Small Business Idea; Catering

Catering business is a very promising business, since the more complexity of people work, cause they have a little time to prepare their daily meals, both for personal and family. Food is no longer just for the needs of the person daily but also for many purposes, including as a form of social bonding. Some people will throw a party, some holding seminars, partially met, the needs of schools, colleges, and many more.
Catering business is a business that prepares food that appeal to prospective customers. You can begin to decide your potential clients, whether you will sell to prospective customers who come to  eat at your place, or you are just serving customers through the reservation within a certain amount. But all the food you offer is conformity with the food laws that apply in your area.

MARKET NEED

Catering business like any other business, have a customer with specific characteristics. At the beginning, you can decide your potential clients, whether personal or special order in large quantities, or with greater cost you can prepare for the two groups.
For group orders in bulk, you could find a client is a person who is engaging in celebrating the event - weddings, birthdays, graduation, or any other moment. Included also you can prepare for the needs of schools, colleges, corporate meetings, conferences, parties and so on. To get clients who reverse, you can introduce yourself to wedding planners, bridal boutiques, cake decorator and bakery, flower shop, and card and party supply shop keepers that you think could give advice to prospective customers.
 

Starting a catering business can be done by conducting surveys and decide also by geographic area. You need to consider your market area to a place you build your catering business. What the interests of most communities in the vicinity of your business, could be different to other place you open your business in the downtown with the suburbs. If you open the inter-messaging service, then you also need to specify the extent of areas will you serve, because the too deep areas can cause the cost become more expensive, and cause your catering price be more expensive, however, when you offer to prospective customers, they will think to buy the more cheaper with the same type and quality in near of their homes.

As a beginner in this business, the most important to prepared is a commercial kitchen, but you can do a catering business from home, because the catering business is one kind of business that is easy to run even by the housewife though. You can cook, try new menu, offer to others, and serve the order. The new you need to learn probably is begin to learn about business.

Determine your business clients, whether for public or for specific events only, or whether you will enter the market catering to specific niches of different dishes with other people around you.
Look into the food laws and the businesses in your area, is food you provide including permitted or prohibited.
You need to provide a special space in your home for business needs, (even if you cook elsewhere), a space to store food, important documents, and later you need space for telephone, computer, etc.
Retain all records of your catering activities include invoice sales, etc. Save all documents relating to your business, including permits from the authorities.
Decide whether you will work alone or involving others in your catering business. Consider that you may need an employee if you serve the order. When someday you need to grow the business, then you need to decide to get employees.
Make a list detailing what services you provide. Types of food, type of container used, hot or cold food and price lists for each other.
You need to develop work procedures as a basis for measuring the quality of your business. Highlights include: your product, job stacking system, the type of services you offer, and how to distribute orders to customers and other procedures which can grow so far you run your business.

Make promotions. You can use brochures, flyers, business cards, advertising, sample menus, and more professional if you have a website. Creating your promotional materials based on the costs you will spend, you should adjust to the funds you have. Promotion becomes important in the catering business. There are at least two main purposes of promotion in the catering business, first as a medium to inform services that you provide, second, is to show the image of your catering business, and third as a guarantee to customers that your product is secured. Because all of your potential customers would think to keep their health than just indulge the taste and price of the food they want.

Business place is very influential to the development in the catering business if the choice is to do direct sales to consumers who come. The strategic places mentioned are those with easy access from public roads, easily visible to passers-by, there is not the same type of food around and being in crowded places, exceptions if you present the food with a distinctive taste and there is no other place around, so you will become famous, or you offer an attractive place such as the edge of rivers, lakes or other places to interest the visitors, so they have another reason to come to your place more than just eating.

