The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success (Paperback)

~ Jeffrey Landers (Author)
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Bring Your Homebased Business Back to Life!

Is your homebased business suffering from the business-killing disease of stagnation? Have you found that while you dedicate yourself 24/7 to moving your business forward, you just stay right where you are-or worse, you're beginning to fall behind?

Successful business owner Jeffrey Landers provides the defibrillator you need to jump-start your business and bring it back to life in just 100 days. This is not about a messy desk or unorganized files. This is about getting your business to operate at its true potential.

"Jeff has put together a nuts and bolts guide to getting unstuck from your dreary home office existence. Now it's up to you to get going."

-Seth Godin, co-author, Guerrilla Marketing for the Homebased Business

“Easy to read, fun to page through and packed with great advice for homebased entrepreneurs who want to make their business visions a reality. Jeff Landers can help you have a much better business.”

-W. Kenneth Yancey Jr., CEO of SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business

"Jeff Landers treats a serious subject with humor, style and wisdom. If you have a home office, his cure is just what the home office doctor ordered."

-Jay Conrad Levinson, “The Father of Guerrilla Marketing”

Right now it may seem like the disease has no cure, but there is hope-and you're holding it.

Learn how to:

• Identify your business goals
• Grow your business using your expertise-become a Nexpert
• Create time to focus on high revenue items
• Expand your business with a real or virtual office space
• Successfully market your business using proven tactics and strategies provided
• Use manageable tasks to turn your daydreams into realities

  SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS!

  A portion of your purchase will be donated to SCORE,NAWBO and select entrepreneurial associations

  The Top 10 Signs You Have a Home Office From Hell

  Sign #10: “I want to hire an assistant but we'd have to share a chair.”

  If your business is expanding faster than you have the office furniture for or you are meeting with your clients in the hallway, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #9: "My husband thinks I need to get a real job."

  If your husband or wife thinks you spend your entire day chatting with the neighbors, or your mother-in-law is convinced you are running a drug cartel out of your living room, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #8: “My friends think that working at home means I never miss Days of Our Lives.”

  If you are like Rodney Dangerfield and you “don't get no respect” because your friends think you catch every episode of Dr. Phil and sleep until noon, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #7: “Starbucks is starting to encroach on my profits.”

  If you are conducting all your big meetings in the Science Fiction section of Barnes and Noble or you are working on your sixth Grande Frappuccino, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #6: “I realized today at 4 p.m. that I was still wearing pajamas.”

  If your idea of networking is talking to the cat and you haven't been in a shower or out of the house in over a week, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #5: “I could die here and no one would ever know.”

  If you worry that it might be the smell that finally gets people to inquire about your business, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #4: “Why did God invent Oprah? How are we supposed to work when Oprah is on?”

  If you are overwhelmed by the urge to climb back into bed or regularly feel a deep longing to do several loads of laundry in the middle of the business day, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #3: “No, the baby doesn't go in the playpen. Important papers go in there so the baby can't get at them.”

  If you find yourself picking Cheerios out of your laptop, chasing the kids around the kitchen while conference-calling Stuttgart, and wiping peanut butter off your client's work, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  Sign #2: I feel like I live at the office… wait! I do!

  If your workday ends two minutes before you drop into bed or you are taking 4 a.m. phone calls from sleepless clients, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

  And last but not least…

  Sign #1: “Since you're home all day anyway, I need a favor…”

  If you are picking up your wife's laundry, driving your friend to the airport, or running errands for your neighbors in the middle of your workday, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

About the Author

Jeffrey A. Landers is a serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies and has advised small businesses for more than three decades. His company, Home Office Success Inc., has helped thousands of homebased businesses become more professional, more productive and more profitable.

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (February 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1599181673
• ISBN-13: 978-1599181677
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #697,583 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Landers Stories & Action Steps Inspire Results!, April 30, 2008

By	Roger Nevard (St. Thomas, Virgin Islands) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a simple guide for anyone who works from home, or is considering that life-step. It is a good blueprint with stories and a plan any entrepreneur can follow.

The 100-Day action plan will be a great motivator for any home based business owner. This alone makes the book worthwhile. The author's step-by-step format is easily readable and helpful. This book may be an eye opener for struggling entrepreneurs who can't figure out why their home-based business is not bringing in the big bucks.

Follow the steps, look in the mirror and stick to the "Cure" ... And your business will almost certainly benefit from the information. "The Home Office From Hell Cure" is a great book for "newbie" home office entrepreneurs!

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally-- Advice I Could Use That Yielded Big Results! , April 7, 2008

By	Catherine Price - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Within minutes of opening Jeff Landers new book "The Home Office From Hell Cure" I felt as though someone finally understood the challenges I was facing every day as a business owner working from home. With humor and real life stories Jeff presents the challenges we face and then set about giving us invaluable tools to help take our businesses to the next level. From how to establish a professional image using a virtual office or executive suite option, to the importance of promoting your business using press releases, Jeff discusses the gambit of areas we should be focusing on. After reading this book I wrote a press release using his guidelines, went to prweb.com to post it and received 540 hits the first day! Bravo Jeff Landers!!!

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars He's hit it out of the park!, March 10, 2008

By	Dave Senor (Virginia) - See all my reviews

This is one great book for those of us that are entrepreneurs by nature (and anyone that wants to be). Jeff's practical advice, along with his great sense of humor are enlightening and refreshing. Well, well done!