Ways Of Making Money During Christmas Season



Christmas is one of the holidays that create huge business opportunities for smart investors and entrepreneurs who are ready to grab them while the season lasts. From greeting cards and gifts to wears, many products sell very well especially when December 25 is fast approaching.

As an entrepreneur, you can make money off of the Christmas seasons by exploiting some of the many business opportunities that come with it. So without wasting time, below are ten profitable business ideas that you can make cool money with when the next Christmas is near:



Design and sell Christmas cards

When Christmas is near, people buy and exchange Christmas greeting cards with their friends, relatives, and customers. This explains the reason why the demand for Christmas cards start booming wildly anytime from December 1st.

If you are a creative artist, you can design beautiful greeting cards and put them up for sale. You can design them either by hand or with a computer. Either ways, there’s a lot of money to be made. If you don’t have the required artistic creativity, you can buy greeting cards in wholesale quantities and sell them.



Sell goodies and sweets

Because almost everyone loves treats, you will be going in the right direction by making and selling sweet food products like cupcakes and cookies. If your treats are very good, you will get an amazing number of orders during Christmas.
If you are not skilled enough to make these treats yourself, partner with someone who has the skills or buy from them in large quantities and sell to customers.



 Pack and sell gift baskets

The good side of this business opportunity is that you don’t have to make the food to be placed in the baskets. Just visit a grocery or food store around you, buy various foods and fruits, and place them nicely in a basket.
To make the baskets even more attractive, wrap them with beautiful Christmas-branded wrapping sheets. You can sell your gift baskets to office workers and other interested customers around you.



Sell Christmas souvenirs

Many people visit their home cities and towns to celebrate Christmas. Aside spending their money on food and fun activities, they also love to buy souvenir items that they can take back with them after the Christmas season.
 Examples of souvenir items that people like to buy include custom-branded Christmas-branded T-shirts, village/town-branded Christmas calendar, mugs, home decorations, and so on.



Sell gift items

People exchange gifts during Christmas, and this explains why reasonably priced items like shirts, fancy jewelry, and other exchange gift items sell very well during Christmas period. To record even more sales, try to sell cheap products. You can sell these items in offices and bazaars. And you can offer to wrap the items for an extra fee.

Most buyers would gladly accept this offer because it would spare them the hassles of doing it themselves.



 Sell children’s toys

Children’s toys also sell very well during the Christmas season. In fact, they are most abundant in the market during this period. This business is very easy to put up because children’s toys are very cheap, and they are very profitable.
 If you have the creativity and know-how, you can make the toys yourself and put them up for sale.


Render food-catering services

Starting a food-catering business is another smart way to make huge profits during the Christmas season. The demand for catering services boom during this period because many people are too busy to prepare the delicacies they want and also the Christmas period is the period with the highest number of occasions such as weddings, end of the year party, get-together, etc.



Sell gift-wraps

As is the case with other festive seasons, people exchange gifts with their friend, relatives, colleagues, and customers during Christmas. And as one would expect, these gifts are wrapped in beautiful, Christmas-branded gift wraps. So, you can make a lot of money off of the Christmas season by selling gift-wraps, which people use to package their gifts before presenting them to others.



Organize musical shows

If you are a musician, or you have a band or dance group, you can make money during the Christmas season by organizing musical concerts or featuring as guest artistes at concerts.
Even if you are not an artiste yourself, you can collaborate with famous artistes and organize a musical concert aimed at celebrating Christmas. It can even be with local artistes and you can make money from ticke sales and drinks.



Sell Christmas items online

If you are a blogger with a large online followership, you can make money during Christmas by selling various holidays items as an affiliate and getting commissions from each sale.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!


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Procedure For Getting License To Build And Operate A Petrol Station in Nigeria


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PROCEDURE AND CONDITIONS FOR GRANTING APPROVALS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION OF A PETROL STATION


A.  APPLICATION PROCEDURES 

Application for approval to construct a filling service station for retailing Petroleum produces shall be submitted to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) giving details of the proposals and any information that may be relevant to the project. In addition, the following documents should be submitted along with the application:

i. Three (3) copies of approved plan showing the building existing or proposed on the site and the relation of the site to the roadways and adjoining property;

ii. A certificate signed by signed by the Chief Federal/ State Fire Officer, or by an officer authorized in that behalf, that the arrangement proposed for the prevention of fire at the site are satisfactory;

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iii. A certification by the Area/Town Planning Authority for the construction of a Petrol Filling Station on the proposed site;

iv. A certificate signed by the divisional police Officer or a superior police officer in-charge of the police motor traffic that he is satisfied that the site and layout of the proposed filling station do not constitute an unnecessary traffic hazard.

v. Evidence that company applying is duly registered as a limited liability company by the appropriate Federal Ministry/Corporate Affairs Commission to deal in petroleum products as follows:

1. Certificate of Incorporation.

2. Certified True Copy of Memorandum & Article of Association.

vi  Tax receipt and/or tax clearance certificate for the preceding 3years.


B.  APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT

After the above listed document must have been submitted, inspection of the site will then be carried out. “APPROVAL TO CONSTRUCT” will be granted by the Operation Controller/Manager (Department of Petroleum Resources), if the proposed sites fulfill the conditions stipulated in the relevant sections of the “Petroleum Regulations”.


C.  LICENSING PROCEDURE

After the completion of the construction works, an application for a Storage and Sale Licence must be made to the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR). Such a licence is granted after the station has been inspected and certified as being satisfactory by official of the DPR.

The following facilities must be provided at the petrol station before it could be considered for licensing:

a. Air compressor and air guage in good working conditions

b. Provision of water (pipe-borne /well-treated borehole)

c. Power/Electricity Generator

d. Well-stocked first aid box

e. Refuse container/waste basket(s)

f.     Safety equipment or facilities

g.    Toilet facilities and conveniences


D. INDEPENDENT MARKETING/SPONSORSHIP

All application for storage / sale licences may be channeled through a sponsor company i.e. An oil marketing company with which the applicant has concluded product supply arrangements. Sponsor companies may be any of the following: NATIONAL, UNIPETROL, TOTAL, MOBIL, AFRICAN PETROLEUM (AP), ELF, AGIP, TEXACO, OR any of the existing independent Oil Marketing Companies.

PETROLEUM PRODUCT MARKETING COMPANY (PPMC)/(NNPC) would enter into Petroleum Product Supply Agreement with a DPR Storage & Sale Licencee who intends to operate as an independent Marketer.


E.  PUMP ATTENDANTS

All filling stations’ pump attendants must be very well trained and possess valid certificates of competence obtained from an organization recognized by the Dept. of Petroleum Resources (DPR).


Enquiries:
Further enquiries may be directed to the Director Dept. of Petroleum Resources No 7 Kofo Abayomi St. Victoria Island, P.M.B. 12650, Lagos or any of the Operations Controllers nearest to the retail outlet(s) is/are situated.


We have already prepared full Feasibility Study Report on Fuel/Filling Station( types of fuel stations, requirements, cost involved, equipments, personnel, construction,licensing and fees, etc). For those that want to venture into the business, you can get the report from us and further assistance.
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