Arco 50 Great Businesses for Teens

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Sarah Riehm, who has been opening businesses since she was 8 years old, believes "entrepreneurship is the best job choice available" to today's young adults. The book 50 Great Businesses for Teens: How to Start Your Own Business--and Make Big Bucks! is her no-nonsense manual for those who agree. After simply but adequately discussing the basics of management, marketing, finance, and accounting, it provides details on commercial opportunities available around the neighborhood, at school, with a computer, or through the mail. Each listing includes the personality, experience, and materials required, as well as the earnings expected. --Howard Rothman

Book Description

Forget lemonade stands! Here's how teens can make really big bucks!More than just a book of odd-job ideas, this practical, hands-on guide shows teens how they can earn good, steady money by setting up their own businesses. Each of the 50 money-making ideas includes a step-by-step guide to success describing materials needed, marketing method, expected earnings, and how to proceed. All of the ventures can be run from home, can fit into a teen's time schedule, and require little or no investment. Here are just a few of the easy-to-start business ideas included in this unique reference:- Auto Detailing- House Sitting- Pool Service- Party Helper- Bicycle Repair- Personalized Greeting Cards- Delivery Service- Mail-Order Handicrafts- Telemarketing- Tutoring- Computer ConsultantPlus: Information on marketing, bookkeeping, and taxes.Sarah Riehm started her first business at age 8 as the town organist for Richardson, Texas. Since then she has set up two restaurants, a typing service, a bus service and a record shop.

Customer Reviews:

This is a great book!.......2000-06-20

I love this book. I haven't started any business yet, but I love the ideas because they tell you exactly how to run a business, complete with information on taxes and licenses.

My favorite business listed is "Greeting Cards" because I have been making computer greeting cards for my family for years for free! If I can turn this into a business with the help of this book, I can earn big $$$!

I also liked how the author told about some teen entreprenuers and how they earned money through owning a business. I can't wait to get started!

Awesome.......1999-06-16

I read this book for some ideas to make some money and it really helped!!!!!!!!! I would recommend this book for any teenager in your house.

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'...this is the first business book to come through my desk which merits a mention of good content. ... I liked the content in the fact that it gave me an overview from a business perspective. The book brings smart information for the uninformed manager

Going Mobile gives an objective analysis of the opportunities for working smarter?while saving time and money?by using mobile and wireless applications.

Customer Reviews:

Great unbiased information.......2005-09-26

I am part of an enteprise sales team and new to the wireless mobility space. I was looking for a good book to bring me up to speed on what our customers are thinking and to find where the business value is. This book is a great unbiased primer IMHO.

ENVISIONING THE FUTURE.......2005-07-24

Envision a world where cell phones are everywhere, turning our civilization into an always-available, anytime, anywhere communicators. This is the world of mobility that is coming of age. Authors Keri Hayes and Susan Kuchinskas have done an outstanding job of presenting this wonderful technology at our doorstep.

Hayes and Kuchinskas begin by mapping the decision process necessary to proceed from developing a strategic vision for mobile data in the enterprise down to tactical questions such as what kinds of vendors to work with. Next, the authors offer a market-focused view of wireless, broken into the categories of mobile/wireless implementations. Within each category, they provide an overview explaining how a particular service is being used by various industries, and how an industry is leading the way in using mobile or wireless applications. Then, the authors provide relevant case studies that demonstrate how a particular company or agency has saved time, money, or labor by implementing the project.

With the preceding in mind, the authors do an excellent job of making you, the reader, understand the vocabulary and concepts of the mobile milieu. You'll know whether mobile is right for your company and whether it's right, right now. If you do decide to move forward, you'll be armed with a battle plan that will help you become your company's mobile hero.

A good introduction for today.......2003-10-14

Too often technology is the tail that wags the dog, and this now can be clearly seen in mobile technology. The authors work to bring together an introduction and discussion of the different flavors of mobile applications. But first, they bring you through the discussion "Are mobile applications right for my organization?" and talk about the pros and cons of the technology. And do you need always on connections or can you sync your data? Then if you say "yes" they start to walk through the technologies, capacities and problems. But it's one thing to talk about the facts, the implementation is another thing. And here the book liberally includes case studies for the technology in action. While they are great, and illuminating, I wish there were a couple of failures in the lot instead of uniformly positive studies.

One aspect I particularly appreciated was the breadth of uses of mobile applications presented. Initially it seemed to focus on the sales and service forces almost exclusively, but as we moved into other technologies and case studies, a well rounded picture began to emerge as to how going mobile can be useful in many enterprises. This book is a good primer and introduction to where this technology stands. It is especially good for the decision maker to understand the truth and fallacy of the technology in order to make more informed decisions. Worth the read in this fast paced world.

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Best Bed & Breakfast available

Most complete

Easy reading/great information

Starting a B & B is more than just clean sheets!

