Make Money Returning DVD's
How to Make Money from Returning DVDs to DVD Rental Stores
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Have you ever woken up on a Saturday or Sunday morning, not needing to go anywhere, then realising you have to return a DVD or DVDs to the DVD rental store?
It’s an awful feeling. You just want to laze in bed or relax at home, until at least the afternoon, but the DVDs have to be back at the DVD store by midday. Wouldn’t it be great if you could just phone somebody to come and collect the DVDs from you, and return them to the DVD store on your behalf? You’d be happy to pay $0.50 to $2 for the service, so that you could just stay home and relax.
To make money from returning DVDs to DVD rental stores, on behalf of others, it’s not difficult to identify your target market. Your target market would be the people who stay not too far from various DVD hire stores. In turn, each of these DVD hire stores should not be too far from where you yourself live.
At $2 per client, returning DVDs for 30 clients could earn you $60 and you only need to make just one trip to the actual DVD rental store, with your bag of collected DVDs.
Advertising your DVD return service should not be too difficult or expensive either. Your advertising could even be almost free. Tell the owners of DVD stores about your plan, and ask them if you can leave little A6 size pamphlets on their counter, or a small A4 poster on their wall or window. Approach a few stores nearby (which people are likely to visit at the same time as getting themselves a DVD or two to watch) and ask if you can leave pamphlets on their counters too, or a small poster on their wall. There may even be a cheap or free-to-use community notice board in the area.
Your DVD return service business is likely to do better on weekends than during the week, when people aren’t going anywhere, and will be happy to pay you to return their DVDs for them. The service you offer may therefore start out as only a means to earn some extra income, but, depending on the interest, and how polite and friendly you are (and on how lazy people are too,) your DVD return service could expand and you could return DVDs during the week too.
For offering your service during the week, your target market may be a little different from your target market on weekends: The target market during the week may include pensioners who don’t go out every day, or even the retirement complex owners, where the pensioners stay. Your target market could include people who work from home, and who are not travelling to a work place every day (when they could just drop off their DVD on the way to work.)
A DVD return service business is an opportunity to make money for even those who do not have their own transport. If you do not stay too far away from a DVD rental store, you could use a bicycle or walk. Put the DVDs in a bag on your back.
To avoid any problems related to lost DVDs (and either the DVD hire store or your client blaming you for the missing DVDs,) keep a small triplicate receipt book with you. When you arrive at a client’s house or apartment, jot down the names or numbers on the DVDs, in your receipt book, and have the customer sign that those are the DVDs they handed over to you. Their name and DVD store account number (or DVD store customer identification number) should also appear on the receipt. Give them the receipt when they pay you. This also helps your customers feel that they can trust you, that you are professional, and they are also more likely to use your services again.
At the DVD store, return the DVDs collected from clients all over the neighborhood, with the second copy of the receipts in your receipt book, so that the DVD store owner or manager can see that you have returned all outstanding DVDs for the people you collected the DVDs from, and the DVD store owner will not be able to blame you for any missing ones. Perhaps the DVD store owner wouldn’t even mind signing that he has received the DVDs from you.
The last receipt in your receipt book for the day could indicate the date, and the total amount of DVDs you are returning to the store. Before walking into the DVD store to return the DVDs, put all your receipts of the day together, topped off with the total amounts one, for the owner of the DVD store.
If you’re friendly and market your service well, there’s no reason why you couldn’t make some extra income, or even more, from returning DVDs to DVD stores on behalf of others. You are not only helping the people who cannot (or don’t want to) return their DVD to the store in time, but you are also assisting the DVD store owner and helping him save money on phone calls to people who are taking too long to return their DVDs. You are also helping the DVD store gain a good reputation as there will be less people moaning about not being able to get the DVD they want because it has not yet been returned.
Once you’re comfortable offering your DVD return service to others, consider arranging with the DVD store owners that you also deliver DVDs to clients. Why walk away from the DVD store empty-handed when you’re right there anyway, and, why walk away from a client’s front door not knowing if they’ll need you again, when you can ask them what DVD they’d like you to fetch for them?
© copyright Teresa Schultz 2011
This article above, written by myself, Teresa Schultz, was first published on Factoidz,
here.
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