£100,000 in Your Pocket After One Year
Cost — Nothing!
This is about a business idea that can be set up absolutely free of charge by either a man or a woman, and it can earn you a lot of money in a very short period of time.
The person who told me about this personally earned £100,000 within 12 months.
Anyone who decides to copy this idea, please introduce yourself to me. I would love to hear how you get on.
To start this business, you do not need to have any trade skills. The only qualification you need is common sense.
What do you need?
- A telephone.
- A computer with internet access.
Preparatory work before you start
You will need letter-headed notepaper bearing your company name, your new company email address and your telephone number. Most importantly, you will also need a job sheet explaining the details of your business.
You will need a business name. This can simply be your own name, or you could choose something such as Jones Maintenance or Cubix Maintenance.
One important point: you do not necessarily want to register your name with Companies House at the beginning, because the registration date will immediately show how recently the company was formed.
Your Job Sheet
Your job sheet is the most important piece of paperwork. It should contain your company details and also provide a record of every job you receive and pass on, together with all the amounts agreed between yourself, the company giving you the work, and the tradesperson or company carrying out the work.
Before you commence operations, your job sheet must be ready — and it must be perfect.
OK! Now, How Does It Work?
Understand this from the beginning: IT'S ALL PERFECTLY LEGAL.
Your objective is to build a professional maintenance business capable of arranging work throughout the UK. You will be dealing with large department stores, supermarkets and other businesses with branches throughout the country.
These companies can have serious maintenance problems at any time. For example, suppose a store develops an electrical problem and cannot operate its tills. It may not even be able to open for business. This is where your business comes into play.
Having discussed the job with you on the telephone and established that you can arrange the work, the company sends you their job sheet. It will normally give you:
- The address of the branch.
- Details of the problem.
- The amount they are prepared to pay for the call-out — usually covering the first hour.
- The hourly rate they will pay while your tradesperson is on site rectifying the problem.
You will need to establish the current average call-out fee and hourly rate. My own figures are from years ago, when it was approximately £50 call-out and £20 per hour, so obviously you must find out today's rates.
Once you have received their job sheet, speed is of the essence.
You immediately go onto the internet and look for electricians based in the town where the store is situated. You telephone them until you find one who agrees to your terms and conditions.
When speaking to the electrician, you explain that you operate a maintenance business arranging work for stores and other businesses throughout the UK, but that you do not presently have an electrician covering his particular town.
You explain that if he can carry out this job successfully, you would like to use him for suitable future jobs in his area. Then you explain your arrangement.
For example, you might agree that your business receives 20% of the cost of the repair job. If he agrees, you take his email address and send him YOUR JOB SHEET, which contains everything you have just discussed, including the call-out fee and hourly rate.
When the work is completed, the tradesperson gets the store manager to sign the job sheet confirming:
- The time your tradesperson arrived.
- The time he left.
- The materials used.
Fundamentally, the same system can be used with carpenters, plumbers, drain-clearance firms and other maintenance trades.
How Do You Get Started?
Once all your paperwork is ready... It's GO!
You go onto the internet and look up your first potential client — whoever it might be. Clinton Cards, Beaverbrooks, Asda — don't miss anybody out. And don't expect to get business from your first telephone call.
Your opening might be: “Hello, could you put me through to your maintenance department, please?” Then: “Hi, is that the maintenance department? I'm calling from Cubix Maintenance. We're based in [your location] and we arrange maintenance work for businesses throughout the UK — electrical work, carpentry, plumbing and so on. I'm calling to ask whether we could help you with any maintenance work you need.”
You'll probably get an emphatic: “No, we're fixed up.” Fine. Phone them again another day. And again. Get to know the person in the maintenance department.
Eventually, instead of being a stranger making a cold call, you can say: “Hi, is that William?” or Mary, or whoever you've been speaking to. “It's Tommy from Cubix. I bet you were hoping I was going to phone you today!”
Persistence, personality and building relationships are what matter. Believe me, it can work with large stores.
That's it... you're in business.
Plumbers. Electricians. Joiners. Locksmiths. Drainage specialists. Glaziers. Heating engineers — **whatever legitimate maintenance work your customers require.**
As you gain customers and build a network of reliable local contractors, you are no longer simply arranging one repair. You are building a **national maintenance network** — from a desk, a telephone and a computer.
That was the principle behind the business described to me over those beers.
It didn't begin with a fortune. It began with an **idea**, a **telephone** and somebody prepared to **get started**.
### NOW IT'S OVER TO YOU
I have shown you the principle and how the system works.
Don't rush into it blindly. Check today's prices, insurance requirements, contracts, taxes and any legal or trade requirements that apply to the work you arrange.
Then, if you've done your homework and decided it's for you:
**Pick up the telephone and start.**
GOOD LUCK!