Interest for intermediary services in construction. How to make money on mediation? Mediation as a business from A to Z

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In an era of maximum information dissemination, intermediary services are recognized as a particularly profitable type of business. Therefore, many aspiring entrepreneurs are interested in what this occupation is as an entrepreneurship in the service sector.

The sphere of mediation is the opportunity to become independent

Mediation services - ensuring interaction between various stakeholders. To become an intermediary, a future businessman needs to have a number of psychological and business qualities:

• The ability to search, find unique information that is inaccessible to a large circle of users or goods with a low cost. To be able to find a place where to buy cheaper and sell more expensive, but at a lower price than competitors. This increases the chances of becoming an excellent intermediary (speculator).
• Communication skills.
• Ability to self-PR and product promotion. If the intermediary is able to negotiate with the seller and the buyer on mutually beneficial terms, then the probability successful business increases.
• Creative approach to business.
• Minimum initial capital and security consumables. Sometimes mediation does not need initial investments, but for its own development, obtaining fresh information and finding clients, minimal financial injections will be required.
• Increased perseverance and stress resistance.

If the intermediary is not persistent enough, the business will not rise soon.

An example of the advantages and disadvantages of mediation

Any mediation has positive and negative aspects. Pros:

• Good income.
• Ordinary mediation is a relatively simple form of income.
• Such a business requires a small investment.

• Breakdowns of deals and agreements for a variety of reasons.
• The likelihood of cheating.

How to start a profitable business

Starting an intermediary business is not difficult. To build a business, you need to define the scope of activity and streamline communications. With the advent of Internet technologies, mediation has been divided into several categories: online and offline. Online business ideas:

• Partner platforms. Advertising new services and in-demand products is a profitable type of Internet business.
• Purchase and sale of network resources. You can buy a site and sell on other sites at higher prices.
• Advertising on Internet resources. It is worth thinking about opening your own resource, where you can place advertising banners for money.
• Work with online stores. Making purchases from foreign sites has become available, but there is a risk of being left without a paid item. The intermediary assumes possible losses, receiving a share from the agreement.
• Speculation. You can resell goods without creating an online store. Starting to work, you should focus on specialized products.

Offline business ideas:

• Real estate. The choice, exchange, purchase of an apartment, house, office - these issues are always relevant. Official real estate offices and private representatives can engage in a profitable type of business. To use intermediary services, a potential buyer pays an impressive percentage to the agency, but the profitable services of a private intermediary are cheaper.
• Repair of apartment and office premises - a good idea to start. Apartments are a profitable object, since they often require repairs than offices. A great solution is to look for clients in new homes. It is possible to immediately take several profitable orders, working with different professional teams.
• Trade mission. Many manufacturers need representatives in other regions and countries where the product is being promoted. Requires advertising and agreements with end customers.
• Recruitment services. Different companies often have no time to engage in recruitment on their own. The personnel company finds suitable specialists according to the stated requirements, and selects suitable vacancies for employees.
• Virtual mediation in the network. With the ubiquity of the global network, it has become easier to search for customers and manufacturers with pages in in social networks and official websites. The essence of networking does not change, you just need to bring the seller and the consumer closer.

Business Planning

The key to successful mediation is the awareness of the main stages in the formation of activities:

1. First of all, you should create a database of performers. In each intermediary must be 100% sure.
2. It should be taken into account that the main criterion for customers is the quality of the work performed and the deadlines.
3. The subject needs to monitor freelance exchanges and forums. There are many performers and new orders.
4. The mediator's portfolio should always be up-to-date.

Information for a novice intermediary

To get a decent profit from intermediation, you should focus on the B2B product segment. Optimal goods: production equipment, various raw materials, building materials. It is not advisable to do business in the field of household products. Because the niche is occupied by distributors. The main task of a beginner is to find a permanent clientele. The intermediary is not a seller, his main tasks are search, negotiations and delivery. It is necessary to pay attention to mutually beneficial cooperation with transport companies.

Any mediation is a risky business, there is a chance to fall for an unscrupulous contractor or customer.

Therefore, it is necessary to have a flair and make an informed choice.

It is no secret that a lot of builders building private houses come from Central Asia. Poorly understanding Russian, not really able to do anything, and having nothing. The question arises, where did the customers look when hiring such people. Maybe they're okay with it?

