How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-Based Business (With Companion CD-ROM)
With e-commerce expected to reach $40 billion and online businesses anticipated to increase by 500 percent through the year 2010, you need to be a part of this exploding area of Internet sales. If you want to learn about starting a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you’re simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you.
You can operate your Web-based business from home and with very little start up money. The earning potential is limitless. This new book will teach you all you need to know about getting started in your own Web-based business in the minimum amount of time. This book is a comprehensive, detailed study of the business side of Internet retailing. Anyone investigating the opportunities of opening a Web-based business should study this superb manual.
While providing detailed instruction and examples, the author teaches you how to draw up a winning business plan ( The Companion CD-ROM has the actual business plan you can use in MS Word ™), basic cost control systems, pricing issues, legal concerns, sales and marketing techniques, and pricing formulas. You will learn how to set up computer systems to save time and money, how to hire and keep a qualified professional staff, meet IRS reporting requirements, plan sales, provide customer service, track competitors, do your own bookkeeping, monthly profit and loss statements, media planning, pricing, and copywriting. You will develop the skill to hire and fire employees without incurring lawsuits, motivate workers, apply general management skills, manage and train employees, and generate high profile public relations and publicity. You will have the advantage low cost internal marketing ideas and low and no cost ways to satisfy customers and build sales. Learn how to keep bringing customers back, accomplish accounting, do bookkeeping procedures and auditing, as well as successful budgeting and profit planning development.
This manual delivers literally hundreds of innovative ways demonstrated to streamline your business. Learn new ways to make your operation run smoother and increase performance, shut down waste, reduce costs, and increase profits. In addition, you will appreciate this valuable resource and reference in your daily activities and as a source of ready-to-use forms, Web sites, and operating and cost-cutting ideas that can be easily applied to your operation. 978-1-60138-118-7 1-60138-118-2 Item #SWB-01 $39.95
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A celebration of business life itself! Beth Williams gives a bright picture of what you can achieve starting up your own business in the Net. The Web has become an integral part of our life. No wonder so many people began their exciting and often hazardous undertakings dealing with hundreds or even thousands of customers! With the books like this, it seems simply unreasonable to be in some other business.
For those who think of buying this book and rely on the opinions ‘voiced’ in the reviews like mine, I’d like to say that the whole deal is not a piece of cake. Although the author states the beginning of your own web-based business will be smooth, the Mittelspiel and Endspiel of the preparations could really exhaust you. As usual, you will face lots of paper work, legal issues, funding, security, and marketing problems. So, that’s up to you to decide if you will cope with all the difficulties that are on the way. But if you are still hesitating, grab the book and start reading! You will soon jump up from your cozy armchair and, with your tongue dry, set off to realize your new goal.
I like this kind of books. They are highly inspirational and give food for thought. Last time I read something like this, I thought of becoming a realtor — now I think of launching a web-based business with my brother. Frankly, I’ve never heard of a man saying, “This and that book showed me how to become prosperous”. However, I AM SURE this book will help me! I know there are other books, but this one was the first I read, so I have chosen it to be my guide. If I succeed, I will let all of you know.
A web-based life and work is not VIRTUAL, it’s REAL!
Comment by Artem Chobanian — November 23, 2007 @ 3:40 am
…….You read about it everyday. Newspapers, radio, television telling you about some person who can almost guarantee you’ll make $60,000 by next Tuesday if you follow their web-based business plan - not leaving your home or apartment - just using your computer. Garbage! If the plan they offer is making them $60,000, why are they telling you about it? Who needs more competition? These fly-by-night scammers are like ants at a lakeside picnic. They’re everywhere.
However, in Beth Williams new book, Web-Based Business, she will open your eyes with ideas you never thought of; costs, legalities, cautions to look out for, regulations, creating a live-wire website, and much more.
I was particularly interested in Chapter 2 – Finding Your Niche. Having tried a small business out of my home years ago, I told myself: ‘this should work.’ Silly me. Where was Beth Williams and her wonderful ideas when I was struggling, and throwing everything against the wall, hoping something would stick?
