• Illustrates how to make money and keep it with time-honored strategies • Insightful real-life anecdotes to illustrate key concepts

Act on your dreams of starting a business with this lighthearted, user-friendly guide that provides expert advice on business planning, financing, legal concerns, and marketing issues--all the information one needs to become his or her own boss. Line drawings.

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A down-to-earth resource for a more-for-me life. Through practical information from an author who works about three days a week, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Working Less, Earning More will help readers get more time and more money by learning how to: • Think about the modern-day work ethic in a new way. • Set income-focused goals—and achieve them. • Build—and maintain—powerful relationships and networks. • Round out skill sets to be more marketable. • Maximize technology to minimize time spent on minutia. • Avoid time-wasters and efficiency traps.

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Starting Your Own Business, Sixth Edition will contain completely refreshed content and as well as new components that feature the basics of creating a web strategy, even for businesses that aren't focused on web commerce. In addition, this new edition will feature a chapter on leveraging social media as a tool for selling products and marketing businesses. All of the CD-ROM content from the previous edition, plus a full sample business plan, will be available to readers on the Complete Idiot's Guide® website, idiotsguides.com. Web content (formerly CD-ROM content) As with the previous edition, readers will have access to over 120 forms and documents that can be used for a multitude of business purposes. The web content will also contain new bonus chapters in addition to the updated chapters that were previously featured on the CD-ROM. Topics included in the book: ·Writing a business plan ·Obtaining critical financing and capital ·Tips on buying an existing business ·What to know when considering a franchise ·Helpful marketing tips ·Tips for social media marketing ·Ideas for increasing sales volume ·Managing employees, both good and bad ·Managing payroll taxes ·Developing an accounting strategy ·Handling credit card sales ·Developing rapport with your banker ·Doing business with China ·Managing cash flow ·Developing a sound web strategy ·What to consider when incorporating

The Clairol model and VH1 star offers herself as a role model for young women who are interested in her profession, discussing such pertinent topics as style, make-up, hair, wardrobe, portfolios, and exercise. Original.

An inclusive guide that walks a reader through the wonderful world of Web publishing as it teaches the fundamental steps in coding HTML for great Web page results. The author is a well known for his expert and entertaining explanation of computer technology.

In real estate, it's a buyer's market—and here is the buyer's bible . . . Buying a home is the single most important financial move in most people's lives. This book covers a variety of topics including inspecting, evaluating, negotiating, financing, contracts, and legal issues. It also breaks down the roles of the key players and what these professionals, agents, brokers, and inspectors are responsible for—and when to go it alone. The thorough advice, covering everything from buying houses at auctions to what neighborhood to live in, will provide reassurance for every soon–to–be homeowner. • A necessary tool for those who plan to buy homes and even current homeowners in order to keep up with an ever changing market • Will be published in time for spring, when most people start looking into buying new homes • Covers a broad range of buying options and homeowner's needs

Un pirata informático irrumpe clandestinamente en el ordenador personal del Papa mientras, en Sevilla, una iglesia barroca se ve obligada a defenderse matando a quienes están dispuestos a demolerla. El Vaticano envía un agente, sacerdote, especializado en asuntos sucios: el astuto y apuesto padre Lorenzo Quart, quien en el curso de sus investigaciones verá quebrantarse sus convicciones y hasta peligrar sus votos de castidad ante una bella aristócrata andaluza que fascina a la sociedad Sevillana. Cerca merodean tres pintorescos malvados aspiran a mantener viva la copla española. Un banquero celoso y su secretario ludópata. Una septuagenaria que bebe Coca-Cola. La tarjeta postal de una mujer muerta un siglo atrás. Y el misterioso legado del capitán Xaloc, último corsario español, desaparecido frente a las costas de Cuba en 1898...

So, you've got eBay ambitions. Do you want to become a full-time seller or make money from a side business to supplement your existing income? Whatever your ideas, you're not alone. Millions of new sellers will list their wares on eBay® this year alone. But putting an ad on eBay is no guarantee that your item will sell - 39 percent of all listings never sell - or that your online business will succeed. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting an eBay Business, Second Edition, is a step-by-step guide to creating the eBay business you've dreamed of. Not only will it help you understand what's involved in selling with eBay, but the authors also walk you through the best ways to establish and grow your online business.