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Spare Room Start Up by Emma Jones
  • Spare Room Start Up

  • How to start a business from home

  • by Emma Jones
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    • Product code: 254182
    • ISBN: 1905641680, ISBN13: 9781905641680, 216 pages, paperback
      Published by Harriman House on 2008 , 1st
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    Rating: 4.7/5 (3 votes cast)

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    Description of Spare Room Start Up

    A friendly and stylish, full colour guide which focuses on the specific issues that affect home business start ups.

    Have you ever dreamt of starting your own business? Dreamt of working from home, a ten second commute, the flexibility to work when you want to, and the joy of being your own boss? This book can show you how to turn those dreams into reality in just a few simple steps.

    With serial entrepreneur and home business expert Emma Jones as your guide, you will discover just how easy it is to start and run a successful business from your spare room.

    Organised by three key themes - business, lifestyle and technology - Spare Room Start Up provides you with simple solutions and demonstrates the ease and low cost with which a home business can be started. Find out how you too can enjoy the rewards of running a home business whilst leading a happier and healthier life.

    Advice and suggestions are interspersed with quick tips, illustrations and real life case studies from successful home business owners. Uncover the lighter side of working from home as well as the benefits and rewards of becoming a Spare Room Start Up!

    Contents of Spare Room Start Up

    Business

    1. Finding the right idea
    2. Making a plan
    3. Marketing your home business

    Lifestyle

    4. Setting up your home office
    5. Balancing work and life commitments
    6. Taking care of yourself

    Technology

    7. Finding the right technology
    8. Working away from home
    9. Building a home on the web

    About Emma Jones

    Emma Jones is founder and editor of Enterprise Nation (www.enterprisenation.com), the home business website, and has started two businesses herself from home offices in London, Manchester and rural Shropshire.

    Following a career with an international accountancy firm, Emma started her first business at the age of 27 and successfully sold it just 15 months after launch.

    The home business website was launched in 2006, and has attracted a regular readership of more than 250,000 people and national press headlines.

    Emma has written for Enterprise Nation since its launch and also for the Financial Times, City AM and customer magazines, including for Orange, Microsoft, BT and Viking Direct.

    Emma is regularly called upon by the government to speak on the subject of home business and she advises Regional Development Agencies on how to encourage and support homeworking.

    Customer Reviews of Spare Room Start Up

    • Not the usual boring business book. This sleek and stylish coffee table edition makes you want to get out there and start your own business.It's practical and friendly and easy to understand. It's written in an upbeat and fresh manner. The pictures are fabulous too. It makes agreat gift for someone thinking of taking that first step into selfemployment. And written by such an expert - you really feel that yourhand would be held through the whole process. Can't wait for thesequel!
    • by Heather Bestel on 15/05/2008
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