Would a mini-meet your business needs

Cali, Colombia, a young mother was suddenly widowed and left without support for herself and her two young son. His only asset was his home. After careful planning, it divided its four rooms in two separate apartments, and therefore supported his family from a mini-enterprise.

As prices rise in all commodities, many people find their low pay, even for basic needs. If the father takes two jobs, however, the family loses its focus and invites disease caused overwork. If the mother works outside the home, children suffer the loss of his supervision and companionship love. But where a family needs additional funds, the means to provide that income could be a self-operated mini-enterprise.

Mini-enterprise, means any small company, whether in service, manufacturing or sales, often through the house, garage or patio as a basis for operations. The target can be useful to employ the children's free time, provide an income for the mother, on a part time basis or develop a business that would eventually support family entirely.

Why do many people prefer self-employment

If a job in the industry can offer greater financial security and benefits attractive, it can also be routine, monotonous and lack of opportunities to take initiatives. In many countries, however, even these manufacturing jobs are scarce, and inexperienced or untrained can not easily find employment.

Among the advantages gained by the self-employed are a flexible work schedule, a more active role in the enterprise and productivity for larger plus the satisfaction of having completed the sentence. They can also choose their workmates, perhaps give a hands-on training to son and daughters, by giving them a useful trade.

What type of mini-business?

service capabilities provide a return on their time and energy and usually require a small fee for tools and equipment. Every community needs the services of a carpenter or a plumber, a tailor or seamstress, beautician, hairdresser, mechanic, electrician or service unit. The skills needed can often be acquired in a business school, or learning from someone who is already in the business.

The maintenance of property or equipment on a contractual basis could be a source of income for you. If you have a mechanical training, why not approach the management office or plants with a service contract for air conditioning units, generators, boilers or elevators? For those who have no technical skills, landscaping or maintain the basis of private property, clubs or business properties, providing a service concierge industry or office buildings, are some of the areas of employment on a contractual basis.

Farm work is also by contract, as the harvest of grain or food crops. In the area of Buenaventura Colombia a father contracts with owners of large plantations of their banana crop. This frees the owner from hiring each worker, and father to negotiate a better salary for her family.

But you can estimate that the production of a useful or decorative item would be more attractive as a mini-enterprise.

Sales

Since your product should be sold, a realistic assessment of the potential market must be made before investing in machinery or materials first. Your product is what the public will come to you to buy? If not, do you sell to retail stores? Would it be beneficial to advertise? Is there a market all year for your product, or would it sell only seasonally? How your sales affected by bad weather, strikes public transport or breakdown, or illness of family members yourself or others?

Valuable information on sales could be collected from small manufacturers experienced in your field or a related field. Talk to them, ask them for suggestions, take notes for reference Later on the way to promote sales and where they market their products.

PR-based manufacturers have since long relied on a natural curiosity about how their product is manufactured, and plant tours are organized to appeal to customers mind. Scaling up the idea of mini-size, a carpet manufacturer employing six workers opens its plant in plain view through, and often a crowd gathers to watch its operations, observing with interest the emergence of trends like beautiful bright son are woven in the medium.

What enterprising Colombians Done

Before making a decision about what specific companies enter, you can find the experience of many Colombian families in the holding of a mini-enterprise interest.

A widow of Bogota earns his living as a guardian of houses whose owners are out of town. Reliable and trustworthy, she gets work through referrals. Before engage in this type of work, you can insure against the risks to the custody of another property.

Little work Colombian mother outside the home, but many add to the family income by preparing hot meals. Residents can eat at the family table or hot meal can be sent to the site. Others prepare food for sale to small grocery stores, like a loaf of cornmeal called arepas served in most Colombian homes for breakfast or a snack. The sale of cakes, candies, roasted peanuts, ham or fried plantains outside stadiums or playing fields on holidays or Sundays provides sufficient support for large families.

People in your community could enjoy sausages, pizza and ready meals with other specialty meat quality without harmful preservatives. Tamales pasteles and empanadas, made with meat and vegetables wrapped in a dough of flour or corn flour, fried or boiled, delicacies, are sold in Colombia.

Supermarkets, with a complete range of foodstuffs under one roof are almost unknown outside of large cities countries. Thus, the possibility exists for the mini-merchants operating a booth in the central market or to lease space in a small grocery store. A Vendor success in Barranquilla specializes in yucca, a starchy root in demand for making soups. His stall is sought by customers who know that maintains the largest stock and best yucca on the market.

Could you roast and grind? A family in the city of Armenia has a small electrical unit set up in the garage, and the aroma of roasting coffee brings customers from blocks around. You can buy a pound of coffee already ground and packaged, or watch while the newly roasted beans are ground to order.

