How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series) [Paperback]

Georganne Fiumara (Author)

Book Description

Series: Home-Based Business Series | Publication Date: November 1, 1999

Launch and grow your home-based mail order business with this step-by-step guide. Learn about equipment, pricing, online marketing, and much more while using worksheets and checklists to get organized and achieve your goals.

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"How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business is not a get rich quick scheme ... but isn't it smart to have this expert advice at your fingertips before you take the leap?"
-Start Your Own Business magazine

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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based mail order business? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? This book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business. Author Georganne Fiumara shares her experiences and advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based mail order business. She shows you how to assess your personal skills, estimate your start-up costs, choose the right products, and stay profitable once you're in business. Learn all about buying the right computer equipment, setting pricing policies, establishing your daily schedule, getting paid, taking your business online and much more. (7 x 10', 240 pages, glossary of mail order terminology, internet glossary, skills assessment worksheet, direct mail checklist, start-up worksheets)

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Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Globe Pequot; 2nd edition (November 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0762705124
• ISBN-13: 978-0762705122
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,875,554 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #100 in Books > Business & Investing > Small Business & Entrepreneurship > Mail Order

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80 of 86 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Handbook for beginners..., June 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business (Paperback)

I made a mistake... I tried to start a business BEFORE buying this book. After floundering for nearly six months, I spied this book at my local bookstore. I started thumbing through the pages and realized it had something: organization. I went home and read it. After reading, I had a sense of where I wanted my business to go, how to get there and what methods to use to get there.

This books takes all the aspects in and organizes it for those of us lacking in organization.

Two thumbs way up to Georganne Fiumara!

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Step-By-Step Insider Information, July 30, 2002

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A. Smith "Idea-Publishing" (Prince George, VA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series) (Paperback)

Most books on starting a mail order business are written by men who claim you can make $100,000 or more at home. This book is different.

How To Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business is written by a woman who gives you all the information you need to succeed in a mail order business -- but without all the bull. Georganne Fiumara takes you by the hand in the very first chapter and leads you to success, step-by-step. Thanks to the author, my home business dream has come true.

I especially appreciated the chapter called Success In Cyberspace because most successful mail order businesses now include web promotion. The author's web site, HomeWorkingMom.com, shows that she knows what she is talking about.

I took her advice and put my business online at MoneyandShopping.com and have not looked back since.

If you are looking for a straight-forward, insider's guide to mail order, this is the book to buy.

Angela Smith

25 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative Book, October 13, 2001

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This review is from: How to Start a Home-Based Mail Order Business, 2nd (Home-Based Business Series) (Paperback)

This was the third "how to" book I have read and this one really does help! The other books I read on this subject were terribly written and the author was just trying to sell stuff from his mail order business. Not this book! The author really explains how to get things going and she presents the information in a well written organized manner. I just finished this book and I now know where to start. Other books are just direct mailers this book really informs you.