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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business, 3rdEdition

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Ms. Weltman provides a ton of edifying statistics regarding the current state of the working-from-home crowd: who knew there were so many people doing it these days, and doing it successfully? She gives us some idea of how long it typically takes people to start earning what they need to live on. She provides reminders of what we'll be saving by working from home, as well as the new expenses we have to take into account (such as our own health insurance!).

If you want to work from home but don't yet know what you want to do there, Ms. Weltman also includes plenty of information to help you choose. She tells us all about franchises, buying a pre-existing home-based business, e-commerce, etc. One of the appendixes includes a list of the 100 most popular types of home-based businesses, including the addresses of web sites with further information on them. You might be surprised by some of the possibilities here, such as: sketch artist, bed and breakfast, bridal consultant, personal chef, chimney sweep, nutritionist, event planner, interior decorator, jewelry designer, personal shopper, or speechwriter.

There's plenty of information on organizing your business, such as choosing whether to incorporate. There's also advice on setting up your business, writing a business plan, and obtaining financing from a variety of possible sources. Such issues as the zoning of your home are addressed, as well as legal means to get around any potential snags in this area.

Ms. Weltman goes into the practical issues of setting up your home office: office equipment, computers, and convincing your family and friends to let you get work done! She also delves into what you really need to do to make your business succeed in terms of marketing, networking, insurance, taking care of taxes, and getting the professional help you need when you can't do everything yourself.

I highly recommend this read to anyone who's thinking of starting up their own business from home: it could save you some costly mistakes, and help to ensure your success!

This is a very valuable resource. There's plenty of information on organizing your business, such as choosing whether to incorporate. There's also advice on setting up your business, writing a business plan, and obtaining financing from a variety of possible sources. Such issues as the zoning of your home are addressed, as well as legal means to get around any potential snags in this area.

The reading is made more enjoyable by an abundance of sidebars scattered throughout, with titles like "Homegrown Tip", "Home Hazard", and "Business Buzzword". And the author's wit will give you an occasional chuckle.

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Barbara Weltman, one of this country's leading Small Business Tax experts, has written an outstanding compendium of Small Business information. In fact, this is Barbara's third edition of this wonderful book. At a time in our country's history when 1000's of new businesses MUST be started, Barbara's "Starting a Home-Based Business" is a MUST read. Once again, thank-you Barbara for all the Small Business information you make available, in your concise, easy-to-understand, very practical, style.

David Leopold
CyberSpace Community Developer

The Idiot's Guide is full of great advice for starting a home based business. I highly recommend the purchase, as it is a great resource. Another direction you can take for starting a home based business is to sell your ideas to manufacturers or start a business of your own with your inventions or product designs. I know a few people who have successfully done both. Two books I would recommend for that is The Mom Inventors Handbook: How to Turn Your Great Idea into the Next Big Thingand To Market To Market: Where to Sell or License Your Ideas, Products, and Inventions

I expected it to give me some ideas about what to do and how to go about them. Instesd, it was nothing more than basically how to set up your house and bank account.

I think this is a great book for those who are just getting started. I see so many people trying to get rich quick by going to webpage like this one [...] ** Beware of things that look scams ** and get educated!