Be Self Employed
Be self employed is a concept which is quickly catching up with the young minds of the country. With a pool of talent available companies both in India and abroad look forward to have self employed professionals in their payrolls. As companies are concerned with quality work at less overhead expenses hiring self employed professionals help them gain both ways.
Self Employment in IT
With the advent of IT self employment has come to the fore. With opportunities available galore on the internet more and more skilled professionals prefer giving up their jobs for self employed work. There is constant increase in the flow of jobs from developed countries to third world countries like India. This has prompted people to take up jobs independently. Some IT based self employment jobs are data entry, medical transcription, content writing, technical writing, web designing, affiliate marketing, programming, legal transcription, online form filling and lots more.
With such enormous work pressure from overseas companies many firms and BPOs are looking out for freelancers to carry out their various assignments and meet the deadline. The good quality of work, accomplished from home arrangements and the cost effective nature of such jobs have lead to generation of more jobs.
Self Employment in Small Business
You can be self employed with your own business set up. It can be anything from a small grocery shop to a small manufacturing unit. You can also put your skills to use to become self employed. If you are a good photographer, you can independently offer services to all events and occasions. Likewise if you are a good teacher you can set up your coaching centre and become self employed. The avenues of getting self employed in India are fantastic.
What are the Benefits of Becoming Self Employed?
The benefits of self employment are:
- You get to work from the comforts of your home
- You get to save a lot on taxes
- No fixed work hours
- You can schedule your own working hours
Things you need to Take Care if you want to be Self Employed
Here is a list of mistakes which you shouldn’t do if you plan to become self employed:
- Do not sell to the wrong people. Be careful about your clients.
- Do not spend too much in the beginning
- Neither do spend too little
- Avoid putting up a fake front
- Always trust your intuition
- Do not fail to create value
Taking up lucrative self employed careers in India, are a fantastic alternative to earning money in quick, effortless and flexible way.
Dear Sir, I am a Civil Engineer with 20 years experience. Now I want to start a company of my own. Could you please guide me as to in which field can I start my own office? Kindly Reply.
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Hi, this is very useful information. I am going to start my own small business of mobile shop + cyber cafe. If u have any suggestion regarding this type of business please send me details.
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Scott Wilson Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 12:41 pm
The field which you chosen is great. I can definately guide you because you provided me your interest.
In this kind of start up, you should be very choosy.
Selecting area and where to start is the most imoportant thing.
With cyber cafe, you can start game zone also.
And one special advise is “you should go to different cyber cafes of your town and observe the method they use.”
IT IS CALLED CORE COMPETENCY OF YOUR COMPETITORS
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Hello,
Dear Sir/Madam
can you please tell me how can i setup my own Internet cafe
also guide me on registration process and everything about it
Please do mail me.
waiting for your response
Your Sincerly
Prashant
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Scott Wilson Reply:
March 4th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
Mr. prashant, starting internet cafe is very good idea for people who want to start with small capital.
My guidence for you in this context is
- your set up should be perfect.
- Furniture and every thing are the most important things.
- As a customer, i will prefer cyber cafe which has maximum facility.
- Be very care full in selecting are, where do you ant to start?
- Minimum investment is around 75000 rs. to start with these facilities, if place is on rent.
- Along with the cyber cafe, you should start game zone and hard ware also.
- This addition in the cafe will boost your cafe in computer sales and services.
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Hi,
Dear Sir/Madam
We r in Internet /DTP/scanning/online application etc bussiness in the heart of city Hyd.from the last 3 years ..Pls give me few more ideas how to upgrade this bussiness to get more income or to add some more services..this bussiness becoame a hand to mouth in now a days with no substantial income..we r qualified brothers (PG)we want to fully involve in bussiness to make a regular source of income..rather than to be employed somewhere iam also in aposition to invest around 3 to 5 lakhs to upgrade it..but iam not getting any idea…iam regularly in contact with experienced bussinessmen but my efforts r going invain.
Please give me few ideas
Waiting for your response through mail
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Mr. Ilyas,
You are on the right way. So first of all, you tell me your interest area, your experience is specifically in which business. IT sector is too vast and you have some experience also. And the amount which you have to invest is enough to start something which make you self employed. So please tell me whatever questions you have about the same. Please provide your personal information of your interest and every thing.
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Hi Sir,
I am willing to start a handmade paper bag unit. Please put some light on raw materials, training and marketing ideas.
