Home Based Businesses 6
Specific Businesses you can start at home.
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How
to Start a Home-Based Catering Business
5th Edition (Home-Based Business Series)
by Denise Vivaldo
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Globe Pequot; 5.00 edition (December 1, 2005)
ISBN: 0762738782 |
| This comprehensive guide includes
advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based catering business,
from estimating your start-up costs and finding clients to outfitting your kitchen and
staying profitable. Tips on the latest high-tech help, CD-ROM recipe books, culinary Web
sites, and computer software designed especially for chefs and caterers. Learn about
defining your market niche, selling yourself as a pro, establishing your daily schedule,
pricing your services, organizing parties with ease, honing your food presentation skills,
avoiding the 10 most common home-based mistakes and much more. |
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The
Professional Caterers Handbook: How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Catering
Business by Douglas Robert Brown
Hardcover: 600 pages ISBN: 0910627606
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company;
Book & CD-Rom edition (December 30, 2005) |
Do you need a comprehensive book
on how to plan, start and operate a successful catering operation? This is it--an
extensive, detailed manual that shows you step by step how to set up, operate and manage a
financially successful catering business. No component is left out of this encyclopedic
new book. Whether your catering operation is on-premise, off-premise, mobile, inside a
hotel, part of a restaurant, or from your own home kitchen, you will find this book very
useful.
One section of the book is devoted to home-based catering entrepreneurs. With low startup
costs and overhead, a home-based catering business can be an ideal do-it-yourself part-or
full-time business. Another section is for restaurateurs that wish to add catering to
their restaurant operation. The new companion
CD-ROM contains all the forms from the book in a PDF format for easy use, plus a 100+ page
business plan in Microsoft Word. |
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The
Business of Event Planning: Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Successful Special Events
(Hardcover)
by Judy Allen, Judy Allen
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1st edition (Sept 2002)
ISBN: 047083188X |
| The Business of Event Planning
helps event planners and their clients produce outstanding events that meet and exceed
both client and guest expectations, by going beyond the details of the event itself. This
comprehensive book explains every aspect of the business and the strategy behind
successful events. |
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Start
Your Own Wedding Consultant Business:
Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
by Eileen Figure Sandlin
Paperback: 152 pages ISBN: 1891984748
Entrepreneur Press; 1 edition (December 1, 2003) |
| Wedding consulting makes an ideal
homebased or part-time business. You don't need an office. Start-up costs are low. And you
don't need any costly special equipment. All you need is this book and a desire to
succeed. As a wedding consultant, you not only help the lucky couple create a budget and
stick to it, but you also aid them in selecting a location, caterer, entertainment, cake
and more. This book shows you what you need to know to start and run a successful wedding
consultant service, including: What licenses and permits you need, How to make important
contacts in your community, How to market your service and find customers, Tips for
handling the unexpected from the pros, How to avoid common mistakes, A walk-through of a
day in the life of a wedding consultant, And more. |
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