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Small Business Desk Reference | A must-have for all small business owners. Whether someone is starting a business for the first time or the fiftieth, this book provides more knowledge and know-how than any other resource. With information on buying a business or franchise, writing a business plan, handling finances, accounting, legal issues, personnel, operations, marketing, sales, customer service, taxes, insurance and ethics, this comprehensive volume can’t be beat. Coverage includes: • Information on home offices, profits, loss, reinvesting, and planning the next steps • Supplemental materials on start-ups for restaurants, property management, retail, consulting, and service businesses • Beats the competition in coverage—and a better value • Authors of each section are top experts in their fields • Detailed index helps readers find information fast, along with a complete glossary, forms, and a contract primer | ||
The Small Business Bible: Everything You Need To Know To Succeed In Your Small Business | Steven D. Strauss | Whether you?re a novice entrepreneur or a seasoned pro, The Small Business Bible is a comprehensive, easy-to-read, A-to-Z library of everything you might need to know. Not only does it teach new entrepreneurs what works and what doesn?t—giving them scores of tips, hints, insider information, and secrets of success—it?s also a reliable, valuable, and insightful resource for established business owners who want to help their businesses continue to grow and succeed. The book covers all aspects of small business operations and strategies, and includes straightforward information on almost every topic. Plus, you?ll find secrets of great entrepreneurs, a wealth of online resources, real-life success stories, and cutting-edge strategies that work. | |
SBA Loans: A Step-by-Step Guide, 4th Edition | Patrick D. O'Hara | The #1 guide to securing your Small Business Administration loan-Updated and revised to include every SBA loan, program, and service available SBA LOANSThis comprehensive and accessible guide for small business owners shows you how to get your share of the billions of dollars in loans arranged or guaranteed by the SBA each year. In easy, step-by-step fashion, it helps you prepare a successful loan request for a new or established company and offers guidance on developing a business plan for your new business. In addition to full coverage of the agency's various loan programs-including seasonal guarantee, pollution control, energy loan, and Vietnam veteran and handicapped assistance-you'll find an exhaustive directory of all the free services the SBA provides to small businesses. Up-to-date and more comprehensive than ever, this popular reference includes complete information on:* Understanding the SBA system* Eligibility requirements* Recent lending statistics* ACE-Net finance matching service* Updated loan application forms and appendix listingsPlus* A new chapter on the Hubzone Empowerment Contracting Program* Updated information on the Export Working Capital ProgramToday, the SBA offers more services and more money than ever before. From coast to coast and in every industry, thousands of American entrepreneurs make the SBA system work for them-and you can too. | |
Professional Services Marketing: How the Best Firms Build Premier Brands, Thriving Lead Generation Engines, and Cultures of Business Development Success | Mike Schultz and John Doerr | Praise for Professional Services Marketing"This book is that rare thing: simultaneously wise, practical, readily accessible, and data-driven. A necessary addition to your reading."—David Maister, author of Managing the Professional Service Firm"Professional Services Marketing will certainly become the bible of the field in short order! Without a doubt, the most useful compendium of marketing insight for the practicing professional services firm executive...BRAVO!"—Leonard A. Schlesinger, President, Babson College, and coauthor of The Service Profit Chain"It's no longer sufficient to be a good 'expert for hire'—you need a brand and a powerful marketing engine behind you. Professional Services Marketing is a gold mine of research based strategies, best practices, and specific techniques that will help you consistently win in the client marketplace and outshine your competition. It's thoughtful, funny, and filled with the how-to so often missing in business books."—Andrew Sobel, coauthor of Clients for Life"Schultz and Doerr offer tactics and information in an easy-to-read, concise, and enjoyable format. Professional Services Marketing should be a required resource in every professional marketer's tool box!"—R. Granville Loar, Executive Director, Association for Accounting Marketing"This book is an excellent resource for anyone involved in professional services. It is especially timely in our current challenging economic conditions, and the ideas and guidance are relevant for the better times to come as well."—Josh Lee, Partner, Monitor Group"Smart. Practical. Comprehensive. This is the one book that won't collect dust on my shelf."—Kevin McMurdo, Chief Marketing Officer, Perkins Coie"Professional Services Marketing is the first book to directly address the challenges of the professional services marketer. This book is filled with practical wisdom and research on best practices and processes specifically for this industry. A must-read for anyone in a professional services firm!"—Paul Dunay, Global Director of Integrated Marketing, BearingPoint | |
Streetwise Marketing Plan | Don Debelak | Streetwise is devoted exclusively to business topics. From writing business plans, to financing, to building Web site traffic, these books provide everything ambitious business professionals need. Business happens in the real world, not the classroom. Streetwise recognises this and delivers the goods - fast. No fluff. No wasted time. Just cutting-edge information managers and small business entrepreneurs need to run their business successfully. | |
