Main branches of the service sector: principles of placement.

Opening a business in the services market

Starting a business requires several components: idea, investment, implementation. As a rule, problems begin at the first stage - the search for an idea. This is a rather difficult stage in organizing a new project, especially when it comes to providing radically new services to the population. The fact is that it is impossible to answer unequivocally the question of what types of services are now in especially high demand - the market is constantly changing. What was popular today may lose all popularity tomorrow due to the emergence of new solutions on the market.

If your idea is not an innovative service to the population, then the issue of investment will be quite difficult to resolve: here you can contact the bank, or use old acquaintances - they can lend money. You can try to find partners on thematic forums on the Internet, or among your friends. You should give preference to professionals who are just like you - in this case, you can transfer some of the responsibilities to your partner at the starting stage without fear.

Tourism and recreational economy

When going on vacation, people rarely think about the fact that it is provided by the service sector - the recreational industry. Another industry is very closely connected with it - tourism.

Recreational management is a special service sector that depends not only on the requirements and wishes of clients, but also on the prevailing natural and cultural conditions in a particular area. Tourism can be associated with the presence of the sea, river, lake, beaches, forests and other natural resources. People also like to visit places with interesting history and culture.

Health and educational tourism often converge at the same points. In Russia, the most significant recreational areas are the Black Sea coast, the vicinity of the rivers (Volga, Don, Yenisei, Ob, etc.), Caucasian Mineral Waters. The cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow and its environs, Kislovodsk, Pyatigorsk, etc. are very popular among tourists.

In addition, there are travel companies operating in Russia that provide travel outside the country. In recent years, trips to Turkey, Egypt, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Finland, and the Czech Republic have become very popular among Russians. Tourism in Russia has made a huge leap over the past 5 years and continues to develop.

Ten best services

Below is a list of short popular business ideas for services for the public. Each of them contains approximate figures for launching a project, as well as all the necessary information on how to properly organize a business providing services to the public. We will look at ten types of services for the population that can bring the most substantial profits today. Some of them will require serious investment, but this should not stop you.

Web Studio

Website creation is one of the most promising areas and one of the most popular services for businesses and the public. Organizing a web studio is a simple process, but it is labor-intensive and will require you to have basic knowledge in website design and organizational skills. A traditional web studio is one office with a small number of employees (usually up to 10 people), each of whom performs their own task.

Advantages

Of course, opening your own web studio has a number of advantages:

• the ability to work in different price segments, on which your income will depend;
• with established work, a high level of income awaits you;
• The web services market is actively developing, thanks to which it is possible to constantly introduce new methods of work into business.

Flaws

However, along with the advantages, there are also disadvantages. The most significant is the lack of a constant flow of clients if you work in the medium-high price segment. In addition to this, it is worth canceling several others:

• inability to provide a high level of income in a low price segment, even with a large flow of customers;
• high costs for specialist salaries;
• The competition is incredibly high and is only getting stronger every year.

Expenses

The expenses of a web studio, first of all, are rent of premises and salaries of employees. So, how much money will we “burn” in one month? The expense items are as follows:

• office rent - 50,000 rubles;
• employee salary - 400,000 rubles;
• operating expenses (office supplies, etc.) - 10,000 rubles.

Total - 460,000 rubles of expenses.

Income

Let's calculate how much revenue a web studio can have. It depends on the services that you provide to your client. Typically, services include the following: website creation (divided into business card websites, corporate portals, online stores), website promotion, website support. If we assume that we will work in the middle price segment, we get the following figures:

• creation of five websites, the average price of each is 45,000 rubles, total – 225,000 rubles;
• website promotion - 55,000 rubles;
• support for all existing projects, this income item will grow every month, so let’s assume that we have been working for a year and have a solid customer base, our income from this item is 240,000 rubles.

Minus expenses, it turns out that in a month we earned 60,000 rubles in one month.

