© 4/15/96, by Sandra O'Connor,

How to operate your own staffing service with very little overhead: no office staff or employees. Start on a shoestring or invest a little to make a stronger image in the community. Learn how to explore the business legalities in your locality, develop marketing strategy, prepare and execute a public relations campaign, know from the start how to avoid costly mistakes and pitfalls. A "how to" manual for running a simplified, small-town, staffing service.

There are thousands of small towns in America. In the past people ran away from those small towns, but today they are making the exodus back to a more relaxed, carefree style of living. The technology today makes it possible to work at home, to run your own business, and "Staffing America" shows you how to provide a much needed service in small towns where the large staffing firms simply will not go because it costs too much. Their operations are complicated and bureauracratized. They can't operate out of a home and keep their carefully constructed image. It just is not profitable to keep an office and staff in a small town, but it is a needed service.

If you live in a small town and want to run a business from your home, "Staffing America" outlines the nuts and bolts to start a staffing business with low overhead. A local business license, a phone, a computer, and a Mail Boxes Etc. relationship are all you need to start! If the business blossoms, get an office (if you really want to) or just go ahead and stay at home! Providing staffing services has the side benefit of networking into your community. You get to know other businesses and people because you provide them a needed service.

"It was SO EASY!" - recent permanent placement recruitment client comment.

"I just need someone for today and one day next month." - recent temp placement request.

"Can you get me 8 people instead of 5 for Saturday?" - recent change in job order.