Written in a motivational style, this text shows readers how to use their specialized knowledge gathered from a job, career, education etc, and develop a thriving business based in their own homes. Advice is provided on developing and implementing a business plan.
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"You'll never get rich working for someone else." No one knows this better than William J. Bond. His popular Home-Based Business series has shown thousands how to successfully operate mail order, catalog, and newsletter businesses from home. With Going Solo, he adds home-based consulting to this series. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide shows you how to take your specialized knowledge-gathered from a job, career, education, or life experience-and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. It's packed with everything you need to succeed-how to assess your strengths and develop your marketing approach, how to locate your best prospects, how to write proposals that sell, how to translate your completed projects into new business, and more. Going Solo is filled with success stories, models, and forms to help you develop, manage, and organize a successful consulting business. It even includes comprehensive lists of more than 350 specialized consulting areas to help you shape your own consulting business. For anyone considering or preparing to launch a successful, profitable home-based consulting business, Going Solo is a "must-have" guide. knowledge-gather from a job, career, education, or life experiences-and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. Written in an easy-to-read, motivational style, the book includes information on how to target client needs and deliver answers, develop and implement a business plan, initiate pricing strategies to insure future business, and more.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Going Solo: Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up (Paperback)
If you really are just starting out and have no clue what you're doing then this book might be helpful. Might. For me, most of the book was too vague to be useful. Comments to the effect of "choose the best possible system [or arrangement] for X" drove me crazy. What, in his opinion, is the best system, and why? Also, the sentences were so short and basic that I felt like I was in grammar school. This book might serve as a useful checklist for things to think about, but I didn't find many answers or very good advice. Skim it at the library.
26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
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Easy to read, wonderful planning guide,
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This review is from: Going Solo: Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up (Paperback)
I just finished reading Going Solo, and by the time I was finished, I had a fairly complete business plan already completed. Not only did this book contain valuable information, it also stimulated pages of ideas and things to do. I definitely recommend reading this book with a pen and notebook handy.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A Good Read!,
This review is from: Going Solo: Developing a Home-Based Consulting Business from the Ground Up (Paperback)
William J. Bond presents a guide for people who want to become home-based consultants. His manual covers every aspect of freelance consulting, from finding, landing, and keeping clients, to maintaining records and understanding the marketplace. This common-sense book is part narrative and part workbook, including questionnaires and fill-in list forms. It is detailed, but if you have any experience as a solo practitioner, the elementary basic business practices outlined may cover material you already know. We at getAbstract recommend this book as a primer for anyone who wants to become a consultant working from a home-office and to those who are already doing exactly that and would like a few more tips about how to make a better living at it.
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In one word, competence will bring you success. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, New Jersey, Adams Company New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Identity Branding Revisited - Creating Prospect Attraction by Robert Krumroy on page 183, and Back Matter
- I'd Rather Be Working by Gayle Backstrom in Back Matter
- The Consultant's Quick Start Guide: An Action Plan for Your First Year in Business by Elaine Biech on page 1
- Careers for Nonconformists: A Practical Guide to Finding and Developing a Career Outside the Mainstream by Sandra Gurvis on page 102
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