Service businesses have long been a mainstay of the small business field. They are often easy to set up and most only require a small amount of experience in the industry to start. Many services businesses in fact are pretty straight forward. They just require some common sense. So with that in mind here are 4 businesses that you can start assuming you have some common sense and the drive to make a go of it.
1. Carpet and Upholstery Cleaning Service: This is a business that can thrive in just about any town or city. Because where you have people you have both residential and commercial properties that are going to need cleaning.
Residential properties are always in need of someone that can clean carpets and furniture well. The kids and pets are always making a mess not to mention what the adults can do to a living space. Commercial properties are another great opportunity. They offer a smart business owner the chance to build up a regular clientele. You can establish a regular schedule for going in and cleaning offices for companies instead of waiting for a phone call from them.
Carpet and upholstery cleaning companies are always in demand. And starting such a business does require knowing how to use a carpet cleaner but you can probably figure that part out for yourself. You will want to invest in some decent cleaning equipment. But this business can be run out of a reliable van or truck with your office being in your home. After all you’ll be going to visit your customers not the other way around.
2. Construction Cleanup: Unlike a regular cleanup business such as one for residential or commercial properties this business focuses on cleaning up after a property has been newly built or remodeled. Every city has some form of new construction going on. And someone is always going to be needed to clean up the mess that is left behind. Well that is where you come in. Being in the construction cleanup business means going in after the construction crews are gone and making the place presentable to the new owners. Your business is about cleaning a place from top to bottom. From the floors to the windows you’ll be removing any extra debris and making things shine. And getting paid a pretty good buck to do it. So if you’re interested in making a place presentable then this is the business for you.
3. Handyman: Have you ever been told that you are handy around the house? If the answer is yes or you enjoy fixing things around your home just because you like to then maybe a handyman business is right for you. There are people all across the globe that could be considered mechanically challenged. And there are many others that are just plain lazy. Either way this business is an opportunity to do something you might enjoy and you get to help other people at the same time. What else could you ask for? It always feels good to lend a helping hand. Especially when the other hand is collecting the paycheck for your services. So if you have a knack for fixing things around the house then this business might be a good fit for you.
4. Pool Cleaning Service: Ah life outdoors, sitting around the pool having a cold beer with friends. If you operate a pool cleaning service then that is the life you will be helping others to lead. Because who wants to have a cold beer around a dirty pool? Seriously though the pool cleaning business is one that is always in demand. Between the number of houses that have pools in the back yard as well as condo and apartment complexes not to mention hotels and motels there are plenty of pools that need cleaning in just about every city. So finding work should not be that hard. You do need to have a good understanding of how to clean a pool though. Too much chlorine in a pool can really cause some havoc. So you will need to educate yourself on proper pool maintenance. But once that is finished and you have a good working knowledge of cleaning pools you should be ready to go.
There are many more maintenance businesses that you could possibly start. These are just some of the possibilities that exist for someone that wants to become an entrepreneur but may be a little cash strapped in the beginning. If you are serious about starting such a business though make sure you do your homework.
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What businesses would support me with money for my summer home stay trip to Germany?I want to do a summer homestay in Germany and my parents can't support me Financially…. So i need to raise money or have businesses support me with my Financially needs. Does anyone know any businesses to ask? I am not just gping over there as a vaction I am am going over to learn about the culture and a life time experince! PLEASE HELP!
January usually has stocktake sales where retailers clear out xmas stock
July- i think there is an american custom of thanksgiving in july but u will have to check it out. Some people do it in australia but its not a big thing here.
August and Semptember im not sure about
December would be the biggest month and i see u did not include Christmas in your advertising. I would be using that occasion to search for businesses wanting to get in on your project. Its the biggest money making month of the year in terms of revenue for businesses and retailers. people buying presents and stuff.
Another idea would be for the businesses to put in a full page of deal, where coupons could be torn off the page. Things like 10% of shoes, or 15% of womens clothing. But that woul be up to the business if they would want to offer that.
