A shoestring business. Who says that's a bad thing?
How often does a taxi driver think about starting their own taxi service?
Most likely, the idea crosses the mind of most experienced cab drivers. Experience, an understanding of how the work looks from the carrier’s side and how customers behave, good knowledge of the competition in their city, ambition and the desire to earn more all play their part.
In fact, you can start working for yourself right now. And you won’t need any major investment at all.
UpTaxi is software that lets you start your own business without paying for office rent, staff or equipment, and without huge advertising costs. Your first month on UpTaxi is free, and after that you are charged only for successfully completed orders, i.e. for the work actually done.
You will need to buy an advertising phone number for receiving calls from clients, with the option to make it multi-line.
For example, MultiFon from MegaFon. To get started, while order volumes are small, this option is good enough and inexpensive.
Then pass the details of your advertising number to UpTaxi technical support. The support team will configure everything needed in the software, set up the call centers, the order exchange and so on, and connect the software to your equipment.
Hiring drivers. Post free ads wherever you can find in your city: newspapers, city portals, well-known free classified sites online, and so on.
An interested candidate calls you. Arrange to meet at home or on neutral ground, preferably wherever is most convenient for the driver. You can inspect the car on the spot, install the driver app, show the basics of how it works and take copies of the documents. If you have a laptop or tablet with you, you can enter the new driver’s details into the software right away.
After that, the driver can start working. At first you won’t have many orders of your own, but you can keep the driver busy with orders from the exchange.
Pick a few low-budget ways to promote your service: posting ads on boards by apartment building entrances, dropping flyers into mailboxes, leaving business cards in public places.
And that’s basically it. You have started your business. Cost: from 5,000 to 30,000 rubles.
The plan above shows that you can start your own business without investment today. But that doesn’t mean you should stop there. How you develop your service further is entirely up to you. Keep improving what you have started, reinvest your earnings and don’t slack off.
Remember: the first Apple computer was assembled in a garage, Euroset started out at the Luzhniki market, and I’way began its transfer service with two drivers.
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