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Monday, December 5, 2016

Making extra income at Christmas

Christmas is around the corner and all over the world, it is celebrated with so much fun and pomp. It is a season to share and sincerely make money for those who can seize the opportunity. Despite the present economic recession, it is easy to make money during the Christmas season, as many corporate organisations and individuals would still need to reach out to customers, clients, associates and friends who have impacted positively on their operations in the past one year.
Christmas is one of the holidays that create huge business opportunities for smart investors and entrepreneurs who are ready to grab them while the season lasts. From greeting cards, calendars, gifts to wears, many products sell very well, especially when December 25 is fast approaching.
As an entrepreneur, you can make money off of the Christmas seasons by exploiting some of the many business opportunities that come with it. So are you interested in profiting from the Christmas frenzy? Do you need product or business ideas to start during the Christmas season?
Below are some profitable ideas you can make cool money from as Christmas is barely weeks away:

Design, print calendar and sell Christmas cards
Christmas is a season for printers. Have you ever thought how many calendars are printed every year? Likewise, when Christmas is near, people buy and exchange Christmas greeting cards with their friends, relatives and customers. This explains why the demand for Christmas cards starts booming wildly anytime from December 1.
If you are a creative artist, you can design beautiful greeting cards and put them up for sale. You can design them either by hand or with a computer. Either way, there’s a lot of money to be made. If you don’t have the required artistic creativity, you can buy greeting cards in wholesale quantities and sell them.

•Sell goodies and sweets
Because almost everyone loves treats, you will be going in the right direction by making and selling sweet food products like cupcakes and cookies. If your treats are very good, you will get an amazing number of orders during Christmas. If you are not skilled enough to make these treats yourself, partner with someone who has the skills or buy from them in large quantities and sell to customers.

•Pack and sell gift baskets
Gift baskets with assorted products have come to be identified with the season. So what you can pack in the basket is limitless. From canned products and other manufactured items to raw foods and fruits; the list is endless.
The good side of this business opportunity is that you don’t have to make the food to be placed in the baskets. Just visit a grocery or food store, supermarket or wholesale stores around you, buy various products, foods and fruits, and place them nicely in a basket. To make the baskets even more attractive, wrap them with beautiful Christmas-branded wrapping sheets. You can sell your gift baskets to companies,  office workers and other interested customers around you.

Christmas souvenirs
Many people visit their home states and towns to celebrate Christmas. Aside spending their money on food and fun activities, they also love to buy souvenir items they can take back with them after the Christmas season. Examples of souvenir items people like to buy include custom-branded Christmas-branded T-shirts, mugs, home decorations and so on.

• Sell gift items
People exchange gifts during Christmas and this explains why reasonably priced items like shirts, fancy jewellery, and other exchange gift items sell very well during Christmas period. To record even more sales, try to sell cheap products.
You can sell these items in offices and bazaars. And you can offer to wrap the items for an extra fee. Most buyers would gladly accept this offer because it would spare them the hassles of doing it themselves.

Sell children’s toys
Children’s toys also sell very well during the Christmas season. Parents and schools usually get toys as gifts for the kids. In fact, toys are most abundant in the market during this period. This business is very easy to put up because children’s toys are very cheap and profitable. If you have the creativity and know-how, you can make the toys yourself and put them up for sale.
Render food-catering services
Starting a food-catering business is another smart way to make huge profits during the Christmas season. The demand for catering services boom during this period because many offices and people would organise Christmas parties and they are too busy to prepare the delicacies they want. So, they rather pay to have their preferred foods cooked and served for them during Christmas festivities.
Sell Christmas decorations, gift-wraps
There is virtually no corporate office or home that you would see at this period without one form of decoration or the other. So why don’t you cash in on this great opportunity and be the one to serve this interest. You may not only sell the decoration, you can equally take up the contract and be the one to do the decoration. Even if you don’t know how to do it, you can sub-contract it out and still make your cool cash. Also, as is the case with other festive seasons, people exchange gifts with their friends, relatives, colleagues and customers during Christmas. And as one would expect, these gifts are wrapped in beautiful, Christmas-branded gift wraps. So, you can make a lot of money off the Christmas season by selling gift-wraps, which people use for packaging their gifts before presenting them to their recipients.
Organise musical shows
If you are a musician or you have a band or dance group, you can make money during the Christmas season by organising musical concerts or featuring as guest artistes at concerts. Even if you are not an artiste yourself, you can collaborate with famous artistes and organise a musical concert aimed at celebrating Christmas.
Sell Christmas items online
If you are a blogger with a large online followership, you can make money during Christmas by selling various items as an affiliate and getting commissions from each sale.
Sell food items
It is a festive period, hence people usually buy lots of food items, mostly rice, oil and meat products, either for gift or personal consumption. You can offer to supply these items to
corporate organisations as well as individuals and really have a quick turn over at this season than any other period of the year. SUNNEWS


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