How to Start Growing a Credit Repair Business from Home

Reasons to Start Growing a Credit Repair Business

Owning your own credit repair business is a great way to do something meaningful for your community and work on your own schedule with unlimited growth potential.

Benefits of working from home

Working from home seems like a far-off dream to many office workers. Here are a few of biggest benefits of working from home:

• Autonomy and flexibility: If you have to get to your daughter’s dance recital or meet up for a game of basketball with friends, you can leave early and finish work later without faking sick

• No commute

• Save money on office rental: Not only do you save money on a rental space, you can also write off a portion of business expenses (like electricity, square footage of your home used, etc.) on your taxes
• No dress code: Wear yoga pants and bunny slippers every day if you want (of course, client meetings or community events are a big exception here)

Benefits of Running a Credit Repair Business

• It is profitable - see how much you could make with this credit repair business calculator
• Credit repair is a recurring revenue business
• The business is scalable: especially with the support of credit repair business software
• It is not dependent on economy because credit is key in any financial climate
• You genuinely help people improve their financial well-being
• Your business grows itself through referrals and affiliate relationships

7 Steps to Starting Your Home Credit Repair Business

1. Integrate Your Credit Repair Business Software

Running a credit repair business without software is possible, but our credit repair business owners have found the benefits of using our credit repair business software are pretty astounding.

When my husband showed me the video where the credit report was imported and the first round of letters were created in literally 1 minute flat, I thought, "Oh, my gosh, this is going to take our business to the next level!"

• Trisha Rushing, Co-founder of Rush Credit Repair

• Rush Credit Repair is a credit repair company that gets quick results (usually 60 days compared to typical six to eight months) for its credit repair clients

• When co-founder Trisha Rushing decided to take the home business up a notch, she invested in credit repair business software and saw a 400-percent increase in revenue in just over a year

Some of the benefits to having your own credit repair business software include:

• Easily manage events and contacts
• Capture leads
• Organize clients and track progress on each credit inquiry
• Seamlessly export contacts for email marketing and client newsletters

If you’re wondering how to start growing a credit repair business from home, we think starting out with a proven model is a smart first step.

2. Understand the Credit Repair Process through Training and Certification

Get trained on the basics of credit repair and learn where to invest your time early on.

• Read Credit Repair Business Training: Where to Start and What You Need to learn how to become a trusted resource for clients
• Join the "Start Repairing Credit” Challenge to arm yourself with important information, such as:
  
• The foundation and fundamentals of credit repair.
• The exact step-by-step system to successfully repair credit.
• How to send out your Round 1 dispute letters!
• Discover how to get paid for your credit repair services.
• How to go from beginner to pro with the fundamentals in record time!

3. Get Your Business in Order

How to start growing a credit repair business from home:

• Create a solid Credit Repair Business Plan
• Have employees sign an NDA to ensure your training is for your business
• Set up your recurring payment platform (Chargebee) and learn How To Avoid Credit Card Processing Pitfalls
• Formulate a client agreement that protects your business and establishes a solid client relationship 

4. Build a Website that Attracts and Converts Visitors

• Pop-ups: Properly-placed offers (not ads) can greatly boost site visits
• Opt-in Resources: Offer gated content in exchange for an email to increase your targeted, segmented email marketing lists

• Free Consultations: Like opt-in resources, a free consultation not only gives you contact information for follow-up on an interested lead--it also boosts the prospects’ level of investment at a subconscious level and indicates a higher level of interest

• Track leads and sign-ups: Maximize your credit repair business software’s capabilities and turn on the Client Sign-up Form feature (under My Company>Web Site Tools)

5. Set Up Client Communication Platforms

We all know there are no second chances for first impressions. Avoid common communication mistakes made by credit repair home business newbies:

• Set up a business voicemail: 75% of business calls are not intercepted on the first try, so setting up a professional voicemail is key to establishing credibility from the first contact

• Use a professional email address: Set up an email with your domain name (the part in “@____.com”), not gmail.com, hotmail.com, etc.

• Increases email deliverability
• Leads to more opened emails
• Ensures clients know your email address is secure and legitimate

• Have a business phone number: Similar to your business voicemail, you need to have a dedicated line for your business

• Consider a toll-free number--it can be a great marketing tool as it sticks out in your clients’ minds as it accesses fewer areas of the brain making it easier to memorize

• Use your credit repair business software’s communication tools:

• Timing: Credit Repair Cloud’s credit repair business software takes away the guesswork of when to reach out to a client by tracking progress on key areas like credit inquiries
• Marketing: Export existing contacts and easily add new contacts with the email integrations
• Customer experience: Let each client know you care about their particular situation by pulling up all relevant client information through your credit repair business software’s CRM features

6. Train Employees to Help you Run your Business Well

Employees should have a working knowledge of:

• Phone etiquette: We’ve all used sales scripts - consider using customer service phone scripts so your employees know what to say (even when they don’t know the answer)

• Email responses: Use templates for common responses
• Emails should have a professional tone, which means they are not off-the-cuff, even when they have a friendly tone or personalization

• Client information database: Every employee needs to know how to find important information in Credit Repair Cloud’s credit repair business software

7. Meet Regulatory Requirements

• Bonded and Insured: Check your state’s regulations to make sure you are properly bonded and insured to meet requirements

• Get your business license

• Remember Quarterly Taxes: If you’ve never worked from home or run a business, you need to know when and how much to pay so you don’t get hit with fees for late payments of quarterly taxes

Start Now

How would you like us to hold you by the hand as you launch your very own credit repair business? 

If you want to get certified in disputing and discover how to earn extra income repairing credit for others, I invite you to join our free 5-day “Start Repairing Credit” Challenge.

What should you do now?

• If you're looking to handle more clients without getting bogged down by the admin, start a free 30-day trial today makes your life easier.
• Join the Start Repairing Credit Challenge to improve your credit score and discover how to earn extra income repairing credit for others.
• Check out the Credit Repair Cloud blog to learn more about credit repair techniques and strategies.