As time becomes an increasingly precious commodity, a number of businesses are going mobile - taking their services on the road to make house calls. In-home service providers will do just about anything: fix a computer problem, string up Christmas lights, X-ray a foot or sharpen rusty garden tools.
Consider one growing service: companies that provide residential holiday decorating. In Omaha, Creative Decorating festoons lights and other holiday displays at several hundred homes and business each holiday season. This year, they put up one million lights. Cost runs $500 and up for the exterior of a home, and the prices include a one-time outlay for such equipment as lights. They also come and remove all displays at the end of the season.
“People see what their neighbors are doing and say, ‘We better hire somebody’. They’re trying to keep up with the Joneses.”
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