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The For Dummies series is known for it's highly readable, straightforward style, and Home-Based Business For Dummies (2nd Edition) does not disappoint. Authored by the award-winning tandem of Paul and Sarah Edwards, together with For Dummies regular Peter Economy, Home-Based Business For Dummies comprises 20 chapters of practical advice for working at home.
This e-book is a spin-off of sorts of Edwards' monthly column for Entrepreneur magazine and weekly radio show on BusinessTalkRadio.Net.
It asks neophytes or those hesitating to commit full-time to a home-based business 10 questions that will help them determine how ready they are (or not) to launch their home-based business. This e-book also tackles the pros and cons of being your own boss, as well as how to make the transition towards independence.
Aside from recognizing the power of the Internet to grow a business, Home-Based Business For Dummies also offers tips on:
- finding the right business to suit you
- creating a home-based business area conducive to work
- getting clients
- avoiding the latest home-based business rip-offs.
Home-Based Business Finance
It is necessary that today's work-at-home/ Small Business Entrepreneur not only be aware of the latest scams that seek to drain valuable time and money from his home business, but also how to manage his financial resources wisely. And as can be expected from a book co-authored by finance expert Peter Economy, Home-Based Business For Dummies features practical advice on the following (among others):
- how to keep track of your money and credit;
- how much to charge your clients;
- how to keep your records accurate and legal;
- how to navigate IRS rules for a home-based business; and
- how to handle health insurance and retirement.
Work at Home Survival Guide
Home-Based Business For Dummies is also a survival guide that teaches you how to avoid household distractions and keep your work and personal life separate. It is also a how-to guide for success that will help you maintain a business network while still working at home, come up with effective marketing strategies, and use external resources and experts.
To encourage readers on the road to success, the authors briefly share their own journeys as home-based entrepreneurs.
Sarah Edwards shares the struggles she had as a working mother that made the decision to change her lifestyle a matter of life and death. Her husband, Paul, on the other hand, recalls the early days of his at-home political and public-affairs consulting business.
In what Peter Economy calls his “personal journey to independence”, he relates how working for others and having virtually no control over job security became unbearable... so much so that it made him want to strike out on his own and never look back.
The Tens
The last part of this e-book is devoted to the For Dummies staple “The Part of Tens”, which includes, among others, a chapter that debunks 10 myths regarding working at home and another that presents 10 contingency measures in case “things get tough”.
Apart from the cliché beginning characteristic of many such books (e.g., Congratulations! You've decided to start a home-based business.), Home-Based Business For Dummies is truly a valuable reference for anyone looking to start a home-based business on anything from homemade gift items to consultancy work. Download it now and begin your own work-at-home journey!
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