Books are organized into the following topic areas. Just click for the topic you are interested in!
| Biz Start-Up | Business Ideas |
| Word Processing | Greeting Cards |
| Newsletter Publishing | Writing Business |
| Network Marketing | Marketing |
| At-Home Jobs | Success Strategies |
| One-Income Living |
Business Start-up
Best Home Businesses For the 21st Century by Paul and Sarah Edwards
Fail-Proof Your Business: Beat the Odds and Be Successful by Paul E. Adams: by Paul E. Adams: This could also be listed under success strategy books but WAHS feels the issues covered in this book are important to the start-up entrepreneur. This book covers aspects of running a business that are often neglected but are crucial to success. Topics include money issues, staying focuses, leadership, communication, promotion and more.
Finding Your Perfect Work by Paul and Sarah Edwards: A great resource to explore work at home options.
Homebased Businesses You Can Buy: The Definitive Guide to Exploring Franchises, MLM & Business Opportunities, Plus: How to Avoid Scams By Edwards and Zooi If you are considering buying into a home business, this book is a must. It details the different types of work-at-home businesses, how to choose one for you, and how to avoid being scammed.
Home But Not Alone: The Parents Work At Home Handbook by Katherine Murray: Covers choosing a work at home arrangement and making it work.
Making A Living Without A Job by Barbara J. Winter: Self-employment book using the concept of multiple profit centers.
Mompreneurs: A Mother?s Practical Step-by-step Guide to Work at Home Success by Ellen H Parlapiano and Patricia Cobe: Another resource for developing a work at home arrangement and managing it.
MoneyMaking Moms: How Work At Home Can Work For You by Caroline Hull and Tanya Wallace: Straight forward, step-by-step guide to help you find and start a home-based business. Section on the cost of working and child care issues are helpful. Plus, checklists help you stay organized and focused.
Start and Run a Profitable Homebased Business: Your Step-by-Step, First Year Guide by Edna Sheedy Just like the title says, a step-by-step guide through business start-up and the first year!
Starting On A Shoestring by Arnold S. Goldstein and Edward Meyers. This books shows would-be entrepreneurs how to start a business with little or no up-front money. Plus it gives step-by-step information on how to go from business idea to implementation to growth.
The Stay At Home Mom?s Guide To Making Money by Liz Folger: Self-employment resource filled with profiles of successful home working moms.
The Work-at-Home Sourcebook The Work-at-Home Sourcebook by Lynie Arden: Filled with work at home resources for telecommuting (including companies hiring homeworkers), starting a home business and more.
Business Ideas
Creative Cash by Barbara Brabec Classic book on how to turn a hobby into a home-based business.
Growing Profits: How to Start and Operate a Backyard Nursury by Michael and Linda Halan Step-by-step book showing how to turn your backyard into a money-maker.
Homebased Travel Agent by Kelly Monaghan Offers concrete facts and resources about the travel industry and how to work from home as a travel agent.
How to Start a Homebased Gift Basket Business by Shirley George Frazier Comprehensive and easy to read book to help you start a gift basket business.
How to Start a Homebased Interior Design Business by Suzanne Bewalt Designed for the beginner, this book offers information on how to get started in interior design.
How to Start a Homebased Landscape Business by Owen E. Dell Offers all the tools and strategies to start and grow a landscape business from home.
Making Money With Your Computer at Home by Paul and Sarah Edwards The first section of this book offers 100 viable computer oriented businesses one can do from home. Part two focuses on business building and management.
Solo Success: 100 Tips for Becoming a $100,000-A-Year Freelancer by David Perlstein Offers 100 detailed tips about becoming a successful freelancer.
The Independent Medical Transcriptionist by Donna Avila-Weil and Mary Glaccum Pricey but reviewers highly recommend this book as the most complete resource on home-based medical transcription.
Word Processing:
Complete Typing Business Guide by Frank Chisenhall
Word Processing Profits From Home by Peggy Glenn Complete guide for starting and running a word processing business.
How to Build A Successful Secretarial Business by Barbara Barry Contact Barbara Barry for more information.
Greeting Cards:
Sally Silagy?s Homebased Greeting Card Business Kit Contact Sally for more information.
Newsletter Publishing:
Home-Based Newsletter Publishing by William Bond A good general book covering choosing topics, marketing, and design.
Starting and Running a Successful Newsletter or Magazine by Cheryl Woodard An in-depth newsletter or magazine publishing book covering such topics as knowing your readers, developing a circulation, subscriptions, budgeting, advertising, and includes web publishing information.
The Upstart Guide to Owning and Managing a Newsletter Business by Lisa Angowski Rogak. A Business start-up guide specific to newsletters. It offers some good ideas on newsletter planning as well as basic business management.
Writing Business
30 Steps to Becoming a Writer by Scott Edelstein Provides step-by-step information on getting started, writing, editing and getting published.
Freelance Writing for Magazine and Newspapers by Marcia Yudkin Information on how become a successful writer in magazines or newspapers.
How to Write a Book Proposal by Michael Larsen Provides information on how prepare a book proposal.
Handbook for Freelance Writing by Michael Perry Provides general information on writing commercially as well as for publishing.
