How to start a Fresh Fruit Juice Business

Whenever we go to the adjacent super market, my younger son Peepo stops at the sugar cane juice counter and asks for juice. It has become a ritual for us to drink chilled sugar cane juice (chilling without ice, that's their speciality) when we do our grocery shopping.

Till recently, I had not realised that a fresh fruit juice joint is a decent profit making business. A school friend of mine, who did his engineering in electronics and then worked for good amount in IT sector started a juice and milkshake center in Dubai. One and half years back when I met him he told that he has quit his job and into full time business. Amazing right?

He was so humble to tell that his juice shop is earning bread and butter for the family. Knowing his lifestyle, it can't be a small business but he made it into a major one. Well, his life lessons made me realise that no business is big or small. It is all dependent on how you make it.

Starting a fresh juice business is a brilliant idea as fresh juices are considered as healthy food and is always in high demand. Let me share with you what all are required to start a fruit juice business.

How to start a fresh fruit juice business?

Fresh fruit juice business or setting up a juice bar is a low investment business in the food sector. You can setup a new juice shop with a capacity of 15-20 seats with a capital of 10  -15 lakhs.

Location
The first and foremost thing to set up a juice bar is the location. You have to set it up in a place where people come often. Places like supermarkets, malls, offices, schools, shopping centers, movies, entertainment arenas etc are all filled with people who would like to get refreshed with a glass of fresh juice. Location is really critical because, if it is a remote place it will be hard to find customers.

Bring in a difference
Fresh juice is fresh juice. So to make your juice bar stand out, you have to bring in some difference from the normal juice shops. You can experiment with mixed fruit juices, new smoothie recipes, milkshakes with a twist to name a few. Say something like detoxifying Amla juice, strawberry-cucumber juice, tomato-vegetable juice are not regular juices.  Try out different recipes with your friends circle before you finalise the menu card.

Menu card
When the menu is ready, go for a design and  print out the menu card. Make it attractive as well as easily readable.

Equipments
To set up a juice shop in India, you need to have a proper blenders for different types of juices. Citrus blender, juicer, filter and refrigerators are a must.

Infrastructure
You need to work on a proper ambiance for the customers to relax and enjoy the cool drinks. Seating arrangements, wall furnishings, counter setup all has to enhance the experience of the customers. Special juice glasses that gives a rich feeling to the clients can elevate their mood.

Uninterrupted service
Once we went to a juice shop after shopping, unfortunately after they took the orders, power went off and they were in a fix. We waited patiently for half an hour or so till we finally got out juices served. But that experience remains as a bad mark in my mind regarding that shop and I will never visit that place again.

The quality of service takes above all other things. To ensure a supreme quality of service, equip your juice bar with uninterrupted supply of electricity, potable water and good refrigeration mechanisms.

Labour
You can't run the shop all by yourself, if you are planning for big returns. You have to employ people to take orders, make juice, clean the place and at the counter. Or you can do like KFC, Mc Donald's model by making it a self service juice bar to reduce the number of employees. On top of that, you can visit the shop every now and then and oversee the activities till it stabilises.

Look for tie ups
Instead of making it a stand alone juice bar, you can look for tie ups with running establishments. Say a gym, schools, colleges, workplaces to name a few. This can guarantee you regular customers. And overhead cost can be shared with the existing establishment.

Talk to the wholesalers
To reap huge profit and to procure freshest seasonal fruits, talk to the whole salers in your locality. they will give you at discounted rates, as you could possibly be their regular customers.

Work on the finances
Apart from the set up cost, you need to have operating cost to keep the juice shop running everyday. You have to do good share of marketing to increase the reach of your shop to newer customers every now and then.

Eco-friendly Measures 
Most of the waste from juice shops are green waste. You can run a side business by composting the waste and providing manure for the nurseries. That way your waste management becomes easier. Avoid using disposables like plastic straws to reduce the carbon footprints.

Legal Requirements to start a fruit shop in India

Every food manufacturing or processing entity needs a bare minimum FSSAI registration. For a moderate set up of juice bar, you need to get FSSAI license and register the shop as a private limited company. This will help you when you want to scale up the business with multiple outlets or using a franchise model.

Having said all these, in reality fresh fruit juice business in India is still in its nascent stage. It mostly covers the urban population. In rural places, it is a very small sector confined to road side sugar cane juice and lemon juice. In Chennai, I have seen people selling gooseberry juice especially in the early morning time catering to the morning runners and joggers.

But the increased awareness of fitness and healthy living surely is promising for fruit juice industry. Also fizzy drinks are getting slowly replaced by fresh fruit juices. Pre packed fresh fruit juices like Paper Boat are doing extremely well in this sector. It is indeed a great business to venture into.

Every business looks lucrative on papers. But only when you put your heart and soul into it, the real picture comes up. Fresh fruit juice business is an ideal business with less possible set backs. Just take one step at a time and do it right. In a period of time, everything will fall in place and the juice shop will run smoothly, reaping you regular profit. Isn't that a good way to create a pipeline of income for your family? So pull up your sleeves and get started! If you need any help, please email me or post it as a comment. I will help you with whatever information I have on fruit juice shop business.

How to start a Cold Pressed Oil Reselling Business?

I had met Valli in a seminar around 5-6 months back. When I was browsing through my contacts on phone her name suddenly popped up and I thought of calling her. After regular hi hello conversation I asked her so what do you do? For which she replied:”I’m into reselling cold pressed edible oils. Not really to make huge profit, but we have benefited from the quality of oil and hence want it to reach more number of people”. The warmth in her conversation wanted me to book 2 bottles of coconut oil for my home use right away!

In fact, last couple of years have seen sudden increase in many people reselling these cold pressed oil citing the benefits of them over refined oil packets. It says refined vegetable oil is no more a healthy option for cooking. Nut and seed based oils like coconut oil, sesame oil, ground nut oil and mustard oil are the best for consumption. And the oil extracted right from the mill without refining is best for our body.

I had earlier written a post about How to start a Virgin Coconut Oil Business in this blog, as virgin coconut oil is regarded as a super food by the western world today. 

Well, it seems that during this decade all are realising what is good and what is not. Even without any bit of advertising these oils are picking up popularity with real testimonies from people who used it. And reselling such quality cold pressed oils is indeed a business for women who want to make some decent money and network with people. And Whatsapp groups are a boon for such resellers!

That phone call made me sit down and gather all the data to start a cold pressed oil reselling business. I am not planning to get into this immediately, but I have had a conversation with a friend in my apartment who has an oil mill contact and she is looking for a partner to start it.