Although the talent and perseverance can help people become successful business owners, Casella offers 10 tips for anyone who wants to start a catering business:
1. Catering gain employment experience.
Doing business catering is more appropriate if you start with a valuable experience. Launch into one of the maids in the catering business can be a right choice, because you will learn more in detail, and you will realize that this business really demands a lot to do with physical activity.
2. Find a licensed commercial kitchen to rent.
Policies in one country to another could be different. In most countries, you can not offer catering services from your home kitchen. You have to find a licensed catering kitchen in your area, and inquire about renting commercial kitchen space per hour.
3. Setting the price of your catering.
When you decide to enter the catering business, then you also have started thinking for profit. You make the proper calculations to determine the price of every your product. For that reason, count all your expenses even include hours spent on these needs, lest you lose only because any wrong calculation, it is not interesting.
4. Catering equipment rental.
At the early stages, you do not need to buy all the catering equipment, but you can rent equipment, but make sure the equipment you rent guaranteed hygienic and certainly does not drain your pockets. Slowly you begin to prepare your inventory little by little.
5. Getting business insurance.
Like any other business, you should make sure you have insurance. You must have a proper business license and commercial insurance. If you hire employees, you must have workers' compensation insurance for each.
6. Being a caterer is approved.
In some areas, prepare a list of recommended caterers. You need to strive to be one of a list of caterers who have a recommendation. Of course this is based on what you do and you generate
7. Network with event planners and wedding coordinators.
Catering business can be very promising if you can cooperate with event organizer, do not be afraid to give discounts to them, because they could be an effective promotional machine for your catering business grow.
8. Promote yourself as an expert catering.
Promotion became an important field for your business becoming visible. Promotion can be done through off-line media (brochures, flyers, etc) or online media (social websites, own website, etc) or through the promotion of the most phenomenal, viral marketing. If your customers feel satisfied with what they pay, your business will be recommended to others.
9. Join a catering association.
In some areas, there is a catering association. If there association in your area, then join, you will get a lot of profit in it. In addition, you are also believed to be one of the recommended catering business.
10. Stay focused on your catering business.
Catering business is to combine the pleasures of art and earn money. Explor your ability to mix the menu to generate a lot of money, but you must stay focused on the business side, do not be making experimental imposition of new menu that will just spend money and your time. Try to keep a lot to learn from books and internet about the menu and catering business.
10 suggestions above is on what presented by The Rob hard at About.com, with an explanation from us with an additional one point again, that is: always be honest and friendly to customers, one disappointed customer could be a high risk to your business.

CATERING BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
When your business is already a grown up, you can begin to think about improving of your income. You might have started thinking of opening branches in other areas, but make sure that you do the same action against the new place. You can also just started making an effort, such as event organizer for a certain party activities, you can offer a complete package of activities from planning, execution and all requirements such as buildings, equipment needed and so on. This is one form of development that benefit the cause began to develop new types of businesses that can fatten your bank account.

Carpet Cleaning Service Business Idea

Nowadays, you can develop your skills by trying a new business which can promise a lot of advantages. You can choose to try the carpet cleaning business. Most companies or households using janitors or janitorial carpet services every day, and most do a thorough and deep cleaning for a week, and most do carpet cleaning in-depth in a specific period such as two or even every three months, depending on the type of domestic traffic, and on their budgets.

This business is no need of vocational education or special experience. However, you need to show the image as a professional in this work. An important part of this business is to understand the "sense of marketing". All businesses succeed through marketing strategies and salesmanship. In this business you will not sell the product, but will sell the service. And sales of services is often more difficult than product sales.

Most people are too busy to handle all their own projects. They are forced to continue to postpone any task that requires specialized equipment, especially in carpet cleaning, they fear their time-consuming job. So, they are more than willing to pay an expert or specialist to do this kind of work for them.

Most of the residential homeowners just want their carpets cleaned, but commercial companies sometimes want to be cleaned with a more complex, given the wide carpeted areas to be cleaned.

CAPITAL

Determine how to set up the initial cost. Every business has a start-up costs, whether expensive or cheap. You can apply for a business loan, where you have good credit business according to plan. Another option is to use your personal savings or business credit card.

Beginning at minimal cost that it takes only a vacuum cleaner to suck up dirt from carpets, a regular carpet shampoo such as those used at home, could locally carpet shampoo production. If needed you can buy a special van to transport your equipment because most people prefer the environmentally friendly materials, then consider using equipment and materials that are environmentally friendly.

