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203 Home-Based Businesses That Will Make You Rich : The Complete Guide to Financing and Running a Fabulously Successful Home-Based Business

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This book is so broad and generalized it sounds like its written by a call-in psychic. The author barely touches on a handful of businesses, then fills the rest of the book with self-promotional material. As for there being 203 business, he lists them at the back of the book, one line each!

Nicholas Fry

This book is one long,continuous run-on sentence of mindless self promotion by Tyler Hicks. He oversimplifies and broadly brushes with ideas and techniques that are not filled out. In addition, he takes every opportunity imaginable to plug the 50 or so other books,kits,tapes he sells, giving his address nearly EVERY time. I kept reading to find some reedeming value, but alas, could not.

In this book, you are asked to look into buying Mr. Hicks' "Success Kits," because they supposedly get you "on the right track."

Gimme a break! Click on Mr. Hicks' name under the title. This will give you a list of other books written by him. Scroll down to his "Kits" Most of them about mail-order, real estate, etc. were published in 1987! Wow. Talk about outdated!

This book along with a couple other that I have read by this author is mostly a advertisement for his other bad books. He does not give any meaningful details and directions. He merely gives comments about how nice it is to be wealthy. The author is a stiff.

Should be titled: 203 OTHER BOOKS AND THINGS YOU CAN BUY FROM TYLER HICKS TO MAKE HIM RICH!

The title of this book should be "how to turn your passion into a home-based business". It is written more for people who already have a general idea what they want to do but need a motivational speaker to get them going. There is some good motivational speak and some general ideas but if you want to find what specific home-based business is best for you this is probably not the book to buy. The author seems more interested in selling newsletters and publications than giving practical advice.

This is probably the worst book on business that I have ever read. The business suggestions that Tyler Hicks gives are not realistic and will NOT make you rich. Additionally, he spends most of his time selling his other products. To me, this book is the prototypical "get rich quick" scheme that never works for anyone. Don't waste your money.

Save your money. This book is one nonstop commercial to try to get you to buy Mr. Hicks' MANY other books & products. He comes off as cold-hearted and just out to make a buck himself.

One or two tentative ideas hidden amongst 342 pages of adverts for more of his products. Every time I came across another "plug" for one of his "kits" or "handbooks", I believed less and less in what he had to say.
Sort of like the literary equivalent of the door-to-door insurance salesman!
If you could get past the adverts, then there is some value in the ideas and motivational messages.

While I would agree with most other reviewers that this is more of an "idea" book and not much on the nuts-and-bolts, still, every great business in the world did start with an idea.

The author uses repeated references to his own products because that is what he knows best and his product line was fabulously successful in sales! I did not find these mentions distractive.

The reference list of associations in Chapter 5 is useful and handily organized. The list of products/services in the back does contain some business ideas that I had not considered before.

The banking and loan information tips are particularly valuable and presented in easy-to-understand terms. The author's advice is excellent, and the average person probably does not know how to approach the applications in the way he explains.