How to Start a Home-Based Writing Business by Lucy V. Parker Gives ideas on the types of writing needed as well as potential clients. Step-by-step information on getting started, marketing and managing your work.
Online Markets
for Writers by
Anthony and Paul Tedesco
Great resource for
making money writing online content.
Writer?s Internet Sourcebook by Michael Levin Lots of online resources for writers including clinics, job resources, research, legal issues and more.
Writer's Digest Handbook of Making Money in Freelance Writing by Writer's Digest Advise from experts on all aspects of freelance writing.
Network Marketing
Being the Best You Can Be In MLM: How to Train Your Way to the Top in Multi-level Marketing by John Kalench by John Kalench This author is well respected in the MLM arena. This book focuses on the personal "why" of network marketing and offers tips on how to build a successful organization.
How to Build a Multi-level Money Machine: The Science of Network Marketing by Randy Gage by Randy Gage This book offers lots of information on avoiding scams, choosing a company (including detailed explanations of compensation plans) as well as step-by-step "how-to" information.
Street-Smart Network Marketing: A No-Nonsense Guide For Creating the Most Richly Rewarding Lifestyle You can Possibly Imagine by Robert Butwin and Russ Devan by Robert Butwin and Russ Devan Successful network marketers explain how they went from almost quitting to being a success.
The Greatest Networker in the World by John Milton Fogg by John Milton Fogg This author is regarded as a network marketing expert and mentor. This book is told as a parable and describes one person's rise from MLM failure to success. All successful network marketers I talk to recommend this book.
Your First Year in Network Marketing: How to Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams by Mark and Rene Yarnell by Mark and Rene Yarnell This book is good because it delves more deeply into areas such as defeating depression, overcoming objections, working with others and other aspects of network marketing.
Wave 3: The New Era in Network Marketing by Richard Poe by Richard Poe There are several other Wave 3 books. This one discusses the phenomena of network marketing and the conditions (economics, society, etc) that have lead to the explosion of network marketing.
Do-It-Yourself Publicity by David E. Ramacitti: A complete guide to developing a publicity program.
Guerrilla Marketing On-line Weapons by Jay Conrad Levinson and Charles Rubin (Look for other "Guerrilla" books as well!): Lots of helpful hints on marketing your business on the Internet.
Promoting Your Business With Free (or Almost Free) Publicity by Donna G. Albrecht: Presents a variety of free and low cost ways to get your business known. (Not available through Amazon.com)
Poor Richard's Web Site: Geek-free, Commonsense, Advice on Building a Low-Cost Web Site. by Peter Kent Just what it says! This book offers everything from why have a website, how to create it and most importantly, how to get people to visit it. It is easy to read and very helpful for those of us who aren't Internet "geeks"!
Publicity on the Internet by Steve O'Keefe: Great resource to get the word out about your website. It takes the reader step-by-step on registering your site, sending e-mail press releases and more!
Breaking Out of 9 to 5 by Maria Laqueur and Donna Dickinson: This book explores working part-time, flex-time and telecommuting. It provides great information on alternative work schedule proposals.
Jobs At Home: A Complete Guide to Finding or Creating a Work-At-Home Job by Leslie Truex: Get step-by-step details on preparing for and conducting a work-at-home job search including over 100 web sites with work-at-home job postings.
Telecommute: Go To Work Without Leaving Home by Lisa Shaw: Information on telecommuting, how to talk to your boss, setting up a home office and more.
The Telecommuter?s Handbook by Debra Schepp and Brad Schepp: Overview of telecommuting, how to arrange to telecommute, jobs suited to telecommuting, a list of 100 companies using telecommuters and more!
The Telecommuting Advisor by June Langhoff Gives detailed information on successful telecommuting. Be sure to visit June?s website too!
The Work-at-Home Sourcebook The Work-at-Home Sourcebook by Lynie Arden: Filled with work at home resources for telecommuting (including companies hiring homeworkers), starting a home business and more.
Success Strategies:
Secrets of Self-Employment by Paul and Sarah Edwards Everything you need to keep organized, focused and motivated while working at home. Plus, how to overcome doubt, and develop confidence so the world will take you seriously!
Self-Motivation for the Self-Employed by Martin Edic Ideas and tips for keeping yourself motivated by keeping the work interesting, fun and meaningful.
Come Home To Your Children: How Families Can Survive and Thrive on One Income by Jones: Provides detailed studies about the value of being home and gives information on how to stay home including finding a less expensive community, cheaper housing and making money at home if needed.
Frugal Families: Making the Most of Your Hard Earned Money by Jonni McCoy: Starting with information on "Getting Home" the book covers all the ways to cut costs to survive on one-income.
Miserly Moms: Living on One Income in a Two Income Economy by Jonni McCoy: Similar to her book Frugal Families, this book offers much on frugal cooking with some great recipes. Many other money saving ideas as well.
Two Incomes and Still Broke? by Linda Kelly: Guides readers through the process of determining how much it costs you to work and how you can save money and live better on one-income.
You Can Afford to Stay Home With Your Kids: A Step-by-Step Guide for Converting Your Family From Two Incomes to One by Malia McCawley Wyckoff and Mary Snyder: Covers the costs of working, planning to live on one income, strategies for living on less, and coping with being home full time.