Starting and Managing a Courier Service


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Updated with additional chapters added: This book provides all you need to get your courier service business up and running by providing an easy step-by-step approach. Start making income within days of purchasing this book. Your potiential first year income can be between $40,000 to $80,000 a year and within a few years you can be making a 6 figure income. The goal of this book is to equip you to lower your risk and increase your financial reward. Over 120 pages packed with valuable information.




Start Your Own Courier Business


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If you've been downsized, outsourced, grown tired of the rat race or just need more income and a brighter future, this book is for you. If you're ready to take charge and become your own boss, this book is for you.The demand for local, fast courier and delivery services is booming. Independent local couriers can provide the services that are in demand, like same-day deliveries that are just not available from UPS or Fedex. What does a courier do? They pick up and deliver packages, documents, even pets, for businesses and individuals. This service is always in demand, even in smaller in town, as there is always someone who needs a package or document delivered today. A courier service is the perfect "shoestring startup," as it requires very little money to start. All you need is a reliable vehicle and a smartphone.. No formal training is required, just the ability to communicate clearly with customers. Your new courier business can be home-based. This reduces overhead costs, and your only commute is to your next customer! The list of potential customers is almost endless: Architects, engineers, contractors, printers, doctors and medical labs, grocers, pharmacies, caterers, flower shops, accountants, attorneys, busy individuals who don't have the time to run errands and homebound individuals such as seniors and those recovering from an accident or illness.An independent courier service offers you: Flexible hours. Be your own boss. Scalability - grow as big as you want. A recession-proof business. Start on a shoestring.In this book, you'll learn: How to earn an instant income from day one. A simple tax break that could pay for your new delivery van. Software and smartphone apps to help you grow. Free and low-cost marketing ideas that work. How to set up your own website for under $200. How to pick the right vehicle for your new courier business and make it last 300K miles. Forms for your new courier business.




How to Start Run & Grow a Successful Courier Business


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Do you dream of being your own boss? Do you want to start a recession-proof business? I wrote this book, How to Start Run & Grow a Successful Courier Business, to show you how to start, run, and grow a courier service business from scratch. Every day, customers need documents, packages, and parcels delivered across town and across your state. YOU could be the answer to that need! When you start a courier delivery service business, you meet a need in your community and begin a business that will outlast most economic situations. All you need to start is a mode of transportation and a solid strategy. I will teach you that strategy! You don't need a major budget to start a courier business since it doesn't require a lot to start. You only need a little capital, and there is no formal education or training required. You will learn all you need to know to start a courier business and keep it running. A courier business also has an endless list of potential customers, which translates into easy profits for a start-up business. In my book, you will learn about how to start a courier business from scratch. We will discuss what a courier service is, what services it offers, and what your earnings could potentially be. You will learn how to write a solid business plan, what type of business entity is best for a courier business, and where to establish your business location. I will teach you all about branding your business, including finding a name, creating a logo, and establishing a vision statement. I will teach you how to scope out your competition. We will discuss what insurance to purchase and how to account for taxes. I will also give you 15 tips for running your business smoothly. We will talk about the types of software you should use and how to set a competitive price. Most importantly, you will learn all about start-up funding. I will show you the many ways that you can obtain the funds to start your new delivery business. I will show you how to find clients and market your business. Without new customers, your business won't be a success. I will show you proven advertising techniques, both online and offline. Last, but not least, we'll discuss ways that you can grow and expand your business. Once you get going, you'll need to branch out, and I will teach you how. This book also makes a great gift for that entrepreneur in your life. Be sure to click "Buy Now."




The Mom Test


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The Mom Test is a quick, practical guide that will save you time, money, and heartbreak. They say you shouldn't ask your mom whether your business is a good idea, because she loves you and will lie to you. This is technically true, but it misses the point. You shouldn't ask anyone if your business is a good idea. It's a bad question and everyone will lie to you at least a little . As a matter of fact, it's not their responsibility to tell you the truth. It's your responsibility to find it and it's worth doing right . Talking to customers is one of the foundational skills of both Customer Development and Lean Startup. We all know we're supposed to do it, but nobody seems willing to admit that it's easy to screw up and hard to do right. This book is going to show you how customer conversations go wrong and how you can do better.




