This is a friendly and stylish, full colour guide which focuses on the specific issues that affect home business start ups. Have you ever dreamt of starting your own business? Dreamt of working from home, a ten second commute, the flexibility to work when you want to, and the joy of being your own boss? This book can show you how to turn those dreams into reality in just a few simple steps. With serial entrepreneur and home business expert Emma Jones as your guide, you will discover just how easy it is to start and run a successful business from your spare room. Organised by three key themes - business, lifestyle and technology - "Spare Room Start Up" provides you with simple solutions and demonstrates the ease and low cost with which a home business can be started. You can find out how you too can enjoy the rewards of running a home business whilst leading a happier and healthier life. Advice and suggestions are interspersed with quick tips, illustrations and real life case studies from successful home business owners. You can uncover the lighter side of working from home as well as the benefits and rewards of becoming a "Spare Room Start Up"!

Emma Jones is founder and editor of Enterprise Nation (www.enterprisenation.com), the home business website, and has started two businesses herself from home offices in London, Manchester and rural Shropshire. Following a career with an international accountancy firm, Emma started her first business at the age of 27 and successfully sold it just 15 months after launch. The home business website was launched in 2006, and has attracted a regular readership of more than 250,000 people and national press headlines. Emma has written for Enterprise Nation since its launch and also for the Financial Times, City AM and customer magazines, including for Orange, Microsoft, BT and Viking Direct. Emma is regularly called upon by the government to speak on the subject of home business and she advises Regional Development Agencies on how to encourage and support homeworking.