"Prepackaged" businesses are attractive alternatives for people across the country interested in working for themselves. In the newest addition to their Working From Home series, Paul and Sarah Edwards present another viable way to start a successful business. With this book, readers discover concrete steps and worksheets to evaluate the potential for actually earning an income, from helping to make ends meet to a full-time career.
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Many of us would love to jump on the home-based business bandwagon but we simply don't have the qualifications or experience to start a new enterprise from scratch. Popular self-employment authors Paul and Sarah Edwards recognized this predicament, and with Walter Zooi, they have assembled a comprehensive resource precisely for such hesitant entrepreneurs. Home Businesses You Can Buy thoroughly examines franchises, multilevel marketing, and other "prepackaged" business opportunities, and includes important advice on avoiding related scams.
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Starting a home business is increasingly an area of opportunity for many, and prepackaged home businesses offer an alternative to building a home-based business from scratch. The Edwardses, veteran business authors (Finding Your Perfect Work, LJ 12/95), have prepared a practical guide that focuses on three categories of home business packages: franchises, multilevel marketing, and business opportunities. They thoroughly analyze each category, including a history of each business concept (e.g., franchising), and discuss legal aspects, advantages and disadvantages, and case studies. The authors provide a helpful checklist to measure consumer compatibility with each type of prepackaged business, and they list useful directory information. A valuable addition is the bibliography of books, associations, and Internet resources. This book is an excellent starting point for anyone desiring to buy a home-based business. Recommended for public libraries.?Lucy T. Heckman, St. John's Univ. Lib., Jamaica, N.Y.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Getting Off to The Right Start Means Avoiding Scams,
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I found this book incredibly helpful in getting me off on the right foot in my home-based business. The book clearly outlines the three major "pre-packaged" types businesses available (franchises, business opportunities and multi-level marketing). Then comes the good part. The authors provide a series of tests and checklists that can be applied to any business that you might consider buying. Tests to determine a business' chances for success, the honesty of the seller, the forthrightness of opportunity - and even a test you take yourself to find out if the business is a good match for your personality and skill level - follow each section. These tests, and the information they reveal, take much of the guesswork out making a decision as important as what kind of (and which kind of) business to buy. I highly recommend it. The Edwards', with Walter Zooi, have done it again!
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Great understanding and fullfillment of the readers needs,
By TIM HOLT (OAK RIDGE, TN) - See all my reviews
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I searched a dozen books looking for my future business. I found this book gave me more than I expected from anyone. Help with evaluating myself, the many businesses, and how well they fit my skills and preferences was provided. The only need I found missing, I learned, was illegal for franchisers to say -what range of income is produced with these businesses. That information has to come from somewhere else.
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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD it said, "Never break up a winning game." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fitness Check, Case Study, Mary Kay, New York, Making It Means Doing Your Homework, American Leak Detection, Pet Tenders, Direct Selling Association, Los Angeles, Precision Data, Federal Trade Commission, Pam Teflon, Ray Kroc, Color Your Carpet, Knowledge Is Power, Orange Park, San Diego, Seller Assisted Marketing Plan, Eighth Ave, Fort Worth, Garden Grove, Mission Viejo, Nancie Lee Cummins, Richard Poe, San Mateo New!
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YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD it said, "Never break up a winning game." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fitness Check, Case Study, Mary Kay, New York, Making It Means Doing Your Homework, American Leak Detection, Pet Tenders, Direct Selling Association, Los Angeles, Precision Data, Federal Trade Commission, Pam Teflon, Ray Kroc, Color Your Carpet, Knowledge Is Power, Orange Park, San Diego, Seller Assisted Marketing Plan, Eighth Ave, Fort Worth, Garden Grove, Mission Viejo, Nancie Lee Cummins, Richard Poe, San Mateo New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Finding Your Perfect Work (Working from Home) by Paul Edwards on 5 pages
- Working from Home by Paul Edwards on 4 pages
- Getting Business To Come to You by Paul Edwards in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Secrets of Self-Employment: Surviving and Thriving on the Ups and Downs of Being Your Own Boss by Paul Edwards in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Business Administration by L. Hall in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Working from Home by Paul Edwards on 7 pages
- Getting Business To Come to You by Paul Edwards in Front Matter, page 108, and Back Matter
- The Entrepreneurial Parent: How to Earn Your Living and Still Enjoy Your Family, Your Work and Your Life by Paul Edwards in Front Matter, and page 13
- Business Savvy for Today's New Entrepreneur by Marilyn Burns on page 29, and page 40
- Making Money in Cyberspace by Paul Edwards in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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