Table of Contents
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1. Your Future Awaits
Why this Book at this Time? - Something for Almost Everyone - New Trend: Call of the Country -
Defining this Rural Renaissance - How to Squeeze the Most From this Resource
2. Contemplating the Great Adventure
Exploring the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Rural Life - Sharpening Your Focus on What's Involved
3. Seven Criteria to Measure Your Move
Deciphering the Cost of Living - Coping with Crime Risks - Wending Your Way Around the Weather -
Health at the Crossroads - Investigating Environmental Concerns - Putting Leisure in Your Life -
Evaluating an Area's Infrastructure
4. Turning the Dream into Reality
Cashing Out with Your Urban Equity - Four Walls and a Small Fortune - Quit Work and Live Off My
Proceeds? - Places, Patterns, and People - Narrowing the Field - Hitting the Research Trail -
Planning Your Visit
5. Checking Out Rural Edens
Finding More Resources - Tactics for Testing the Waters - Choosing Your Specific Dream Home or
Land - Working Through a Broker - What to Look for in a Country Home - Pointers for Picking Parcels
of Unimproved Property - Living on the Land
6. Letting the Small Town Viewpoint Work for You
Developing a Mind-Set for Change - Attitudes: Yours and Theirs - Sorting It Out and Settling In -
Overcoming Negative Feelings Toward Outsiders - Losing Your Anonymity - Child Care in the Boonies -
More Differences - Being a Big Fish in a Little Pond
7. Cultivating a Satisfying Social Life
What's Your F.Q. (Fun Quotient)? - Recreation and Entertainment Tips - Let the Internet Broaden
Your Horizons - Dealing with the Family Issue - Making New Friends - The Virtues of
Volunteering - Ingenious Ways to Enrich Your Life
8. Evaluating Your Entrepreneurial Options
Determining if You Have Self-Employment Potential - Exploring the Alternatives - Brainstorming to
Break Your Barriers - Occupational Variety to Add Spice to Your Life - Turning Avocational
Pastimes into Regular Paydays - What's Your Passion? - Making the Most of Your Money - Diversify
to Multiply
9. Researching for the Right Opportunity
Taking the First Easy Step - Tracking the Trends - Sleuthing As You Schmooze - Detection Methods
Worth a Fine Ransom - Flushing Out Sophisticated Facts
10. Buying an Existing Business or Professional Practice
Finding a Suitable Business - Evaluating Prospective Ventures - A Warning to the Wise is
Sufficient . . . - What's a Body to Pay?
11. Investigating the Franchise Alternative
Fertile Fields - Separating the Wheat from the Chaff - If Home Is Where Your Heart Is - Matchmaker,
Matchmaker - Finding Specific Help - Putting Franchisors Under the Microscope
12. Home Suite Home: The Information Age Option
Who's Working from Home and Why? - Achieving the Three "F's" - Making It Work for You - Using
Equipment as Your Staff - Designing Your Perfect Home Office and Getting Organized - Cottage
Industry Coexistence: Melding Business and Personal - All That Glitters Isn't Gold - Zapping the
Zoning Ordeal
13. Telecommuting: Bringing Your Job Home
Understanding What It Is - How Telecommuting Answers Personal Needs - From the Corporate
Perspective - Communities Also Benefit
14. Generating Capital to Launch Your Venture
Tapping into Personal Resources - Reaching Beyond Yourself - Money from Heaven - Securing
Conventional Bank Financing - Franchise Financing: Using the Team Approach - Getting the
Government on Your Side - Enterprise Zones: Waiting Bonanzas - Developing a Business Plan -
More Funding Ideas
15. Pivotal Start-Up Considerations
Business Structure Options - Name Registration Requirements - Licensing and Regulatory
Procedures - The Telephone: Lifeline to Opportunity - Location, Location, Location -
Miscellaneous Details - Business Incubators as Early Guardians - Locating Reliable Suppliers -
Prospecting for Qualified Employees
16. Image Building: Creating Powerful Attention Getters
Establishing Your Image - Deciding on a Seemly -- or Sensational -- Name - Creating a Winning
Slogan - Generating Logos, Letterhead, and Business Cards - Evaluating Signage Needs
17. Persuasive Marketing Strategies to Boost Your Bottom Line
"Positioning" Yourself for Greater Profits - 21 Ways to Separate Yourself from the Herd -
Developing an Effective Marketing Plan - Budgeting: How to be an Astute Spender - Secrets
for Capturing Free PR - Devising Dynamic Promotional Events - Prospecting on the Internet -
Advertising's Exciting Options - More Innovative Sales Techniques
18. Finding a Rural Job: Gutsy Strategies Mother Never Told You
Getting Off on the Right Foot - Molding Your Career Focus - Resources to Ease Your Quest -
Planning Your Job Search - 24 Tips to Enhance Your Chances - Choosing a Company That's Right
for You
19. Tactics for Staying Prosperous and Happy
Community Involvement: Reaching Out -- Getting In - Mingle Management: The Art of Networking -
Growing Your Business - Outsmarting the Isolation Factor - Remaining Mentally Stimulated -
Staying Abreast of Your Industry
State Tourism Offices and Chambers of Commerce
A list for all 50 state tourism offices and chambers of commerce.
Government Sources
Business and commerce resources, other government agencies, Small Business Administration (SBA)
contacts, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) offices, federal grants and loans, and
miscellaneous government information.
Private Sector Help
Resources on home-based businesses, telecommuting, education, lending sources, associations,
selected suppliers, and manufacturers' representative contacts.
Bibliography/Recommended Reading
Overview
What people are saying
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