Start Your Own Personal Service Business

Personal Service: a chore, errand or task that people want or wish to delegate to someone who can do it better, faster, or less expensively... because of limited time, energy or know-how.

About this report

I taught this class at the Learning Annex after realizing I'd started dozens of personal services businesses in my life. In college for extra money, I cut hair and did garment mending and alterations for my dorm-mates. I've been a pet sitter, a home/office organizer, and a business-sitter. I have owned a marketing consulting firm for 25 years and a speaker agency (in its current form) for several years.

Some of the information I provide in my Personal Services Business seminar notes:

• List of ideas for personal services you could provide
• Forms of business
• Owner benefits: what do you want this business to do for you?
• Define your services
• Starting Up
• Tools of the trade: What will you need?
• Methods: What problems will you solve?
• Pricing: How will you price your services?
• Payment: How will you collect payment?
• Clients: Who will your clients be?
• Competition: Who's doing what you do?
• Promotion: How will people learn about your service?
• Performing your service: What happens?
• Keeping clients: How do you keep them coming back?
• Hiring staff: How do you find the people to be "you"?
• Spinoffs: What's next?
• Ethics and issues: What's important?

 

Order the seminar notes: $22.00 includes shipping charges within North America.

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1. Tell Andrea what kind of personal service you are considering to start and/or build: info@AndreaReynolds.com

2. Send US $22.00 payment to Andrea Reynolds Or you may prefer to send your check or money order payable to Andrea Reynolds....

In US: Andrea Reynolds, Box 1106, Lewiston NY 14092 USA

In Canada: Andrea Reynolds, 359 Geneva Street, Ste. 401, St. Catharines Ontario L2N 2G5 Canada

Arrange for a followup, private tutorial: by appointment only.

 

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