How would you go about starting a hometending business?

Question

What would be required? Laws? ETC....thank you..

Answer 1

If you've never been in business before, I would strongly recommend that you talk to a business counselor before you do anything especially spend money. I'd call the local office of SCORE (go to http://www.score.org and input your zip code to find the chapter nearest you), the advice is FREE.

The counselor at SCORE will most likely advise you to write a business plan which is very good advice because it will force you to dig out all of the start up details and the costs of starting a hometending business and force you to also understand all of the aspects of this business including the customers you'll concentrate on (your market ) and how you'll go after them.

Try this link :
http://www.ychange.com/small-business-consulting-articles.html
and read some of the articles especially the ones about a business plan and starting a business.

Good Luck

Answer 2

Click on this link for a lot of ideas:
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0geu7j8OqVGbLEAYYJXNyoA?p=house+sitting&fr=ks-ans&rd=pref
I would do any of the following that I could afford:
Add House sitting to my web site and use a lot of the following in my meta section at the top of the file. For example:


Classified ads in local papers and craigs list and Yahoo classified.
flyers, hand delivered to target area and/or car windshields (Windscreens) in the local shopping centers. Register yourself as available for the service on sites like http://www.housesitworld.com/
And tell everyone you know what you want to do.
Get business cards that make the offer and give one to everyone you meet.
Call all the local business owners you can find in the local yellow pages and offer them your service. Do any or all of this and you will be busy from now on. They are waiting to hear from you... The people who need someone reliable to releave them of their worries.