Legalize Your Way To More Money

Legalize Your Way To More Money


Jenny has never been an accountant or worked in a legal office, but her friends always come to her to ask for advice whether it was for writing a will, getting a divorce, or buying or selling real estate. Whatever the problem, she would get on the Internet and find the forms they needed and print them out on her computer.

One day after she got laid off, she decided this might be a good way to make money. She assembled some packets of forms and whenever someone came for advice she charged them a small fee for the forms. Soon, she had friends of friends calling for her form packets and was making a substantial income.

-How You Can Do This Too

Creating Do-It-Yourself, simple legal kits for wills, divorce, and real estate buying & selling are easy to get started and takes very little initial investment.

The main things you will need are a home computer, printer and Internet connection. All of the forms you will need to start are readily available for printing at several different Web sites for free. You can print up several copies and assemble packets for each type of service.

You will probably also want to make some business cards up so you can give them with each packet. Business card blanks can be purchased at most office supply stores and are fairly inexpensive. Programs such as MS Works, MS Word, and MS Publisher will work with the templates provided with your business cards. Make sure you put your contact information on them so that new customers will always have your name and number on hand.

-Getting New Customers

Tell all of your friends about your new service and give them a couple of business cards to hand out. You could also advertise in the local newspaper classified sections. Don't forget the free newspaper classifieds too! If you keep the number of words to a minimum, the price is very affordable.

You could also put up a business card wherever you see a bulletin board. Make sure you check back regularly to see if someone has taken your card and replace it if necessary.

A simple ad could be as follows: DIVORCE. Simple Do It Yourself Kit. Save $$$. 555-5555

You can change the wording for any of the Do-It-Yourself kits that you create. Try placing several different ads and keep track of which ones provide the most customers.

Always give new customers a couple of cards and encourage them to tell others about your service because word-of-mouth is one of the best forms of advertising!

Resources:

http://www.freelegalforms.net

http://www.lectlaw.com/form.html

http://www.arvic.com/forms/

http://www.legalwiz.com/forms.htm