Regards,
Ramesh C
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Scott Wilson Reply:
May 23rd, 2010 at 8:17 pm
Mr. Ramesh,
It was good to see your interest. I will shortly upload some articles on the same. The raw materials, employees, training and marketing are the main areas of any business. You will see an article on the same soon.
Thank you.
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Ramesh Reply:
May 26th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
Hi Sir,
Thank you for the reply. I am eagerly awaiting for those articles.
Regards,
Ramesh C
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Bhagya Reply:
June 15th, 2010 at 4:55 am
Hi Ramesh, I’m Ms. Bhagya from Bangalore. What would be the investment required for this type of business and also man power any idea?? I’m also planning to start some small business and progress, your suggestions and answers are respected.
Thanks and Warm Regards,
Bhagya
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hi sir,
i am planning to start a paper plate production plant.Can you advise me how i need to start and what all are things i need to take care.
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Scott Wilson Reply:
May 31st, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Mr. Rinush,
You can easily start the paper plate production business. You will need the machine which will cost you around 30000 INR. You can give your order to others as well.
The care should be taken that the quality you are getting is the perfect.
Thank you.
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rinush Reply:
June 4th, 2010 at 8:51 am
thank you for your valuable advice sir.can you tell to where i nedd to contact for the machines.Can you give some information regarding the companies who is dealing with these machines.expecting your reply .thank you sir
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Scott Wilson Reply:
June 6th, 2010 at 7:42 am
Mr. Runish,
There are many cos which have this kind of machines. I don’t have the exact idea about the companies names. So I can not declare any name here. Better you start searching on infomedia like yellow pages.
As far as idea is concerned, I will again say that that’s a good plan.
Thank you.
Hi Scott,
You have been doing a wonderful job helping out young people to become entrepreneurs. Well, about me, I am currently working for an IT company. To add to the income, I have decided to start with a maid service agency. Is it really possible for me to start this business without any investment or minimal investment. I know it would be nice to open up a place where customers can contact and request for maid services. However, to minimize the initial investment amount, can i just do with getting some flyers printed and advertise in local newspapers. How many cleaners should I hire initially and what would be the initial and running costs. Please let me know the steps to start my maid service business in bangalore without any investment (except printing flyers, placing ads, hiring cleaners). I also understand that clients do pay a registeration fee to such agencies. I would like to provide very compettitve price to my clients. Is it wise to keep the registeration fee just 1500 Rs., since I have seen that most of them are charging Rs 3000. Also, what are the kind of verifications that I should do on the cleaners I hire to bring a trust in my clients. Any advise on this business is welcome. Thanks Scott. Good day!
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Scott Wilson Reply:
May 28th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
Ms. Praseetha,
If you don’t want to invest more in initial period of the business start up, you can advertise in newspapers or leaflets with your phone no.
Initialy you can hire employees as per your needs and your capacity.
To start with, 3 workers are enough. Then you can go ahead if you get orders.
Thank you.
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Hi Scott,
I’m Ms. Bhagya from Bangalore, India. I was just going through this portal and found it very interesting and the way you reply is really right to the point. I’m fed up of working under someone and interested in starting some small business in Bangalore. I have around 4+ years exp in Customer Service/ Sales and Email Support. I’m actually looking for starting up some small scale business and I’m too much into social service and would like to help the poor ladies here by employing them and growing along with them. Can you please let me know with a mini investment of Rs 50K what small business can I start and progress. I have good leadership, managerial and communication skills which can act as a plus point.
Awaiting your reply.
Thanks and Warm Regards,
Bhagya
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Hello sir,
I am civil engineer with 5 yrs of exp in my field, now I am working as lecturer in one college and the salary offered is very less and I wanted to earn more to clear my debts. Can you suggest me any self employment jobs to take up. But in my civil engineering field I finding very hard to thrive, hence in some other field I wanted to take jobs.
Can you suggest how to go about and whom to contact? I am scared of fraud/cheating cases. I stay in Bangalore. I am good at computers.
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I want to get an idea on best self employed jobs available in USA, I am working full time in software firm in CA, now I am thinking to become a self employed and seeking some of the best jobs. can you help me with this?
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I am an employee in a private company and want to start some small business in my home town, my town population is around 500000 to 700000 only. I can invest up to $20000, please suggest me for some small scale business to start?
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