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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You treating this as a private sector job which is your first problem.

Network your ass off and meet people at industry events and/or parties.

Volunteer as someone suggested for an event where you have one of your dishes featured and mention to everyone that you are the chef behind the dish and hand out cards.

You dont "apply" to be a private chef like I would for a job. Your goal should be to obtain business via word of mouth and being creative on marketing yourself. [/quote]

+ 1

Who is your target market, where would you find them, what is the best way to break into that market and build the type of trust that they would recommend you, how do you create value and if you got X percentage of your target market would that be enough to make a decent living and is that % realistic?  I'm not sure I am your target market because I would assume the long-term cost of a private chef wouldn't make sense given that DH  gets home by 5 and while not an elaborate chef he can grill.  For us we would consider more of an event type thing if we knew word of mouth that the person was really good and the cost made sense to us for the value.

-Relatives coming in town for DD birthday, how would private chef compare to doing Italian restaurant take out ..in terms of cost and quality ..or just wanting to do something other than Italian food
- 40th birthday party, want to do something, do we go out to a restaurant with 8 people or plan something at the house, and neither DH and I can cook like that ( we do BBQ normally when we invite people over)
- Mom's group, mom night out cooking class( we did this once at the home of a famous chef as a one time event.  In all honesty we hung out more than learned to cook )
- 1 week Cooking summer camp for older elementary or middle school- we know someone that has a a half day, sweets making camp but this has taken off word of mouth and is someone in the neighborhood.  Anything involving kids has an extra trust factor and scrutiny.
- Trying to get healthy, eat better, and balance this with kids working FT and homework, while all meals would be too much to outsource cost wise, would maybe consider 2 days a week dinner for family or having healthy, good tasting lunches for work 3-4 days a week for self.

Hope that helps.
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