Strike Out on Your Own - Consulting, Database Work are Good SOHO Options Mandan ND

Posted by : Molly Joss Career advisorhed: dek: by Molly Joss

Q: I am working as a legal secretary, but have also been an administrative assistant, office manager, and a sales representative for office equipment. I know basic HTML and have lots of work experience with Microsoft Word and other parts of Office.

I would love to have a home-based, database-related business using Access. I am unsure, however, about what I could do from home that would constitute a business. I have good marketing experience and good writing and organizational skills, so if I knew what types of work tasks a home business could perform, I would have a better focus. Any insight on how to focus my "homework"?

A: Welcome to the world of SOHO. Properly equipped with nicely outfitted computers, Web site, and phone system, you should be able to do anything in your home office that you could do in a corporate space.

As a solo entrepreneur with a database business, you could teach companies how to create, use, and maintain Access databases.

If you get really ambitious, you could become an application service provider (ASP) by setting up database servers (they don't have to reside in your home) for companies. The companies would dial in, open the databases you created for them, and store their data there, and you could do periodic reports and backups for them.

To do these kinds of things confidently and correctly for a broad range of companies, I suggest you think about getting some hea...

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