Going Self-employed: How to Start Out in Business on Your Own - and succeed!

Assess whether you've got the right characteristics to make a success of self-employment.

Learn about business plans; survival income; discounting; researching your market; targeting your customers; listening to your customers and keeping them happy; marketing and selling; promoting your business; tax, national insurance and VAT.

Further help is provided by the author's own website http://www.startbusiness.co.uk from where readers can download software to help calculate their survival income, cashflow, and profit and loss, as well as access information about start-up ideas.

In addition, there's an "Online Directory" section with useful links to other websites.