Anyways, let me share how to start a cold pressed edible oil reseller business, in case you are looking for a decent business option, without digging a hole in your pocket.

How to start a Cold Pressed Edible Oil Reselling business?

The first and foremost thing to do is get in touch with oil mills that make oil in the traditional way. By traditional way I mean the cold pressed way – that is a wooden grind (or ‘marachekku’), or mechanical rotary grinding without heating the oil seeds. Let me explain one by one to make it easy to remember.

1. Find the manufacturer

It could be there in the villages where raw materials are abundant and labour cost is very low. Talk to them and share your intention to get into reselling with them. With the advent of internet, you can find out many manufacturer contacts online via Alibaba, indiamart etc.

2. Which cold pressed oil do you want to resell?

This actually depends on which oil is used for cooking by your local contacts. In general, oils in great demand are groundnut oil, coconut oil and sesame oil. But Flaxseed oil, avocado oil, etc. are also picking up. 

3. Find the pricing

Also get the price for bulk order from them, say for 10L or 20L. Ask for a few samples or buy some 1/2L from them and try it out yourself.

4. Transportation

Once you know the source, the next step is to get it transported to your business location. Get ideas from them on how to transport the bulk oil orders to your city. Probably they will be supplying to any nearby locality already. In that case, they will be able to deliver when you place the order in advance. Or the worst case, you will have to manage the procurement by yourself.

5. Look for packaging options

Once you are confident with the quality of oil you can finalise on the individual quantity of oil that you can resell. Say ¼ L, ½ L or 1L. You can go for plastic or glass bottles or pouches for packaging them.  You can speak to the local vendors for these as well as look in to bulk traders selling them online. (Sample one: Stand Up Pouch from IndiaMart) . Once you are established to venture into bigger markets and your turn over is more than 12Lakhs per annum you can go for proper labelling.

6. Fix your pricing

Now is the time to talk about money. There are three factors to consider while fixing the pricing – buying cost (this includes the cost of oil plus transportation cost), packing cost (includes packing material price, labelling, labour cost etc) and most importantly ‘profit’. If it is a business it has to make profit. Decide on how much profit you want, 10% or 25%.

For example, if 20L oil costs you Rs.2400 and your packaging cost per a litre bottle is coming to Rs.10. In total, your cost per bottle is coming to 130. To make 10% profit on cost you can fix the pricing to Rs.143 per litre (similarly for 25% profit the price per pouch should be Rs.162).

7. Market your Oils in your circle

To get the first few sales, you can talk to your close family and friends. Just like how Valli did to me, talk about the benefits of using it at your home and recommend it to them. You can also talk to your colleagues, neighbourhood or put up a stall in a food exhibition. Also advertise about your oil in all the social media account including whatsapp groups.

Knowing the benefits of cold pressed oil will help you to speak to your circle of people effectively about the oil.

What makes cold pressed oil so good?

Cold pressed oils are made by pressing the oil seeds just as they are. This means that the goodness of the nuts or seeds are passed on directly to the oil. Their shelf life will be less as no preservatives are added. Since no refining is done, they carry all the qualities of that oil seed or nut.

This means all the essential natural vitamins and nutrients remain in tact in the oil. All natural flavour and aroma are present in these oils. Hence food cooked with these will definitely invoke your taste buds.

Please not that the hot pressed oils are highly aromatic as they have synthetic fragrance. Also, the cold pressed oil will look a bit misty as it is not refined and the suspended particles will be there.

Experience it and share your experience for a heart to heart conversation that could result in a sale. The best thing is that even if the profit margin is not so high, the customers will be buying it often and having regular customers means regular income and hence huge profit over a period of time.

Scaling up your oil business

Once you have a bunch of customers and you are liking the business, you can think of scaling up. Fix up a target or goal for your business, say 1 lakh turn over in first 3 months. Once that milestone is achieved expand your business – for example, if you were into gingely oil reselling alone, you can get into groundnut oil as well now. Talk to nearby grocery shops, restaurants, etc. And keep renewing your goals and targets every quarter, to keep your business growing. And do apply for the FSSAI license if you decide to make it big. 

I always feel that getting into a small scale food business is easiest of all business ideas. The good thing about food business is that the capital is small and easy to start. (Read on my blog post to learn about how to fund your food business from your savings at home)The bad thing about a food business is that it deals with perishable goods, and if business is taking time to pick up you have to look for smart options not to get into loss.

Since oil's shelf life is more than fresh foods, reselling good quality oil is a decent option to venture into your food business. Let me know how is it going. Wish you all the very best for your food venture!

How to start a Laundry business?

When I was in Mysore Infy, I found the coin operated washing machines so useful. Back then I was too lazy to wash clothes myself. But as the family expanded, it became more economical to wash clothes at home. Even now, I hate the laundry work for it requires utmost care.  For a countless times, I have turned Veeran's white classic formal shirts to pinks!

Often, at home we buy clothes of different fabric, yet unable to find the best way to maintain the newness of the clothes. How much ever mild detergent or fabric conditioner or whitener or whatever I put, clothes become life less after a few washes. It is definitely a tedious task to sort out different fabric and follow different laundry instructions by ourselves.

I'm sure 100% of Indian household feels the same. And this feeling paves the way for a successful laundry business.

So, How to start a laundry business?

A laundry business involves collecting clothes from customers, washing, drying, ironing  and folding them, and return it back to collect money for the service. Yes it is that easy to say. But the actual business involves more steps. Let me explain it with a proper business planning.

Make arrangements for Capital:

Setting up laundry business is a capital intensive task. You have to first analyse how much capital will be required. Depending on the amount you can think of a partnership model to raise the funds.

Decide on the operation model:

Before the work of setting up proceeds, you have to finalise on the operation model of your laundry.
(a) Coin operated - Ideal for locations populated by people who are ready to visit your laundry and do it by themselves.
(b) Classic - Ideal for locations where people prefer to outsource the entire laundry work. Here, you will have to look for facilities for pick up and drop of clothes.

Work on infrastructure requirement:

Once you have decided the operation model, you can zero in on the number of machines required. Washing machines, Dryers, Rollers and what all. Electronic companies like Electrolux provide provide commercial laundry set up solutions. (You can check out here: http://professional.electrolux.co.uk/Solutions/Investors1/Commercial/ )

Look out for laundry set up space:

Laundry business requires huge space. So when finalising on the space, keep in mind about the volumes clothes and machines will cover. Think of having a front office space that can be the welcome and payment counter.

Pick up and Delivery options:

Most of the households, offices, hotels and restaurants would prefer pick up and drop facility. You have to arrange for a separate staff  and commuting options for the same.