The Drive to Freedom: The Hustler's Guide to Becoming an Independent Courier


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This book is a guide as well as a shining light into the secret world of Independent Courier Contracting. This book outlines in very simple steps how anyone, but particularly minorities in low income areas that would otherwise start illegal hustles, can become successful entrepreneurs in the ever growing transportation industry without having a CDL (Commercial Driver's License) or any professional driving experience. This book isn't written by a researcher but by an actual practitioner who after quitting his job at Berkshire Hathaway went on to start his own small courier business which grew from $500 - $2,000 a week within its first 90 days of operation.




Start Your Own Senior Transportation Business


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Discover how you can earn $35 to $60 an hour driving seniors to medical appointments. This fast-growing service business is needed every day in every town and you can get started on a shoestring. One in five seniors does not drive and many of those may be forced to stay home due to lack of transportation and miss a medical appointment or be unable to shop for groceries. A private senior transportation service helps those seniors get around easily.In addition, the federal government now requires that state medicaid programs cover the cost of transportation to medical appointments. This has created even more opportunities for local senior transportation businesses.A senior transportation can be started with very little money - if you have a reliable car and a cellphone, you're almost there. The rewards are great - not just in dollars and cents - but in helping seniors live better lives by helping them enjoy their independence as long as possible. That's priceless.What is an N.E.M.T. vehicle? Unlike some specialized medical transportation vehicles - like an ambulance - a basic senior ride service does not require a special vehicle to transport seniors. There are far more seniors who are able to walk and just need a ride on a regular basis. NEMT is short for non-emergency medical transport. The name means exactly that - unlike an ambulance, your vehicle, whether a car, SUV or minivan, is an NEMT vehicle if you are taking passengers to and from medical appointments. You won't need to buy an expensive new van or specialized equipment, because you can focus on where there is a steady demand - transporting seniors who are able to walk. ( The medical term is "ambulatory")The opportunities are wide open in this fast-growing field, and so is the potential for an above-average income that's recession-proof. At current rates, a six-figure income is not uncommon for full-time drivers.If you've always wanted to be your own boss, running a business that makes a positive difference in people's lives every day, and are a caring person, take the first step by reading my step-by-step guide. The advice you'll find in the book will give you a head start, reduce risk, and cut startup costs. So you can get started right away, the book also contains a list of major transportation brokers who hire local drivers in all states.




Twilight in Hazard


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“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.




Retail's Last Mile


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The disruption of store retail by online shopping has only just begun. Few retailers are ready for the changes ahead.Some customers shop in stores because they love to, but mostly they do it because there is no convenient alternative. This situation is changing. Technology which enables customers to make smart digital decisions and a wave of innovation in logistics are combining to solve the challenge of "retail's last mile": how to profitably and conveniently sell products to customers shopping from home. Online retail expert Jonathan Reeve forecasts that last-mile innovations will see shopping online overtake shopping in stores within 20 years. Few players have grasped the extent to which their business models and mindsets need to shift. The Amazons of this world have blazed the trail and a small number of retailers are keeping up. Most are well behind and have underestimated the threat. Reeve urges us to get ready before it's too late.




How to Start a Business in Oregon


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This series covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small businesses, with concise, friendly and up-to-the-minute advice on each critical step of starting your own business.




How to Start Over 101 Self-Employment Businesses


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If you're tired of your job, working for others and making them money, and you want to start your own business, then this book is for you! Even if you don't have tons of money to start a big business, there is something in this book for just about everyone, who wants to start their own part-time or full-time business, working for themselves! This book will give you many ideas of how you can start a business and head you in the right direction of what lots of them are and how to start and market them to make money. If you pick any of these businesses to start, or have your own ideas of a different business, then this book will motivate you to get started right away. This book contains lots of various businesses that almost anyone can start, and you can make it as big as you want to build it up to. If this book gives you one different way to look at things, or gives you a better idea on how to market, or sell your product or service, then this book has just paid for itself and probably more, as you will save money, and have some new ideas to make your business make more money for you, after you read it! You also get with this book a bonus section which includes over 101 of some of the biggest, and largest suppliers of general merchandise in the United States for just about any type of retail store. If you're thinking of opening any type of retail store, or already have one, you will want to see some of the wholesalers in this book! Chances are good you will save money with just one of the vendors you might end up doing business with. It contains names, what they sell, phone numbers, websites, and more! This book is a must read for any person that wants to make their life better by starting their own business working for themselves, or running your own retail business, and finding better suppliers, and cheaper prices! You will love this book and it will make you money and give you some great ideas!