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Start & Run a Security Business
by Katherine Matak
Part of the Start and Run A series
Home security and safety are key personal concerns, but the protection business is rife with amateurs. This book is the definitive guide on how to successfully launch a security business to save time, money, and legal problems. It offers practical advice on how to develop business clientele, deal with safety issues, and overcome liability. Author Katherine Matak teaches readers how to create a respected company and market their brand, all while avoiding pitfalls and needless expenses. Learn how to establish and operate a business that furnishes home security challenges.
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Start & Run a Graphic Design Business
by Michael Huggins
Part of the Start and Run A series
There are minimal costs involved in starting a graphic design business which makes it an attractive opportunity for anyone with an artistic eye. All that is required is a computer, an Internet connection, and design skills. It's the kind of business that can easily be run from your home! The graphic design business has changed significantly over the past few years. The popularity of photo- and art-sharing websites and social networking sites, and the low barriers to setting up websites have driven a demand for fresh new graphics and provided numerous opportunities for graphic artists to reach new markets and customers. This book will show you how to capitalize on these opportunities, market your business, find clients, and stay organized. Like all books in the Start & Run series, this book is written in an easy, step-by-step format.
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Start & Run an Event-Planning Business
by Cindy Lemaire
Part of the Start and Run A series
Make money planning events with style and impress your clients - from weddings to meetings! Start & Run an Event Planning Business shows you how to start and run a successful enterprise by planning events of all kinds - from weddings and private parties to corporate events, meetings, conferences, and sporting events. This book will show you not only how to organize events, but also how to run the business. Keeping track of all the many details involved in putting on a successful event is easy when you have the checklists, schedules, tips, and advice of experts. Written in the step-by-step style that has made the Start & Run series the best of its kind, this indispensable guide will help you make any event - and event-planning business - a resounding success.
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Start & Run a Computer Repair Service
by Lynn Spry
Part of the Start and Run A series
Start & Run a Computer Repair Service is ideal for entrepreneurs interested in opening and operating a computer repair shop and/or mobile on-site repair business. Professionals with a background in IT, retail, and related fields are often interested in branching out on their own. This book examines the nuts and bolts of starting a business in the North America, then delves into the specifics of retail and mobile repair shop ownership and operation.
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Start & Run a Restaurant Business
by Brian Cooper
Part of the Start and Run A series
Every year hundreds of thousands of restaurants open with great expectations, and every year almost as many close down. The successful restaurateur is a combination of entrepreneur, entertainer, and magician. Your success in owning a restaurant will come as a direct result of solid business practices and your ability to entertain and satisfy your customers.
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Start & Run a Tour Guiding Business
by Barbara Braidwood
Part of the Start and Run A series
This in-depth handbook will tell you all there is to know about the tour guiding industry, whether you want to become an independent tour guide, work for an existing company, or set up your own tour business.
Work part time or full time
Work at home or abroad
Travel for free!
Learn from the owners of thriving travel agencies
Go where you want to go, when you want to go
Start & Run a Profitable Tour Guiding Business provides background information on the travel industry, describes what is involved in tour guiding, explains how to develop tours to your favorite destination, and outlines the planning you must do no matter where you are going. This book contains a blueprint for the entrepreneur who wants to establish a larger tour operation, and includes:
Becoming the perfect tour director
Organizing your own tour
Marketing your tour
Understanding standard industry commissions
Building your company
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Start & Run a Marijuana Dispensary or Pot Shop
Wherever it is Legal!
by Jay Currie
Part of the Start and Run A series
As laws change, North Americans are gaining greater legal access to marijuana through local dispensaries. But the rise of the dispensary brings a mountain of challenges. This book treats the fledgling industry as a serious prospect and identifies the best practices to start and run a dispensary. From business basics to ensure sufficient cash flow, to science basics to ensure proper sourcing and care of the products, author Jay Currie walks dispensary owners through the important and subtle steps to a successful and sustainable business. 'Start and Run a Marijuana Dispensary or Pot Shop' is a guide to create a business model and an operating plan to legally dispense marijuana and its related products.
