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The 200 Best Home Businesses: Easy To Start, Fun To Run, Highly Profitable
by Katina Z. Jones
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Tired of your humdrum workday routine? Looking for a new and exciting career path that allows you to be your own boss and make your own rules? The 200 Best Home Businesses is the book for you. This completed revised and update 2nd edition profiles 200 of the best and most profitable businesses that you can run from your home inside, you'll find jobs for your every interest, from Computer Programmer to Personal Chef. Each business profile provides you with all of the information you need to choose the business that's right for you:
No matter what your interest or level of experience, you can take charge of your life, tap into your unique background and talents, and build a solid career for the future. The 200 Best Home Businesss, 2nd Edition shows you how!
The author mentions many different alternatives for supplementing income. These alternatives include review of utility bills for large entities, the rendering of expert advice, concert promotion, consulting engineering, eBook Publishing, freelance writing, graphic design, rare book dealerships, seminar services and much more. This acquisition is very useful if you are searching for a niche business idea and looking for a profitable home business opportunity.
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The Home-based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, Ebay or Your Own Web Site
by Steve Weber
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Want to know the most profitable, lowest-risk idea for your home business? It's selling used books online, which is growing 33 percent annually, according to a November 2005 study by U.S. publishers.
Learn how to start your business part-time. This step-by-step guide, written by one of the most successful and highly rated sellers on Amazon.com, AbeBooks and eBay, includes everything you need to know. Weber’s book is the best and most detailed guide to selling books online from the comfort of your home that I have found and he explains step by step the process of making your first sale. The book provides good beginner information, good comparisons of different web sites, different book suppliers, different shipping suppliers and tons of more valuable information.
I highly recommend this well organized manual for anyone wanting to sell his or her books as either a sideline or a full-time business.
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How to Buy, Sell, and Profit on eBay: Kick-Start Your Home-Based Business in Just Thirty Days
by Adam Ginsberg
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The eBay phenomenon may be the greatest opportunity for home-based entrepreneurs ever. With close to zero start-up costs and a worldwide customer base of 150 million people, the little guy can now compete on a level playing field with huge corporations. Ginsberg’s book presents a lot of great information to get you excited about starting to buy/sell on Ebay and he is a great motivator. His guide is perfect for beginners and leads you through the process step by step with plain English that anyone can understand. If you use his techniques you will make profit with eBay but be aware that this is not as easy as his enthusiasm makes it sound – just look at the quantities of “unsold” items on eBay each day. But yes, there are people making millions selling things like books and software and why shouldn’t you be one of these guys?
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How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business (Home-Based Business Series)
by Jill Moran
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This insider's handbook reveals how to start a successful business planning a wide variety of events from home. Topics covered include purchasing equipment and supplies, writing a business plan, working with caterers and other service professionals, attracting and keeping clients, dealing with providers and much more. Jill Moran, an industry expert in this field, presents a step-by-step process of how to start a home-based Event Planning Business. She cites many excellent resources for those who are new to event planning. You will get a terrific reference tool for helping you to set up your own business.
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Home-Based Travel Agent, 5th Edition
by Kelly Monaghan
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Now in its fifth edition, the street-wise guide to setting up a home travel agency business without spending a fortune is now better than ever. Completely revised and updated to the realities of a travel marketplace in which airlines no longer pay commissions. While it is practical to set up a home based agency, your success is not guaranteed. There are many established agencies out these that are desperately looking for some way to stay in business. This book points out the various options you have, such as working at home for an established agency, setting up your own agency, finding market niches and several other choices. The book is a great guide to understand the Travel Agency Market, to create your personal marketing strategy and finally to set up your own agency.
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How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, Third Edition (Home-Based Business Series)
by Shirley George Frazier
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Shirley George Frazier, a successful home-based gift basket entrepreneur, shows you how to cultivate your creativity and employ savvy marketing techniques to run a thriving gift basket business. The book is the best and most comprehensive "how to start a gift-basket business” book I found. It is especially useful for those still undecided if a gift basket business is what they want to do. Frazier considers all the common sense factors regarding the start-up phase of a gift basket business and she presents diverse web sites and business references helping you to find guaranteed and well known providers you might use to start your business.
