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    Running a Good Business, Book 5: Setting Up Shop
    Running a Good Business, Book 5: Setting Up Shop
    Running a Good Business, Book 5: Setting Up Shop
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    Running a Good Business, Book 5: Setting Up Shop

    By Claude Whitmyer

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    Book 5 in a collection of short, hands-on guides to managing the ins and outs and ups and downs of starting and growing a small, micro or one-person business driven by personal values and offering the unique lifestyle of self-employment.

    In this book, we go over the planning and setting up of your business "cockpit" -- the control center of efficiency and effectiveness for the everyday management of your good business.

    Table of Contents
    --
    Setting Up Shop
    Chapter 1: The Choice -- To Work At Home Or Away Chapter 2: Office At Home, With Family -- Special Considerations
    - Spillover
    1. Reducing Noise.
    2. Avoiding Interruptions.
    3. Providing Adequate Child Care.
    4. Maintaining Good Communication.
    Chapter 3: Office Layout
    Chapter 4: Rules For Organizing Your Space
    Chapter 5: Furniture And Fixtures
    - Lights
    * Placement
    * Quality
    - Chairs
    - Desks and Working Surfaces
    - Storage Systems
    * On The Wall
    * Knock Down Cubes
    Resources
    About the Authors
    What Should You, The Reader, Do Next?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherClaude Whitmyer
    Release dateJun 7, 2011
    ISBN9781452467207
    Running a Good Business, Book 5: Setting Up Shop
    Author

    Claude Whitmyer

    Claude Whitmyer is the co-author of Running A One-Person Business, and editor of two anthologies, Mindfulness and Meaningful Work: Explorations in Right Livelihood and In The Company of Others: Making Community in the Modern World. As a business consultant with more than 30 years of experience, he has provided resources, training, and guidance to many hundreds of individuals seeking creative and meaningful work in both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors. He has also worked with managers in such corporations as the American Hospital Association, Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu America, NASA, Pacific Bell, and Southland Corporation.

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      Running a Good Business, Book 5 - Claude Whitmyer

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      Book 5, Running a Good Business: Setting Up Shop

      By Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes

      Published by FutureU Press, a division of The University of the Future, LLC

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright © 2011 by Claude Whitmyer and Gail Terry Grimes. All rights reserved.

      License Notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of the author.

      This ebook is not meant to be a substitute for legal or professional advice. It is the reader's responsibility to verify that the facts and general advice in this ebook apply.

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: The Choice -- To Work at Home or Away

      Chapter 2: Office at Home, with Family -- Special Considerations

      Chapter 3: Office Layout

      Chapter 4: Rules for OrganizingYour Space

      Chapter 5: Furniture and Fixtures

      Resources

      About the Authors

      ~~~***~~~

      Setting Up Shop

      Planning and creating the physical space for your business is an important task. So important, in fact, that we devote several chapters to various aspects of it. In Book 6: Choosing Your Equipment, we provide advice about how to decided on equipment and how to choose the best equipment for your purposes. In Book 7: Organizing Your Space, we deal with retail, distribution and manufacturing space requirements and layout. In Book 8: Organizing Information, we focus in on creating filing and storage systems and managing the flow of information into and out of your business. Finally, in Book 17: Using Technology, we go into considerable detail about technology choices. This chapter focuses on setting up the cockpit, to use an airplane metaphor, the control center for getting all your management and communications work done efficiently and effectively.

      If you are just starting your own business, or if you are moving to a new or bigger location, you have a million little details to work out. All businesses need headquarters but for a small, micro or one person business having the best possible office environment is critical. Your workplace must be conducive to getting the job done efficiently and, depending on your type of business, it must be pleasant enough to spend a lot of time there and neat enough for clients to visit. Different businesses need different accommodations, so in this chapter we

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