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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.

The world of event planning can be alluring and dangerous at once-exotic locales, wining and dining, and people traveling without their spouses. In such situations the line between business and pleasure blurs and the nature of relationships gets cloudy. With a thoughtless act or a less-than-tactful word, long-lasting business relationships can be ruined forever. Beyond that, budgets are on the chopping block and competition for business is tight. In that environment, people often cut not just financial corners, but the ethical ones, too. There's a fine line between innocent perks and inappropriate gifts or kickbacks. Event planners today must navigate a minefield of potentially sticky situations that can easily blow up in their face. Without a professional code, lines of acceptable behavior are easily crossed. And what you do personally can hurt you professionally. Event Planning Ethics and Etiquette provides event planners with the companion they need to stay out of trouble, keep professional relationships healthy and profitable, avoid the riskier temptations of the lifestyle, and win business in a highly competitive market using ethical business practices. 7 Explains how to establish policies and codes of behavior, in the office and onsite at events. 7 Offers guidelines on when it is acceptable to accept a gift, what is acceptable, and what is inappropriate. 7 Shows how to prepare yourself, as well as your staff, for what to expect, and how to handle the unexpected with business finesse. 7 Covers business etiquette in event planning crisis management situations. 7 Helps you to avoid putting yourself and your company at personal and professional risk. 7 Features real-life examples and situations, and advice on how to handle them with poise and professionalism. 7 Includes a list of "Event Planning Do's and Don'ts.