By Kevin M
Friday Income & Cash Flow ForumThis is a weekly open forum dedicated to increasing income, cash flow and customer base, for anybody who needs to increase business or supplement a paycheck. Salaried employees, homemakers, small business owners, commissioned sales people, entrepreneurs, retirees—this is FOR you, and we’d like to hear FROM you. What works in one household or business may not work in another, but then again it might. Or it might be modified and adapted to different situations.
Dog Walking and Pet Sitting
This recommendation will require you to leave your house, but typically you’ll need to go no farther than your immediate neighborhood since it’s a service you would provide to a very local clientele.
There are full time businesses devoted to dog walking and pet sitting, so you know there’s a market for it immediately. All you need to do is to tap into it, and you’ll have a built-in advantage just by being local. Remember that for a lot of people, their pets have a status as family members; to some people they’re the emotional equivalent of children. It isn’t a job they want to turn over to a stranger, so by being known and in the neighborhood, you may not have to work too hard to find clients. Once you establish clients in your own neighborhood, you can work on referrals to find more in other neighborhoods.
