Shopping for Fun

02Mar09

Do you love shopping? Whether it is for clothes or groceries, toys or home wares? Well why not offer your services as a consultant shopper?

It may sound like a crazy idea for someone who loves to shop but there are many people out there who hate shopping. In fact they hate it with a passion. They can’t be bothered to go around shops choosing what they need and are quite happy to let someone else do it for them or at least take them around and help them decide.

It is not a demeaning job at all; in fact you can make it quite fun. You get to spend someone else’s money and on top of it you are being paid to do so. If it is clothes then you can offer the service of choosing clothes, bringing them to the clients house and if they are not suitable or don’t fit, taking them back to the store again.

For groceries, you can ask for a list of items or even better for a list of the different dishes and basics that are needed over a given time and you choose the groceries that are needed to make the dishes and which brands of each. As for home wares, pay a visit to the client’s home and walk around with them to see what sort of things they are looking for whether it is a particular piece of furniture or some new linens. You can then go to the shops and have fun choosing the items.

Basically you can set yourself up as a personal shopper but from home. When you get more established and have chosen a niche area, you can even set up an office from home where clients can come and watch videos and get ideas of what they want. The area is relatively untapped and has plenty of potential for expansion if you have the initiative and some good ideas.

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