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What's a business we can start....

....where we could all work together from home and make enough money to live? 

Seriously.  I want to be my own boss.  Who's in and what's your idea?! Could we sell something?

TTC since April 2009 ~ Unexplained IF 3 IUI's later....EDD 6.28.12 BabyFruit Ticker

Re: What's a business we can start....

  • imagePlumCallaLily:

    ....where we could all work together from home and make enough money to live? 

    Seriously.  I want to be my own boss.  Who's in and what's your idea?! Could we sell something?

    I am so feeling ya lately. MIL just got approved to make her house a B&B (she bought it in hopes of doing this) and said she wants me to be the event planner so I should start a business. I so wish I could.

    Or I wish I had design skills and could make cards or stationary and stuff (you know we love that stuff!). Although, I could make some cute stuff with my Cricut!

    Campbell James - 3.6.2010
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  • imageFutureMrsNAH:
    imagePlumCallaLily:

    ....where we could all work together from home and make enough money to live? 

    Seriously.  I want to be my own boss.  Who's in and what's your idea?! Could we sell something?

    I am so feeling ya lately. MIL just got approved to make her house a B&B (she bought it in hopes of doing this) and said she wants me to be the event planner so I should start a business. I so wish I could.

    OMG WHY CAN'T YOU!?!?  This is my DREAM.  I would love to have a house where I could do this.

    Or I wish I had design skills and could make cards or stationary and stuff (you know we love that stuff!). Although, I could make some cute stuff with my Cricut!

    I would also love to do this.  There has to be something that can be done on the interwebz.  Lindsey------how do you do what you do?!  I want in!

    TTC since April 2009 ~ Unexplained IF 3 IUI's later....EDD 6.28.12 BabyFruit Ticker
  • Well, I guess I'd either need to start my own business so she could either use my services or I'd work for her I guess? And the latter ain't happening.

    Starting a business just seems hard. I don't know where to start. Back in 2003 when my bff and I were laid off we were thisclose to starting our own event planning business, got books and stuff to figure it out but then we didn't - I think it just seemed too hard and then her MK business took off so it just fell aside.

     Well, one place to start would be Etsy, if there's something to be made...I know you can buy printables on there so that's something...

    Campbell James - 3.6.2010
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  • imageFutureMrsNAH:

    Well, I guess I'd either need to start my own business so she could either use my services or I'd work for her I guess? And the latter ain't happening.

    Starting a business just seems hard. I don't know where to start. Back in 2003 when my bff and I were laid off we were thisclose to starting our own event planning business, got books and stuff to figure it out but then we didn't - I think it just seemed too hard and then her MK business took off so it just fell aside.

    It's SOOOOO easy to actually do the paperwork to start a business.  I've done that once before. In KY, you have to file earnings quarterly.  You wouldn't have to work for your MIL.  You two could be partners. She owns the space, you have the event business.  She'd make money off people using the facilities and you'd make money on the actual operations. 

     Well, one place to start would be Etsy, if there's something to be made...I know you can buy printables on there so that's something...

    TTC since April 2009 ~ Unexplained IF 3 IUI's later....EDD 6.28.12 BabyFruit Ticker
  • Phone sex operators?

    Although once the kids were old enough to know what we were saying, we might be SOL.

  • imageSSM&JLM:

    Phone sex operators?

    Although once the kids were old enough to know what we were saying, we might be SOL.



    That's fantastic!!
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  • I could never be a phone sex operator. I would end up giggling when I would be "working". I'm an immature 5th grade boy.
    TTC since April 2009 ~ Unexplained IF 3 IUI's later....EDD 6.28.12 BabyFruit Ticker
  • imagePlumCallaLily:
    imageFutureMrsNAH:

    Well, I guess I'd either need to start my own business so she could either use my services or I'd work for her I guess? And the latter ain't happening.

    Starting a business just seems hard. I don't know where to start. Back in 2003 when my bff and I were laid off we were thisclose to starting our own event planning business, got books and stuff to figure it out but then we didn't - I think it just seemed too hard and then her MK business took off so it just fell aside.

    It's SOOOOO easy to actually do the paperwork to start a business.  I've done that once before. In KY, you have to file earnings quarterly.  You wouldn't have to work for your MIL.  You two could be partners. She owns the space, you have the event business.  She'd make money off people using the facilities and you'd make money on the actual operations. 

     Well, one place to start would be Etsy, if there's something to be made...I know you can buy printables on there so that's something...

    Just make sure you're not actually partners -- so much liability being partners in a B&B! Eeeek! Incorporate yourself so you can't be personally sued if anything goes wrong at the B&B :)

    Incorporation actually is pretty easy. A smart girl like you could probably do it on your own. 

  • I just had a brilliant idea earlier tonight, but I'm not sure how it could make us any money, and it's a pretty limited target population (but so is a phone sex business! LOL!) How about a puzzle swapping site like PBS, but for puzzles? No one does the same puzzle twice.

    Yes, I thought of this as I was thinking of what MH and I could do tonight, but we don't have any new-to-us puzzles. 

  • Thanks for the advice girls, I think I'll consider it!  Yeah Rebecca, I would never be her actual partner or work for her. And will def make sure I can't be responsible for something going wrong there. 
    Campbell James - 3.6.2010
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  • imagePlumCallaLily:

    I would also love to do this.  There has to be something that can be done on the interwebz.  Lindsey------how do you do what you do?!  I want in!

    Honestly, I have no idea. I think it's really one of those "it's not what you know, it's who you know" kind of things. I've been lucky enough to meet several PR people in my circle of friends, and it's because of them that I've made the connections that I have.

    I still think it would be awesome to for us to all do a collaborative blog - if done correctly, we could really monetize it.

    {10.04.08}

    BFP on 2.2.11
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