The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business

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Summary: For when you want more than the official line!
Review: The Unofficial Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business
by Steven D. Strauss

This book is an incredible resource covering a large number of topics in great detail, such as;

1. Understanding the Home-Based Business.
a. The Home Business Boom
b. Is Operating a Home-Based Business for You?

2. Choosing The Right Home-Business
a. Doing What You Love
b. Some Home-Based Businesses to Start
c. Diversification

3. Getting Started
a. Business Basics
b. Business Plans
c. Financing Your Home-Based Business

4. The Nitty Gritty
a. The Home Office
b. Starting on a Shoestring
c. Dealing With Money
d. Managing Your Business and Your Life
e. Managing Your Time

5. The Internet
a. E-Commerce Overview
b. Making Money Online

6. Growing Your Business
a. Successful Home-Based Advertising
b. Marketing and Publicity
c. Secrets of Successful Home-Based Businesses

The author delivers critical, unbiased information that other books can't or won't reveal on each of these topics.

The book gives you advice as well as opinions. So when your not sure what to do, refrencing it here can save you time and money.

I strongly recommend this book, and wish you well in your Home-Business.

Rating:
Summary: Obvious
Review: This book could be one of the "Dummies" or "Idiots" books because everything it offers is pretty obvious. This book covers so many topics, it can't go into any depth on any of them. For example, the author says seminars are a great way to get business but he offers only half a page on how to do them. He tells you how to get a trademark without discussing why they may or not be necessary. Also, there are way too many irrelevant stories about millionaires like Michael Dell (who cares how many square feet his mansion is?) and Jeff Bezos. If you already have a business in mind, you have to wade through a lot of chapters about finding the perfect business for you. However, if you haven't a clue about which business to start, the book offers only a surface idea of several home businesses. So it's not useful to either customer.

Rating:
Summary: Obvious
Review: This book could be one of the "Dummies" or "Idiots" books because everything it offers is pretty obvious. This book covers so many topics, it can't go into any depth on any of them. For example, the author says seminars are a great way to get business but he offers only half a page on how to do them. He tells you how to get a trademark without discussing why they may or not be necessary. Also, there are way too many irrelevant stories about millionaires like Michael Dell (who cares how many square feet his mansion is?) and Jeff Bezos. If you already have a business in mind, you have to wade through a lot of chapters about finding the perfect business for you. However, if you haven't a clue about which business to start, the book offers only a surface idea of several home businesses. So it's not useful to either customer.