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If you don’t mind driving, this is a very good potential money maker. Be sure to take some time to figure out your
gas mileage and create your fee schedule accordingly. Most people will gladly pay for gas, wear and tear on your car,
and a profit for you to not have to go get the dry-cleaning or stop by the drug store.
Door to Door Transportation
Offering to pick people up when they need to be picked up and delivering them where and when they need to be
delivered is an old, tried and true form of making money. Cab companies have known this for almost 100 years. But unless
you live in a major city like New York or Chicago, cabs are not easy to find and not very convenient.
Working within your own neighborhood, transporting goods as well as people (or even pets if you like animals)
makes this a specific kind of business for which there is a very specific market but limited competition. It is easy to
start and has low overhead. It also can conform to your schedule very easily.
A variation of this would be to create a regular route to the local shopping mall or to the airport or to the local
zoo. Families or out of town visitors could get to where they need to be without worrying about parking the car. This
would be a great service to offer during the Christmas Holidays when parking at the local mall is such a nightmare.
Garage Sale Consultant
If you have any doubt about the mass appeal of the garage sale just take a moment to look through the want ads
of Saturday’s paper. Garage sales have become a huge business. As a consultant you would be responsible for a wide
variety of tasks including set up of the merchandise, establishing and marking the prices, and even the advertising.
However, all of that knowledge is free for a little leg work.
Spend several weekends going through the paper and visiting as many garage sales as you can. Spend twenty to
thirty minutes at each one and notice what items get looked at the most. Which items are picked up and put down,
what prices are asked and which ones the customers are willing to pay, to negotiate about and ignore. Look for signs
and ads in the paper. What catches your eye? What helped you choose this sale over some other sale. All of this
information will be very useful to your customers.
And there are plenty of potential customers. The easiest way to find new clients is to read the real estate ads.
People selling a home and getting ready to move will often have a sale, but don’t have the time to do the sale correctly.
For a percentage of the sales made you can do the work. All they have to do is collect the money.
Estate Sale Consultant
A very important variation of the Garage Sale Consultant is the Estate Sale consultant. Estate Sales vary from
Garage Sales in several very important ways and require a bit more homework. Unlike garage sales where a family is
selling things they no longer need or use, and estate sale is normally of an entire household. There are often large
items, antiques, or collectibles that can bring in a substantial amount of money.
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In many cases the family members who are doing the estate sale are not in town and not available to oversee the
sale itself. A certain amount of research to assure the family that they will get fair value for the items sold is important.
But just like with garage sales, this information is free for the asking.
Spend time at second hand furniture shops and antique dealers. Ask questions and get to know what to look for.
Attend estate sales and see what furniture and other large household items are sold for. Look to see what items sell
quickly and which seem to attract no interest. All of these things will help you determine how to price items. Knowing
what is a fair price is one way of helping a potential client develop a sense of confidence in you. An additional way is
develop a fee structure that is a percentage of the total sales for the day.
Weekend Home Security
Many people leave home for a weekend and never bother to stop mail delivery or their daily paper. Sometimes
they may ask a neighbor to keep an eye out for them, but how often does the neighbor remember.
You could offer a service where you will check on the house several times a day, making sure that the windows
and doors are all secure and that the mail and paper has been picked up. The added traffic to the house over the
weekend will discourage any would-be burglars.
If you are really ambitious and want to take in a partner, this service can be expanded to cover 24 hours a day.
In addition, this is one of those opportunities that can be expanded. There is no reason that this could not be expanded
to include small businesses as well as homes. Low tech, high personnel visibility security fits in the budget of many
small businesses and gives them a greater sense of security.

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