Some of you know about the field inspection business. It can be a great way to make money if you know what you’re doing.
Most reps – entrepreneurial in the first place – look for opportunities to maximize their revenues as they drive from location to location.
One guy with a “route” (not a field inspector though) ended up in some remote areas of the state. Companies doing business there still demanded “mystery shops” for their branches. He seemed to be the only one able to do them so he was paid a premium rate to handle these mystery shops. He was going right by there anyway! One was a restaurant chain so for a while he ate for free until he got sick of eating there all the time.
Real life Field Inspector Terry Platt tells how he made some good extra money one day. Along his route was this used book store:
Today I feel like I pretty much fell into a gold mine. I went into a thrift store and noticed some books with titles that certainly would not interest the average reader. These books were primarily psychology and counseling books. I started pulling the books on the shelf and checking prices on my handheld PC. The average resale price was around $75. The books ranged in value from $150 to $24. I brought home 31 books with total value of around $2000. That is not too shabby for a little sideline business.
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