Wholesale Distribution Business

There's Money in the Middle!
You like doing deals and making money, but don't care much for the retail grind? You should be the middleman-the wholesaler-the one who buys goods in volume from manufacturers and sells them to retailers at a profit. With millions of products on the market already and new ones coming every day, the wholesale economy has plenty of room for growth.
This guide reveals how to start a thriving wholesale operation, specializing in any industry you choose-and how to run it from your kitchen table, if you'd like. You'll learn:

• How to make contact with manufacturers and retailers
• Which product lines will bring maximum success
• Insider secrets for overcoming the competition
• How to take advantage of the internet's growing role in distribution
• Effective strategies for increasing profit margins

You'll also get sample forms, step-by-step instructions, checklists and work sheets to guide you smoothly through each stage of the startup process. It's a straight shot from where you are today to owning and running your own business-and you can start right now.

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Virtual Assistant

Virtual Assistant - The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA sets the stage for starting, operating, and growing a successful and PROFITABLE virtual assistant business. This book has already helped thousands of administrative assistants, word processors, and other office professionals realize their dreams of becoming an entrepreneur.

The book covers all the business nuts and bolts including business and financial planning, pricing your services, billing, and setting up your business. Plus, it offers information on creating your web site, daily operational procedures and most importantly, how and where to find clients. Discover how to put your existing skills to work for clients around the globe and apply them across many different industries.
Still working full time? You can still do it! We'll show you how to ease into your practice while working full-time AND continuing to care for your family.

Along with their personal experiences, the authors also include recommendations from virtual assistants across the land. These are the real pros that are now running successful businesses. You will find their suggestions in the "In Their Own Words" section at the end of each chapter and featured throughout the book. This will enable you to see how others are making their businesses successful and provide you with a blueprint on how to do the same with yours.

Cited as a "must have tool" for the VA industry, Virtual Assistant - The Series is currently used as training material for VA courses including: Virtual Assistance U, an online training center for virtual professionals; Red Deer College's VA Certification Program (in Canada); and other higher level learning organizations and colleges who are recognizing the potential for growth and continued education in the VA industry.

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Staffing Service

Harnessing people power for profit
Staffing has become the second-fastest-growing industry in the United States, largely by serving a lean business world in which companies are forced to downsize and merge in order to stay competitive. The work still has to be done, but now outsourcing to staffing services, especially for specialized business and technical skills, covers it.
This hands-on guide, from Entrepreneur magazine's highly successful StartUp series, shows the budding entrepreneur how to set up and operate a firm that can supply person power for a narrow or broad range of business needs. Among other topics, Start Your Own Staffing Service covers:

• Different types of staffing services and the markets they serve
• Researching the market to find a lucrative niche
• Determining the best financing, location, and business plan
• Recruiting and retaining top-quality staffing personnel
• Attracting and keeping high-value clients Whether it serves a huge market, such as office and clerical personnel, or a niche market like engineering or medical specialties, a staffing service can be a real revenue producer for a savvy businessperson who is knowledgeable about matching people's skills with the needs of businesses.

 

Wanted: Skills Moguls!
Would you like to be a mover and shaker in the fifth fastest growing industry in the country? If so, starting your own staffing service just might be the answer.
The new world economy is tough on job security. Hordes of skilled, experienced, motivated workers are flooding the marketing, looking for work. And lots of merged and downsized companies now outsource the work that used to be done by permanent employees. The bright side? It's a prime time for the staffing professional.
You can choose among a number of staffing service specialties, including:

• Facilities staffing--placing employees in long-term or indefinite-length assignments
• Industrial staffing--specializing in manual laborers, food handlers, cleaners, assemblers, drivers, tradespeople, machine operators, etc.
• Office/clerical staffing--focusing on secretaries, receptionists, administrative assistants, word processing and data entry operators, etc.
• Temporary staffing--supplying client companies with workers on a short-term basis
• Temp-to-perm staffing--offering clients a convenient way to try out temporary workers for permanent positions

Whatever your interest, Start Your Own Staffing Service is your key to becoming a skills gatekeeper. This book provides everything you need to know before joining this booming field, including how to recruit high-quality workers and high-value clients, which skills are most in demand, what successful entrepreneurs have to say about starting and running a staffing service, and much more.

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Seminar Productions Business

Be Your Own Boss and Sell Your Expertise
Did you ever think you might be able to make money leading seminars to teach others what you know? Or promoting a dynamic speaker who motivates the crowds? Many people pay top dollar to attend seminars that teach them how to do something faster, better, more easily or more profitably-which gives you a great opportunity for profit.

Even though it's a young industry, already hundreds of thousands of people a year are paying, or are being sent by their companies, to learn how to do everything from stress management to computer skills, from basic math smarts to super sales techniques.

