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How to Start a Business in Oregon (Smartstart Series (Entrepreneur Press).)

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This series covers the federal, state, and local regulations imposed on small businesses, with concise, friendly and up-to-the-minute advice on each critical step of starting your own business.
Customer Review: A wonderful primer on starting a business with contact information for locating startup funds if necessary.

This is a valuable book (resource) for budding entrepreneurs. It seems to try to cover all the bases for starting a small business, but it can’t do them all well in the space available between its covers. The book is only 288 pages long. If you are in the planning stages of starting a small business, then I highly recommend you get a copy of this book. Read it, study it, and outline it. There are helpful checklists to help you grasp the subjects. You will come up with a plethora of keywords and terms that you will want to google to find Web pages giving more detailed (and maybe more current) information.

I am a SCORE counselor (Senior Corps of Retired Executives) who typically does face-to-face counseling sessions three nights a month. It would really be neat if my clients would read this book BEFORE they came to their session with me because they would pretty much be “educated customers” ready to ask educated questions. Our sessions would be so much more beneficial.

My favorite chapters were:

1. Initial business concerns
2. Your business’ structure
3. Business start-up details
5. Sources of business assistance (SCORE is mentioned here)
7. Your smart business plan (and a good sample plan is included)
8. Obtaining the financing you need

The book is weak when it comes to how the Internet can be used in corresponding, hiring, and marketing. But this is just one example of how googling keywords and concepts found in the book will make the book more complete. Don’t treat the book as authoritative on the law. It isn’t. Nor was it ever intended to be. It is light on tax information as it relates to small business.

I was particularly impressed with the material presented in Chapter 2: Choice of Legal Entity. That subject is sorely ignored in most small business books, and it is critically important. It is a subject I regularly must spend a great deal of time discussing at my SCORE sessions. This book does a pretty good job on the topic.

Chapters 4 and 9 through 12 are easy to find fault with. The topic of each could fill a book. But having these topics covered definitely will help a budding entrepreneur know some of the issues they raise.

I would have liked the book more if Chapter 6 (marketing) had been less superficial. When I read it I got the impression that the author was more a public relations expert than a marketing expert. I generally categorize public relations as a subset of marketing. Marketing includes advertising, public relations, and a whole host of other promotion techniques. I did not get this message when I read the book. I also would have liked the book better if the Internet, email, and Web sites had been discussed more. But there are many books on those subjects. Therefore, I can’t complain too much about the limited discussion of computers.

When you read this book it may feel a little like it was produced on an assembly line. Maybe it was? There are 51 versions of this book sold; one for each state and the District of Columbia. Content is king, and this book has it. 5 stars! Click to Buy Now!

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Would you like to work from your home computer? I’m sure many of us here would, if not you won’t be here reading this article. In my opinion, Internet businesses is one of the best home based business that anyone could start.

To start an online business, you basically need a computer or laptop and an Internet access. I’m sure many of us knows a thing or two about using the computer, since it has been a daily routine in our life. Big companies are using computer to aid their business process and families are using computers at home to shop online and do internet banking, the list goes on.

How about making use of your computer and Internet access to make you some money off the Internet? I’m sure you and I would like the idea but you ask yourself, “Can I do it?, I only know how to surf and check emails?” I’m sure you can because I was like you when I first started. What you need is the will to learn and apply what you learn, do you agree?

Did you start your own traditional business before? If you have, I’m sure to start one you will need a huge sum of money and not only that, you will have monthly overhead. Ok, now lets put traditional business aside for the time beginning, and take a look why Internet could be the best home-based business that you can start.

To start an online business, besides having a computer or a laptop and Internet access, you need to have something to sell, either a physical product or a service. You can either create your own product and sell it online, or be an affiliate of a company and sell their products or simply buy and sell at eBay. These are some ways you can start your online business venture from home.

Unlike traditional business, the cost to start an online business is very little. You basically need, a web hosting, email account and a product to sell, all in which will cost you as little as $50 per month. This is why starting your own online business could be the best home based business you can start with basic cost of only $50 a month.

However, you may think where are you going to get your products from or how are you going to create your product. This could take time to develop a suitable product. Indeed, I truly agree with you that this can be tedious but there are always alternatives. Remember earlier I mentioned about being an affiliate and sell the company’s product? Signing up as an affiliate is one of the best ways that you can start your internet home based business. Your affiliate company will have everything ready for you, your product, website, salescopy etc. All you need to do is to promote the product or service online and leave the rest to your company, isn’t it simple?

Internet businesses is definitely one of the best home based business that anyone can start with, considering that the start up cost is so low. All you need to do is to find the right product and market it online. And in no time, you probably be making 10 times more than your monthly cost.

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