
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Speaker 1: when you stop just waiting in line and start handling
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Speaker 1: entire errands, the pay goes up. On service platforms, standing
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Speaker 1: in line averages $ 27 an hour, while holiday errands average
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Speaker 1: $ 32 an hour. Who's paying for this? Parents who work late,
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Speaker 1: older adults who don't want to deal with December traffic,
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Speaker 1: and companies that need someone to pick up gifts for
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Speaker 1: their employees. The reality is that you're selling your time,
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Speaker 1: and you're spending those hours out on the street dealing
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Speaker 1: with the worst traffic of the year. But it's the
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Speaker 1: most direct way to start seeing money come in this
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Speaker 1: very week. and keep this in mind. Later on, there's
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Speaker 1: a business you can run with nothing but paper and scissors,
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Speaker 1: and it pays more per hour than anything we've covered
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Speaker 1: so far. But first, the next business can bring in,
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Speaker 1: in just one day, what others take an entire event
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Speaker 1: to earn. Business. Six. Christmas mini photo sessions. An empty garage,
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Speaker 1: a red backdrop, an old armchair, a blanket, some warm
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Speaker 1: Christmas lights, and a small Christmas tree in the corner.
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Speaker 1: That's the entire photography studio. Families want their Christmas pictures.
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Speaker 1: But hardly anyone wants to pay for a full photo
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Speaker 1: session or spend an entire afternoon posing. That's how mini
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Speaker 1: sessions came about. 15 minutes per family, one right after another,
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Speaker 1: using the exact same setup for everyone. And here's the
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Speaker 1: calculation that changes everything. Some photographers say that a single
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Speaker 1: day of mini sessions brings in as much money as
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Speaker 1: photographing an entire wedding. Without nearly as many hours of
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Speaker 1: editing and without the stress of an event that can't
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Speaker 1: be repeated. Late October and November are the weeks with
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Speaker 1: the highest demand because everyone wants their pictures ready before December.
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Speaker 1: The reality is that you need to know how to
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Speaker 1: take good photos. If you don't know how yet, partner
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Speaker 1: with someone who does, and you handle the setup, the scheduling,
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Speaker 1: and finding the customers. The next business doesn't require a
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Speaker 1: photography setup, a camera, or even leaving your house. All
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Speaker 1: you need is a computer, and you'll be working with
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Speaker 1: the business that brings in the most money in December,
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Speaker 1: other people's businesses. Business 7. Christmas marketing campaigns with artificial intelligence.
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Speaker 1: The owner of a clothing store has all her merchandise
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Speaker 1: ready for December, but not a single decent photo to
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Speaker 1: show it off. She doesn't have time. She doesn't have
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Speaker 1: a photographer. And her last social media post was three
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Now multiply her situation by every store, every bakery,
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Speaker 1: and every small business in your city. According to a
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Speaker 1: study of small businesses, six out of ten say the
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Speaker 1: holiday season brings in as much as half of their
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Speaker 1: entire year's sales. And social media is the sales channel
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Speaker 1: that generates the most business for them. What caught my
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Speaker 1: attention about this one is something almost nobody realizes. You're
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Speaker 1: not selling social media posts. You're selling them their best
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Speaker 1: month of the year. With artificial intelligence, you can place
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Speaker 1: their products against Christmas-themed backgrounds, put together a catalog they
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Speaker 1: can use on their phones, write their promotional offers, and
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Speaker 1: get an entire month's worth of content ready for them.
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Speaker 1: The reality is that you need to sell this service
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Speaker 1: in November. By December, it's already too late. But the
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Speaker 1: person who saved a store's Christmas season is the first
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Speaker 1: person they call for Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and every
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Speaker 1: other holiday that comes afterward. And now we're moving away
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Speaker 1: from the computer to something you hang on a Christmas tree,
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Speaker 1: because the next business sells the same object 50 times,
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Speaker 1: and not a single one is exactly like the others.
