With a low cost investment it would be possible to kill 60 to 120 cattle per week.

Located in the West North-West of Ireland, close to the N4.

Valuable export licence already in place.

Looking for the right person with a knowledge of wholesale or retail in the meat business to lease to, or to partner with, to maximise the potential of this venture.

Capital required.

Contact Stanley Taylor on 086-8253963.

Pick up yourself some good quality face paints from somewhere like snazaroo and practice your technique on a few friends. If you are artistic anyway it should not pose a problem or maybe you can consider making some templates of team colours and flags that you can use.

Then it is just a question of offering your services to passers by on the way to the sports stadiums. If you show up a few hours before and you get good at it you ought to be able to complete 20-30 faces.

Depending on the market in your area and how good your designs are you could charge upto €5 per face. You should be able to earn €100 in a few hours. Admittedly not enough to make a living from but it could be a very handy way to make some extra weekend cash for a student or enterprising teenager.

The good thing is your investment to get started is probably going be under €30 and you can keep everything you need in a small backpack. Get creative and you can think of designs to offer people on their way to concerts and other large events, or even branch out to do kids parties and family fun days.

With some meteorologists predicting that we are in for a number of hard winters as the climate changes it could be a shrewd move to set up a business, or extend an existng business which capitalises on this change in weather.

Some business ideas in this area include offering the following services:

Snow clearance

Effective snow clearance equipment can be sourced from a number of suppliers such as Tracmaster in  the UK

They have a choice of power units which fit different snow and ice removing attachments such as brushes blowers and ploughs

Another option if you already have a quad bike would be to get a snow plough atachement like the ones here

Salting and gritting services

Once you have cleared areas from snow then it is a good idea to offer salting and gritting services to prevent these areas from freezing and becoming slippery. Sourcing rock salt and grit would be straight forward and you can either call door to door offering to clear snow and grit driveways and paths or simply sell people bags of grit so they can do it themselves.

By buying salt and grit in bult and then breaking it down into smaller bags for resell you ought to be able to generate a reasonable margin.

Tyre Snow socks

As motorists struggle to get around in icy conditions then they may be interested to purchase snow socks to put on their tyres. Rather than the large investment in snow tyres and the costs involved in changing tyres, snow socks would make a handy alternative. These can be sourced from manufacturers such as atli in China.

For more information on snow socks this article from Which is helpful

Promoting this kind of business should be straight forward and the most effective way will be calling to homes and businesses, especially those with large car parks and offering your services.

The window of opportunity might be limited to a few weeks per year but once you have the equipment ongoing costs would be minimal. It could be a very good add on business for a landscaper or builder looking for a seasonal boost in income.

If you consider that a typical middle income earning family with 2 children will probably be about €150 to €200 worse off what can you do to make up the shortfall? In reality it should be easy enough to make this money back, and more, by focusing a few hours a week on setting up a small business.

It doesn’t have to be anything too complicated or that would cost you a lot to get going, just something that you can quickly set up and make a couple of hundred euro per month from.

Sell services as a freelancer

One of the quickest ways to pull in some extra cash is to offer your services on one of the global freelance websites that have popped up over the last few years. Sites like www.elance.com, www.freelancer.com and www.peopleperhour.com all have real projects poseted for people to bid on and start workign on right away. Sure you will need to have some skills and if you are good at graphic design, or web design you should easily pick up work. However even for people without these skills there is often basic admin or writing work available. Another place to look is www.fiverr.com where you can offer your services of something useful you can do in return for $5.

Start an online store

These days the barrier to entry to setting up an online store and selling your own products and services. With something like http://www.bigcommerce.com you can set up a professional lookign ecommerce website for less than €100. If you don’t have any products to sell then why not consider approaching a local business and offer to set up a ecommerce site selling their products in return for a commission on any sales. This way you will not have to invest anything in stock and can test out the idea very cheaply and you are also helping someone else in your local economy.

Make and sell something at a market

Are you creative or good at cooking? If so then why not consider making your own products or using that secret family recipe to your advantage? You can get your products in front of potential customers cheaply at places like http://www.irishfarmersmarkets.ie/ or http://www.carboot.ie/venues/Listings/

Package up your knowledge and sell to others

Do you know how to do something that others might find valuable? If so then consider using your knowledge and running training courses or creating your own ebooks or other information products. If you can cook to a high standard then perhaps you could run kids cookery classes at the weekends, or maybe you are great at knitting or sewing and could run a short course on this for people. Don’t assume that just because you know how to do something that others will do. Use your life experiences and skills to create extra cash.

So hopefully this has given you a few ideas of things that you might be able to do to make back the money the government has grabbed from you. Who knows if you put in the right effort and get something good going you might make even more. When you have your own business you can put in the work and write your own pay cheques.

