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The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success

The Home Office From Hell Cure: Transform Your Underperforming, Time-Sucking Homebased Business Into a Runaway Success

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Author: Jeffrey A. Landers
Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 reviews
Sales Rank: 13023

Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.4 x 0.8

ISBN: 1599181673
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.0412
EAN: 9781599181677
ASIN: 1599181673

Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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Bring Your Homebased Business Back to Life!

Is your homebased business suffering from the business-killing disease of stagnation? Have you found that while you dedicate yourself 24/7 to moving your business forward, you just stay right where you are-or worse, you're beginning to fall behind?

Successful business owner Jeffrey Landers provides the defibrillator you need to jump-start your business and bring it back to life in just 100 days. This is not about a messy desk or unorganized files. This is about getting your business to operate at its true potential.

"Jeff has put together a nuts and bolts guide to getting unstuck from your dreary home office existence. Now it's up to you to get going."

-Seth Godin, co-author, Guerrilla Marketing for the Homebased Business

“Easy to read, fun to page through and packed with great advice for homebased entrepreneurs who want to make their business visions a reality. Jeff Landers can help you have a much better business.”

-W. Kenneth Yancey Jr., CEO of SCORE - Counselors to America's Small Business

"Jeff Landers treats a serious subject with humor, style and wisdom. If you have a home office, his cure is just what the home office doctor ordered."

-Jay Conrad Levinson, “The Father of Guerrilla Marketing”

Right now it may seem like the disease has no cure, but there is hope-and you're holding it.

Learn how to:

  • Identify your business goals
  • Grow your business using your expertise-become a Nexpert
  • Create time to focus on high revenue items
  • Expand your business with a real or virtual office space
  • Successfully market your business using proven tactics and strategies provided
  • Use manageable tasks to turn your daydreams into realities

      SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS!

      A portion of your purchase will be donated to SCORE,NAWBO and select entrepreneurial associations

      The Top 10 Signs You Have a Home Office From Hell

      Sign #10: “I want to hire an assistant but we'd have to share a chair.”

      If your business is expanding faster than you have the office furniture for or you are meeting with your clients in the hallway, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #9: "My husband thinks I need to get a real job."

      If your husband or wife thinks you spend your entire day chatting with the neighbors, or your mother-in-law is convinced you are running a drug cartel out of your living room, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #8: “My friends think that working at home means I never miss Days of Our Lives.”

      If you are like Rodney Dangerfield and you “don't get no respect” because your friends think you catch every episode of Dr. Phil and sleep until noon, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #7: “Starbucks is starting to encroach on my profits.”

      If you are conducting all your big meetings in the Science Fiction section of Barnes and Noble or you are working on your sixth Grande Frappuccino, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #6: “I realized today at 4 p.m. that I was still wearing pajamas.”

      If your idea of networking is talking to the cat and you haven't been in a shower or out of the house in over a week, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #5: “I could die here and no one would ever know.”

      If you worry that it might be the smell that finally gets people to inquire about your business, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #4: “Why did God invent Oprah? How are we supposed to work when Oprah is on?”

      If you are overwhelmed by the urge to climb back into bed or regularly feel a deep longing to do several loads of laundry in the middle of the business day, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #3: “No, the baby doesn't go in the playpen. Important papers go in there so the baby can't get at them.”

      If you find yourself picking Cheerios out of your laptop, chasing the kids around the kitchen while conference-calling Stuttgart, and wiping peanut butter off your client's work, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      Sign #2: I feel like I live at the office… wait! I do!

      If your workday ends two minutes before you drop into bed or you are taking 4 a.m. phone calls from sleepless clients, then you have a Home Office From Hell.

      And last but not least…

      Sign #1: “Since you're home all day anyway, I need a favor…”

      If you are picking up your wife's laundry, driving your friend to the airport, or running errands for your neighbors in the middle of your workday, then you have a Home Office From Hell.


Customer Reviews:   Read 2 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Landers Stories & Action Steps Inspire Results!   April 30, 2008
 10 out of 10 found this review helpful

This is a simple guide for anyone who works from home, or is considering that life-step. It is a good blueprint with stories and a plan any entrepreneur can follow.

The 100-Day action plan will be a great motivator for any home based business owner. This alone makes the book worthwhile. The author's step-by-step format is easily readable and helpful. This book may be an eye opener for struggling entrepreneurs who can't figure out why their home-based business is not bringing in the big bucks.

Follow the steps, look in the mirror and stick to the "Cure" ... And your business will almost certainly benefit from the information. "The Home Office From Hell Cure" is a great book for "newbie" home office entrepreneurs!



