Freestarts: More Businesses You Can Start for Free

There have been examples of Freestarts throughout the book—here are a few more to give you inspiration.

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Creating art for pleasure and then turning a profit from it might be the greatest gift of all. You can start by collecting seashells and flotsam and jetsam from the beach, twigs and flowers from the woods, metal from the tip or anything else you can lay your hands on. Create magical works linked to your location that you can sell on to tourists looking for a personalized and unique memento of their holiday. Get into the local paper by sending in a picture of your creations and explaining why you started the business when a holiday maker approached you while you were creating a masterpiece ...

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