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Speaker 1: Business 8, personalized Christmas ornaments. How many ornaments on your
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Speaker 1: Christmas tree have your name on them? Probably none. And
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Speaker 1: that's exactly why they sell. Baby's First Christmas. The names
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Speaker 1: of everyone in the family, a picture of the family pet,
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Speaker 1: or a wedding date. You can buy an ordinary Christmas
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Speaker 1: ornament just about anywhere. But an ornament that tells your
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Speaker 1: personal story, that's something only someone who makes it especially
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Speaker 1: for you can provide. The hidden business opportunity is that
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Speaker 1: blank ornaments cost very little, and the personalization is what
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Speaker 1: you're actually charging for. You can customize them using sublimation,
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Speaker 1: which prints full-color photos, laser engraving, or vinyl, and some
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Speaker 1: print-on-demand platforms report profit margins above 65%. The reality is
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Speaker 1: that deadlines are absolutely critical in this business. A gift
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Speaker 1: that arrives after December 24th isn't a gift anymore. It's
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Speaker 1: a return. Make your order cut off date clearly visible
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Speaker 1: and start with just one design that works before trying
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Speaker 1: to offer 50 different ones and the next business charges
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Speaker 1: per person with customers who practically show up on their
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Speaker 1: own the very day school lets out for the holidays
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Speaker 1: business nine christmas workshops for kids i almost didn't include
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Speaker 1: this one on the list because i thought it was
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Speaker 1: too simple and that's exactly why i made the cut
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Speaker 1: in december school lets out for the holidays But parents
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Speaker 1: still have to work, and kids need somewhere to go.
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Speaker 1: Here's how the business works. You organize morning sessions lasting
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Speaker 1: about three hours with small groups of eight to ten children.
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Speaker 1: During each session, the kids decorate cookies, make a Christmas
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Speaker 1: craft they can take home, and write their letters to
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus. You charge per child, per session, or for
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Speaker 1: the entire week with a small discount, which is what
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Speaker 1: working parents usually prefer. The materials are inexpensive, and you
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Speaker 1: include them in the price. To get started, you need
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Speaker 1: a spacious, safe area, like a large living room, a backyard,
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Speaker 1: or a community room, plus one other person to help you.
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Speaker 1: Your first customers come from the school's parent groups. The
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Speaker 1: reality is that you're taking care of other people's children.
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Speaker 1: And in this business, trust has to come before advertising.
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Speaker 1: And from the noisiest business on this entire list, we're
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Speaker 1: moving to the quietest one. The next business is something
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Speaker 1: you create just once and can sell every single December.
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Speaker 1: Business 10, digital recipe book with artificial intelligence. In December,
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Speaker 1: nobody buys recipes because there are millions available for free.
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Speaker 1: What people actually pay for is having someone figure out
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Speaker 1: Christmas dinner for them. That's why the recipe book that
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Speaker 1: sells isn't called Christmas Recipes. It's called something like a
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Speaker 1: complete Christmas dinner for 10 people on a fixed budget. Inside,
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Speaker 1: you include the menu, the shopping list with exact quantities,
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Speaker 1: and a schedule for the day. What to prepare first,
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Speaker 1: what goes into the oven next, and what time everything
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Speaker 1: should be served. Artificial intelligence helps you organize, write, and
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Speaker 1: design the whole thing in just a few days. But
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Speaker 1: you test the recipes yourself, because that's what determines whether
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Speaker 1: customers will buy from you again. You deliver it as
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Speaker 1: a digital file, charge a low enough price that people
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Speaker 1: can buy it without thinking too much, and sell it
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Speaker 1: through a payment link. To promote it, you post short
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Speaker 1: videos showing how to prepare just one dish from the
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Speaker 1: dinner menu and include the link. The reality is that
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Speaker 1: generic recipe books are already everywhere. What sells is something specific.
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Speaker 1: Hold on a second, because we're already halfway through. Cleaning, decorating,
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Speaker 1: hanging lights, baking, standing in line, taking pictures, selling from
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Speaker 1: a computer, personalizing products, taking care of kids, and writing recipes.
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Speaker 1: Ten businesses, and not a single one invented anything new.
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Speaker 1: They all charge for something people were going to need
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Speaker 1: in December anyway. Now tell me, which one can you
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Speaker 1: already picture yourself doing? And don't get too comfortable, because
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Speaker 1: the business that charges the most per hour on this
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Speaker 1: entire list is still coming up. Here's a little hint.