Manpower Requirement:

Laundry cannot be done by one person alone if you are thinking of a big business. You need to invest huge on hiring good talent and training them. Apart from the know how of operating the machines and fabric knowledge, they should be customer friendly. Even one mistake from your employee, can affect your reputation badly. So hire with care.

Decide on the service portfolio:

A laundry business in India, involves washing of soiled clothes, drying them thoroughly, ironing with perfection and folding nicely. Apart from these dyeing, darning, dry washing etc can also be added to the service portfolio. Before you commence the operations you have to decide on the services you can offer.  For example you can offer two services like washing plus folding or washing plus ironing at two different rates per piece of cloth. Choose the offers after analysing customer needs and your monitory benefit.

Pricing:

Once all the overhead costs are known you can decide on your profit share and fix the pricing accordingly. The pricing can be per piece or per kilogram or per load. Also it can vary depending on the care required for the fabric.

Advertising and Marketing:

Laundry business is very competitive. Market your laundry business in such a way that it is different from the rest. You can think of options are: bulk pricing, 10+2 free,  offer for initial 100 customers, pay back guarantee etc.

For every enterprise you have to invest huge on marketing to get regular business. In case of laundry business you can work on creating a good customer base who could be your loyal customers for lifelong. You can really contact big or small housing societies in your shop's neighborhood for regular laundry work. Similarly, restaurants and hotels also have regular laundry jobs. You can talk to them and come up with an agreement. Similar is the case with corporate offices, the best thing about offices is that for neat work you can get paid higher while availing regular work.

Decide on Store details:

Once you have decided everything else about your laundry business, you should now decide on the store details. Things like working hours per day, how many days a week, leave policies and other HR related matters. You should also have a  dedicated phone line to answer the customers. Have visiting cards also printed so that people can visit your store directly.

Does it look too much of effort? There is a Plan B for you then!

Setting up any business is a Herculean task. And all the more, the worry of if it will be successful keeps haunting every aspiring entrepreneur. You can get rid of these worries by going for a Franchise model. The franchise businesses are already established business units who will help you to set up your store and teach you how to run it well to make profit. The bad side of franchise is that initial set up cost is much higher then doing it all by yourselves. So it is up to you to choose from benefits over cost. But one thing is sure, the number of franchise offerings are also too many these days which shows the potential of laundry business. (The franchise model itself is too vast and will come as another post. Please wait for a while till I am ready with the study of that. Will share the link here once I am done.)

One good thing I would like to add here before concluding. I read a post about a stay at home mom on how she started her laundry business at home. She became successful and she started helping others as well. Now she has set up a proper business model all by herself that operates at homes of people. You can read it here: http://www.laundrycare.biz/6-steps-starting-laundry-business-home/ . This proves that if there is a will there is a BIG way! Now what is your excuse for not getting started?

Food, Clothing and Shelter are the three basic requirements for human existence. So whatever business you start in any of the three vertical, there is a high chance of success. Coming down specifically to clothing, buying clothes is easy compared to maintaining them. In most of the households, laundry is the key area that needs some helping hand! So how about you being that Helping Hand?

How to start a House Cleaning Business

My aunt stays in Mumbai. Her friend, Nirmala aunty has one daughter and is married off and stays in a different city with her family. Apart from the yearly visit to meet her grand children, nothing much excites Nirmala aunty. She always wanted to occupy her free time with something beneficial. She has no work experience as such. She is a home maker and is extremely good at keeping house speck clean and tidy.

Last week, I heard from my aunt that Nirmala aunty has started with a business. She is now running a house cleaning service in their area. And in this short span she is getting huge response and doing excellent. What a brilliant idea right?

So, What exactly is home cleaning business?

When I heard about Nirmala aunty's new venture, I had this doubt what exactly is home cleaning business. People normally clean their houses by themselves or with the help of a maid. Very few like guest houses or offices might require a cleaning service. So what exactly does these house cleaning services cover?

With this dubious mind, I looked out for more details about house cleaning business on the web. And I could see that house cleaning service is the next big thing in the urban cities right now.

With hectic day schedules, working people hardly find time to look after homes and instead opt for professional cleaning services. This includes sofa cleaning, carpet cleaning, bed room cleaning, floor scrubbing, kitchen cleaning, bath room cleaning, car cleaning, dusting and what all.

Similarly, home makers often find it annoying to be at the back of the maid to keep the house speck and span. Hiring a local professional home cleaning service once in a while is a real boon for people who want to live in a super clean house.

It seems that, in India house cleaning services are gaining popularity and it is the ideal time to venture in to this business. The best thing about this business is that you will start generating income right from the launch of the service. So why wait? Let us just plan and execute!

How to start a homecleaning business?

A home cleaning business requires you to travel different parts of the city. So  it is ideal for people who love roaming around, do some exhausting work and meet a lot of people. To get started you can follow these steps:

Decide on the services offered:

The first thing that is required to set up a house cleaning business is to decide what all services you will offer. You can decide if you can offer the services to Residential houses, vacant houses, offices, guest houses or just as a premium service to very few clientele.

In each of these, you can narrow down to specific services like carpet cleaning, dusting, bed room cleaning, floor polishing, bathroom cleaning, car cleaning etc.

This step is very important as your work ethics and techniques used is different for each. Your decision also depends on the area of your operation.

Decide on your area of operation:

In most of the cities, residential area and commercial area will be seperated. Choose the area where your service has maximum potential customers. You can also set up your own office space in that area so that you can save on your traveling time between different clients.

Rent or buy a car or van for commutation:

You will have to move around to different places to see the location and assess to give a quotation. Once you get the deal, you have to go with your cleaning accessories and helpers and back. So you definitely need a vehicle to commute. That too, one with enough space to hold everything. 

Hire good labor force:

Home cleaning is very exhaustive job. So you will need a few helpers to keep the work happen smoothly. While hiring people, do good background checks. Also give them proper training and brief on work ethics so that your service gain good reputation in short time. At the same time be friendly with them so that, they stick to you like loyal employees. 

You have to have enough capital to pay them salary. 

Get the capital ready:

Though house cleaning business is very simple business, it do require some starting capital for set up. Office space, office stationery, labor force, vehicle, cleaning agents and accessories need to be ready before you commence the operation.

You have to look for ways to get the capital ready. You can also consider loan option from banks to raise capital.

Buy the cleaning machineries:

You will definitely need a vaccum cleaner, broom, mop, duster, cleaning agents, polish, bucket etc. This step is easy once you have decided on your service offerings.

