New ideas for business in the service sector. Interesting and profitable options for business ideas for the provision of services

Currently, a service business is rightfully considered to be such a type of entrepreneurial activity that does not require significant start-up investments. To get started, it is enough to use your home PC and mobile phone (preferably with two SIM cards). If we evaluate the business in relation to these insignificant costs, then mathematically we obtain a significant profitability. With all this, mind you, you do not need to rent an office, pay for advertising.

The main mission of such a business is to effectively bring the seller with the buyer, the customer with a specialist who performs repair, construction, plumbing, etc. work that is in demand in everyday life. Thus, the basis of its creation are professional services to the population provided by specialists. The accumulated percentage of the intermediary is the income in such a business.

However, on the other hand, if we take into account absolute figures, i.e., count in rubles, then the start of such an entrepreneurship is not associated with high revenue, it grows gradually, not as fast as in the investment business.

It is based on a business idea, the relevance of which is proved by the entrepreneur if his work gives a result: the business sprout planted by him is gaining strength and becomes a dynamic entrepreneurship that has its own market and creates jobs.

Top 10 ideas

Which service business should an entrepreneur choose? The question is clearly rhetorical, since it does not imply a universal answer. Around us, there is an invisibly market of demanded household services, where you can and should earn money.

How to define it? Take a look at the ads - offers of personal services. Among the most demanded are the following: plumbing repair and installation, electrician services, tutoring, courier services, professional cleaning of premises, tailoring, gardening services, babysitting services, pet care, window and door installation.

What should a future entrepreneur do with this list next? You should choose only one, but quite often demanded service, and concentrate on it as much as possible. The market for this service will become your service area, on the basis of which you will have to create your own business. In it you have to become a professional.

How to grow an electrical business

Here is one of the thousands of possible examples. In a city, for example, there is a consistently high demand for the services of private electricians. However, many of them, in addition to successful days, have periods of downtime when their professional skills remain unclaimed. It is under such circumstances, when information from customers does not reach the performers, that business on services shows its potential.

The business idea is universal: first you form a database of specialists, and then you carry out an operational search and provide them with orders.

In order for a pure intermediary to become successful, he must become a recognized dock in the study of demand, find customers an order of magnitude more efficient than the specialist himself can do. This is the know-how of the service business.

Service entrepreneurship as information service

As mentioned above, it is possible to make money on the services of specialists with their high-quality information support. To do this, at this stage, a gentleman's agreement is concluded with them to transfer the percentage of the intermediary. At the same time, you must evaluate the qualifications of specialists, as well as stipulate the terms of cooperation. Each of them should:

individually determine the percentage of profit that they agree to pay you (preferably 30%, but 20% can be a start);
draw up a range of services and prices;
discuss ways to communicate.

At the first stage (we will describe it later), after publishing several advertisements in the press, you yourself receive customer orders on your mobile phone and transfer them to professionals. It is recommended for the same purpose to periodically post ads such as "electrician services" in the city.

Professional Tariffs - The Entrepreneur's Handbook

Cooperating with specialists (in our case, with electricians), the entrepreneur sets average market rates for services. With the help of such a price mechanism, one of the levels of organization of the future business is built: tariffs for servicing the population.

Here is a working example of such tariffication:

Chasing in concrete for electrical wiring - 300 rubles / m.p.
Chasing in brick for electrical wiring - 250 rubles / m.p.
Installation of a cable with a cross section of up to 3.0 mm 2 - 50 rubles / m.p.
Installation of a cable with a cross section of 3.0–10.0 mm 2 - 100 rubles / r.m.
Installation of the box - 100 rubles / m.p.
Setting the corrugation - 50 rubles / m.p.
Outdoor el. point - 230 rubles.
Internal email point in concrete - 600 rubles.
Internal email point in a brick - 500 rubles.
Replacing a socket, switch - 350 rubles.
Installation of a chandelier - from 500 rubles.
Installation of household electrical appliances - from 500 rubles.
Installation (assembly) el. shield - from 3500 rubles.
Change of circuit breaker - from 350 rubles.
Installing the counter - from 760 rubles.

