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American business is in the midst of cataclysmic change. Corporations, re-engineering themselves to compete in the new global marketplace, lay off millions of employees, then outsource the services they performed, often to the former employees themselves. Disillusioned employees are voluntarily leaving the corporate nest in record numbers to set up small businesses of their own. Technological advances make these tiny operations not only competitive but often the optimal provider of services for the next century. These forces have led to an exponential growth of home-based businesses. Generally, these new entrepreneurs already possess the skills necessary to bring their products and services to life. What most lack is practical knowledge of how to position and market themselves. Understandably, most do not want to be marketers; many have a downright aversion to this crucial activity. And many will fail - not because of their product, but because of failure to promote it effectively. This book can help to change that. |
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Most homes don't come equipped with an office and most jobs come with enough paper to bury the average living room or kitchen table. This information-packed guidebook, now out in paperback, offers solutions and layouts for carving out home offices that work with your space and boost your success. Home Office Design Solutions helps readers take charge of productivity, find their optimum work style, and organize space for efficiency and creativity.
Practical advice in intermingled with sumptuous, creative, and hardworking office environments that don't detract, but complement your home. Home offices don?t have to be eyesores that require the door always be kept shut tight. More important, if your office shares a room with another family activity, it need not be kept hidden behind a screen. The offices featured in Home Office Solutions are ones anyone would be proud to showcase centerstage in their home. |
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Starting a home-based business is a reality that has created wide-open opportunity and success for those who decided to take the plunge—just as it can for you. Setting up a home-based business is also the easiest and least expensive way to become an entrepreneur. But how do you get started? If you’re thinking about starting your own business at home or just curious about what it takes, Home-Based Business For Dummies is the all-in-one guide to making it happen … and making it profitable. Whether you need information on marketing your business, pricing your products and services, or understanding legal do’s and don’ts, this book has what you need to succeed as a home-based business—including twenty-five cost-saving tips for setting up a home office. Home-Based Business For Dummies explains an incredibly wide variety of information that will help you become a successful entrepreneur from the comfort of your own home. This accessible, hands-on g uide offers step-by-step advice on every aspect of setting up shop at home, from picking the right business for you and selecting office equipment to presenting a professional image to potential clients and customers. You’ll also discover how to: - Make the transition to a home-based business
- Tap fourteen sources of start-up funds
- Choose the right health care coverage
- Create an effective marketing campaign
- Use pricing strategies to come out on top
- Harness the power of the Internet to grow your home-based business
- Set boundaries between home and work
- Deal with insurance and taxes
Home-Based Business For Dummies is filled with useful information, tips, and checklists. From exploring e-commerce options to dealing with financial and legal issues, Home-Based Business For Dummies provides you with the very best ideas, concepts, and tools for starting and successfully operating your own home-based business. |
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Run a profitable newsletter right from your home. Would you like to be your own boss, and make excellent money? Publishing your own newsletter can give you all this, right from your own home. Home-Based Newsletter Publishing takes you through every step of starting and publishing a profitable newsletter, from basic planning to design, marketing, and distribution. The book also includes illustrations of successful newsletters. Learn to research, write, edit and proofread with speed and accuracy. It also discusses how to launch a successful publicity campaign—without paying a penny, and eventually keep subscribers renewing year after year. |
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A passion filled, fun read with solid business advice to take any entrepreneur to greater heights of success. Kristie T. delivers the real deal on make money with a high profit home business and TAKE CHARGE of your life. From setting up a website, understanding the financials, and writing a strategic marketing plan, business owners will learn how to move from a start up to a fully automated high profit business. Foreword by home business experts Paul and Sarah Edwards. You discover how to: - Uncover your PASSION and create a BUSINESS you LOVE
- Create a solid BUSINESS PLAN
- Develop powerful CUSTOMER SERVICE strategies
- Track, manage, and monitor your financials for MAJOR PROFITS
- Painlessly SLASH BUSINESS COSTS
- Build a profit making WEB SITE
- MARKET on the Net with high impact strategies
- Compile an savvy online PRESS KIT
- Shift from SELF-EMPLOYEED WORKER to BUSINESS MANAGER
- Employ key models for BUSINESS GROWTH
- Build a 'while you sleep' PASSIVE INCOME
- SIMPLIFY your life and make room for SUCCESS |
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Erma Bombeck's humor meets Jean Chatzky's business sense in this practical guide to juggling a home-based business and a family. Who better than the founder of WAHM.com, the highly popular Web site for work-at-home moms, and author of a widely-read column and cartoon about home office life to give effective advice about balancing a career and a family? In IT'S A JUNGLE OUT THERE AND A ZOO IN HERE, Cheryl Demas relays helpful and hilarious anecdotes about her own experiences leaving the Jungle (workplace) and entering the Zoo (home office). Readers will discover how to plan based on personal circumstances; avoid scams; set up a workable home office and promote a business; juggle children and work demands; and more. Filled with Cheryl's popular cartoons, this book is every working mother's best friend. |