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How to Start and Run Your Own Mystery Shopping Company
by Julie Weis and Lynette Janac
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Looking for an exciting and profitable business opportunity from an office or home? Or maybe you just want to earn a little extra money in your free time, while having fun?
Mystery Shopping is fast becoming one of the most fun and financially rewarding businesses in America. Imagine being paid for evaluating your favorite department stores, restaurants, movie theaters, health clubs, hair salons and more! Essentially you get paid to shop and dine out. All you have to do is report back to the manager or owner your experience. You are basically a live "comment card". Everyone wants the luxury of setting their own hours and having fun at their jobs, and mystery shoppers can do just that. "How to Start & Run Your Own Mystery Shopping Company" step-by-step business manual provides entrepreneurs with quality information. Everything you need to start and run a successful Mystery Shopping business from tips, advice, and sample evaluation forms are compiled into an easy to read business and training manual. Whether you are looking for some way to earn a little money on the side or if you're looking to start and build a potentially large business enterprise, this manual is for you! The best part...you can start and run this business all from the comfort of your own home!!!!!! Part time...Full time...or Anytime!
An Amazon reader writes: “I recently purchased this book and have found it to be extremely helpful in starting my own mystery shopping business. The book includes some of the most useful forms that I have come across and has helped my business grow in a fraction of the time I initially estimated. I have purchased other books related to this topic, but this is the first one that covered ALL of the areas essential in starting and running a successful mystery shopping company”.
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101 Home-Based Businesses for Pet Lovers
by Louise Louis
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Would you like to run your own business and work from home surrounded by your pets? Full-time, part-time and retirement businesses are profiled in this book by author Louise Louis. 101 Home-Based Businesses for Pet Lovers includes businesses related to the most popular types of pets - dogs, cats, birds, fishes, etc.
101 Home-Based Businesses For Pet Lovers is a comprehensive introduction to the possibilities of working at home surrounded by canine and/or feline companions -- or any other category of pet! Readers will learn how they can become their own boss, working from the comfort and convenience of their own home, and simultaneously enjoy the company of their animals. A compendium of full-time, part-time, or retirement businesses ideas, this unique "how to" manual is replete with examples ranging from horse lovers becoming freelance riding instructors; to bird enthusiasts starting an aviary day care or bird cage cleaning service; to cat lovers delivering kitty litter or making organic catnip products; to walking dogs in an suburban area; to operating a pet-welcoming Bed & Breakfast. No matter what kind of pet you have, there is a stay-at-home business opportunity for you! Just check it out in Louise Louis' 101 Home-Based Businesses For Pet Lovers!
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How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 4th Edition
by Denise Vivaldo
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Learn all about how to start a home-based catering business from the owner of a successful catering enterprise. This 4th edition includes an additional chapter of catering recipes, including five special occasion menus with 25 crowd-pleasing recipes. Denise Vivaldo's manual probably is the most comprehensive source on catering enterprises you can find and covers virtually every facet of this business. Denise shares with her readers her many years of experiences of running her own catering business from her own kitchen. You find lots of information, starting from avoiding common mistakes, estimating start-up costs, economic kitchen outfitting, finding CD-ROM recipe books or culinary web sites, specialty planning, using portion size charts, and much more. The book contains plenty of fill-in charts that make it easy to plan. A great reference source and a MUST for anybody who is thinking of opening a home-based catering business.
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Handmade for Profit! Hundreds of Secrets to Success in Selling Arts and Crafts
by Barbara Brabec
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"The first step to building a profitable crafts enterprise at home," declares noted crafts-business expert Barbara Brabec, "is to think of it as a business, not a hobby.... whether your annual income goal is $500 or $50,000." Handmade for Profit explains clearly how to do it”.