It is advisable, when talking with a client, to clarify the approximate cost of the order and, transferring it to an electrician for execution, indicate the customer’s contact phone number, a list of work to be performed and a list of consumables to be purchased.

Stages of business development

The business activity we are considering has two clearly defined stages of development: amateur and professional. The first should be taken as a test of the maturity of the future business. The criterion is the profit made up of the subscription fee.

At the amateur stage, you register completed orders in a convenient universal program, such as Excel. There should be enough orders to provide specialists with a full working day. The best - give more profitable tasks.

If suddenly extra orders drop out, i.e., which your electricians cannot physically serve, try rescheduling them for another day. If this is not possible, look for outside electricians in the directory yourself, offer them a job, and at the same time recruit specialists under your flag.

Hi all! Something we have recently only been talking about China and online stores and do not think about those who are interested in the service sector. But my first small business projects were tied just the same to services, and they were all profitable.

Service business has a number of advantages over other business projects, it can be started quickly and we will talk about this in this article. And I will also tell you what services I did.

Each person has some knowledge and skills that other people may need. Someone knows English, and someone understands plumbing work, someone knows how to make websites, and someone knows how to repair phones, and so on. We all know something, how we can help others and we can earn money on it. You may not be able to do any of the above, but you can organize activities and find clients, so find people with the skills you need and work with them for a percentage! There is always a way out!

Benefits of a service business

Fast start. You do not need to purchase goods and rent space for warehouses, you only need a computer with Internet access and an office, if necessary. How to start quickly we will talk a little lower.

Less investment. Again, you do not need to spend money on goods and much more. If you provide services yourself, then you are only wasting your time and some money advertising your services. Accordingly, a niche test is cheaper.

Big difference in price. This is both an advantage and a disadvantage. You can set any price for your services, but basically you will set the average market price.

It's easier to keep a customer. If in the business of selling goods, a client can go to a competitor only because of a low price, then in services you can focus on quality. If you do better, then the client is unlikely to leave you.

What services to provide?

Like I said before, what you can do. It can be equipment repair, courier services, law, accounting, website and application development, design, photo and video services, event organization, consulting, sales and promotion, personal services (electrician, plumber, dry cleaning, etc.), search information, search for loans and other offers, auto repair, learning languages and much more!

For example, I was developing websites (not myself, but as an organizer of activities), setting up contextual advertising, helping to sell something, finding clients for design and video services, administering websites, organizing entertainment events, searching for goods and suppliers. That's all I remember so far, maybe more)

How to quickly start a service business

I hope that you have already decided on the service and now you need to advertise it. I will not offer now any non-standard approaches like viral videos and so on, let's go along a simple path in order to check "it will fly - it won't fly".

Post your services on city bulletin boards if the service is only within your city. Boards like Avito work very well.

Make a website with information about your services. If your services are not for business, then it is enough to check to make a website on the constructor. FOR VERIFICATION ONLY! When the business goes even a little, make a good website, because it's your face! If at the start the budget is limited or there is simply no desire to spend extra money, then the designer will do. I wrote about this in an article. On the site, describe in detail your services, prices, contact information, and so on.

It is better, of course, to use a one-page site (landing page) for these purposes, because its effectiveness from advertising is many times better. More on this in these articles:

Start advertising your website, your VK group and yourself! Let your friends advise you to everyone, share a link to the site with everyone, advertise in VKontakte thematic groups (if in your city, then groups in your city), launch contextual advertising in Yandex and Google (this is not expensive depending on the type of service and with the right settings will give a good result). There is a whole section on how advertising works and how to set it up.

First clients

When you work on your first orders, remember that the main income for a business is made by regular customers, not new ones. Try to keep the client. Serve him well, provide a discount on repeat services, make a gift, do everything so that the client leaves you with a WOW feeling. Then he will come back to you again!

