Students - Start a Business This Summer!

Summer vacation is right around the corner for college students - here already for some. The job market is tight. Why don't you start your own business? Here is a business idea for a business that will take no capital to start. Become a cell phone broker/buyer. Small businesses around the country give cell phones to their staff and change out those phones about every two years. Companies with a mobile sales force are great targets because they generally buy high end phones for their sales people. What do they do with their old phones when they get new ones? Generally, they put them in a box or a file cabinet and forget about them. Actually of the 300 million cell phones that are "retired" each year, only 10% are recycled or re-used.

So...here is your opportunity. Get on the phone or get in the car and call up or visit (even better) small businesses and ask if they have any old phones they want to get rid of or sell. To help an industrious student many businesses will just give you their old cell phones since they didn't plan to sell them anyway. You can certainly offer to buy the phones if they aren't prepared to give them to you. Get an inventory of the phones they have and tell them you will get back to them with an offer. Take a look at our web site (www.SellYourCell.com), see what we will pay YOU and then decide what profit you want to achieve and make them an offer. Remember to tell them that you won't pay for phones that don't work or that are in bad condition (see our required conditions). We will, however, take all phones and recycle the ones that we can't pay for which businesses like. Assure the business that we will also wipe all data from the phones.

There you go, you are in business. There are thousands of small businesses. How much can you make? Let's take an example. Let's say a small business has 20 Blackberry 8530 Curves. SellYourCell.com will pay $42 each for these phones (today, prices change regularly). You can get $840 so now you need to decide how much to pay the company and you pocket the difference. It sure beats $8 per hour!

The money you make is only limited by your drive and determination. Become an entrepreneur this summer. It will look good on your resume and in your wallet!