Home businesses have a hard time being found and known. For the money they save being in a residential area they can potentially lose that or more by not having an obvious retail or similar facility. This has lead home businesses to use corrugated plastic signs to advertize their location from street level. Not all business types can be run out of a home but things like art and photo studios, tailors, and notary publics can be run from the home and benefit from a sign. With the exception of the art and photo studios the common thread is that these are loose businesses not constrained by fixed hours as much. Some people with young children just starting school will become notary publics because notarizing a few documents every day at even just a few dollars a day can help bring in a bit extra income, and with the kids getting out of pre-school or elementary school fairly early in the day it lets them work around that schedule. Tailors are similar in that as long as the need isn’t pressing they can take the work when ever and work on it at the times of day that suit them best.
There is no need for the consumer to find these things in store fronts or strip malls the only real thing preventing them is lack of knowledge. Corrugated plastic is both light weight and fairly durable, it can be posted into the ground or attached to something to make sure that potential customers know where to find you. Because it comes in larger sizes than a simple laminated piece of paper customers can actually read it while driving by, it also makes you look more serious about your work. A surprising amount of types of business are moving to the home model and it makes sense, the economy is recovering but a lot of people are still feeling the sting of the last recession extra income from part time or fulltime employment without having to pay for an extra lease is a great idea.
Rather professional services such as certified public accountants can be run essentially from the home. If running a home business sounds like a good idea to you then you will need to investigate ways to advertize yourself. There are of course local ad campaigns, but putting up simple corrugated plastic signs around your house can help direct people where to go for your service, or where to park. A quick way to lose business is to get your first few customers ticketed because they had no way of knowing it wasn’t legal to park where they did. Just simply having a big sign up will help people find you more easily. So if you want that home business make sure people know where to find it and what you do, don’t break the bank though keep things simple and affordable.
