HOME BUSINESS:

BECOMING A RESELLER OR AFFILIATE

One very common mode of home business is to be a reseller or affiliate with well-known and/or successful companies or products.

For example, for many years, Tupperware has a strong affiliate program that is very popular with housewives. This shows that the system can work. However, it is not easy to get constant supply of customers and buyers.

To be a successful affiliate, one must actively look for potential customers. Basically, as an affiliate, one earns a commission whenever a successful sale has been made.

In addition to that, you should know the product that you are selling well. This will add credibility that will improve the success rate of someone buying the product/s.

Many successful affiliate do not just sell one product. They market and promote multiple products to increase their source of incomes.

HOW TO SELL PRODUCTS ONLINE

One method of starting an online side income is to sell products online. Do you have something to sell online? If you have, one of the easiest and most hassle-free way of selling things over the internet is E-junkie.

What is so good about E-junkie? Well, beside enabling you to selling digital files and product over the internet, it is one of the few places that handles the sales of real tangible products as well.The nice thing about E-junkie is that they do not take a commission for the sales you make. All you sales profits are truly yours. All you need to do is to pay a very reasonable monthly fee that is as low as $5 a month. LOL..Some web-hosting service are even more expensive than that!E-junkies is highly integrated with other online business systems such as Ebay, Google Checkout,PayPal, Authorize.Net, TrialPay, 2CheckOut and ClickBank. Because of that, it is really one of the easiest path to integrate your selling methods.

If you are selling digital downloadable products such as music files and software programs, E-junkie provides features that allows automated payment transaction and download delivery. So, once it is set, you do not need to manually send your customers the download files. E-junkie will do that for you.

As for real tangible products, E-junkie provides automation for inventory management and shipping calculation. Their shopping cart system includes inbuilt sales tax, packaging, VAT and shipping cost calculator.

So, if you are selling products such as T-shirt, souvenirs, CDs, software and files, this system may be just right for you.

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGN

Freelance graphic design is an ideal home business. One popular sub -branch of Graphic Design is desktop publishing.

Most of the overheads are located on a personal computer or workstation and most modern household already have personal computers.

As a freelance graphic designer, you will need to have good artistic and technical expertises. Good artistic skill is both inborn as well as comes with training and experiences.

The overhead of being a freelance graphic designer usually consist of the following:

1. A reasonably powerful computer. As graphic work is fairly resource-intensive for the computer, fast processor and huge amount of RAMs will determine how fast a job gets done.

2. Supporting hardware and equipment. Depending on the type of work, supporting hardware may varies. Typically the following equipments are important:

1. Colour printer
2. Scanner
3. Portable drives
4. DVD or CD burner

3. Graphic software. The most popular software for editing and creating bitmapped images is Photoshop. However, many graphic designer also need to do layouts that are resolution-independent. For that one will need to use a 2D vector graphic program. Some of the more popular programs are Adobe Illustrator and Freehand. If you are doing desktop publishing, you will need to get specialised deskktop publishing software such as Indesign and Quarkxpress.

The equipment and resource is just one aspect of the business. Besides that, you will also need to know about the transaction and business-processing part. For this, you will need to know the following:

1. Writing quotations, agreements and invoices. This is important as a mean to safeguard yourself as well as the client.

2. Methods and procedure for safe delivery of deliverables. This is dependent on the type of graphic work. Usually a CD or DVD is used to burn the softcopy of the work to the client. Also, many clients will need hard copy printout of the work. Therefore having access to a good printer is also important.

Typically, Graphic Designers charge the clients either by hourly rate or by per project basis.

This article is about the basics of running a workable home-based graphic studio. Experience, skills and specialization will determine the specifics and details of individual graphic freelance business.

TYPES OF CREATIVE DESIGNERS

Some people are naturally inclined to be more artistic. These people often have the ability to intuitive feel whether something is aesthetically pleasing or not. In addition to that, they can take these inner knowings further and translate them into new and visually pleasing creations.

These people naturally have the potential to be creative designers. However, contrary to popular notion, design is also partly an acquired skill. This means that a person can be trained to become a designer. This is because given the experience and relevant training, the ability to discern good design as well as the ability to translate design into drawings can be taught.

Below are a list of Creative designer professions:

Industrial Designer. Industrial Design is the creative segment of product design. Nowadays, the design of products are done using 3D software. An industrial designer is an expert in the aesthetic and creative aspect of product development.

Graphic designer. Graphic design encompasses many artistic and creative fields which focus on visual communication and presentation. A graphic designer must know how to employ typography, visual arts and page layout skills flexibly to produce the final result of the project.

Interior designer. Interior design is a field concerned with elements that is found inside a space. This includes spaces within houses and buildings. An interior designer is a person who is skilled in interior design.

Fashion Designer. This designer is skill in generating with stylish clothing and apparel designs. Fashion and apparel design encompasses many activities pertaining to the development and production of apparel items for people. They must have very good dress sense.

Jewelry Design. As the name implies, jewelry designer specialises in creating new and exciting jewel pieces.