Starting Up A Small Home Based Business

If you are a person who is unable to do a full time job due to home based responsibilities such as being a mother to small kids or being a caretaker to an elderly parent, you might have been thinking about starting up a small home based and internet based business where you will be able to make money without ever leaving the house. Fortunately in this day and age of the internet, this is not as far a dream as you might think. To start a business, all you have to do is start a business page on Facebook and a business account on Twitter and you are good to go. You might even do something as simple as buying products cheap off ebay and selling it with a slightly marked up price to people in your friend circle or neighbour hood.

Setting up your businessOf course, if you are planning on starting a business, any business at all, you will need to prepare yourself and your home well ahead. You will need to have some outdoor digital signage installed in your home to let people know that this is where the business or shop is and you have the product available at your home. You might want to consider having a picture of your product on the signage to let people know without having to read it, what you are selling. If financially viable, it may even be useful to have some outdoor brand strategy agencies Brisbane at the top of your street on the main road letting people know that you sell your products down your street. You will never know who will be passing on the street that needs your product.

Online marketingIn addition to the physical signage you will need to post, you will also need to do a large amount of online marketing to let people know you exist and that you are selling the products you have. You will need to begin by starting up a Facebook page outlining your products, your prices and tempting descriptions of each of your products. You will also need to have good creative services Brisbane of your products that will work to attract people to your little home based store. At the beginning you will need to have a number of competitions and events in order to make people come to you over another competing business. After they have purchased your product however, have them post a review on your online business page where others will see it.