With different business models and structures comes different forms of hiring. Determining whether you should hire an employee or a contractor is an important step that can come with repercussions should you get it wrong.

If you are unsure whether the person you need is an employee or a contractor, we have covered this in detail in a previous article (Employee or contractor – what’s the difference? And why you could be fined if you don’t do it the right way.) but right now let’s look at contractors.

Have you found yourself with a waitlist for your services?

Perhaps you train other people within your industry and share your information with them?

Maybe you are asked by the people you train if they can use your resources or teachings with their own clients?

Or they are just using your resources anyway and you don’t have control over it?

As we move further into doing more online, the opportunities available to set yourself up from home with a remote business has never been more timely. A lot of women I come across in the online world consider starting a virtual assistant business, and then when they have been working for a while they consider niching. One popular area that I see people specialise in is resume writing.