Originally Posted by
pfillery
If you have a niche market you are onto a winner. I used to live in a small mining town where all the men are away working in the mines earning ridiculous amounts of money, all the qualified tradespeople are subcontracting for the mines and if you need a plumber or sparkie for an emergency job you are looking at days rather than hours. Then they charge $140 an hour. Builders are the same up there. So what can you do when you have a knack for fixing things, a town where you can't get a tradie easilly and there are lots of miner's wives sitting at home with money to spend? Start a handyman business. Niche market and plenty of work around. $40 an hour to weed someone's garden is good work if you can get it. Or $30 to put someone's old washing machine into the back of your wagon and drive it 5 minutes up the road to the dump (which was free) because someone is too lazy to do it themselves.
We moved away after only a few months of running it, there were no real start up costs, I printed my own business cards and spent $30 on advertising and I couldn't keep up with the workload. 18 months later I'm still getting phone calls from people who don't know I've left town.
Niche market, no more needs to be said!
