A. William Benitez has owned and operated one-person businesses for over thirty years. He owned woodworking businesses in Tampa, FL and Austin, TX for over 20 years. In this book he shares all his years of experience in the woodworking business to help you avoid the common small business mistakes that keep woodworkers from making a profit. For those just beginning, this book contains a helpful Getting Started chapter. For others who are already operating a woodworking business and may be struggling to profit from their skills, there are six additional chapters filled with detailed information, a preface, an introduction, a glossary, and a personal notes section that will help you with every step toward profitability Woodworking Business 101: A Basic Business Guide For Woodworkers serves as an excellent beginning with the basics of the woodworking business and including all other aspects of the business of woodworking such as licenses, local and federal taxes, best ways to deal with suppliers, setting up bank accounts both checking and savings, using and accepting credit cards, the critically important aspects of contracting for work, the difficulties of accounting including unique, much easier methods, and the less than pleasant task of dealing with the IRS. Woodworking Business 101: A Basic Business Guide For Woodworkers helps you to develop methods to get customers but more importantly it shows you the best ways to keep customers after that first job. In spite of its importance, keeping customers is often overlooked leading to a long term loss of income. This book covers how to set up a functional shop taking full advantage of the space you may have available and the best ways to get the tools you need to build the projects you sell. Then it shows you how to carefully estimate the cost of materials and labor and set your job prices to ensure that you make a fair profit on every job. This will help you maintain your cash flow and ensure long term success. The final section called Personal Notes includes just a few hints and tips Bill has gleaned over the past few years to give you even more help in operating your business successfully

Expert woodworker Bill Benitez describes the value of the Biscuit Joiner and biscuit joinery with an in-depth book that includes complete instructions on best practices for the Biscuit Joiner with four practice projects and many other photos and descriptions of projects built using the Biscuit Joiner. This book includes details of all the joints possible with the Biscuit Joiner and a complete section with photos on how to make the various cuts for your projects. The book is based entirely on first hand experience and all the projects were built and photographed by Bill Benitez.

Do you want to use your woodworking skills to make money in a part-time or full-time business? Are you already running a woodworking business but want to increase your income? Would you like to avoid the many costly mistakes made by many small businesses? "Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully" helps you do all that and much more. Written by an expert with over twenty years of first-hand experience operating a one-person woodworking business, this book is certain to help you get paid well for doing the work you love everyday, learn everything you need to know to operate your own successful business, start profiting quickly with the skills and tools you already have, and deliver quality work faster with simple methods and techniques. Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully is a complete and concise guide to selling and contracting jobs, creating designs, building and installing projects, doing the accounting and income taxes, and everything necessary to operate a successful woodworking business. The book includes sixteen chapters of valuable, proven, how-to information including;every step to start making money while meeting all local rules and regulations; concise methods for calculating every job to ensure profit and guarantee that you get paid in full; all the forms and contracts needed for dealing with customers professionally; how to get customers with a small marketing budget; how to keep customers coming back for more and recommending you to others; how to use the web as a 24 hour showroom of your work; how to get help on bigger jobs without violating IRS rules; how to handle your own accounting and taxes easily; how to become a recognized expert and improve your communications skills to increase profit. Praise for Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully: "In just 192 pages, A. William Benitez takes the reader through a comprehensive do-it-yourself course on transforming woodworking from a creative and practical hobby to a flourishing and successful business enterprise. Thoroughly 'user friendly', "Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully; An Expert Woodworker Reveals The Keys To Succeeding In The Woodworking Business" covers every aspect of becoming a woodworking entrepreneur beginning with meeting local business regulations; calculating project costs; contracts and forms; recruiting customers (especially with a shoe-string marketing budget); utilizing a web site as a 24-hour showroom; dealing with the IRS; accounting and taxes; and building up a 'brand name' recognition for your work and your company. Practical, superbly organized and presented, "Woodworking Business" should be considered mandatory reading for anyone seeking to establish their woodworking pastime into a full-fledge and profitable business." Micah Andrew, Reviewer The Midwest Book Review "Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully is a must read with practical tips on every aspect of the woodworking trade. I would recommend this book to anyone in the woodworking profession. The insight within this book will do wonders for your business. It is one of the few books I have read more than once. This book is a remarkable tool that not only helped me in the beginning; it serves as a reference that I can look back on when I have questions about my business." Chris Looney "I would like to thank you for your latest book Woodworking Business: Start Quickly and Operate Successfully. It has been of immense value to me while I start up my own woodworking business. I soon discovered that it is an entire business plan and that alone has saved me hundreds of hours of writing and research. I particularly liked your simplified woodworking chapter which I intend to adopt to improve my profitability." Neil Rogers Order your copy of "Woodworking Business: Start Quickly And Operate Successfully" now and start making money with your skills.