Promotional Products

Another type of marketing business that can be integrated into the previous one. This idea is often used by large marketing agencies that combine several types of businesses under one legal entity. Making promotional items is a fairly simple process. You will have to spend 260,000 rubles on the purchase of special equipment and rent suitable premises. As for employees, you don’t need a huge staff. It is enough to have at your disposal one competent designer and one technician who will service the equipment.

Advantages

The advantages of producing promotional products include the following points:

• simplicity in organization;
• small number of employees;
• there is no need for constant monitoring of the company’s activities, at some stage the work becomes completely autonomous.

Flaws

However, this business also has a number of significant disadvantages. One of the main ones is the inability to provide a high level of profitability with a small number of clients. In addition, this includes the following items:

• high price for specialists;
• the need to purchase expensive equipment (plotter, computers);
• high competition;
• low price for products.

Expenses

A business in the field of manufacturing and selling advertising products has the following expense items:

• rental of premises - 35,000 rubles;
• purchase of materials (paint, paper) - 70,000 rubles;
• employee salary is 80,000 rubles.

Total monthly expenses are 185,000 rubles.

Income

In this business, income is based on the number of products sold. This can be several types of products: business cards, promotional materials, etc. Let's count:

• sale of business cards - 55,000 rubles;
• advertising posters - 75,000 rubles;
• billboards - 60,000 rubles;
• flyers - 30,000 rubles.

In total, minus expenses, such a business can bring in 35,000 rubles in one month.

Tourist agency

Another good type of business in the service sector is opening your own travel agency. You can do this kind of business alone, without employees. One person will be able to organize such a business and provide himself with a good level of income. To start, you will need to spend about 20,000 rubles on renting an office, the same amount on buying a computer and 20,000 rubles on equipping a workplace and buying furniture for visitors.

Advantages

At its core, a travel agency is a type of intermediary business. There are large travel agencies with whom you enter into exclusive agreements and from each tour sold you receive a small percentage. Such a business has a number of undeniable advantages:

• simplicity in organization;
• only one employee (often you);
• low cost.

Flaws

However, there are some disadvantages, the key one being the dependence on the state of the economy. If the country's population gets richer, then your income will increase. If another crisis comes, then you should prepare for difficult times. Also significant disadvantages:

• seasonality;
• the dependence of income not on the quality of services sold, but on their quantity.

Expenses

So, the main expense item for a business in the tourism sector is renting office space. You don't need a huge office, since there will only be one employee working there. You can rent such a room for 20,000 rubles. As for the employee, we will assume that you work independently. If you still plan to hire an employee, then add another 25,000 rubles, depending on the region.

Income

The average bill that a Russian family spends on a trip abroad is 80,000 rubles. Your money here is 5%, which is due to you as an intermediary between a tourist and a large travel agency. To cover all expenses, you need to sell at least five vouchers in one month. On average, the agency manages to sell up to twelve vouchers - 48,000 rubles. After deducting expenses, the profit is 28,000 rubles.

Financial advice

Another type of business that requires special knowledge. Good accountants are always worth their weight in gold, especially in situations where a company requires austerity. Therefore, a business in the field of financial advice can very well become a very profitable business. To open, you will need to hire one assistant who will take calls and provide initial consultation to clients. The salary of such an employee is 25,000 rubles. You will also need to rent a small office - 25,000 rubles.

Advantages

There are many advantages to such a business. The most obvious of them is that your earnings depend on how good a financial advisor you are. With the proper qualifications, you will be able to run several companies at once, which will provide a high level of personal income. So the advantages of business in the field of financial advice:

• high level of income, which directly depends on your qualifications;
• low competition;
• independence from economic shocks - there will always be customers;
• low cost.

Flaws

As with any other business, there are disadvantages:

• inability to manage a large number of clients at the same time;
• the need for special knowledge on which your income will depend.

