Heres a hustle for you lads: making custom faux-neon electroluminescent signage for local businesses. >Fixed Costs: £0 >Variable Costs: A4 Perspex Sheet £2.61, electroluminescent wire £2.59 (*1/2/3) >Production Time: 30 minutes of creative, enjoyable labor >Selling Price: Discriminately priced per business, minimum £35.
Just by selling at a minimum of £35 your looking at a profit margin of 83%, but you could easily charge more, as £35 would seem like nothing to a business in return for attention-grabbing marketing.
Post your thoughts and other enjoyable hustles in this thread.
Tyler Gray
Hello fellow light autist. I have a few things to input/criticize about your idea.
>EL wire is not fun to work with, and is relatively expensive >look into side emitting fiber optic: cheaper, easier to work with, brighter, easily customizable >it will be hard to find customers unless you do custom jobs
LED neon rope is also good to work with but expensive.
You could go full autist like me and 3D print your own signs, but it's expensive and time consuming.
Bentley Cooper
I strategize that, due to the low price and the low risk attached, producing the sign first before appealing to the business in question would be the best tactic. This allows you to capitalize on impulse, whilst pandering to social awkwardness, as they will be unlikely to refuse once they see it is already made. A completed product also allows them to visualise their investment instantly, making them more attached to the idea of owning the signage, ie. allowing them to imagine where it would look good.
Oliver Hill
GoldShill? Arnt you worth like $3,000,000? What are you doing fucking around with plastic signs?
Asher Rodriguez
takes money to make money Lou
Blake Sanchez
from looking on ebay it seems to cost about £2.59 per meter. Doesn't seem to expensive to me? I imagine fiber to not be as straightforward to work with? How much does fiber cost?
Nathan Sanders
What is your picture constructed from?
Joshua Morgan
>This allows you to capitalize on impulse, whilst pandering to social awkwardness, as they will be unlikely to refuse once they see it is already made. Literal autism, I love it.
Joseph Mitchell
Not him, but when I make it I'm probably going do the same thing for funzies.
It's pretty easy to work with, only real downer is if you nick the FO you have to start over. Also like EL you can't bend it too much or else you're fucked for that section. It is brighter and lasts longer than EL though.
3D printed. The diffusers are clear (natural) PLA, the backers are just normal black PLA. I used WS2812 LEDs to light it and control it with an Arduino.
