How To Have A Home Business As A Personal Shopper
With the fast-paced, high pressure professional lifestyles of some people today
, more and more people have limited time to do their own personal shopping. Holding down a full-time job, raising children, travelling all over the place and maintaining a respectable household doesn't seem to leave enough hours in the day to get everything done at a reasonable time. That's why many people are now opting for a "special service" to do much of their personal shopping for them -- everything from buying groceries to planning and purchasing an entire wardrobe.Within the past decade personal shopping services have emerged as a rapidly growing industry with the potential for highly profitable large-scale operations. It's a service that appeals to a busy, above average income clientele, as well as to corporate clients. And an enterprising person providing this kind of service can make substantial profits on a daily basis.
Shopping for other people is not necessarily a difficult task. As part of the service, the personal business shopper usually meets with clients to determine their needs and compile a list of items to be purchased within the client's specified price range. Then, the shopping begins for both parties. After the client's items have been purchased, the shopper and client meet again at a well known destination. The client looks over the purchases, and once satisfied with the shopper's selections, pays the bill for shopping items and to the personal shopper.
Most of the "work" involved with a personal shopping service, is in the shopping itself. Start-up costs for a personal shopping service can be relatively minimal. There's little need for expensive equipment and hardly any initial investment in inventory. The biggest expense a home-based shopping service encounters is usually the method of transportation used by the shopper. Because the transportation has got to be very reliable. Since most of a personal shoppers time is spent shopping, an efficient running, low-mileage car or van is essential to get to the many shopping locations which can be anywhere.
Most of these services begin as part time, home-based operations. Beginning the service at home allows the novice entrepreneur to maintain a full time job while devoting ten to twenty hours a week to being a personal shopper. Once a profitable client list has been established, and depending on the market size, the service can expand to a full time, multi-employee business with yearly earnings of $50,000 or more.
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