From establishing your business and identifying your market to knowing why you need a business plan and learning how to secure banking and credit, this comprehensive guide provides down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based DJ business. Learn all about making demos, keeping up to date with the charts, marketing strategies, and navigating the wedding industry. Whatever your plans, each chapter can help you experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based DJ business from start-up to the endgame. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Sample Price Sheet Engineering Your Lighting Setup Sample Contract and Invoice DJ Song List Sample Business Plan

From a $250,000 fête for a seven-year-old Florida girl, complete with helicopter rides, to $100,000 first birthday parties as reported in the New York Times, this is rapidly becoming the gilded age of children’s birthday parties. The cost of these events now averages between $200 and $400, fueled by pressure to “keep up with the Joneses.” Couple this surge in interest with the fact that births in the United States have exceeded 4 million each year since 2000, and you have a waiting and growing market. Planning such events has become a profession in itself. More and more, parents are turning to event consultants to plan their children’s celebrations. If you’ve dreamed of your own home business, planned parties for your own children, and want to put your creative ideas to work, this book is for you. Packed with organizing tips, guidelines, checklists, and more, How to Start a Home-Based Children’s Birthday Party Business will help you hit the ground running.

Having passion about a topic is a great reason to start blogging, but there is a lot more to it than that. This book will be able to help potential bloggers by asking the important questions needed to focus the blog. It will also set expectations so there are fewer surprises along the way. Making a blog a success can be a challenge, but it’s not out of reach for those who are determined.

The demand for skilled dog trainers has never been greater. To succeed in one of this field, you'll need more than dog expertise you'll need business savvy as well. Written for the non-business person, this book provides the information you need to start, operate, and prosper in your chosen field of dog training. Beginning with an overview of the different areas to create a dog training business, the book provides what it takes to break into and succeed in the top dog training fields. Readers learn what associations they need to become a part of as well as how to build counsel, structure, and support. Marketing information helps people expand and grow their business. Tips from a variety of established dog trainers gives this book an edge above the competition.

Whether you plan to go it alone or build a team, this book takes you through all phases of setting up and running a thriving home-based car detailing business, from estimating start-up costs to opening your doors. This book includes profiles of professional detailers and business professionals who share valuable insight on owning a business. Learn all about equipping your business, exploring web-based and traditional marketing methods, establishing a solid sales system, and expanding your own home-based car detailing business. Look for useful charts and worksheets throughout the book, including: Vehicle Evaluation Form Sales Forecasts and Cash Flow Projections Sample Estimate Worksheet Sample Bid and Invoice Client Check-In Form

Music careers go beyond being in a band or joining a world-famous orchestra. And some of them don't even require college! This volume provides readers with all the tools they need to build a career in the field of music without heading to college first. It includes some informative sidebars with exclusive job search tips and some real-life information from people working in the field. Readers are encouraged to get creative about their job searches, going beyond the "college to job" approach.

DJ RunDat is a wife, mother of 2 and a bit of a serial entrepreneur! She has found a way to juggle motherhood and a booming DJ business. Do you dream of DJ'n? Do you want to turn your hobby into a profitable business? In this book, DJ RunDat will teach you what steps to take to start DJ'n today. You will learn the steps she took to build a profitable DJ business. She reveals her secrets to turning her hobby into a profitable business. Learn what equipment options there are. What DJ software to choose. How to build and organize a musical catalog. How to get paying gigs on the regular. Learn the importance of business contracts and what to include in them. Learn how to market yourself and build a brand. In this quick read, you will learn all you need to know to get started and get paid gigs fast!