A Manicure and Pedicure Business from Scratch

Every City, Town and Village has a manicure or pedicure specialist, but the demand goes on for more in this ever-busy world. People just need their hand and feet to be pampered just as they need to go to the hairdresser regularly. Ever thought about doing this yourself?

It is a safe and sociable business, there always work around and you don't need much to set it yourself up. The qualifications needed can be completed within a week to a few months depending on the type of course you take. It can be done on a full time or part-time basis if you already work. Other than that just a small table and two chairs and your manicure/pedicure tools and you have a business.

I know many women who work door-to-door giving manicure or pedicure services. It pays well they have a regular customers and they love the work. For some it has taken a few years to establish their business, that in the main was because they just knew how to manicure and not market their services. With the marketing in place they would have had secure regular profits within six weeks of qualifying. Most just use word of mouth and don't really push themselves outside their circle of friends and family.

Whether you want to work from home, being mobile or in a salon you will need a validated certificate to practice your work. This will also be necessary to get you insurance, essential for any work done by a Nail Technician on human hands. There are many different certificates and qualification you can work towards, it really depends on which area you wish to focus on. The best advice is to see what course are around, what they have to offer and whether you feel that it is for you.

Some Manicure and Pedicure course give training for acrylic and sculptured nails, maintenance and removal. Theoretical content will be included covering, Health and Safety, Nail Structure and Growth Prevention and Repair of damage.

Course fees are on average around £500- £600, you need no formal entry qualifications needed to join most courses. If you see cheaper fees it is mainly because they either don't offer a validated course or it is not a full manicure of pedicure course. So watch out that you are not being hoodwinked onto an inferior course. If in doubt look for another source of training.

Some further education establishments also provide the following:

• Childcare provision
• Support for physical disabilities
• Support for hearing impairment
• Support for visual impairment
• Support for learning difficulties
• Support for people whose main language is not English
• Free Guidance and advice service

Whatever your circumstance there is room for you. There are hundreds of courses you can take up not only in the UK but also in other countries. With these courses you normally get a qualification at the end of it. Here is a list of a few I have just pulled out of the bag:

• www.hotcourses.com/uk-courses/ - A selection of colleges running course in the NE of England

• www.thebeautyacademy.org/ - Based in Hertfordshire and Essex areas

• http://www.nail-technician-courses.co.uk/ - A six-day course!

• http://www.emagister.co.uk/ - A variety of courses around the UK

The list is endless, there is bound to be one near you.

Don't ever think that this is just women's work, there is a demand for men to practice this and there should be no discrimination if a man wants to take up this work.

Once you have qualified the work really begins with the marketing that was touched on before. The time and effort you put in marketing yourself will be rewarded. Business cards, networking, an Internet site, advertising in shop windows and supermarket ads, local newspaper all need to be worked on. Get to know every single hairdressing shop in the area. If you play your cards right, they may offer you a corner of their shop to work in! Push yourself and don’t forget the word of mouth to friends and family, this is also part of the networking system.

Good luck!

A New Diet Plan Business

Looking around at businesses it is quite apparent that there are countless number making good profits out of diet plans and schemes. I don't believe 90% of them purely from the claims they make - We'd all be fit and slim if it was that simple.

• Buy the book and you'll loose 10 kilograms in a month

• Take these pills and you will be slimmer after a week

• Follow this diet and you will be the babe on the beach within three months

• Buy this Training schedule download and you'll be fitter and slimmer in a week

These are some of the types of claims that make their creators lots of money and the customers not always ended up with a healthy weigh loss at the end of the day.

I have said before that many you don't need any fancy diet, training or pills to help lose weight. These 'gimmicks' are bought by millions of people and will continue to make a good business for anyone who decides to try and fool the public. There is a weakness in countless people who want to believe there is a magic cure for slimming that can simply be bought for money.

This leads on the the point how this can make you a little income. There are two ways to do this, the honest and truthful way where you might make a little pocket money or the big deceitful way with claims that can never be achieved and make thousands.

Let's take the first option:

From your own experience you can give an account of how you think a good way of losing weight can be achieved. You can draw upon information that is freely available in books and on the web and draw up your own hybrid version of a weight losing idea or ideal. Spread the word through a self-published book and sell it, contribute to magazine articles (for a fee) go go online with a weight-losing topic blog or website which will become popular and you can place other wieghlosing sites' ads there.

The other way is to think of something really different, ridiculous and far fetched and claim it is the new slimming miracle that can't fail. For example - The Desert Island Diet - just eat coconuts and bananas or The Watching TV Training Programme - exercise during adverts. Get a Professor to swear blind these work along with Laurel and Hardy look-a-likes for the before and after and you have a complete portfolio to make a fortune.

Whether you can live with yourself taking the second option is another matter, thousands do of course. There is a third option and most people take this one. Don't do anything. The advice here is, if you want to make money out of conning people out of money for a diet plan that doesn't work go ahead, but remember, you won't go to heaven.

Internet Research - Getting Paid to Surf

The Internet has a wealth of information for all to use and many companies want certain that information and are willing to pay people to find it. There is work out the for Internet researchers who will be assigned jobs of researching via the Internet on a wide range of genres, topics or questions.

The Internet is taken for granted by many nowadays, but there are still many people who aren't familiar with it or are too busy to spend time on it. There’s a gap in the market for those who have a facility to extract information from a web search. You simple put yourself out to hire as in Internet researcher for people like solicitors or authors and you get paid for it.

An example of a company that does this is AQA 63336 they answer thousands of questions for clients every day by using Internet researchers and pay for every question researchers find. I actually worked for them in the UK a few years ago and found they are an up front and honest set up. Their services however they don't cater for Bulgaria where I live now so I had to drop them. You need to be fluent in English and have good writing skills and they will give you a short test before considering you.

Most research work is on a self-employed basis and like ASA may involve some form or trial or test for you to secure a contract. It does take a little knowledge тo become a good researcher, а little knowledge on how to get into archives that aren't accessible through normal search engines is something you have to learn. Most decent companies contracting you will give an in house guide or a little training on strategies that can be used. Or you can take up an online training course yourself before you apply for work, this will give you a head start and enhance any testing you will have to go through.

The field of Internet research is very diverse but there will always work out there as it involves time, which is what you are getting be paid for. The average pay is around 10 pounds an hour

Make note and be warned though, there are some companies or individuals masquerading as legitimate companies that are recruiting that ask for money up front for training or setting you up. Just don't entertain these companies. There is no reason at all for you having to pay to get work, it should be the other way round, so don't drawn in by the hype and subsequently get conned.