Expenses

To organize such a business, you will need to spend money monthly on an assistant’s salary and on office rent. You will also need to purchase office supplies and other small items:

• employee salary - 25,000 rubles;
• office rent - 20,000 rubles;
• office maintenance costs - 5,000 rubles.

Income

Professional accountants say that they are quite capable of managing up to eight clients at the same time. On average in the market, such services cost from 10,000 rubles to 50,000 rubles (if we talk about the middle and medium-high segment). There are also individual cases where millions in fees are paid for accounting services, but we will not consider them.

So, revenue from eight clients, in our case, will be about 200,000 rubles. With expenses of 50,000 rubles, we get a final profit of 150,000 rubles.

Call centers

Another interesting type of business in the service sector is opening your own call center. This business will require significant investments from you, because you will need to rent a large premises, hire several dozen employees and purchase the necessary equipment. The office will cost 45,000 rubles, the average salary of a call center employee is 25,000 rubles, and at least thirty people are needed. Another 360,000 rubles must be spent on the purchase of computers and the necessary peripherals, such as headsets.

Advantages

This kind of business has a number of advantages. One of the main things is independence from the state of the economy. You can always find clients, no matter what area is developing most actively. Besides this plus there are others:

• low employee salary costs;
• fairly low competition;
• A company's revenue growth depends solely on the number of employees.

Flaws

However, despite the advantages, there are also many disadvantages to running your own call center that should be taken into account if you decide to start a similar business:

• high operating costs;
• high staff turnover;
• high costs at the start of the project.

Expenses

Running such a business is a difficult task and, what is most unpleasant, quite expensive. However, the level of income is quite consistent with expenses, which is quite pleasant. So, what will you have to spend on:

• office rent — 45,000 rubles;
• employee salary - 750,000 rubles;
• communication - 15,000 rubles;
• purchase of additional equipment - 30,000 rubles.

The total expenditure of such an enterprise is 840,000 rubles.

Income

The average cost of a call that a client will provide you is 20 rubles per call. On average, each employee makes about a hundred calls in one working day. In total, you can earn about 1,100,000 rubles per month. We subtract the expense part from here and get a net profit of 260,000 rubles monthly.

Car selection

Business in the field of car selection is an excellent start for many young guys who love cars. Getting into this business is not difficult, but staying in it is more difficult. To start, you will need to rent an office of thirty square meters, which will cost you approximately 30,000 rubles (this depends on the region); hire four employees with an average salary of 25,000 rubles. It is also necessary to allocate at least 50,000 rubles for future operating expenses, such as business trips and fees to specialists for checking cars.

Advantages

This business can be considered as a launching pad for further development. It is in this area that you can find future partners to create a larger and more serious business. Selecting cars has its advantages:

• with a competent approach, you can ensure a high level of income;
• An interesting field of activity for car lovers.

Flaws

However, it should be noted that this type of business is quite risky. There are several reasons for this:

• lack of stability in the client flow;
• dependence on the economic situation in the country;
• high level of expenses.

With proper organization of all processes, it becomes possible to ensure a high level of income.

Expenses

Based on the shortcomings, we can name the main problem of such a business - high expenses that need to be covered, sometimes using reserve funds for this. This immediately increases risks and can lead to undesirable consequences. The costs of running a business in the field of car selection are as follows:

• office rent - 30,000 rubles;
• employee salary - 200,000 rubles;
• operating expenses - 60,000 rubles.

In total, the expenditure part is 290,000 rubles.

Income

There are two options for generating income in such a business. The first option is the standard fee for selecting any car. It is usually about 50,000 rubles. For this money, you need to find a car that suits the client, check it, connect the client with the seller and help with the transaction. The second option is to work for interest. The most common figure is 10% of the cost of the car. The second option is more preferable, because in this case there is an opportunity to make money from clients who are ready to buy expensive cars. With an average car price of 600,000 rubles, you will need to serve at least five clients in one month to break even.