No, customers did not even suspect that there would be such "pros". They were waiting for competent builders, and not semi-homeless people who did not really speak Russian. They trusted the middleman.

Who is an intermediary?

The best analogy is a candy wrapper, especially in construction it performs an absolutely tighter role. "Sells" and "disappears".

Well, think for yourself who you will believe more, an “unwashed Uzbek”, who hardly speaks Russian, or a well-dressed person with an excellent Russian who speaks and explains everything sensibly.

And his builders are excellent, and they don’t drink, don’t smoke, don’t swear, they respect the customer, they are inexpensive, they can do everything, for extra. jobs do not take money ... This list can be continued forever. And a person believes at a certain moment. That, yes, they will be just so wonderful, well, maybe not so, but at least half of them. In general, everything will turn out great, and they will build a house and save money.

The result is ALWAYS the same.

Builders come, in Russian, except for one, they usually speak very badly or do not speak at all, you are already thinking how to refuse. They start working and really work. They fuss, they don’t sit, they don’t disturb you over trifles, the work goes on, you are satisfied. Life is good.

But a week or two passes, you calmly pay the first money, maybe even give out a certain advance, and then it’s like in a fairy tale. The clock struck midnight, the carriage turned into a pumpkin. It seems that nothing has changed, the prices are the same, the conditions are the same, and the work has turned from a galloping trotter into a dead horse.
Workers begin to bombard you with all sorts of issues that you should not deal with, additional expenses appear, and your presence at the construction site begins to aspire to a full-time job. And the wonderful foreman with whom you initially agreed appears at the construction site only after your numerous calls.

What happened?

And the following happened. “The Moor has done his job, the Moor can leave” (c) The intermediary finished the work, from the very first money he received his interest. Yes, do not be surprised, from the first money that you pay, for example, for the foundation, workers can get five thousand. The middleman will take the rest. And as a matter of fact, he has no interest in further fussing at your construction site, and in general he did not plan to.

You are left alone with your construction site, you start to think what to do next, the season has begun, normal builders are already busy, it makes no sense to change some Uzbeks for others, and you are afraid that they will throw you again. In 90% of cases, you put all the duties of a foreman on your neck, start pulling the construction site. Wanting to compensate for the time you spend on construction. And then another "good" news awaits you. They start asking for money according to the original agreement. Ignoring your work, instead of their foreman.

How to identify an intermediary?

1. The builders are not local, but they speak Russian perfectly. (according to mediator)
2. We built a lot, but the pictures are all from phones.
3. They do not like to stipulate everything specifically and in detail, they love work after the fact.
4. They know how to do everything, foundations, log cabins, bricks, blocks, domes, power plants, they can do everything.
5. They love advances on work.
6. No problem.

Wonderful item. Intermediaries never have problems and questions with your home. We drew ten conditional lines on a piece of paper, instead of walls: no problem, we are ready to build even now. No windows were specified, no problem, we will do it on the spot. There is no entrance to the site, no problem: no matter how we do it. In general, there are no problems.

If 4 or more points match, this is it, if there are points 4 5 6, it is also it.

The main thing to remember. The intermediary has no task to build you a house, he has the task of getting his commission, and your house is your problem.

In today's article, we will talk about the idea of ​​a business without start-up capital. Idea this business came to my mind in my student years, later it was implemented and existed for quite a long time.

In my student years, I communicated very closely with a friend who was engaged in the maintenance of split systems. He worked for himself, did not register his activities in any way, but at the same time, popular rumor gave him a good influx of customers due to quality service. There was only one significant drawback - the lack of a car and he had to travel by taxi with all his equipment, which included a large tool box, a mini-washer, a steam cleaner and a set of special chemicals. With such a set of tools, he had to pay not only for travel from point A to point B, but also for baggage, which, when calculated at the end of the month, gave out significant expenses to nowhere and amounted to a significant percentage of his earnings.

So he had the idea to involve me with my personal transport in his work, saving on taxis, but sharing the agreed percentage of earnings. Having increased the pace of work during the seasonal time for this work - summer, we began to work together, chipped in for gasoline together, and divided wages in half. The season ended and the work began to decline, although I monitored the situation of "colleagues" - they were still raking in the heap of orders.

