The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business


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Offers advice on starting a home-based business, with chapters on creating a business concept, buying a franchise, turnkey businesses, business plans, insurance, and taxes.




Idiot's Guide: Starting a Food Truck Business


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- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business - Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Starting Your Own Business


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Act on your dreams of starting a business with this lighthearted, user-friendly guide that provides expert advice on business planning, financing, legal concerns, and marketing issues--all the information one needs to become his or her own boss. Line drawings.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying a Home


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In real estate, it's a buyer's market—and here is the buyer's bible . . . Buying a home is the single most important financial move in most people's lives. This book covers a variety of topics including inspecting, evaluating, negotiating, financing, contracts, and legal issues. It also breaks down the roles of the key players and what these professionals, agents, brokers, and inspectors are responsible for—and when to go it alone. The thorough advice, covering everything from buying houses at auctions to what neighborhood to live in, will provide reassurance for every soon–to–be homeowner. • A necessary tool for those who plan to buy homes and even current homeowners in order to keep up with an ever changing market • Will be published in time for spring, when most people start looking into buying new homes • Covers a broad range of buying options and homeowner's needs




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Buying and Selling a Business


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Covers timing, legal requirements, mergers, debt-equity ratios, taxes, financing, setting a price, and adjusting to a merger




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Business Statistics


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Dr. Sunny Baker gives readers a step-by-step guide to choosing, using and interpreting statistical analyses for business. She approaches statistical evaluations as concepts, using no math and focusing on what businesspeople need to interpret.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Staging Your Home to Sell


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This step-by-step guide offers the tactics used by home stagers--from de-cluttering and cleaning up to arranging and remodeling--that will often yield a quicker sale and higher selling price.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Value Investing


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Value investing concentrates on business tangibles and common sense. This guide explains these strategies in clear, jargon-free terms, and gives advice on- the importance of knowing the four major parts of a company's annual report and how to read them, how to listen for insights into the company plans and performance during the CEO's discussion with analysts, and major strategic investment policies that drive value investing and how to select the one right for your goals. From an expert financial writer Red-hot investment strategy in this troubled financial climate Billionaire gurus like Warren Buffet advocate value investing




Why Business People Speak Like Idiots


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There is a fundamental disconnection between the way business people speak and real people communicate. From advertisers, big business and CEOs - the blather is coming at us in waves. The International Language of Business is no longer English - it's gobbledygook. The authors blindly discovered the enormity of the problem in June 2003 with the launch of Bullfighter, an anti-jargon software tool. But jargon is just one symptom in a larger problem afflicting corporate communications today: the wholesale inability to connect with an audience. In the form of admirably straight-talk, we discover how to avoid the 'obscurity trap', 'the anonymity trap', the 'hard-sell trap' and most importantly, 'the tedium trap'. In this witty and practical new book readers are given all the tools they need to fight the 'spin' and learn to speak like the rest of us.




The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling


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Does this sound familiar? 'If I could get in front of the prospect, the rest of the selling process becomes easier. It's just getting in front of them that's the challenge'. The fact is most cold-calling efforts are doomed from the start. Salespeople lose sales not due to a lack of effort but because they lack a prospecting system they are comfortable with, and can trust to generate greater, consistent results. If you are feeling the same way you have been for the last several years (including the 'calling to check in, touch base or follow-up' approach) or haven't been prospecting at all, you're simply making it easier for your competition to take away the new business you are working so hard to earn. So, if you love to sell but hate (or don't like) to prospect, this book is your opportunity to maximize your cold calling potetnial and boost your income by learning how to get in front of the right prospects in less time and create greater selling opportunities without the fear, pressure or anxiety associated with cold calling.