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Small Time Operator : How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble  
Low Risk, High Reward : Starting and Growing Your Business With Minimal Risk
What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business: Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs
Keeping the Books : Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business
Thinking Like an Entrepreneur : How to Make Intelligent Business Decisions That Will Lead to Success in Building & Growing Your Own Company
The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success
Steps to Small Business Start-Up : Everything You Need to Know to Turn Your Idea into a Successful Business
Start Up: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business
How to Get Filthy, Stinking Rich and Still Have Time for Great Sex! : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Wealth and Happiness
The Market Planning Guide : Creating a Plan to Successfully Market Your Business, Products, or Service
Grassroots Marketing : Getting Noticed in a Noisy World
Starting on a Shoestring : Building a Business Without a Bankroll
Winning Business Plans
Start Up Marketing : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising, Marketing and Promoting Your Business
How to Start, Run, and Stay in Business
Strategic Planning for New & Emerging Businesses : A Consulting Approach
How to Start, Finance and Operate Your Own Business
Ready or Not . . . Get Set Go (An Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting and Maintaining a Successful Business)
Visionary Business : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success
Accounting for the New Business : The Strategies and Practices You Need to Account for Your Success
The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Profitable Decision Making
Revenue Management : Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination
Power Pricing : How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line
Sales & Operations Planning -- The How-To Handbook
Major Account Sales Strategy
The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance: How to Get More Sales from Your Sales Force
High Impact Hiring : How to Interview and Select Outstanding Employees
Adams Streetwise Hiring Top Performers : 600 Ready-To-Ask Interview Questions and Everything Else You Need to Hire Right
101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems : A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination
The Inventor's Kit : A Complete Workbook for Filing U.S. Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights
All you need to know about copyrights and trademarks
Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
Immigration Questions & Answers
United States Entry and Work Permits United States Entry and Work Permits
Achieving Excellence in Fund Raising : A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Strategies, and Methods
The Complete Guide to Getting a Grant : How to Turn Your Ideas into Dollars
Entrepreneur Magazine Guide to Raising Money
Entrepreneurial Finance
Guts & Borrowed Money : Straight Talk for Starting and Growing Your Small Business

 

 
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Small Time Operator : How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble Small Time Operator : How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble

(25th Ed) by Bernard B. Kamoroff - List Price: $16.95

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Detailed advice covers everything people need to know to take control of their business and be a success. This latest edition includes a new section on doing business on the Internet. "A phenomenal book." - Julianne Malveaux, King Features Syndicate

 

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Low Risk, High Reward : Starting and Growing Your Business With Minimal Risk

by Bob Reiss, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank - List Price: $27.50

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Excellent advice about managing risk, such as controlling inventory, turning fixed costs into variable costs, partnering intelligently with others, etc.

Low Risk, High Reward : Starting and Growing Your Business With Minimal Risk

 

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What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business: Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs

What No One Ever Tells You About Starting Your Own Business: Real Life Start-Up Advice from 101 Successful Entrepreneurs

by Jan Norman - List Price: $17.95

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Addressing small businesses' common and uncommon miscues with advice and insight from more than 100 entrepreneurs who have made the mistakes, but survived, this resource is like having an expert whispering in one's ear.

 

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Keeping the Books : Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business

(5th Ed) by Linda Pinson - List Price: $22.95

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The premier resource for basic bookkeeping and business record management, Keeping the Books is a comprehensive, yet down to earth, treatment of one of the most important, yet often neglected, aspects of running a business. User-friendly and packed with easy-to-understand illustrations, worksheets, and forms, this popular financial reference tool is completely updated, and replete with the variety of IRS forms that entrepreneurs have to be familiar with. 

From updating car and transportation expenses to exploding the myths around independent contractors, the author presents everything a small company needs to know to maintain proper records.

Keeping the Books : Basic Recordkeeping and Accounting for the Successful Small Business

 

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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur : How to Make Intelligent Business Decisions That Will Lead to Success in Building & Growing Your Own Company

Thinking Like an Entrepreneur : How to Make Intelligent Business Decisions That Will Lead to Success in Building & Growing Your Own Company

by Peter I. Hupalo - List Price: $29.95

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The book is broad on topics and brief in content, hitting main points and driving home the realities of being an entrepreneur. With its diverse topics and solid information, you'll get a well-balanced meal on making healthy business decisions as an entrepreneur.

 

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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

by Brian Tracy - List Price: $24.95

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The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success will teach you how to: 

  • Attract and keep better people, 
  • Produce and sell more and better products and services, 
  • Control costs more intelligently, Expand and grow more predictably, 
  • Increase your profits, 
  • and much more. 

