EARN EXTRA MONEY WITH YOUR OWN DELIVERY SERVICE PART 1
Do you have a truck, motorbike, van or even a small trailer, that you can use to deliver messages or make light deliveries. Contract with stores and businesses to deliver their messages and or packages on a retainer plus trip basis, such as $50 per month or year retainer and $4 per delivery (within the city) or 20 cents per mile.
Many businesses either have a need to deliver or have customers who need delivery service.
Examples are merchandise for handicapped or elderly people, phone-in orders and catalog store deliveries of merchandise that comes in several days after it is ordered.
Maintaining a delivery service can be very expensive for local merchants. They must have a truck, commercial insurance, pay and insure a driver -- expenses that may be out of the question for a small business.
This is why some would be happy to contract or refer delivery chores. Even businesses that have their own services can never predict how busy they might be at any particular time and may need help with backlogs, especially during high sales seasons.
People who buy a new vacuum today do not want to wait a week to have it delivered -- some will even cancel the order if it is not delivered on time!
Deliveries are not limited to merchandise; they can be packages of important papers, picking up items for shipment or going after a part for a mechanic.
Your delivery business can be oriented to retail or wholesale customers, or even both. Retail is the most profitable, but it is less dependable and may not support a good business by itself.
For retail business, keep an ad in the paper and make sure you have good signs on your truck that display your company name, service and how to reach you. Some of your most effective advertising is when people see you performing your service and note your name and phone number. They then associate need (theirs) with the solution (you).
If there are other delivery services in your area, you might call find one that will agree to reciprocal back up -- you call him when you need assistance and vice-versa.
Be prepared to enter into wholesale agreements, where your services may be need on an irregular basis... The contract may be for a set schedule, or it can be for up to a certain mileage and/ or number or calls per week or month. The agreement should state what you get for deliveries, mileage or hours over and above that called for in the contract.
You might also agree to display the client's sign (magnetic signs are good for this purpose) when making deliveries to his customers - and, you should assure your clients that you will represent their interests professionally on their behalf.
When you deliver for Smith Drug Store display their sign, you ARE Smith Drug Store as far as the customer is concerned.
A variation of the above plan is to have a referral agreement with the stores. When customers need something delivered, the store recommends (and even calls) you. The main difference with this alternative is that you are working for the customer, not the store.
The customer pays you. You are responsible for the item being delivered while in your possession.
This variation works nicely with a retail delivery business and requires the same type of insurance. With this arrangement the store could hire you to pick up things for them too (as a retail customer), but you can give them a discount for volume of trips.
The delivery service business needs advertising to make every potential customer knows who you are, what you do, and how to find you.
Put signs on your truck, notices on bulletin boards (the supermarket is great for this), keep a small ad in the local paper, and if you can afford it, a listing in the yellow pages.
Have some business cards printed and leave them with every business or potential customer you can. If you can't afford business cards, get a rubber stamp and make your own (use the same stamp to "imprint" your receipts).
Print copies of your rates where you can. Call on businesses in the area and ask them to try your services. Inform the Chamber of Commerce, banks, real estate offices and the bus station (many packages come in there and some may need transportation) of your services. Leave your name and number with travel agencies, depots and furniture stores.
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Many businesses either have a need to deliver or have customers who need delivery service.
Examples are merchandise for handicapped or elderly people, phone-in orders and catalog store deliveries of merchandise that comes in several days after it is ordered.
Maintaining a delivery service can be very expensive for local merchants. They must have a truck, commercial insurance, pay and insure a driver -- expenses that may be out of the question for a small business.
This is why some would be happy to contract or refer delivery chores. Even businesses that have their own services can never predict how busy they might be at any particular time and may need help with backlogs, especially during high sales seasons.
People who buy a new vacuum today do not want to wait a week to have it delivered -- some will even cancel the order if it is not delivered on time!
Deliveries are not limited to merchandise; they can be packages of important papers, picking up items for shipment or going after a part for a mechanic.
Your delivery business can be oriented to retail or wholesale customers, or even both. Retail is the most profitable, but it is less dependable and may not support a good business by itself.
For retail business, keep an ad in the paper and make sure you have good signs on your truck that display your company name, service and how to reach you. Some of your most effective advertising is when people see you performing your service and note your name and phone number. They then associate need (theirs) with the solution (you).
If there are other delivery services in your area, you might call find one that will agree to reciprocal back up -- you call him when you need assistance and vice-versa.
Be prepared to enter into wholesale agreements, where your services may be need on an irregular basis... The contract may be for a set schedule, or it can be for up to a certain mileage and/ or number or calls per week or month. The agreement should state what you get for deliveries, mileage or hours over and above that called for in the contract.
You might also agree to display the client's sign (magnetic signs are good for this purpose) when making deliveries to his customers - and, you should assure your clients that you will represent their interests professionally on their behalf.
When you deliver for Smith Drug Store display their sign, you ARE Smith Drug Store as far as the customer is concerned.
A variation of the above plan is to have a referral agreement with the stores. When customers need something delivered, the store recommends (and even calls) you. The main difference with this alternative is that you are working for the customer, not the store.
The customer pays you. You are responsible for the item being delivered while in your possession.
This variation works nicely with a retail delivery business and requires the same type of insurance. With this arrangement the store could hire you to pick up things for them too (as a retail customer), but you can give them a discount for volume of trips.
The delivery service business needs advertising to make every potential customer knows who you are, what you do, and how to find you.
Put signs on your truck, notices on bulletin boards (the supermarket is great for this), keep a small ad in the local paper, and if you can afford it, a listing in the yellow pages.
Have some business cards printed and leave them with every business or potential customer you can. If you can't afford business cards, get a rubber stamp and make your own (use the same stamp to "imprint" your receipts).
Print copies of your rates where you can. Call on businesses in the area and ask them to try your services. Inform the Chamber of Commerce, banks, real estate offices and the bus station (many packages come in there and some may need transportation) of your services. Leave your name and number with travel agencies, depots and furniture stores.
Please go to
EARN EXTRA MONEY WITH YOUR OWN DELIVERY SERVICE PART 2
For more Free information
The New 24 HOUR Web Cash Program
For Fast Reliable FREE Business information
Call Toll FREE 24/7 Speak to a real Person
Toll FREE: 1-800-719-8270 ext13797
International: 0011-888-719-2030 ext 13797
Or email tgdnurseries@hotmail.co.uk and enter RISK FREE in subject line.
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