Cleaning service

An idea that is only gaining popularity in Russia is the organization of cleaning companies. This is a business whose main task is cleaning the premises. This includes both commercial properties, such as offices and shops, as well as private houses and apartments. To get started, you need to assemble a team of professional cleaners, purchase the necessary equipment and special cleaning products. Approximately, all this will cost about 30,000 rubles, if you do not save on equipment.

Advantages

The main advantage of such a business is a cheap start. However, it is far from the only one. It is necessary to take a closer look at the following features:

• simplicity in organization;
• low competition in the field;
• the ability to set high prices.

Flaws

As in any business, when opening a cleaning service you will encounter a number of shortcomings and problems, which, however, can be resolved quite quickly. However, the disadvantages of starting such a business are:

• low “prestige” - few people want to do cleaning;
• high operating costs.

Expenses

After starting a business, it will take some time before you have regular customers and stability in orders. As a rule, it takes about three to four months for such a business to gain momentum, after which you can sit down and do standard accounting. Expenditure part:

• purchase of cleaning products - 20,000 rubles;
• transportation and logistics - 10,000 rubles;
• It is best to agree with employees to work for a percentage of the profit.

Income

The price for services is formed as follows: one square meter costs an average of 50 rubles. The final cost depends on the degree of contamination of the room. You can process up to 100 square meters per day if you work with a small team of three people. In total, we have an average monthly revenue of 110,000 rubles, and minus expenses we get an average of 80,000 rubles.

Freight transportation

The most interesting business from the point of view of further development is cargo transportation. It is also the most expensive in this top. It is worth noting here that there are many options for launching such a project in the service market. You can purchase several heavy trucks and hire drivers; you can hire drivers for your own transport; You can purchase minibuses and engage in cargo transportation within one locality. In general, there are a lot of options. Therefore, the cost of launching such a project will vary from 1,000,000 rubles to 30,000,000 rubles if you want to immediately buy several tractors and trailers for them. In addition to transport, you will also need a special base to carry out maintenance. You also need to rent an office and hire managers there who will guide drivers along their routes and collect applications from clients. Without taking into account the cost of trucks, you will have to spend about 500,000 rubles on organizational work.

Advantages

A large business has serious advantages, including high working capital - this will allow you to maintain high incomes for both your employees and your personal ones. List of advantages of business in the field of cargo transportation:

• a large number of assets in the form of transport, if it is not purchased on credit or lease;
• market demand;
• high incomes.

Flaws

However, this area has its drawbacks. The main disadvantage in such a business is the high costs of launching a project. You will need several million rubles to organize a business that can generate income. Besides:

• high salaries for drivers;
• finding drivers is a headache for all auto companies;
• high consumables;
• the need to take into account many risks, such as road accidents and other things;
• many bureaucratic features of doing business.

Expenses

It is quite difficult to calculate the expenses of a company operating in the cargo transportation industry. As already mentioned, there are too many terms here that have different effects on the final picture. If you look at the organization of a medium-sized business in this area, you get approximately the following picture:

• maintenance and refueling of 5 vehicles - 250,000 rubles;
• salaries - 400,000 rubles;
• office and parking rental - 100,000 rubles;

Total expenses are 750,000 rubles.

Income

Income in this business depends on mileage. On average, one truck can travel up to 700 km per day; one kilometer of travel costs about 45 rubles. This includes both profit and costs of organizing a business. In total, it turns out that monthly revenue will be about 950,000 rubles. As a result, the company’s profit for the month will be 200,000 rubles.

Drilling of the wells

An equally interesting business that can generate income is well drilling. To start such a project, it is necessary to purchase special drilling equipment that is installed on a truck. The cost of such equipment, including the car and installation, is 6,000,000 rubles. In fact, these are all the expenses that need to be spent on opening such an enterprise.

