Going Solo (Paperback)

~ William J. Bond (Author) "In one word, competence will bring you success..." (more)
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Product Description

Going Solo shows readers how to take their specialized knowledge--gathered from a job, career, education or life experiences--and turn it into a profitable, thriving business.

From the Back Cover

"You'll never get rich working for someone else." No one knows this better than William J. Bond. His popular Home-Based Business series has shown thousands how to successfully operate mail order, catalog, and newsletter businesses from home. With Going Solo, he adds home-based consulting to this series. This comprehensive, step-by-step guide shows you how to take your specialized knowledge-gathered from a job, career, education, or life experience-and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. It's packed with everything you need to succeed-how to assess your strengths and develop your marketing approach, how to locate your best prospects, how to write proposals that sell, how to translate your completed projects into new business, and more. Going Solo is filled with success stories, models, and forms to help you develop, manage, and organize a successful consulting business. It even includes comprehensive lists of more than 350 specialized consulting areas to help you shape your own consulting business. For anyone considering or preparing to launch a successful, profitable home-based consulting business, Going Solo is a "must-have" guide. knowledge-gather from a job, career, education, or life experiences-and turn it into a profitable, thriving home business. Written in an easy-to-read, motivational style, the book includes information on how to target client needs and deliver answers, develop and implement a business plan, initiate pricing strategies to insure future business, and more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (January 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070066426
• ISBN-13: 978-0070066427
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,803,564 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not too helpful, June 23, 2000

By A Customer

If you really are just starting out and have no clue what you're doing then this book might be helpful. Might. For me, most of the book was too vague to be useful. Comments to the effect of "choose the best possible system [or arrangement] for X" drove me crazy. What, in his opinion, is the best system, and why? Also, the sentences were so short and basic that I felt like I was in grammar school. This book might serve as a useful checklist for things to think about, but I didn't find many answers or very good advice. Skim it at the library.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to read, wonderful planning guide, November 29, 1999

By A Customer

I just finished reading Going Solo, and by the time I was finished, I had a fairly complete business plan already completed. Not only did this book contain valuable information, it also stimulated pages of ideas and things to do. I definitely recommend reading this book with a pen and notebook handy.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Read!, March 20, 2001

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

William J. Bond presents a guide for people who want to become home-based consultants. His manual covers every aspect of freelance consulting, from finding, landing, and keeping clients, to maintaining records and understanding the marketplace. This common-sense book is part narrative and part workbook, including questionnaires and fill-in list forms. It is detailed, but if you have any experience as a solo practitioner, the elementary basic business practices outlined may cover material you already know. We at getAbstract recommend this book as a primer for anyone who wants to become a consultant working from a home-office and to those who are already doing exactly that and would like a few more tips about how to make a better living at it.