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Set up a website. Hook it up with PayPal so that people can buy chunks of your time in one hour slices. Offer an emergency quick fix service for people that are having Office related issues. We're not necessarily talking about PC repair, but more in relation to Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Visio etc... You would be surprised at the number of people that either do not know how to do somethings that advanced computer users take for granted. Discuss this article on the forums. (0 posts)
How many times has someone asked you how to - Import a text file into Excel
- Send a huge file via email to an important contact
- Do a VLOOKUP function in Excel because a report depended on it
- Unprotect a protected PDF file
- Uncorrupt an Office File
All the little things that IT staff have to deal with during the day doesn't just go away at night. Offer your services as a hired gun. Create the website, hook up the PayPal and get email notifications whenever someone needs your assistance. I'm sure you can think of many more emergency cases where people are absolutely stuck with no geek in sight. Profit from that and offer services that your are great at doing. Want to push the idea a bit further? Get a few friends together and offset the workload by spreading it around. You might have friends that are great with Office and others that are website whizzes and others that really know data recovery. You get the picture. Want 10MinutesMax to further explore this business idea on the website? Digg this article and we'll continue.
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