If you're trying to think of a business idea, here's a great business idea.

Also, if you already have a company, this can be a subsidiary of a company that you already own.

First, you need to find at least several people who are interested in being your clients.

If these several people agree to be your regular clients, then you work first with these people.

Working with a few clients first helps you iron out the mistakes that you might have in your company.

Don't just start a company advertising to the general public until you test your company, iron out all these mistakes.

These clients can help you to learn how to have this type of company, handle the potential problems with clients, and learn the protocol.

Even though this and many other companies seem like easy companies, all business people make mistakes, have customer service problems, and you should iron out all of the mistakes before offering any product, including errand-running to the general public and/or to more clients.

These first few clients can help you with any problems that you might have. Also, listen to your clients. What type of errand-running are they interested in?

You should study also other errand-running companies. How are they managed and organized? Study their literature, their brochures and advertising? How do they advertise?

What are the licensing requirments for this type of company? What type of business insurance do you and your employees need?

Also, you must decide if you want a local company, a national company, and/or an international company?

Do you want a storefront?

Do you want just a website online?

What types of equipment do you need?

How much can you afford to invest in startup costs?

Do you need employees and/or can you handle this type of work just yourself?

What type of errands do you want to run? Grocery shopping? General shopping, like clothing, taking packages to the post office?

What fees do you charge and what is the basis for charging these fees? Most errands companies charge a per hour fee. Do you charge a fee per type of errands--grocery shopping, returning library books, returning videos, clothes shopping, gift shopping, etc.

Include the types of errands in your advertising literature.

You should also ask your initial clients for testimonials that you can use in your advertising--business cards, posters, postcards, brochures, classified ads, display ads, etc.

For further information on setting up and running an errand-running business at the following website:

errandinfo.com
biz-ewomen.com

Per a recommendation from these websites, you can also ask a person who already has this type of company, if you can work with them as an apprentice and/or if they can be your mentor while you learn this type of business. Once you learn this type of business, you yourself can work with other apprentices and be a mentor to others who want to learn this type of company.

In addition, you can be a errands business mentor by writing books and articles and teaching workshops on setting up this type of a company.