On reflection, he suggested to his friend to open an individual entrepreneur, give full-fledged advertising and continue to earn money, which he categorically refused. Being more enterprising, I took matters into my own hands and started advertising his services online on local forums and free websites with my phone number. When the calls started, I scheduled clients according to the schedule and told my partner where and when we would work. With the resumption of my studies, I could no longer devote so much time to work and we agreed that clients from me, work from him, I get a small share for mediation.

This little pre-story gave impetus to my further action. Thinking a lot of time how to make more money, I came to a logical conclusion - more people are needed. But split systems are seasonal work and you can’t overwinter for rare orders in cold seasons. Developing the idea, I came to the point that there are many people who have hands and can do a lot of things in everyday life, but for some reason they are sitting without work. So you can help them to your advantage! As the saying goes, it's better to have 1% of a hundred people doing nothing than 100% doing everything alone :)

At peril and risk, I posted ads on the Internet about the installation of satellite systems (there were guys I knew with whom I once worked in this area) in addition to the already existing ones about split systems. And so I began to make a profit from two areas. At first, the profit was not very great and they transferred me to the phone, or they gave it in cash at the meeting, but it was enough for a trip with a girl in a cafe. Deciding that this was not the ultimate dream, I began to advertise all the services that people provide in job advertisements. Having phoned some of them, I offered them work on a free schedule - there is work, I call.
Percentages were agreed upon. And when an order was received, I handed over the work to the address and received my reward. With the first money I earned, I opened an individual entrepreneur, at that time something about 3,500 rubles, and began to advertise on the Internet and in a local newspaper about the provision of all household services, something like "husband for an hour." Leaky faucet? Need to change the glass, nail the picture? Anything for your money!

Over time, the phone began to ring around the clock - someone had to take out construction debris at 6 in the morning, but there were no movers - now we will find it! Someone at 3 o'clock in the morning needed an emergency opening of the front door - now we will open it!

A couple of months later, the first potential employee from the list called job seekers with the question of a desperate person - do you need employees? -Need, what can you do? -I can do everything around the house, maybe I'll come to the interview and tell you? Then I had a small stupor - I don’t have an office, it’s not the best option to invite to a student hostel .. Cafe! - Do you know this cafe? Come by today at 17:00. Searching standard contract hiring an employee, I shoveled a bunch of information on how best to do it, called the guys from the legal department and "shamanized" the contract in the right direction and went for an interview. After 15 minutes, I had the first hired employee with a minimum salary of 2000 rubles, 80% earnings from the order received and a lot of free time, not yet permanent job.

Of course, I could not pay a minimum of 2,000 rubles from my own pocket for every unemployed person for the fact of his presence, so subsequent interviews usually boiled down to verbal agreements. Thus, I did nothing in fact, being an intermediary, I earned the initial money out of thin air.

Investments-3500 from the first earned money. Payment for the Internet, phone - trifles.
Risks - one inadequate person from the street, attracted to work, can spoil the general opinion of the client about the organization, so you should be selective in choosing an employee.
Bribes did not have to be given.

Profitability - it all depends on your acumen of the selected service areas. In my case, a few months after the active distribution of advertising, I changed my "six" to a fresh 2114 and did not think about having money when going on a date with a girl.

Further plans were to hire some freshman to process orders and come to the job of her dreams - to travel and collect money, but due to family circumstances, she had to change her city of residence and start doing a completely different job. A little later, I saw an advertisement for a One-Stop Service Center specializing in approximately the same, but more narrowly focused services.

Remember the most important thing - feel confident. You don't owe anyone anything yet. A client who is desperate to find a master calls you - you are the master of the situation. Plumber Uncle Vanya will also be grateful to you for the work provided. The range of services can be constantly expanded. The most important question is why they will call you, and not according to a private ad in the newspaper? Because many people have already made a mistake on such masters who came to hang a cornice, but instead they split the slope and nothing can be demanded from them. And you are a company that has some kind of responsibility to the customer, there is more trust. By approaching this work with responsibility and understanding its potential, you can earn good money.

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Many people know that mediation makes it possible to make very good money, but not everyone knows how to do it right. There is a very important detail in the question of how to become an intermediary, which helps to bring this business to a successful level. The intermediary must have important information that is not available to either the consumer or the performer. Only in this way will he be able to manage transactions in his favor.

