This hustle requires you to get out of the house and go talk to people! It’s not hard, and in a way you will have to sell yourself and your services, but in the end it’s pretty easy.
As the world continues to grow, more and more people are filling up our cities and metropolitan areas at alarming rates. This is both a good and a bad thing: more people means more traffic (yikes!), but it also means more opportunity. When people inhabit cities and towns, they need something to do during the day, and we usually call that work. Well, not a lot of people enjoy working outside, so companies build or lease buildings where their employees can do their work efficiently.
Simple so far eh?
Well, in these office buildings are a collection of companies, and generally companies compete against each other in order to make more money, so they have to safeguard their company information. However, some of this information gets outdated, and needs to be destroyed, but many of these buildings lack the facilities to do this efficiently. And yes, this is indeed where you come in:
Offer to destroy — or shred — sensitive company documentation for office buildings!
Yes, you may think that big companies are already doing this job, and some of them are, but there’s a reason why I gave you the whole story about growing cities and towns. First, because we are growing so rapidly, oftentimes the existing companies cannot keep pace with the growth, and cannot keep enough employees on staff to efficiently handle the workload. Just think about your favorite grocery or department store during the peak times of the day. Don’t you remember wishing that the store had more employees manning the checkout lanes so you could get out faster? A lot of times, it’s not the lack of a decent salary that’s stopping them, it’s the lack of a willing workforce. Because of this, you are able to fill the gap by providing a needed service while getting paid what you feel you are worth.
Secondly, people LOVE options. There may be a big conglomerate that handles most of the shredding for the whole town, but that doesn’t have to stop you from getting in on the action! Even though Coca-Cola is the big-dog amount soft drink companies, that didn’t stop Pepsi from creating and successfully selling a competing formula. McDonald’s may be the king of burgers, but Wendy’s hasn’t filed for bankruptcy, and neither has Burger King.
Not down and out by a long shot.
Thirdly, people LOVE the underdog. Think back to when Mike Tyson was in his prime. Love him or hate him, he was a force to be feared. People just KNEW he was going to win the fight, no matter who was lined up on the fight card. But people would still bet on the underdog, and would get paid BIG TIME if their man won! Buster Douglas and Evander Holyfield know quite well what it’s like to be the underdog, and that never stopped them from going the distance. Don’t let the big man on campus stop you from giving local companies the OPTION of having you handle their shredding services! … Continue Reading