I have a home business in health and wellness that is just under $200 USD to get started. As for time, it all depends on how much you want to earn.
There is no such thing as a good business that doesn't take time. You have to be serious about business if you want to earn an income. It's all what you do with it when you have it.
If you're only really asking about training, then it would depend on the size of the business. If there's only about 1 – 10 people, then it would usually be the duty of the owner to train new staff, as he or she would be the person with the most interest in ensuring that everyone knows what they are doing. If you go into 10 – 30 or so staff, you'd probably have an operational or production manager who should take care of training.
Most businesses don't fail because of inadequate training though. As you pointed out, it's more about lack of planning. I ran my own small businesses for a few years, and I made sure to only hire people that didn't need any training!
Is your concern that businesses fail because of no proper training programs?
awesome!
@nwright46 12+ years of personal experience in the public education system is lesson enough for most of us. Google schoolsucksproject.
I can see so many of those traits in my 12 year old son. Thank you for this. It is an eye opener! God Bless You!
I do think we need to encourage kids to be creativite thinkers and self-starters. At the same time, kids also need to learn how to work with others and work with “the system”. Entrepreneurial emphasis, carried to an extreme, could become radical individualism with no regard for community. In the end, what makes a peson succeed is his or her ability to work well with others, regardless of whether one is an employee or an entrepreneur.
Yeah everyone wonders why I fear homelessness so much. They don’t understand, “job” is a four letter word, and it’s not an option. It’s boom and/or bust, both, really.
I think he misses an aspect of this condition. It’s the distinction between the visionary entrepreneurial type and the purely monetary type. The type that hes discussing is the more common type, The arbitrage entrepreneur. The visionary, would never LOVE a startup that produced only arbitrage. It’s a much higher risk affliction.
Wow!!! This is wild!!! Especially for kids who struggle in school!!! Check it out!!
Great speech Cameron! Very inspiring, Dad did a good job motivating all of us as kids and i’m so thankful for that and hope to pass that along to my kids. I will certainly be passing along this vid for viewing to all my friends with kids also! loved it
An interesting and lengthy question that possibly deserves an equally lengthy answer.
I have worked for various companies. Everything from a family owned business that employed 3 family members, to a large Wall Street firm that employed roughly 40,000 people.
The issue that we have here is that in trying to regulate businesses, it's as if the government is trying to please everyone…and in doing so, they please no one. Like the saying goes, "You can't just be a little bit pregnant".
As a shareholder in a wide range of publicly traded companies, I have had a few of my common stocks go to zero, while the companies filed for bankruptcy (Lehman Bros. and WaMu are just 2 of them). Even though it cost me money personally, I am thinking that the best way to go about things is to simply allow the grossly mismanged businesses to fail completely. That is what capitalism is all about; survival of the fittest. The ones that made the biggest mistakes and have taken the biggest falls, are also the ones that were perhaps the greediest.
What bugs me MORE is that fact that the executives of these failed companies have now come come to the US government for money to keep their businesses solvent. And, while holding their hats in their hands and asking for a taxpayer funded bailout, they also have their friends in the backrooms writing bonus checks to themselves.
As another saying goes, "You make your bed, you have to sleep in it". These folks made their beds. Whether it be in the form of sub-prime lending, or using derivatives to squeeze more profits from their balance sheets, or manufacturing vehicles that American consumers can not afford because of the high cost of fuels, the executives were providing the leaderhip that led to this mess and at the very least, they should suffer the consequence of unemployment themselves.
Here's a novel idea. Before these HUG banking conglomorants became what they were, who was servicing those home mortgages in the past? The answer? Local banks! It used to be that when someone in Middletown USA wanted to buy a home, they applied for a mortage with the Middletown USA banks. The loan officer would review the application, look at their own banking records, verify employment with a simple local phone call, and possibly even drive to the property to inspect it to make sure that the home was worth what the buyer was paying (ensuring adequate collateral for the bank). Compare and contrast this rather old fashioned idea to what has been going on for that past 20 years! The mortgage lender is 2,000 miles away and has absolutely no idea who they are dealing with. For all they know, the property is a spruced-up double-wide trailer that they are lending $400,000 against. So, my question is…what's wrong with going back to basics and allowing these motgage banking giants to fail? There will be a void that would quickly be filled by…small town banks.