Make sure you always maintain those your equipment, and always ready to go smoothly, give attention to whether your supplies organized and within easy reach. Do not let yourself get stuck in a position where you have to make excuses because the equipment will not function properly. You may need to hire employees, a trained cleaning crew, and one or two helpers to grow the business, and then expand the staff you need. 
You should always be ready to provide the best service for your customers. It begins by providing an easy phone numbers to remember in every your promotional materials. Place a secretary is friendly and ready to give precise answers to any questions from customers. Equipment is always in good condition so it does not have a problem when you are doing your job.

You also need to think about buying or renting a van. A uniform with your company's name emblazoned on the back. Prepare a good van, you are always ready to come according to schedule or agreement you make with your customers. At side and back of the van, place names and company logos are painted neat, flashy and easy to read and remember. This will be a free promotion that could be seen every day on the streets.

Start a campaign you can do with in-depth understanding of business you run, then come up with your imagination about the image you want to describe about your company is. Consult with advertising agencies, but if you think is too expensive and takes a long time, you can enlist the services of staff who do freelance work, you can make a deal with him about the completion time and overall costs to completion.

On the subject of advertising, you can place the easy and complete, but brief overview of what you offer, give the guarantees assured, costs, address, phone number, email, or your company website. So that potential customers are really interested and if they feel the need, then the choice is your company.

Make a pencil sketch of your own brochures and flyers, emphasizing customer benefits and your ability to do the job. Recommend the word about your company to people in your area, enter also in the company directory in your area. If possible you can arrange to conduct demonstrations throughout your workday in your city shopping center, distribute leaflets in a crowded place, but not break the rules and regulations. Do the same at the relevant exhibits, and conducts seminars a good carpet care. Publicity and many other ideas that you can do so you are sure it will encourage your company to be famous.

This business does not need a special place, you can start and run a business from home. The most important thing you need is a special place to store equipment, provide a good van to carry your equipment.

STEPS TO WORK 

You could consider the type of clients you want. Some carpet cleaners only accept commercial clients, where other business as it only works with residential customers. Then again, some businesses are not picky and both types of client service. 
Your service is the cleaning service. Always try to use the best equipment available. If your funds are not sufficient, for the early stages you can hire a good cleaning equipment, but within a few weeks or months later you could buy your own equipment, of course if your funds are sufficient.

Your business will grow and evolve as a result of you do a good job and complete at all times. You need to make the procedures work as a form of a plan to achieve a quality job, it may seem a bit heavy, but it will make your customers happy to pay. Of course you want your customers to call again and again to clean their carpets. If they are happy with your work, they will spread the word about your services, and this is free promotion, the group of satisfied customers is the key to getting rich in this business.

To make attract customers, you need an effective marketing campaign. To keep customers, you should offer a good service, and even better if not only professional work, but also you give bonuses to your customers, this is a cooperation and appreciation form to your customers. 
When you are sure to build your business, you need to do a registration to the government. Get a business license is easy. Visit the local town hall, register a business's name and pay licensing fees.

You can choose two forms of carpet cleaning business management: Buying a franchise or start your own business. Using a franchise is ideal because they provide all the tools you need to succeed, but there are also drawbacks and usually expensive. But if you want to start with minimal funding, the best step is to start small and open your own business, but the risks and benefits are on your own hands. You can begin to set a good working procedures, and could be a reference of work so that you have a service standard that can secure customer satisfaction

It could be in your town there are several other carpet cleaning company. To win in this competition, you need to do your job professionally and makes your customers happy. You can also offer a one-time free service bonuses of several times work you do to your customers, or you can also give discounts, as a well forms of attention, thus you expect your customers will always contact you when they need and not to others, even giving advice to other people to use your company's services.

Developing A New Product Model

You can do well your carpet cleaning business in your own town, but you could just reach far-out from your area, of course, if you do a good job and is known as a professional and through proper promotion. This is very good for the development of your company.

Over time, when your business become known as a professional, it is possible to develop an allied service, and can be a source of additional income such as business places and upholstery stain removal, washing curtains, carpets, etc.