What you need:
• Computer
• Transcription equipment (optional)
• Accurate typing skills

If you have good typing or keyboarding skills, you can make a great income working at home providing transcription services to small and home based business owners, and even individuals.

Transcription is nothing more than listening to audio tapes or watching videos and typing them into your computer. It’s fast, easy and you get paid for what you like to do, type. You can set your own schedule and work as much or as little as you like from the comfort of your own home.

You can market your services to anyone who has audio or video files that need to be transcribed into text. This could include businesses and entrepreneurs who offer teleseminars, telemarketing videos, training tapes, etc. You could also market to hearing impaired persons, bringing sound to life by accurately providing a typewritten text of an audio or video file.

Advertise your business via your blog or website. Make up flyers and post them on local bulletin boards around town. Consider laundromats, banks, grocery stores, department stores, and more.

Have business cards printed and pass them out to everyone you know. Include the services you offer and several ways prospective clients can contact you including email, telephone, or even fax.

Make use of social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others to promote your business online. Post on discussion forums frequented by your target audience, but be sure to follow the rules so you’re not accused of SPAM.

If you have a transcription machine, you can easily market to offline sources as well such as college students who’d like a transcript of class lectures, businesses who want a transcript of offline training sessions, and even individuals who’d like to record stories and have you transcribe them.

Set a reasonable hourly rate and before you know it you’ll have more business than you know what to do with! Prompt turn around time will bring your customers back time and time again. Repeat business means more income for you. Your clients may even recommend you to others if you do a good job for them.

So, what do you need to do to get started? Less than you think, do you have easy access to a computer? Do you have a  good ear? Can you type accurately? Do you have fast fingers? If you answered yes to these questions, you have what you need to get started and you can be in business in a very short time.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to earn a good income while setting your own hours and enjoying the flexibility of being your own boss, starting a transcription and typing for pay business may be just the ticket for you.

Recommended Resource:

Get Paid to Type!
(Become a Transciptionist)