I could go on and on here. But I wish to make one more point. It's time that shareholders take back ownership of the companies. The boards of directors are often bloated with upwards of 15 people that do absolutely nothing in the way of corporate oversight on behalf of the real owners, the shareholders. Often times, these people serve on multiple boards of directors and are paid six figure salaries PLUS benefits from each company. For what? To rubber stamp their approval on everything that the CEOs say? It's time for a change…and the change needs to happen on the ownership level.
Yeah everyone wonders why I fear homelessness so much. They don’t understand, a job is it’s not an option. It’s boom or bust, always has been… both, really..
@nathanday01 Nathan – thanks for this note – Focus, Faith & Effort now – and you can nail any biz you want to build.
Get crafty. Homemade things often sell like hotcakes to people for easy Christmas gifts. My mom and I are doing this.
You can get cheap unpainted photo frames from craft sections at stores and paint or fabric decorate them.
Go through the scrap fabric bin at your craft section and get fleece material. Make heating pads by sewing rectangles of fleece (these came range in size from 4×6" to a foot or bigger, it's all up to you) that you fill with plain white uncooked rice. Thse go in the micorwave for 2-3 minutes. You can also add various things to them like lavender for relaxation or orange peel for envigoration. Fennel seed also works well for filling, but rice is more readily available and cheaper. These sell very well.
You can get some unpainted ornaments from craft sections and paint them up, leaving room for a name, and do personalized ornaments.
You could do a bake sale, too. This is a good one! You can get cookie mixes and pre-made tear'n'bakes for $3 a dozen, and bake up a whole bunch of them. Do some in singles, doubles, five-packs and dozens. You could wrap them in colored saran wrap and ribbon (the colored Saran Wrap is around $3 but would do them all, and ribbon is around $1).
Contact local grocery store managers and explain what you're raising money for and ask if you cuold put donation jars by their registers. You can also ask if you can sell your baked goods and crafts at a table outside their store. Also, if you have a WalMart, ask them about a matching program. Many WalMarts will match whatever you raise in a set amount of time, like the day you sit at your table outside of their establishment.
A note about this: write down which stores helped you in any way, and be sure to write them thank you notes. They'll LOVE that, and be more likely to help you out if you need assistance again in the future.
f you're allowed to set up a table anywhere, be sure to have material about the program you're going to, maybe make up a poster or visual aid like you have to do in school. Be ready to talk about it a lot. People will really respond to a young, ambitious kid who wants to further their education and follow their ambitions.
Another thing you should do is make up a card to go with all your crafts and baked goods explaining that the proceeds from this purchase will go to send you to Germany as part of (Program Name)to learn about the culture and if they have any questions about it, to please call you, (Your Name) at (your number). People will see this and be intrigued, and I'd bet dollars to doughnuts you'll get donations AFTER the sale, as well.
If you need more ideas, go ahead and e-mail me, ok? wendy@kxaz.com
I am afraid that this “stimulus” package will fail, just like President Bush’s “stimulus” package did. It will fail the individual and businesses all the same.
They will always fail due to the basic concept and idiocy of the idea as a whole… If government spending got us into this trouble, how will it get us out?
WeeeelllI do have that kinda money to spend… I do want to open a strip club though..
Try churches. Many businesses will not align themselves with religious organizations or donate to groups looking to convert innocent people to a religion they know nothing about and risk death by even speaking to you about a religion not sanctioned by the state.
You both should sit down with a lawyer. It's a good idea to pay for the consultation to make sure you are both protected. I would think it depends on how the companies are set up (i.e. sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, LLC, etc.) but it's definitely better to find out now and make arrangements if needed.
Good luck.