Pointers for setting up your business, selling and exhibiting at trade shows, pricing, and marketing to turn a hobby into a profitable business Updated for the digital age, with new sections on creating effective websites and blogs, marketing with social networks, selling online, and using smartphones and tablets for payments Previous editions sold more than 180,000 copies
With unprecedented access to insiders, "New York Times"-bestselling author and Clickable CEO Kidder shares the hard-hitting experiences of some of the world's most influential entrepreneurs and CEOs, revealing their most closely held advice.
IT'S YOUR BUSINESS was an immediate Wall Street Journal bestseller and garnered tremendous media attention from entrepreneurs and small business owners. With advice from Ramberg and such notable entrepreneurs as Blake Mycoskie and Guy Kawasaki, this right-to-the-point book covers topics from human resources to finance, public relations to sales, and much, much more -- all geared towards the small business owner. Knowing that entrepreneurs...
Go from ZERO to $10,000 a month in 28 days and discover financial freedom online! Every day thousands of people are losing their jobs, their income, and their security-perhaps you are one of them. However, with the right strategies, you can easily achieve financial independence. The Laptop Millionaire provides easy to follow step-by-step strategies you can use to make real money online. Author Mark Anastasi reveals the exact strategies he...
So many women dream of having it all-being kickass mothers and running their own successful businesses. This book helps them take the leap with confidence. Serial entrepreneurs (and moms) Meg Mateo Ilasco and Cat Seto draw on their own successes and missteps to reveal exactly how to choose the right business, find clients, write a business plan, launch a blog and Web site, stay focused at home, and more. Insightful Q...
In tough economic times and with rising unemployment,people are looking to take the bull by the horns andstart their own home-based businesses.... From GPP'senormously successful How to Start a Home-Based Businessseries (more than half a million copies sold!), comes theessential guide to starting up a home-based Bookkeepingbusiness.
As the current owner of Blinds.com Cufflinks.com, eTickets.com, SummerCamps.com and many others, author Marc Ostrofsky is an incredibly successful entrepreneur with a keen grasp on how to turn the Internet into a money-making machine. With strategies for everyone -- from stay-at-home moms to multi-national corporations -- the book is an incredible tool for anyone interested in using the Web for financial gain!
In addition to the typical guidance on writing a business plan, choosing a legal structure, and managing finances, this guide explains how to become certified as a woman-owned business, how to pursue government contracts for women, and where to find resources for female entrepreneurs. The CD-ROM contains sample legal forms, worksheets for financial projections, and full transcripts of interviews with 12 female entrepreneurs. Annotation ©2010...
A proven system for creating a compelling growth planThere are 15 million businesses in the United States, and 13 million of them don't utilize a planning process, thus inhibiting their chance to grow. Having a planning process is the most reliable predictor of whether a business will grow. Yet, most planning books and most planning processes are not accessible or usable for the small to medium-sized business owners. The One Hour Plan for...
After offering advice on choosing a legal structure, business name, and location, this thorough guide explains the legal requirements of starting a business in California and provides valuable insights on writing a business plan, marketing, and bookkeeping. The eighth edition adds sections on social media marketing. The CD-ROM contains business planning worksheets in Excel format and government forms in PDF format. Annotation ©2010 Book News...
