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Be Your Own Boss: How to start doing what you love: a guide to being a successful solo enterpreneur(TY Business Skills)

Be Your Own Boss: How to start doing what you love: a guide to being a successful solo enterpreneur(TY Business Skills)

          
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Is this the right book for me? From weighing up the pros and cons of jumping ship in the first place to establishing and maintaining a successful solo enterprise, this book is all you need to make the leap to working alone. All aspects of setting up a new business are covered including: - managing resources, time, clients etc. - establishing good working practices and maintaining a desirable work/life balance for those who choose to work from home. - getting the financial aspects right - one of the biggest pitfalls in going it alone. - being a 'five to niner' - building up a business in your spare time while still employed. Practical examples of best (and worst) practices are provided, gleaned from interviews with dozens of people from across the globe who are successful solo workers. Be your own Boss contains hundreds of relevant examples and genuine, tried and tested tips and practices which really work. Be Your Own Boss includes: Chapter 1: Weighing options Chapter 2: Are you cut out to be your own boss? Chapter 3: Staying put Chapter 4: Quitting your job Chapter 5: What becoming your own boss actually means - and how to do it Chapter 6: Setting up your solo work life Chapter 7: Effective home working Chapter 8: Accentuating the positives of being your own boss Chapter 9: Maximizing home-office potential Chapter 10: Targets and planning Chapter 11: Mobile working Chapter 12: Working 5 to 9 Chapter 13: IT for the solo worker Chapter 14: Accounting for successful business Chapter 15: Dealing with clients Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and interactive features: Not got much time? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Author insights Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. Extend your knowledge Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of the subject. Five things to remember Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. Try this Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

Table of Contents:
•: Introduction •: Weighing the options – should you stay put or is it time to leave? - pros and cons of quitting, do you have what it takes to go solo? •: Staying put – how to improve your situation – and your salary, working from home •: Quitting your job – deriving maximum benefit from quitting, strengthening ties, sharing contacts, lining up future work, taking the leap, becoming the MD of your own life •: Future paths – same career but with a new company, a different career with a different company, same career or different career but going solo •: What going solo actually means and how to do it - baby steps, doing what you do best, turning your passion into your job, accentuating the positives •: Setting up your solo work life, shared office vs. your own space, renting an office, working from home •: Effective home working - using your home as your office, home life vs. work life;separation and synergy, time & space, creating your environment, maximizing efficiency in your workspace •: Maximizing home-office potential - achieving the best work/life balance, the advantages of home working – and how to leverage them, the disadvantages of home working and how to avoid them, avoiding distractions, prevarication & transference •: Targets & planning - why conventional business plans don’t work for solo workers, creating a soloist’s roadmap, setting realistic targets; optimism vs. realism, problem solving strategies, charting your position and plotting a profitable c •: Dealing with clients - creating the right impression, project management, streamlining your working practices •: • Mobile working - increasing flexibility, minimizing costs, virtual’  businesses •: Maximizing soloing potential -downtime and how to use it to your advantage, exercise in the workplace, learnings from wage slaves, commuting (to the room next door), •: Working 5-9, - •: IT for the solo worker – information, communication, instant response •: • Funding - finding what’s out there,  applying for grants and loans, •: Insurance for the solo worker - protecting the bottom line, coping with barren spells, •: Breaking the rules - the rules for solo workers, why they were made to be broken, how to break them to maximum advantage •: Reasons you are bound to fail (and other excuses) - •: Maximizing your assets -recognizing your assets, protecting your assets, building new assets •: • Research - the soloist’s approach to market research,  quantitative & qualitative vs. formulative •: Dealing with clients - •: Celebrating your successes - •: Conclusion •: 20 reasons to be cheerful •: 20 things to do when you’re bored •: budget psychometric profiling


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781444111842
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Teach Yourself
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 285 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1444111841
  • Publisher Date: 28 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Series Title: TY Business Skills
  • Sub Title: How to start doing what you love: a guide to being a successful solo enterpreneur
  • Width: 130 mm


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