As discussed earlier, we will start focusing on one business idea at a time and lend all feasible support / advice to anyone pursuing that business. Our focus is on no capital / low capital intensives business ideas as those are more amenble for unemployed. Its natural to have suspicion that whether the small business will yield enough to meet both ends or ever reach the desired scale. Frankly, you do not know till you try, so would have been the case for the following people when they started.
• The Railway clerk - Amancio Ortega, who started making gowns in his living room with an investment of $25 with his wifes help and now owns the largest international fashion stores Zara with a net worth of $20 billion.
• Or was Ingvar Kamprad who started by selling matches to neighbors on a bicycle and now owns the largest furniture chanin in the world – IKEA and whose net worth is in excess of $30 billion.
• Or even the two starving students, who could not find any parttime jobs to pay for college and used an old army truck as billboard to offer moving services, today their moving services company Starving Students operates a fleet of 300 trucks.
But they all backed them selves up, dared to chase their passion and came out winners. So, can you if you are willing to take that first step.
Home Delivery Services Business
Here is the first Business idea of the series– Home Delivery Services. The Home Delivery services has a large context, to start with let us confine the scope to enablement of home delivery services of daily use products in a locality for vendors with out their own delivery services.
There is a very small percentage of products that are home delivered. The most widely home delivered product is pizza but there are host of other products with vast potential for home delivery be it food from resturants, delis, groceries, medicines, etc,.
Home delivery offers ultimate convenience of fulfilling the spontaneous needs of customers in the comfort of home. How about extending the conveninece to other popular foods like burgers, delis, pastas and what not; afterall the cravings /sudden urges at home are not just limited to Pizza. Such a home delivery service is a win-win for all, brings in additional customers to vendors, conveneince to customers and the revenue to service provider. Once succesful, may be the service can be extended to local stores of national food chains like KFC or Taco Bell or Sub Way or Baskin Robins and so on.
The service is also useful for people with restricted mobility, they need not compromise on a meal or miss out on that essential pill or that fire wood just because they didn’t get it on their weekly shopping visit.
There is enormous scope for extending the service to cover goods from every vendor in the neighborhood. And who knows, if successful one may be able to expand the scope of services to larger boundaries and may even have a national delivery chain with a name like DeliveriesRUs, creating employment for thousands.
How do you start
We have covered some of the common information like capital, skills, fees, etc, in our Home business article on Pizza delivery services, you can refer it here.
One can start the business with literally no capital, the essential requirements are
• the mobility to drive and deliver the goods
• location knowledge so that one is efficient in deliveries
• communication mechanism like Cell phone to take orders
• customer interaction skills and ingenuity in delivering the product fresh offer the cutting edge
You may start the service by catering to friends and relatives and expand the scope as you gain knowledge and confidence.
As professed by Lao-Tzu, the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you are ready to take that step we are ready provide support thru the RevivalCircle.com in the form of advice at every step of the way ranging from marketing, pricing and other aspects. There is no downside, so get started by registering and posting your questions / needs in the forum here.
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