What is the best method to advertise a new notary business in California?
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Some marketing tips:\n\n1. Direct mail. Prepare a well-crafted brochure and send it to your target markets in Sunnyvale. Find a vendor in your area renting mailing lists of business establishments or take the time and go over the yellow pages and get their contact information. You can read more of how to use direct marketing strategies here http://www.powerhomebiz.com/marketing/direct.htm\n\n2. Publicity. Publicity can oftentimes be more effective than advertising. Not only is it cost-effective (oftentimes you are paying for nothing), but also people are apt to remember an article about your business rather than advertising. People find a write-up or special feature about a business more credible and objective than a paid advertising. Publicity also reaches a wider audience: if you are lucky, the national media might even pick up your story. Contact an editor of your local newspaper and pitch your story. Read the article "Leverage the Power of Publicity for Your Small Business" \nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol27/leverage.htm\n\n3. Press releases. Send out press releases through your local newspapers about your business. Whether it is about your story or about a sale you are offering, press releases can be very good exposure for you. You can read more about how to harness press releases for your business here http://www.powerhomebiz.com/marketing/public%20relations.htm\n\n4. Use the Internet. The Web can be your online brochure. You can use it to refer your potential clients for more information about your business; and it could also generate clients for you directly. Some of your potential clients may be looking to the Web for a floral designer, and you need to have a strong presence there as well.\n\n5. Network. Join and be active in your local business organizations, chamber of commerce, etc. Increase your visibility in the community. You can find more information on networking here http://www.powerhomebiz.com/marketing/networking.htm\n\n6. Word of mouth. This is the best form of advertising for your business - afterall, it is free. Read "Secrets of Word Of Mouth Marketing" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol154/wordofmouth.htm
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The best way to move into new markets to find markets that are adjacent to the market you are already in. Don't try to stretch to completely new markets - it is too expensive. \n\nFind customers within your existing business who fit in both your current and adjacent markets and ask them how they learn about new products/services in their other market (what they read, what sites to they visit, what keywords to they use on Google, etc).  All this will help you find sources of media that best target these buyers.\n\nThen I would try to get PR before advertising. It is often less expensive and more effective.  If you have never used PR (Public relations) before, I have a suggestion. My friend opened up a business in a new market. To get local newspaper coverage, he went to the newspaper and asked which local PR specialists the newspaper liked to work with. Then he hired their recommendation to get him ink in the local paper. It worked like a charm.
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It's really not as difficult as it seems just some effort that will seem like nothing compared to actually running your own business.\n\n1. You will need to register your business "DBA" at the County Clerk\n2. The city your business will be located in will need you to register for tax purposes this is the BUSINESS LICENSE\n(many small businesses have the city taxes waived for the first 3 years to help with development)\n3. Get a business Bank account.\n4. get your resale license (http://www.boe.ca.gov/)\n\nThere are some serious things you need to consider and doing some research will help you organize your business and have less headache. Make sure once you've done some research on what type of business you'll be starting (sole proprietor, partnership, LLC, corporation etc) you follow the correct order of steps to acquire your status as business. It will keep you from running around in circles and it will save you from potential penalties and or delays.\n\nWhen I started my first business I used went to Boarders and picked up a book by nolo press "how to open up a California business in 24 hrs" http://nolo.com/resource.cfm/catID/9FA25870-14F1-4657-9778F19FB41FB93D/111/228/\nThere are many books that are specific to steps required to open it in CA just do some research it will make this seem less daunting.\nGood Luck
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Try a few of these methods and watch your sales soar! \n1.   Launch a Web site. Web sites provide your company with worldwide exposure and give your customers convenient access to your services and products.  \n  \n2.   Host a grand opening or open house. Invite local business owners and residents from surrounding neighborhoods. Provide refreshments, drawings for door prizes, free merchandise samples, and have plenty of business cards and company brochures on hand.  \n  \n3.   Monitor the quality of your services and products constantly. Satisfied customers who spread the word about your business are the best source of new customers. Pay attention to pricing, customer service, product availability and prompt delivery.  \n  \n4.   Explore various types of traditional advertising methods such as classified ads, yellow page ads, television and radio spots, and display ads in magazines and on other Web sites. Go with what meets your budget and best reaches your target group.  \n  \n5.   Support a local charity by sponsoring a fundraising event such as a food drive, toy drive or walkathon. Arrange for a formal presentation of your donation with cameras at the ready and try to get a local newspaper to publish the photograph.  \n  \n6.   Distribute fliers and business cards door to door, place them under car windshield wipers and tack them to local apartment, college and community center bulletin boards.  \n  \n7.   Maintain a visible presence within your industry. Participate in trade shows, attend community events and offer to speak on your area of expertise at seminars.
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i don't know if it would work, but around here, a statement would have to at least be notarized to be accepted by a court official. you can find public notaries at many law offices and banks/credit unions.