How to Open and Operate a Bed & Breakfast, 6th (Home-Based Business Series)
Jan Stankus
Manufacturer: Globe Pequot
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0762706570

Book Description

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own bed and breakfast? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive handbook clearly outlines how to set up and run a successful bed and breakfast in your own home. Author Jan Stankus has gathered all the best advice on everything you need to know, from getting your business off the ground to complying with current laws. Whether you have one spare bedroom or a small inn, you may soon be earning income as you welcome a steady stream of new fiends into your home. Learn all about: What it takes to be a host; setting pricing policies; organizing your business; working out of your home; establishing your daily schedule. Other special features include: health and safety checklist, marketing plan, sample web page, guest information record, cash-flow projection worksheet, business plan, income/expenses worksheet and more.

Customer Reviews:

Best Bed & Breakfast available.......2001-06-07

Found this entertaining, fun, and highly informative. If you need encouragement in starting a b & b biz, this is for you! Great anecdotes that are amusing and educational. Good advice all around. Particularly liked the checklists.

Most complete.......2001-03-29

Have you ever flirted with the idea of opening a B&B? Many people have, but most don't have any idea where to start. Jan Stankus's book will tell you everything you'll need to know whether you have one spare room or six.

I admit I was thinking about the possibility of buying a larger house than we can afford and putting the unused space to use as a B&B. I needed information, but surfing the Internet was a long and time consuming job.

I did end up with two trade journals, that I'll tell you about later, but there is no web site that has the plethora of information in this book.

This book is very well written. I actually sat down with it and read most of it straight through, like a novel. The index is so good you can easily go back to the topics you'll need if you pursue the B&B route.

Stankus doesn't pull any punches when she tells what's involved in owning and operating a B&B. I found out things like:

* the difference between a B&B and an inn

* safety concerns for yourself and your house

* zoning issues and ordinances

* insurance, fire laws, and other legal requirements

* furnishing and outfitting your home

* how to get in the guide books

* applying to and using an RSA (reservation service agencies)

* ways to market your B&B business

* what's involved in the B&B lifestyle

* your competition - how to find it and use it to your advantage

* how to price your rooms

* determining your start-up costs

* amenities - what are they and do you need them

Included are: some useful web sites; a state-by-state list of the RSA's; U. S. & Canadian tourist offices; and a number of various work sheets.

Stankus also deals with issues such as allowing pets or children as guests, medical concerns, food preferences and allergies.

There is enough information to give a reader a solid background in how a B&B works.

Here are some other sources if you're enamoured of the idea of a B&B:

* look for local or regional classes (many times taught by owners of B&B's)...

As always, Globe Pequot's "How To" series is chock full of useful information, reasonably priced, and delivers more than expected. I've decided B&B (or innkeeping) isn't for me. But, if you want to explore the option for yourself, I can't think of a better book to start with.

Easy reading/great information.......1999-06-02

After taking a seminar in Opening a Bed and breakfast, I found this book to be very informative and influential in my decision of opening my own Bed and Breakfast soon. Realizing it will take a few years to get it up and running successfully, I know that this will be my goal and I feel I will be very successful in this endeavor with the help of my husband.

Starting a B & B is more than just clean sheets!.......1997-06-23

A terrific book for the person thinking of starting their own Bed and Breakfast! Stankus has supplied a cornucopia of useful information. From sample forms to listings of help organizations in the B & B field, including suggestions on how to make your B & B successful! Sprinkled throughout the text are comments by actual Bed and Breakfast hosts/hostesses. How To Open and Operate a Bed & Breakfast is a straight forward guide to help the novice successfully achieve their goal of opening a B & B. A great book to read with a highliter in hand. I look forward to other editions.

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A complete incorporation kit under one cover, the book contains a detailed blueprint with all forms and instructions necessary to incorporate a new or already existing business in Minnesota. This guide covers Minnesota profit corporations, Minnesota professional corporations, Minnesota not-for-profit corporations, Subchapter S corporations, and Delaware corporations. It explains in clear and simple language how to use the corporation as a tax shelter; how to limit personal liability through the corporate form; how to obtain tax-free dividends, receive tax-free medical services and health and life insurance benefits; and how to retire with maximum pension benefits. The Appendices include all needed Minnesota incorporation forms, gold leaf stock certificates, sample bylaws (not generic ones, but ones conforming to Minnesota law), and sample minutes for the initial organizational meetings of the directors and shareholders.

