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Spare Room Start Up is a friendly and stylish, full colour guide which focuses on the specific issues that affect home business start-ups, from the 'kitchen table business plan' to the web server in the attic, organised by three key themes: business, lifestyle and technology. It is an essential book for anyone who wants to start a business at home and manage a work/life balance. The home has become the most popular location for business start-ups in the UK. Over 60% of businesses are now started from a home base; more than 1,400 every week. Yet there is no authoritative and approachable guide to starting a home business. Spare Room Start Up presents readers with simple solutions, demonstrates the ease and low cost with which a home business can be started, and dispels the myths about working from home, so that more people can enjoy the rewards of running a successful home business and lead a happier life. Advice and suggestions are interspersed with quick tips, illustrations and case studies to uncover the lighter side of working from home.
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'Spare Room Start Up' is a friendly and stylish, full colour guide which focuses on the specific issues that affect home business start-ups, from the 'kitchen table business plan' to the web server in the attic, organised by three key themes: business, lifestyle and technology. It is an essential book for anyone who wants to start a business at home and manage a work/life balance.
The home has become the most popular location for business start-ups in the UK. Over 60% of businesses are now started from a home base; more than 1,400 every week. Yet there is no authoritative and approachable guide to starting a home business.
'Spare Room Start Up' presents readers with simple solutions, demonstrates the ease and low cost with which a home business can be started, and dispels the myths about working from home, so that more people can enjoy the rewards of running a successful home business and lead a happier life.
Advice and suggestions are interspersed with quick tips, illustrations and case studies to uncover the lighter side of working from home.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book took me all of half an hour to page through - it has huge text so doesn't have much on each page & I honestly think that it could have been compiled by a 12 year old using Google. All this information is the sort of thing you can find yourself on the internet in a few minutes.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
First of all the book is not bound very well and in seconds pages were falling out. A very basic book... for example a very short sentence mentions suppliers pages before the process of setting up a business is addressed, then suppliers are not mentioned again!
Seems more concerned with setting up a home office; furniture, decor, what books and films to see... Jerry Maguire?!
Laughable... save your money and visit the Business Link website run by the government.
Seems more concerned with setting up a home office; furniture, decor, what books and films to see... Jerry Maguire?!
Laughable... save your money and visit the Business Link website run by the government.
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A glossy, well-packaged book with lots of photographs, many of Emma Jones herself. But unfortunately that's it - it's really just a coffee table book for would-be homeworkers. There's nothing here you wouldn't already know (eg 'What is a blog?') and some of it is laughable ('Feng shui tips for your home office'). It's enthusiastic, and makes it seem like setting up a business is a walk in the park, but skips over the various topics in a superficial manner, devoting a few words to each before making way for whole-page pics of Emma smiling at you over a coffee mug. I read the whole thing over a coffee myself, and wasn't smiling at the end. The author has obviously made a successful business of packaging & selling the concept of home-working in this way, but if you're serious about setting up a small business from home, don't waste your money on this book.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
spare room start up
The book has alot of useful information but the book itself fell apart when i was reading it. It seemed to be very cheaply manufactured and i am at present trying to get my money... Read more
Published 19 months ago by gibbo
alright context...pap binding
The book was nice and informative for someone just wanting the basics (which is me!) It has some really good informative sections on the key components to starting a business but... Read more
Published 23 months ago by C. E. Ellam
Amazing!!!!!!!!!
Easy to read. Simple instruction. Colourful. Interesting, Great book packed full of tips and excellent info. Read more
Published on 23 April 2010 by N. A. D. Evans
Small Business Start-up
A useful book that provides simple and structured basic guidance. Consists of over 200 pages but many case studies, illustrations, pictures and blank pages/sections. Read more
Published on 14 April 2010 by Mr. Ian Moncrief-Scott
Spare Room Start Up
This is an excellent book with lots of great tips and information for anyone thinking of starting a business or anyone alreday in business.
Published on 21 July 2009 by Mrs. S. L. Arnott
Great Advice, 5 Stars
I've read a lot of business start-up books and Emma Jones' Spare Room Start Up is one of the best. It has so many good tips, and the advice is succinct and to the point. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2009 by Mr. John C. Giazzi
Goos introduction to starting your business at home
Great book that is easy to follow & read. It gets straight to the point & gives concise case studies from othe home business to illlustrate her points. Read more
Published on 16 Mar 2009 by OrganicGreen
SPARE ROOM START UP
Reviewed by serial entrepreneur Valerie Dwyer, founder of My Wonderful Life(tm) Coach and other enterprises. Read more
Published on 18 Aug 2008 by Valerie Dwyer
The Perfect Business Springboard
Finally a book people can relate to, it's tough enough contemplating starting your own business but when most books are stuffy or written by larger corporate organisations in... Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2008 by Ms. R. Beswick
A Refreshing Change to the norm!!!
Just finished reading Spare Room Start Up and really enjoyed it. Having read a number of business start up books before setting up my own business I have to say what a breath of... Read more
Published on 2 Jun 2008 by D. Hoey
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