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Speaker 1: You've been doing it for free your entire life. You've
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Speaker 1: made it this far? You're already one of those people
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Speaker 1: who finish what they start. Subscribe to the channel because
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Speaker 1: what's coming in the second half is even better. And
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Speaker 1: we're kicking off the second half with the oldest business
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Speaker 1: of the Christmas season and the mistake that causes most
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Speaker 1: people to practically work for free. Business. 11. Buying toys wholesale.
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Speaker 1: December is the month when more toys are sold than
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Speaker 1: at any other time of the year. And yet a
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Speaker 1: lot of people finish the season having made almost no
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Speaker 1: money from this business. The mistake is selling just the
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Speaker 1: toy itself. The store down the street carries the exact
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Speaker 1: same toy, and the only way to compete is by
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Speaker 1: lowering your price. The people who make money do it differently.
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Speaker 1: They choose just one category, like educational toys or stuffed animals,
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Speaker 1: buy them from a wholesale distributor, and put together a
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Speaker 1: photo catalog to send through WhatsApp. The money is in
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Speaker 1: what you add to the product. The toy gets delivered
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Speaker 1: gift-wrapped with a card right to the customer's doorstep on
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Speaker 1: December 23rd or 24th, when parents don't have time for
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Speaker 1: anything anymore. You charge separately for that service, or you
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Speaker 1: include it in a higher price than what the store charges,
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Speaker 1: and the customer is more than happy to pay it.
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Speaker 1: The reality is that anything you haven't sold by December
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Speaker 1: 24th could end up sitting in your house for an
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Speaker 1: entire year. That's why you take orders and collect a
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Speaker 1: deposit first, and only then do you buy the toys.
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Speaker 1: And the next business barely has any numbers to show,
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Speaker 1: because what people pay for isn't measured in dollars. It's
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Speaker 1: measured in tiers around the Christmas Eve dinner table. Business 12,
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Speaker 1: year-in-review memory videos. Dinner is already on the table. Someone
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Speaker 1: turns off the lights, and suddenly a picture of Grandpa
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Speaker 1: at 20 years old appears on the wall, restored, in
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Speaker 1: full color, and smiling. Here's how the business works. The
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Speaker 1: family sends you their photos and videos from throughout the
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Speaker 1: year in a shared folder, and you deliver a video
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Speaker 1: with music, ready to play on the TV on December
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Speaker 1: 24th or 31st, or to give as a gift. You
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Speaker 1: sell packages based on the number of photos, for example, 30, 60,
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Speaker 1: or 100, and you charge extra for each old photo
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Speaker 1: you restore or animate using artificial intelligence. which is what
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Speaker 1: people request the most. And families aren't your only customers.
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Speaker 1: You can also sell companies a year in review video
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Speaker 1: to play at their end of year holiday party. The
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Speaker 1: reality is that families send hundreds of photos. completely out
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Speaker 1: of order, and at the very last minute. That's why
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Speaker 1: every package includes a photo limit and a firm deadline
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Speaker 1: for submitting all the materials. And that deadline doesn't change.
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Speaker 1: And now I have a question for you. Tell me
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Speaker 1: in the comments the number of the business you're going
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Speaker 1: to use to make your first money before the year
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Speaker 1: is over. Just the number, because I read every single comment.
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Speaker 1: The next business is responsible for that picture everybody posts
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Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve, and you don't need to know how
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Speaker 1: to sew to sell it. Business. 13. Personalized matching family pajamas.
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Speaker 1: On the night of December 24th, millions of families post
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Speaker 1: the exact same kind of picture. Everyone wearing matching pajamas,
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Speaker 1: from grandpa all the way down to the dog. And
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Speaker 1: hardly anyone realizes that behind that picture is a business
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Speaker 1: that doesn't require you to know how to sew. Here's
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Speaker 1: how it works. You buy plain pajamas wholesale in adult, children's,
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Speaker 1: and baby sizes, and personalize them using heat transfer vinyl
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Speaker 1: and a heat press. Each person's name, the family's last name,
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Speaker 1: and the year. The trick is that you're not selling pajamas.