The book provides a wealth of practical advice distilled into 100 easy-to-understand and easy-to-apply laws covering the major areas of work and business. It provides numerous real-life examples to illustrate how each law functions in the world and practical guidance and exercises for applying each to your life and work.

The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success

 

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Steps to Small Business Start-Up : Everything You Need to Know to Turn Your Idea into a Successful Business

Steps to Small Business Start-Up : Everything You Need to Know to Turn Your Idea into a Successful Business

by Linda Pinson, Jerry Jinnett - List Price: $24.95

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In a very simple, step-by-step fashion, this well-organized guide takes prospective small business owners through all the mechanics of business start-up. The book contains a comprehensive overview of information on record keeping, marketing, and business planning, and comes complete with forms, examples, and worksheets.

 

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Start Up: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business

by William J. Stolze - $16.99

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This fifth edition of Start Up is a thorough, concise, and exceptionally easy to read book that applies to those who are ready to embark on a new venture, those who have already gotten their feet wet, and those who would like to learn more about entrepreneurship. It addresses key problems that are crucial to the success of any business such as: 

  • how much money is enough, 
  • how to write a successful business plan, 
  • what is most important to business success, and 
  • why small companies are better. 

Completely revised and updated, this edition also features complete information on how to use the Internet to fuel the information and promotion needs of a business.

Start Up: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Launching and Managing a New Business

 

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How to Get Filthy, Stinking Rich and Still Have Time for Great Sex! : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Wealth and Happiness

How to Get Filthy, Stinking Rich and Still Have Time for Great Sex! : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Wealth and Happiness

by Herb Kay - List Price: $19.95

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In this exciting book, self-made millionaire Herb Kay shares the secrets to great wealth and even greater happiness through starting and owning your own business. Herb proves that although you can make money in stocks or real estate, it's only through owning your own business that you can earn really big money! 

He also talks about the dirty little secret of business most of us ignore: the fact that you can work so hard that you lose the ability to enjoy the fruit of your labors. Even worse, you can lose your family.

 

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The Market Planning Guide : Creating a Plan to Successfully Market Your Business, Products, or Service

by David H., Jr. Bangs - List Price: $22.95

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With The Market Planning Guide, business owners can develop a comprehensive, ready-to-implement, written marketing plan. Using the same real-life, step-by-step method that has made his The Business Planning Guide so successful, Bangs walks readers through the entire process, from defining the company's goals to utilizing advertising.

The Market Planning Guide : Creating a Plan to Successfully Market Your Business, Products, or Service

 

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Grassroots Marketing : Getting Noticed in a Noisy World

Grassroots Marketing : Getting Noticed in a Noisy World

by Shel Horowitz - List Price: $22.95

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Simply put, Grassroots Marketing: Getting Noticed In A Noisy World could be the difference between economic success and financial failure for any start-up entrepreneurial enterprise or small business endeavor in today's highly competitive marketplace, regardless of the product or service being offered. Grassroots Marketing covers virtually all aspects and facets of publicity, promotion and marketing including print, radio/television, Internet, telephone, email, postal, fax, and face-to-face formats.

 

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Starting on a Shoestring : Building a Business Without a Bankroll (Wiley Small Business Edition)

by Arnold S. Goldstein, Edward P. Myers (Contributor) - List Price: $19.95

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Now in its third edition, this resourceful guide spells out the various ways to launch a business with little or no up-front money, proceeding step-by-step from the idea stage to implementation and growth. In addition, readers will find out how to protect their personal assets, how to effectively market their business at little or no cost, and more

Starting on a Shoestring : Building a Business Without a Bankroll

 

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Winning Business Plans

Winning Business Plans

by William Fredricks - List Price: $14.95

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From setting start-up goals and projections to growth and expansion capital, a powerful business plan is the essential tool to obtaining funding and a necessity for any business. This E-Z step by step guide is written in plain and everyday language.

 

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Start Up Marketing : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising, Marketing and Promoting Your Business

by Philip R. Nulman - List Price: $16.99

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Start Up Marketing: An Entrepreneur's Guide To Advertising, Marketing And Promotion Your Business is a blueprint for small business success, is written in a very accessible, easy-to-follow format. Start Up Marketing is a usable, reliable manual that can be followed step-by-step toward achieving the goals of increased exposure, profitability and recognition.

