How to Start a Home-Based Business
Create a Business Plan*Build a Client Base*Make Yourself Indispensable*Create a Fee Structure*Market Your Company*Understand What Customers Want
1st Edition
Published on 14. October 2009
176 pages
978-0-7627-5835-7 (ISBN)
Description
From the series that has sold
more than half a million copies!
*
Available in October 2009
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Everything you need to set up a home-based business,
create a demand for services, and make money
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business? Of being your own boss? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? With How to Start a Home-Based Business, you have what it takes to do so like a pro, step by step, even in tough economic times. Here are all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow a business, whatever your specialty. The authors share their experience on how to:
*Define your specialty
*Develop a business plan
*Estimate start-up costs
*Create a fee structure
*Build a client base
*Find trusted subcontractors and specialists
*Stay profitable
*Become a sought-after expert
*Bid competitively
*Establish a daily schedule
*Organize your business
*Get paid
*And more!
more than half a million copies!
*
Available in October 2009
*
Everything you need to set up a home-based business,
create a demand for services, and make money
Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business? Of being your own boss? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? With How to Start a Home-Based Business, you have what it takes to do so like a pro, step by step, even in tough economic times. Here are all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow a business, whatever your specialty. The authors share their experience on how to:
*Define your specialty
*Develop a business plan
*Estimate start-up costs
*Create a fee structure
*Build a client base
*Find trusted subcontractors and specialists
*Stay profitable
*Become a sought-after expert
*Bid competitively
*Establish a daily schedule
*Organize your business
*Get paid
*And more!
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
0,79 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7627-5835-7 (9780762758357)
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Bert Holtje | Susan Shelly
How to Start a Home-Based Business
Create A Business Plan*Build A Client Base*Make Yourself Indispensable*Create A Fee Structure*Market Your Company*Understand What Customers Want
Book
10/2009
Globe Pequot Press
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Persons
Bert Holtje founded James Peter Associates in 1970, a firm that served as a book producer and literary agency, and provided consulting, editorial, and promotional services until it was sold in 2000. The author of many books, he now provides consulting services to authors, agents, and publishers.
Susan Shelly is the author of several corporate histories, as well as financial and business books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Successful Entrepreneur.
Susan Shelly is the author of several corporate histories, as well as financial and business books, including The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being a Successful Entrepreneur.
Content
All How to Start a Home-Based Business books include:
Introduction: 1,500 words
Chapter 1: So You Want to Start a Consulting Business.
Chapter 2: Envisioning the business: possibilities, scope, size.
Chapter 3: What you need in your home office.
Chapter 4: Writing a business plan.
Chapter 5:Getting started.
Chapter 6:Financial planning
Chapter 7:Financial management
Chapter 8:Taxes and record keeping
Chapter 9:Legal and ethical issues
Chapter 10:Marketing your business
Chapter 11: The internet and e-commerce
Chapter 12:Business endgame: stay small, grow, or sell
Chapter 13: Training and certification
Appendix:
Introduction: 1,500 words
Chapter 1: So You Want to Start a Consulting Business.
Chapter 2: Envisioning the business: possibilities, scope, size.
Chapter 3: What you need in your home office.
Chapter 4: Writing a business plan.
Chapter 5:Getting started.
Chapter 6:Financial planning
Chapter 7:Financial management
Chapter 8:Taxes and record keeping
Chapter 9:Legal and ethical issues
Chapter 10:Marketing your business
Chapter 11: The internet and e-commerce
Chapter 12:Business endgame: stay small, grow, or sell
Chapter 13: Training and certification
Appendix:
- Web Resources
- Organizations
- Trade Shows
- Educational Resources
- Other Useful Information