Beth’s point in this chapter is, you have to know what to put on you plate before trying to crack the internet with some hair-brain idea that will only waste your time and, probably cost you money you can’t afford.
She suggests, in her book, if you are an expert in some particular field, or can become one, you’ll have a “leg up” on your competition and less likely to fail. She also points out how critical it is to understand your “target market.” What you have to offer and where the potential buyers might be – in terms of age levels, ethnicity, education and even the income levels of your target market.
This book really touches all the bases on how anyone can be successful operating a website business. On a star rating scale of 1 – 5 (5 being best) I believe a 4 is warranted for Beth since this is the only book you will need to sharpen your web-based skills.
Let me leave you with what I thought was the best and most important six word quote in this particular chapter: Find a niche that excites you! Enough said.
Tony Evans is an author of several books and currently writes for several magazines in Utah, Arizona and Nevada.
Comment by Tony Evans — December 13, 2007 @ 3:43 pm
The Complete Guide to Understanding, Controlling and Stopping Bullies and Bullying: A Complete Guide for Teachers and Parents by Margaret R. Kohut, MSW, is a powerful examination of an issue that is impacting every school in the world and has profoundly been felt in cities like Littleton, Colorado and Blacksburg, Virginia. More importantly, the book acknowledges that when bullying of children does occur those people often ignore it that youth are supposed to depend on for protection – teachers, parents and authority figures. Yet, because a prevailing philosophy exists that bullying is a part of childhood these individuals have grown accustomed to looking the other way, which Kohurt examines in relation to numerous cases in which the students that were bullied eventually seek retaliation, causing all of society to ask “why?” This book is highly recommended reading for anyone that works with children and that is interested in altering a child’s life so that there will be no more retaliatory acts against bullies and those that appear to support them. Kohur uses her professional experience to examine the law, case studies related to bullying, the affects of bullying on children (short and long term), as well as the teacher and parental role in addressing bullies and aiding children that are their victims.
Comment by P. Spangler — December 21, 2007 @ 11:22 am
Today’s business environment has created a “self-employed” workforce – no matter if you work for yourself or for someone else. With corporate layoffs (and the global downsizing of the workforce in general), it is important for all of us to understand the individual repercussions the consequences of this change have on our work and career.
So what are the options? One option is presented in the timely book, How to Open & Operate a Financially Successful Web-Based Business. This book provides the ABC’s of how to market, develop, and design your website to assist in realizing a rewarding and lucrative business. It also comes with a companion CD-ROM.
Williams provides timely, real-world examples of the successes and failures of web-based businesses. Though there is a universe of opportunity, there is also a wide margin for failure. Williams walks though the warning signs of potential issues with web-based businesses and provides preventative measures to avoid these pitfalls. Williams also provides a skeletal foundation that will assist in developing a successful online product or service. An added bonus: the publisher is donating a portion of their profits to the Humane Society, on behalf of the passing of their beloved office canine, Bear.
Comment by Edith Knehans — February 12, 2008 @ 1:17 pm
Rating: 4 Stars
Beth Williams ‘How to Open and Operate a Financially Successful Web-based Business’ is an insightful compilation of ideas and plans of action for anyone who wants to put their business online. This book is chocked full of useful information such as creating a winning business plan to doing your own advertising. All this and more is located in this one comprehensive book. This book is detailed, well thought out and easy to read. Williams’s poses hard reality based questions asking the reader why they are starting their business and how to take an existing business online. Everything is right here from start to finish in this systematic book.
Williams will guide you through creating your own website, using search engine strategies, how to find products and so much more. By displaying the advantages and disadvantages to having a web-based business, the author gives the reader lots of food for thought. There are no get rich quick schemes here. It is all reality based and laden with facts and evidence of success. Williams gives numerous examples throughout the book on how to ensure profits and stability, finding your niche and how to flaunt it. She continuously points out that with hard work, a bit of money, time and perseverance and you too can succeed in your own web-based business.
For anyone who is starting a web-based business or just thinking of it this book is one you need to add to your business library.
Comment by Victoria Mason — March 31, 2008 @ 5:30 pm