1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home (Wiley Small Business Editions) [Paperback]

Daryl Allen Hall (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wiley Small Business Editions | Publication Date: December 17, 1994

Be Your Own Boss. Make Your Own Hours. Make More Money. Rely on Your Own Ingenuity and Initiative: Work at Home.

Whatever your dream of self-employment, this idea-packed guide will show you how to make it come true. Its practical, down-to-earth advice will help you join the millions of independent-spirited people like you who have decided to invest in themselves and run their own home-based businesses. Armed with the information in this book, you'll be able to take that first step toward independence, gain control of your own work life, and reap and keep ALL the fruits of your labors.

Now in a new, expanded second edition, 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home:
* Gives you 1101 money-making business ideas you can tailor to your own interests, needs, and circumstances--from the mainstream to the highly unusual--in 33 easy-to-use sections. Just reading through them may spark the exact business arrangement you've been looking for.
* Describes each job in detail--its potential income, start-up costs, physical challenges, legal restrictions, and location requirements--information that will save you a fortune in time and money spent on research.
* Helps you narrow your choices by showing you how to weigh such factors as personal preferences, time and money commitment, space requirements, and the advantages and disadvantages of different types of businesses. You will go in with your eyes wide open, and increase your chances for success.
* Offers an abundance of practical business tips on loans, advertising, pricing, sales techniques, building a client base, bookkeeping, insurance, and legal issues.
* Now includes 130 new business ideas, including entrepreneurial consultant, missing persons service, writing business plans, senior day care, computer recycling--and more! Why wait any longer? With the guidance of this invaluable book, you can start on the road to self-employment today.

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Be Your Own Boss. Make Your Own Hours. Make More Money. Rely on Your Own Ingenuity and Initiative: Work at Home.

Whatever your dream of self-employment, this idea-packed guide will show you how to make it come true. Its practical, down-to-earth advice will help you join the millions of independent-spirited people like you who have decided to invest in themselves and run their own home-based businesses. Armed with the information in this book, you'll be able to take that first step toward independence, gain control of your own work life, and reap and keep ALL the fruits of your labors.

Now in a new, expanded second edition, 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home:

• Gives you 1101 money-making business ideas you can tailor to your own interests, needs, and circumstances—from the mainstream to the highly unusual—in 33 easy-to-use sections. Just reading through them may spark the exact business arrangement you've been looking for.
• Describes each job in detail—its potential income, start-up costs, physical challenges, legal restrictions, and location requirements—information that will save you a fortune in time and money spent on research.
• Helps you narrow your choices by showing you how to weigh such factors as personal preferences, time and money commitment, space requirements, and the advantages and disadvantages of different types of businesses. You will go in with your eyes wide open, and increase your chances for success.
• Offers an abundance of practical business tips on loans, advertising, pricing, sales techniques, building a client base, bookkeeping, insurance, and legal issues.
• Now includes 130 new business ideas, including entrepreneurial consultant, missing persons service, writing business plans, senior day care, computer recycling—and more! Why wait any longer? With the guidance of this invaluable book, you can start on the road to self-employment today.

About the Author

DARYL ALLEN HALL is a successful entrepreneur, based in Canada, who has owned and operated several small businesses. He has been an Air Force pilot, a teacher, and a school principal. He is the author of the popular first edition of this book, 1001 Businesses You Can Start From Home, also published by Wiley.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; Revised and Expanded Edition edition (December 17, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471102415
• ISBN-13: 978-0471102410
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,835,764 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Do Not Buy, Good For Laughs Only, June 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home, Revised and Expanded Edition (Hardcover)

The first thought that comes to mind is if they took the silly (selling chipmunks as pets), illegal( importing and selling exotic animals), and impratical for the vast majority (gun smithing and instrument building) ideas from this book they would have to call it "78 Non-Profitable Ideas That You May Start From Home But Must Do Someplace Else". Since this title is obviously too long and not nearly cathcy enough for the 90's, its clear that they decidede to add 1023 ideas to the book and sell it to an unsuspecting public.

On reading this book I was struck by the complete lunacy of some of the suggestions. The author is suggesting starting a business going door-to-door teaching people how to tie knots and also manages to put forward the idea of breeding chipmunks for pets. There are numerous bizarre ideas like this.

The worst part of it is that most of the suggestions could be bested by a simpleton with half an hour of free time and and a sharp pencil.

This book is completely absurd, however I would recommend getting from the library in order to laugh at a great number of its ideas for businesses, numerous of which are obviuosly illegal or unethical.

27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good for a laugh, June 5, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home (Wiley Small Business Editions) (Paperback)

It was hard to believe this book was published in the 90's. There was a suggestion that stuffing envelopes was a suitable job for handicapped people. He suggested raising domesticated chipmunks, running a puppy mill, going door-to-door to teach people how to tie knots, repairing guns... It goes on in that vein. I also question how many of these jobs qualify as home-based. This book is definitely worth a perusal since it is amusing but it is not worth buying.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars You've Got To Be Kidding!, September 2, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: 1101 Businesses You Can Start From Home (Wiley Small Business Editions) (Paperback)

This book is not worth the paper it's printed on. Several of 1101 ideas are repeated under different headings and most are truly idiotic! For example, only a few of the 60 ideas under the "FOOD" heading make mention of any government food safety regulations. The author suggests you can sell peanut butter and jelly sandwiches at your local mall, sell hot gourmet dinners out of your truck to train and freeway commuters to eat before they get home or bottle your own water. Huh?? This book assumes you can acquire many of the highly specialized skills needed to be a blacksmith, butcher, glass blower, embalmer, real estate agent, etc. naturally in no time or cost. Offers no resources, websites, or bibliography to help the bewildered and bemused reader actually attempt any of the ideas.