How to Start a Successful Home Business (Money America's Financial Advisor) [Paperback]

Karen Cheney (Author), Lesley Alderman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Money America's Financial Advisor | Publication Date: November 1, 1997

With computer, fax machines, and other technologies becoming commonplace, more and more people are running businesses from their homes and making a good living in the process. "Money" has been tracking the trend, and, in this new guide, two of the magazine's writers explain how to turn a hobby into a business, find money to start, create a winning business plan, manage cash flow, write great press releases, find low-cost health insurance and safeguard retirement, and much more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (November 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0446673161
• ISBN-13: 978-0446673167
• Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,453,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not too bad, September 27, 2000

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Chua ming Chiang (Singapore) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Start a Successful Home Business (Money America's Financial Advisor) (Paperback)

The book is quite technical, includes lots of ideas about how to go about starting a home business. It is quite useful in a sense that it is easy to understand and follow, definitely worth the money and if you are wondering how to go about starting your own home business, this is the one book you needed.

3.0 out of 5 stars Best for Corporate Consultants aiming for 100Gs, May 20, 2011

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Theoni Lussos "Kandy" (Fitchburg, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: How to Start a Successful Home Business (Money America's Financial Advisor) (Paperback)

There are some very good tips in this book. That said you can find a lot of them else like the Edwards book i.e. Home Businesses for the 1990's or the 21st Century. The real nugget is her Top Ten Jobs for the 21st Century are all very corporate oriented i.e. you could use none of them for home businesses which is odd as her self-inventory on page 16 is geared towards using Hobbies, Skills and Talents to create a career. I was a corporate consultant for most of my business career and I would say that her list of what makes a successful one is correct: fill a niche, solve hard problems, fill a wish, interpret new regulations or technology and finally going into the right growth area; not all industries are created equal.

But then Ms Cheney fails as she doesn't go into is the problems of politics and the traps therein and feels that "education" and hard dipolma's will solve most of your problems. I didn't see that but then I don't have an MBA so perhaps my experience is outside of her box. That said I found that the book was a rather hopeful view of what consulting is about and her 10 tops consulting jobs a hit and miss in today's outsourcing world i.e. Employee Training, while the others a mix of MBA jobs (Market Research) and Technology (here's my own, Systems Designer) but she is right on the income, costs and downsides.

She does give some good website to do further and more current research the obvious choice of the Census but also some not gov'tal websites like e [...] by Rhonda Abrams. You have to be careful here as many of the domains that she lists are gone. So overall it's a mixed bag. If you know nothing she does go into the business, legal and tax issues of such a job. If you are in the field it's pretty much useless.