Get your brand and office stationery:

Decide on the name and do required branding whereever possible, like your car etc. Also you will need stationeries like letter heads to receive quotation from clients. Have a checklist ready not to miss out any item. You will also need a bill book.

Decide your pricing:

Once all these is done, you will have a fair idea of the cost involved. So while presenting quotation to customers, consider all setup and running cost and profit and decide on your rate. This could be per hour or per job or may vary depending on the intensity of work.

Advertise:

Once you launch your service you have to inform your potential customers. You can use local newspapers, fliers, Just Dial or internet to spread the word. To start off, you can request your friends and family to hire you. This will give you honest feedback as well as confidence on your service. Also this will give you enough room improvise from the trials before commencing commercial service.

To start off in a small scale, you can hire two assistants. The cleaning can be done with these two people and you can supervise them. Once somebody approaches you for a quotation, visit their house and analyse what all needs to be done. Carrying a checklist will help you mark it easily. Cover every minor details possible so that the client won’t complain later on. Also this allows you to quote the remuneration perfectly as well as tell them how many hours to complete.

So what all can be included in house cleaning services list?

Here goes an exhaustive list of services coming under house cleaning:

1. Dusting 
2. Window Cleaning
3. Electrical fitting cleaning
4. Sofa cleaning
5. Carpet Cleaning 
6. Curtain cleaning
7. Roof Cleaning,
8. Floor Cleaning
9. Floor Polishing
10. Floor Scrubbing
11. Bathroom Cleaning
12. Kitchen Cleaning
13. Pest Killing
14. Car Cleaning

And much more. You can short list your specific service from this list. 

What are the legal formalities required to start a house cleaning business?

A cleaning business has to be registered as a sole proprietorship or, private limited or limited liability company or corporation. 

1. As the first step of forming the company you have to get the approval of your company name.  This may take a week and you might have to provide an alternative name too. 
2. Once approved you can register your company with that name. The application is reviewed by Registrar of the Companies(ROC) and you will get the response in 10 days.
3. You also need to apply for DIN (Director Identification Number) online. http://www.mca.gov.in/MCA21/dca/din/DIN.html
4. You also need to get a Digital Signature Certificate (DSC). You can read more about it here: http://www.mca.gov.in/MCA21/dca/dsc/certifying-new.html
5. Licenses are required for handling heavy machinery, cleaning agents, tools, chemicals etc.
6. Also PAN for business and a bank account. This will take care of the income tax part.

How to stand out from the rest of house cleaning services in your area?

You have to excel in whatever you do. To get happy customers, you have to provide them extremely professional service. If the customers are happy they will call you again and recommend you to friends and family. Empower your employees to work with good ethics and groom them to behave well.

Does home cleaning service have a good scope?

International established house cleaning services have started offering franchise in India. This shows that this business has a huge scope and right now is in the nascent stage. Home grown companies always have advantage as we need more and more entrepreneurs in India.

To start off and keeping it simple, you can go ahead with home cleaning services. Cleaning the house takes a good amount of time and energy. And if you are staying in India you can easily hire a home maid to do the cleaning. But quite often they end up hiding dust, paper bits, hair etc under the sofas, cots and tables. After all, their dedication to work isn’t commendable – prime factor being it isn’t their home.  Yet, if they don’t come, your day go for a toss.

So, I keep wondering how to keep the house specking clean without spending too much of my own energy. The answer to lazy bones like me is to hire a home cleaning service once in a while :-D.

How to start a Virgin Coconut Oil Business?

For the past couple of years, coconut oil has been in the headlines for all good reasons. The good cholesterol that it contain and the benefits of consuming it daily has classified it as a power food by the western world.

Being a 'Malayalee', coconut oil is everything in our household. Be it cooking, applying on hair, body, wounds, oiling the creaky window or the cycle chain and what not all.

But since the advent of 'Mallu' trend, coconut oil has been replaced by sunflower oil and olive oil.

The talk of the town on the goodness of coconut oil is really making a great way for royal comeback. To see if the hype is true, I did a research about coconut oil on the web. Here goes my finding:

Health benefits of virgin coconut oil that I never knew existed!

In my home my mom used to make virgin coconut oil exclusively for my sons (when they were infants) to give them a nice body massage. And touch wood, they don't have any skin ailments so far. Thank you Amme!

Coconut oil is good for hair and is used by almost everybody in Indian subcontinent through out. Apart from that, many of the Ayurvedic oils use coconut oil as a base. For small wounds, bruises and minor allergies, coconut oil is the first aid.

Apart from these generic uses, specifically virgin coconut oil is all packed with tonnes of health benefits. Here are some of them:

1. On Heart: Oil is never a good friend of heart. Surprisingly, Virgin coconut oil contains good fat which is not absorbed in the blood stream, but converted directly into energy by liver. Hence unlike other oils, coconut oil consumption is good for your heart. It reduces the total cholesterol and increases good cholesterol in the body.
2. On Brain: Many prolonged experiments with coconut oil has shown to improve the brain performance on epileptic and Alzheimer patients. Medium Chain Triglyceride Fatty Acid contained in coconut oil gets converted to ketones in the blood stream. Ketones boost brain cells functions. Because of which epileptic people have had less seizures when followed diet rich in coconut oil. Similarly, better brain cell functioning positively impacts alzheimers patients.
3. On Digestive system: Virgin Coconut oil has medium chain fatty acids that improves metabolism, imparting more energy for daily chores.
4. On Immunity: Coconut oil contains Lauric acid, which kills certain bacteria, fungi and viruses. You know what, Lauric acid is also present in mother's milk and is the key nutrient building immunity for babies. Just like mother's milk, coconut oil also helps in preventing infections.
5. On Weight Loss: This is my favorite! The fat in coconut oil doesn't get stored as fat in the body instead is converted as energy. More energy means more activities and more calorie burn - easy to lose weight :-).
6. On Diabetes: I hope you know that in diabetes, less insulin production results in lower conversion of glucose to energy for body cells. Instead of glucose energy, body cells can function perfectly with fatty acids. Virgin coconut oil has a surplus supply of fatty acids that can fuel body cells and hence restoring perfect metabolism in the body without insulin. That is how coconut oil is better than medicine for diabetic people.

If there is so much benefit in coconut oil, why can't we become a global player in exporting it? A business that is so eco-friendly and so much helpful for the mankind!


I believe that 'be organic' and ‘be healthy’ is the thing of this decade. And a virgin coconut oil business is perfect to make huge money along with creating a positive impact on the society.

