Product Description
Want to start the small business of your dreams? Want to breathe new life into the one you already have? Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition provides authoritative guidance on every aspect of starting and growing your business, from financing and budgeting to marketing, management and beyond.
This completely practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating start-up money to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You’ll get plenty of help in ramping up your management skills, developing a marketing strategy, keeping your customers loyal, and much more. You’ll also find out to use the latest technology to improve your business’s performance at every level. Discover how to:
- Make sure that small-business ownership is for you
- Find your niche and time your start-up
- Turn your ideas into plans
- Determine your start-up costs
- Obtain financing with the best possible terms
- Decide whether or not to incorporate
- Make sense of financial statements
- Navigate legal and tax issues
- Buy an existing business
- Set up a home-based business
- Publicize your business and market your wares
- Keep your customers coming back for more
- Track cash flow, costs and profits
- Keep your business in business and growing
You have the energy, drive, passion, and smarts to make your small business a huge success. Small Business For Dummies, 3rd Edition, provides the rest.
Product Details
| Publisher | Wiley |
| ISBN | 0470177470 |
| Features |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Author | Eric Tyson,Jim Schell |
| EAN | 9780470177471 |
| Label | Wiley |
| Edition | 3 |
| Dewey Decimal Number | 658.022 |
| Studio | Wiley |
| Number Of Pages | 432 |
| Title | Small Business For Dummies |
| Publication Date | 2008-03-04 |
| Manufacturer | Wiley |
Customer Reviews
do you have time to waste?Review by concrete, 2010-05-28
What is this book supposed to be about?
It is about things you already know. He said things like you can ask money to a relative, pay your credit card debt before you start, the definition of small business and the percentage of small business in the country and what percentage are form by women, or latin or etc etc. i do not find this information helpful at all.
Blah blah, what kind of advice do you find on that?
I was expecting advice regarding the legal aspect of starting a business, forms of ownership, tax forms, etc.
The funniest part is that starts talking bad about the rest of business books, so funny.
Another easy addition the series
Review by M. Palmer, 2010-05-26
This is another dummies addition that reads much like the others, easily. It really strives to get beginners to understand that starting a small business is serious business, and that its risky. It understands and expresses that small business just isn't the best move for everyone. The book does give many resources and chapters that are devoted to help keeping a small business afloat, managing employees and the all important legalities. I purchased this book in accompaniment with The Magic Touch: How to make $100,000 per year as a massage Therapist by Meagan R. Holub. The Magic Touch really exceeds many other texts in that it provides surefire applications for a service business to use so that it can have optimum chances of real success. Together these books make a great team.
great book....must read
Review by J. Chavez, 2009-12-03
hi guys....this book is great when your starting a small business. Gives you a great head start on starting your own business.
Pretty weak.
Review by Eric Shafer, 2009-10-24
This books reads more like an encyclepedia than an acutal guide for small business. Very little in here for someone who is running a business. Most of the advice is is in the form of rudimentry questions like "are you sure you are ready for business."
small business for dummies
Review by Suzanne Cotton, 2009-05-28
i ordered this for my son, he said that it arrived and is in great condition. Thanks for the fast and easy service.
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