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Human resource practitioners are repeatedly faced with the challenge of effectively using language to clearly describe the work performed on a job. Functional Job Analysis--an internationally recognized and respected job analysis method --has been meeting this challenge for more than forty years. In this book, the authors show how human resource practitioners can use structured task statements and comprehensive rating scales to gain the perspective needed to map the domain of any job. In response to the demands of human resource practitioners, the book focuses on the seven scales used in Functional Job Analysis. More than 450 structured tasks were used to illustrate the breadth and scope of all the levels of these scales. These tasks can be used effectively as benchmarks to chart the work requirements of virtually any job. Personnel practitioners will find insights into the challenges of job analysis, as well as the tools needed to make job analysis more comprehensive, useful, and effective for human resources. br br Representing the most comprehensive information to date on the use of Functional Job Analysis scales for rating job tasks, this book: br *addresses the problems of using language to clearly describe how work is performed on the job; br *describes the relation between the need to carefully control the language of job analysis and the structure inherent in the Functional Job Analysis Worker Function scales--a conceptual link showing the reader that the key to understanding work is in the vocabulary used to describe work; br *contains the most comprehensive treatment of the way to write clear and comprehensive task statements available in the job analysis literature; and br *contains a sample task bank for the job of Functional Job Analysts--aiding the reader in understanding how a complete Functional Job Analysis should look. br

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Planning your estate is one of the most complicated endeavors you'll ever undertake, yet its results are also the most far-reaching; after all, it will continue to affect those you care about long after you no longer can. So it's worth understanding all the options and ramifications, being personally involved, and doing it right. This Nolo Press guide to estate planning is an excellent source of information on the many various details and considerations that you need to take into account--such as children and probate, estate and gift taxes, second marriages, and a wide variety of trust options (charitable, generation-skipping, spendthrift, living, and educational, for starters). It delves into the factors that affect married people versus single, the laws regarding children, types of beneficiaries and wills, plus joint tenancy, life insurance, retirement benefits, taxes, and organ donation. Showing a number of sample estate plans, explaining what hiring a lawyer can do for you (and how to choose a good one), how to do your own research, and including a glossary of estate-planning terms, Clifford and Jordan give you the tools to decide for yourself how you want your estate disposed of--and to make sure that's what your legal documents reflect. --Stephanie Gold

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The most comprehensive estate planning book available, Plan Your Estate covers everything from basic estate planning to sophisticated tax-saving strategies for people with estates worth up to $1,200,000 or more. It demystifies:

• probate avoidance
• living wills
• estate tax saving trusts
• funerals and burials
• federal estate and gift taxes
• charitable remainder trusts
• durable powers of attorney.

This useful book includes valuable information about estate-tax savings and family "pot trusts." Good in all states except Louisiana.

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The most comprehensive -- yet easy to read -- guide to estate planning on the market! Plan Your Estate covers everything from the basics of wills and living trusts to sophisticated tax-saving strategies. The authors give you straightforward, plain-English explanations of every significant estate-planning option available, so you can make the best decisions for you and those you love. The book covers: federal estate and gift taxes trusts used to control property left to beneficiaries charitable remainder trusts durable powers of attorney living wills funerals and burials Completely updated, the 7th edition discusses new state estate tax rules, the new "disclaimer trust" for couples who aren't sure whether they need an AB trust, educational saving plans for kids, transfer-on-death deeds to avoid probate for real estate - and much more. Good for all states except Louisiana.

Customer Reviews:

excellent book.......2006-11-07

As a student at Yale Law School planning to go into estate planning, I found this book very helpful. Highly recommended for anyone who needs to plan their estate or for law students taking estate tax or planning courses. This book is easy to understand, well organized, and provides a good amount of detailed information, not just vague ideas. Highly recommended.

Excellent resource.......2005-09-06

This book is a must buy resource for persons interested in estate planning. Whether you are planning to do-it-yourself or use a lawyer, it is good to know what your options are. I am much better informed after reading this book.

Comprehensive Estate Planning Techniques.......2005-01-08

This book provides an easy to understand overview of estate planning plus easy to understand detail on many special circumstances. It is very easy to understand which estate planning techniques are right for you, and there are many examples that illustrate how the techniques work. Approximately half of this book is relevant to everyone. The other half gives clear, common sense explantions of advanced planning techniques that are typically reserved for those fortunate enough to be planning a high net worth estate (lets say $1M+). The advanced techniques are not for do it yourselfers, but the book gives you a good understanding of the issues and lets you converse intelligently with an attorney.

A "must-have", "do-it-yourself" legal resource.......2004-12-13

Now in a newly updated and expanded seventh edition, Plan Your Estate is a resource provided by attorneys Denis Clifford and Cora Jordan which is packed from cover to cover with everything anyone needs to know to ensure their worldly goods are promptly willed to loved ones. Written in no-nonsense terms that the non-specialist general reader can readily grasp, individual chapters clearly address wills, how to avoid probate, living trusts, property-control trusts, naming guardians for children and leaving property to children, estate taxes, living wills, how to reduce estate taxes, and much, much more. Especially recommended for individuals who own a business or who have children from a former marriage, Plan Your Estate is a "must-have", "do-it-yourself" legal resource, which is applicable to all American states except for Louisiana. Even those who prefer to let a professional handle the whole process of estate planning would be well served to read Plan Your Estate cover to cover, before stepping into an attorney's office where time is money and the clock is running.

very good study guide and book.......2004-06-15

Great for law students taking an estate planning course or an estate and gift tax course. Also good for people wanting to learn about estate planning in general. I would recommend this book.

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