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Working from Home (Small Business Guides) (Hardcover)

by Alastair Balfour (Author), Peter Hingston (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Publishers Ltd (7 Jun 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0751314145
ISBN-13: 978-0751314144
Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 15.5 x 1.9 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 817,363 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This handbook discusses how to work from home successfully. It features practical text and advice with at-a-glance tip boxes, real-life case studies, questionnaires and checklists. The appendices offer country-specific information on legal, property, financial and tax matters.

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Working from home is the dream of many people. It offers the possibility of greater control of your life and enhanced family relationships. This new full colour book sets out the practical issues you need to consider before starting a home-based business, outlining the different ways you can get into business and discussing the many opportunities available because of the internet. The book also provides advice on designing and equipping your work space. Working from Home covers the basics of starting a business, including the legalities, then tackles the issues specific to working from home: how to get the balance right between family life and business responsibilities, and between working hard and staying healthy and motivated. This book should be read by everyone who is thinking about making this big change in their lives - and everyone who has started working from home but is struggling to make it work.

The book features helpful charts, diagrams, tip boxes, case studies, questionnaires, checklists and worked examples.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great book written with the Homeworker in mind, 4 Sep 2001

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There is something about Dorling Kindersley (DK) books. Any household whose children have received DK's unique and beautifully-made reference books will have pored over them - with both parents and offspring learning from them (even if the parents don't want to admit it). Will anyone else admit to fits of nostalgia for the excitement of their children getting their first DK book? On a wave of this nostalgia I set about reading Hingston & Balfour's 'Working from home' with relish. I was not disappointed. A fledgeling in the business community, I appreciated many aspects of this business guide in its attempts to help me to 'learn to fly'. Of course, style never ranks higher than substance, but it has to be said that the very appearance of the book makes it truly readable. This is in part because every page is broken up with photographs, tables, key quotes, checklists, case studies and the odd questionnaire. There is never a feeling of dread that you might turn the page to two sides of unbroken business prose. And yet behind the sumptuous style still lies much of substance. Hingston & Balfour are at great pains to prepare those on the brink of taking the plunge, even dissuade potential homeworkers from going it alone, and certainly highlight the pitfalls that will pave the way to running a successful business from home. In fact, I wish I had been able to read the book from cover to cover before I started out - I could have avoided some very stressful times when paperwork was reaching Tsunami heights, if I had had the authors' common sense guidance on personal organisation to follow. But don't think this book sets spider plants and nice curtains before a grasp of business basics, drawing up a business plan, or interpreting financial jargon. Hingston & Balfour consider practical issues for starting a home-based business, look at the different ways you can get into business (many due to the internet), and give a step-by-step guide to preparing a business plan. In short, chapters 1 to 4 tackle: Getting ready to begin; Taking the plunge; Adapting your home; and Getting the Balance right. The latter puts forward some very sensible advice on staving off stress and remaining motivated, and achieving a work-life balance. Chapter 5 is the sort of reference section you may well have open permanently in the early days - for working out legal and financial matters, and checking useful contacts, or the glossary. So how has the book affected my working from home? I am going to re-arrange my time to fit in some more regular exercise, once the mayhem of school holidays is over. And most importantly, I bought three folders and labelled them, 'Essential', 'Routine', and 'Big Issues' as part of my resolution to deal more effectively with incoming mail. So far I have only received 'essential' mail, and read 'big issue' material, and my green 'routine' folder is still empty. I intend to remain an 'open-collar' revolutionary.

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