MAKE MONEY FROM HOME

By seanorjohn
Make money helping
others
This is a guide on how to
make money from home
helping others. In most
towns and cities there is a
massive demand for
services such as: babysitting,
ironing, English and maths
tuition and caring for the
elderly. Your way of
making money is to act as a
co-ordinator between
those who need one of
these services and those
who can provide it. Anyone
with a telephone and
ideally a computer can run
a profitable, stress free
home based agency with
very little start up costs.
The baby sitting agency is
the simplest to set up , the
market is phenomenal and
advertising costs extremely
low.
This business is so dynamic
that you will not be able to
cope with the level of
demand within months of
starting up. So you need to
plan carefully to ensure it
doesn't take over your
life.Your aim should be to
make a comfortable living
from home with the
minimum impact on your
family life.
GETTING STARTED
You will need a separate
ring tone for your business
line. This is the most cost
efficient option. When your
business takes off- which it
certainly will , you will
need a separate business
line.
A large appointment
calendar is a must. It needs
to show the date, name of
each sitter, location of the
job, time of the job and
client's name.
Generating business
The brilliant thing about
this business is that it will
generate and multiply itself
effortlesssly. Customers will
recommend your service to
others and the babysitters
will spread the word
among themselves
Choosing your sitters
You must be very selective
in the sitters you choose.
Mature women are your
best bet. They are more
reliable than teenagers,
don't have a curfew, often
have a car and are more
likely to have child care
experience. An obvious
place to recruit is from a
pool of dinner ladies or
teaching assistants in local
schools. They are low paid
and would welcome the
extra money. They should
also already be police
checked.
Interviewing the sitters
Application form - easy to
get one online or from a
temp agency
Or follow this format
1. Name address phone
mobile email
2 Age Marital status
3 Names of children and
ages
4 Education
5 current job - previous
experience
6 experience with children
7 Driving licence and access
to car
8 Hours and days available
9 References
10 Notes from interview .
First aider - experienced
nappy / diaper changer /
feeding and general care of
babies. Good rapport with
teenagers etc
Choose your sitters
carefully and there should
be very few occasions that
you have any disputes with
your clients. Be prepared to
strike any client off your
list if a couple return so
intoxicated that they don't
stick to an agreement to
deliver the babysitter home
safely.
How to adverise for clients
This is so easy.
Advertise this service by
placing adverts in
supermarkets and
newsagents. Make contacts
with local schools. Leaflet
your area. Have an online
presence if you want. But I
can tell you this is a "word
of mouth business." It
cannot fail. You will get
too much business if you
over advertise.
Stay in control.
Collecting your fee.
Obviously you need to
charge the going hourly
rate for your area. Suppose
the local rate is $10 an
hour. (The minimum sitting
time should be 3 hours).
Your fee would be $10
each time you arrange a
job for a sitter. So the sitter
will get $ 20 for 3 hours
and you will get $10.You
only need 20 jobs a week
to make $ 200 a week. 50
jobs and $500 a week. But
don't get greedy, you want
this to be a stress free
home job.
The market for this is huge.
Remember, if you use
mature women as
babysitters you will have a
dependable flexible pool
of babysitters and your
service will be in such
demand you will be
tempted to open an office
in town to cope with the
demand. Resist this
temptation. You want to
work from home and make
a decent income. Keeping it
simple will give you a solid
income for life. You will be
working from home with
very little overheads.
Further hubs are in
progress about setting up
other home businesses.
Watch this space.
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Comments
Beth100 3 months ago
Great suggestions. I have
not thought of this for
myself, though I know that
there is a huge demand in
my area. All I have to do is
look in the local