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Home Business 23 - Start An Ad Agency From Home

An ad agency is an easy business that can be operated entirely from the comfort of your own home. What makes this ad agency appealing as a home business is the fact that there is no capital nor experience required to start it.

An advertising agent running a home based ad agency assists businesses and organizations design advertising material which is then reproduced in the form of ads, brochures, fliers, posters, handbills, business cards - in fact any printed matter a business uses.

Your duties will be to design these on your computer to your client's specifications and had these over for printing or publishing. In fact you provide a complete service so that your client does not have to run around doing these things themselves.

You will need a computer with a good design software program, a printer and telephone. You will also need a section of your home as your home office.

Your client makes contact with you and requests design on a specific job. You complete the job and submit to the client for his/her approval. If the client is happy and does not request any changes, you then book ads on his/her behalf if it's an advertising job or contract the printing to a printer if it's a printing job.

Your client pays you a fee for these services. Some publications offer a discount if the material is done by an advertising agency. If this is the case, then the discount portion becomes your fee.

To get clients who will want to make use of your services, advertise in newspapers, magazines and on the internet. You should also consider taking out ads in business directories and the Yellow Pages.