Right now the packed oils available in market are all adulterated and ‘direct from the manufacturer’ concept can guarantee the quality of the oil. It looked so simple yet impactful, that since then I have added this to my - ‘to be done business list’. Definitely, this is a low-medium capital business and can be started with one or two helps.

So, how to start virgin coconut oil business?

Quite some time back I had read an article on paper about a group of ladies running an extremely pure edible coconut oil mill in Calicut in Kerala. They pick up the finest coconuts, process them and extract coconut oil. The customers queue up in their shop there to buy it in desired quantities.

To start off, you have to do some ground work:

Find a Coconut Supplier:

You will need tonnes of coconut for this venture. So have good number of coconut suppliers ready to work with you before you commence the operations.

Rent a Mechanical Grinding mill or setup a factory:

In a small scale setup, you can look for a grinding mill and rent it out. If you are planning for big scale that has exporting capacity, you will need to look for the machineries and set up a factory.

Hire Employees:

This business requires labour force. Even a small scale mill setup will require atleast 2 employees.

Unless you are planning for an automated factory, you will need fairly good number of employees at every stage of operation. Right from the start- handling coconuts, processing them, extracting oil, packing and distributing.

Good Packing:

Think of a good brandable name and go for leak proof packing. It could be double sealed plastic pouches, plastic bottles or plastic containers. It could be of variable volumes like 200 ml, 250 ml, 500 ml, 1 L or 2L. Ensure that the aroma and flavour of coconut oil is locked to make it retain freshness.

Decide on Pricing

Once you are aware of the set up cost and running cost, decide on your profit margin and fix the price of the oil. Also look at the market rate to be the competitive player in the virgin coconut oil segment.

Marketing your branded virgin coconut oil:

Yes, now you have it all ready, but how to get it to customers? If you are planning to supply it locally, put up local advertisements and talk to shop keepers. You can also use social media and viral marketing to increase the popularity of your brand. If you are planning to export the oil, you need to follow the exporting guidelines.


Isn’t this a fantastic business opportunity? To make things extra clear, let me share the process of making coconut oil.

How to make virgin coconut oil?

It is evident that mature coconut is the basic raw material to make coconut oil. Normal coconut oil is made from dried coconut or copra. On the other hand, virgin coconut oil is made from mature coconut kernels, which are fresh (non-copra) and procedure is a bit different.

As mentioned earlier, in my home my mom usually makes it in 4 steps:

1. Break open the coconut. Discard coconut water
2. Grate the coconut
3. Squeeze the milk out of grated coconut
4. Boil it in a kadai till oil seperates (this is similar to making ghee from milk cream/butter)

The oil can be directly consumed or used for topical applications. This is the purest form of coconut oil. When I checked on the internet, I found that this is the wet milling method of making virgin coconut oil. This is ideal for low volume virgin coconut oil manufacturing business.

Apart from the wet method, quick dry pressing method is also used for making virgin coconut oil. This method has 4 steps:

1. Break open the coconut. Discard coconut water
2. Grate or cut coconut flesh to remove it from shell
3. Quick dry this coconut
4. Use mechanical pressing to extract oil 

Please note that Virgin coconut oil production uses fresh coconut and does not use any chemicals or high heating. Once it is made, it is directly vacuum packed to retain freshness.

Along with the oil, there comes a lot of waste. Be it the coconut shell or the extract waste.

Coconut shells forms a good fuel. You may sell it off to factories. The coconut waste is a good manure as well as an important component in cattle feed. So the waste from coconut oil business will also fetch you some additional income. Isn’t it the best environment friendly business? All set to venture into virgin coconut oil manufacturing business?

Before you jump from your seat, be aware of the legal formalities to start this virgin coconut oil business!

What are the formalities required for Virgin coconut oil (VCO) Manufacturing business?

India government is supporting coconut based industries. You can check out Official Site for Coconut Board by Indian Government to get answers for your queries on formalities related to virgin coconut oil manufacturing.

If you are really keen on setting up a commercial unit of Virgin Coconut Oil (VCO), you can check out the government link for all data on VCO Business Legalities.

Coconut tree is called Kalpavruksha because every part of it is useful. Similarly a coconut oil business is an ideal business because it can give you lots of opportunities to do side business as well. Be it coconut water, cattle feed, collectibles using coconut shell and what all.

Indian company called Marico started with coconut oil business, under the brand name Parachute. It is one of the most successful entrepreneurial venture and employs talent pool from top business schools. A home grown company is the best that will boost Indian economy.

Parachute has really become a synonym for hair oil. What will be your brand?

How I got the Confidence to start business after reading these 5 powerful books on entrepreneurship

I always wanted to do something big in life. But it looked easy to live the life that I am leading now. To do that 'something big' I had to get out of my comfy couch and work hard till it happen. And being a procrastination expert I kept saying when we move to another city I will start, or something like when my son becomes a bit bigger I will start and silly reasons like winter is not energetic - this summer I will start.

The excuses were many. And you know what, after a point of time, I felt that nothing is going to change. I don't have the potential to do anything big in life. The coward in me started taking over the control of my life and I became fearful about everything. 

I kind of accepted that now this is life. Nothing will change. Just keep going with the flow to be happy. Keep doing the routines. Find joy in shopping, cooking, gossipping. I tried to enter into many gossipping gangs, but never got accomodated there.

Down under I was seeking something else, something far more creative and giving me freedom from everything.  A life full of happiness, spreading happiness to everyone whom I come across. 

How the twist happened!

It was then that Veeran declared, "enough of job, let me do something on my own". I supported him, because I feel a bit of support can push anyone to work on their dreams than working for someone else's dreams.

Life became exciting as we got off the routine and started on something out of the box. That time it looked like jumping off the cliff. 

Then comes the billion dollar question. What to do? 

The intention was clear to start a business and work on it for a long term and live happily ever after. But where to start? Which domain to choose? We had no perfect idea for our venture.

That is the time when we started following already existing entrepreneurs. And read a few books that inspired us to go with our heart.

Veeran served his notice period in the company for 3 months, at the same time started working on building a mindset of entrepreneurs. Yes, by reading the following books and meeting or talking to entrepreneurs in his circle. 

Here is the list of books that we read before we started:

1. Dandha: How Gujaratis do business by Shobha Bondre.

This is the book I loved the most. Because it kind of reinforced in me the fact that big business men

find out opportunities, believe in themselves, work hard as they could and is always wanting more and more. Dhandha focuses on the attitude on business by Gujarati community. This inspired me to look at business as something beyond just making more money or better lifestyle. It is all about the mindset of people who make it big.

All the businesses mentioned are traditional ones. But equally applicable to contemporary ones focusing on internet revolution. 