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Start & Run a Meeting and Event Planning Business
by Shannon Marie Lach
Part of the Start and Run A series
Make money planning events with style and impress your clients. 'Start & Run a Meeting and Event Planning Business' shows would-be business owners how to start and run a successful enterprise planning events of all kinds-from weddings and private parties to corporate events, meetings, conferences, and sporting events. This book will show you not only how to organize events, but also how to run the business itself. Keeping track of all the many details involved in putting on a successful event is easy when you have the checklists, schedules, tips, and experts' advice you need. Written in the step-by-step style that has made the Start & Run series the best of its kind, this indispensable guide will help readers to make any event-and event planning business-a resounding success.
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Start & Run a Rural Computer Consultant Business
by John D. Deans
Part of the Start and Run A series
This book is a step-by-step guide for the IT professional working a high-stress job who dreams about moving out of the city, but still wants to make a living working with computers. It can be done! This is exactly what author John Deans did in 1999 when he left one of Houston's most successful IT companies, moved his family to rural Texas, and started a home-based computer consulting firm. Small towns are a relatively new niche for computer consultants, but they offer ample opportunity for starting a successful small business. To excel in this environment, you must become a jack-of-all-computer-trades and enjoy working closely with many clients every day. Owning your own business in a rural environment that may be unfamiliar to you presents challenges-but the rewards are definitely worth it. Deans will help you every step of the way.
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Start & Run a Craft Business
by William G. Hynes
Part of the Start and Run A series
If you want to turn your hobby into a money-making venture or improve your current sales, you will benefit from the dozens of tips inside this book. This exceptional book, a perennial best-seller, is now released in its seventh edition. Updated content includes discussion of how you can use the Internet to benefit your craft business. If you want to turn your hobby into a money-making venture or improve your current sales, you will benefit from the dozens of tips inside this book.
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Start & Run a Real Home-Based Business
by Dan Furman
Part of the Start and Run A series
Whether you want to work at home on your computer, open a daycare, start a local service (like a plumber, computer consultant, pet sitter, etc), or anything else, then Start and Run a Real Home Based Business is what you've been waiting for.
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Start & Run an Art Teaching Business
by Tanya Freedman
Part of the Start and Run A series
Anyone with an artistic skill such as painting, drawing, or pottery can start their own successful art teaching business. Many people interested in learning an artistic skill don't have the space, materials, or facilities to learn on their own at home, and art schools provide them with a place they can go to learn with others without having to purchase expensive looms, kilns, easels, and other such equipment. Children, teens; they are all looking to do art in their free time. This book shows you step by step how you can start your own successful art teaching business, whether it's at your home or at a rented studio. It will show you how to develop and customize not only classes, but also art camps, birthday parties, and artist's retreats. Learn how to set up classrooms, find students, provide great customer service, and ensure the business remains profitable;and generate the creative spark in your students, staff, and community. Whatever your artistic skill, with the right business plan and a bit of savvy you can start your own successful business teaching art to others.
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Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business
by Mimi Shotland Fix
Part of the Start and Run A series
Are you one of the many people who dream of making a profit selling your own homemade foods? Now, with this one-of-a-kind, easy-to-follow guide, you can realize your home-based food business dreams! With over 25 years' experience, author Mimi Shotland Fix takes you step-by-step through the process of starting and running a food business.Whether you've always envisioned yourself with a home-based food business, need a second source of income or want to stay at home and be your own boss, Start & Run a Home-Based Food Business offers dozens of tips, examples and advice for you to run a profitable business from your own kitchen!
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Start & Run a Landscaping Business
by Joel LaRusic
Part of the Start and Run A series
If you like being your own boss and working outdoors and enjoy nature, you can start your own profitable landscape maintenance business. This book is perfect if you want to start from scratch or if you already work in the field but would like to strike out on your own. Start & Run a Landscaping Business will get you started in the fascinating business of professional lawn and garden care and will prove essential in helping you to shorten the learning curve you have ahead of you. The book gives you the basics of landscape maintenance, as well as proven systems for running a business. Written by an expert with over a decade of experience, the book includes an insider's tricks of the trade. It demonstrates in plain language how you can set up your own business and keep it running profitably. This book also covers snow shoveling and plowing, so entrepreneurs who live in colder climes can still make money all year round. More than 30 checklists, samples, and worksheets are on the CD-ROM in MS Word, MS Excel, and Acrobat PDF formats.