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Business Form?  Sole-propreitor for now.  the other forms will not benefit you at, legally and will cost you more in filing fees etc than it is worth.  At some point, if you have employees, you can change to a LLC (limited liability company) with protects like a corporation but taxes like a partnership or sole-prop (if only you).\nAdvertising?  Word of mouth is good for starters.  One place to put fliers or small ads is at retirement communities.  These people are buying computers.  They did not grow up with these machines so don't even have the basics.  If you can, barter your services in exchange for ads.\nBe sure you obtain all the business licenses that your area requires.  Local governments can be more difficult than the feds to deal with.  \nGood luck
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Don't know what state you are in, but you can go directly to your State's Division of Corporations/State Records website and follow the links.\n\nIf you want to start and register a new business, best place to start is the Small Business Administration website at http://www.sba.gov - they have links to all the required documents and to the official state websites for registration.\n\ngood luck
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Attracting clients when getting started in any business can be a challenge.  In Southern California there is an organization called BNI :  Business Networking International.  They have groups that meet weekly in different communities with the sole purpose of meeting other professionals and discussing needs and talking about their specific businesses.\n\nI understand that they only have one of each profession in each group, so your challenge would be to find a group local to you that would have an opening for an attorney.  \n\nCheck the BNI website and then see if there's a group near you where you can visit or get information.\n\ngood luck
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you can get something notarized at a bank.  Mine does it for free for their customers but take your ID and whatever paper you need notarized
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Google is a wonderful idea. I would also have business cards printed with your certification or experience listed and the website. There are many adults that would be interested. When you meet people then pass out your card. Of course this would just be local, but could be a start.\n\nMail your cards to friends that live in other cities/states.\n\nWould you tutor high school students online? Put that on the card too! Take your card (a few of them) to the guidance counselors at local high schools. \n\nDo you have a web page that explains how people will learn? What is your curriculum? Will they speak? Will there be listening? If you do not have that, then perhaps make a flyer explaining it for when people inquire. Or make a web page and print it and keep it handy.\n\nYour friends can help. I am a Spanish teacher and hear people say all the time "I always wished that I could speak Spanish...". I would hand them your flyer, or your card with the web address.\n\nIf that does not get you where you want to be... try selling your course on ebay. List it as a course with a fixed "buy it now" price. When people sign up you can have a start date. It might just work...
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Very complete source for every & @ll legal procedures; i liked what i briefly saw. (fyi) you may go directly to State Dept to start filing your Limited Liability Partnership,[at least here in my jurisdiction]co. even w/out notarizing, but if you want to make it that way, perfect; You may also consider an Incorporation since the benefits are extent on behalf of both partties-you as a service/professional provider or licitator and clients/co's that contracts you; If you incorporate and your customers dissagree and start any litigation for insatisfaction against you as resident agent[official incorporator] your private assets  / properties, house, land, personal vehicles won't be in risk, only the assets under corporation will be the ones to respond. Plus you will have higher financial rate when incorporated since corporation acquires its own juridical personality-versus you as an individual in a  Limited Society-partnership.
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I charge when hired by a company to notarize documents.  You can register all over the web to witness documents, typically loan closings, for companies.  It's best to have some experience with loan closings and I believe you can find that training on the web, also.  I typically get paid $50-75 per closing and they generally take an hour.  I don't charge when other people need notary service...  friends, family, etc.  You can also advertise in your local phone book and yellow pages, but I don't know if this would be cost effective.  Good luck!
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You're in luck -- there are many Spanish speaking agencies in California, and many government agencies that are fully bi-lingual. Take your birth certificate to the Court House and ask them who can do it for you. Usually, a copy (especially a translated copy) has to be notarized to signify that it is a true copy, so it would be much easier if you could get the same person to do the translating and the notarizing. \nBest of luck with your marriage.
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You might want to be considering moving your location to where you can put a sign out. \nLeave business cards at area businesses, if restraunts have business sponsored ads on their placemats put yours there so people can see. Put an add in the paper. Possibly renting a billboard if one is close to the area.
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I would suggest you go to the City Clerk's office and she will give you a letter stating your residence address and will notarize it.\nBe sure you include that you have never been a resident of the address in question.
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If you think that it's original and what to make money on the idea, the first thing you should do is to write it down on paper as best and as complete as you can.  Then write the time and date on it, making at least two copies of it.  Then put one complete copy into an envelope and mail it to yourself.  That envelope you do not open until you get a challenge of your idea.  The next thing to do is to contact ad agency or publication as mentioned above.  If you want to trademark the concept then you need proof that it's your idea - that's what the envelope is for providing a US gov't stamp as proof of the date of the concept.
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yes, I've done it!!! you can get them in any office max or office deport!!! for your State..? then you can see them right there...the sales pp where very helpful...I could open the package and see first if I could handle these forms. Its cheap.....20-30 dollars...then go home and type them out.....make several copies...have your husband sign it...notarize them in a Bank( its free)...then go to court and file them, pay the filing fee...every State is different...don't ask the clerk of court any questions...sometimes they pretty rude!\n\nthen you gotta wait for a court date..3-4 month...check the court docket...and thats it!!!