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A business oppurtunity that might suprise you
Here is a business ide a for you. We bought a company last year that specialized in pet waste removal. The guy approached us showing his tax returns for the last 3 years, He cleared over 30 k from 40k in revenue. He worked from Monday thru Thursday, the hours of 7:30am thru 2:30 pm. He charged about $8.00 a dog. He would pick up the waste using a small landscape type rake sweeping it into a custodian's dust pan that had been wrapped in a bag, more like had one been caught over one edge then brought to the arm of the dust pan, wrapped around the handle, and clamped with a spring type wood clamp he had affixed to the handle. On the way back to his little Lowes purchased trailer, that he pulled behind his Geo Tracker, with his trash cans bungee'd to the rails and his storage bins screwed to the floor, He would hang a service card and a dog biscuit for each dog on the customers door. He would seal the bag used on each property and place it in a trash can that was also lined with another bag. The sealed bag being placed in a bag with other bags evidetly helped hold down the smell bag.
The vast majority of his clients were residential, however the last stop each day was one of four large apartment complexes where he would pick up that product from their dog walk areas, seal it in a bag and place it in the trash can. He would seal the trash can bag and leave it in the days apartment complex dumpster. At one complex they also paid for him to pick up trash around the property. He was actually sweethearting the apartment complexes since he was using their dumpsters for product disposal.
All he took home with him was the trailer which had his company name "Dirty Dog, Pet Waste Removal Service, A phone # And his Website address. He had a bucket of disinfectant that he would leave the rake in overnight, as I would gather that there is some worry about disease transmission being possible from one canine to another.
Here is a link to a Detroit Free Press article about a sevice near there: http://www.freep.com/entertainment/n...9_20010219.htm
This from The Dallas Morning News http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...dmn9262000.htm
aother link: http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...irBusiness.asp
And another: http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...es/gotpoop.asp
And naturally the have their own trade association: http://www.apaws.org/
Who has this to say about disinfecting:
Disinfecting Requirements talks about disenfecting tools and shoes with a cleaner formulated specifically to kill canine parvo virus.
So if you decide to try this out, these folks have that website and I would imagine that the advice they are able to provide is more than worth the cost of membership. This man may have been a member of it. I mean he was awfully fastidious about disenfecting, and storage of wastes to be disposed of. I would think that he had some help from somewhere to figure this out.
Of course I gave them a lot of "product" referenced greif for about 3 weeks, including one morning when I, with a sincere face proceeded to apologize for being so "Productty", And giving them so much "product", about the "product" business we found ourselves in.
I understand that in several cities, apartment complexes are requiring this service of some of the biggest maintenance contractors in this business.
Finally you have to admit we have all struggled with a lot of issues in this business. We don't get paid to scrape it off of Spray boots, clean it of of mower tires out of the floor matts in you new one ton, and at least since we are already there it would be nice to pad the bill with the homeowners permission. Lexington is a city of 250,000 souls and until this guy walked in I had never heard of such a thing. Come to find out there was another guy doing the same kinda thing, though not as well organized as this young man.
You wouldn't have to have employees, wonder if they were abusing your equipment to the point of breakage, would have less exposure to rising fuel cost. Workmans comp would be eliminated, since it doesn't cover the owner any way. I would presume that your liability insurance would be cheaper from the business side, while the truck policies would be about the same.
I would bet that trailer and all this fellow had less than a grand invested in a company that paid him 30k a year for four days work!
I know some of you are going to think that I am full of "product", but I am just reporting on a trend. I didn't develop these ideas on my own. See for yourself, I got all those links , just by typing pet waste removal service into the search engine at dogpile, no less (anyone know why google keeps giving a not available message the last 3 days?) One other reason to consider it is one of the articles mentions it picks up during the winter snowfall season. "You got snow on the ground, its easy to find brown"
By the way, what would you like to bet that entrepenuer magazine already has a manual on how to start a Pet waste Removal Business. They don't, but oh well maybe one of us should write one
Bill
The vast majority of his clients were residential, however the last stop each day was one of four large apartment complexes where he would pick up that product from their dog walk areas, seal it in a bag and place it in the trash can. He would seal the trash can bag and leave it in the days apartment complex dumpster. At one complex they also paid for him to pick up trash around the property. He was actually sweethearting the apartment complexes since he was using their dumpsters for product disposal.
All he took home with him was the trailer which had his company name "Dirty Dog, Pet Waste Removal Service, A phone # And his Website address. He had a bucket of disinfectant that he would leave the rake in overnight, as I would gather that there is some worry about disease transmission being possible from one canine to another.
Here is a link to a Detroit Free Press article about a sevice near there: http://www.freep.com/entertainment/n...9_20010219.htm
This from The Dallas Morning News http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...dmn9262000.htm
aother link: http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...irBusiness.asp
And another: http://www.pet-butler.com/pet-butler...es/gotpoop.asp
And naturally the have their own trade association: http://www.apaws.org/
Who has this to say about disinfecting:
Disinfecting Requirements talks about disenfecting tools and shoes with a cleaner formulated specifically to kill canine parvo virus.
So if you decide to try this out, these folks have that website and I would imagine that the advice they are able to provide is more than worth the cost of membership. This man may have been a member of it. I mean he was awfully fastidious about disenfecting, and storage of wastes to be disposed of. I would think that he had some help from somewhere to figure this out.
Of course I gave them a lot of "product" referenced greif for about 3 weeks, including one morning when I, with a sincere face proceeded to apologize for being so "Productty", And giving them so much "product", about the "product" business we found ourselves in.
I understand that in several cities, apartment complexes are requiring this service of some of the biggest maintenance contractors in this business.
Finally you have to admit we have all struggled with a lot of issues in this business. We don't get paid to scrape it off of Spray boots, clean it of of mower tires out of the floor matts in you new one ton, and at least since we are already there it would be nice to pad the bill with the homeowners permission. Lexington is a city of 250,000 souls and until this guy walked in I had never heard of such a thing. Come to find out there was another guy doing the same kinda thing, though not as well organized as this young man.
You wouldn't have to have employees, wonder if they were abusing your equipment to the point of breakage, would have less exposure to rising fuel cost. Workmans comp would be eliminated, since it doesn't cover the owner any way. I would presume that your liability insurance would be cheaper from the business side, while the truck policies would be about the same.
I would bet that trailer and all this fellow had less than a grand invested in a company that paid him 30k a year for four days work!
I know some of you are going to think that I am full of "product", but I am just reporting on a trend. I didn't develop these ideas on my own. See for yourself, I got all those links , just by typing pet waste removal service into the search engine at dogpile, no less (anyone know why google keeps giving a not available message the last 3 days?) One other reason to consider it is one of the articles mentions it picks up during the winter snowfall season. "You got snow on the ground, its easy to find brown"
By the way, what would you like to bet that entrepenuer magazine already has a manual on how to start a Pet waste Removal Business. They don't, but oh well maybe one of us should write one
Bill
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