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Speaker 1: You're selling matching pajamas for the entire family. A single
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Speaker 1: order can include four, six, or eight pieces, and you
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Speaker 1: throw in a matching bandana for the family pet as
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Speaker 1: a free gift to close the sale. You sell through
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Speaker 1: a catalog of designs, a size chart, and a firm
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Speaker 1: order deadline so everything gets delivered before December 24th. The
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Speaker 1: reality is that the most expensive mistake you can make
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Speaker 1: is getting the size wrong. That's why you confirm every
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Speaker 1: order through a message before pressing even a single letter
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Speaker 1: onto the fabric. And once again, it's the same story.
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Speaker 1: In December, people aren't paying for the clothing itself. They're
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Speaker 1: paying for the special moment they don't want to have
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Speaker 1: to put together themselves. And the next business completely changes
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Speaker 1: the type of customer you're selling to. You're no longer
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Speaker 1: selling to one family. You're selling to a company that
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Speaker 1: orders 50 identical items from you. Business 14, corporate gift
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Speaker 1: baskets and gifts. One gift company studied who was buying
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Speaker 1: from them during Christmas and discovered that 70% of their
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Speaker 1: customers weren't individuals. They were businesses. And it makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Every December, companies need to give gifts to their employees
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Speaker 1: and customers, and they don't have time to put anything
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Speaker 1: together themselves. The business is all about approaching them with
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Speaker 1: three ready-made options, a basic gift basket for employees, a
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Speaker 1: mid-range basket, and a premium basket for their best customers,
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Speaker 1: all featuring a label with the company's logo. You buy
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Speaker 1: the products wholesale, put the baskets together, and deliver them
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Speaker 1: directly to the office. The reality is that a reasonable
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Speaker 1: profit margin on each basket is around 25% to 30%.
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Speaker 1: so the real money here doesn't come from a single basket.
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Speaker 1: It comes from volume. You sell this service in October
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Speaker 1: and November, and your first customers are businesses you already know,
17:01
Speaker 1: the dentist, the real estate agency, or the neighborhood auto
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Speaker 1: repair shop. And listen closely, because one of the businesswomen
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Speaker 1: who knows this industry best discovered that the real money
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Speaker 1: wasn't in the gift basket itself, but in what comes next.
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Speaker 1: And here it is, the business I've been telling you
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Speaker 1: about since the beginning, the one that only requires paper, tape,
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Speaker 1: and scissors. Business 15, gift wrapping, $ 466, 000 in a single year.
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Speaker 1: That's how much Michelle Hensley's business brought in, and nearly
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Speaker 1: 70% of that revenue came from wrapping gifts, charging a
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Speaker 1: minimum of $ 180 an hour. This was the number that
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Speaker 1: surprised me the most during all my research. And what's
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Speaker 1: even more interesting is how she got there. Michelle had
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Speaker 1: a gift basket business with a small profit margin, and
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Speaker 1: gift wrapping was what saved it and turned it into
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Speaker 1: a real company. This business works with three different types
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Speaker 1: of customers. First, there are people who have 20 gifts
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Speaker 1: to wrap and absolutely no desire to do it themselves.
17:54
Speaker 1: You charge them per gift, depending on the size. Then
17:57
Speaker 1: there are stores that simply can't keep up with demand
17:59
Speaker 1: in December. You set up a table inside the store,
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Speaker 1: the store offers your service to its customers, and you
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Speaker 1: get paid for every package you wrap. And finally, there
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Speaker 1: are companies that give gifts in large quantities, and you
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Speaker 1: charge them by the hour or by the batch. The
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Speaker 1: investment is minimal, wrapping paper, ribbons, bows, boxes, and a
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Speaker 1: good pair of scissors. What's the first step you can
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Speaker 1: take tomorrow? Wrap three gifts perfectly, take pictures of them,
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Speaker 1: and bring those photos to stores in your area. And
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Speaker 1: Michelle herself explains the reality of this business. Just because
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Speaker 1: you enjoy wrapping gifts doesn't mean that's enough. Because wrapping
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Speaker 1: presents and running a business are two completely different things.
