With this business idea you can offer a service where you completely baby proof new parents homes by taking care of every little safety aspect - cover outlets, lock cabinets and drawers, the whole nine-yards.
Not only will this service offer a sigh of relief to new parents, but also baby-proofing is something every parent needs to protect their new babies at home.
And many parents simply prefer a professional to do it, they do not feel either they know how to do it correctly, or do not have time.
All of these parents and more are your potential customers - baby-proofing is vital for a new baby's safety.
There are varieties of ways you can begin this business idea.
Of course the best start is to thoroughly educate yourself about how to baby proof a home.
Ehow has a great article about
How to Buy Child-Proofing Supplies,
and there are many more related articles on the site about baby and child proofing.
A Google search will turn up multiple articles and resources to help you get this business idea off the ground, and the resources listed below will give you even more info and suppliers.
To get started you will need a complete variety of baby-proofing products, business cards, and brochures to educate parents about your services.
You should definitely have a yellow pages advertisement and look into internet business directories too.
Other ways to get the word out to expectant parents are to display at baby fairs and home fairs, leave brochures in clinic waiting rooms if allowed, and provide your information to any expectant parent class teachers you may know of.
Once you start getting the word out and finish a few homes word of mouth buzz will start to help grow your business too.
And as always one of the best ways to get this business idea off the ground is to offer your services free for friends who are expecting.
You will build up some good references that way and start the word of mouth buzz too.
You can find even more ideas for promoting and building this business idea in my article
How To Promote Your Business.
Offering the service of baby-proofing a new parent's home is an extremely valuable one.
You could go into their home, show them what needs attention, and explain how you plan to make it safe.
For example, outlet covers are always necessary when there are babies in the home, even if the baby is not yet moving around the house.
It does not take long for a baby to begin crawling and they are curious about everything that is new to them, this will include electrical outlets.
Other items would be cabinets and drawers; keeping the little ones away from potentially harmful items and situations is the entire point of baby proofing a home.
For your customers that do not live near enough to you, you could offer a wide variety of products that are specific for baby-proofing and for sale in a kit.
Offer these items at a competitive price in addition to providing them with step-by-step instructions on what they should do and how to use the products you sell.
Teaching parents how to baby-proof their home could be a very lucrative business venture, if done correctly.
You should definitely consider
building a website,
building a website that is created in an attractive manner and provides a host of useful information.
Provide information about your services, who you are, and why they should use you to baby proof their homes.
Other information could include articles about the services you offer, such as baby-proofing 101 or other articles that are related.
Your website should contain many types of products you offer for sale and a safe and reliable manner for them to shop directly from your site.
Other things you could offer on your site could include tips for safe traveling with baby, and toys that are safe or unsafe for the little ones, or any room or area specific tips that could prove useful to new parents.
Since you could incur some liability with this business it would be very smart to invest in business liability insurance.
This is not usually that expensive and you can easily get a quote from your current insurance provider.
This is a home based business that has so much potential, and also has the potential to be one of the most profitable business ideas you could start with a small investment.
You could expand this business idea further by becoming a distributor for bigger ticket safety items such as
pool fences,
and specialize in installing them and other related products.
