Top 7 Lucrative Paper Businesses You Can Run

Why not run a lucrative paper business? Paper businesses do not require large investments of capital for expensive equipment, inventory, and buildings. Many paper businesses can be run from your own home. A paper business is a business that can be operated mainly using pieces of paper, such as contracts, invoices, shipping documents, et cetera. Here are seven excellent paper businesses that you can operate.

1. Consulting: Consultants charge large fees for their
   knowledge, expertise, skills, connections, experience,
   and other assets. This business can be operated from
   home with little more than standard office equipment
   and supplies. Consulting is a paper business because
   your product is an intangible service. Your results
   are often summarized in a written, paper report and you
   use written contracts to protect your interests.
   
   
2. Finding: A professional finder finds something needed
   by a business or individual for a finder's fee. The
   finder doesn't invest in product inventory because he`s
   not selling it. He simply collects a fee for arranging
   to introduce a buyer to a seller. The finder conducts his
   business using contracts and other written documentation.
   
   
3. Drop Shipping: Another business (or method of business)
   where you don't invest in product inventory or retail
   space is drop shipping. When your customer buys from you,
   perhaps through the mail, by phone, or on the Internet,
   you simply contact your supplier, who then ships the order
   to your customer. Your paper business involves taking the
   order, billing and collecting from your customer as well
   as ordering, giving shipping instructions, and paying your
   supplier.
   
   
4. Affiliate Programs: With affiliate and associate
   programs, you collect commissions from the sale of other
   peoples' products. Again, you have no investment in
   product inventory or expensive facilities.
   
   
5. Webmastering: Another knowledge-based paper business
   is webmastering. Whether you design websites, perform
   Internet marketing, or render other needed services, your
   business is again mainly intangible services backed up by
   paper records and contracts.
   
   
6. International Trade: Many times import and export
   transactions can be conducted on a commission basis.
   It is also possible to buy, sell and ship merchandise
   without ever having even seen it. Letters of credit,
   bills of lading, and other agreements are needed in
   this paper business.
   
   
7. Licensing: Instead of trying to finance the manufacturing
   and marketing of your invention, why not license it to a
   company with the expertise and capability required? You will
   then receive royalties in return for your idea. As well, you
   could become a licensing agent, arranging licensing deals on
   behalf of other companies and individuals, taking a
   percentage of sales as compensation.

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clients to earn maximum business profits for over
twenty-five years.

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