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Home Based Business Perfected
When it comes starting a home based business, this small business start up can’t be beat for ease of setup, small investment and great reward. It can be achieved by most any person regardless of circumstances.
In the world of home ownership, there is always a constant. That is maintenance and upkeep. This is a natural ongoing dilemma because of time and money. If the homeowner cannot perform certain tasks such as painting or maybe masonry, then they must hire it out. But, it is pretty much in their control who they choose to perform this work and how much they will pay.
Now, if you throw in a small weather catastrophe such as a storm that includes wind and or hail, well now the homeowner control shifts pretty much to the “contractor”. This is the person who will be doing the house repair. You see, most people do not realize that when a small storm passes through their town, very often damage from wind and hail to their roof and siding has occurred.
Damage to the roof and the siding is covered under the homeowner’s insurance policy and therefore if they choose to get it repaired or replaced then the insurance has to pay for it, much like damage to a car.
This is where you come in. The first step in this process is to find areas within, let’s say, a thirty mile radius of where you live that has sustained storm damage within one year prior. You can find this out for free by going on the National Weather Service web site, type in the state where you live, and start looking for storm dates. Always look at the hail reports and make sure the size is at least .88.
Bingo! You found a few and now it is time to spend a little money. Give yourself a company name and get some business cards and flyers printed up. Call your insurance co. and get a million dollars of liability. This will cost about one to two hundred dollars. I would also incorporate. This protects you personally a great deal, but you must treat this as a real business. The last thing is to get a tax I.D. number. Any accountant will get this for you or you will get it yourself if you know how.
OK, time to find a contractor that will do the work for you. This is easy, but REMEMBER they must have a license and be insured also. Note, some states require you as the business owner to be licensed. Go to any local Home Depot, Menards or roofing/siding supply house in your area and ask at the front desk for a list of preferred contractors. Get the names of at least three roofing contractors and three siding contractors.
Now that you settled on a contractor for each, time to go to your nearest roofing and siding suppliers and get an account. This is because you will be buying the roofing and siding. You will have to supply them with your business information and Tax I.D. Don’t worry if you don’t have credit or credit card, you can pre-pay in this business quite easily.
Put your sales hat on, here we go. This is really easy because you are basically giving something away for free. You must REMEMBER this will be a game of numbers. Take your flyers, business cards and new kackie pants and knock on doors. After you have your “presentation” down pat you should be able to get at least two appointments for every hour’s work. Always do this between five and seven in the evening, Saturday and Sunday after twelve. These appointments are for inspection of their homes for hail damage. Homeowner must be home.
This concludes Part #1.
About the Author
My name is Tom Lauer. Parts #2 and #3 shall be published shortly or you can find them with all the details at this site. within a couple days. My main business can be found here.
I purchased a 10 column disbursement journal/check register to organize/catagories to make tax time easier….
Columns – 1.rent 2.phone 3.electric 4.water 5.gas 6.insurance 7. office supplies 8. cleaning supplies. 1st. question is : what do I write in the last 2 columns? – 2nd. question – if I go to Sam’s wholesale club & purchase both cleaning & office supplies on one ticket, so I have to totals of the ticket into seperate columns ? This is a salon business. No employees / booth rental only. I recently purchased this and I’m currtently doing alot of remodelling. How do I list payments to the contractor and credit card payments to home depot? A friend suggested to place the two together under repairs ?? If I put misc. in a collumn what sort of things qualify ? what about car expense? city tax paymts.? co. parties? Do I need a larger journal with more columns?? what do I do??
Rather than using a 10 column journal, why not use software for small business like Quick Books? It think at the end of the year you will end up with way more than 10 categories and this might get you in trouble. Quick Books comes with preestablished general categories and allows you to add any more that you might need and you can add those at any time without having to change your ledger book at all.
Del Ray Electric Uses Business Cards as a Leave-Behind for Customers
In by gone days all a contractor had to do was give the customer good quality and good service and he/she would be set. Then set back and let your customers do your selling for you. They would tell a friend and then that friend would tell a friend. Your phone would be ringing off the hook. I remember as an Architectural designer some days I would have up to four people wanting to schedule appointments for designs. Those days are long gone! But Fear Not! Click Here For Help