An Amazon reader writes: “If you're serious about wanting to turn your crafts into a successful business, you must have this completely new rewritten edition. Barbara has written a "Bible for the entrepreneur!" The book is a bargain that will save you time and money as it leads you through setting goals, and developing and pricing your product into new opportunities and new technologies for marketing your talents. As an author, publisher, and owner of a crafts business, I have found more helpful advice in this new book for all three of my endeavors than in any other resource on my bookshelf. You won't be sorry you bought "Handmade for Profit".
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The Self-Promoting Musician (Music Business)
by Peter Spellman
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Take charge of your career with these do-it-yourself strategies for independent music success! Peter Spellman, the Director of the Career Development Center at Berklee, gives tips on how to: write a business plan, create press kits, use the Internet to boost your career, customize your demos for maximum exposure, get better gigs and airplay, network successfully, and create the industry buzz you need to succeed. A must-read for every aspiring musician!
An Amazon reader writes: “I did this class when I was at Berklee. At the time, it seemed to be the most useless class of all. I wanted to play, write, and make music! It didn’t take me to long to realize how important in my career was to learn how to promote myself. Whether as a performer, as a writer or as a teacher all the information taught at that class has become part of my daily routine as a musician. I realize how important it is for a musician to comprehend that writing and playing great music it’s not enough. You need to make your music get to the public. It is a wonderful idea to get this class together as book. Now anyone can access this information. It doesn’t matter what area in the music industry you want to work with, you should read this book as soon as possible. It has opened my mind to small things I can do to make my life as musician the success I have always dreamed of”.
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Getting Rich in Your Underwear: How to Start and Run a Profitable Home-based Business
by Peter I. Hupalo
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Even if the title is somewhat misleading – you WILL need something covering your underwear if you plan to succeed - Peter Hupalo presents with his book a great guide for everybody interested in opening or improving his home business.
An Amazon reader: “Getting Rich in Your Underwear: How To Start and Run a Profitable Home-Based Business is a no-nonsense guide to the nuts and bolts of starting a home based business. Chapters cover basic home business models, the characteristics that pave one's way for personal success, zoning and insurance issues, why intellectual property is critically important, matters of copyright/trademark/patent, expenses and taxes to be aware of, fifteen basic steps to getting started, state resources for help in getting off the ground, and much more. Written in a no-nonsense, down-to-earth style, Getting Rich in Your Underwear also warns prospective entrepreneurs of all-too-common scams - such as the Internet scam of someone claiming trademark ownership of a word or expression and asking an entrepreneur to pay a royalty to use or license the expression (this isn't how trademarks work and is referred to as 'naked licensing', which can be grounds for the cancellation of a trademark!) Though highly readable, Getting Rich In Your Underwear does not shy away from details or mathematics, and offers sample calculations and forms to get the reader acquainted with necessary accounting matters. An absolute "must-have" for anyone seriously interested in running a business from home”.
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Getting business to come to you
by Paul Edwards and Sarah Edwards
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Interested in a home-based business and enjoying your family? While other current titles on small and home-based businesses include chapters on marketing, advertising, public relations, direct mail, and sales promotion for the small and/or home-based business entrepreneur, none do it so well or so comprehensively as Paul and Sarah Edwards in the second edition of their bestselling book. They offer on 677 pages tips on networking, media kits, news releases, radio and TV advertising, and other topics that will stimulate your marketing juices and lead you on the path to getting, and keeping, more customers. This well-researched and well-written guide is essential for any library that needs small and/or home-based business books.
An Amazon reader writes: “If you own a business and you want ideas for marketing, this book is for you. There's something in it for the beginner and for the expert, and I don't think you could ever use all of the ideas it provides. I started putting some of the tips to use the day the book arrived (even before I had thoroughly read it--after just flipping through it a bit) and my business saw the results very quickly. I highly recommend this book, especially for small business owners”.
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