This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow a Home-Based Event Planning Business. The author combines personal experience with expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business. This guide explains how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, learn from the competition, and set up a home office - as well as how to use the Internet to grow your business.

This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow a Home-Based Gift Basket Business. The author combines personal experience with expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business. This guide explains how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, learn from the competition, and set up a home office - as well as how to use the Internet to grow your business.

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based business? Of being your own boss? Have you been hesitant to put your business plans into action? For many people in this economy, doing so is more a necessity than an option. With How to Start a Home-Based Business, you can plan out your business step-by-step instead of patching it together in a hurry and taking unnecessary risks. Here are all the necessary tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business-whatever your specialty. Bert Holtje and Susan Shelly share their experiences and advice on everything you need to know. Learn how to develop a business plan, estimate your start- up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business. Read all about getting clients and referrals, outshining the competition, bidding competitively, establishing your daily schedule, organizing your business, getting paid, and much more.

Making money from exercise may seem like a pipe dream to many, but in fact physical fitness is fast becoming one of America's hottest new professional fields. Here, a successful personal trainer gives expert advice on every aspect of setting up and running a home-based personal trainer business. Readers will learn how to get started, develop a service manual, screen clients, serve customers, learn from the competition, and set up a home office - as well as how to use the Internet to develop one's business.

Private tutoring represents a billion-dollar industry in the United States, serving millions of students a year. For educators, a home-based tutoring business may represent a part-time job to supplement their teaching income, a flexible career choice after having their own children or retiring from the classroom, or a uniquely fulfilling way to work one-on-one with children who need specialized help. But other people with expertise in various fields, including those with business skills, can also capitalize on this trend. In this comprehensive guide, a longtime teacher and tutor shows them how to do so.

Covering the range of senior care businesses that are increasingly I demand today, this bo9ok shows how to start and run a profitable, ethical, and satisfying home- based business in this field. It covers those businesses that can be set up by people with special qualifications - such as nurses, social workers, and others with health and human services degrees - as well as those that can be run by individuals with little or not formal training, who have an interest in caring for others.

This book contains everything one needs to know to setthemselves up as a home-based consultant, create a demandfor their services, and make money. Bert Holtje, anauthor and a longtime publishing industry consultant,shows how to develop a marketable idea, operate a home-based office, draft winning proposals, sell services, getreferrals, set fees, manage finances and time, andconduct Internet marketing.

Making money doing lawn-care, landscape architecture, and garden work is a dream of many people - and this guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies they need to successfully launch and develop their own business doing so. This sixth edition also features advice on marketing and selling one's services within "sustainable landscaping," one of the hottest new trends in the field.