Complete Guide to Home Business

By Robert Spiegel

This volume provides everything needed for starting or running a home business. This all-in-one, quick-answer guide takes readers through every stage of business from the initial idea, to maturity, to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814470432
• ISBN13: 9780814470435
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Amacom Books
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 1.0" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

There's No Place Like Home -- Especially When You're Working

Many talented and energetic business people ponder a different career path such as running a home-based business. But many of these would-be "homepreneurs" fear to take the leap. The challenges of working at home seem overwhelming. Fortunately, Robert Spiegel, a writer and successful entrepreneur, shares everything he's learned from more than a dozen years of working-at-home experience in his new book, The Complete Guide to Home Business. And it is a complete guide, covering everything people need to know about running a home-based business. Readers who are considering the switch will get personal advice, step-by-step instructions, insider tips, and detailed guidance for planning each aspect of the home business. Readers leaqrn how to: decide if a home business is right for them; choose their home business; plan their start-up; organize their business space; fund their business and manage their cash; market their business; recognize and correct common problems; control their growth; plan an exit from their regular job, and much more. Spiegel also provides a comprehensive collection of invaluable resources and listings, venture capital companies and investors, government agencies, small business development centers, franchise resources, business associations, business and trade magazines and Internet resources.

Bookviews Review

Bookviews Review by Alan CarubaThe Complete Guide to Home Business by Robert Spiegel is an excellent guide to all the questions that face anyone contemplating this option. How to choose the business that's right for you, how to plan your start-up, and much more. The author invested $1,500 in Chile Pepper magazine and ran it from his home for a decade before selling it for a cool $1.5 million. Ain't America a great nation?

Booklist Review by David Rouse

Booklist Review by David Rouse, 11/1/'99Spiegel started his own magazine, ran it for 10 years, then sold it for $1 million. He is also a frequesnt contributor to Home Business Magazine. Spiegel does a thorough job of walking one through the steps required to run a business from home. He suggests what to consider when choosing a business and discusses business plans, licensing, permits, zoning, taxes and insurance. He recommends various marketing media and strategies, evaluates outsourcing as a staffing option, and stresses financial management. Going beyon many similar guides, Spiegel identifies warning signs to watch for that indicate a business is in trouble and advises how to recover. He also advises that one make plans for how best to "exit" from the business when the time comes. In acknowledging the "loneliness of the long-distance runner," Spiegel touches on the personal impact of going it alone.

Comprehensive, practical, reader-friendly "how to" manual.

The Complete Guide To Home Business is fully comprehensive and covers everything the homebased entrepreneur must know from how to choose a business that is best for him or her; planning the star-up; organizing their business space; funding the business and managing the cash flow; marketing the business; recognizing and correcting common problems; control the growth of the business; planning to exit the business and selling it for a profit. Each detail is discussed in a "reader friendly", reliable text that also provides a comprehensive collection of invaluable resources and listings including venture capital companies and investors, government agencies, small business development centers, franchise resources, business associations, business and trade magazines, and Internet resources. The Complete Guide To Home Business is a "must" for anyone contemplating or having begun a home-based business of any kind.