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Press Release
Monday 14 April 2008
Spare Room Start Up
Harriman House
Be your own boss - from the comfort of your own home
The home is now the UK's most popular start-up location with more than 1,400 new businesses started each week from kitchen tables, garden sheds...and the spare room!
If you dream of starting your own business from home but have no idea of what is involved, then help is at hand. Spare Room Start Up has been written by Emma Jones, creator of the UK’s home business website - www.enterprisenation.com
In this friendly and stylish guide, Emma offers all the pointers you need to turn a business dream into reality, whilst still being on hand for family and friends.
Emma recounts lessons she's learnt in starting and growing her own successful home based businesses. She also tells the story of homeworking friends who are turning over a profit in businesses ranging from outside catering to online trading, music and fashion.
With photos taken in Emma's own home showing how she has turned a home into a working office, this brand new book covers all the angles of starting a business and leading a good life, including:
- finding the right idea
- writing a business plan
- promoting yourself
- involving the family
- decorating your home office
- finding the right technology
- building a home on the web
Emma says: "After five years of working for a multinational corporation, in a job that took me all over the world, I decided to come home. I was 27. And I wanted more than anything to be my own boss, to start my own business and take control of my lifestyle.
So I cleared out the spare room, invested in a new laptop and started to make some calls. Starting a home business means you can save money and time. The average commuter will travel two and a half times around the world during the course of their working life. So, if yours is a 60 second commute imagine the savings you can make in time and money. But the first journey you'll take is with me. With this book you’ll be up and running in no time."
Emma's Top Five Tips for Home Business Success
1. Do something you love. Let your business idea be based on a passion, hobby or skill. That way it will never really feel like work!
2. Find dedicated space in the house. This will make it easier to create your ideal work environment and to switch off at the end of the day.
3. Make the most of technology. Invest in tools that make you super-efficient (there are plenty that can be bought on a budget) and use the web to promote you and the business.
4. Get out of the home office. Meet new people - including customers and suppliers - by attending meetings, shows and events. Or just pop to your local coffee shop when in need of a little human interaction!
5. Enjoy! Your commute to work takes 60 seconds and you get more done in the hours you have. That frees up time to do all the other things you like to do. Enjoy each day of being a Spare Room Start Up.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Emma Jones is founder and editor of Enterprise Nation (www.enterprisenation.com), the home business website, and has started two businesses herself from home offices in London, Manchester and rural Shropshire. Following a career with an international accountancy firm, Emma started her first business at the age of 27 and successfully sold it just 15 months after launch.
The home business website was launched in 2006, and has attracted a regular readership of more than 390,000 people and national press headlines. The site is a free resource for people starting and growing a business from home. As well as site content, there’s also a fortnightly e-news and video show.
Emma appears regularly in the media with profile pieces in Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, The Sunday Times and City AM. Also in customer magazines for Orange, Microsoft and Viking Direct, and online at Real Business and TimesOnline.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
More details can be found online at: www.harriman-house.com/spareroomstartup
For further information on this book or its author, please contact Helen McCusker in the PR department at Harriman House:
Tel: +44 (0)1730 233885
Email: pr@harriman-house.com
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