Register your company with your local county government. In most cases you'll only need to fill a DBA (doing business as) form and operate your business as a sole proprietor. This business structure is the easiest to implement. Select a business name that describes the work you do for the customer, such as "Custom Name Labels Co.

Create a simple site for your business by showing samples of your work, your contact information and a means for customers to place orders and enter their credit card. A well produced website you avoid having to deal with most orders by hand.

Market your services to people you know first. This will save you a few clients and establish a working method and efficient processing of your orders. Once you've won a few customers to increase your reach nationally.

Create your own custom labels using the name of a word processing software or custom label. You can use the "mail merge" function of your word processor to print labels directly from the command-line client. This will save you time retyping every command.

Ship orders the day they are placed. The main cause of customer dissatisfaction with business owners is that they take too long to ship their order. The shipping time will result in long-term customers.

Expand your business by offering other custom labels printed. Once your orders are too large to print in your home, you can outsource everything to a large print shop and you'll become a print broker.