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"Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying mail order business from your home...From painless business planning to achieving success in cyberspace, this book's step-by-step methods are practical and easy to understand...Whether you are looking to assess your personal skills, estimate your start-up costs, choose the right products, or stay profitable once you are in business..."--P. [4] of cover.
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Provides guidance and tools for starting and running a home-based catering service, covering business and financial planning, the home office and kitchen, marketing, promotion, legal aspects, price setting, quantities, proposals, and party execution, and includes menus and recipes for specific occasions.
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From estimating start-up costs and finding clients to how to stay profitable even in slow economic climates, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based professional organizing business. Whether you're just starting to explore your options for a home-based business or are an organizing wizard looking to be your own boss, each chapter will guide you on how to build your own successful organizing business....
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"Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based interior design business? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? This book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business. An experienced designer shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based interior design business. Learn how to develop a business plan, estimate your...
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Veteran cook and caterer Detra Denay Davis provides all the tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your home-based bakery business. She shares her experiences and advice on making sense of local, state, and federal rules and regulations; structuring your business; developing a product line; packaging, labeling, and marketing products; and learning how to become and stay profitable. --Back cover.
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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own landscaping business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your business. Using a friendly, entertaining approach, Owen E. Dell shares his experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based landscaping business. He shows you how...
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Having passion about a topic is a great reason to start blogging, but there is a lot more to it than that. This book will be able to help potential bloggers by asking the important questions needed to focus the blog. It will also set expectations so there are fewer surprises along the way. Making a blog a success can be a challenge, but it's not out of reach for those who are determined.
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In the past decade, the rise of independent music culture has come hand-in-hand with another music revolution: the home-based recording studio, the start-up costs of which can be as low or high as a budget allows. “How to Start a Home-Based Recording Studio” walks aspiring studio owners through all the steps necessary to turn their passion into a business. The first-ever guide to focus not only on outfitting a studio, but also to offer a full...
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This book contains everything one needs to know to set themselves up as a home-based consultant, create a demand for their services, and make money. Bert Holtje, an author and a longtime publishing industry consultant, shows how to develop a marketable idea, operate a home-based office, draft winning proposals, sell services, get referrals, set fees, manage finances and time, and conduct Internet marketing. * Define your specialty * Build a client...
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From estimating your start-up costs and finding clients to cooking for special needs and staying profitable, this book takes you through every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based personal chef business. Whether you're just starting to learn the trade or are an experienced chef looking to be your own boss, each chapter will guide you on how to build your own successful personal chef business.
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Making money from exercise may seem like a pipe dream to many, but in fact physical fitness is fast becoming one of America's hottest new professional fields. Here, a successful personal trainer gives expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a home-based personal trainer business. Readers will learn how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, learn from the competition, and set up a home office, as...
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Freelance editors with the right skills are in demand throughout the publishing industry, for other types of businesses, and for independent authors with publishing projects. This book guides the reader through the steps needed to set up a home-based business, from determining which services to offer to marketing and developing a fee structure. Chapters cover the different types of editorial services (including developmental editing, copyediting,...
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In tough economic times and with rising unemployment, people are looking to take the bull by the horns and start their own home-based businesses....From GPP's enormously successful “How to Start a Home-Based Business’ series (more than half a million copies sold!), comes the essential guide to starting up a home-based Bookkeeping business.
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Everything you need to know to run a profitable and satisfying craft business from your home. From business and financial planning to marketing your business both online and through traditional outlets, this comprehensive guide provides practical solutions and solid advice on how to tap your creative skills to earn a living. Learn all about business plans, finding supplies on the Internet, publicity, zoning ordinances, and much more. Whatever your...
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Making money doing lawn-care, landscape architecture, and garden work is a dream of many people, and this guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies they need to successfully launch and develop their own business doing so. This sixth edition also features advice on marketing and selling one's services within "sustainable landscaping," one of the hottest new trends in the field. * Develop a profitable business plan * Build word-of-mouth...
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Just fifteen years ago, "pet sitter" meant the kid down the street who helped feed pets when the neighbors traveled. Today, this fledgling field is fast becoming an established profession. Combining the appeal of working with animals, a viable customer base, and truly low start-up costs, it is for many people the ideal home-based business. And yet its "fun" aspects are often overshadowed by the daunting tasks of registering the business, purchasing...
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“How to Start a Home-Based Jewelry Making Business” is for creative, talented women who want to turn their passion for beautiful jewelry into a profitable sideline or full-time business. Selling and making jewelry is one of the more high-margin craft businesses and with the right approach to sales and a stylish look, one can develop a devoted following. In addition to the essentials common to the series, this book also includes information on...
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This book will include all the information you need to get started at home with your own graphic design business. To expand the focus of this subject matter, we plan on including information on designing blogs, apps, and the like to take this book a step ahead of the competition.
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Terry Meany, author of Knack Home Repair & Maintenance, provides all the necessary tools and strategies one needs to turn skills into cash by launching and growing a handyman business. He explains how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, learn from the competition, and set up a home office, as well as how to use the Internet to develop the business. * Turn your skills into cash * Schedule your jobs * Build word-of-mouth...
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From a $250,000 fête for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children's birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled by pressure to "keep up with the Joneses." Couple this surge in interest with the fact that births in the United States have exceeded 4 million each year...
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