Recommended Reading

Whether you want to create a successful web site for your business or just earn income from home, below are a section of books to get you started.

Make Your Site Sell

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Unless otherwise stated, the following books are all available through Amazon in the USA. Just click on the title of the book you're interested in for more information. Please note that a new window will open. If you are in the UK, check out http://www.homeworkinguk.com/books.htm for the UK selection, available through Amazon UK.

General Home Based Business Advice

For one of the widest ranges of books and training courses on home based working, take a look at the Independent Homeworkers Alliance. Many come with reproduction and resale rights.

The Work-At-Home Sourcebook by Lynie Arden

This indispensable directory contains information not found in any other book on the subject. The Work-at-Home Sourcebook is the only book available which gives specific information for finding, applying for, and getting home work with AT&T, J. C. Penney, and more than 1,000 other companies that routinely hire qualified home workers. Contact information, job descriptions and requirements, and details on pay and benefits are included. Other chapters cover handicrafts, franchises, telecommuting, learning how to work at home, and ideas for businesses that can be started from home with a minimal investment. All information has been updated, and over 150 new opportunities are included.

Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires by Scott C. Fox

These days it's easier, cheaper, and safer than ever to start an Internet business using readily available technology and turnkey opportunities. In this strategy-packed guide, Scott Fox reveals the powerful but simple methods he and thousands of others have used to strike it rich on the Net. Exclusive interviews with "mom and pop" entrepreneurs prove how easy it is to get started and build a million-dollar enterprise. Readers get: * a guide to e-business opportunities, including "instant e-businesses" that require no start-up capital, strategies for making money from home and turning hobbies into businesses, marketing and product tips, legal and financial advice, a list of recommended vendors plus years of expertise and experience in one easy-to-use book

Internet Riches also features an action plan for brainstorming new business ideas, and exercises to help readers determine the best moves for their particular situations and is filled with practical pointers and inspiring interviews.

Making Money With Your Computer at Home - by Paul Edwards, Sarah Edwards

Self-employment gurus Paul and Sarah Edwards have updated their popular Working from Home series with a new edition of Making Money with Your Computer at Home. Focusing on the publishing, health, finance, music, and design industries, they describe 100 viable computer-oriented home-based enterprises in part 1 and include resources for further information. In part 2, they explain how to use computers to manage finances, fulfill administrative duties, complete marketing chores, and perform other tasks.

The Stay-At-Home Mom's Guide to Making Money : How to Create the Business That's Right for You Using the Skills and Interests You Already Have - by Liz Folger

Twice as many women as men are now starting businesses; women now account for 40 percent of all American business owners. Many of them juggle career and family from their homes. This book shows how and includes profiles of home businesswomen who are achieving their dreams in many fields.

The first book written exclusively for mothers who want to start their own businesses at home, this guide describes how women can find their special niche, get started, avoid too-good-to-be-true schemes, find the best way to work with children around, and stay mentally and physically healthy in the process. read more

Books for a successful website or online business


Make Your Site Sell

When Make Your Site Sell! launched in 1999, it was instantly coined "The BIBLE of selling on the Net." Unlike other Internet marketing books that have swept the Net since then and unlike the latest/greatest "hype of the day", this one cost all of $17 and overdelivered at that remarkably low price. This philosophy (underprice and overdeliver) is the foundation of SiteSell.com and they've grown into a company that overdelivers business success through its flagship product, Site Build It!...

In 2002, MYSS! received a major overhaul and re-launched with 7 volumes stuffed with even more success-proven strategies - ideal for anyone wanting to join the 1% who know how to sell on the Net. The price? It went all the way up to... $29.95.

Whilst MYSS! remains a great read, full of useful, evergreen ideas and information, it hasn't been updated since that date and now rather than publishing a new edition, they've decided to offer all 7 volumes completely free of charge. Get your copy from http://myss.sitesell.com/websuccessstory.html

How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money by Bruce C. Brown

This new book shows you how to build, promote, and make money off of your Web site or brick and mortar store using the Internet, with minimal costs. Learn how to generate more traffic for your site or store with hundreds of Internet marketing methods, including many free and low-cost promotions. This new book presents a comprehensive, hands-on, step-by-step guide for increasing Web site traffic and traditional store traffic by using hundreds of proven tips, tools, and techniques. Learn how to target more customers to your business and optimize your Web site from a marketing perspective. You will learn to target your campaign, use keywords, generate free advertising, search-engine strategies, learn the inside secrets of e-mail marketing, how to build Web communities, co-branding, auto-responders, Google advertising, banner advertising, eBay storefronts, Web-design information, search-engine registration, directories, and real-world examples of what strategies are succeeding and what strategies are failing.

