Combination of global financial crisis that make job opportunity a scarce commodity even for skillful professionals and rapid growth of internet as well as its utilization for commercial purpose has initiate a boom of new business start ups, those who instead of looking for jobs, decide to start a small business of their own by leveraging the low-cost e-commerce.

Regardless of their small size, these businesses are real business with similar needs of various business functions that commercial corporations do. Secretarial duties, are just to name one of them. Unfortunately unless those who have obtained investor funding, hiring staffs to handle those things is not something they can afford to pay. On the other hand, being small, they do not really need 8 working hours a day for those functions.

However most of them clearly understand that they desperately need the function to keep their business properly organized from the beginning, an important aspect if they later on try to seek for investor funding. They furthermore also understand that whilst it may be something they can do it themselves especially with assistance of cheap IT-based tools, it is something that will drag a lot of their attention from the core of their new business.

Here comes the opportunity for those with secretarial skill who either want to work independently or lost their job and get difficulty in fining a new one. With the size that only require a few hours a day, even a few hours a week, you can sell your service to a number of clients, providing secretarial service to a number of small start ups.

It certainly requires you to be a lot more flexible though as each company you serve may have its own – uniquely different – products, environment, and various other aspects that affects their operation to which the secretarial service is attached. However the outcome can also be quite rewarding, two level independence.

What is two level independence? First is independent from an employer. You are a service provider, not en employee. Secondly, working with a number of clients, you are not fully dependent to one party only. If you are employed, when your company collapse, you are down. If you work for a number of clients, if one of them failed, the majority of your income remain secure.