How to Start a Home-Based Senior Care Business: *Develop a winning business plan *Market your unique services to families *Create a fee structure *Develop … care manager (Home-Based Business Series)
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How to Start a Senior Care Business shows how to start and run a profitable, ethical, and satisfying home-based business in the field of senior care. The book covers the range of senior care businesses that are increasingly in demand today.
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Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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Keep your hard-earned money in your home business!
Completely updated for 2009 returns
Tax deductions are essential to any business, but even more so when your office is also your home. Don’t spend thousands on an accountant –turn to Home Business Tax Deductions and do it yourself!
Home Business Tax Deductions will help you write off:
your home office
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Review by Informed Eldercare Decisions for How to Start a Home-Based Senior Care Business: *Develop a winning business plan *Market your unique services to families *Create a fee structure *Develop … care manager (Home-Based Business Series)
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New business start-ups providing services to the elderly is one of the fastest growing sectors of the 21st century. Would be eldercare entrepreneurs look at the abundance of demographic data and see a well-documented need for services to elders and their family caregivers.
While operations requiring large capital investments such as nursing homes and retirement communities are developed by investors with deep pockets, a wide range of specialized eldercare services is still very much a “cottage industry”. Professional membership organizations such as the National Association of Prtofessional Geriatric Care Managers, and the National Association of Elder Law Attorneys,have a membership consisting of either solo practices, or are very small business ventures with only a few owner/employees.
It is tempting to look at the research data and conclude that the market for services to an aging population is vast. The National Alliance for Caregiving in collaboration with AARP published a study last year (November 2009) that estimates there are at least 43.5 million caregivers age 18 and over, equivalent to 19 percent of all adults, who provide unpaid care to an adult family member or friend who is age 50 years or older. .”
After all, isn’t the basic formula for building a successful business “find a need and fill it?” Although “find a need and fill it” sounds like a logical approach to a prospective market niche, it is not a sound revenue model for an eldercare business. It’s clear that the need for eldercare services is huge and growing rapidly. But to survive as independent business owners, eldercare entrepreneursl must look more closely at the data and embrace a more realistic philosophy.
Need doesn’t pay the bills, Demand” does.
And the size of the market of those who can actually pay for eldercare services out of pocket is a much smaller number.
James L.Ferry’s How to Start a Home Based Senior Care Business is a must read for anyone contemplating an enterprise aimed at providing services to elders and their family caregivers. In less than 150 highly readable pages, Ferry a successful eldercare entrepreneur for nearly two decades, covers everything from turning your personal experiences into a business, the income realities of a new business in this very competitive marketplace,the variety of business models to consider and more than 2 dozen succintly written chapters that cover everything from developing your business plan,marketing the business on a shoestring budget, setting up your office, keeping the books, setting fees, building a referral network using guerilla marketing techniques and using the latest technology to build a successful business.
In my 25 years as an eldercare entrepreneur I’ve reviewed dozens of books that offer lots of advice to family caregivers and eldercare professionals. How to Start a Home Based Senior Care Business Start is by far the most practical handbook for the small eldercare business owner I have seen.
Bob O’Toole, President
Informed Eldercare Decisions, Inc.
Dedham, MA
Review by James May for Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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I wish I’d had this before I started my business. Plain english explanations and chock full of good tips. This book more than paid for itself the first day!
If you are starting a business in your home, you NEED this book. Especially if you find TAX laws confusing this will be an immense help. Preferably read it before you officially start. It will save you a bundle.
Indexing is excellent; very easy to find what you want and the explanations are clear and concise.
Definetly recommended.
Review by John Matlock for Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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This book starts off with a very good description of what this book is all about: John and Jane both gross $50,000 a year. John gets $40,000 after taxes, Jane gets $45,000. The difference – John works for someone and goes into work. Jane works at home and gets to deduct her home office expenses.
The IRS allows you to deduct your expenses of maintaining a home office. At the same time, the IRS rules are fairly comples, and home office expenses are often overstated or subject to outright fraud. So the IRS tends to look at them fairly carefully, they have been known to come to your house to see what your office looks like.
This book, updated to be current for 2006, explains the rules as written down, the rules as actually followed and gives you some tips as to what you should, shouldn’t, must, and mustn’t do. Beyond the official rules, which are messy enough, there are more or less unknown rules, i.e. computer software that you buy is written off one way (well actually two or three ways), software you create, either for yourself or for sale, is handled quite differently.
This book is well written, simple to read and up to date with current law.
Review by Traveler for Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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I’m working on my schedule C and 8829 and every so often I get to a question I don’t understand. I go to the IRS instructions and their web site and it’s as clear as used motor oil. It’s enough to drive you insane.
Picked up this book and it’s spelled out in plain English. No need to read a passage five times to understand.
As others have stated, you need this BEFORE you start your business and you need it a year before you do your taxes. In other words, it will help you along with your 2006 return and you can learn from it on how to do a better job for 2007 by keeping the right documents and receipts in order to get even bigger legitimate deductions. I know I wish I’d had this book last year!
With that said, this is not a line-by-line assistant for Schedule C and the 8829 which I wish it was at times. There are just times when the IRS uses a specific term on a specific line and it would help to have a layman’s definition at hand. I didn’t get that with this book. Nonetheless, it’s been one of the best sources of information I’ve found for doing one’s self employment tax forms.
Review by Susanna Hutcheson for Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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If you’re in business for yourself, you better buy this book. It wasn’t as complete as I thought it should be. But I did learn that I was not taking all the deductions that I could. So it more than paid for itself.
Suggested reading.
Review by barry for Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
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This book was a god send for me. There are so many types of businesses around today. Due to the internet there are now many people who conduct sales that make their status above that of a hobby but not that of a small business with employees, health insurance etc. I am one of those people. Sales from the home. Me and a friend do it and we have to file taxes as a business. But what are we, what must we file and how do we protect ourselves.
The book explains it fully. We are a home business and finally we have a resource that lays everything on the line for all like me. Not only must taxes be filed for any business but you must register your store name etc. I had found other resources that seemed to be good but as they went further into things they catered the info to small businesses. This book is so much more than a dummy guide. It truly leads thru all the processes a home business must go thru as well as provide a wealth of information to do taxes correctly so that you keep the money you earn.
If you are a home business and scratching your head in confusion this book is a MUST !!