Larry Benson Live

I’m thinking of starting a new business from home. I really would like to create something on my own that could eventually support myself and my family. I have skills with computers and I think probably that would be the wisest thing for me to do. As it seems to be my strongest skill set outside of middle management.

I think I can probably start part time and operate from my home without any extra space or expense. I have the tools both software and of course the hardware tools to do what I need to do so with the upstart cost should be relatively inexpensive as I think I can do the advertising locally with accommodation of word-of-mouth and flyers.

My intention is to offer a service that will optimize the persons computer. By that I mean if they’re having trouble with their computer, I can go in and clean it up and change settings to in effect give them a system that operates similar to what it did when it was new. That would be a great service to many people I know because most people that have computers really don’t know how to maintain them or even that you need to maintain a computer. They get away with not doing so because they don’t really use them all that much.

I’ll come up with some sort of catchy little phrase to use on my flyers and business cards and then start spreading the word to friends and associates in the area. We live in a town of about 15,000 so shouldn’t be that hard to get the word out and currently there is no one else in town that offers the sort of service to the community. I can even volunteer to maintain the computers at my church and possibly even for some local service organizations to help get the word out.

Think about it, if a local service organization has membership of say 200 people and I go in and offer to optimize five peoples computers as some sort of give away. I’ll get a lot of advertising for free. And to be honest the service doesn’t take me that much work to do. I’ve been doing it on my own computer for years and have honed the skill to the point where I could probably do it in a couple of hours.

I can even solicit the help of my children to put up flyers and maybe even offer flyers to their friends at school. My mind starts to race as I think about all the ways that I could get the word out and I know there are plenty of people that need this service. I suppose at this point I need to sit down with pencil and paper to figure out if I could really make a living at it and if so how many computers do I need to do a week and what percentage of the population I would need to be my customer base. This is quite exciting I think I’ll quit writing for now and go to do some figuring on my new business.