How To Start A Home Based Antiques Business

Learn how to set up and run a successful home-based antiques business, including locating antiques, pricing, marketing, and staying profitable. Worksheets and checklists help entrepreneurs get organized and achieve their goals.

For those who want to be their own boss, change careers, or add excitement, challenge, and a boost to Social Security in the retirement years, starting a home business is the perfect option.This series provides the tools to help launch a successful home business and keep it running in today's competitive environment. Like having a personal business advisor, each title in this series provides insider information from professionals who have done it themselves, including: -- Essential information on start-up costs, self-evaluation, and zoning regulations -- Advice on how to attract first-time customers, maintain a loyal client base, and price services competitively and profitably -- Easy-to-use worksheets and questionnaires to help entrepreneurs focus on success, plus sample business forms -- Listings of contacts, organizations, and phone numbers of people in the trade -- Internet sites as sources of information, marketing and selling, and making contacts

Learn how to set up and run a successful home-based antiques business, including locating antiques, pricing, marketing, and staying profitable. Worksheets and checklists help entrepreneurs get organized and achieve their goals.

This comprehensive primer for the home-based antiques enthusiast provides valuable tips for starting a business, including insider information on taking consignments, how to tell the real thing from junk, different ways to obtain stock, and how to price, display, and merchandise items. Illustrations. Worksheets; charts.

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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own home-based antiques business? Have you been hesitant to put your plans into action? This comprehensive book contains all the necessary tools and success strategies you will need to launch and grow your business. Author Jacquelyn Peake shares her experiences and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based antiques business, from estimating your start-up costs and finding customers to staying profitable once you are in business. Use her handy worksheets, checklists, and forms to achieve your goals in a realistic way. Whatever your plans, large or small, with this guide at your side you may soon experience the satisfaction of establishing and building your own home-based antiques business. While not searching for and refinishing antiques, Jacquelyn Peake is a writer specializing in how-to books and travel articles. She is the author of Globe Pequot's "How to Recognize and Refinish Antiques for Pleasure and Profit", and lectures throughout the country on antiques, book publishing, and writing.

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