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You have decided to start your own work at home typing business.
Money is in short supply, so where do you start?
Identify Your Target
The first thing to do is to identify your potential customers.
Don't bother asking big companies for work at home typing, you will
be in competition with existing staff and employment agencies. Look
around for small businesses, the smaller the better because they
won't have support staff. Pick them out from classified ads in
local newspapers, flyers and phone directories. Start with
tradesmen such as auto mechanics, carpenters, washing machine
repairers, plumbers, electricians, general builders, painters and
decorators etc. Avoid any business connected with IT, they are
almost certain to be keyboard literate.
Business Cards
Get business cards printed. You can get this done free of
charge. Make sure that, in addition to your name and contact
details, your card states that you offer a typing service. Get as
many free business cards as you can, you will need them to hand out
to everyone you meet as well as sending them out with mail
shots.
Flyers
Have flyers printed. Flyers are very useful: they can be posted
in locations where local traders will see them, delivered to
targeted businesses and used in mail shots. If you want to hand out
flyers or put them on windscreens in a car park, make sure you get
whatever permission is needed from the land owner before you
start.
Classified Ads
Place ads in any local newspapers, trade journals etc. which
offer ad spots within your budget.
Free Ads
Many places such as shops, wholesalers, supermarkets and church
halls have notice boards where you can place an ad free of charge.
Take advantage of this and remember to return regularly to make
sure your ad hasn't been removed or covered over.
Mailing List
Build a database containing the names and addresses of local
companies and sole traders.
Brand Yourself
Make yourself a professional looking template with your word
processor to use as a letterhead. If you opted for a logo on your
business cards, repeat the logo on your business stationery.
Mail Shot
Set up a standard letter to be sent to all the people in your
database. The letter should announce the service you are offering
and ask the recipient to save your card for future reference. When
you get your free business cards, you can do your first mailing
shot.
Delivery
If you are able to target groups of companies in small areas,
hand delivery of your letters is feasible but don't make the
mistake of wasting gallons of fuel for the sake of saving a few
pennies on postage.
The small traders will mainly fall into one of two categories:
either they will have a computer and do their own typing of
invoices, estimates etc or their typing work will be done by their
wife, girlfriend or mother. Your want to find traders who don't
like doing their own typing work and will be glad of help or whose
wife/girlfriend is too busy and wants to get rid of the typing
work.
If you get nothing from your first mail shot, don't despair,
repeat it after a couple of weeks or a month. You can alternate
between sending a flyer or a letter enclosing a business card. In
the meantime, continue to add likely candidates to your mailing
list. You need your offer of home typing work to be in the right
places at the right times. When the plumber splits up from his
girlfriend or the electrician's wife has a new baby to cope with,
make sure they think of your home typing service. One of the best
home typing jobs I had was for a local Private Detective. I just
happened to be seeking typing at home work when his wife who had
done his typing for years decided she'd had enough ot typing
reports about adulterous husbands!
If you are lucky, you might hit a candidate for your services
with your first shot and be in business practically overnight. It
won't be big business but it will be a start. Give your clients an
excellent typing service and chances are they will recommend you to
other small traders. Personal recommendation is the most powerful
form of advertising anyone could hope for. If you don't score a hit
at the first try, keep repeating the mail shots. Make patience and
persistence your watch words and you will succeed.

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