4 out of 5 stars Works for me   April 29, 2008
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I'm starting up my home based operation (part time so far). I've been following the advice so I don't end up with a "time sucking" sink hole. This isn't thew only book I'm also using other resources for specific advice, like technology resources, marketing, advertising and publicity.

So far, thanks to the advice in "Home Office from Hell Cure," I think I've successfully avoided many pitfalls. Highly recommended for newbies like myself.



5 out of 5 stars Wish I Read It Sooner   April 27, 2008
 5 out of 6 found this review helpful

My husband and I both work from home offices in separate businesses. You can tell that Jeff knows what he's talking about--he asks the right questions and gives specific advice. I especially enjoyed the the chapter on "Day 14-16", what and how to out source to improve efficiency. Best of all the advice comes with good humor and support rather than sounding like it comes from your mother in law. I'm ordering this book for a few friends who are in the same boat (different businesses!).


2 out of 5 stars I did like the "entrepreneur stories" sprinkled throughout the text. They were the one thing I liked about the book.   April 27, 2008
 6 out of 11 found this review helpful


I did not like this book. I did not like the way it was written. I did not like the way it was outlined. And I did not like the advice that it provides. It has the following 8 chapters and an appendix:

1. Is my home office really the home office from hell?
2. What kind of entrepreneur am I?
3. So you want to be a contender? A primer for growth mavens
4. I want a business that supports my greatest lifestyle! A primer for lifestyle gurus
5. Calling all growth mavens and lifestyle mavans! It's time to become a nexpert
6. How to become a nexpert 101
7. How to become a nexpert 102
8. From your "home office from hell" to a thriving, growing, innovating success in 100 days
A. The 100-day plan

At the end of this book is an advertisement that tells the reader he or she can contact the author who will provide coaching services for a fee. A Web site address is provided and more about the coaching can be learned there. I got the feeling that the author read "Coaching Millions" (ISBN: 097929320) last year and followed the system the author of that book talks about. Even his Web site kind of looks like hers.

The problems I have with this book are many. There are all kinds of home offices, and this book does not clearly explain the different kinds. Some home offices exist because the business cannot support an office outside the home. Some home offices exist because an office outside the home is not needed. And some home offices exist because an office outside the home is only needed some of the time. Furthermore, I did not find it helpful to describe entrepreneurs as growth mavens or lifestyle gurus. Sure, businesses run from home can be in need of growth. But that doesn't mean they have to grow out of a home office. And businesses run from home can be run so the founder can have a certain lifestyle. But that doesn't mean that business needs fixing.

Another problem I had with the book is how the author assumes home office businesses are consulting or infopreneur companies. At least that is the message I got when reading chapters 5 through 8 and the appendix. The advice provided was about how to get yourself recognized as an expert in your field. It talks about writing articles, writing books, and doing public speaking. I am curious what this has to do with someone who has a home office for an import/export business or an eBay retail business that uses drop shippers? The point is, the book is very sloppily written.

Most, if not many, businesses run from a home office need a great Web site. There was no discussion of Web sites in this book. There was a mention of them at page 103, but I wanted more, a lot more regarding the necessary online presence for someone running their business in their PJs. However, I did like the "entrepreneur stories" sprinkled throughout the text. They were the one thing I liked about the book.

Apparently the target audience for this book is comprised of people who run a business from home and are not successful. And the advice they should be getting is that they need a sound written business plan to help them be successful. If they don't already have a business plan, then they need to research and write one. And if they have one, then they need to take a look at it and tweek it so it can be their roadmap to success. Failure to plan is a plan to fail. This is a golden rule in business and I did not see it mentioned anywhere between the covers of this book. And I didn't see anything about business plans and how to research and write them, either.

The author says this book was written to help a homebased businessperson become more professional, productive, and profitable. This should have included much discussion of business plans. Unfortunately it did not. I liked how the author advised the readers to focus on high-revenue-generating items and let others do the grunt work. But I think that is only good in theory and not so good in practice until the business is really successful. A small business owner has to wear all the hats in the beginning. That includes marketing, operations, bookkeeping, accounting, and legal matters. 2 stars!



5 out of 5 stars Great new ideas to boost business   April 10, 2008
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Jeff Landers has an excellent understanding of what the homebased business entrepreneur needs to do to become more profitable and get to the next level. One on my favorite sections was the discussion in Part 2, "What kind of Entrepreneur Am I." It really is the basis of the level of success a homebased business can achieve. Without that understanding it is impossible to become truly successful. A very impressive and insightful business book.

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