🧰 How to Start a Service Business in Jamaica

Cleaning, tutoring, catering, repairs, landscaping, photography, beauty — the service business is the fastest business to start in Jamaica because the demand already exists. Here is the sequence.

Pick from demand

What do people in your parish complain about not finding? Who is booked out? Do three paid jobs for people you know before committing.

Register and bank

Register the business name, use your TRN, open a business account, keep every receipt from day one.

Price and deposits

Hours × rate + materials + travel + 20% margin — and the rate must cover unbillable hours. 50% deposit before work starts.

The one-page agreement

What's included, what's extra, when, how much. "That's outside what we agreed — I can add it for X."

Get found and get the first ten

Google Business Profile, WhatsApp Business, a one-page website; then tell fifty people, ask for referrals, follow up two weeks after every job.

Free course: Start a Service Business in Jamaica — eight lessons. Ready for a website that books and collects deposits? From J$35,000 + Bookings plan. WhatsApp Lee.