Business At A Glance
- Startup Costs: Under $2,000
- Home Based: Can be operated from home.
- Part Time: Can be operated part-time.
- Online Operation? No
Business Overview
Seashells, glass, metal or bells’-windchimes can be manufactured from almost any kind of material. Starting abusiness that manufactures wind chimes can be a great way to turn sparetime into extra income.
The wind chimes can be sold to retail stores,garden centers and gift shops on a wholesale basis. Or, the wind chimescan be sold directly to the end consumers via a booth at a busy fleamarket, mall kiosk or an online mall. While there may not seem to be alot of potential for profit in this type of manufacturing business,consider the following: 50 retail accounts that sold only four windchimes each month would produce total unit sales of 200 wind chimes.
A$10 gross profit on each wind chime sold would produce gross profits of$2,000 each month for the business venture. Now imagine if there were500 retail accounts established across North America that achieved thesame sales volumes, this simple manufacturing and wholesaling businesswould then be generating gross profits of $20,000 per month.