There’s a lot to love about mobile businesses.
Low overhead. The ability to travel to your customers instead of waiting for them to come to you.
Many mobile businesses require minimal licensing, inventory, and equipment, which means you can get started on a shoestring.
Here are a few ideas to get you rolling down the road of mobile success.
Table of Contents
- Mobile Food Trailer
- Phone & Computer Repair
- Mobile Retail Store
- Landscaping
- Mobile Salon
- Launch Today
Mobile Food Trailer
You’ve heard of food trucks of course, but food trailers can be just as profitable (if not moreso).
Food trailers, of course, are the classic, OG mobile business. If you’ve got quality food and have a few profitable places to park, then you’re well on your way towards making excellent profits.
For example, here in the state of Washington, food truck profits average out at around $385,831.
Of course, you’ll want to be sure you’re licensed, approved by the health department, and serve food that people will love. A solid business plan will protect you and help you make the most of your mobile food trailer.
Nevertheless, it’s a proven business model. And Good Concession Trailers make it incredibly easy to get started.
Phone & Computer Repair
A broken phone or computer is insanely inconvenient, especially for high-powered, busy professionals.
You’re there to save the day: with your own repair shop. Add cabinets and counters to your good trailer and you can store everything you need to go right to your customers and repair their electronics on-site.
You save customers the drive to a physical location and meet them right in the middle of their repair crisis.
Mobile phone and computer repair businesses tend to offer average profits of $50,000 to $150,000 annually.
Mobile Retail Store
Customers love unique, memorable, and interactive experiences. Knowing a store will be in a location for three days only drives dedicated shoppers to come and enjoy the products. Plus, you can test markets and figure out what products work. Pair the experience with online retail store, and you might just create a winning formula.
Of course, you don’t have to sell the latest fashions to make a mobile retail store work. Seasonal offerings do really well too: pumpkins and costumes in the fall, fireworks near the 4th of July. Make sure you understand the state and federal regulations that govern transport and sale of whatever you plan to sell, choose a great location, and prepare to make good money.
Average profits vary based on what you’ll be selling, but if you have a passion, an idea, and a solid business plan, then you’ve got the makings of long-term success.
Landscaping
Another classic, though it’s not always classified as a “mobile business.”
Still, a Good Trailer can help you store all the equipment you’d need to launch a full landscaping business, while making it incredibly efficient to load and unload that equipment fast. And if you can do one more yard a day than your competitors because you’re that much faster, then you’re closer to success than ever!
Good landscapers can make over $600,000 a year in profits, or even more. Much depends on what you’re offering: simple mowing, trimming, and raking is less profitable than hardscaping, design, and specialized care.
Certain add-ons can even help you keep all your tools organized!
Mobile Salon
Helping customers get their hair cut, their nails done, and their make-up done can be profitable—especially when you can go on-site to a wedding location, to a business park where professionals can dash in and out of your trailer over their lunch breaks, or even a shopping mall where people can dart in between errands.
While a trailer only offers room for one chair at a time, you can still do a brisk business.
Average income ranges vary wildly. Profits typically range from $40,000 to $100,000, depending on the skill of the stylist and the locations the salon has access to.
Additional Help
Good Trailers offer a unique opportunity for mobile business owners of every stripe. Hydraulic drop deck technology brings the trailer all the way to the ground, offering the following benefits.
- Stability. Where a van or a standard trailer might shake and sway, Good Trailers remain stationary while you work.
- Faster loading and unloading. Get your equipment, inventory, and gear in and out of the trailer without strain. It’s as easy as walking gear from the sidewalk to the street.
- Access. View customers face-to-face while serving out of the trailer or give them an easy route into your trailer. The low angle folding ramp on a Good Trailer and the standard lift panel back door make it possible to get a wheelchair into the trailer with ease.
Our sleek, silver trailers also take vinyl raps that can help you personalize and brand them (if take them to any local car wrapping location). They’re long-lasting, designed for easy repair. And they’re insulated thanks to composite aluminum panels filled with polystyrene foam. This means both you and your customers will be comfortable as you get your work done.
Ready to get started? Contact our sales team today!
See also:
How to Create an Incredible Concession Trailer with GoodMFG