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It's about time! Julie Morgenstern has written an organizing book that covers a new way of looking at the task of organizing effectively without labeling or blaming the person behind the lack of organization. Rather, she says, people who don't organize just never learned how to organize, through no fault of their own--after all, it's not a skill that's taught in school. That said, she gets down to work helping you figure out an organizing system that will really work for you, not a system based on cookie-cutter filing concepts or special storage units. Morgenstern's "from the inside out" system begins by laying out the possible reasons for a failure of organization: technical errors (like having a complex organizing system that breaks down), external realities (like not enough space for your belongings), and psychological obstacles (like fear of failure--or success). Then, her Analyze and Strategize steps help create a plan of action based on your needs and goals, and the brief chapter called "Attack: Getting the Job Done" offers basic ideas for making space. The largest section of the book, "Applying What You've Learned," addresses the specifics of organizing workspaces, home offices, living spaces, and storage areas. Each section has a "How Long Will It Take?" box that gives a realistic time estimate, and Morgenstern's "Julie's No-Brainer Toss List" for each area gives the permission and encouragement that most of us have been waiting for to get rid of things we'll never use again. The section at the end, "Tackling Time and Technology," is worth its weight in DayTimers and PalmPilots. Whatever your organizing issues are, you're not a hopeless case, and you don't need special equipment--just a little understanding of the problem and a willingness to plan before diving in. |
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Covers all the bases, from evaluating the original business idea and laying the groundwork to conducting day-to-day operations. |
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More than 50 million Americans work at home … and the work they do is as varied as the houses they live in. This fresh take on home workspaces looks at a wide range of designs that suit some unique employment needs -- from a daycare center to a dance studio. 50 drawings and 300 color photographs are included. "The book is a must ... full of practical but imaginative guides and information." -- Cincinnati Enquirer "Architect Neal Zimmerman frames dozens of ideas for stylish and ingenious conversions of the spare spot to work center." -- Associated Press |
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A three-part plan to help you create a booming business Nearly 25 million Americans operate a registered home-based business--and those numbers are growing every day. In The 30-Second Commute, leading home business experts Beverley Williams and Don Cooper tell you everything you'll need to know, from determining potential markets to securing financing and developing a marketing plan. Every vital business and personal issue is covered--how to choose the right business, strategies for overcoming lifestyle and family issues, tips for making the business successful, and more. Organizing the subject into three essential topics, this action-based book covers: - Part I--Techniques for determining what business is right for you
- Part II--Nuts-and-bolts issues: securing financing, setting up a work space, and more
- Part III--Strategies for conquering problems unique to home-based businesses
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, by home-based attorney Barbara Weltman, provides the beginning entrepreneur with a blueprint for success in the blunt but whimsical style readers have come to expect from these types of handbooks. Basic information on financing, system setup, and separating business from pleasure is combined with specific details on taxes, marketing, and critical issues such as zoning laws and insurance to create a helpful (but never heavy handed) guide to starting and operating a profitable enterprise. Also included are discussions on franchises and other existing business opportunities. |
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Working from Home authors Paul and Sarah Edwards team up with en-parent.com's Lisa Roberts to create the most detailed, realistic reference guide for the millions of Americans who earn a living from home while raising a family.
Through "The National Survey of Entrepreneurial Parents," over 700 respondents who have embraced this alternative work-life option speak up for those who would like to. This information-packed book features 101 EP profiles, plus chapters on financial transitions, time management, family affairs and passing the EP tradition on to the next generation. Other features include "Day in the Life" work schedules, "Beat the Clock" strategies, 10 "Show & Tell" business profiles, inspirational kid quotes, favorite EP resources, and survey stats.
For anyone who's ever wanted to know the realities of working from home as a parent...and the possibilities. |
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Now in paperback, The Inspired Workspace takes readers behind closed doors into the creative soul of more than forty successful firms, offering a rare and intimate look at work environments that contribute to the bottom line. From Paris to New York to Beijing, from the home studio to the office cubical to corporate headquarters, this book shows readers how to set the stage for creativity. The Inspired Workspace is a must for architects, designers, managers, employees, business owners, CEOs, and the self-employed everywhere. It feature more than 200 full-color photographs illustrating unique approaches to work and creativity in both private and public workspaces. This elegant book is the book that provides the ins and outs for creating a truly inspired workspace. |
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