Start a Bear Stuffing Business

You’ve seen them in the mall, the lines of kids and parents waiting to make their own bears or dogs or rabbits. Stuffing your own plush has become all the rage in the last few years.

But, have you every thought of starting your own stuffing business? One that you could take to fairs, festivals and even home parties?

The profit potential is enormous. Your complete cost for the stuffed skins is $2.50-$5.00 and most skins sell for $15.00-$20.00 each. And of course there’s all that profit you can make from the clothes and outfits that go with the skins.

You can get started for less than $5000.00. And this is for a portable machine and an assortment of skins and costumes. Insurance is inexpensive for this type of equipment…which is really nice when you consider how much insurance is for other party rental equipment.

So, where can you use your unit? The possibilities are tremendous…fairs & festivals, church events, schools, colleges, birthday parties, corporate picnics….the list goes on and on. And the nice thing is that the Bear Stuffing Process is so much fun that every time you set up your equipment you’re going to have people asking how they can get you to come to their event.

Every school and organization is looking for a good fundraising program. Offer to set up your stuffing machine for a huge school event or carnival. Donate a percentage of each sale back to the organization. You’ll be making money, advertising…and doing a good service for a local organization.

You basically get paid to advertise!

You can also contract with party rental companies in your area to subcontract your Stuffing Machine for their parties. Generally you’ll give them a 15% commission from the rental. A good Party Rental company might book your equipment once or twice a month.

The only additional equipment you’ll need is a vehicle that can hold the equipment. Since units range from small ones that will fit in the trunk of a car, to large ones that require a van for transportation, the vehicle should not be a problem.

Other than brochures and some basic display grids to showcase your skins and costumes, there are very little start up costs.

So…if you’re thinking party rentals but don’t want to go the route of purchasing all kinds of equipment…specialize! And start a Stuffing

Party Rental Marketing Tips

What do you do when you need to market in the winter...and you have NO extra money? Well, that seems to happen to many of us. Our answer is to use internet marketing.

I don't mean just Google and pay per click although these are great ways to market. But another really great marketing technique is called "article marketing".

Article marketing is a great way to get links to your website without having to pay for it. It's fairly simple. You write an article about party planning, parties, picnics etc. It doesn't have to be long, only around 500 words. At the bottom of the article you add your name and company info. Also a link back to your website.

And you start submitting your article to ezines. Probably one of the best is Ezine Articles. Another I use quite frequently is Go Articles. Now, keep in mind that anyone can use your article as long as they include your contact information.

Google pays alot of attention to Ezine Articles when it's ranking websites. And anytime someone else picks up your article it's just one more way to link back to your website.

Another great marketing tool that doesn't cost a dime is to write a press release. You can actually submit press releases online that can get picked up by different newsgroups...again, increasing links back to your site and therefore your page rank goes up.

Your press release can also get picked up by outside sources and end up in print magazines. So....start writing!

Wow...you learn something new every day!

I tried a blog for awhile...but to be honest, I kept forgetting to post on it. But tonight I learned about something really cool. So I'm going to try the blog thing again.

Hopefully most of us are using adsense to increase our website income...but did you know that you can make a lot more money if you use the right search words? For example....corporate team building pays about 5.00 a click...whereas moonbounce pays about 5 cents.

It kind of makes you stop and think, doesn't it?

I don't have time for anymore tonight, but I'd love to hear if anyone else is targeting specific high paying keywords.