Investing wisely
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Cleaning your way to success
Becoming a winner is
pegged on one great decision. To be a winner.
very lucrative business of cleaning other
peoples laundry. When you consider the
middle aged women who go round estates
seeking temporary assignment to clean launIt starts from the mental and
dry may not have much else to do; but one
heart felt decision to be a
thing is certain. They do walk away with
success and not fall short of
enough income to last a week.
this.
This edition brings you the
For a load of wash, they will earn between
Kshs. 100 and Kshs. 250 If they wash for
two people, that would mean Kshs. 500 per
Saturday and Kshs. 2,000 for a month if they
work Saturdays only. If however the same
lady does one wash load everyday - Monday
to Friday for Kshs. 200 and two on Saturday,
that adds up to Kshs. 1,400 per week and
Kshs. 5,600 per month. The client provides
the water,
the soap and
the washing
basins.
So because we consider that everyone wants to earn, we will avoid
the target market of these ladies
and go for a more uncovered
ground. Boarding students in high
schools, colleges and universities.
Apart from the high school students
who live within the school confines,
the rest live in hostels.
The business idea
Set up a laundry mart in the vicinity
of hostels and high schools.
Why?
To free up the consuming time
taken when doing personal
laundry
ier for the students
How will it work for college
and university students?
By setting up a self running
Set up is the same as that of
Students are shown how to
operate the machines.
The students come with their
laundry to the laundry centre,
within the school compound.
The centre has a reserved
quantity of detergent for
every kilogram of wash.
Each student uses the machine on a first come first
served basis
Benefits?
Students can get to read and
socialize more as their laundry
is cleaned
Students are less tired and their
clothes are cleaner and more
presentable as they also get to
use the facilities of ironing and
starching
the high school. It may however be outside the hostel
because of the management
rules
For busy students, you can
have one or two staff members
to do the laundry for them in
exchange for a higher fee.
The fees charged are worth the
hassle saved
What do you need to set up?
1.
Conduct a research to assess the viability of the idea
in your intended area of operation
2.
Business plan
3.
Proposals for the institutions you will need to approach
4.
Capital to:
buy the initial equipment and consumables
market your