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Start & Run an Internet Research Business
by Gerhard W. Kautz
Part of the Start and Run A series
Information research has shifted from something people did in libraries to something people do mostly on the Internet. But companies often don't have the time or internal resources available to sift through the sheer volume of information on the Internet. Now, you can seek out information on behalf of clients, who will pay you for your research! Help large and small companies alike answer questions about industry trends, market conditions, mergers, competition, and other developments. There is very little money required to begin this type of business, as all you need to get started is a computer and Internet access! The best part is that you can work for yourself, on a full-time or part-time basis, out of your own home. Start & Run an Internet Research Business will show you how.
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Start & Run a Medical Practice
by Michael Clifford Fabian
Part of the Start and Run A series
Medical schools often don't teach the up-and-coming doctor how to establish an independent practice. This book will teach them how to run an office smoothly, while incorporating the medical elements of the practice. This guide is for every doctor, dentist, chiropractor, massage therapist, naturopath, or other health-care professional who dreams of opening a medical practice.
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Start & Run a Copywriting Business
by Steve Slaunwhite
Part of the Start and Run A series
Corporations and agencies outsource most of their copywriting and need copywriters more than ever today--including for Internet marketing. Most copywriters cannot keep up with the demand for their services, and many make between $50,000 and $150,000. Start & Run a Copywriting Business is your essential guide to getting started and prospering in an industry that offers subst
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Start & Run an ESL Teaching Business
by T. Nicole Pankratz-Bodner
Part of the Start and Run A series
Over the past 20 years, teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) has grown by leaps and bounds and now generates billions of dollars every year. Waiting lists for class space attest to the overwhelming demand for ESL instruction in North America. This book provides all the hands-on practical tips you need to start your own ESL teaching business. Whether you want to begin tutoring from your home or start your own ESL school, this book provides the step-by-step guidance you will need to make your business a success. Teaching ESL is ideal for people with an entrepreneurial spirit. While related to formal education, ESL is more about business than it is about school. Those who do well in the ESL industry understand that students are in many ways customers. It is one thing to understand and know how to teach English grammar; it is quite another to start and run a successful ESL school. Start & Run an ESL Teaching Business will show you how to translate an interest in teaching and working with people from other countries into a profitable business.
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Start & Run a Creative Services Business
by Susan Kirkland
Part of the Start and Run A series
Start & Run a Creative Services Business will show you how to use your skills, training, and experience to make money designing things like book covers, logos, corporate promotional materials, websites, and advertisements. The book acts as your friend and adviser in the competitive world of the self-employed, and teaches you how to advocate for yourself. Industry specific information is presented in a logical order, appealing to the novice as well as the seasoned designer who needs advice on a particular situation. Through a series of personal experiences, the author explores the unpredictable nature of the business world from a designer's point of view. For example, there's a chapter on what to do when clients don't pay and another that offers advice about freelancing during economic slumps. The author provides cutting-edge information for creating an electronic portfolio, targeting your market online, and distinguishing yourself from the competition.
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Start & Run a Pet Business
by Heather Mueller
Part of the Start and Run A series
On average, North Americans spend more money on their pets annually than they do on toys, candy, movies, video games, and recorded music! With increased interest for careers involving pets, Start & Run a Pet Business provides the knowledge needed to create a successful, ethical business working with animals. With topics ranging from various business opportunities in the pet sector today, managing your start-up costs, key demographics of the pet industry, how to generate clientele, and ethical business practices when working with animals, this book has got you covered!