Advantages

Well drilling has many advantages, the main one being ease of organization. One car, one master. You don’t need to maintain an office and many employees, you just need to be able to operate a drilling rig yourself and success will await you. Other advantages:

• expenses solely for the maintenance of the installation and vehicle;
• ease of finding clients through message boards and Internet advertising.

Flaws

However, there are also disadvantages that need to be kept in mind. The main one is dirty and physically difficult work. If this factor doesn’t scare you, then let’s move on to the rest:

• obvious seasonality in orders;
• high cost of consumables;
• the dependence of the number of clients on the state of the economy - people drill wells when they build a house, and they build a house when they have money.

Expenses

As mentioned earlier, the expense part in this business is small and can easily be calculated:

• assistant's salary - 25,000 rubles;
• equipment maintenance - 30,000 rubles.

The total expenditure is 55,000 rubles.

Income

As for income, there are different scenarios for the development of events. One meter of a well costs about 2,500 rubles. Depending on the region, the depth of the well can vary significantly. The average depth in the European part of Russia is about 25 meters. It turns out that you can earn 62,500 rubles for one well, which already covers all expenses. The rest depends solely on how many orders you can fulfill per month.

Car wash

Another interesting business is your own car wash. There are several options: manual, contactless, fully automatic. Now special stations are gaining popularity, which motorists must use independently. A car pulls up, the driver gets out of the car, inserts one hundred rubles into the machine and he has five minutes to wash the car. If he does not have time during this time, then for additional money he can extend the time. The cost of all equipment will be about 150,000 rubles. It is necessary to add here the cost of renting the territory, which in our case will be about 30,000 rubles and the purchase of shampoos and special additives for washing cars is another 70,000 rubles. Total - 250,000 rubles to launch the project.

Advantages

Such a business has many advantages, the main one of which is simplicity in organization. You do not need special knowledge to take into account all the features of managing such a company. Moreover, employees are not needed: you can collect the proceeds yourself once a day.

Flaws

However, there are also disadvantages that are worth remembering:

• quite low profitability;
• dependence on rental costs - in the regions this business is more profitable;
• decreasing popularity of such car washes in favor of fully automatic ones.

Expenses

The expense part of such a project looks like this:

• 30,000 rubles - rent;
• 70,000 rubles - shampoos and other consumables.

Income

The average bill in this business is about 250 rubles. The number of clients ranges from two to ten per hour. The car wash works around the clock and as a result we receive about forty clients in one day. With such a flow of clients, revenue is 300,000 rubles, and net profit is 200,000 rubles per month.

Each of these ideas in the future can make you a successful entrepreneur in the services market. To achieve success, just desire is not enough, you also need hard work and constant work. And if you still find in this article an interesting idea for implementation about what services can be provided to the population, then go ahead!

Restaurant service staff

The most famous staff of the “Kitchen”
Food, that’s what will always be in demand among people! In a restaurant you can work both in the hall and in the kitchen.

It is unlikely that you will be able to become a cook, sous-chef or chef without education. You can get a specialized secondary education, it will be inexpensive, but they teach more about classical technologies for preparing dishes, which are no longer used in haute cuisine. To become a chef, you will either need to work a lot of time as a chef and prove that you have your own original vision, or undergo training abroad. Of course, you won’t be hired as a chief right away, but it will help you move up the career ladder.

Typically, each waiter should serve no more than 15 guests

It is much easier to become a waiter; you can get a position without work experience or specialized education, having competent speech, good appearance, and having learned the rules of serving guests and the menu. It is almost impossible to complete distance learning in these professions, since experience plays an important role in mastering them.

The work schedule in catering is in shifts and 12-16 hours. It is not easy for newcomers to spend such time at work at first, but with experience it becomes easier. Salary depends on the level of the establishment. An ordinary cook can receive from 20 thousand rubles, a chef receives many times more from 60 thousand rubles. The waiter's salary is most often small, but he receives tips, which depend only on his work and the generosity of the guests.