Start a Pooper Scooper Business
in Animals by admin on 23 Jan
What you’ll Need:
• Heavy Duty gloves
• Supply of trash bags
• Pooper Scoopers
People with nice yards and dogs have an ongoing daily battle to keep them clean. While this is a dirty job, someone has to do it–and get paid for it! Why shouldn’t that someone be you?
You’ll need to set your prices remembering to charge at least twice your regular amount for the first visit if the yard needs a lot of attention. The first visit will take longer since you’ll need to clean up all what nobody has been cleaning until now. It’s best to price each job individually since some people will clean up after their dogs more often than others.
As with any business, advertising is key. You need to make people aware of your services, and schedule your customers so you can do several houses in the same area on the same day to minimize costs. The easiest way to do this is to distribute flyers door to door in neighborhoods near your home.
Print mini-flyers (two to a page works great). Staple a rubber band to the corner of the mini-flyer. Then go house to house and hang your mini-flyers on doorknobs working to cover the entire neighborhood.
Describe your potential customer’s problem and your solution on your flyers. Include your contact information, and a call to action at the end such as Call Today! don’t worry about focusing only on homes where dogs are evident. You never know when someone will be getting a new dog, or if someone they know might need your services even if they don’t.
If there is a community park nearby, see if your services might be needed there, too. Find a local resident and ask who the chairman of the homeowner’s association is. Give him a call or write him a letter. If this is a new neighborhood, check with the sales office and ask if they’ll include your flyer with their sales packages.
Also check with local real estate agents, mortgage brokers, and title companies and ask them to provide your mini-flyers to new customers.
Put a small ad in the newspaper or in real estate magazines in your area.
Hang flyers with tear-off tabs at high-traffic locations such as grocery stores, drug stores, the library, banks and community centers.
Provide flyers to pet stores, veterinary clinics, and pet adoption shelters.
And don’t forget places where busy parents are likely to be such as day cares, fitness centers, and office buildings.
Put your customers on a regular schedule, whether it’s daily or weekly, and repeat business is almost guaranteed as long as Fido is around. Before you know it, you’ll be scooping in the money while helping pet owners enjoy their clean yards once again.
Are you a Pet Lover? Make money from your love of animals.
You may even consider offering a full service pet-sitting or boarding business and offer dog training as well. You can cross-sell your expertise to the owners and make a steady income.
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