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I am interested in starting a delivery service. I am trying to serve a niche market. I am aware of grocery shopping services, document delivery services,medical services, to name a few. I want to indentify an unserved or underserved market.

 

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April 27 1:56 PM (7 minutes and 11 seconds later)
         
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Of course it would help to know where you are located. You will want to identify a need in your specific area.

One of the largest underserved needs is in "child delivery". Too and from daycare, picking a child up after school. You will need to check out insurance requirements and create signed waivers from parents. But there is a definate need.

Carrie

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April 27 5:24 PM (3 hours and 28 minutes and 7 seconds later)
         
Reply to Carrie's Post: I apologize for not including more helpful information. I live in the Houston area. I am more interest in delivering goods or services, people. Due to high fuel cost, I plan to use European style scooters or mopeds. As I stated before, I am aware of delivery services involving mail, legal documents, medical supplies, etc., but I am interested in areas that indicate need but have few suppliers of that need. The only qualifications I have are need to be independent, fluency in Spanish and a good work ethic.

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jiaomen
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April 27 5:44 PM (20 minutes and 3 seconds later)
         
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Hi,

This can be a very lucrative market if you know where to look when I was in collage I did this type of work for myself to make a little extra income by the time I quit I was getting more work then I could handle and go to school. I eventually allowed a good friend of mine to take it over and he is still doing it to this day.

Delivering grocery's can be a pain as the orders sometimes can be quite large and heavy. Though delivery of legal papers pays well, job are scarce and hard to find.

The best one is home and office errands. I advertised as a errand service I would pick up anything for a fee, my biggest customers believe it or not were mothers. I fetched diapers, formula, band aids, milk, bread, and emergency hair die, though I also had business's I delivered for supplies and lunches, copy ink etc. I also made quite a bit on the collage campus buying late night study foods cigarettes and even condoms. I made up lots of professional fliers and put them in places that would be most frequented by my type of customers. Such as parks stores collage campus and gave some family friendly fliers out to the local school to send home with the kids. I got the most business from the fliers sent to the school.

There are allot of busy mom's out there that have kids and don't feel like running out for a few small items thats where you step in. As I stated before mothers were my BIGGEST customers (and best tippers). By working on mopeds you would be saving quite a bit on gas and most of everything you would make would be pure profit. The sky can be th limit with these types of delivery's my friend now has 3 err an employees and he is no longer doing the work just making the profit. I wish you the best of luck in your new business.

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April 27 5:52 PM (8 minutes and 24 seconds later)
         
Reply to Walter's Post: Thanks for the advice, Walter. I have just one more question. How did you charge for this service. Were customers charged by the mile, by a percentage of the item picked up or a flat rate?


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Reply to Walter's Post: Hi, again, Walter. I already replied with more questions. I guess my reply failed to go through.
As stated earlier, you got my attention. I just have a few more questions. How were your customers billed? Were they charged after or before delivery? Did you pay for the items your self and get reimbursed, along with the errand charge, after you made the delivery? When did the billing start? What method of payment did you receive?
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April 27 6:45 PM (11 minutes and 24 seconds later)
         
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Hi,

Question 1: I NEVER billed a errand unless there was a contract (a few of the business and some mothers did agree to a contract that stated they would be billed at the end of the week, month. They also understood that they had to pay for all purchases prior to me getting them.)

2: If it was a pickup of under 20.00 I would receive payment when I delivered the items. Anything over 20.00 I took payment then did the err-an, unless it was a repeat customer that I knew was a payer.

3: If I was doing a errand that was charged by the hour (something that had a long wait time, such as a trip to a place that required a wait) I would charge so much a hour and the billing started after I left for th errand.

4: I accepted cash though I had a pre-made small contract that stated if a check was being used if it did not go though I had the right to charge a 35.00 fee for any returned checks. I never accepted Credit Cards as I did not have the capability's of taking them.

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