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Many of us would love to jump on the home-based business bandwagon but we simply don't have the qualifications or experience to start a new enterprise from scratch. Popular self-employment authors Paul and Sarah Edwards recognized this predicament, and with Walter Zooi, they have assembled a comprehensive resource precisely for such hesitant entrepreneurs. Home Businesses You Can Buy thoroughly examines franchises, multilevel marketing, and other "prepackaged" business opportunities, and includes important advice on avoiding related scams.

"Prepackaged" businesses are attractive alternatives for people across the country interested in working for themselves. In the newest addition to their Working From Home series, Paul and Sarah Edwards present another viable way to start a successful business. With this book, readers discover concrete steps and worksheets to evaluate the potential for actually earning an income, from helping to make ends meet to a full-time career.

 The first part of this book covers every aspect of operating a business on the Internet: from planning a Web site to promotion on a tight budget. The second, main part contains detailed descriptions of 121 Internet businesses entrepreneurs can start from home.

From the Publisher
Despite the recent avalanche of books on doing business on the Internet, the problem of which specific businesses should be started online is rarely tackled. 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home fills this gap. The 121 online businesses discussed in this book can all be started from home by Internet beginners, and many on a shoestring budget.

In addition, the book also includes a complete beginner's guide to starting a business online. The Edwardses have built themselves into a two-person industry. For nearly 10 years, in books and countless articles and columns on the Web, they have dispensed advice concerning self-employment, home-based businesses, and working at home. This guide, now in its third edition, is a proven helpful compendium of business opportunities suited for those who want to work from home. It has more than 150 pages more than its earlier edition; and nearly 25 new businesses have been added, replacing almost a like number that are no longer so popular. An introductory section explains the requirements for operating a home-based business. Then each of the profiles outlines what the business entails, contrasts its advantages and disadvantages, lays out specific steps to get started, and suggests ways to identify and attract customers. Trade associations, professional organizations, books, seminars, and Web sites for each business are also included. This book's greatest asset, however, comes from the inclusion of specific estimates for start-up costs and recommendations on how to price products and services. 101 Best Home Businesses describes the principles and priorities for a successful home business. Dan Ramsey explains what a home business does, why it can be satisfying, and how to select one that is. Then he describes in detail 101 proven home businesses and opportunities based on first-person interviews and case histories. Practical worksheets are provided to help the reader launch a home business. In her newest book, home-business guru Priscilla Huff reveals the fundamental success secrets for building and running a profitable home venture. This comprehensive book leads you, the woman entrepreneur, through every step of the home business process--from choosing the right business to managing finances. You will learn everything you need to know about researching the right business idea for you, drafting a rock-solid plan, getting your whole family involved, setting goals and achieving them,... Janet Attard's Business Know-How tells how to make a small business profitable, from obtaining publicity and locating customers without expensive ad budgets to cutting business costs and becoming involved with the Internet. All are excellent business guides with practical information for those just starting out. Twice as many women as men are now starting businesses; women now account for 40 percent of all American business owners. Many of them juggle career and family from their homes. This book shows how and includes profiles of home businesswomen who are achieving their dreams in many fields.

The first book written exclusively for mothers who want to start their own businesses at home, this guide describes how women can find their special niche, get started, avoid too-good-to-be-true schemes, find the best way to work with children around, and stay mentally and physically healthy in the process. A guide to making money sans job offers insight-provoking interactive tests, self-evaluations, charts, and checklists, as well as numerous anecdotes about people who are successfully self-employed.

Using techniques and ideas from her popular seminars, the author shows how to break through the mental barriers to being your own boss and how to integrate what you like to do with your talents. 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.

The ultimate dream of many people is to work at home and still be actively involved in a growing business. This book shows how to set up, run, and grow a home-based business and features explanations of laws affecting home-based businesses, tax rules, how to turn a great idea into a great home-based business, and how to market the business. Forms & glossary. This book is 180 degrees removed from the practicalities offered by such home-office experts as Paul and Sarah Edwards. Although a nod or two is given to budgets, the photographic showcase of 45 home offices is exciting, breathtaking, and, yes, usually expensive. Of course, design ideas proliferate, acting as a real motivator to do something for the home working environment in which 20 percent of us live. A cast-off, stainless steel shoe rack becomes a wall-bound book and magazine holder; old bowling balls perform as humorous finials for a bookcase; and restaurant shelving now holds a myriad of office papers and products. Metropolitan Home editor Paul segregates her examples by category, including home offices for solo practitioners, for firms with employees, in loft areas, for working couples, and in separate buildings. Great running commentary and top-quality color photography--for home workers to whom money is truly no object. Architect Zimmerman offers a range of information to consider in planning a home office. Both pros and cons of all subjects are examined, beginning with specific locations (attic versus basement, spare bedroom versus walk-in closet) and concluding with notes on art, accessories, and plants. One of the most practical sections is a photo gallery of options for workstation furniture, seating, filing/storage, ergonomic tools, and task lighting, each with a cost range code and a brief description. Occasionally, the text is too sparse, relying on pictures to do the work; more checklists and data would be welcome. Nonetheless, a straightforward starting place for the 40 million of us doing at least some work at home.

 

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