Home-Based Business For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) |
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| Title: | Home-Based Business For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance)) |
| Author: | Paul Edwards
Sarah Edwards
Peter Economy |
| Publisher: | For Dummies |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 25 February, 2005 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0764577638 / 9780764577635 |
| List Price: | $19.99 |
| You Save: | $2.90 |
| Amazon Price: | $17.09 |
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Product Description
Thanks to the Internet, home-based businesses are booming. With a home computer and a good idea, you can market and sell almost anything in the world just from home. Whether you’re selling homemade jams or working as a business consultant, today’s entrepreneur doesn’t even have to leave home. Home-Based Business For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you make your endeavor profitable and successful! Ideal for future entrepreneurs who have the urge and want the know-how, this updated guide includes new information on home business scams and how to avoid them, shows how to create an efficient, comfortable (but not too comfortable) work environment, explains how to put new technologies to work for you, and much more. There’s even a 10-question quiz to help you determine if you’re ready. You’ll learn all the basics, including: - Selecting the right kind of business for you
- Setting up a home office
- Managing money, credit, and financing
- Marketing almost anything in the world
- Avoiding distractions at home
Home-Based Business For Dummies, 2nd Edition was written by Paul and Sarah Edwards, award-winning authors who write a monthly column for Entrepreneur magazine, and Peter Economy, an author or coauthor For Dummies books on managing, consulting, and personal finance. In straightforward English, they show you how to: - Stay connected to the business community, even when working from home
- Keep your work separate from your personal life
- Handle benefits, health insurance, and your retirement planning
- Make sure your bookkeeping is accurate and legal
- Use the Internet to bid for work, list your services in directories, network, and more
- Choose the technology and other resources you need
- Develop your own marketing and advertising strategies
- Navigate IRS rules for home-based businesses
Home-Based Business For Dummies is packed with ideas and information that will help you get started right and help established, successful home-based business owners stay ahead of the pack. Use it well and this handy guide will be the most important reference in your home office.
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Customer Reviews:
• Misleading
02 January, 2010
I was looking for a possible lead to an opportunity to do work at home. This book has some ideas that might work, but a lot of them aren't really feasible. The majority of these ideas require an investment of at least $1K and some $10K or more. Wasn't too pleased.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Good For A Beginner
10 May, 2009
The book did spend a lot of time talking about how to deal with family problems, creating a quiet workspace, setting work hours and how to get through a project when you have no desire. While some people might find this beneficial, it read like "filler" to me.
The book is organized, reader-friendly, and informative. Everything is covered in this book. From the types of businesses to how to market the business, to taxes and retirement, trademarks and other legal concerns. How to work from home when you've got kids, pets, aging parents, nosy neighbors, etc. Plus many web addresses that will help in your planning, ex. Better Business Bureau.
Paul Edwards shares his great knowledge in yet another book to help anyone start thier own business. I think this book is great, concise, and entertaining.
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- Amazon Customer Review
• Update On The 3rd Edition -- New And Improved
10 January, 2010
I am coauthor of Home-Based Business For Dummies 3rd Edition along with my colleagues of many years, Paul and Sarah Edwards (America's home-based business experts -- their book Working From Home was the first commercially published book about how to work from home).
We made numerous changes and improvements to Home-Based Business For Dummies 3rd Edition, many of them in response to feedback we received on the previous editions of the book (including the many reviews here on Amazon.com). We took your comments to heart, and used them to help fine tune the book's content.
One more thing. As we wrote this new edition, we also took into account the fact that we are still in the throes of the worst economic recession since the Great Depression. We made many adjustments to the text to help prospective and current home-based business owners deal with the challenges of the current economic environment.
The result is a much stronger book on the topic of starting and growing your own home-based business -- a book that Paul and Sarah and I are certain is the best possible resource available today for both new and experienced home-based business owners.
