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The answer is easy. You just take these quick steps:
- Decide what types of items you'd like to find. At the
start it is best to specialize. Thus, you might become a finder
of: Money, Oil, Farm Products, Executives, Old Cars,
Special Vessels (Yachts, Freighters), Factories, etc.
- Start your business in your name. When you do
this you do not, in general, have to register your name with
any local authority. Only assumed or fictitious names
normally need to be registered with your county.
- Print your own letterhead. Use a computer or go to
your local quick-print shop and have 100 sheets printed.
That's all you need to get started. Also have 100 #10
(business size) envelopes printed. Total cost=$50.
- Send letters to local companies telling them you will
find the items they need for a fee. Focus on firms that
might need what you've decided to find. Thus, if you want
to find oil, write to oil-needing companies.
- Look in the Wanted columns of large-city Sunday
newspapers for items people want that you might get for
them. Contact your potential clients by phone, fax or mail,
depending on what their ad says.
- Go to your local public library; look for any
mewspapers or magazines serving the field in which you want to
find items. Check their Wanted columns for needs you
might fill for them by finding what they need for business.
- Charge a 10% finder's fee for your work, if that
amount is enough to pay you for the time and cost of
finding what's wanted by your client. When you find
money, the typical fee is 5% of the first million dollars, 4%
of the second million, etc. Just be sure you're paid enough
for each job!
- Advertise your services using small classified ads in the
publications serving the field you want to specialize in.
You'll find the publications listed in "Standard Rate and
Data", available in any large public library near your home.
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