How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business, 3rd

by Lucy V. Parker, Karen Ivory (Editor)

Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based writing business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive guide contains all the necessary tools and strategies you need to successfully launch and grow your own business. Author Lucy Parker, a successful home-based writer, shares her experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business. She shows you how to develop a business plan, estimate your start-up costs, price your services, and stay profitable once you're in business. From painless record keeping to savvy marketing techniques, her step-by-step methods are realistic, innovative, and easy to understand. Whether you want to earn your living writing advertising copy, producing flyers and brochures, or ghostwriting, with this guide at your side (or next to your computer) you may soon experience the satisfaction of building your own home-based business. Learn all about: Honing your writing skills; buying the right computer equipment; getting clients and referrals; effective networking; using the internet as a resource; bidding competitively; outshining the competition; controlling start-up costs; establishing a daily schedule; getting paid. Other special features include business-success worksheets, prospect-information forms, estimating forms, job-log and job-control forms, assignment checklist, guidelines for software selection and more. (7 x 10, 336 pages, worksheets)

Genres: Writing, Reference, Business, American, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1994

Reviews

[Joseph · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucy V. Parker explains the requirements, the challenges and the rewards of a home-based writing business in an easy, logical and insightful way without overwhelming the reader in any way. The book was quite enjoyable and I found it very motivating and gratifying as well with the highlighted real-life examples of successful freelance writers that Parker profiles to substantiate her smart explanations.

The content is quite current although this 4th edition is a 2004 publication. This is because, much of the author's advice are standard rules with basic common sense and smart research perspectives which makes the book a good reference guide for people planning a career in writing.

However, for those seeking a more current guide-book of this nature, a 5th edition published in 2008 is available and perhaps, another updated edition is in the pipeline; slated for publication within this year or next I reckon.

Overall, this is a neatly packaged, down-to-earth and cleverly written handbook. The bibliography alone is value for your money.

[wordLife · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this book VERY useful in helping me think about and plan the next steps towards developing wordLife.

[Robin Bull · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was very, very basic. It wasn't anything that a person can't find online for free.