A family in Medellín earns all its revenues from the homemade gelatin dessert like marshmallows. Sales are retail the house and large to small food stores.

In communities where cars very few people own, sellers render a real service by offering fruits and vegetables for the customer. An elderly man, with a view to obtaining a change pocket, began lemons provide door to door. To his surprise, several people asked him to come back next week, and thus a means of regular buyers has been established. Later, at the request of its customers, he expanded the business by adding papayas, bananas, pineapples and other fruit its deliveries.

A mother needed extra money for a trip from the family wanted to take. She turned the front room of his home into a sales area and began selling eggs to his residential neighborhood. On the benefits of its modest efforts, a trip was appreciated by the whole family.

In a tropical climate, a refrigerator is a real need, but in Colombia it is very expensive. How to take advantage of owning one, while retaining the month payments? Perhaps by sharing the products of your refrigerator with your neighbors, for a price! Stir until a mixture of popsicles, it varies with flavored syrups, crushed pineapple, mango, banana or coconut, pour it into bins cubes or paper cups and place in a small wooden stick. Now, pop it in the freezer. Before long, you'll have a line of customers, particularly children returning from school, who have seen your handwritten sign in the window: helados. Like most families do not have a refrigerator, you can increase profits from your mini-enterprises by the sale of bottled drinks, punch home-prepared or fruit juice, or sale of ice.

A young boy can find ways to effectively use his free time, which contributes substantially to support the family. A young boy, after minimal investment in supply, called door to door to provide shine shoes, then the following week when his services were accepted. With the initiative and diligence, he built a road to ordinary customers appreciate. shoe repair added to the service would increase its income.

A mother and daughter in Bucaramanga started making baby clothes to the house for sale in the immediate community. By selling to local clothing merchants, the company later expanded to become the only means of family support.

A man sitting on the sidewalk at a busy intersection of a major coastal city, with a supply of palm leaves around him. Quickly he cut the fronds into strips one inch wide, then a circle shaped with a length of thread. Cleverly, he covered the wire with strips of many leaves palm, weaving a flat edge inward about three inches and form a crown, completing a hat attractive in less than ten minutes. As he started on the second hat, fascinated observers were already waving money and shouting: The next is mine!

A pharmacy was opened in the living room of a house in a residential area. The provision of pharmaceuticals by-products, shampoos, lotions and ointments has been carefully arranged on the display shelves out of reach, but the prospect of an open window. Since all sales were made by the window, the mother was released from the constant attendance and could continue his work between customers.

From a small sidewalk stand called Noah's Ark all kinds of tools, hardware, plumbing and other materials are sold. A small business could be trained to sell or rent used books, magazines, furniture, clothing, appliances, sports equipment, musical instruments, or a combination thereof.

Metals in doors, door frames, window frames, shelves Metal or furniture provides employment for many businessmen in Colombia. iron gates is becoming more popular for the protection of windows and entrances to contain porches, fences or for Handrailing. Decorative and practical, iron can be incorporated into floral designs, skipping antelopes, a dazzling sunrise, or even bars with musical notes.

The production of flower pots and planters provide income for a family of resources. While the teenage son of age and sand and cement mixture daughters, mold and paint the product on the patio, the father sells small traders in the local market, or a pushcart in residential areas. Another family develops this idea in marketing palm potted orchids, philodendron or coleus plants, using the second floor balcony to view them.

shoemaking is still largely handmade in Colombia, and three or four men often work together under contract to retailers or through the sale of a showcase of their store. The customer can choose shoes already, or may order shoes in its exact size and style preference. A family home in Bogota is a soft hand-sewn slippers, similar an Indian moccasin, and this activity is their only source of support.

Leather and imitation leather book covers, wallets, purses, belts, bags hand towels or textbook elements are in constant demand. sports jackets, suede or leather other, as well as waterproof imitation leather, are items of clothing that never go out of style. Upholstery car or living room furniture in plastic leatherlike provides income for many.

In high altitude, a poncho made of wool or Ruana is a necessity year round. Worn as a cloak, a Ruana used for cold or rain, and is preferred Colombians by a coat or jacket. A family in Bogota weaves on a loom at home, the various colored patterns for different effects. But ruanas can be made from any type of wool fabric, flannel solid color or knit wool fringed white, or throws a nice fringe match.

Many other possibilities await the businessman or woman in the furniture finishing, bookbinding worn crochet or knit shawls or sweaters, embroidered sheets or table linen, making wigs or hairpieces, jewelry, handbags macrame, rope or wool rugs, table lamps, mattresses, pillows, wicker furniture, or stuffed toys.

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