This hands-on guide, completely updated with the latest trends and newest information, details how to plan seminars, webinars, and teleseminars for yourself or someone else from start to finish. Learn how to:

• Negotiate for great deals on halls, hotels and conference rooms
• Promote a business with almost no cash investment
• Use ingenious PR tactics that will draw attendees-and profits-like a magnet
• Test-market your subject matter before spending a dime
• Develop and sell CDs, books and other profitable materials

People who promote and produce seminars are making huge profits-and so can you! Get in on the action in this booming field today.

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Medical Claims Billing Services

Low startup requirements make this a great homebased business!

As insurance regulations and paperwork requirements get more complicated, doctors and other health care providers are turning to third-party billing services to take care of their billing needs. It's an $18-billion dollar industry that's growing like never before creating a growing niche for entrepreneurs who are experts at tunneling their way through the paper avalanche.

Americans now spend about $1 trillion a year on health care and the bill is sent out to collect every dollar. Why is that important to you? Because doctors have trouble collecting what is owed to them by patients, insurance companies, medical groups and hospitals. They're buried in paperwork, complicated Medicare and Medicaid documents and insurance forms they must deal with daily.

What’s the remedy? More and more doctors are paying billing experts to handle their paperwork. This creates a growing niche for entrepreneurs who are experts at tunneling their way through the paper avalanche. As a billing specialist, you will help clients fill out claims forms to make sure patients get all the benefits they rightly deserve; then you'll transmit claims electronically, directly into the computers of HMO and Medicare, short-cutting the handwork that slows down many claims and gaining automatic priority over claims submitted on paper. With referrals from doctors and hospitals, your billing service can grow quickly. In fact, with health-care needs accelerating, the demand for your services will grow by leaps and bounds-along with your profits. 

This start-up guide teaches you everything you need to know to get into this perfect starter business, including:

With expert advice from medical claims billing professionals and the latest industry information you'll learn everything you need to know to get into this perfect starter business including:

• Researching the market
• Calculating startup and operating costs
• Finding clients
• Getting referrals
• Demystifying medical jargon
• Dealing with insurance carriers
• Telecommuting options and online work
• Professional networking

 Startup requirements and costs are minimal, opening the door for anyone to get started in this lucrative field.

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Information Marketing Business

Take Your Information and Turn It into a Six-Figure Income
A six-figure income from information? Yes! It sounds easy because it is. You've got information that millions of others are looking for and now you can learn how to package, price and sell it.

The experts at Entrepreneur take you step by step, jumpstarting your thinking about your area of expertise and showing you how to convert it into a high-demand information product. Following the example set by today's most successful information marketers, you learn the ins and outs of running your own information marketing business using proven strategies and effective marketing techniques. Whether looking for a side business or a full-time venture-information marketing is a flexible, lucrative business that you can start any time, and everything you need is right here.

• Choose from a wide range of information products or discover what information you already have to sell
• Capture the perfect market-one that is looking for your product
• Determine your selling price
• Learn from real-life success stories
• Get started right away with a listing of dozens of information-marketing resources and vendors

Everything you need to know to create your own information product is already inside you. Now, let Entrepreneur help you turn it into big profits!

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Information Consultant Business

Many business people need critical information but don't know where to find it. Sure, it's readily available on the Internet, but most businesspeople don't have the time or staff to wade through a million Web pages searching for hard-to-find information.
That's where the information consultant comes in. If you're a whiz at tracking down information online or in libraries, database or government archives, why not use your skills to start your own information consultant business?


This step-by-step guide shows you how to become an information consultant and make big money helping corporations, institutions and even other small businesses answer questions about industry trends, developments, mergers, markets and other topics. This book provides all the tools you need to start, run and grow your own profitable business, including:

• Tips on identifying markets, establishing pricing and promoting your business
• Cost-cutting ideas, common mistakes to avoid and lists of helpful resources
• Useful sample forms, checklists and work sheets to guide you through every aspect of the startup process
• Secrets for quickly finding valuable Web sites that most people don't know about
• Tricks for distinguishing reliable information resources from bogus ones

Looking to profit from your ace fact-finding skills? This book, part of Entrepreneur magazine's highly regarded Startup Series, is your key to success!

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Import / Export Business

Go Global. . . Without Leaving Home!

Importing and exporting are trillion-dollar industries-but that doesn't mean they're just for big business. In fact, small businesses make up about 96 percent of this field. Get your share of an ever-expanding economy with the essential advice in this top-selling guide. 

As a successful import/export agent, you can net a healthy six-figure income by matching buyers and sellers from around the globe, right from your own home. This book is loaded with valuable insights and practical advice for tapping into lucrative global markets.