Try not to obsessively take reviews from your satisfied customers and place them on your site, this is good advertising.

Also take the client's contact information and send out newsletters about new promotions, but don't overdo it, it gets boring! If your services are in the field of business and one client brings you significant amounts of money, then you can find out the date of birth of the leader and give good gifts for his birthday. My friend, for example, makes such congratulations to his clients and it works with a bang!

Be sure to leave a business card. It still works.

Develop

Never stand still. Always add something else to your services, supplement them, improve them, approach with interest and somewhat non-standard and try to surprise your potential and real customers, but the most important thing is that this does not affect the quality - quality is above all !!!

Cunning ... soldering scheme

I already wrote about this scheme in an article. If you are not a pro in any services (like me), then you can just be an organizer of activities. For example, a website development studio that worked for me in this way: I knew how much a designer and layout designer cost me. Accordingly, I was looking for orders at a price 2 times higher and took an advance payment of 50%. This amount was enough for me to fully pay for my guys, and after the project was completed, I took the rest for myself. True, it was not always possible to wind up exactly 2 times, but I had to give way in price, but the fact remains: I provided the guys with orders and money and made money on it.

This scheme will always work, because a person can be a good electrician, but he doesn’t know how to sell his services and you will just be the link in this chain;)

Conclusion

From all this we can conclude that only the lazy do not earn! Everything can be done quickly, with minimal investment and with minimal risk. If you know how to do something, you see that these skills can be sold, try it! We saw a good specialist without a job, find him an order and wind up your percentage, everything is simple. Making a website is not a problem, but I say that use the constructor to start with. Everything is real and even more than real! It remains only to start;)

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1.7 billion people on Earth work in the service sector

Irina Milovanova

Canine Center "Elite"

Despite all the pluses, business in the service sector is far from the easiest.

Of course, working in services is somewhat easier than in the same production: no technological requirements, a minimum of approvals from regulatory authorities. But if you thought that the entrance to the service sector is available to everyone, we have to disappoint you: this is far from the case. In order to provide a quality service, you need to make no less effort than in any other area.

The main difficulty in this matter lies in the fact that in the service sector the influence of the human factor is very strong. Let's face it: if you are a mediocre specialist, or do not know how to politely communicate with clients, while providing services on your own, your business will not last long. It will be no less difficult if you hire third-party specialists. It is often difficult to select them, and it is not easy to monitor how they perform their duties.

Another disadvantage of working in services is a lot of competition. Where there is good demand and it is relatively easy to start a business, you run the risk of running into a lot of equally resourceful start-up entrepreneurs. Therefore, in services, as nowhere else, it is important to find your niche and create a unique selling proposition. Don't be afraid to experiment and do things that no one else is doing yet. But do not forget about the sense of proportion: services must remain in demand, and not scare away consumers with their insanity.

And of course, due to the great competition in the service sector, it can be quite difficult to "unwind". This means that it can take many years to earn a name for yourself and charge above the market average. But you have to start small: in the most competitive service industries, newcomers are often forced to work for little pay, hoping for good recommendations and word of mouth work.

Services in Russia: what can the market expect?

But still, not in all types of services, entrepreneurs are faced with a decrease in demand. For example, pawnshops and microloans only benefited from the crisis.

Things have improved for most services that ultimately help save money. For example, companies operating in the personnel outsourcing market feel great: it is cheaper for a business to hire an outside person to perform irregular work, rather than keep someone on the staff, constantly paying him a salary.

Real growth is also experienced by the business of helping credit debtors.

All these changes are somehow connected with the worsening economic situation. At the same time, the inhabitants of Russia do not expect that the economic situation will change soon, and are set to save money. According to the Romir research holding, 11% of Russians intend to save on various expensive services, including those related to treatment or education.

Although the participants in the education market themselves do not notice a significant decline in demand. For example, the London Express network of foreign language schools noted that the number of students studying has decreased only slightly, and in the future demand will not drop much: there are more those who intend to get a job abroad or improve their skills in order to look better in the labor market .