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Start & Run a Handyman Business
by Sarah White
Part of the Start and Run A series
With the easy-to-read tips and business strategies taught in this book, readers will learn how to make a handyman business profitable. The book provides tips for both doing the job and the skills needed to run the business. The work life of a handyman can be very rewarding. It means finding creative solutions to everyday problems, learning new things, and enjoying a wide variety of tasks. Handymen can set their own hours and be their own bosses. But they will need the skills to make the business profitable, too, since only they will be responsible for finding customers. This book demonstrates, step-by-step, how readers can make a name for themselves as the handymen in their communities.
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Start & Run a Personal History Business
Get Paid to Research Family Ancestry and Write Memoirs
by Jennifer Campbell
Part of the Start and Run A series
Anyone interested in genealogy, personal history and memoirs can turn their passion into a business. Communities, families, and even corporations are increasingly seeking out professional writers and historians to record their stories. For anyone who is interested in personal history and writing, this is an essential resource for turning your passion into an income source. Written by experienced personal historian and entrepreneur Jennifer Campbell, it covers topics such as: how to actually do the work, starting up, education and training, marketing and expansion.
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Start & Run a Bookkeeping Business
by Angie Mohr
Part of the Start and Run A series
Learn the skills to make your bookkeeping business thrive!
Run your own profitable business from home
Start your business with just a small investment
Learn how to successfully market your services
Many bookkeeping services fail because the entrepreneurs who start them focus on bookkeeping and don't take the time to learn how to plan their businesses and make them profitable. Written in the step-by-step style that has made the Start & Run series the best of its kind, this indispensable guide addresses issues specific to a bookkeeping service, such as how to assess which clients are profitable and when to involve a professional accountant. By following the principles Angie Mohr outlines and using the worksheets that accompany this book, you will be well on your way to owning a successful bookkeeping business. You will learn how to:
assess whether running your own business is right for you
decide whether to work from home
market your services cost-effectively
manage your workload and cashflow
Whether you are just starting your own business or wanting to expand an existing business, this book will show you how. It includes chapters on hiring and managing employees, staying competitive, and planning for business growth.
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Start & Run a Gift Basket Business
by Mardi Foster-Walker
Part of the Start and Run A series
With little more than some working space and a few basket-making items, an ambitious and creative person can cash in on the gift basket boom. The potential for unearthing new markets and finding motivated clients is unlimited in this easy-to-run small business.
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Start & Run a Consulting Business
by Douglas Gray, L. L. B.
Part of the Start and Run A series
Consulting has become a multimillion-dollar industry in North America.
Understand why people will pay you for your opinion
Learn from the author of 15 bestsellers
Convert your knowledge into income
A bestseller through nine editions and 24 printings during the past 25 years!
As society becomes more complicated, people in business, healthcare, education, government, and other fields are calling on specialists to provide answers to complex problems. This practical step-by-step success guide shows how anyone can turn knowledge and experience into a profitable consulting business. Concerns unique to the consulting industry are covered in detail, including:
Assessing yourself and your skills
Determining market opportunities
Regulations and laws affecting the consulting business
Selecting business and professional advisers
Preparing your business plan
Setting fees and billing clients
Keeping records
Minimizing taxes
Avoiding professional liability and preventing losses
Writing a successful proposal
Maintaining healthy client relations
Running your office smoothly
Hiring sub-consultants
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Start & Run a Home Cleaning Business
by Susan Bewsey
Part of the Start and Run A series
Home cleaning is one of the fastest-growing service businesses in North America. A good cleaning service brings comfort and order into people's lives and in today's world, these are highly sought-after commodities. A home cleaning service can start out small, but it has the potential to grow to be a multi-million dollar business with branch offices and franchises. Your business can grow to the point where you need to lease office space, hire staff, purchase a fleet of vehicles, and develop your own products and customized services. With the help of this book, you can get your business up and running, and survive that essential first year.
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Start & Run a Home Staging Business
by Dana J. Smithers
Part of the Start and Run A series
Today's typical home-buyer wants minimal muss and fuss when it comes to settling into a new home. Many people have an idea of their "dream home," or keep a list of characteristics they want their new house to possess. Many of these sought-after characteristics are common to most home-buyers; but unfortunately for home-sellers, these characteristics are not always readily apparent in a house well lived-in. Many homeowners are beginning to realize that they could sell their house more quickly and effectively if they knew how to present it in a way that's more appealing to buyers.