Specifically, we:
-- Added an entirely new chapter -- Chapter 3: The ABCs of Starting Your Own Business -- that addresses exactly how to start a home-based business, 6 proven ways to get your cash flowing, 21 sources of start-up funds, how to put together a business plan, and much more.
-- Added an entirely new chapter -- Chapter 5: Creating a Sustainable Income in Challenging Times -- that explores more than 75 businesses you can start and do well during an economic downturn, as well as those that do better in economic good times. Many of these businesses require minimal money to start, with most WELL under $1,000. No other book on home-based businesses provides this vital, up-to-the-minute information that will help you succeed even in today's challenging business conditions.
-- Added an entirely new chapter -- Chapter 13: Making the Web Work for You -- that digs deeply into how to leverage the tremendous power of the Internet to help your home-based business succeed. We pay a special attention to using social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter, and creating your own blog or website, to get out the word about your business.
-- Added an entirely new chapter -- Chapter 17: Ten Enduring Home-Business Opportunities -- that provides readers with our list of 10 home business opportunities that are built to last. These are opportunities that will continue to grow and do well for decades to come.
-- Updated chapters on legal, taxes, and accounting with the latest-and-greatest information for 2010.
-- Pared away anything that wasn't directly pertinent to helping our readers become better and more successful home-based businesspeople.
While we can't guarantee that you'll earn a million dollars as a home-based business owner after you read our book, we CAN guarantee that you'll find a LOT of extremely useful information, no matter what kind of business you start or where you live. Paul and Sarah and I really care about this book and we want it to be the best book possible on starting and growing a home-based business. We're always happy to get your email messages and answer your questions. We would love to hear about your successes -- and your challenges. Our websites and email addresses are easy to find -- a Google search will quickly take you there.
Thanks for considering Home-Based Business For Dummies 3rd Edition -- we hope you enjoy reading the book as much as we enjoyed writing it, and that it helps you build a better and even more successful home-based business.
- Amazon Customer Review
• A Must Read!
15 January, 2010
Let's get the usual disclaimers out of the way. I have known Paul and Sarah Edwards for a long time, both personally and professionally, and one of the reasons for maintaining these relationships is that I admire what they do, how they do it, and how they love to share it. And, this latest book, Home-Based Business for Dummies, is only one example of my admiration.
When I found out that Paul and Sarah were authoring yet another edition of this book, I could not wait to see it. I followed their journey of helping people achieve self-actualization for over twenty years, and I can tell you that they worked hard to make Home-Based Business for Dummies the most complete reference on the subject.
The book has several beginnings, and the one I truly like is the section titled "Taking the Home-Based Business Quiz." That section alone, with its questions focused on what each of us who starts a business needs to ask, is worth the price of the book. It asks you to look at and evaluate your strengths and potential weaknesses and your readiness to get started.
Another section of the book goes into the choices that you need to make about the nature of your business, and what you can start right in your garage as did the good people who started Hewlett-Packard, Apple, Amazon, and others, to buying an existing business or franchise, and more, and includes advice on identifying the best option for you..
Chapters 3 and 4 detail the ABCs of starting the business, and includes just about everything you need to cover to make it a success, including words to the wise about what financing you should consider, and some sound advice on how to get it. Once the business is started, however, there is still more work to be done to market what you have to offer, and that is covered, as well. There is even a chapter about doing business in "challenging times," which is extremely useful for today.
The book is easy-to-read, well organized, and thoroughly helpful, and I highly recommend "Home-Based Business for Dummies" to anyone who wants to start a business, or has a home-based business and has some unanswered questions. No book, however comprehensive, can ever include everything, but this one sure comes close!
- Amazon Customer Review
• Think Of It As Your Buddy
05 February, 2010
A super overview of the subject, this book helps me check every so often to see if I'm covering all bases. I found the pages on making the web work for you to be especially useful. The book sits on my buddy shelf--books that bail me out when I have a question or issue.
- Amazon Customer Review
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