Home Organization Service
Do you have an innate knack for organization? Are you good at sorting, labeling, and finding effective ways of using storage space? Do you have good people skills with an innate ability to empathize and communicate in a personable way with frustrated customers? Then you are just the person needed to help these unorganized people out! You can charge between $30 and $90 dollars an hour or agree up-front on a flat fee to complete the project.
Do you have an innate knack for organization? Are you good at sorting, labeling, and finding effective ways of using storage space? Do you have good people skills with an innate ability to empathize and communicate in a personable way with frustrated customers? Then you are just the person needed to help these unorganized people out! You can charge between $30 and $90 dollars an hour or agree up-front on a flat fee to complete the project.
It is difficult to keep a home organized, especially when there are children or multiple pets in the home, or if the primary occupants work full time. Most people simply do not have the extra time or expertise to organize their homes well. If you have ever shopped in the isles of a store where storage items are sold, you will have noticed that there always seems to be many people filling up their carts with boxes, crates, sets of matching hangers, and label makers.
People are inspired by home improvement shows and have the best of intentions, planning to get their personal spaces under control and yet very few people ever manage to completely conquer their clutter and disorganization. Some people do manage to get started tackling their organization problems and then quickly become overwhelmed and give up. Others discover that all their time and efforts spent organizing were for nothing because they quickly become disorganized again as soon as their project is finished, since they lacked the experience needed to plan for effective day-to-day use of their space.
If you have an innate knack of organization skills then you are just the person needed to help these people out! You can offer a service where you should first visit a person’s home and inspect each area of the home that the person is having trouble organizing. Then you will discuss a plan of action with them and then swoop in to provide them with an organized and uncluttered living space.
Each home will have different organizational needs. Your initial visit will give you an opportunity to discuss with your potential customer the areas of their space that most frustrates them. You can also find out how much they would like to participate in the sorting and organizing process. You will need to discuss whether they are willing to dispose of or donate items that are seldom used or if their goal is to keep everything and just find a way to store it in such a way that it can be found and used easily. You can charge between $30 and $90 dollars an hour or agree up-front on a flat fee to complete the project.
You will also need to find out what organizational and storage tools the customer currently has on hand and you should be able to provide them with additional organization items. You can offer to accompany them on a trip to an organizational store to help them make their own choices when it comes to colors and sizes of organizational tools.
Another option that may appeal to people, who have very little time to dedicate to the organizational project, would be for you to just work your magic. Automatically providing whatever organizational or storage items that are needed, then just submitting a bill to them for the supplies purchased, charging them a small additional fee to cover your time and travel expenses incurred while procuring the items for them.
This can include helping them acquire and set up shelving or finding the appropriate size filing cabinets or furniture to help them effectively store and organize their belongings. Perhaps they need to find a way to store old paperwork, sort through and keep up with incoming mail, or perhaps just organize a flood of incoming books, magazines, and paperwork for their work lives.
You should familiarize yourself beforehand with the products available in your local office supply and organization supply stores to be able to offer your clients a large array of options.
You will want to advertise your service in a local phone book and offer your potential customers a website with photos and extensive descriptions of the services you are making available. People are more likely to turn to a business with a friendly face than just an impersonal phone number. Try to offer referrals from former customers with included before and after pictures of the services, you rendered them.
Dress professionally when you visit your clients and stay organized yourself. If you appear organized and have a positive outlook, then you are halfway there!
Resources:
http://www.napo.net/
http://www.certifiedprofessionalorganizers.org/
http://search.shopgetorganized.com/search.aspx?keyword=Organizers&leftnav=9
http://www.containerstore.com/
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/healthy-living/relationships/time/home-organization/index?s_kwcid=organize%20clutter|949271454
http://www.lifeorganizers.com/
http://www.stacksandstacks.com/bins-boxes-crates/
http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/site/products/productscategory.aspx?loc=left&Name=WORKSPACE_ORG