18:33
Speaker 1: You have to charge the right prices, stay organized, and
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Speaker 1: make it through December 24th, which is the day when
18:38
Speaker 1: everyone needs their last-minute gifts wrapped. But think about it
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Speaker 1: this way. The very thing you do for free every December,
18:43
Speaker 1: other people are charging for by the hour. If this
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Speaker 1: opened your eyes the same way it opened mine, subscribe
18:47
Speaker 1: right now because the five businesses we still have left
18:50
Speaker 1: have plenty to offer, too. And the next one is
18:52
Speaker 1: the only business on this entire list where you don't
18:55
Speaker 1: actually touch anything with your own hands, and yet you
18:58
Speaker 1: still get paid for everything. Business 16, Corporate Year-End Parties.
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Speaker 1: To organize a company party, you don't need sound equipment,
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Speaker 1: a venue, or a kitchen. You need to know who
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Speaker 1: to call. Many small and medium-sized companies want to throw
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Speaker 1: an end-of-year party, but they don't have anyone to handle
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Speaker 1: the planning. That's where you come in. You sell them
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Speaker 1: the complete event, including the venue, food, decorations, sound equipment, entertainment,
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Speaker 1: and photography. And you hire a trusted vendor to handle
19:22
Speaker 1: each part. You charge the company one total price, and
19:25
Speaker 1: your profit comes from the difference between that price and
19:28
Speaker 1: what you pay the vendors. or from a separate coordination fee.
19:31
Speaker 1: Before you start selling, put together a list of five
19:34
Speaker 1: reliable vendors who won't let you down and start with
19:36
Speaker 1: a small company of around 20 people. The reality is
19:39
Speaker 1: that if a vendor fails to deliver, you're the one
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Speaker 1: who has to answer for it. That's why in this business,
19:44
Speaker 1: you don't choose the cheapest vendor. You choose the one
19:47
Speaker 1: who always shows up. And the next business takes us
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Speaker 1: back into the kitchen, but with a number that changes
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Speaker 1: the entire calculation. In December, sales for these small businesses
19:56
Speaker 1: increased by more than 60%. Business. 17. Christmas Cookie and
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Speaker 1: Dessert Boxes. A small business industry association reported that in December...
20:06
Speaker 1: Sales for these businesses are more than 66% higher than
20:09
Speaker 1: the average of the previous months. And one of the
20:11
Speaker 1: fastest growing categories is sweets. Now, the baking business is
20:15
Speaker 1: extremely competitive. And that's why the mistake here is selling
20:18
Speaker 1: individual cookies. What sells in December is the box. Twelve
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Speaker 1: cookies decorated with Christmas designs, beautifully packaged with a ribbon
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Speaker 1: and a card. It's no longer just a dessert. It's
20:28
Speaker 1: a gift. And as a gift, it attracts customers most
20:31
Speaker 1: people overlook. The mom who wants to make a good
20:33
Speaker 1: impression on her child's teacher. The neighbor. or the company
20:36
Speaker 1: that needs 30 boxes with its logo. You work with
20:39
Speaker 1: just one really well-developed recipe, three standard designs, and advance
20:43
Speaker 1: orders with scheduled delivery dates. The packaging is half the sale,
20:47
Speaker 1: so invest in that before spending money on unusual ingredients.
20:50
Speaker 1: The reality is that decorating takes more time than it seems,
20:54
Speaker 1: and the rules for selling homemade food vary depending on
20:56
Speaker 1: where you live. So make sure you check them before
20:58
Speaker 1: getting started. And the next business lets you charge the
21:01
Speaker 1: same customer twice. once in December and again in January.
21:05
Speaker 1: Business 18, real Christmas tree delivery and pickup. Buying a
21:08
Speaker 1: real Christmas tree is easy. The hard part is everything else.
21:11
Speaker 1: Loading it into the car, getting it inside the house,
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Speaker 1: finding a stand for it, and then in January, getting
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Speaker 1: rid of it. This business takes care of both ends
21:19
Speaker 1: of the process. The beginning of December, you deliver the
21:21
Speaker 1: tree to the customer's house, bring the stand and set
21:24
Speaker 1: everything up. And after the holidays, you come back to
21:26
Speaker 1: pick it up and take it to a recycling or
21:28
Speaker 1: composting facility. You can sell it as a complete package.
