Yacht Design School – Lesson 19

Business Management Part 1:

The Small Design Office & Basic Investment Principles

Revised 03/23/2007 – Copyright 2007

 

Books To Be Read With This Lesson

Beating the Street by Peter Lynch

Learn to Earn by Peter Lynch & John Rothschild

L.L. Bean Catalog

The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko

One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch

 

Tools for This Lesson

Microsoft Office Professional (complete office management software package)

HP Deskjet Printer (with duplex printing attachment)

Epson Stylus Printer (with full color CD/DVD printing capability)

 

What You Will Learn In This Lesson

 

                Small Office Management

Setting Fees for Custom Designs

                Setting Fees for Stock Plans

                Qualifying the Design Customer

                Design Agreements

                Setting Fees for Publications

                Office Space

                Promotion Through Technical Writing for the Yachting Press

                Advertising

                Self Publishing of Technical Books and Design Catalogs

                Responding to Custom Design Quote Requests

                Introduction to Promotion Through the World Wide Web

Customer Support

Financing Differently Than Other Businesses

 

Investment Principles

                Investing for Financial Independence

                Real Estate or Boats

                Mutual Funds

                The Stock Market

                Businesses

 

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