199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed in) for Under $1,000 [Paperback]

Tyler G. Hicks (Author)

Book Description

Series: And Succeed in for Under $1,000 | Publication Date: October 19, 1992

Between corporate downsizing, the desire for self-employment, and the desire to work at home, millions of workers are looking for the ideas and inspiration this book provides. Tyler Hicks lays out 199 low-cost, home-based business ideas that cater to people's own basic temperaments.

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Turn Your Dream of Starting a Home-Based Business into Reality! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Prima Lifestyles; 1ST edition (October 19, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559582243
• ISBN-13: 978-1559582247
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,184,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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84 of 84 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 199, well, er, 60 anyway..., February 18, 2000

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Keith Gibbons "Dax Montana" (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000: How to Choose the Best Home Business for You Based on Your Personality Type (Paperback)

I bought this book with great anticipation -- not exactly in need of a new profession, but always looking for new ideas and profitable opportunities. "199 Great Home Businesses" started well, the first few chapters providing me with the necessary motivation to really want to begin a new business in my home. This is going to be great, I thought. I'm already primed to get started! Now give me some info and I'm ready to fly!

And then, abruptly, the book took an unexpected and disappointing turn. The author, in an effort to sound friendly and supportive, makes an offer to help you with your business start up. "Call me anytime," he insists -- and if you subscribe to his newsletter he'll even answer some of your questions. What's more, he adds, if you have a good business idea, he'll even help finance it for a reasonable interest rate.

What? That felt strange.

I ignored it though, and plodded on to the meat of the book -- the 199 Great Home Business suggestions. It definitely needs saying: THERE ARE ONLY 60 ideas detailed in this book. The remaining 139 are simply business titles and potentional salary ranges listed in capsulized charts. Not exactly helpful, but I guess 199 sounds better than 60.

No big deal, 60 ideas should be enough. Besides, if I'm going to run a business, I better get used to occasional numeric disappointments. Maybe that's what the book was trying to do deliberately -- give me an early lesson in the world of business. I had to chuckle. Learning business was easy! I had one lesson already mastered. I was well on my way to finance freedom!

But the 60 Great Ideas turned out to be just 60 shameless plugs for "Business Kits" that, of course, the publishers are willing to sell you if you're interested.

Peppered throughout the book, and summarized at the back, are countless advertisements for the various kits and pamphlets you can purchase if you require any true info about these businesses. They range in price from $12 to over $100. Interesting.

Yes, interesting. And shameless. And disappointing. When I purchased the book, I expected to receive some valuable information -- not a handful of new opportunities to spend even more money to get the info I already paid for.

The book is entrepreneurial, indeed, and the author is probably making money hand over foot. But one lesson in business, one which this book has failed, is that you should provide your customer with value for his money.

You WILL feel cheated by this book.

Avoid.

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not very helpful., February 1, 2000

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This review is from: 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000: How to Choose the Best Home Business for You Based on Your Personality Type (Paperback)

The title of this book promises helpful information but unfortunately it doesn't deliver. While the author provides many home-based business suggestions, many are rather unreasonable and/or impractical. For the few seemingly legitimate suggestions he provides, he gives no real practical information in how to get started. I found this book so useless that I returned it!

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A great swindle, March 2, 2000

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A. Petrotchenkov (Moscow, Russia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 199 Great Home Businesses You Can Start (and Succeed In) for Under $1,000: How to Choose the Best Home Business for You Based on Your Personality Type (Paperback)

Please be careful! Ty Hicks is a kind of swindler: he encouraging reader to begin his own business without any helpful information. Although the title of this book promises something useful but unfortunately it doesn't show up. So do not buy this book! Ty Hicks is not here to help you as he claims on the cover of the book. He is only looking to get people to subscribe to his newsletter and buy his other books and kits he sells by mail. All the information in this book is very general and well-known for kids. And I think his potential earnings were all inflated.