Online Marketing Success Stories: Insider Secrets, from the Experts Who Are Making Millions on the Internet Today by Rene V. Richards

Online Marketing Success Stories gives you real-life examples of how successful businesses market their products online. The information is so clearly laid out that you can read a page and put the idea into action today. Learn the most efficient ways to bring consumers to your site, get visitors to purchase, how to up-sell, oversights to avoid, and how to steer clear of years of disappointment.

Downloadable EBooks

One Month Magnate
This recommendation is for anyone still looking for an online opportunity but not interested in creating websites or pay per click advertising. One Month Magnate is written by an experienced UK internet marketer, but unusually he puts himself in the position of a complete beginner, without the benefit of mailing lists, websites and contacts, and by using just an old computer, an internet connection and his experience he gave himself 30 days. The result isn't just a vague "how to" guide but an exact blueprint with screenshots of how he earned almost £3000 in those first 30 days, with clear explanations of how to replicate the process for multiple income sources. Full details are available from http://www.homeworking-directory.com/magnate.htm

Waterhouse Report
You don't have to search online for very long to come across hundreds of different business opportunities and it can be virtually impossible, especially when you're new to it all, to work out what exactly is on offer and how realistic the claims are. And of course it would cost you an absolute fortune to try out even a tiny minority.

This recommendation then, will be of interest to everybody still searching for a successful online business. Neil Waterhouse has tested 384 "Work from Home" and "Online Businesses", and found that the simplest one creates a monthly income stream in excess of $5,000, requires less than 1 hour per day and you can start with ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY.

He lists all the best tested businesses in 'The Waterhouse Report' and gives totally un-biased results based on actually testing other peoples businesses himself thus saving you time and thousands of dollars.

He has tested every strategy listed and his own income comes from the top 5 businesses listed in the 'Waterhouse Report'. He make no money from this report as all profits from the "Waterhouse Report" are returned to fund all the continual testing of new businesses.

Inside the report you will find:
  • The best tested way to start making money with ABSOLUTELY NO MONEY
  • How to create an income of $5680 per month from home within the next 90 days
  • How he set up fully automated income streams in only a couple of days
  • How to create a big enough monthly income to finally achieve your dreams
  • How others have quit their jobs in less than 90 days using these businesses!
  • The secrets of using E-Bay
  • The simplest way to make money online using the Internet
  • The amazingly simple way to SELL your knowledge from home instead of selling it to a boss
  • How to get Really Rich in your niche by doing something you absolutely love...and how to determine 100% certain people will buy your product BEFORE you start a business
  • How you can live the Internet lifestyle...which simply means you choose when you work, how long you work, and where you want to live. NO BOSS tells you what to do for the rest of your life.
  • Why creativity has ZERO to do with online sales copy and how you can steal, swipe, and borrow everything you need to produce order producing copy.
and much more.

You can use this report to build multiple new income streams and then when you're completely finished, he will even review it for you. He'll go through it and give you suggestion after suggestion on how you can turn your strategy into a cash generating machine.

How's this for a guarantee? - If you don't make 50 TIMES the $27 cost of the report in the first 90 days from the knowledge included (remember you need absolutely no money to do this), he will personally refund 100% of your money right away.

If you're still in any doubt as to whether the ideas included could really work anywhere, just take a look at the testimonials. Unlike most glowing comments, many of these come from around the world - UK, Europe, Australia etc. and not just USA.

Full details are available from http://www.homeworking-directory.com/waterhouse.htm



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First Website Builder

Throughout the site I've frequently mentioned the benefits of creating your own website, either to publicise your own business or simply as a business in its own right. I know many of you have been put off by the idea that it is just too complicated or expensive, but I think I may have finally found the answer. The Newbie Club has produced "First Website Builder". Newbie Club took a total beginner who had built her very first Website using FREE programs and graphics - and asked her to write a book about it. Then they added a further 3 books by world renowned Internet marketing experts Joe Robson, Tom Glander and Joe Barta and created the definitive guide for anyone wanting to build their first website.

In line with all the packages I've recommended in the past, this is another one worth way in excess of the asking price of $39.95 and comes with a no strings, no questions asked, 1 year money back guarantee.

UPDATE - This package has now been updated to include a 24 part HTML Course and such website building tools as a gizmo wizard which enables you to add special effects in just a few clicks, a mini site wizard for creating a no-frills mini site in minutes and a website encryption wizard which allows you to encrypt everything on your new Website to stop content thieves and spammers.

You can find full details from http://newbieclub.com/builder/? help_for_beginners