Start Up Marketing : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Advertising, Marketing and Promoting Your Business

 

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How to Start, Run, and Stay in Business

How to Start, Run, and Stay in Business
(3rd Ed)

by Gregory F. Kishel, Patricia Gunter Kishel - List Price: $15.95

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The best-selling classic is back - completely revised and updated for today's entrepreneurs. This new edition provides lucid, down-to-earth, and essential advice on every aspect of business operations--from securing financing and finding an ideal location to hiring, inventory, pricing, and record-keeping. It now also provides expert advice on using the World Wide Web to promote your business, improving customer service, and selling products and services internationally.

 

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Strategic Planning for New & Emerging Businesses : A Consulting Approach

by Charles R. Stoner, et al - List Price: $35.00

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This book gives owners of new and/or emerging businesses extensive knowledge of the steps of strategic planning. They learn how to assess the external environment, how to address competitive forces, how to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, and how to and develop a strategic thrust for their emerging enterprises.

Strategic Planning for New & Emerging Businesses : A Consulting Approach

 

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How to Start, Finance and Operate Your Own Business

by James L. Silvester - List Price: $27.95

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A revised edition includes a new listing of funding sources while covering the intricacies of business legal structure and placing special emphasis on the role of capital and discussing negotiation tactics.

 

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Ready or Not . . . Get Set Go (An Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting and Maintaining a Successful Business)

by Sheila A. Taylor-Downer, et al - List Price: $13.95

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Ready or Not . . . has everything you need to know and more about starting your own business. It will not only teach you how to assess your strengths and weaknesses, but it will show you how to identify your target market, write a successful business plan, hire the right person the first time, learn the importance of location, calculate your start-up cost, determine your legal structure, turn a good idea into a profitable one, and operate a successful business.

Ready or Not . . . Get Set Go (An Entrepreneurs Guide to Starting and Maintaining a Successful Business)

 

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Visionary Business : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success

Visionary Business : An Entrepreneur's Guide to Success

by Mark Allen - List Price: $12.95

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An informative handbook of successful business practices presented in a socially responsible context introduces twenty-five practical, concrete principles--from hiring to mission statements to profit-sharing--that combine visionary business ideals with respect for the planet and its inhabitants.

 

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Accounting for the New Business : The Strategies and Practices You Need to Account for Your Success

by Christopher R. Malburg - List Price $10.95

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If you're looking to master accounting for your new business quickly, easily, and accurately, this is the right book. It takes the mystery out of installing and maintaining an accounting system. Through liberal use of charts, illustrations, and examples, it shows how to master the unique financial information needs of a small business.

Accounting for the New Business : The Strategies and Practices You Need to Account for Your Success

 

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The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Profitable Decision Making

The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing : A Guide to Profitable Decision Making

by Thomas T. Nagle, Reed K. Holden

List Price: $39.00 You Save: $3.90 (10%) Our Price: $35.10

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A comprehensive, managerially-focused guide to formulating pricing strategy. Practical in focus and lively in style, this volume explains ideas and concepts that are essential to integrate pricing successfully into marketing strategy and that should be a part of every marketer's repertoire. Features numerous walk-through examples, illustrating how companies successfully implement pricing strategies.

 

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Revenue Management : Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination

by Robert G. Cross

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From the man the Wall Street Journal hailed as "the guru of Revenue Management" comes revolutionary ways to recover from the after effects of downsizing and refocus your business on growth.

 

Revenue Management : Hard-Core Tactics for Market Domination
Whatever happened to growth? In Revenue Management, Robert G. Cross answers this question with his ground-breaking approach to revitalizing businesses: focusing on the revenue side of the ledger instead of the cost side. The antithesis of slash-and-burn methods that left companies with empty profits and dissatisfied stockholders, Revenue Management overturns conventional thinking on marketing strategies and offers the key to initiating and sustaining growth.

Using case studies from a variety of industries, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations, Cross describes no-tech, low-tech, and high-tech methods that managers can use to increase revenue without increasing products or promotions; predict consumer behavior; tap into new markets; and deliver products and services to customers effectively and efficiently. His proven tactics will help any business dramatically improve its bottom line by meeting the challenge of matching supply with demand.

 

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Power Pricing : How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line

Power Pricing : How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line

by Robert J. Dolan, Hermann Simon (Contributor)

List Price: $40.00 You Save: $4.00 (10%) Our Price: $36.00

In today's hyper competitive global marketplace, a company's pricing policy can make or break the bottom line. Now, in this long-awaited book, the world's two leading price experts take managers beyond conventional thinking to show how their breakthrough system of "power pricing" will improve the bottom line by an order of magnitude.

