How to Start a Business and Be Your Own CEO
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"A very practical guide with many options and ideas to consider for starting a business, this book is an easy read lots of great nuggets you can actually use. For those considering starting a business, many ideas are outlined that we may not have considered. By outlining sound business principles, the author allows us to come to our own conclusions while sprinkling the content with live examples and stories."-- Diana M. Needham How to Start a Business and Be Your Own CEO explores trends in entrepreneurship, with practical information on how to plan and launch a business. Provides useful information on topics such as finance, marketing, home business tax deductions, finding a suitable business idea. Includes bibliography. Business start-up handbook covers a range of topics including self employment, small business, business basics, micro business, how to get started, home business, planning, home business tax advantages, business ideas, business mentors, wellness business, green business, food truck, airbnb, pet business, cleaning, home maintenance, why start a business, franchising, network marketing, affiliate marketing, multiple businesses, sole proprietor, marketing, networking, finance, debt management, pay as you go, types of business structures. Includes bibliography.
Deborah Gorman
Deborah is a holistic life coach and Reading Instruction Specialist who helps people to have a better quality of life. She is an entrepreneur who has started several businesses and is the author of Essentials of Starting Your Business, published in 2017 by Business Experts Press, and two previous books as well as numerous blogs. Prior to the advent of the Internet, she got her start in writing as a newspaper correspondent in Wisconsin.Deborah is a retired pastor who is originally from the Midwest, where she served congregations in Minnesota and Wisconsin for many years. She has an M Div degree from the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary.Deborah is most likely to be found on Linked In, Google+, and Smashwords.com.Deborah is a servant leader who is passionate about her faith, and active in her church. She is a mom and grandma to six grandchildren and currently makes her home in North Carolina. Deborah loves books, gardening, hiking and travel.
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How to Start a Business and Be Your Own CEO - Deborah Gorman
Acknowledgements
Thank you to friends from Chapel Hill Leads for graciously taking time to answer a few of my questions about their businesses: Elizabeth Burke, Bruce and Sarah Vance, James Asbill, Maryanne Hubbard, Doug Linn, and Don Emmett. I appreciate your help. Also, thank you to pro ebookcovers for the cover design.
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Preface
Over the course of my working life, I have started a number of small business ventures. When I was in college I began to feel bored and restless. I'm an entrepreneur at heart. I have a strong spirit of independence and prefer to be my own boss rather than working for others.
My first enterprise was partnering with my husband as a commercial beekeeper and honey producer for several years. We wanted to live simply like pioneers and raise our food organically. We were outliers then, but now the movement towards organic and green businesses has gone main stream.
After that, I have worked as a freelance writer and photo journalist, pastor, a private reading instructor, online book seller, author, and network marketer.
Some have been more successful than others, but I have learned from my failures as well as my successes. Some have been more successful than others, but I have learned from my failures as well as my successes. The book started with some blogs I wrote from my own experiences in business. My purpose in writing is to provide a guidebook to the basics of getting started in business that touches on some current trends in entrepreneurship.
How to Start a Business and Be Your Own CEO is an idea book that explores possible concepts for business start-ups. Drawing on your own unique experience, talents and skills, is the way to find your own business niche that is right for you. Above all, a business should be based on your own interests and passions.
As a handbook, How to Start a Business and Be Your Own CEO provides helpful information about the start-up process, and the basic steps to planning and launching a business.
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Downsized? Start a Business, and Employ Yourself
Every beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
-- Seneca
In the fallout after the Crash of 2008 and the Recession that followed, millions of people lost their jobs due to downsizing or business closure. Being unemployed long-term, for months and even years became a common situation as there simply were few jobs available, certainly nowhere near enough to meet the demand. For many, months of fruitless searching and sending out resumes became a frustrating, demoralizing ordeal of continued rejection.
Long-term unemployment particularly affected those persons who were 45 years and up in age. They remained the lingering casualties of the Great Recession as they doggedly persisted in seeking work, sending out resumes, while trying to keep a positive attitude in the face of repeated rejection.
Some believed that if only they could be granted an interview, they were certain that they would be hired. They experienced a range of emotions, from bewilderment to frustration, anger and depression. There was an amazing amount of passivity expressed as well, as they soldiered on in their belief that just sending out enough resumes must eventually result in an interview and a job offer. But sadly that was not the case.
The struggles of Mike, a draftsman, Elizabeth, a health care writer, and Julie an account manager to cope with their situations were typical.
Mike had used continuing education to upgrade his skills, but still found no job offers, for several reasons, including his age, being passed over for younger applicants with more experience, or as a result of positions being outsourced overseas, and so on. Yet Mike was inflexible, apparently unwilling to try other occupations, in denial and sinking farther into depression.
Elizabeth, on the other hand, had been more flexible and was hired for several positions in addition to freelancing, but she was nevertheless unable to secure a permanent job. Over a number of years Elizabeth continued to cycle in and out of employment.
Julie relocated to be closer to family, but had no success in finding a position that matched her qualifications. She was able to get by through a combination of Social Security and a part-time position.
There were no easy solutions. The fact is that this age group was vulnerable for a number of reasons, including the high cost of health care insurance for their age group, as well as the rapid pace of change. Over the course of their working life time, the certainty that one can expect to have one career until retirement has vanished.
Certainly flexibility and a willingness to change and adapt to changing conditions are essential to survival at any age and in any economy. Jim Rohn said, In order for things to change, you have to change.
There comes a time when one must come to terms with things as they are and accept the reality for what it is and then decide what one can do about it. For starters, making a conscious decision to be in control of your future, rather than waiting for someone else to come along with an offer for you can be the beginning of freedom, and taking back your life.
One solution to being jobless is to create your own employment by starting a business. It's not a simple solution by any means, but it can be a way forward. For those who have the grit and determination to be persistent and work long hours for no pay check in the beginning.
Unemployment benefits for some are more than a safety net, as with careful management, they are a resource which can be used to leverage a business start-up.
Some long-term unemployed individuals