Scoop Masters
"If Your Dog Can Poop It...We Can Scoop It!" ™
How much should I buy a pooper scooper business for?
Let me preface this by reminding the reader that this is mostly for those who are in the pooper scooper business or are considering starting a dog poop pick up service business. Some of the principles may apply to other businesses but not likely. The quick, short answer would be to go back to #9 in the business resources section about selling a business, but when it comes to buying, there are actually more options to choose from.
If you don’t want to spend the time and money it takes to build a business from the ground up, then finding an existing business to purchase may be the way to go. The problem with this is that there aren’t too many pooper scooper businesses available to purchase. You could try Googling pooper scooper business for sale and see what comes up, but that’s a long shot. With the results that come up you can always try to talk to current business owners in your area and feel them out on selling their business to you. Of course, in doing so, the price would probably go way up since the owner may not really be interested in selling.
The next method would be to use a business broker to find you a scooping business, but since they charge the owners upwards of $10,000 to sell their business, it very unlikely that they would have one for you.
This brings us to pooper scooper franchises. Yes, they are out there. There are a few franchises that sell the rights to use their names and their methods for running a pooper scooper business. I don’t endorse any of them. Not that I have anything against a franchise, rather I think they charge an enormous amount of money and you don’t even get any customers... you have to do that yourself. It can cost tens of thousands of dollars to purchase these rights to a franchise name, then you have to spend another tens of thousand of dollars to market your business. To top it off, you have to give the franchisor a commission for all your hard work! It just doesn’t make sense to me. If you have that kind of money to invest into your business, then make it your own. You can buy instructions on how to start and run a pooper scooper business for a mere $50 and market it yourself. The best part is... you get to keep all the money you earn.