2. How I braved Anu aunty and co-founded a billion dollar company by Varun Agarwal.

This book is simply awesome with the way things are explained. It just felt like reading a story. The books is very much contemporary and talks about how Alma Mater Store (http://www.almamaterstore.in/) happened. 

Very good read to know how a simple idea can be brought in to action and soon made to a million dollar venture. I could also feel the transformation of Varun as a collge graduate to a full fledged entrepreneur. 

3. Stay Hungry Stay Foolish by Rashmi Bansal

Herself being an IIM graduate, Rashmi talks about 25 IIM graduates who became successful entrepreneurs. The stories are a mix of people who jumped into entrepreneurship right after the course, those who waited for the right opportunity and those who wanted to give it back to the society. The success story of naukri.com, makemytrip.com, subhiksha were very enlightening.

Interesting read, as it shows MBA-doesn't mean you can start a business and make it run without any roadblock. This book boosted my confidence,  knowing that after all MBA is not a must have thing to venture into entrepreneurship. 

4. Poor Little Rich Slum by Rashmi Bansal

Rashmi Bansal in her debut book, Stay Hungry Stay Foolish was all about the b-school people doing business. And Poor Little Rich Slum is all about how people in Dharavi are running their businesses. This book proves that it doesn't require IIM MBA to do a business successfully, but only the right mindset. 

Very good read as it opened up various unexplored domains that have great potential to launch a business. 

5. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki

Well, this book I had read earlier as planting seeds of entrepreneurship in me. This book actually changed the way I looked at earning money - from a employee perspective to a businessman perspective. This is indeed a must read book before you jump in to entrepreneurship. It is all about creating assets and getting out of the rat race.

I would say that these books gave the picture of what entrepreneurship is all about. It is all about a strong mindset, winning attitude, dynamism in grabbing opportunities and above all persistence and perseverance. It is not a life full of roses, but to enjoy the fragrance and beauty of roses we have to bear the pain of thorns. 

What is your take on life? Do you want to do something big in life? If this post has helped you in someway please take a moment to comment. It will really motivate me. If you like my posts you can subscribe on email. 

How to start a private security guard business

Last year March we moved from our flat to another one within the community. I went to my neighbour’s place to inform her that we are moving. My neighbour is a teacher in a girls’ school nearby.

While talking I told her ‘you are so lucky to be in the teaching field. You will get respect from everybody you meet.’ But her reply was ‘yes I do get lot of respect, but money is very low. My sister is in Mumbai and she is running a security guard business from home. She is earning more money than anyone else in the family.’ I was dumbstruck!

That was the first time that I heard about such a business. Yes, I have seen security guys with their uniform displaying company name before. But, I never thought that this is a business opportunity. Especially for ladies like me and you!

I always wanted to make it big in my life and was seeking for the best opportunity. So I asked her more details about how to run a private security agency.  

How to start a security guard providing agency?

Her answer was very simple. ‘Find a bunch of people who are ready to work as security personnels. Just manage them.  And this can be done from home.’ I became more inquisitive. But the time was running short, so I parked my research on the web.

What I learnt about security industry is that it is a growing sector - over 20% year on year. More and more people are hiring security for better safety - be it an independent house, an independent building, your corporate office or a shopping mall. A company that provides reliable, security guys are very much in demand these days.

So, how to get started with security guard services?

To start a security agency, you don’t need any prior requirement. If you know of a set of people looking for job (even two persons is good enough to start off) you can apply for a license for the same.

How to apply for a license for a security provider business?

To start of a security business legally, you need permission from the law and order department of the state. You need to obtain a license for the same.

There is an Act passed in the year of 2005, Private Security Agencies Regulations Act, 2005(PSAR) and all registered security business should get license from them.You can apply for the license with the local PSAR  governing body. It could be the local police station or home affairs department of the state you wish to start the agency.

The License is available in 3 possible ways -

(1) as license to run business in just one district, (approx. Rs.5000)
(2) as license to run business in 2-5 districts (approx. Rs.10000)
(3) as license to run business in the whole state.(approx. Rs.25000)

Please be ready to visit the local police station if you wish to get started with this money spinning business. Also do check out the regulations in your state before you get ready with the paper work.

The details of formalities for different states are available on the web:

1. Mumbai
2. Delhi
3. Tamil Nadu
4. Rajasthan
5. Haryana
6. Karnataka
7. Orissa
8. Uttar Pradesh
9. Kerala
10. Punjab

Please refer the web for other states..

But how to find security guard candidates?

Yes, it always looks easier to talk than actually do it. Of course you may find a couple or peoplew ho are ready to work as security guards. But if you want to really make it a big business, you need to have more employees. You can post ads in local newspapers, yellowpages or Just Dial.

You can also look at the option of getting into your network or friends' network to find ex-service men who are willing to work with you. Just ensure that the security candidate qualify the following criteria:

1. be ready to work round the clock and different shifts
2. be healthy and well built
3. is looking for a job
4. has no criminal background
5. good conduct

Once you feel this guy is suitable, do a background check on him. Collect his id card and contact details-address and phone number. Do maintain a couple of copies of the documents he provides.

You can give them rigorous training. This includes punctuality, managing legible visitors list, maintenance people, unauthorised visitors, regularly checking the premises, identifying suspects etc.

Nowadays security is incomplete with CCTV survellaince, x-ray scanning and metal detections. If possible, look for ways to train them with these state of art security tools. 

PSAR Act puts it mandatory that every security personnel should attend 160 hours of training - 100 hours of classroom training and 60 hours of on-the-job training.

How much should you pay a security guard?

The average salary of a security guard is 1.1 Lakhs per annum across India. The salary actually varies on the location and risk involved. 

The security guards are eligible for bonus and insurance coverage. If there is more than 20 employees in your agency you have to contribute for their PF as well. 

You can also check out more details on websites of industry biggies like SIS and G4S security services. 

What are the risks with a Private Security Service company?

Security business is a very sensitive business and involves interaction with law and order authorities of that place.

In case of some crime happening, you need to sort it out with the local police. Similarly, if the back ground check of that person is not done properly and if he ends up in any trouble, it will affect the reputation of your service.

If a theft or burglary happens, you will be responsible for sorting out the issue with the people involved.

Moreover, please note that a security guard is eligible for 1.8 weeks of annual leave. So you need to have sufficient number of employees to provide uninterrupted service for your clients. Also this is a field where there is not much growth for the employees, so retention rate in the industry is very low and you have to really be innovative to retain your best employees. 

To know further about the Private Security Industry in India, more details are available at FICCI.

Get started!