Importing is not just for those lone-wolf, footloose adventurer types who survive by their wits and the skin of their teeth. It's big business these days more than $870 billion in goods and services, according to the U.S. Department of Commerce. Exporting is just as big: In one year alone, American companies exported $349 billion in merchandise to 226 foreign countries. Everything from beverages to commodes and a staggering list of other products you might never think of as global merchandise are fair game for the savvy trader.

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But the import/export field is not the sole purview of the big guys. According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, large companies sell only 4 percent of all exports. The other 96 percent  the lion's share of the business is wide open to the startup entrepreneur.

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As a top import/export agent, you can net a healthy six-figure income by matching buyers and sellers from around the globe, right from your own home. This book is packed with valuable insights and practical advice for tapping into lucrative global markets, including overviews if the op foreign markets to help you get a running start. It covers every aspect if the start-up process, including:

• How to collect money from overseas transactions
• Using the internet to simplify your transactions
• How the government can help you find products and customers
• Essential trade law information to keep your business in compliance
• How to choose a customs broker
• Proven methods for finding contacts in the United States and abroad

Tricks of the trade from successful importers and exporters and hundreds of valuable resources help you become a player in the lucrative world of international exchange. 

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Grant Writing Business

Grant writing is a billion dollar industry full of profitable business opportunities! Serving as the link between funders and grantees, professional grant writers are quickly becoming valuable partners to fundraising and philanthropy associations. Use this comprehensive guide to learn the art of researching, preparing and submitting winning grants as well as finding and maintaining clientele and grant projects. Learn how to:

• Identify grants and contact funders
• Write persuasive proposals that win funding
• Create a comprehensive grant proposal following step-by-step instructions and samples
• Develop a successful business plan-including home-office guidance, office technology, business startup basics and more
• Market your business for less than $100

Also includes a comprehensive resources listing, a four-stage guide to writing funding proposals plus insider tips and techniques. This is a must-have resource for new or experienced grant writers looking to expand their talents and take their careers into their own hands!

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Freight Brokerage Business

Freight brokerage is an easy-to-start, profitable business. It's even easier with these helpful hints on market research, choosing a location, financing, finding customers, hiring employees, and more. This edition includes updated information, additional resources, and current contact information.

Write Your Own Ticket to Success Matching Carriers to Shippers

Looking for an easy-to-start business that can turn a profit in a very short time? Then you should definitely consider starting a freight brokerage business. The majority of goods shipped in the United States are sent by truck. Without freight brokers, most of those goods would end up sitting in a warehouse or on the docks. As a freight broker, you’ll match carriers with shippers and make a healthy fee in the process. A freight brokerage business is simple to start. You d’t need specialized education or knowledge of the shipping industry, and you can run your business right out of your home. Our book tells you everything you need to know, including:

* How to find reliable carriers
* How to successfully market your services
* What rates and commissions you should charge
* Record-keeping requirements
* Tips for hiring staff
* Techniques for growing your business
* Common pitfalls and how to avoid them

This book also includes a glossary of common terms, real-life tips and hints from successful freight brokers, and preprinted forms and work sheets you can use in running your business.

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Freelance Writing Business

Your Talent. Your Terms. Your Own Freelance Writing Business

Are you ready to free yourself from commuter traffic, office hours and boring writing projects? Then it's time to take your writing career into your own hands-and start your professional freelance writing business! One of the fastest and least expensive homebased businesses to start, the business of freelance writing lets you turn your writing talent into professional independence-set your own hours, choose your own projects and take charge of your income! This complete guide arms you with all you need to know to not only start your freelance writing business but to make sure it's a success. Learn how to:

* Start your business instantly and for little money
* Operate your business using freelance business basics and rules
* Choose your writing niche
* Use your writing expertise to advertise and find clients
* Increase your income by improving your writing skills and expanding your client base

Start your freelance writing business today-and begin earning income tomorrow!

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Executive Recruiting Service

Connect Candidates with Clients for Profit!

When companies go looking for top business talent, they hire a “headhunter”-an executive recruiter. Executive recruiters are experts at locating star job candidates, leaders and managers of a caliber rarely discovered by the usual recruitment sources. And because business is growing more competitive each day and becoming more demanding of top-flight leadership and decision-making skills, companies are increasingly turning to executive recruiters to help them find the talent they need to stay competitive.

This comprehensive guide reveals the strategies used by the best executive search professionals in starting and running their own successful placement services. There are more tricks of the trade in this business than in many others-and we'll reveal what you really need to know:

• How to network for both client and candidate leads
• The difference between contingency and retainer fees
• How to approach prospective candidates
• Little known characteristics to look for in executive job candidates
• The latest industry trends and fee information

Learn how to find the best talent for hire-and make good money doing it.

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