Building Income with Business Services

These ideas can help you build income with business services! All these extra income building activities require very little or no investment. They earn real income fast with minimum financial risk.

Personal Secretary
Secretarial work is one of the oldest and most respected professions, and also one of the most useful. If you have an eye for detail, are good at Microsoft Office, bookkeeping software, and scheduling meetings, secretarial work is an excellent place to generate extra income, either part time or full time. For best results in a recession, look for work in law firms, hospitals and other healthcare facilities, research companies, and utility companies. Alternately, you can create your own independent secretarial company to offer bill paying and organization services to individuals. Most work is done at the client's site, so you don't need a home office! $15-$45 per hour

Bookkeeper
If you have knowledge or willingness to learn basic accounting, are good at numbers, and are organized and detailed by nature, a bookkeeping service is for you! Bookkeepers organize, categorize, and enter business transactions into accounting software, then create reports for business managers to use. They also "tie out" revenue and expense transactions and ensure accounting information is accurate. You can work for a company or independently from a home office with little or no startup costs or overhead. $15-$45 per hour.

Market Research
Are you curious and love searching for new information on the Internet, at the library, and in newspapers and magazines? Market researchers find information, analyze, and compile reports on the potential markets for business products and services. You can specialize in a particular industry such as building products or energy, a particular geographic area such as Mexico or Chicago, or a particular range of products or services such as deoderant or bankruptcy lawyers. The possibilities are unlimited and the startup costs are miniscule. $25-$100 per hour plus expenses.

Import-Export Representative
If you live near a big city, large industrial or agricultural companies, or a major airport, seaport, truck or train hub you are in a perfect position to be an import-export representative. You will be a "logistics agent" for products moving in and out of the country via plane, ship, train, or truck. Your responsibilities include finding buyers or sellers, arranging for transportation, and ensuring import-export documentation is properly handled. You will get paid as a percent of weight, volume, or dollar value of the shipments. Average income varies, but generally ranges from $50,000-$250,000 per year!