Entrepreneur Magazine: Starting an Import/Export Business | Entrepreneur Magazine | From the source you trust most-everything you need to start up, grow, and prosper in international trade...If you're excited by the opportunities you see in international trade but nervous about facing a world of problems you don't understand, you've come to the right place. In Starting an Import/Export Business, the experts at Entrepreneur Magazine help you break into this fast-growing field and thrive. You'll find the whole story on the import/export business in this easy-to-use guide--clear concise information that demystifies the foreign trade process and explains precisely what clients expect from import/export services.In addition to all the basics you need to start your own business, this book is loaded with helpful statistics on international trade with 17 countries, sample documents, and resource listings. You'll learn about trade regulations, how to deal with customs services, and the best ways to protect trademarks and copyrights. You'll discover the best places to go for working capital, how to attract clients, and when to hire consultants.You'll also learn how to:* Price goods and services and calculate exchange rates.* Choose the best payment method for each transaction.* Cope with international legal issues.* Manage your company's finances.* Market your services both at home and abroad.* Hook up with import and export distribution systems.There's never been a better time to launch yourself into the exciting world of international trade, and Starting an Import/Expert business is the ideal book to get you going.ENTREPRENEUR Magazine is the banner publication of the Entrepreneur Magazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of any business monthly and has a total ABC audited circulation of 385,000. The Entrepreneur Magazine Group also publishes Business Start-Ups and Entrepreneur in Mexico, as well as videos, audiocassettes, and software that deal with business start-up management.Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: Making Money With Your Personal Computer, The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor. | |
Borrowing to Build Your Business: Getting Your Banker to Say Yes | George M. Dawson | Bank loans are the leavening of the business world. This excellent resource for small business owners allows them to understand the loan process from the banker's perspective. Readers learn the seven critical questions bankers always want answered, as well as the five major characteristics of a successful loan Pub: 3/97. | |
Exploration Warehousing: Turning Business Information into Business Opportunity | W. H. Inmon, R. H. Terdeman and Claudia Imhoff | A revolutionary new approach to unearthing business opportunities, from the father of the data warehouseLet Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse, along with Robert Terdeman and Claudia Imhoff, introduce you to exploration warehousing, an innovative new approach to finding business opportunities hidden in patterns of data. In this groundbreaking book, they clearly explain the exploration process and identify the types of data warehouse designs best suited for exploration. They then outline the steps that must be followed in order to turn data into a competitive advantage.Using numerous case examples, the authors describe original exploration techniques and demonstrate how IT managers can work together with business managers to identify significant value in the data. These patterns can reveal opportunities in the marketplace for new products and services, when to discontinue products and services, where to streamline operations, and much more. To verify the strength and accuracy of these patterns, they show you how to use exploration with data mining techniques to assure business value.With this book, you'll gain a better understanding of:- The process of exploring data- The infrastructure of exploration- The roles that analysts play in your organization- How to form a basis of data that can be used for analysis- How patterns in data can be turned into business opportunity- When patterns should not be turned into business opportunity- The role of data mining | |
Streetwise Finance and Accounting: How to Keep Your Books and Manage Your Finances Without an MBA, a CPA, or a Ph.D. | Suzanne Caplan | Streetwise is devoted exclusively to business topics. From writing business plans, to financing, to building Web site traffic, these books provide everything ambitious business professionals need. Business happens in the real world, not the classroom. Streetwise recognises this and delivers the goods - fast. No fluff. No wasted time. Just cutting-edge information managers and small business entrepreneurs need to run their business successfully. | |
3 Weeks to Startup | Tim Berry and Sabrina Parsons | Fast-Track Your Success Three weeks? Can you really start a business in three weeks? Yes, you can. Tim Berry, business planning expert and principal author of Business Plan Pro, the country's bestselling business plan software, and Sabrina Parsons, co-founder of Palo Alto Software UK, unveil a new, more innovative business landscape and show you how to streamline your startup using the fastest resource in the world-the internet. Eliminate the exhausting, time-consuming legwork involved in traditional startup plans, and instead fast track your business using a wealth of online tools and services. Berry and Parsons help you build your business step by step, including establishing your business plan, making your business legal, financing your venture, hiring your staff and more-using online tools and resources at every stage. Discover how easy it is to reach your dream of opening your own business faster than you ever thought possible. Let the countdown begin-you're just 3 weeks away from opening the doors to your new business! |
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