But the data presented by the National Agency for Financial Research shows that 48% of Russians save on vacations and vacations, 18% - on transport.

From these figures, we can conclude that in the near future the demand for services in the field of tourism, car maintenance, as well as for expensive and unnecessary services will not grow. Therefore, it is necessary to open a business, one way or another connected with these types of activities, after weighing all the possible risks. Or perhaps you should completely abandon this idea and look around in search of new, more sought-after areas in the service sector.

Dmitry Zasukhin

Legal Marketing Laboratory

For all its peculiarities, the service business is now very popular. By opening it, we begin to actively earn on our professional knowledge and skills. All this brings, in addition to income, the true joy of work.

In my opinion, narrow specializations will be in demand in the near future. For example, lawyers who protect the rights of fathers, or food photographers. The narrower the specialization becomes, the easier it is for you to attract customers and find your niche.

Irina Milovanova

Canine Center "Elite"

I believe that small businesses need to work in at least three areas close to each other. Then monitoring the market will allow you to develop what is in demand at the moment and maintain a stable income.

It is also worth turning your attention to the services of everyday demand, which either did not suffer much from the crisis, or, on the contrary, experienced an increase. At the same time, it is best to work in the economy segment.

The sphere of providing services to the population is an attractive niche for starting your own business. The centuries-old practice of entrepreneurship proves that services remain in demand even in the face of an economic downturn during a crisis.

And if you add some special “zest” to your own business that will appeal to the consumer, a small business can bring a stable and fairly significant income.

Any private business requires a competent approach and knowledge of all issues of promotion. Often, many novice businessmen neglect to monitor the pros and cons of the business they have started and make mistakes, slowing down the start and development of their own business.

The consumer services sector has a number of indisputable advantages over other market segments. Even during the war, people did not stop sewing clothes, getting their hair cut at the barbershop or taking a bath. Today, this niche provides a more expanded range, which only adds to the attractiveness of this type of business.

So, its advantages:

Starting a business is possible with little or no investment.
Ease of management compared to trading or manufacturing.
Great opportunities for discounts, bonuses, promotions.
Services are able to advertise themselves, which allows you to save on media advertising.

The disadvantages of such a business are insignificant and, most likely, may appear due to the personal incompetence of the entrepreneur himself and his inability to compete. But you should not forget about them:

The appearance of active competitors nearby can bring all undertakings to naught.
If the service is unknown to most consumers, then it will have to be widely advertised, spending a lot of money.
Poor service provision can create spontaneous anti-advertising.

However, a talented entrepreneur and a professional in his field can always turn any shortcomings of the business into pluses and make them work "for themselves." But to become such an entrepreneur, you need to really understand the field of activity and the target audience for which the project will be created.

You can learn how to start your own business in this area from the following video:

Options for effective directions

It should be noted that it is possible to open your own service business from scratch without large investments, opening an office and creating a staff.

The most successful entrepreneurs at the start of their business themselves become an employee, an accountant, and a director all rolled into one. Such a move allows not only to save on investments, wages and other expenses, but also to "feel" the prospects for a given direction.

Repair and decoration

All people periodically need to repair apartments and houses, electrical wiring, sewerage and water supply networks, as well as household appliances. If you are a professional in this field, why not offer your services.

Everything you need in the first step:

Placement of advertisements in newspapers and the Internet.
Tool.
Phone number for customers to call.

Active advertising in the form of a small module in the newspaper of free ads may be needed only at first, and then your clients will become friends and acquaintances of those to whom you have already made a high-quality apartment renovation or replaced the electrical wiring.

Subsequently, you can assemble a team and apply for larger objects.

Delivery

This service is in great demand in large cities. Anything can be delivered to the client's address:

Flowers.
Food (pizza, sushi, groceries from the supermarket).
Tickets to the theater, circus, museum.
Medicines from a pharmacy.
Alcohol.

