RESEARCHER - . Use your talent to provide research data, technical details and background information for clients who need this type of work. You could provide library research and Internet research. Charge by the hour, page or a flat fee for your efforts.
Word Processing Services: Learning to type quickly and accurately is a skill every student should learn. However, not everyone is proficient in this skill and would love to have someone type their information for them. Decide whether you would like to type from hand written pages or audio. I see a need for transcribing from audio.
This is a great service to offer. You could offer to take their audio and provide a transcription. Most services charge by the word. You could charge by the page. You could have a basic rate for transcribing and then additional charges for editing. (You could even have different editing categories. You could offer a rough edit and a fine edit. You need to make sure you have the skills to offer different types of services.) You could charge extra for rush jobs.
There are many Internet Marketers who do numerous teleseminars and use transcibers to put the call into a document.
There are authors who are good at speaking their material and could use someone to take their recordings and turn them into a document.
Do a search on transcription services and see what the most services are charging. Is there anything you could do which would make your services unique and more desirable?
PS If you develop this skill and need work, please let me know.
Short Business Idea:
MINIATURE GARDENS. Create various types of container gardens for different needs. You could specialize in live plant container gardens for those in the hospital and as entertainment gifts. You could specialize in food producing plants for balconies, decks, and other confined areas. Include care instructions with each product.
If you understand computers, you can become a computer tutor.
You can go to a client’s home or office and instruct
them to use their equipment and operate their programs.
Advertise your consulting service to prospective buyers of
equipment and programs. Offer a line of shareware programs.
You could specialize in a particular area. There is a need for good spyware. Become an expert on different spyware programs and provide a review of the various products. You could offer to install and update their computers.
You could specialize in retrieving information from disks that crash. Business owners who have not properly backed up their data will pay quite a bit to retrieve their lost info. Then offer consulting on how to properly back up information.
Think about what you like to do.
What are you good at doing?
What do you enjoy doing?
How can you use that knowledge and enjoyment to help others?
Keep thinking differently, Linda
