Synopses & Reviews
Everything you need to know to build and run a successful consulting business from your home. Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based consulting business? There is no better time to do so than now.
How to Start a Home-Based Consulting Business gives you all the tools and success strategies you need to launch and grow your business. Bert Holtje covers everything you need to set yourself up as a home-based consultant, create a demand for your services, and make money. He addresses all aspects of setting up your business, provides indispensable guidance on legal and ethical issues, and shows how to become and stay profitable. Learn how to: Develop a marketable idea
Write a business plan
Set up your home office
Draft winning proposals
Sell your services
Get referrals
Set fees
Manage your finances and your time
Market yourself on the Internet
Synopsis
How to Start a Home-Based Consulting Business contains everything one needs to know to set themselves up as a home-based consultant, create a demand for their services, and make money. Bert Holtje, an author and a longtime publishing industry consultant, shows how to develop a marketable idea, operate a home-based office, draft winning proposals, sell services, get referrals, set fees, manage finances and time, and conduct Internet marketing.
Synopsis
"How to Start a Home-Based Consulting Business" contains everything one needs to know to set themselves up as a home-based consultant, create a demand for their services, and make money. Bert Holtje, an author and a longtime publishing industry consultant, shows how to develop a marketable idea, operate a home-based office, draft winning proposals, sell services, get referrals, set fees, manage finances and time, and conduct Internet marketing.
About the Author
Bert Holtje is the author of How to Start a Home-Based Business (Globe Pequot Press). He founded James Peter Associates in 1970, a firm that served as a book producer and literary agency, and provided consulting, editorial, and promotional services until it was sold in 2000. The author of many books, Holtje now provides consulting services to authors, agents, and publishers.
Table of Contents
All How to Start a Home-Based Business books include:
Introduction: 1,500 words
Chapter 1: So You Want to Start a Consulting Business.
Chapter 2: Envisioning the business: possibilities, scope, size.
Chapter 3: What you need in your home office.
Chapter 4: Writing a business plan.
Chapter 5: Getting started.
Chapter 6: Financial planning
Chapter 7: Financial management
Chapter 8: Taxes and record keeping
Chapter 9: Legal and ethical issues
Chapter 10: Marketing your business
Chapter 11: The internet and e-commerce
Chapter 12: Business endgame: stay small, grow, or sell
Chapter 13: Training and certification
Appendix:
- Web Resources
- Organizations
- Trade Shows
- Educational Resources
- Other Useful Information