Finding the time in a day to do all the little things can be
difficult.
After listening to people complain about not having the time to
complete the mundane, yet necessary errands for years, Hollister
resident Lisa Truskowski decided to do something about it.
Finding the time in a day to do all the little things can be difficult.
After listening to people complain about not having the time to complete the mundane, yet necessary errands for years, Hollister resident Lisa Truskowski decided to do something about it.
Truskowski started her business, All Those Little Errands, last week, to assist people who work out of the area and don’t return until late in the evening, the elderly, and anyone else who could use help in getting everything done, she said.
“They’re the things people don’t have the time to do because there’s not enough hours in the day,” she said. “I’m trying to make life easier so they can spend the time with their families.”
Truskowski’s business takes on the basics – grocery shopping, picking up and dropping off dry cleaning, going to the post office and the pharmacy, she said.
If someone has an errand not on her list she is willing to branch out to make it convenient for a perspective client, she said.
For now she plans to stay in Hollister, Tres Pinos and San Juan Bautista because she is the company’s sole employee.
“If there’s more business out of the area, that’s great, but I want to start small,” she said.
Truskowski, who has lived in Hollister with her husband and two grown children for the past five years, owned a construction business many years ago that ended up not working out, and has worked in several small, family-owned businesses, she said.
The combined experience taught her a lot about running a small business, she said.
She had been wanting to open up a business of her own for some time, but a complicated surgery postponed the endeavor until recently. Even with the depressed economy and the outrageous gas prices, she still believes she can make a go of running errands, she said.
“It’s now or never and if it doesn’t succeed at least I can say I gave it my best,” she said. “But my gut tells me I’ll do fine. It might be a slow start, but I think I’ll do OK.”
Before beginning the business, Truskowski conducted research by asking community members if they would use the service and by obtaining advice from the Gavilan College Small Business Development Center.
The center provided her with information about how to get a business license, write a business plan and other pertinent information, said Sue Rocha, business consultant for the center.
“(Truskowski) did all of those things,” Rocha said. “She’s really a go-getter and I think she has a good chance of making things happen for herself.”
To contact Truskowski with All Those Little Errands, call (831) 635-9375 or at (831) 524-1816, or e-mail her at al**********************@ya***.com. The price of errands ranges between $10 and $20.
Erin Musgrave can be reached at 637-5566, ext. 336 or at em*******@fr***********.com.