That's where you come in!
Start & Run a Home Staging Business is the perfect step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to start their own business putting their design talents to use. This book provides tips for home staging itself, including making a room look more spacious and appealing to buyers, as well as marketing tips for making your expertise seem appealing to homeowners who may not be generating the amount of interest they need to sell their home.
Home staging is a rapidly growing industry as homeowners realize their emotional investment in the arrangement of their home may not be what homeowners are looking for. Become part of the growing trend in home staging and put your skills on the market!
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Start & Run a Catering Business
by George Erdosh
Part of the Start and Run A series
Successfully running a small catering business takes more than a passion for cooking and a knack for preparing tasty dishes. You have to be a superb planner and manager as well. Whether you are already in the food service industry or are looking for a challenging career move, this book is a complete guide to succeeding as a caterer.
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Start & Run a Coffee Bar
by Tom Matzen
Part of the Start and Run A series
A comprehensive guide on what to expect when owning and operating this type of business, this book includes everything from choosing a unique identity to roasting, making, and serving coffee, espresso, and tea. Learn the steps to:
* Turning beans into bucks.
* Building a winning sales team.
* Providing WOW! customer service.
The two authors share their inside perspective on running a coffee bar, answering questions such as:
* How do I prepare a business plan?
* How do I market my coffee bar?
* What special equipment will I need?
* What will it cost to get started?
* What should I look for when choosing a location?
* How do I roast coffee beans and brew a great cup of coffee?
* What are the 11 steps to WOW! customer service?
* What about expansion and franchising?
The book includes sections on organic and Fair Trade coffee, recipes for specialty coffees, and forms to help you with the day-to-day logistics of running a coffee bar.
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Start & Run an Adult Boutique
by Karen Bedinger
Part of the Start and Run A series
The adult boutique business is a billion-dollar industry in North America. Adult boutiques are no longer hidden down back alleyways; they are mainstream and can now be found in upscale shopping centers and neighborhoods as well as online! Adult boutiques provide comfortable atmospheres in which both men and women can shop freely. This means there is a great opportunity for people who want to sell adult products. Start & Run an Adult Boutique shows you step-by-step how to write a business plan, deal with tax and legal issues, order products, and market your business. The CD-ROM included with the book has a resource guide that will point you in the right direction of suppliers (of everything from massage oils to bachelorette party favors). Don't get left out of this booming business that has no big-box competition! With the right product mix, the right atmosphere, and this book, you too can start and run a profitable adult boutique.
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Start & Run a Home Daycare
by Catherine M. Pruissen
Part of the Start and Run A series
Starting a home daycare takes more than just a love of children, it also takes an understanding of the business. Child care is a much sought-after service today. If you love working with children and want to run your own business, a home daycare could be the perfect choice. Providing quality child care and making a profit isn't child's play. Caring for children is as challenging and multifaceted as parenting itself. In addition, you need to master record keeping, licensing requirements, and all other tasks associated with running a small business. This book, an international best seller, will help you get started right and keep your daycare running smoothly and successfully.
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Start & Run a Tattoo and Body Piercing Studio
by Kurtis Mueller
Part of the Start and Run A series
You don't even have to be an artist or know how to tattoo to open and run a tattoo and/or piercing business/parlor/shop ... you can hire tattoo artists and piercers to do that for you.
A lot of people who are currently opening studios open in their homes and are getting nailed by health authorities; this book will cover how to open legitimate tattoo businesses. There aren't any other books like this out there currently.
The popularity of this business with the younger crowd is growing too; look at TV shows like LA Ink (Kat Von D), Hart & Huntington, Miami Ink, London Inked, etc.
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Start & Run a Bed & Breakfast
by Monica Taylor
Part of the Start and Run A series
Have you ever stayed in a bed and breakfast and thought how exciting it would be to open your own B&B? This book shows you the business side of opening your home to visitors. The clearly written text, along with dozens of easy-to-follow worksheets and explanatory samples, shows you how to plan everything.
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