This is a business which requires lot of management skills. But the effort will pay off manifold eventually. Security Business is indeed a money spinning business if started with utmost care and implemented in perfection. You provide employment for many people who are in BPL and are unskilled otherwise. What a better way to boost the Indian economy?

The private security guard service is a 40,000 crore industry according to the recent estimates. An industry that is experiencing a growth of over 20% year on year even in economic downtimes. If there is a business woman in you, you see this as a perfect opportunity. Go ahead. Let's get started and make it big! Start living life Queen Size!

40 short term courses that can launch you on a steady career even if you have never worked before

When I see working women talking about their work, I feel like rejoining for a job. Quite many times I have asked my 7 year old son:” Shall I go to office like papa?” And the response is always spontaneous:”NO! Then who will cook food for us? Then who will look after me and my little brother?” or sometimes sadly “Then nobody will be there when I come back from school if you also come home late like papa.”

It is a fact that if my family members are not happy I cannot be happy at work either. Especially when kids fall sick, nursing them takes the priority No.1. Even working may not be as exciting as it feels now if things go for a toss at home. I’m sure there are many like me in such a dilemma. How glad will it be if we can take care of both with ease!  Say something like a part-time job or an opportunity to work from home.

How to get started with a work from home opportunity or a part time job?

And the good news is that I can very well have a happy family and a successful career side by side. Thanks to the handful of part time courses that enable me to re-launch my career without hurting my family responsibilities.  The courses range from Montessori training, medical transcription to more technical ones like animation and search engine optimisation. If you are also looking for training courses that enable you to relaunch your career, please read on.

The best part of these courses is that you don’t require any qualification like graduation or post graduation to join any of them. Following is an exhaustive list of such courses that equip you to have a career either at home or by sparing two-four hours away from home.  

List of 40 courses offering part-time job opportunities for women: 

To make things easy, I have classified the jobs based on the place of work – at home or outside home. Please check out the course information below.

Part time job courses with work place outside home:

1.       Montessori training : 

Montessori teacher training gives you all the skills to work as a pre-school teacher. There are many montessori teacher training courses available in each city. Check out on internet for the ones in your locality. The training course span for a year maximum. The course fee ranges from 10000 to 20000 depending on the quality of training. And once completed you can start working at the nearest montessori or school.

2.       Foreign or Local Language coaching:

My friend Saro, is pursuing Japanese lessons and she intends to be a Japanese tutor in some more time. Learning a foreign language will equip you to pursue a career as language translator or tutor once the course is finished. To master a foreign language you can enroll yourself at a language coaching center in your city. French, Japanese and German are the most sought out foreign languages. You will start at a beginner level and will get upgraded to further levels after clearing the assessments.

3.       Interior designing courses:

The short term interior designing courses enable you to launch an interior designing service. The course will teach you the about aesthetically designing a house or any space as such in a professional manner. You will also be familiarised with the softwares used to do interior designing. Once completed, you could very well be doing the interiors of a brand new house or a commercial space like restaurant or hotel or office. 

4.       Dubbing courses or voice over artists

Dubbing is a part time job that pays handsomely for your hardwork. Dubbing courses are usually offered in film schools and specialised dubbing institutes. Once you finish the dubbing course, you can apply for different sort of dubbing jobs.

5.       Subtitling courses

Subtitling is a good part time job. This involves adding subtitles to movies, videos or documentaries. You can enroll for a subtitling course online. Good course will charge for a fees of around 20000 INR. 

6.       Radio Jockey Training

FM stations have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. And getting a job as a radio jockey would be the easiest thing. Join a radio jockey training course and secure the most enthusiastic part time job ever. Radio jockey training courses are offered at different  radio broadcasting institutes.

7.       Magician course

If you love Magic, you can learn more tricks and make a career out of it. You could very well find job during kids birthday party or any such energetic events. 

8.       Library assistant coaching

If you are a bookworm, you can think of a career as a library assistant. The library assistant training involves the basics of book keeping. 

9.       Photography Training

If there is a photographer in you, professionalise it by attending good photography courses. This course will turn your photographs professional as well as you will get connected to a good network of professional photographers. You can attend events and get leads to photography assignments. Ultimately, build your career from your hobby.

10.   Beautician course

If you like grooming up a lot and love trying it on others, you can go for a beautician course. Once certified, you can start off your own beauty parlour at home or at a commercial space. 

11.   Pharmacy assistant courses

Pharmacy assisstant course teaches you the in depth details of medicine names and general know how of medicines. Once completed, you can start working in any pharmacy. Or in diagnostic centres to check ECG, take X-Rays and the likes.

12. Stenography course

Stenography training will give you all the skills to type faster. You will find jobs in book publishing houses and corporate offices who required skilled typers.

Part time job courses with work place at home:

13.   Candle making Craft courses

Once you learn the basics of candle making through a course, you can work on improvising it to make different varieties of candles. You can start off a candle selling business or start offering similar course once you master the art.

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14.   Glass painting courses

If you have an artistic hand, you can start with glass painting. The course will help you to know the basics of how to get started and avoiding the common mistakes. You can sell off your art works online or nearby art and craft shops. Also you can think of taking classes to people who want to learn it. 

15.   Leaf painting training

Everybody love handmade things and leaf paintings are very much in demand as unique gift items. A leaf painting course will teach you how to choose the leaf, what are the processes involved, what paint to use and everything related to leaf painting. On finishing the course you can start a small scale business with your talent. Start posting about it in FB and soon doors will open to you.

16.   Gift Wrapping training

Gift wrapping is relatively new but tremendously growing industry. You can enroll for a gift wrapping course that teaches you how to wrap different types of gifts. You could find jobs in corporate gift wrapping, hotel presentations, festivals, wedding, baby shower and other ceremonies. The course fee depends on who is offering the course. This could be any where from 2500 to 66000 depending on the depth of the course. 

17.   Jewellery Making workshops

Jewellery is something that is always in demand. By attending a jewellery making course, you can get started with many at home and showcase your talent at exhibitions or sales. This will give you that independence and happiness that you are looking for.

18.   Chocolate Making courses

Hand made chocolates are uber gifts these days. Everyone prefers them over packed chocolates loaded with preservatives. Chocolate making is an easy process and you can master it very fast. Once mastered you can start selling your delicious hand made chocolates to your near and dear ones. You can also expand sales by selling it in bakeries and other food joints.

19.   Jam and Jelly making courses

You can attend a jam and jelly making course and learn all about food processing there. You can make jams and jellys of every seasonal fruit. People will be ready to buy the home made jams as they come with hardly any preservative. 

