Tag: business ideas

Other People’s Garbage

My neighbor rakes his leaves
and sends them
to the city
for composting.

I have expanded my garden
this year
and I know
I won’t have enough leaves
to cover it
over winter.

My soil would greatly benefit
from that natural fertilizer.

So I asked my neighbor
if I could rake
and keep his leaves.

He’s an older man
and was happy
to let me do that.

For me,
leaves are priceless
forms of fertilizer.
I would PAY for them.

For him,
they are a nuisance
and garbage.
He’s giving them away
happily
for FREE.

THIS is the type of business
you ideally want to build
– one where the inputs
are seen as garbage,
as something to be
given away,
but can be turned
into a product
other people will happily pay for.

Look for that type of business.

We All Have Resources

When I’m thinking about
starting a new business,
I’ll often list
the things
I have a lot of.

And we ALL have
a lot of something.

We could have
so much of that something
we don’t notice
we have it.

This could be
time
or
chicken bones
or
school kids walking past
our front doors
or
weeds in the garden
or
other things.

You might be thinking
chicken bones
isn’t a resource.

F*ck yeah, it is a resource.

Chicken bones
could be dried
and ground up
to make bone meal,
as one small example.

Bone meal sells
for over $8 US
a pound
on Amazon.

Those weeds in the garden?
They could be used
to make an organic fertilizer,
as one example.

Those kids walking past
your front door?
They could be potential customers.

We all have a lot
of something.

Consider using that something
as a base
for your new business.