Building Income by Planning and Performing at Events

These ideas can help you build income with event- and party-oriented jobs! All these extra income building activities require very little or no investment. They earn real income fast with minimum financial risk.

Balloon Artist
Do you enjoy making people smile? Can you come up with wild shapes, forms or imitatations of animals or people? If so, you will love being a balloon artist! With a little advertising you will quickly develop a following of party-throwers eager for your creations. $50-75 per hour.

Clown or Magician
Does sad make you happy? Can you express an eclectic variety of emotions with your face and body? Willing to wear a funny shoes and makeup? Can you make a Cadillac disappear into thin air? Great! You are ready to entertain and mesmerize young and old alike! Here's a little-known secret, too -- clowns and magicians are in huge demand for birthdays, corporate parties, malls, universities, anywhere people want to have fun, which means you can charge a lot! $50-75 per hour, plus expenses and transportation.

Event Planner or Wedding Planner
Are you super-organized? A master of timing and effects? Have a sense of theater and style? Love working with people? All reasons to want to be an event or wedding planner! Plan and organize any event, from corporate getaways, granfathers' birthdays, and first communions or bar mitzvahs, to huge weddings or even concerts! Pick the industry and event you love and specialize, then take a cut of every vendor you bring in! $250-$5000 per event no up-front investment.