Personal Service Business Idea: Become an Organization and Efficiency Expert

An organizer’s services can range from designing an efficient home office to organizing a cross-town move. Some organizers work on a room-by-room basis for space planning and reorganization. Other specialties include estate organization, improved management of paperwork and computer files, systems for managing personal finances and other records and/or coaching in time management and goal setting. This profession has gotten so popular that it helps to start out with a concept of a particular niche you might want to fill.

What you need to know about this service business idea

• The estimated startup cost for this business is between $200 to $1000 dollars.
• The estimated first year revenue is $50,000 to $100,000.
• Organizing professionals charge by the hour. The fee can range from $50 to $100 per hour depending upon the credentials, experience, and reputation of the individual consultant.
• Do not price by the job, especially with new customers, since the length of the project depends more on the personality of the customer than on the amount of the clutter you have been hired to transform.
• Since you will continually be working with many new customers you will need a pay-as-you-go policy. Let your customers know payment for your service is due in full at the end of each session.
• In addition to needing the gift of organizing other people’s stuff you need to bring a lot of empathy and patience.
• This is a relationship-based business; therefore it is important that before you enter someone’s home that you know where your boundaries are, what work you will do, and what you will not take on.
• With demand for organization professionals growing each year a website can start to bring you customers almost immediately.

How to market this business

• Fliers on local bulletin boards
• Newspaper ads in local newspapers and free publication
• Business Cards
• A website that offers information and that gets local business.
• Conduct classes on “How to get organized”

Home business equipment required

• A web site
• You will need to set up a merchants account so you can process credit card payments
• Post it notes, multicolor folders, and a labeling system.

Target market

• Professionals with business or home office
• People with extensive libraries
• People who work from home
• Professional practitioners