650. Produce T-shirts which are printed with the names of local schools. Have them stocked at newsagents or other suitable shops close to each school.

Choose easy biz ops.

651. Design and make soft toys which are suitable for shelf ornaments. For example: Alice in Wonderland characters mounted on stands which have a label giving the name of each character. The high quality of workmanship should allow you to charge prices to give you a good profit.

652. Carve wooden ornaments which look like gargoyles. Attach to one side of the ornament a sticky baked material or magnet. They can then be added to car dashboards or to fridges.

653. Put together a correspondence course about how to become a stock-market chartist. Sell through ads in financial newspapers and magazines.

Biz ops are all over the place.

654. Begin a postal service which produces personalised bookplates. These might be printed with a persons surname, coat of arms, thematic design relating to a hobby or occupation, drawing of a home, or a portrait. Sell to people with large collections of books.

655. Set up a service which organises holiday exchanges between people who live in English speaking countries and those in Japan and Continental Europe.

656. Start an international correspondence club for stamp collectors. The benefits of membership would include being able to swap stamps, magazines, books and information. Match stamp collectors according to their interests and produce a periodic publication for all members. 

657. Make loveable pocket-sized soft toys and hang on a rack for display in shops. Give the toys a catchy name like ‘Pocket Pets’. 

658. Design a selection of bookplates. They might have a theme related to, for example: Greek gods, astrology, rural scenery, trains, etc. Have them printed and packaged in cellophane packets. Sell through bookshops and stationers.

659. Bring out a correspondence course or audio cassette course, about how to write good dialogue for fiction. Sell through ads in publications for writers.  Biz ops can be huge.

680. Produce an audio cassette course about positive thinking. Sell by direct mail and through press advertising. Choose easy biz ops.

681. Seek out English overseas language publications for teachers and educationalists. Place adverts in these publications which read: ‘Educational products wanted for distribution in the UK. Write to…’. 

682. Produce a library of audio cassettes about the Wild West. Sell by direct mail or have them stocked in bookshops and record shops.

683. At tourist sites take photographs of holiday makers with a man dressed as a gorilla, or other amusing costume. 

684. Produce an audio cassette course on ‘Teaching Yourself Gaelic’. Sell by mail order throughout the world. Organise overseas information gathering tours for businesspeople. These might be for those who want to look at an overseas market or who want to visit similar businesses to their own in other countries. For example, consultants in this country can visit their foreign counterparts. 

685. Design and produce a series of wall charts for children. One chart might ask a child to record one good deed a day; another might ask a child to record new words learnt; a third might be for recording the weather or what happened at school.

686. Start a mail order catalogue which specialises in products which aid abstinence. For example, products for giving up: Smoking, Swearing, Nail Biting, Drinking, etc. Biz ops are all over the place.

687. Set up a school of variety entertainment. Teach beginners about the variety entertainment business. Also show beginners how to improve any acts of their own which they would like to perform.

688. Design and manufacture skin painting kits. In each kit have a spectrum of colours and a selection of designs which can be easily copied. Get your kits stocked at shops which sell toys, novelties or artist’s materials.

689. Use pastels or charcoals to do original pictures of tourist sites. Sell, framed or unframed, as quality souvenirs.  Biz ops can be huge.