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How to Be a Personal Shopper:
With our busy lifestyles, more and more people find the need to hire people to do their shopping for them.
As a professional personal shopper, you can provide service for a variety of reasons - shopping for busy
families, buying designer items for wealthy people, helping businesses find gifts for clients, assisting senior
citizens with grocery shopping and lots more.
Looking for a flexible work schedule? Many of these tasks can be scheduled at times that work convenient to
your lifestyle. You can also set up a home office and work from home.
Many personal shoppers charge clients a consultation fee and a percentage of the sale of purchased items.
Some charge a flat fee or commission only. The choice is up to you. So how do you compete with large department
stores who office personal shopping services free of charge?
If you shop frequently at certain stores, you can receive a discount on purchases, which you can then pass
on to your customers. Your clients are able to purchase items from multiple stores, and the discount you pass
to the client can cover your service fee. This gives them a great reason to shop with you.
How to Find Personal Shopping Clients:
Begin by networking with your friends and business associates. Let them know you are going into business by
providing them with business cards, brochures and your website address. Join local organizations such as the
Chamber of Commerce, industry
groups like the Association of Image Consultants and social network sites like LinkedIn.
To publicize your company even more, add your business to the yellow pages and other local
online directories.
Set up a simple website for under $50/year to
advertise your personal shopping services. Help people find you in the search engines: get listed in 20 search engines for free or in
300 search engines for $4.
Local Search
is becoming more and more popular. People are many times using online search instead of the traditional yellow
pages to find local businesses. Local Search sources that are affordable and receive substantial traffic
include: Google Local, Yelp, Super Pages and Insider Pages.
Make your website more professional by adding your logo. You can design your own logo online and save money
while still achieving a professional look. The same logo can then be added to business cards, brochures and any other
paperwork you use with clients.
How to Become a Personal Shopper:
Laura Harrison McBride is a veteran personal shopper, and she's put together a very useful business start-up
guide for personal shoppers. You can conduct your personal shopping business part-time, or you can launch a
very lucrative career. In her book, Laura interviews several personal shoppers who own their own businesses and
are six-figure earners.
See what you get >>
- Ways to get insider knowledge on products and trends and quickly get personal shopping experience
through volunteer work
- Step-by-step instructions on how to get started, plus how to start your personal shopping business with
little or no money
- How to set up your office, price your products and services, identify clients and how to market
yourself effectively
- How to choose the best personal shopping companies to work with, the best way to do a client
consultation
- Stay competitive and save your clients money by getting up to a 50% discount on your purchases
- Sample invoice, contract, resume, prospective client script and more
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