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Starting a Business From Home: Your Guide to Planning Your Home Start-up, Reaching a Market and Creating a Profit
For aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners, the possibilities are limitless. The flexibility, freedom and cost-effectiveness that starting-up in the home offers means that more and more entrepreneurs are choosing this as the best location to agilely launch their business. Starting a Business from Home gives you the valuable advice you need on how to run a successful business from your own desk and, crucially, how to rise to the challenge of business expansion.
Packed with practical advice, Starting a Business from Home covers how to research your market, business ownership and titles issues, raising money and managing your finances, building and operating a website, writing a business plan, preparing your accounts, taking your product to market and expanding overseas - all from your home. Exercises, end of chapter actions and technical resources in the appendices mean that this is the ultimate practical guide for home-based entrepreneurs. Case studies from around the world showcase best practice and provide inspirational stories from successful businesses that began in the home.
Packed with practical advice, Starting a Business from Home covers how to research your market, business ownership and titles issues, raising money and managing your finances, building and operating a website, writing a business plan, preparing your accounts, taking your product to market and expanding overseas - all from your home. Exercises, end of chapter actions and technical resources in the appendices mean that this is the ultimate practical guide for home-based entrepreneurs. Case studies from around the world showcase best practice and provide inspirational stories from successful businesses that began in the home.
- GenresBusiness
304 pages, Paperback
Published August 29, 2017
About the author
Colin Barrow
103 books36 followersColin Barrow is the author of more than 25 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. His books have been published by the BBC, The Economist, The Sunday Times, Kogan Page, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the Dummies series and been translated into a score of languages including Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia.
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowl...
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowl...
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August 4, 2020
Hood info and very very very very very in detail. If you can't figure out keep the kids out of the room then dont start a bussines at home. If I needed a whole chapter of pros and cons of starting a bussines at home I wouldn't have picked up a book called starting a bussines at home.
I would have gave it three stars if it wasn't UK based and I am in the US. If your not in the UK over half this book is a waste of time because all resources stied are from the UK. Everything form tax to websites to advertising laws. Should be called how to start a bussines of home If you want to in the UK.
The first book I truly couldn't finish. I stopped way to late though because a lot of wasted time here. Don't get me wrong it's good info but it's like reading a text book. It leaves you like ooooookkkk noooowwww where do I begin starting a bussines from home. Well of course deciding if you want to. Read the book again. No dont seriously dont.
When I get my bussines going I will be coming back to this book though unless I find another based in the us which should be easy so I may not. But this is not a beginner's book. Very very way to much just too much. Yes all things you need but I guarantee you dont need to know accounting if your bussines never makes any money let's focus on that first.
I feel if your going to go into this much detail it needs to be step by step not just info info info info info on and info. Give me the basics I need to start doing account so I can do what you taught in this book later. Teach the basics of taxes and advertising so I can come back later. This is like the the number 2 okay you started a bussines now do this type of book.
I would have gave it three stars if it wasn't UK based and I am in the US. If your not in the UK over half this book is a waste of time because all resources stied are from the UK. Everything form tax to websites to advertising laws. Should be called how to start a bussines of home If you want to in the UK.
The first book I truly couldn't finish. I stopped way to late though because a lot of wasted time here. Don't get me wrong it's good info but it's like reading a text book. It leaves you like ooooookkkk noooowwww where do I begin starting a bussines from home. Well of course deciding if you want to. Read the book again. No dont seriously dont.
When I get my bussines going I will be coming back to this book though unless I find another based in the us which should be easy so I may not. But this is not a beginner's book. Very very way to much just too much. Yes all things you need but I guarantee you dont need to know accounting if your bussines never makes any money let's focus on that first.
I feel if your going to go into this much detail it needs to be step by step not just info info info info info on and info. Give me the basics I need to start doing account so I can do what you taught in this book later. Teach the basics of taxes and advertising so I can come back later. This is like the the number 2 okay you started a bussines now do this type of book.
March 10, 2022
A lot of good information but also too much pointless reading. If I’d known from the start, that this was all about starting a business in the UK, I would not have picked it up. 2 stars for the useful knowledge I did gain.
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