• Estimate of Annual Revenue and Profit: $15,000-$25,000 Part time $40,000-$50,000 Full Time
Who needs a Relocation Consultant?
• a single parent who has a demanding job with working hours that directly conflict with apartment or home rental research, would find the services useful.
• Workers who have been replaced or who are going to be relocated.
• People who are returning to work from an extended stay away, due to an injury or illness.
• Companies who are expanding or relocating.
• Companies who have traveling employees.
• People living in heavily populated cities.
What does a Relocation Consultant do?
A Relocation Consultant's duties consists of locating neighborhoods, apartment and home dwellings, childcare services, religious organizations and selecting a moving company for individuals, families, and employees for relocating businesses.
More specifically, as companies continue to downsize and or relocate, there's a growing need for the services provided by a Relocation Consultant.
Often, companies contract with Relocation Consultants so that the consultant's services are readily accessible in the event that an employee or numerous employees are relocated.
The Relocation Consultant will match an employer or an employees’, living requirements and requests as closely as possible.
Additionally, a Relocation Consultant's services are solicited for individual's who are relocating for reasons other than employment.
Many individual's seek the services of a Relocation Consultant due to time restrictions which prevent them from locating desired living arrangements.
Getting started in the Relocation Consultant Business
• Advertising your Business
Run Classified ads and 1-2 inch ads in newspapers and magazines in both the Metro areas as well as suburban areas. Good examples are Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, New York....
Internet Classifieds work well also.
Consider leaving brochures at various Hotels and Motels.
• Tips for running a Successful Relocation Business
One of the keys to success in this business is your ability to network with others around the country.
Successful Networking will provide you with the ability to thoroughly examine an area prior to running advertisements.
So...it's important to develop business relations the country. Of course, the internet and email provide the perfect vehicle for this type of relationship building.
Understand that your learning curve NEVER ENDS. You will need to regularly develop your business skills. Don't be fooled into thinking that "a good product sells itself.”
"Consumers buy you" is what I used to teach to my telemarketers.
I've listed on my site, a few Home Business Courses to get you off to a good start.
Don't stop there. Continue to research and develop skill.
For example, I dedicate at least 5 hours weekly toward increasing my personal business building techniques.
• Visit the Relocation Council.
This Organization has been in operation for a number of years. They have a Newsletter and other training materials to help you to develop your skills.
On their site, you'll notice that there is an option to become Certified. In the event that you decide that you want to expand your part time business into a full time career, having employees...you can prepare for your certification with the Relocation Council also.
erc.org 1-202 - 857- 0857
Note: When you are ready to begin larger ad campaigns, visit, Standard Rate and Data srds.com SRDS has a database of media rates for at least 100,000 publications.
The Relocation Consultant Work At Home Business is a very inexpensive Business to start. It's fairly straight forward and it has the potential to create a full time income while working part time. This one is Really worth considering.
• If you decide that this is the Work from Home business opportunity for you, continue reading our Ezine for continued Home Business Start-Up's since there will be ideas and information in each issue that you can tweak a little to benefit you within your Business of Choice.
To eliminate some trial and error, in our Ezine, also provide you with ongoing Small Business support…deals on business tools, marketing research information, and more.
• You will need to create a Business Plan if you are serious about creating a profitable Home Based Business.
I found a good Business Plan workbook that you will find quite useful. Writing Business Plans can be frustrating… I won’t lie. Thus Using a workbook and/or software is by far the popular choice for those who don’t want to pay $700-$1,500 to have one professionally prepared.
• Ensure that you take your business to the internet. I’ve evaluated a few web hosting Companies and I’ve listed their advantages as well as their disadvantages. You’ll also find discount computer hardware locations.
You may find that marketing your business using RSS is an unthinkable opportunity to overlook. You’re right. I’ve listed free RSS readers and software that you can use To get your feeds up and going WITHOUT the need of studying all the techie stuff. Just visit our Resource Page.
