GENERAL BOOKS
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Working From Home - Top 50 Opportunities 2003
The long running business magazine, The BOARD, is an excellent resource for checking
out the latest opportunities. Since they started back in 1993 they have investigated
more than one thousand home business opportunities and weeded out the scams, the
no-hopers and the pies in the sky. Helped by feedback from their members, they have
identified those which are genuine home business opportunities with a reasonable
chance of earning a fair income and now they've put all this information into a
unique research directory entitled "Working From Home - Top 50 Opportunities 2003".
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The
"Which?" Guide to Starting Your Own Business -
Amazon Price: £8.24
Paperback - 288 pages Reissued Revised Ed (27 March, 2003)
Which? Books; ISBN: 0852029306
Synopsis
A companion for anyone planning to start a business, warning of the pitfalls and explaining the best way to tackle each stage. When starting your own business, it pays to be as well informed as possible to give your enterprise the best chance of success. This updated and expanded handbook offers advice on how to choose the right business venture, raise the necessary finance, whether to set up as a sole trader, partnerships, buying an established business, VAT and taxation. The guide points you in the right direction for buying insurance, finding premises, equippping an office, seting up a computer system and selling abroad. Also included are changes in employment law that may affect owners of small business and ways of encouraging clients to pay their bills promptly. This new edition includes all the latest Budget changes and covers the latest employment and business legislation, together with the new regulations from the EU; advises on the impact of the euro on selling abroad; shows how to advertise and sell via the Internet; and discusses some of the popular small-business choices of today.
Start
Your Own Home-based Business - Nick Daws. Amazon
Price: £10.95
Paperback - 304 pages (30 April, 2001)
This book is a reference for all budding entrepreneurs.
Divided into two parts, part A takes you through everything you
need to consider before starting a home-based business - from
requirements for success, through drawing up a business plan
and cash flow forecast, to matters such as marketing, financial
planning and credit control. Practical, detailed advice is given,
with contacts for further information. Part B of the book contains
concise profiles of over 50 different home-based business
opportunities that could be started. Some of these require specific
skills, training or experience (e.g. book-keeping, website design), while others are
open to almost anybody (e.g. window cleaning, house-sitting). Each profile includes
concise answers to the following six questions: what the work entails; what you need
to get started; who your customers will be?; how much you can make; how to sell your
services; where you can get more help?
Lloyds
TSB Small Business Guide - Sara Williams Amazon
Price: £10.39
Paperback - 475 pages 16th Ed (September, 2002)
Penguin Books;
The Lloyds TSB Small Business Guide is a financial advisor, tax adviser, management consultant and property agent rolled into one. Now in its 16th edition,
the book has been expanded to include information on selling goods and services
online, together with the latest information on the UK economy and small business
tax regulations. Divided into 31 chapters, the Small Business Guide covers most of the issues you'll face in the first years of running a business, from setting up partnerships to finding offices and staff, filing taxes and dealing with customers. Each chapter has a series of exercises to help you apply the information to your own situation, and also includes links to other relevant sections of the book.
The book also clearly states when specialist advice will be needed.
DK Small Business Guides: Working from Home -
Alastair Balfour, Peter Hingston. Paperback - 192 pages (7 June, 2001)
Amazon Price: £10.39
Synopsis - This handbook discusses how to work from home successfully. It features practical
text and advice with at-a-glance tip boxes, real-life case studies, questionnaires
and checklists. The appendices offer country-specific information on legal, property, financial and tax matters.
Starting
an Internet Business from Home - Jim Green Amazon Price:
£7.99
Paperback - 145 pages (October 2001)
The
"Which?" Guide to Working from Home - Lynn
Brittney Paperback / Published 29 May 2003
Amazon Price: £8.79
100
Best Retirement Businesses Lisa Angowski Rogak
Shaw, et al Paperback . Published 1994
Amazon Price: £9.99
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