Describes 101 popular home-based businesses, exploring the planning, set-up, management, and technical requirements of each and offering advice on designing effective Web sites and optimizing Web marketing opportunities.

Filled with the latest information on Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and other key social-media sites, this all-purpose guide provides specific strategies and tactics that focus on building business. In addition to marketing and PR, this resource addresses recruiting, risk management, cost, and other key business issues. Marketing, sales, public relations, and customer-service professionals within any business will learn how to save time and develop a weekly checklist of social-media priorities, connect social-media sites together, attract the right job candidates, and help improve customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. Keeping a close eye on return-on-investment, this clever resource promises to help market-savvy businesses outpace their competition.

This updated and expanded edition provides everything readers need to know about establishing, growing, and maintaining an online enterprise, from start-up costs to targeted advice on how to run scores of different businesses. The book includes case histories and testimonials from more than 50 entrepreneurs reflecting the business owners' experiences, success, and failures.

100 ways to tap into social media for a more profitable business In Social Media 101, social media expert and blogger Chris Brogan presents the best practices for growing the value of your social media and social networking marketing efforts. Brogan has spent two years researching what the best businesses are doing with social media and how they're doing it. Now, he presents his findings in a single, comprehensive business guide to social media. You'll learn how to cultivate profitable online relationships, develop your brand, and drive meaningful business. Brogan shows you how to build an effective blog or website for your business, monitor your online reputation and what people are saying about your business online, and create new content to share with your customers. Presents specific strategies, tactics, and tips to improve your business through improved social media and online marketing Looks at social media and the wider online universe from a strictly business perspective If you aren't using the Internet and social media to market your business and stay in touch with your customers, you're already falling behind. The Social Media 100 gives you 100 effective, proven strategies you need to succeed.

Live the Lifestyle of Your Dreams! Are you hoping to build a better life for you and your family? Can you see yourself here? I could use some extra money to take a cool vacation or buy my kids something they really want. I dream of taking a chance on one of my own ideas and turning it into reality. I'm bored and have extra time on my hands. I'm looking for a way my whole family can work together. Imagine earning thousands more each year--all in your free time. Thousands of people have found a way to live the lifestyle of their dreams--and now you can, too. Over a hundred weekend entrepreneurs share their secrets. It's all the information you need to forge your own path to the life you deserve.

Presents the basics of commerce on the Internet, with an examination of several successful businesses, technical information, a guide for determining risk and prioritizing, and promotion techniques for 101 different profiles.

"Contains material adapted and abridged from The everything start your own business book, 4th edition, by Julia B. Harrington"--T.p. verso.