 

 

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Sales & Operations Planning -- The How-To Handbook

by Thomas F. Wallace - Amazon Price $35.00

Sales & Operations is a powerful business process that integrates Sales & Marketing, Operations, Product Development, and Finance. It describes how it works and lays out a detailed project plan for making it happen. This valuable handbook covers all aspects of a successful implementation.

 

The Channel Advantage : Going to Market With Multiple Sales Channels to Reach More Customers, Sell More Products, Make More Profit

The Channel Advantage : Going to Market With Multiple Sales Channels to Reach More Customers, Sell More Products, Make More Profit

by Lawrence G. Friedman, Timothy R. Furey - Amazon Price $32.95

Channel innovation is separating market winners from market losers, and not just in leading-edge technology industries. In a business world where industry players are selling practically the same products at essentially the same prices at about the same cost, the only real source of sustainable competitive advantage is the sales channel: how you sell, not what you sell.

 

 

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Major Account Sales Strategy

by Neil Rackham - Amazon Price $24.95

Salespeople, marketers, managers--everyone who is involved in selling today-- agrees that major accounts are critical to survival. Major Account Sales Strategy is the first book to offer new, proven-effective strategies for major account sales.

Major Account Sales Strategy

 

 

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The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance : How to Get More Sales from Your Sales Force

The Complete Guide to Accelerating Sales Force Performance: How to Get More Sales from Your Sales Force

by Andris A. Zoltners, Prabhakant Sinha, Greggor A. Zoltners

List Price: $79.95 You Save: $4.00 (5%) Our Price: $75.95

Every firm's sales force combines the distinctive personalities of its members with complex issues of size, pay structure, incentives, performance evaluation, and effective uses of new technology. Underrepresented in most marketing texts, the success of the sales force is a major component in the overall success of most companies. It develops an effective, innovative framework for evaluating and improving the performance of any sales force.

 

 

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High Impact Hiring : How to Interview and Select Outstanding Employees

by Del J. Still - Our Price: $22.95

Are you certain that you are hiring the best person for a job? Is there a way to consistently make high quality hiring decisions? There is and it's explained in detail in this book. However, the process was not developed overnight. It took years to refine. It was done through a combination of research, experience in the "school of hard knocks".

High Impact Hiring : How to Interview and Select Outstanding Employees

 

 

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Adams Streetwise Hiring Top Performers : 600 Ready-To-Ask Interview Questions and Everything Else You Need to Hire Right

Adams Streetwise Hiring Top Performers : 600 Ready-To-Ask Interview Questions and Everything Else You Need to Hire Right

by Bob Adams, Peter Veruki (Contributor) - List Price $17.95

Furnishes authoritative tips on how to find, interview, and hire the best people for a company, including six hundred interview questions and tips on networking, writing ads, screening techniques, references, and hiring legalities.

 

 

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101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems : A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

by Paul Falcone

List Price: $35.00 You Save: $3.50 (10%) Our Price: $31.50

Provides ready-to-go model documents that cover every kind of problem you can imagine, substandard work quality, absenteeism, insubordination, sexual harassment, e-mail misuse, & drug or alcohol abuse. Includes a diskette in Microsoft Word, containing all the sample documents. Paper. CD-ROM included

101 Sample Write-Ups for Documenting Employee Performance Problems : A Guide to Progressive Discipline & Termination

 

 

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cover The Inventor's Kit : A Complete Workbook for Filing U.S. Patents, Trademarks & Copyrights

by Scott Murphy

List Price: $39.95 You Save: $7.99 (20%) Our Price: $31.96

The contents of this book are divided into three parts - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights. Included in each section are the actual forms (that you can copy), instruction sheets, samples of completed forms, and even help-lines. It answers all these questions and more: What is a patent? a trademark? a copyright? What can and can't be patented? How is a patent obtained? What forms must be filled out? Where do I get the forms I need? Where do I find the phone numbers of who to call if I have questions? How much does a patent cost? How long will it take to get a patent? How do I do a patent search?

 

 

 

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The Copyright Handbook : How to Protect & Use Written Works (5th Ed)

by Stephen Fishman

Copyright law is a complex field, and it's crucial for writers to understand what's entailed. Stephen Fishman covers what a copyright is, how it's created and protected, limitations and transfer of ownership, how long it lasts, and what copyright infringement is all about. There are chapters on copyright registration, copyright notice, and how to deal with errors or omissions. Fishman also wades into the issues of derivative works and compilations, works for hire, and jointly authored works. He also tackles the confusion of copyrights in the online world of electronic publishing; the book is worth its price for this chapter alone. The appendix contains a variety of sample forms and blank forms and a PC-formatted disk of the same material.

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