Business Services

The type of business services that a community can support will depend on the size, delivery and types of local businesses. People with highly specialized skills can treat BC and Western Alberta as potential markets for their services. Success depends on credibility, reputation, personal presentation skills and industry contracts. Franchises are often available.

• Blue-collar career counsellor.
• Billing and involving services for doctors, lawyers and other professionals.
• Collection agency-check into BC regulations.
• Commission sales of professionals, tradespeople and students.
• Compact office sized vending machines.
• Comparison shopping service-how does a retailer's prices compare to its competition.
• Courier and messenger service.
• Dictating service by telephone - dictations left on your answering machine.
• Drafting and/or computer assisted design (cad) service.
• Designing window and in store displays for retailers.
• Employment agency for resorts, etc.
• Government service - subcontract as a local representative for a provincial of federal ministry.
• Graphic artist.
• Grocery cart maintenance and retrieval.
• Invention broker-taking other people's products to market.
• Janitorial services - cleaning offices, floor waxing, etc.
• Landscaping service-designing, levelling and installation.
• Land surveying service.
• Meeting, industry trade show and conference organizer.
• Motel, restaurant and janitorial equipment and supply store.
• Newspaper and magazine clippings service-keeping business up-to-date on news stories in their industries - could be combined with an information brokerage service (ie database searches, government contacts, periodical index searches, etc.)
• Notary public service.
• Office equipment sales.
• Office furniture and supplies store.
• Used office equipment and office furniture sales.
• Other services for offices (ie plant care, coffee services, office overload, etc.)
• Packaged offices - sub-leasing space in a commercial building to several tenants with common secretarial services and office equipment.
• Packaging service for local manufactures (ie crates, pallets, bundles, etc.) And "Breaking Bulk", sorting large quantities into smaller ones and repackaging them for sale.
• Packing and shipping service.
  
• Parking lot cleaning, re-striping with paint and patching service.
• Pressure washing, steam cleaning and/or sand blasting service.
• Print shop.
• Private investigator.
• Private waste collection service.
• Purchasing service for businesses.
• Quick print shop - often combined with graphic design, do it yourself photocopying, instant sign making, etc.
• Rubber stamp and engraving service.
• Service, contract work or supplier of products to government agencies- national parks, school districts, municipalities, Indian Bands, etc.
• Security service-consulting, alarms sales, installation and monitoring, security patrols, security dogs, regular telephone calls, security guards.
• Sign painter, instant signs, magnetic signs & logo design
• Sub-contract operations typically performed within a business - data processing, office support, collections, etc.
• Temporary employment agency
• Traffic control and flagging service.
• Trade association.
• Tree removal, trimming, land clearing and salvaging services- bids for BC Hydro and Telus (BC Telephone Company) contracts.
• Tree stump removal service.
• Time management service for self-employed people.
• Underwater diving and salvaging service.
• Used office equipment sales.
• Wash room cleaning service.
• Water systems design, installation and repair (ie. Irrigation, sewage and water systems).
• Window and building washing service.