Descriere: For all of the millions of Americans who are out of work, soon to be out of work, or wishing to be freed from unrewarding work--here is the must-have book that will show you how you can make a living by working when, where, and how you want.
Newly revised and updated, Barbara J. Winter's guide to successful self-employment is now more relevant than ever before. Drawing on the techniques and ideas of her popular seminars as well as her own thirty years of business expertise and that of other successful entrepreneurs, Winter offers the practical, proven way to launch your own profitable venture. Her indispensable advice ranges from why creativity is more important than capital to how to avoid the most common pitfalls of self-employment and how to develop multiple profit centers. And for this new edition, she has added timely advice on topics including:
-how to find opportunity in a chaotic economy
-why smart, small and spunky is the 21st Century business model
-using the Internet to open the door to fresh opportunities
-the best resources to help you create and grow a business that is uniquely your own
-how to leave Employee Thinking behind and build an Entrepreneur's Mindset
-and much more Here are all of the tools you need for getting the most profit out of life both professionally and personally.
Autori: Barbara Winter | Editura: Bantam | Anul aparitiei: 2009 | ISBN: 9780553386608 | Numar de pagini: 288 | Categorie: Careers
Elizabeth Doty
The Compromise Trap: How to Thrive at Work Without Selling Your Soul
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Some of the Web's pithiest advice on building a successful translation practice. Translation is the grandest, most foolhardy enterprise that humans can engage in. Done right, it can also be a lucrative and intellectually satisfying career. Fire Ant & Worker Bee (Chris Durban and Eugene Seidel) have over five decades' combined experience in the translation business. They firmly believe that skilled translators benefit from adopting an entrepreneurial outlook, sharing insights and experiences, and investing in themselves. In their column in the Translation Journal, they have dispensed no-nonsense advice since 1998 on topics ranging from successfully navigating the freelance/agency divide to finding direct clients, raising prices, kicking implicit content into explicit shape, mastering office clutter and translating in the nude. Readers from translation company owners to students just starting out have found Fire Ant and Worker Bee's advice invaluable. See comments at www.prosperoustranslator.com
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