Another work at home business opportunity as an advertising and marketing consultant!
Believe it or not, there are literally thousands of home business opportunities that you can choose from, none of which promise to help you get rich quick or sound like a scam.
"Financial peace isn't the acquisition of stuff.
It's learning to live on less than you make,
so you can give money back and have money to invest.
You can't win until you do this.”
- Dave Ramsey |
One great idea is working as an advertising/marketing consultant from your home. For this home based business, you would be required to do a wide variety of projects that would differ with each client, based on their needs and your expertise.
Some of those projects would range from simple tasks like business cards and brochure designing to much deeper tasks like creating marketing plans, budgets, and business strategies for small and medium sized companies.
As a full-service advertising and marketing consultant, you should be able to handle everything for a marketing campaign, from the initial concept for a campaign through to the design and execution of the entire project.
The type of knowledge you possess in this field will determine what level of services you can offer to your clients. You can always hire another freelancer as part of this work at home business opportunity to do the writing or the design work for you if those skills are not your forte. In essence, you sub-contract out the work you are not inclined to do yourself.
It's important that you have solid writing skills and at least a basic understanding of marketing and advertising. Of course, management skills are very useful for both helping your clients with their business and marketing your own business.
The equipment you will need as an advertising and marketing consultant varies depending on the services you plan to provide. You will need a computer, connection to the Internet and a fax machine for the basics.
You will also want to invest in a color printer and a scanner, and even some graphics software if you plan to offer more services to your clients as you build this work at home business opportunity.
The start up costs for a home based business as an advertising and marketing consultant vary widely and depend on what you already have. The biggest expense will be a computer that has enough memory to support large graphics programs such as Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXPress.
You will want to launch your own marketing campaign for your business right off the bat, so be sure to save some money for outside promotion, such as brochures and direct mail outs. In addition, you should consider the benefits of having your own website, which will provide additional credibility to you and your business in the eyes of potential clients.
Depending on the services you offer, the income potential is between $40,000 and $100,000 a year. With this work at home business opportunity, you can charge your clients an hourly rate or have a client on a retainer.
The standard hourly rates are between $25 and $65, but can be higher, depending on your level of services and experience in the niche.
There are more and more professionals who are making the choice to freelance from home in order to enjoy the many benefits of being closer to home and more connected to family and friends, but it doesn’t have to mean they give up entirely the work they love.
"Before borrowing money from a friend,
decide which you need most.”
- American Proverb |
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