Shoe workshop nowadays is quite a profitable business. Heels wear out and break, the seams diverge, locks and fasteners now and then fail both on women's sandals, shoes, boots, and on men's shoes, sneakers, braids. And for various reasons, many people are in no hurry to buy new shoes, but bring them to the master for repair. How and where to open a shoe shop in order to get a good income?
Instructions
Step 1
First you need to determine how much you need for starting capital. To do this, find out the prices for materials and equipment for shoe repair. Specify the cost of renting or buying a space for a workshop. Include another third of the amount received in the estimate for unforeseen expenses.
Step 2
It is important to choose the place where the workshop will be located. It is ideal to find a small space close to residential complexes, but at the same time with high traffic. This will attract two streams of customers. The first - residents of high-rise buildings, the second - passers-by who needed the urgent help of a shoe repairman. At the same time, you should not open a workshop if someone in the area opened it before you. Choose a territory that has not yet been developed by anyone.
Step 3
The next stage is paperwork. For a shoe workshop, such a form of business as an individual entrepreneur (individual entrepreneurship) is suitable. You will also need permits from the fire inspection, to remove the premises from the housing stock (if necessary), to install a sign and other advertising materials at the entrance.
Step 4
It is also important to take care of attracting customers. Make a bright sign, come up with an original name that reflects the activities of the workshop. Attach a billboard next to the sign with a detailed description of your services, working hours. Designate a place inside the workshop where customers can wait while their shoes are repaired. It will be necessary for those who broke the heel or lost the heel right on the street and came to you for help.
Step 5
Attracting customers to a shoe repair shop is not enough, you also need to keep them. Reasonable prices, excellent quality of work and excellent service will help you with this. Observing these simple rules, you can, in the shortest possible time, not only recoup all the costs of opening a workshop, but also earn a good profit.
