Resume Writing/LinkedIn Profile Writing

Are you going to focus on freelancers or top executives or recent college grads? Are you going to have long discussions on video or the phone with clients or are you going to restrict contact to email? Are you going to price low end or high end? And then of course you need to come up with your online marketing approach – and it’s gotta be great because it is highly competitive!

There’s also huge demand for LinkedIn profile writing. You can write LinkedIn profiles that will really power up sales for entrepreneurs and freelancers and also help professionals get attention in their industry. So how do you start a resume service or a LinkedIn profile writing service? First you come up with a plan. Are you going to focus on freelancers or top executives or recent college grads? Are you going to have long discussions on video or the phone with clients or are you going to restrict contact to email? Are you going to price low end or high end? And then of course you need to come up with your online marketing approach – and it’s gotta be great because it is highly competitive!

Number three and perhaps my most important secret – make sure that the resumes you write are not just “attendance records.” In other words don’t just list the job responsibilities for past positions. Instead focus on what the clients accomplished, achieved, and changed. That’s what lands jobs.

So this is where you come in! You help your clients turn their experience, skills and capabilities into terrific job-winning resumes. Sounds easy doesn’t it! It is. Here’s 3 secrets to get you going. Number one – make sure you have plenty of appropriate search engine friendly keywords in the resume. Number two – keep it short but not too short – except for top executives I would keep resume length to one page.

There’s a lot of demand out there for resumes and it’s a great online business. So many otherwise talented professionals are simply not very good resume writers. I should know because in addition to personally reviewing thousands of resumes, my book publishing company became the leading publisher of resume books.

Is this a small side gig or a business with a big upside potential? Let’s take the case of Richard Lambert.

Richard started writing resumes as a side gig in addition to his full time job teaching English. He started out on Fiverr offering both a resume and cover letter package for just $55. Over time, he raised his rates, added other services like writing Linkedin profiles and ramped up his marketing. After two years of part time work he went full time and five years later he was netting $2 million in annual income.