At a bare minimum, have $2,000 set aside for your first marketing effort. The $2,000 marker should be enough to get you going (buying leads, etc.), but, is considered a bit risky.
We highly advise and recommend having $5,400 set aside for the first three months for marketing (buying leads, etc.) until you can get an established revenue stream.
**This does not include having money set aside to pay the bills**.
A formula to calculate what you might need If you aren't going to continue working (either part-time or full-time until you are established) is the following:
[insert your monthly expense] x six months = money needed for living