A shoe repair service center in large cities can become an alternative to the more familiar "handicraft" workshops in which one person works. Such a consumer services business requires little start-up capital and is fairly simple to organize.
It is necessary
- - a room in a residential area of the city (30-50 square meters);
- -set of machines for shoe repair;
- - agreements with several suppliers of consumables;
- - order acceptor and two shoe masters;
- - a business card site of your establishment on the Internet.
Instructions
Step 1
Calculate how much space you need to accept and fulfill a fairly large flow of orders, without resembling a traditional handicraftsman alone in a booth. Experienced entrepreneurs advise renting a space of at least 30 square meters. At the same time, your service center should be clean and tidy - cosmetic repairs will be required, and besides, it should be connected to a working power supply, without which you will not be able to use the equipment.
Step 2
Purchase a used but modern and high quality shoe repair machine. It will hardly be affordable for a beginning entrepreneur to buy equipment from a factory (most likely a foreign one) - it will cost tens of thousands of dollars, while domestic machines can be bought for up to ten thousand. Find opportunities for small wholesale (to begin with) procurement of consumables - heels, heels, leather and adhesive mixtures.
Step 3
Make sure that your relatively new shoe repair shop attracts attention - order the professionals to create a website describing the full range of services that your service center is able to provide. You will also need a sign and pillars, but the "traditional" means of attraction for shoe repair alone would not be enough. Develop a corporate identity for your establishment, try to create a memorable image for it.
Step 4
Get people to work at your center - The shoe repair revolution is going to be the distribution of order taking and order fulfillment among multiple people. Hire a woman specifically to take orders from customers and then hand out finished shoes to customers. You must have at least two masters working on the principle of piecework.
