This introductory guide to home business draws a realistic picture of what it takes to launch and nourish a business concurrently with the demands of a family.
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Statistics show that home businesses (with their low-cost start-up and maintenance fees) fair better on the average than traditional entrepreneurial enterprises. In fact, 95% of home-based businesses turn a profit in the first year! But the financial benefits of a home office are only a fraction of the overall picture. How to Raise a Family and a Career Under One Roof is a much needed "how-to" manual for anyone contemplating a home-based business while also having to carry out child-care responsibilities and supervision. Readers will learn how to launch and nourish your business concurrently with family demands; how to use hard-earned parenting skills to become a self-made entrepreneur; a "Home Business Diary" that serves to provide a view into the work-at-home lifestyle; plus exercises, resources, and guidelines to fostering a successful home-based business. How To Raise A Family And A Career Under One Roof is "must" reading whose precepts, if faithfully applied, will result in a healthy business enterprise and a happy family life. -- Midwest Book Review
Trying to juggle work and family is especially hard when your home is your workplace. In How to Raise A Family & A Career Under One Roof, Roberts combines real-life experience with practical advice on what it takes to launch and nurture a business and family at the same time, in the same place...To help you cope, she provides exercises and outlets in your quest for the perfect balance of a combined work and family life -- Home Office Computing, March 1997
We gave up the '80's ideal of "Superwoman" when we chose to stay home to raise our children - but must we hang up our capes and postpone our professional lives until the last child leaves the nest? How to Raise A Family & A Career Under One Roof responds with an emphatic "No!" In this witty and readable beginner's guide to home-based business, author Lisa M. Roberts deflates the myth that one needs to be a high-powered entrepreneur in order to succeed. Rather, her book draws upon the formidable skills and strength a parent possesses...It is an ideal first book for parents who want to work at home -- F.E.M.A.L.E. Forum, July 1997
While most authors maintain a professional distance, Roberts invites the reader into her life, sprinkling solid information with stories that are sometimes poignant, often amusing, but always real. What makes this book stand out is Roberts' ability to go beyond the surface "how-to" chatter about working from home to get at the profound experience of meshing work and family -- two critical parts of the same whole. -- At Home at Work, Spring 1997
With your maternity leave almost over, are you wishing for an option that didn't leave you either brokenhearted or just plain broke? Let Lisa Roberts, in How to Raise a Family and a Career Under One Roof, show you how to avoid the agonizing choice between family and career. A mother of four, she built a successful home-based communications consulting company without a ton of money, a huge house, or business acumen. No matter what your interests, you can do it, too. All you need is your conviction that there has to be a better way. There is! -- Baby Magazine, Oct./Nov. 1997
Trying to juggle work and family is especially hard when your home is your workplace. In How to Raise A Family & A Career Under One Roof, Roberts combines real-life experience with practical advice on what it takes to launch and nurture a business and family at the same time, in the same place...To help you cope, she provides exercises and outlets in your quest for the perfect balance of a combined work and family life -- Home Office Computing, March 1997
We gave up the '80's ideal of "Superwoman" when we chose to stay home to raise our children - but must we hang up our capes and postpone our professional lives until the last child leaves the nest? How to Raise A Family & A Career Under One Roof responds with an emphatic "No!" In this witty and readable beginner's guide to home-based business, author Lisa M. Roberts deflates the myth that one needs to be a high-powered entrepreneur in order to succeed. Rather, her book draws upon the formidable skills and strength a parent possesses...It is an ideal first book for parents who want to work at home -- F.E.M.A.L.E. Forum, July 1997
While most authors maintain a professional distance, Roberts invites the reader into her life, sprinkling solid information with stories that are sometimes poignant, often amusing, but always real. What makes this book stand out is Roberts' ability to go beyond the surface "how-to" chatter about working from home to get at the profound experience of meshing work and family -- two critical parts of the same whole. -- At Home at Work, Spring 1997
With your maternity leave almost over, are you wishing for an option that didn't leave you either brokenhearted or just plain broke? Let Lisa Roberts, in How to Raise a Family and a Career Under One Roof, show you how to avoid the agonizing choice between family and career. A mother of four, she built a successful home-based communications consulting company without a ton of money, a huge house, or business acumen. No matter what your interests, you can do it, too. All you need is your conviction that there has to be a better way. There is! -- Baby Magazine, Oct./Nov. 1997
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This review is from: How to Raise a Family & Career Under One Roof:A Parent's Guide to Home Business (Paperback)
Well formatted and easily read, this is a must for any parent considering a home business. The author has drawn parallels between nurturing a business with that of raising a child. She recommends color-coding various areas of your business for task management, and offers practical business and home organizing advice. The references to her personal journal were a nice touch, allowing the reader to identify with the writer. This one was hard to put down!
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A complete guide to getting started in a home business!,
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This review is from: How to Raise a Family & Career Under One Roof:A Parent's Guide to Home Business (Paperback)
This guide to entrepreneurship is full of practical advice, heartwarming essays, and bountiful resources. The author provides guidelines and frameworks to help parents methodically and sensibly transition their current careers to home-based entrepreneurial reality. She shows readers how to plan, initiate and manage a successful home business and household while reminding us to stop and drink in the richness of life at home with the children. An affirming and well-researched manual for anyone considering a home-based career.
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