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Taking Charge of Your Own Courier Business
By Cassandra_BHM | September 29, 2011
I’ve always been fascinated how businesses work and interact with each other. Businesses are practically interdependent on each other when it comes to their operating needs. Say a printing press will need a distributor or paper manufacturer to order bulk amounts of paper for their printing needs. This paper manufacturer then relies on another business to handle the transportation of their output. In the city, documents are being transferred from time to time and they need to be transferred fast. Businesses and even government offices do business with each other as they have become more interconnected and globalized. For this very reason, the courier business has boomed just in time to be able to service the needs of these businesses and a number of private individuals too.
Only in a non-existent universe do people have the luxury of time and means to go to places where they need to deliver or hand over all sorts of things. This is why courier services are in demand nowadays. I’ve always been interested about this industry and how they operate. Good thing that I have a good friend and former officemate that resigned and became his own boss.
My friend says that it first took him lots of guts to resign and open his own courier business. He realized that there was a huge market to serve seeing how our former company would send and receive all sort sorts of files and packages every single day.
To get started, my friend says, you first need to set your scope of operation. Since he already had a vast network of connections in many companies, he figured that he can get started right away with his own courier truck. He tried many lending companies and different banks to loan his initial capital however the process was long and tedious. Nobody was willing to release money right away for a startup business. That was until my friend found lady luck in a bad credit lending specialist. He was approved for a truck loan and he bought his first courier truck.
The first months of business were good and he served businesses in the central business district. The demand for his courier service grew and he eventually acquired a second truck plus 2 motorcycles that were handy for quick short distance deliveries. This time, he knew exactly where to go as the bad credit lending specialist gave him a good deal on his first truck loan.
It took pure hard work, dedication, and lots of guts before my friend got to where he is today. Now, I go only to him when I need something delivered real quickly as his courier business is the fastest and most dependable in town.
To get started with your dream courier business, my friend advises:
Ø First, make that decision that you really want to be your own boss and take the leap of faith.
Ø Know the scope of your operations – whether your messengers will use bikes or trucks.
Ø The best deals on truck loans can be found in bad debt creditors.
Ø Just be consistent in all the hard work and take good care of your employees.
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