Micro Business Idea: Sign Spinning

Here’s a unique idea for a micro businesses: Sign Spinning.

Have you ever seen a group of kids advertise their youth group’s car wash by holding up a sign on a street corner? It’s a pretty good way to get attention.  Two teenagers, Max Durovic and Michael Kenny, were hired to be teenage sign holders.  But they got bored and came up with stunts where they spin and throw their signs like batons, strum them like guitars, paddle them like canoes and ride them like horses.  Sound like fun?  Maybe, if you are part clown, athlete and actor! It’s like earning money doing an extreme sport.

“Sign spinning is a lot like ballroom dancing, except your partner has no life of its own,” Brown says. “Giving the sign its life and personality is a spinner’s true task.”

Read the Entrepreneur magazine article about  the business these teenagers started here.

You have got to see the videos of the guys spinning signs!  AArow Advertising.com

There’s also several videos on You Tube

It’s no longer a micro business. They have 18 franchises (copies of the business in several cities) and have 500 employees!

I think that you could find a local restaurant or store that needs some more customers. See if they will hire you to be a sign spinner for an hour or two and you are in business!