20.   Baking courses

You can join a baking class and learn the basics of baking. Once you learn it, you can start baking for your near and dear ones. As you keep practising it, you will learn about more complicated cakes or bakes and soon you will master it to start off a bakery on your own. You can also supply to the various restaurants or food joints in your locality. 

21.   Share trading course

Share trading is an easy way to make money from home. Though easy it is a bit risky too. You can learn about how to do share trading by attending a short course on the same. Once done, you can start trading shares online or over phone. What a better way to make money?

22.   Stitching or fashion designing courses

If you love stichting, you can join a stitching or embroidery course and expand your skills. You can start taking orders from your near and dear ones. And thus get started with your fashion designing career.

23. Jute Craft courses

You can enroll for a Jute Craft course and start making unique jute items that sell like hotcakes. Be bags, purses, mats or other gift items. If are a bit more innovative kind, you will find a good bunch of opportunities once the course is over.

24. Knitting Courses

Knitting was considered as grandma's best past time. But now with people opting for hand made wonders, knitting is back to business. You can do a knitting course to learn the basics of creating different artifacts. Later on you can use your creativity to create your own niche market.  Learning crochets along with this will give you more space to work on. You can be innovative and make laptop sleeves, mobile pouches, newborn booties and what all!

25. Lampshade Making courses

With more and more importance on interiors, lamps with shade are in high demand. A lampshade making course will teach you all about the different designs and materials used in lampshade making. You can very well launch your own unique collection of lampshades and lead the niche market.

26. Lamasa Art Courses

Lamasa or clay art courses teaches you all about creating different shapes using clay. You will learn about how to colour them and paint and what not to do with the clay art. Once done you can launch your own creative section of artifacts - anything from fridge magnet to miniature sculptures.

27. Mehndi Design courses

Mehndi design courses will run you through different intricate mehndi designs. You can work as a Mehndi artist after completing the course.

28. Mosaic work courses

Mosaic work is an art on its own. This course teaches you how to cut, glue and apply your instinct to come up with mind blowing mosaic arts. Once completed you can set up your own small art shop that sells different sort of mosaic arts on coasters, photo frames, wall arts and much more. If you are really serious about it, you will find professional jobs like furnishing the interiors of a hotel or house using mosaic art.

Computer and Internet based courses:

29.   Medical transcription courses

Medical transcription is an easy way to make money from home. The busy doctors will orally prescribe the medicines to patients and you as a medical transcriptioner has to write down the entire prescription. The training teaches you how to do this perfectly. The courses are available online as well as offline. Once completed, you can work from the comfort of your home and earn 5 digit salary.

30.   Web designing courses –HTML, PHP, XML

You can launch your own web designing company if you are fluent with the common web designing languages like HTML, PHP and XML. A course on any of these will help you work either as a freelancer or as a web designer for some body. 

31.   Graphic designing courses

Graphics are used more than ever these days. Be it company logo, photo editing or fonts. You can enroll for a graphic designing course and get started with your freelance designing career simultaneously. 

32.    Blog setup – Wordpress online courses

There could be many who needs help in setting up a blog. You can do a course on blog set up and get certified as a professional blog designer. You can help others in setting up their first blog, product blog or company blog. 

33.   SEO certified courses

SEO or Search Engine Optimisation is the most sought out people in the internet. You can do a certified course on SEO and launch your own SEO consultancy service. This will give you the platform to embark on the most amazing career ever.

34.   Data entry training

You can complete a data entry basic course and get started with data entry jobs available online. What can be an easier way than simply entering data as prescribed and earn good money as reward.

35.   Animation courses

If you like creating short animated movies and is looking for a career in the same, then you should try out a course on computer animation, Animation course will familiarise you with the latest animation software and how to go about a project in whole. Once finished you can work for gaming companies, cartoon animations, 3D animation and other graphic rich jobs. 

36. Digital Marketing courses

Nowadays every company is turning to a digital marketing expert to improve their presence on the web and social media. This is the most exciting career opportunity of this age. You can finish an internet marketing course and launch your own internet marketing service on the web. Amazing business it is!

37.   Software testing training

The software companies require people to test the fresh softwares at every stage of production. By finishing a short term course that teaches you what software testing is all about you can get started with a decent job in the same field. Mostly, if you come across any job opportunity in software testing, the company itself will provide you with the training. 

38.   Instructional Design courses

Instructional Design is the trending job these days. Educators in school, with digital teaching methodologies need more friendly ways to present the information. An instructional design course will teach you how to put a piece of information in the best way - including images, written content and much more. 

39.   Image Editing/photo editing courses

Photo editing courses teach you all about enhancing the quality of images. Once finished you can look for photo editor job openings in media companies. Or you can start off as a freelancer from home providing image editing services on the web. 

40. Content Writing Course

The content writing course differs on what exactly you want to specialise in - be a web content writer, magazine content writer or a technical writer. Choose a writing course that you love to do and you will easily find career in the same. Writing doesn't come easy to everyone. With social media marketing on the boom all needs good quality content.

The good part of attending such a course is that once completed, you can straight away get started with your part time job in the same.  Thus you will earn for your work and enjoy a feel good time. You will need to spare only a few hours of your day to get things turn the way you want them to.

Wait! Check out in detail about the course before you sign up for one.

Before joining any of these courses do some ground work to assess who offers the course best. Go through the details of course curriculum. Have a fair idea of the fees charged. Talk to people who have already completed the course and get their views on the same.  Here is a snippet of the heads that need some thorough checking:

• Who is offering the course?: Go for an established or government institution for the course than a newbie.
• What is the Course curriculum?: Have a thorough know how of what all is covered. Analyse it to see if it will really help you out when you start a career in that.
• What is the Course span?: Have a clear picture of how long is the course and when will get the certificate of completion so that you can start with a job in the same field. 
• What is the course Fees?: Check out the fees of similar courses offered from different institutions. Who wants to pay extra bucks for the same stuff? 
• What are the Job opportunities?: Always check for the available job openings or career options once you finish the course.
• What is the possible return per month? Have a fair idea of the possible remuneration for someone in the same field. You can approach anyone in the same field to have a better idea of how much worth it is. 
• What is the Timing of the course?: You plan to take up a part time job or work from home career. So ensure that the course timing also fits your daily schedule. If you have a toddler at home look for flexible training times if possible. 

A part time job is a real blessing for women who have sacrificed their career for the upbringing of their family. Most of them offer you flexibility so that the family responsibilities are taken care of too. There are many non-trained billionaires who made it out with their passion. With a little bit of help from outside you can turn the world the way you want.