How to become an intermediary

Let's be clear, this business is not for everyone. For mediation to be profitable, you must have certain skills and qualities. Among them, the main ones are:

1. The ability to find unique, inaccessible data for others. It is important that they are not available to the consumer and the performer.
2. The ability to present this information in a favorable light to one or the other side. In this case, it is important to be able to negotiate.

Only with these qualities can one safely take on such a business as mediation.

Advantages and disadvantages of activity

Like any business, mediation has its pros and cons. Among the main advantages are the following:

• start-up capital is optional;
• technically the work is simple;
• good income.

Among the shortcomings are the following:

• ignoring agreements on payment of intermediary services;
• disruption of agreements, deals.

How to start a business

First of all, you need to decide on the area in which you prefer to work. Then it is necessary to establish all the necessary connections for a profitable partnership in it. With the high development of Internet technologies, today this business is usually divided into two main areas: online and offline. Each of them has its own niches for mediation.

Online mediation

The ideas of mediation on the Internet are multifaceted and varied in both areas and level of implementation. One thing is for sure, you still have to work and a lot.

Partnership programs

About 70% of products sold via the Internet are the work of intermediaries. Most often this is done through affiliate programs. The essence of the idea is simple. The intermediary, which in this case is usually called a partner, draws up his account on the website of the affiliate program. After receiving his unique link, he begins to advertise the product or resource through it. When a product or service is purchased through this link, the partner receives a percentage or commission from the transaction. Money is credited to an electronic account, from where they can be withdrawn at any time.

Advertising on Internet resources

Advertising is perhaps the first thing that came to the Internet business. To make money on it, you need to open your own resource - a website or blog. An advertising banner is installed on it, and you receive money at a specified rate or from clicks to the advertiser's website. Depending on the level of promotion of the resource, the price of a click can be 15 kopecks, or maybe a couple of thousand rubles. Intermediaries are offered up to 50% of this click. Of course, direct advertising will cost much more.

Selling websites

This idea can be implemented in two ways. You can order an inexpensive site on specialized sites, pay for its development, and then look for buyers for this product and sell them at a higher price. The second way is to first look for a customer, settle all the technical details with him, and then look for a contractor on the same sites. In any case, the risks with the implementation of the idea are quite high. The Internet is available to everyone, so on the sites you can get both a professional and a complete amateur who will break all the deadlines for you.

Opening an online store

Despite the fact that the purchase and delivery of goods from a foreign online store is available to everyone, many are still afraid to make such purchases because of the high risks of not receiving the goods when the money for it is paid. You, as an intermediary, can take these risks and make purchases from a foreign online store for a certain percentage. Sometimes it costs the buyer even cheaper than ordering from a domestic online store.

Resale of goods

You can resell goods without creating your own online store. In this case, you need to focus on a product of narrow specialization, but of high cost, so that you can get a good percentage. Or hot commodity, but for a large batch.

Very often, sellers and buyers of such goods do not have time to look for each other, so you can provide them with such a service. The algorithm for doing business is simple. Having found a suitable product, call up the seller and specify all the details of the product. Then find a buyer as quickly as possible and negotiate a deal. Preferably for a certain percentage. After that, call the seller again, saying that you have a buyer for the goods, but you want a percentage of the transaction. Having received your share from each, you will get a good income.

Offline mediation

Business in the offline sphere is familiar to everyone. The main ideas for implementing your mediation business can be as follows:

Real estate

Searching for an apartment exchange, buying a new one, office space These questions are raised all the time. They are engaged in both realtors officially and ordinary citizens, unofficially. Real estate is sold, rented out usually through realtors who take an impressive percentage. Intermediary services in this sense are much cheaper, which helps in the implementation of this idea.

Repair of offices and apartments

Apartments are ideal for implementing this idea, since office repairs are not needed as often as apartment renovations. It is best to look for clients in new buildings. Then you can place several orders within the same house. Naturally, for this it is necessary to have several brigades. You can search for them on the same new buildings.

Sales Representative

Businesses will not give up this idea anytime soon. Many manufacturers need representatives in various regions of the country or other countries where they want to expand their influence. It is best to choose several manufacturers of similar products and negotiate the sale of their products in your area. The next step is to advertise the product and conclude supply contracts with end users - shops, supermarkets, and so on.

This is by no means an exhaustive list of mediation possibilities. But, it is quite possible that in the process of their implementation you will find your own way to make money on mediation.