At the initial stage, you can do without investments at all, declaring yourself in leaflets printed on a home printer. Leaflets can be posted at the entrances of houses so that residents at any time, remembering that it is possible to order delivery, can find your phone number.

For the project need a car. If you have it, that's half the battle. Further, it would be nice to conclude agreements with small cafes, pizzerias, Japanese cuisine studios that cannot afford to deliver food to people on their own.

Nanny or nurse

Today, having a pedagogical or medical education, few people want to go to work in a kindergarten or clinic because of the low wages. If you understand this area, then an agency providing such services can become a profitable business.

True, here it will be especially necessary scrupulously approach the selection of personnel, because this is exactly the type of activity when a poorly rendered service will quickly create anti-advertising for your project. Verified employees can be found at the previous place of work by specialty or by recommendations.

Taxi service

Even if your city already has several services, it is yours that, with the right approach, can become the most successful. In this project, everything depends on the cost and quality of the service.

If your taxi arrives very quickly and the cost of the trip is low, customers will prefer to use a new operator, forgetting the one they used before. In addition, services that accrue bonuses to customers for each trip are in great demand.

To organize such a project you will need:

Office.
Dispatchers.
Computers equipped with headphones with a microphone.
Software.
Car park.

In fact, everything is much simpler than it might seem. Renting an office can be inexpensive, because you will only need a small office on the outskirts of the city, and not in a large business center. Dispatchers can be hired under an agreement with the employment center and get a good percentage for their employment.

Software can be purchased over the Internet, as a rule, sellers also deal with its remote installation.

To open a taxi service at all no need to buy a whole fleet of cars. In any city there are always a lot of drivers in private cars who are ready to earn extra money in a taxi. Offer them favorable terms and install your software on their smartphone.

Cell phone repair

Most of us no longer imagine how a couple of decades ago it was possible to exist without a mobile phone. Therefore, problems with the phone can be very frustrating and disrupt the usual way of life. Of course, there are cellular models in stores for any choice. But is there always money to buy a new device?

Phone repair is a profitable business. Often in shopping centers you can see how people come up to the counter installed in the aisle and get a repaired mobile phone or hand over a broken one for repair. All you might need:

Pick-up point.
Accessories.
Advertising on social media and local newspapers.

By the way, it is not necessary to purchase a large number of spare parts at once. If the fixed repair period is 3-4 days, then you can purchase the necessary spare part after finding out the cause of the problem.

Photo printing

Almost all people have cameras and cameras in their mobile phones, and most of them like to take pictures. But not everyone has the opportunity to capture a significant moment in life or just a good picture on paper. Small points with instant photo printing, located in different parts of the city in shopping centers, take up little space, but bring good income to their owners.

All that is needed at the initial stage is space rental, printer, computer and photo paper. Additional profit for the service can be brought by the sale of related products - photo frames, albums, souvenirs, as well as printing on dishes, T-shirts and artistic photo printing.

Marriage Agency

Many people cannot find their soul mate on their own, and you can help them with this. Good marriage agencies are always in demand and bring good profits with little investment.

To open such a business, you need a well-decorated room, coming into which a person would feel comfortable. Active work in social networks will help to collect a detailed database of brides and grooms. And all that is required of you is to receive applications, process them and offer customers suitable options. And each newly created couple in love is your profit and salary.

How to choose the right option?

The choice of an idea for starting a business depends on many factors that can make the business started successful and highly profitable.

First, evaluate the level of your competence in the chosen direction. If you are not well versed in it, consider whether it is worth opening such a project.
Secondly, try to calculate how popular the service you offer can become. If there are already several similar organizations in the area where you are going to open your own business, you may not be able to “outrun” existing competitors.
Third, evaluate the risks. You must determine exactly why customers will go to you and not to a competitor, what you can offer them, and how your service will be better.

If only positive answers appear to all questions, feel free to start your own business. And remember that only the quality of their provision will help to achieve success in the service sector.

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