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Have you ever dreamed of starting your own gift basket 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 own business. Author Shirley George Frazier, a successful home-based gift basket entrepreneur, shares her experience and down-to-earth advice on every aspect of setting up and running a thriving home-based business. She will show 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 making gift baskets for the general public or specializing in custom creations for corporate clients, this guide can help you experience the satisfaction of building your own home-based business. Learn all about: what it takes to be a gift basket professional; appealing to the ideal market; pricing competitively; outshining the competition; developing a Web site and generating traffic to your site; home office and workspace setup; getting paid. Use these special features and workbook pages: customer profile form, sample business plan, buying chart for supplies, sample purchase order, sales invoice sheet, delivery schedule form, expense analysis worksheet, extensive gift product listing.

With the race for globalization in the international business community progressing at a heated pace, America hosts some 41 million international visitors who spend over $50 billion dollars here each year. Long-term success in international business means forming a solid, lasting business relationship. But developing that rapport with clients and colleagues from abroad isn’ t as simple as sealing a big deal. Business people hosting international visitors can gain an edge on their competitors by making their guests’ visits to America as comfortable, easy, and pleasant as possible. In Do’ s and Taboos of Hosting International Visitors, bestselling author Roger E. Axtell shows you the ins and outs of hosting international business visitors. From general business protocol to the tiny details that make the difference between a good and a great host, Do’ s and Taboos of Hosting International Visitors shows you why hosting is an increasingly important business skill. You’ ll learn more than which wine to serve your French guests or how to make small talk with an Arab. The book gives you solid business information designed to make you a world-wise executive and business negotiator. You’ ll discover: How to work effectively through foreign language interpretersHow to defuse loaded and antagonistic questions about U.S. foreign policyHow to be especially adroit at conducting business with the Japanese, the British, and CanadiansHow to use negotiating tactics tailored to the culture sitting across the bargaining tableAnd much more!Do’ s and Taboo’ s of Hosting International Visitors helps you prepare for entertaining, dining, and drinking with internationalvisitors. You’ ll find appropriate gifts for and curious customs of your guests, plus quick reference lists of religions predominant in each country and their popular sports and national toasts.