Book Review — Spare Room Start Up

One of my favorite past times is reading. My only problem, I don’t get to do as much as I would like. Recently I had the pleasure of reading a new book about working at home from the publisher of Enterprise Nation Emma Jones.

The book, Spare Room Start Up: How to Start a Business from Home is a wonderful, concise, well written, fun to read collection of hints, tips, how-to’s and case studies. It really hits on what you need to know and what you need to do to run a successful business from your home.

Spare Room Start Up: How to Start a Business from Home is organized by three key themes, business, lifestyle and technology. Emma uses photos of her own home office and the interaction taking place between her and those she works with. And she reminds us to make sure we don’t overlook the importance of taking care of ourselves as we take care of business.

My only regret about the book is that Emma lives in the UK so I will have to travel to actually meet her. She is one of those individuals that just gets it and reading Spare Room Start Up: How to Start a Business from Home gives you a great picture of what she knows and understands about running a successful home based business.

The Home Office from Hell Cure - The Book

I recently received my copy of Jeffrey A. Landers new book, The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success

Jeff uses humor and down to earth discussion to deal with issues we all face working from a home office. The material in this book will make a big difference to those who read it in starting and growing their homebased business.

You can purchase your copy by visiting the links provided. In addition, I have two copies of the book. I would like to give one of them away. So, leave your comments here as to why you should be the one to get it. I will pick a winner and mail it to you.

The Super Affiliate Handbook

While I would never promote any “get-rich-quick” product. And certainly appreciate the fear of home based business scams. I can honestly say, this is a great product. I have read Rosalind’s book and it is wonderful. I am very comfortable recommending it to the readers of Home Office Warrior. Rosalind Gardner also has her own blog on Internet marketing called, NetProfits Today Blog.

SuperAffiliateHandbookRead the amazing true story of how one woman, with no previous business experience, earned $436,797+ in 2002 and now earns MUCH MORE than that … just by selling other people’s stuff online!

In her down-to-earth, sincere and often humorous style, Rosalind Gardner guides you through the entire process of building an affiliate marketing business on the ‘Net.

Frequently revised and updated to reflect industry changes, the Super Affiliate Handbook now consists of 236 pages and 124 screenshots that will show you step-by-step how to become a Super Affiliate. You’ll learn how to pick the best affiliate programs, negotiate a commission raise and save time, money and effort on everything from affiliate software to web hosting.

To learn exactly how she does it, Click Here.

Escape from Cubicle Nation — Paperback version

images.jpgEscape from Cubicle Nation announced today that the Escape from Cubicle Nation book will be published by Penguin Portfolio. Pamela states it will be available Spring 2009.

The book will be a comprehensive guide for making the transition from corporate employee to entrepreneur. It will cover not only the nuts and bolts of starting a business, but also guidance on how to get through the fear and anxiety that accompanies the process. Just the kind of stuff we talk about here on the blog!

This is one you should pre-order. It should be a great book as Pamela’s blog is also great. Congrats!!

Book Review — The Obsolete Employee

images.jpegOne of the books I have been reading recently is Michael J. Russer’s The Obsolete Employee: How Businesses Succeed Without Employees - And Love It!.  It is a great book which really will give you the courage to operate your home business without employees.  As I have mentioned before, the Home Office Warrior is an ideal business model where using a Virtual Assistant fits right in.  Russer shows the reader how to discover the secrets of how to: 

  •  Give your business an edge that your competitors could never hope to match.
  • Substantially reduce your overhead, including wages, employee benefits and the need for office space.
  • Quickly grow your business to nearly any size with an incredibly talented staff of skilled professionals that you do not have to train or manage.
  • Make your life easier and your work more enjoyable by being able to focus on what you love to do, instead of worrying about day to day office politics and hassles.

The book is well written and very appropriate to today’s climate of doing more in your home based business without the need or want of employees.   I can not recommend this book enough.  If you want to read more about this great book or purchase it, just click on the link of the book’s title above and it will take you right to Amazon.