How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business

How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business

Author: Lucy Parker

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2008-03-18

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0762752173

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The newly updated edition of a perennial bestseller, with new information on using the Internet, FAQs, and index. This is the most comprehensive book on the subject, with dozens of worksheets and sample forms, from an expert writer and lecturer. Lucy Parker lives in Land O’ Lakes, Florida.


How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business

How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business

Author: Barbara Fuller

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-05-07

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0762795301

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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, proofreading, and indexing) and offer valuable insight to the business end of working from a home office, addressing overhead concerns, money matters, the advantages and disadvantages of freelance editing, and more. The book also explores strategies for working successfully with clients. How to Start a Home-based Editorial Services Business is the one complete resource for this line of work. With more than a half million copies sold, Globe Pequot Press continues to grow its ever popular How To Start a Home-based Business series. Each volume includes worksheets, business and marketing forms, and everything you need to know about business start-up costs and strategies.


How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 6th

How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 6th

Author: Denise Vivaldo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2010-01-06

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0762761946

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Those passionate about parties or cooking can now realize their dream of working from home at something they enjoy. Denise Vivaldo shares her experiences and advice on all the essentials and more, including estimating start-up costs and pricing services, finding clients, outfitting one’s kitchen, and honing food presentation skills.


How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business

How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business

Author: Detra Denay Davis

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-01-11

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 076276774X

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Home-based baking is one of America’s best-kept business secrets. This sleeper industry offers even novice bakers the opportunity to bake from home for profit using tried and true recipes and equipment already on hand. And yet its many rules and how-tos are so elusive that few people out there who love to bake and dream of taking their products from the kitchen to the market actually end up doing so. Enter How to Start a Home-Based Bakery Business—the first book to cover every essential aspect of planning, starting, and running such a business successfully.


How to Start a Home-based Professional Organizing Business

How to Start a Home-based Professional Organizing Business

Author: Dawn Noble

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0762768533

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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. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Start-Up Costs Checklist Client Intake Form Assessment Visit/Working Agreement Sample Invoice Marketing Plan Worksheet


How to Start a Home-based Fashion Design Business

How to Start a Home-based Fashion Design Business

Author: Angela Wolf

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2012-12-04

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0762792612

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This book will be a priceless resource for those considering adventuring into the fashion industry, yet not knowing how or where to start. Comprised of detailed information, How to Start a Home-based Fashion Design Business will be a guide for the aspiring designer to plan and execute a successful home based business. This material will not only provide a fashion realm, but will show how to create additional revenue streams in the sewing field. This book will be the "one stop shop" for the small designer.


How to Start a Home-based Bookkeeping Business

How to Start a Home-based Bookkeeping Business

Author: Michelle Long

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 0762769114

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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.


How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business

How to Start a Home-Based Landscaping Business

Author: Owen E. Dell

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1630760978

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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 to purchase the right tools, estimate start-up costs, price services, and stay profitable once in business. From painless recordkeeping to cost-efficient management techniques, Dell’s step-by-step methods are practical, innovative, and easy to understand. Special features and workbook pages include: - Business Plan Worksheet - Material and Labor Records - Cost Worksheets - Tips on social media, SEO, and making the Internet work for you - Profit-and-Loss Worksheet


How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency

How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency

Author: Joanie Ogg

Publisher:

Published: 2020-02-03

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13:

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Empowering Individuals to Start and Succeed as a Home Based Travel Agent for over 25 years! A comprehensive workbook to compliment the Independent Study Guide. This workbook will speed you on your way to opening your own Home-Based Travel Business by helping you discover your opportunities and focusing on developing them. The workbook concentrates on the key areas needed to get through the maze of information and confusion encountered when first starting out. Broken into three separate sections, the workbook first deals with the key concepts in the study course. Over 100 concepts are explored, as they relate to your business plans. This will help you focus on the most important information in the course, as it pertains to you. While the "How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency" is a must read, the workbook continues your critical thinking and education before you begin your journey. "There is so much to learn as an entrepreneur in the travel industry. It's not just about booking travel. It's also about launching your own business and setting it up for success. That is why "How to Start a Home Based Travel Agency" is such a critical resource for those new to the industry, or making a move to an independent contractor status. It is filled with practical tips and real-world advice that can be applied immediately. We value this textbook so highly that we include it in our entry level program curriculum, the TRIPKit." - Guida Botelho, CTIE - Director of Education for The Travel Institute About the Authors: The Ogg Family has a cumulative tenure in the travel industry of over 100-years. Their experience and understanding of the Home Based Travel Agency opportunity, combined with their enthusiastic entrepreneurial spirit, make this title a must read for those looking to either start a home based travel business or to further their success as a Travel Professional. To Access More Tools to help you get started as a HomeBased Travel Agent, visit www.HomeBasedTravelAgent.com.