21:31
Speaker 1: including the tree delivery stand and pickup or charge just
21:34
Speaker 1: for the pickup service, which some companies already priced starting
21:37
Speaker 1: at $ 90 per tree. That's right. $ 90 to remove something.
21:41
Speaker 1: The customer doesn't even want to look at anymore to
21:43
Speaker 1: get started. You need a pickup truck or a partner
21:46
Speaker 1: who owns one and an agreement with a tree nursery
21:48
Speaker 1: that can sell you the trees at a good price.
21:50
Speaker 1: The reality is that this is physically demanding work with
21:53
Speaker 1: extremely tight deadlines. And notice what this business proves. People
21:56
Speaker 1: will even pay to get rid of what's left over
21:58
Speaker 1: from Christmas because nobody wants to deal with it themselves.
22:01
Speaker 1: The next business is the one that made me laugh
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Speaker 1: the most while I was researching it, and the one
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Speaker 1: that lets you get paid more frequently than any other
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Speaker 1: business on this list, up to 20 times in a
22:10
Speaker 1: single hour. Business 19, Santa Claus Home. Visits and personalized videos.
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Speaker 1: If you're the kind of person who thinks, I'd be
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Speaker 1: too embarrassed to do that, This business is for you,
22:21
Speaker 1: because nobody's going to see you. They're going to see
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Speaker 1: Santa Claus. Eddie Rich understood this so well that he
22:27
Speaker 1: and his wife made $ 14, 700 in a single Christmas week
22:31
Speaker 1: by recording personalized videos right from their living room. He
22:34
Speaker 1: recorded up to 20 videos per hour, and after the
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Speaker 1: platform took its commission, he kept about $ 26 for each one.
22:40
Speaker 1: A traditional Santa Claus, by comparison, earns around $ 60 an hour.
22:44
Speaker 1: This business has two different formats. The in-person option, visiting
22:47
Speaker 1: children's parties, company events... and end-of-year gatherings. And the video option?
22:52
Speaker 1: Parents send you their child's name, what the child accomplished
22:54
Speaker 1: that year, and the gift they asked for, and you
22:57
Speaker 1: record a greeting that feels like it was made just
22:59
Speaker 1: for them. The most important thing is the costume, a
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Speaker 1: high-quality beard, boots, and gloves, because kids notice absolutely everything.
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Speaker 1: The reality is that your schedule fills up in December,
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Speaker 1: and your voice gets tired, but very few businesses pay
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Speaker 1: this much for so few minutes of work. And now
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Speaker 1: we've reached the last one. The business I promised you
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Speaker 1: from the very beginning. The only one that starts right
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Speaker 1: when all the others come to an end. Business 20.
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Speaker 1: Christmas decorations take down in storage. By the night of
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Speaker 1: December 25th, the celebration is over. By January 1st, the
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Speaker 1: guests are gone. But the Christmas tree, the lights hanging
23:32
Speaker 1: from the roof, and the empty boxes are still there.
23:34
Speaker 1: Sometimes all the way into February. Nobody wants to take
23:36
Speaker 1: down the Christmas decorations. And that's why for professional installers,
23:40
Speaker 1: business picks up again immediately after the holidays. They start
23:43
Speaker 1: taking decorations down almost right away and don't stop until
23:46
Speaker 1: the second week of January. The service involves taking down
23:48
Speaker 1: the Christmas tree, removing the outdoor lights, and storing everything
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Speaker 1: in a way most people would never manage to do themselves.
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Speaker 1: The lights are neatly wrapped and tested. Every box is
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Speaker 1: labeled according to the area it belongs to, and you
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Speaker 1: take a picture of how the house was decorated so
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Speaker 1: you can recreate the exact same setup the following year.
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Speaker 1: If you have enough space, you can also charge customers
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Speaker 1: to store their boxes until November. And here's the best part.
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Speaker 1: The customer whose decorations you've stored isn't going to look
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Speaker 1: for anyone else when it's time to bring those boxes
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Speaker 1: back down from the closet next year. The first number
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Speaker 1: they're going to call is yours. And if any of
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Speaker 1: these businesses gave you an idea and you feel like
24:21
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24:27
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