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Anatomy of a business plan.
By Linda
Pinson, 2008
From envisioning the organizational structure to
creating the marketing plan that powers growth to building for the
future with airtight financial documents, this guide provides the
tools to create well-constructed business plans. Beginning with
the initial considerations, this handbook offers proven,
step-by-step advice for developing and packaging the components of a
business plan—cover sheet, table of contents, executive
summary, description of the business, organizational and marketing
plans, and financial and supporting documents—and for keeping the
plan up-to-date. Four real-life business plans and blank forms and
worksheets provide readers with additional user-friendly guidelines
for the creation of the plans. |
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The Art of Business:
Make all your work a work of art.
By Stan
Davis, 2005
For many, work is the ultimate four-letter word, the
embodiment of all that is mundane. For respected business writers
Stan Davis and David McIntosh, work is an opportunity to find
beauty, meaning, enjoyment, balance, and longevity. How? By treating
one's work or business as art. According to The Art of Business,
people get more satisfaction from creating something than from doing
something. Purpose, mastery, and permanence are hallmarks of good
work, whether in the arts or in business. The book represents a
powerful paradigm shift, empowering readers to harness their
artistic energies not only in work, but also in all facets of their
lives. Using real-world examples such as Apple's attention to art in
the design and marketing of the iMac and iPod, The Art of Business
shows how introducing the aesthetic into a business framework can
inspire both achievement and satisfactions. |
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Complete Guide to buying a business.
By Fred
S. Steingold, 2007
If you're ready to acquire a business, make sure that
you protect your interests and get the best deal possible with The
Complete Guide to Buying a Business. It covers how to: find the
right business, analyze the seller's numbers, make sense of the tax
issues, negotiate a payment plan and other terms of sale, prepare
and sign a sales agreement, close the deal, protect yourself from
existing liabilities, prevent the seller from competing against you,
work with lawyers, accountants and brokers. |
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Green to gold.
By Daniel
C. Esty, 2006
From
Publishers Weekly
"Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du
jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough,
earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and
historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly
long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the
forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted)
companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path
toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's
bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the
evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty
and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such
as Wal-Mart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good,
and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations,
mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle
beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a
thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste
"take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the
responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of
(organic) food for thought. " |
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How to build a successful consulting practice.
By Jack Phillips, 2006
When you start your own consulting business, you can
be your own boss, set your own hours-and make big profits! But that
only happens if you're truly prepared. Are you familiar with the
biggest consulting myths? Do you know the 12 success factors for
consultants? Have you ever owned your own business before? How to
Build a Successful Consulting Practice has all these answers and
more-distilled by consulting guru Jack Phillips from years spent
researching and reviewing successful firms that are still in
business today. This essential volume shows how to:
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Develop a
bulletproof business plan
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Find and keep
your clients for life
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Build your brand
with magnetic marketing strategies
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Write spot-on
proposals
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Use the internet
as a secret weapon
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Become a
charismatic public speaker
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Avoid financial,
legal and ethical pitfalls
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Adjust to a new
work life
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Ladies who launch: Embracing entrepreneurship & creativity as a
lifestyle.
By
Victorial Colligan, 2007
Ladies Who Launch is the first
company to define the feminine approach to launching a business and
to make the connection between starting a business and bringing
creativity into your life with self-esteem and happiness. Available
for the first time in book form, the four-step incubator process
gives women the courage to follow a cherished but unfulfilled dream.
Ladies Who Launch provides a proven approach to catapulting a
lifestyle, relationship, or occupation to an infinitely higher level |
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So you want to start a business:
8
steps to take before making the leap.
By Edward D. Hess, 2009
More than 5,000,000 new businesses are started each
year…but 70% of them will fail. Now, two renowned experts on
entrepreneurship identify the 8 “killer mistakes” that cause most
business failures–and give you the knowledge, tools, and hands-on
advice to avoid them, so you can build a business that
thrives.
Unlike other books on entrepreneurship,
this book focuses on the crucial operational issues associated with
consistent profitability. You’ll learn how to identify the right
opportunities and customers; design winning products and services;
set the right prices; overcome customer inertia; avoid common
day-to-day management mistakes; find and keep good employees; and
finally, smoothly manage growth.
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Starting a successful business:
Start up and grow your own company.
By M.J.
Morris, 2008
Starting a business from
scratch is an exciting but daunting endeavor. Starting a Successful
Business is a one-stop reference for advice on getting a new
business up and running. It shows readers how to make their business
a success, how to avoid making costly mistakes, and how to save time
and money in the process. The new sixth edition covers every aspect
of running a business, including laying the basic foundations,
controlling and raising money, and managing operations, employment,
risk management, and growth. Including information on opportunities
created by the internet, Starting a Successful Business contains all
the advice prospective business owners need before starting their
own company in today's competitive business environment.
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What’s stopping you? Shatter the nine most common myths keeping you
from starting your own business.
By Bruce
Barringer, 2008
From Publishers Weekly
In this trim but comprehensive and engaging book, Barringer and
Ireland (Entrepreneurship: Successfully Launching New Ventures)
dispel the myths that prevent the typical American from starting a
new business. The authors weave their academic research and business
incubation fieldwork with stories from real life startups, refuting
claims that entrepreneurship entails colossal risk, requires a great
deal of money, demands extensive business experience or is dependent
on the perfect product or service. This book is refreshingly
pragmatic while still being encouraging; it addresses the obstacles
at each stage of entrepreneurship, including overcoming
psychological barriers to quitting a day job, identifying and
developing the right idea, financing and running effective public
relations and marketing campaigns on shoestring budgets.
Simultaneously upbeat and instructive, this book offers the aspiring
business owner a practical push toward taking the entrepreneurial
plunge.
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Date this page was last updated:
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