Comments on: Small Business Owners: Would you use my services?

By: Lui

Lui — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:52:59 +0000

Sure, but you need a better pitch. Maybe something like "I'll save you money and time".
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By: tundragirl

tundragirl — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 18:31:59 +0000

Sure, but us small business owners <—- don’t want a high price point we can’t afford it and we are not getting any breaks from the gov’t other than the standard deductions.
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By: rlloydevans

rlloydevans — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:43:59 +0000

It is not the people here on Yahoo you should be asking, but the owners of the buisinesses you want to have as clients. i think you’d be better off doing some old fashioned marketing the old small town way.

Call around, or just walk around, and contact some business owners of the type of businesses you are thinking of as clients. Buy them coffee or whatever. Don’t try to sell them anything. Just tell them about yourself and the type of business you are considering. Ask them how they do their bookkeeping and accounting, and what is good about it, and what they wish would be better about what they do now.

this will do several things, it will introduce you to them when you are not trying to sell them on something. You will get a better picture of the local businessmen and what they see as their needs. It will give you ideas about how to approach them, maybe set up bundles of services differently that helps them with what you needs, while you get a reasonable fee for.

Plus, you’ll have a good idea how to approach them later to sell them on your services.

"John, the things you told me about sounded exactly right, so I set this up. I’d like to show it to you, can I?"
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By: shamieya

shamieya — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:56:59 +0000

Yes. Price is the main thing. new businesses usually arent bringing in a profit right away and don't want to pay extra for something they can do themselves. Maybe market yourself to people before they start the business so they will use you once they start and factor your costs in, as opposed to trying to convince people who already have businesses only.
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By: Concerned81

Concerned81 — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:26:59 +0000

I certainly think you can. Most small businesses do this in-house with the use of Quickbooks. It is a time consuming effort but their is comfort in keeping it in-house. If you make sure you have the most popular software so that you can do a slow transition from some in-house / some outsourced to you, to all outsourced to you once the comfort level necessary is reached, I think you’ll do great. So, in short, I think it is a very valuable, sellable service, as long as you have the right pitch and tools to "puppy dog" them into making you their long term, outsourced solution.
Good luck!
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By: brokerstorage

brokerstorage — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:15:59 +0000

I have an accountant but thanks.
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