Hicks - 199 great home businesses you can start (and succeed in) for under $1,000: how to choose the best home business for you based on your personality type

How to Start Your Own Business on a Shoestring and Make Up to $500,000 a Year, 4th Revised Edition

203 Home-Based Businesses That Will Make You Rich

101 Great Mail-Order Businesses

Mail-Order Success Secrets, Revised 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 1
W HY S TART Y OUR O WN H OME B USINESS ?

CHAPTER 2
W HATS THE I DEAL H OME B USINESS FOR Y OU ?

CHAPTER 3
T HE 27 E ASIEST H OME B USINESSES TO S TART

CHAPTER 4
T HE 32 F ASTEST C ASH P RODUCING H OME B USINESSES

CHAPTER 5
T HE 26 S IMPLEST S TAY-AT -H OME B USINESSES

CHAPTER 6
T HE 26 M OST P ROFITABLE G O -O UT H OME B USINESSES

CHAPTER 7
T HE 26 M OST P OPULAR P EOPLE H OME B USINESSES

CHAPTER 8
T HE 26 M OST P RIVATE N ON -P EOPLE H OME B USINESSES

CHAPTER 9
50 U NUSUAL H OME B USINESSES T HAT C AN M AKE Y OU H APPY AND W EALTHY

CHAPTER 10
Q UICK T IPS FOR S TARTING AND P ROSPERING IN THE H OME B USINESS OF Y OUR C HOICE

Are you out of work? Strapped for cash? Having trouble making ends meet? Fighting with a complaining spouse who spends faster than you can earn? Do you hate to go to work because your boss is such a pain? Want to stay home to care for someone?

If you answered Yes to any of these questions, this book is for you! Why? Because this book shows you how to:

• Pick the best business for yourself

• Start your own home business for under $1,000

• Build your fortune in a business you like

• Run a business by not leaving your home, or

• Run a business from home while working outside the home

• Profit from unusual business ideas

• Get to know the earnings potentials of hundreds of home businesses

• Finance the business of your choice

• Use the latest technologypersonal computer, fax, Internet, e-mail, cell phones, etc.either in whole or in part in your home business, if you wish to do so, or

• Make use of familiar low-tech postal mail, typewriters, and traditional phones to run your home business at a comfortable pace that brings you the income you seek

• Advertise and promote your business

• Comply with the various rules governing home businesses in your area

• Get a merchant credit card account so you can accept credit card charges by your customers

Any home business has many advantages over a business in which you rent space to conduct your profit-making activities. Most home businesses have no, or very little, overhead. This means that more of every sales dollar stays in your pocket because youre not paying money for rent, storage space, or other occupancy needs.

And there are plenty of other savings for you in your own home business. Costs of commuting will be mostly non-existent. And you wont generally have to spend money on expensive go-to-meeting clothes. Nor will you need costly luggage, or plane or train tickets.

More importantly to some people, a home business gives you independence. You can almost always choose your work hours, be they early or late. You dont have to conform to someone elses rigid schedule. You make your own schedule. Whats more, if you dont like a potential customer you can casually decline to do business with him or her. Try that with a boss when youre working for a salary!

Today, theres even an acronym for small home businessesSOHOmeaning Small Office/Home Office. An entire army of suppliers is ready to serve the SOHO marketoffice-equipment vendors, phone companies, computer manufacturers, fax-machine sellers, cell-phone dealers, and so forth. And with the Internet providing a worldwide market at your fingertips, the sales potential for your home-based products or services has zoomed far beyond customers in your local area. Truly, a home business is todays ticket to a safe, secure financial future for you and your family.

Since most people are scared at the thought of starting their own home business, this book does the following for you:

• Shows you why you should start your own home business, and the many benefits you can derive from such a business

• Helps you choose the best home business for yourself, based on your likes and dislikes, skills and experience

• Gives you the 27 easiest home businesses to start anywhere in the world

• Shows you the 32 home businesses that will produce the quickest cash flow into your business checking account

• Details the 26 simplest stay-at-home businesses so you dont have to leave home to earn your fortune

• Outlines the 26 most profitable go-out home businesses, where you work outside your home but still have a home business of your own

• Sketches the 26 most popular people home businesses where you work with others to build your fortune

• Shows you the 26 most private non-people home businesses where you have little, or no, contact with others

• Explains 50 unusual home businesses that can make you both happy and wealthy

For each of the 199 great home businesses in this book (any of which you can start for under $1,000) youre given these key details:

• Name of the businessthat is, what the business is usually called by its owners.

• What you dothe duties you perform to earn the income you get from the home business. The description of the duties will tell you whether the business is for you, or if you should look for another business.

• How to find clientsand every business needs clients or customers, and we tell you how, and where, to find them for your business. This is a crucial item for any successful business.

• Money required to startthe cash you need to get your business going so you start to earn a profit. Since any of these businesses can be started for less than $1,000, you know in advance that your outlay will be low. (Where special equipment is needed for your business we assume that youll rent it at the start, rather than buying, to keep your startup costs small.)

• Earnings potentialhow much you can earn from the business on an annual basis. This is before your direct expenses, but these, in most cases, will be little more than postage, telephone, Internet, and fax costs. A range of earnings is given, from startup income to all-out full-time work income for the experienced home wealth builder. The income range given represents actual numbers achieved by the some 3 million home workers in business for themselves today.

• Time for first earningsthis tells you how long youll have to work before you receive your first income payment. For folks interested in a fast cash flow, this section of the business description will be important.

• Equipment neededtells you what basic equipment you must have to start your business. In those businesses where a personal computer (PC) is needed, we assume that you already own one, or have access to a PC. The cost of the PC is