You will have to work hard, more so than you think. You will need to research first of all, compare your services to others. You ideally need a niche. But really you need to think hard about what you will provide better than anyone else. A USP (unique selling point). You will need to write up a business plan, a good business plan takes alot of time on its own its not just a case of writing what you will do. It needs back up plans, calculations, profits, losses, contacts... These can be discussed with your bank. Also they will have templates on the internet. They can be in excess of 30 or 40 pages. Some examples of things you need to involve in your business plan include things like (probably worth looking these up) - Sensitivity analysis - If your business was to drop sales by 40%, can you still cover all the outgoings? SWOT analysis - Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. A term used - 'Fag packet calculation', which is a quick summary of the money you can make, net profit, revenue, profit, expenses. Once you done that which can take some time, you need to create a company name, brand and posssibly a website. This all will cost money. You then need to finance the start up costs, which could be your own money, an angel (investor) or a bank business loan. You will not be able to get anywhere without a solid business plan, I can not explain just how crucial it is. It needs to cover everything you can think of and more. So this way you can never fail becasue you would have already have planned not to! Then you have legal things, copyrights, NDA's, deals, documents all sorts of shit which is probabaly best learning from your bank. I really could be here all day!