…by hiring it out to others!
More and more photographers are listing their photography equipment for hire.
This helps photographers recoup costs of expensive equipment they aren’t using all the time and giving others access to equipment for one off or specialty shoots.
Hire your equipment out and enable emerging photographers who may not be able to afford new equipment and puts money back in your pocket!
Want to have your own business no capital outlay and no business skills needed?
People are already doing it – here’s how…
We all have things we only use occasionally and there a people with things they only need occasionally.
Hire Things provides a safe easy to use platform for people to make money from things they rarely use by hiring them out to their community.
Have a look around your home and garage what do you have that you could hire out to others? Any kind of camping gear, sports equipment, children and babies toys and equipment – tents, computers, desks, ski’s, camera, sewing machine, play station, pram, lawn mower, tools, gazebo etc etc
From hiring out toys Rhonda has built her own toy and party hire business online so she could stay at home with her kids and not return to work; – Sam hires out his photography equipment so he can buy more gear and grow as a photography business; – Emma hires out her own wedding linen and decorations and has now decided to become a wedding planner.
So what do you need to do?
Step 1. Find things to hire out.
Step 2. Clean up, take photos, and set prices.
Step 3. List them on Hire Things.
CONGRATULATIONS – you’re in business!
The school holidays are just around the corner. They often come with boredom ( ” Mum I’m bored, there nothing to do”) and expense ( ” Mum can I have some money for….”)
These holidays – flip it around. Get the kids looking around your home for things they aren’t using all the time. Things like sports equipment, musical instruments, toys, games, camping gear – things they could hire out and make some money from!
We call it f
un money in my house, every time we hire something out – we use the money for family fun! Movies, out for dinner, a special treat.
Making money from things you already have without selling them – how cool is that!
Costumes and fancy dress have become such a big thing for parties these days as we all indulge our 
alter egos!
We all love dressing up and none more so than kids.
Mine loved anything sparkly and shiny! The range of costumes for hire for kids these days is truly astonishing and would have saved me hours of sewing what they quickly grew out of!
You can get costumes for babies and toddlers – 6months upwards which are cute, cuddly and gorgeous.
5-9 year old costumes are the required fairy, pixie, mermaid, superhero, pirates, knights and princess.
The 10yrs+ costumes get a little more sophisticated ( but not TOO grown up) as they head to their teenage years, while still being lots of fun.
Costumes really are great for reflecting the of fun and fantasy of being a kid.
The rise in art hire now lets everyone have great art on their walls, without the lifetime commitment and a large cash outlay.
This is great for peolpe like me who worry about tiring of a particular art piece and like to change things around regularly. If you want to refresh you room – change the paintings – it’s inexpensive decoration. Offices and boardrooms can be kept fresh and modern by regularly updating the art
If you can’t afford to buy the art your interested in you can hire it in the meantime. Some artists, like Lucy, have schemes where once the rental time has expired, there is then a chance to purchase the artwork if you wish at retail price minus the rental amount already paid.
Art hire is not just a great way for consumers to enter the art world but for artists to have their work prominently displayed in a variety of locations – and be paid for it! A fantastic way to reach a wider audience.
Holidays are something that we work hard for throughout the year but sometime the money just doesn’t stretch far enough.
With the current economy we have to think smarter but it’s not always about working harder. How do you get more value from the things you already own?
You have sold off some things on Trade Me, but what about the other things that you only use occasionally? The tent you use once a year, surfing you might take up again, baby gear…just in case! You really aren’t ready to sell them for a fraction of their value so how can they make you money and not just take up space?
There’s an astoundingly simple solution. Share them with people who need them. There are things we use occasionally and there are people with things they need occasionally.
People aren’t always comfortable borrowing regularly so hiring/renting from each other and sharing resources is a very practical way for you both to save and make money. We don’t need to own everything we need.
Hire Things provides online platform for communities to rent and share easily and safely. Called person to person renting or peer to peer rental this is a relatively new trend that is seeing significant growth as people look to monetize their assets.
Here are just a few examples of how this could work for you.
Peter has hired out his family tent regularly and has made more money than he paid for it! Better still he’s going to keep hiring it out and keep making money from it. The people hiring it could take their family camping without spending heaps of money on getting all the gear. Buy for $900 or hire for $160? Not a difficult choice.
Rhonda has set up her own toy and party hire business online which has enabled her to stay at home with her children and not return to work.
Sam hires out his photography equipment to fund buying more gear – which he then hires out when he’s not using it! This has given him a regular income.
So have a look around – what can you hire out? List them online and start looking through some holiday brochures…
This week I hired out my tent for a night to a guy going with a group of friends to Castlepoint.
I made $10 but more importantly he got a tent for the night for just $10. He didn’t have to buy one ( $169) or not go with his friends. He was happy he got good value and I was happy I made $10 from something that would otherwise just be sitting in my garage.
This is Hire Things at its best- people sharing resources making and saving money while doing something positive for the environment. 
January is just the perfect time to de-clutter the house – the latest buzzword for sorting out your stuff!
You can start small – drawer by drawer and progress to room by room. My husband has started sorting through 20yrs of accumulated stuff and the kids are getting into it too. Despite moving countries several times he has still managed to move things we don’t use with him!
There’s the throw out pile, the donate pile but then there’s that “I might need it one day and I’m not ready to part with it” pile… and we all have one of those.
Do you ruthlessly chuck it out? Sell it on Trade Me for a fraction of its value?
This is where Hire Things comes in. List your things for hire then you get to keep them and continue to get value from them by hiring them out to others in your community and making some extra cash. It makes good economic and environmental sense.
Who knows maybe you might take up surfing again….
Do you still have the kids stuff they out grew but your still not ready to part with?
Do you have lots of tools but not the one you need right now?
A garage full of things you might use again one day?
Today is the day you get to put them to use. Dust them off, check they works and list them on Hire Things for people in your neighbourhood to hire. You don’t need to sell it and your neighbour doesn’t need to buy one.
You make money, he saves money and you both do positive things for the environment!
So, what are you waiting for? List your lawnmower, hedge trimmer, tent, pram and surfboard – pretty much anything really!
The next time you plan a project, think about your wallet and the environment, check out what you can hire before rushing off to buy and add to that already very full garage….
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