This business idea could work out very well as a home based business, especially if you live in close proximity to a college, or other areas where there are a lot of single men.
Let's face it, many single men are messy, lazy, or simply don't have time to bother with laundry.
If you actually like doing laundry, you can start a business where you offer a service that washes, dries, folds, and iron clothes that need it.
You could charge $5 - $10 per load, and extra for ironing by the piece.
Find a need and fill it, this is the way to start a successful business idea.
And this is a simple need that many would pay you to do, because they either hate doing it themselves or just don't have the time to be bothered with it.
This may even sound like a helpful service for women too! You could even offer to take their dry-cleaning and return it for them for a small price if you are doing their regular laundry.
There are so many different ways that you could choose to offer your service.
If you prefer to keep your operation entirely home based, then you would need to require clients to drop off the clothes and pick them up.
Or you might try offering different options of services.
One option might be to pick up their laundry and deliver it for an added fee of say $5 per 1-5 loads, depending on how far you have to drive, etc.
An Executive option could require you own a key to their residence and pick up laundry regularly, and return it and put it away for them.
The initial investment in this business would be in owning your own facilities to do laundry at any time of the day.
If you have these, then your next investment would be in advertising your service to those that would be interested.
And this is one of those small business ideas that won’t need a lot of marketing either.
Posting a small advertisement in laundry areas of apartment buildings and dorms could be a good start, and post them in public laundry facilities also.
Make sure you always know what you are laundering. Read the needed tags to make sure that you don't ruin any clothing.
Look for spots that may need added attention, and never mix loads with other customers. You want the clothes to end up with the right customers.
If you need to, tag the items with a permanent marker in an inconspicuous place.
If you are going to iron certain items you should add a small fee for this, depending on how much time it takes you to iron them.
For men it is usually dress shirts, and since you will need more time to accomplish this, you may want to charge a little more per piece.
You will always want to take the cost of utilities into account when you decide to make this a profitable business.
They can surprise you, so try to discern what the added cost is for utilities when deciding what to charge your customers. You want to make money for your labor too.
