101 Businesses You Can Start With Less Than One Thousand Dollars: For Students by Heather L. Shepherd

Author:Heather L. Shepherd
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing
Published: 2013-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Web Designer: ****

Do you enjoy designing Web pages and e-commerce sites? Do you understand the mechanics behind creating a Web site from the ground up? Web designers have a tough job on their hands; they must be articulate, creative, and able to handle the pressure and challenges associated with the business.

Business Overview:

Design Web sites with animation, flash, and e-commerce.

Education/Skills:

An understanding of Web design and search engine mechanics are a basic requirement for this business.

Show Me the Money: $$$$

You can charge anywhere from $300 to $1,200 per Web site. You can also charge an hourly rate of $35 to $50, making on average of $35,000 to $150,000 annually.

Business Equipment:

Web design programs and software, graphic design programs, Web optimization programs, flash and animation programs and software, a good computer with high RAM, a top of the line modem, an excellent graphics card, and memory to spare are necessary. In addition, high-speed Internet will be helpful.

Business Base:

This is strictly an at-home business.

Clientele:

There is no set group for this business.

Starting Point:

Provided in the Learn More section, you can find work to bid on right away. You can also create an affiliate relationship with Webmasters.

Learn More:

Online

Visit http://www.findwebdesigners.net.

Books

How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business, 3rd (Home-Based Business Series) by Jim Smith.

Success Story: Mike’s Lock & Safe, Inc.

Michael Leach founded Mike’s lock & Safe, Inc. in 1982. After working in a hardware store out of high school he secured a job in a wholesale hardware and locksmith supply warehouse. It was after he moved from California to Oregon to work for a locksmith company he realized it was time to make the move to entrepreneurship.

“I realized I would have to work for myself in order to get anywhere in this field and keep my sanity and make a few dollars for myself,” he said.

Without a business degree he has successfully maintained and operated Mike’s Lock & Safe, Inc., along with his wife, for 25 years.

His business

24-hour locksmith service.

How his idea was sparked

I learned quickly that this business breeds a nasty form of ownership. Employees were often mistreated money- and overtime-wise, and after having been stiffed for 204 hours of overtime by the guy in Oregon I worked two years for, I decided I could go out and make $5.37 an hour on my own. I made the move six months later, one month after my first son was born, a pretty risky move looking back on it.

Why he started his own business

My type A personality was one I knew would require me to be my own boss if I wanted things done right. Trying to be perfect all the time was a curse even through school.

The pros and cons

Pro: Watching my wife and our three boys stand tall and tell their friends about how their husband/dad started his own business and see the pride in their faces when they tell them about it.

Con: Having been the ONLY night call person for 25 years. It gets tougher to drag myself out of bed at three in the

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