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How To Start a Home-Based Service Business Quickly and CheaplyOne of the fastest, most affordable ways to make money at home is to start a service business. If you use skills and resources you already have, you can be up and running in a matter of hours.
Here are tips for starting a service business fast.
1. If you're great with kids, start a daycare service. If you love to bake, start a baking service. If you love to organize and plan, start an event planning service. If you're helpful around the office, start a virtual assistant business. If you're handy around the house, start a home-repair and fix-it business. If you love to decorate, start a home decorating or home staging business. If you like to help people or businesses, start a coaching or consulting service. If you like to connect people to needed resources, start a referral service. Just about any talent or hobby can be turned... Learn More... |
What Are Your Customers and Competitors Buzzing About?
It's so important to actively listen to what's being said about your business or organization, wherever your customers and members may be talking. We encourage businesses and nonprofits to ask for customer feedback via online surveys, in their email newsletters, on Facebook and Twitter, and by using Facebook's Questions feature. Free tools and services such as NutshellMail, Google Alerts, and HootSuite let you aggregate and track your social media activity, so you can see and hear what customers, members, and industry colleagues are buzzing about.
Of course, there's a tidal wave of information churning through social media. Some of it is relevant to you, but much of it is noise. So what exactly should you be listening for? Filter what you're 'hearing' into these six buckets.
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Novus Auto Glass
As the inventor of windshield repair, we at NOVUS pride ourselves in providing our customers with exceptional technical and customer service. You can be certain that your repairs will be done right, the first time! Locally owned and operated customers can rest assure that they will receive the highest quality care. Yours and your family's safety is our #1 priority. We are certified trained technicians and we offer a nationwide guarantee! Plus NOVUS windshield repair is environmentally friendly. Why pile up our landfills with windshields when you can repair them. Save your money, time and the environment by choosing NOVUS Glass. Click here to learn more... |
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Your Featured Member Benefit - Constant Contact
Constant Contact®, Inc. helps small businesses, associations, and nonprofits connect with their customers, clients, and members. Launched in 1998, Constant Contact champions the needs of small organizations and provides them with an easy and affordable way to build successful, lasting customer relationships.
Constant Contact's leading email marketing, online survey and event marketing tools-supported by its expert personal coaching and support-help all types of small businesses and organizations create professional-looking email newsletters and insightful online surveys and begin a dialogue with their customers. Today, more than 450,000 customers worldwide trust Constant Contact to help them connect with their audience. Click here to learn more! |
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Washington Watch
SBA's July Web Chat Offers Tips and Advice on Growing a Home-Based Business
What do Apple Computer, Hershey's, Mary Kay Cosmetics, and the Ford Motor Company have in common? These well-known corporations all started out as home-based businesses. In fact, more than half of all U.S. businesses are based out of an owner's home. Starting a home-based business has many rewards as well as challenges. Join chat host Boyd Wright to learn what it takes to grow a successful home-based business.
WHO: Home-based business champion and small business owner Boyd Wright will host the July Web chat on "Growing a Home-Based Business: What You Need to Know." Chat participants can get valuable insight from Wright and learn more about working out of your house, starting a home-based business and managing the business within the law. Wright will answer questions on how to grow a home-based business, the benefits and the challenges.
WHAT: SBA's web chat series provides small business owners with an opportunity to discuss relevant business issues online with experts, industry leaders and successful entrepreneurs. Chat participants have direct, real-time access to the web chats via questions they submit online in advance, and during the live session. To learn more, click here... |
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