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.

Lawn Maintenance Contractor

Another job many of us had was mowing lawns for the neighborhood. Lawn and garden care has become much more involved in the last 10 years.This area can go far beyond the simple mowing of the lawn. Consider spending an hour or so at a local nursery.Learn what types of supplements the various types of lawns would need and when. Learn what plants do well outside in your area of the country. Find out what is the most effective watering schedule for your area during each season. This way you will be able to provide the lawn care service that your neighbors need and want but you can also help them decide on plants to include and can provide information to help them have the type of lawn that will be the envy of the block.

Indoor House Plant Gardener

There are several possibilities for that person who enjoys house plants. If you are good at getting things to grow,why not make that service available to your neighbors? Providing an indoor gardening service and also lead to a retail business as well. You can expand to sell plant supplies to your clients to help them maintain healthy plants between your visits. You can also put some of your knowledge into a pamphlet or booklet and sell that to them as well. If you really enjoy plants, a variation on this idea is to grow plants at home and lease out for special occasions like weddings or anniversaries and so forth. This requires a bit more space and time than taking care of plants in another person’s home, but the rewards may be worth the extra effort.

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