If you have not read AND STUDIED, the World's Famous, "Think And Grow Rich", you can receive it Free:
This is a must read. Creating a proper mind-set is critical. In addition to your studying your business, you will need to develop a mind for business.
Wealth is NOT about Money. Download it And see for yourself.
Bridging the GAP between Opportunity and Success,
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About the author:
Shawn Price, Author of OwnABizToday's Ezine, due to her son's severe medical needs was forced to leave the job market and enter into the world of self employment.
Experience has taught Shawn that one can NEVER predict future circumstances and thus one should if at all possible , become financially independent.
In an effort to lead people toward self employment, Shawn and her partners, regularly evaluate home business start up's as well as small business resources and tools.
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The True Cost of
Self-Employment
by: Kenny Herbold
Do you think you are ready to make that leap to full self-employment?
The profit from your part-time (up till now :-) business is matching or
exceeding your regular paycheck, so you think it’s time to fire your boss
and make do without that paycheck. Before you take that final step to
personal freedom, make sure you truly understand what you are giving up.
Your employer paid benefits may cost you more than you realize. For many
people it will take more than $40,000 of profit per year to replace a
$40,000 annual salary.
When I talk about your employer paid benefits I’m not referring to the
“free” office supplies, subsidized soft drinks, or even the occasional
free meal at the holiday party. The items that you need to consider are
the benefits that are going to cost you the most money. Although if you
really like soda I guess you might want to include this too! According to
a survey published by the US Chamber of Commerce in January 2004, employer
paid benefits averaged 42% of an employees salary in 2002. That means you
need an additional 35 – 45% more than your current salary to make up for
these lost benefits.
If this number shocks you, then let’s take a look at some of the
typical benefits employers provide. Again, based on the US Chamber of
Commerce's survey medical insurance cost approximately 15% of an
employee's salary. However, employers also cover the cost of many other
forms of insurance. They include
Disability,
Dental,
Vision,
Life,
Unemployment,
Long Term Care Insurance, and
Workers Compensation
You might be thinking that you pay premiums for these products already.
Even if you do, your employer is most likely paying the lion’s share of
the cost. Not to mention that many times the premiums you are paying are
using pre-tax dollars. This means you end up paying less in taxes because
the amount of your premium is deducted prior to calculating your taxable
income.
When you own a home-based not only are are you going to be responsible
for the full cost of all forms of insurance using after-tax dollars, you
are going to be responsible for self-employment taxes. Self-employment
taxes include the employer paid portion of Social Security and Medicare
taxes. This means your bill for these taxes are going to double. Instead
of paying 7.65% of your income for these, you will now pay 15.30%. And
don’t forget about having to pay estimated taxes. You will have to file
and pay taxes 4 times a year now, instead of just once. Not only do your
taxes increase so do the headaches and the cost of filing!
The second highest benefit cost is your retirement benefits. Your
employer’s 401(k) match guarantees an immediate return of up to 100% on
your money, depending on how much your company will match and how much you
contribute. If your company has a defined benefit pension plan, you are
losing a guaranteed income in retirement. You are also taking on the
additional risk because you are 100% responsible for investing the money
to replace it.
These are only a few of the largest items that make up the 30 – 40% of
your salary that will become your responsibility when you become
self-employed. Your company might be paying for many other perks also.
Some other things you might want to consider are
company car (this includes gas and maintenance)
annual or performance bonuses
professional training or expenses (including professional journal or
society dues)
software license that let you use programs like Microsoft Office
programs on your home computer
vacation pay (that’s right, you no longer get paid when you take
days off)
All of these, and any others you might be able to think of will needed
to be included in the total cost of becoming self-employed.
I hope you don’t think I’m trying to discourage you from finally being
able to become your own boss. I just know that the excitement of finally
making this move can make us forget about some of the “extras” we are
receiving. You are considering a very serious change and need to make sure
that the benefits are going to outweigh ALL of the costs.
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