A quick check on the Google keyword tool shows that the search term ‘Ireland Hotel’ was searched a massive 165,000 times in the last month!

With a bit of work in revamping the current site and some Search engine optimisation work it wouldn’t take too much work to dominate the search engines with this domain name. As you may know Google places a lot of importance on the domain name of a website when it comes to ranking and Irelandhotel.com surely is one of the best domains you could choose to enter this market with.

The domain Irelandhotel.com was registered back in 2001 and already has a couple of hundred back links to it so you have a great head start with this domain.

You could use this Irelandhotel.com domain to make money in a number of ways including creating a directory and selling listings to hotels, earning affiliate commissions by driving traffic to relevant tourist affiliate programs.

Alternatively you could lease this domain and the traffic to it to just one hotel or group of hotels in exchange for a monthly rental fee. This would be a great way to get paid month in month out just by renting out this Irelandhotel.com domain name.

If you think this sounds like a good opportunity, and you’d like to learn more then visit www.irelandhotel.com for more details.

Do you think you could sell this kind of service but don’t have the experience to actually create the websites and market them?

Imagine being able to offer clients highly effective business generating websites that show up for their key search terms in the search engines.

We provide full support and training and you just need to go out and get the customers; we do all the work of creating the websites and getting them found in the search engines, making your clients very happy and you looking good.

If this sounds of interest call us now on 01 4880985 to have an initial informal chat.

Start a dog grooming business in Ireland

Do you have a love of animals? In particular dogs? If you do then starting a business as a dog groomer might appeal to you.

There are an estimated 650,000 dogs kept as pets in Ireland and the market for grooming them is becoming more mature.

One of the advantages of this type of business is that the nature of the service is that your clients will require it again and again on an ongoing basis.

This means that if you do a good job and apply some basic marketing techniques, such as booking the clients next appointment as soon as you complete the last one, you can build a growing revenue income.

If you can build a critical mass of clients in each area then you can make your business more efficient and increase your daily income. By grouping clients together based on their location you can reduce time spent travelling to and from clients. You might even want to consider offering clients a discount if they can find neighbours who want to have their dog groomed at the same time as theirs.

Some other things to consider making this type of business more profitable are whether you can offer your clients other services for their pets.  Perhaps you can sell grooming products or pet toys or even pet food. This will allow you to up sell clients and save them having to travel to pet shops to buy these types of products.

As your business grows then you can then decide whether to expand by taking on other people to do the grooming for you or to keep the business at a level where you do everything yourself. This gives you great flexibility and the opportunity to grow into a multi van enterprise or stay as a sole operator.

If you would like to learn more about training as a dog groomer then you can get training from the following places:
http://www.learndoggrooming.ie
http://www.doggrooming.ie/

If you would prefer to purchase a franchise business then take a look at http://www.aussiepetmobile.ie/

They have now raised €5000 and are looking for entrepreneurial types to submit their business ideas of how they would use the money.

So if all that was holding you back was lack of funds now you have no excuse!

There are a number of ways you can get started in this business depending on your budget and whether or not you want to start full time or part time.

If you have limited funds and don’t want the commitment of having to take on a premises then perhaps starting out offering a mobile pottery party business could be the way to go. The way that this would work is that you would arrange to provide pottery parties at your clients’ homes. You would provide all of the materials including blank ceramic items such as plates, mugs, bowls, vases etc. You would also provide the paints and glazes and brushes/tools etc.

You would conduct the party giving people tips and assistance. Afterwards you would collect up all the painted items and bring them home to your kiln and fire them. You would then return the completed pieces a few days later to the party host.

Once you have perfected this and found out if the business is viable and if you like it with a small investment then you could consider opening your own studio where people can come in and paint ceramics and you could offer classes or parties to people.

You could even join forces with a local caterer to provide the whole party package; there really are a lot of options. I hope this gets you thinking about this kind of opportunity. It could suit someone looking for a part time venture with limited funds. You should be able to get started with a starter kiln and supply of ceramics, plus training for under €2000.

For more details on this type of opportunity and for specialist business startup training courses have a look at http://www.hobbyceramicraft.co.uk/training.php

A quick search of www.goldenpages.ie shows that there are just under 230 companies offering pest control in Ireland so their must be a certain level of demand.

I’m sure this type of work would be varied and get you out and about meeting all sort of different people and creatures!

There must also be a certain amount of pleasure in allowing people to sleep more easy at night knowing that rodents and insects are not going to be annoying them.

The Irish Pest Control training Project is based in County Laois and would probably be a good starting point for researching this industry. They run a number of different courses you can find out more details here http://www.ipcap.ie/courses.php