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Start a Home-Based Commemorative Directory Business

How many commemorative events have you either attended or were

aware of over the past year? In the town I live, just this year

we read in the local newspaper of a city employee who was about

to retire after a distinguished career spanning over 25 years.

The city was planning a small thank you event in his honor as

was customary for employees who had a long tenure with the city.

Besides this commemorative event for the city employee, I

continue to notice the numerous graduation parties, birth

announcements and birthdays being advertised throughout the city

by means of the signs that gets scattered across many street

corners informing guests of the location of the special event.

So what does this mean to you? Can these commemorative events be

used to start a home-based business? Absolutely, here is your

new work at home opportunity - The Home Based Commemorative

Directory Business. This opportunity will be unique and there

should be virtually no competition in this business.

One thing I am sure of is, that in attendance at all of these

events are numerous amateur photographers who will be feverishly

cranking away on their digital cameras. The pictures captured

will later be distributed and stored in boxes, photo albums and

even framed if they even end up being printed.

Besides the pictures, what about the other memories, the funny

stories, the jokes, the "incident" and all the many table

discussions that make an event so memorable that everyone wishes

they could just bottle up and keep revisiting as time passes.

Luckily, your business does just that. You collect and package

all the memories into a format that can be visited over and over

again.

So how do you put together a Commemorative Directory for events

of these types that will not only be valuable to the attendees

but also will pay you for your creative time?

1) Gather all event photographs 2) Gather the event guest list

3) Gather any newspaper materials, articles written as in the

case of my city employee example, or announcements of births,

birthdays or graduations 4) Solicit an interview with the event

coordinator, do they have unique untold or known stories that

can put some color to the event 5) Find a sponsor for the

directory, the sponsorship money should not only cover your cost

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of producing the directory but will also be your profit. If you

have 50-100 people attending an event, you can imagine that a

local business will be extremely enthusiastic about having their

business name and picture on the inside and back cover of the

directory. Nobody will be throwing this away and it will always

serve as a reminder of the businesses involvement in the event

6) Lastly, put everything together in a booklet format and mail

out to the events attendees

As you grow this business one of your biggest advertising

mouthpieces will be those who receive the Commemorative

Directory. Make sure that you place your contact information

somewhere on the back cover so that others know how to get in

touch with you for their own events.

Good luck and I hope you enjoy your work at home experience.

About the author:

Peter Engelbrecht is President of Diagonal Street Business

Services which operates the home-based web site

www.BestBusinesses4u.com. The site offers stay at home moms and

dads work at home business ideas they can use to start a

business of their own.