The 200 Best Home Businesses: Easy To Start, Fun To Run, Highly Profitable [Paperback]

Katina Z. Jones (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2005

Each profile provides the following information to help readers choose the business that's right for them:
- The pros and cons of each business
- Estimated start-up costs
- Skills needed
- Advertising tips
- Expert advice from home business entrepreneurs

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Katina Z. Jones is the author of several books on starting home businesses, including the Adams Businesses You Can Start Almanac. She is also the author of several New Age titles.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media; 2 edition (July 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1593372965
• ISBN-13: 978-1593372965
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #520,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Katina Z. Jones is the award-winning author of books on a variety of business and lifestyle topics, including Small Business Savvy: A Woman's Guide to Building A Business (co-written with Norma Rist); The Everything Feng Shui Decluttering Book; The Everything Get Ready For Baby Book (now in its second edition); and I Do: Achieving Your Dream Wedding (co-written with singer Jessica Simpson). Katina collaborated on The Total Cancer Wellness Guide: Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis with Kim Thiboldeaux and Mitch Golant, which won USABookNews' National Best Book of 2007 award in the Health category. She lives in Ohio with her family and a menagerie of dogs and cats, and is currently working on her first biography.

Customer Reviews

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62 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not what I was looking for..., August 5, 2007

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Elizabeth Henry (Dayton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 200 Best Home Businesses: Easy To Start, Fun To Run, Highly Profitable (Paperback)

I read this book looking for ideas to help supplement by regular income by doing something from home. This was NOT the book for me. Most of the suggestions were totally useless for me and required a lot of skills/education that I don't have and would have to obtain before I started. For example, two of the suggestions are Accountant and Lawyer (!). This would better have been titled as "Careers That Allow You To Work At Home If You Want To." Also, as a side note, the projected earnings about Medical Transcriptionist was WAY overinflated...I am doing that currently, and my mother owns her own business and makes really good money, but not the $40-$60 an hour stated in the book. That's outrageous!

24 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very refreshing book, July 7, 2006

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Alix in Chicago - See all my reviews

This review is from: The 200 Best Home Businesses: Easy To Start, Fun To Run, Highly Profitable (Paperback)

I picked up this book not knowing what to expect and I was very surprised to find a new type of approach.
The author has done a wonderful at holding my attention and I highly recommend it.
I'd also like to recommend that you read Untapped Wealth Discovered. This too is a very smart and refreshing book and the authors have packed lots of vital info into their book.
Both of these books are well priced, very affordable and great motivators for both the interested and serious reader.

27 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Decent but nothing amazing, March 21, 2006

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M. Loring "mloring" (CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The 200 Best Home Businesses: Easy To Start, Fun To Run, Highly Profitable (Paperback)

This was a good book for anyone who wants basic work at home ideas... but there was nothing original. You could sit at home and figure these jobs out if you go online or brainstorm. Still, it does help and it does have some good ones.