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Providing services to businesses, rather than to individual consumers, may provide more stable and predictable income. A wedding planner must continually find new clients; your client this year isn’t likely to be having another wedding next year (although that’s not unheard of). On the other hand, a corporate event planner may plan a company’s holiday party every year. And an outsourced bookkeeper may keep a client for decades.

Become a whiz at the accounting progam QuickBooks. Approximately 85% of small companies use QuickBooks to maintain their accounts. But many of them don’t have the staff or time to input all the data they have and make certain the accounts balance every week or month. You don’t have to be an accountant to provide bookkeeping services, and with QuickBooks, it’s relatively easy to learn how to maintain a company’s books.

Look into providing order fulfillment. As more companies want to sell their merchandise over the Internet, they have to find a timely, reliable way to get those orders filled. Often, they don’t have the resources to do so in-house. Look for opportunities to be able to handle responses to customers’ orders through packing, shipping, billing, etc., on an outsourced basis.

Become indispensable. Although it’s not as glamorous as other jobs, providing ongoing payroll services, bookeeping, administrative support, or other seemingly mundane tasks can be the lifeblood of an organization. Once you get hired to handle any of these tasks, if you perform them well, it’s unlikely that you’ll be replaced or let go. In fact, you’ll become critical to your clients’ ongoing success. Yes, party planning may be more fun—but when the party’s finished, so are you—at least until next year.

Obvious (and Not-So-Obvious) Business Choices for This E-Type

Bookkeeper

Corporate event planner

Database and list management

Order or other fulfillment (contests, refunds, etc.)

Closet organizer

Project manager

Payroll service

Debt collection

Loan processor

Errand runner

Holiday card sender

Contracts administrator

Paralegal

Insurance claims processor

Employment agency