101 Best Small Businesses for Women: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started on the Road to Success [Paperback]

Priscilla Huff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 16, 1996

It's the dream of millions of women — to be their own boss and set their own hours. Now, with the help of Priscilla Huff and 101 Best Small Businesses For Women, it can be a dream come true!
With women-owned businesses racking up nearly $1.4 billion in annual sales, there is no better time for budding entreprenuers to take the plunge. In this book, Huff Gives readers all the basics about the best businesses to start and run successfully. She includes start-up costs, pricing guidelines, essential equipment, marketing and advertising methods and tips, recommended training and an estimate of income potential. Some of the businesses included are:
·Market Research Consultant
·Coffee Shop Owner
·Grant Proposal Writer
·Graphic Artist
·Private Investigator
In addition, Huff gives an aspiring business owners great advice on taking those first difficult steps down the road to success. She includes sections on personal traits every entrepreneur should possess, choosing a business, franchises, business plans, and marketing. For any woman thinking about starting her own business, 101 Best Small Businesses for Women will make the difference between starting a business and starting a business with great success!

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Women are now opening businesses at twice the rate of men, and the demands (and rewards) of each start-up are as varied as the individuals drawn to them. In 101 Best Small Businesses For Women, Priscilla Huff goes beyond her previous book on top home-based occupations for women to examine the costs, skills, training, and opportunities associated with those enterprises requiring more space and an additional commitment. Actual success stories and first-person advice add to the appeal.

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It's the dream of millions of women — to be their own boss and set their own hours. Now, with the help of Priscilla Huff and 101 Best Small Businesses For Women, it can be a dream come true!
With women-owned businesses racking up nearly $1.4 billion in annual sales, there is no better time for budding entreprenuers to take the plunge. In this book, Huff Gives readers all the basics about the best businesses to start and run successfully. She includes start-up costs, pricing guidelines, essential equipment, marketing and advertising methods and tips, recommended training and an estimate of income potential. Some of the businesses included are:
·Market Research Consultant
·Coffee Shop Owner
·Grant Proposal Writer
·Graphic Artist
·Private Investigator
In addition, Huff gives an aspiring business owners great advice on taking those first difficult steps down the road to success. She includes sections on personal traits every entrepreneur should possess, choosing a business, franchises, business plans, and marketing. For any woman thinking about starting her own business, 101 Best Small Businesses for Women will make the difference between starting a business and starting a business with great success!

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Product Details

• Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles (October 16, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0761505806
• ISBN-13: 978-0761505808
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #543,593 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Priscilla Y. Huff is a freelance business writer/author of the best-selling101 Best Home-Based Businesses for Women, 3rd ed.; A Self-Employed Woman's Guide to Launching a Home-Based Business and other related books, specializing in topics about small and home-based businesses and women's entrepreneurship. Her latest book, Make Your Business Survive and Thrive!: 100+ Proven Marketing Methods to Help You Beat the Odds and Build a Successful Small or Home-Based Enterprise, was released in December, 2006, by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
For the past twenty years, she has written numerous articles and columns on these subjects for such print publications as Home Business Magazine (HomeBusinessMag.com) where she is a regular feature writer and interviewer; and others (feature writer), such as Home Business Journal, Income Opportunities, Small Business Opportunities, Pennsylvania Magazine, MizBiz, and has been quoted in Forbes, the New York Times, the Savannah Business Journal and additional major print, radio, and TV media.
She was a former home business expert and columnist for iVillage.com and wwwBizyMoms.com and currently is one for Home-Based Working Moms, www.HBWM.com, and SmallBizpreneur's Network, www.smallbizpreneurs.com. She has also contributed regularly to Corel Corporation's OfficeCommunity.com; Fortune Small Business (online) www.fsb.com; HomeStore.com; WomensForum.com; WomensEnews.org; www.MomsBusinessMagazine.com; www.BlueSuitMom; www.Committment.com/ www.SmallBusinessAdvocate.com; and other business and Web and print publications. Her business, LITTLE HOUSE Writing & Publishing, offers business information, consulting and research services, as well as e-books and other publications. Her future web site: www.PYHuff.com; and new blog: EntrepreneurshipYourWay.

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6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars a good place to start, May 29, 2000

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This review is from: 101 Best Small Businesses for Women: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started on the Road to Success (Paperback)

101 Best Small Business for women:Everything You Need to Know to Get Started on the Road to Success gives the reader a realistic places to start for both those who have had and those trying to start their own bsuness. By outlining the hurdles that exist in starting any businness they take out alot of the guess work involved in this complicated process.