The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor


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Like having a team of top business consultants on call, 24 hours a day...but a whole lot cheaper. From the experts at Entrepreneur magazine comes your total guide to starting, managing, and growing a small business. Written to meet all the information needs of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and those thinking about going into business for themselves, this practical, user-friendly guide tells you everything you need to know about setting goals and objectives, assessing risk, finding the right location, financing, marketing, pricing, taxation, insurance, record keeping, personnel management, purchasing, inventory, time and stress management, legal matters, advertising, sales, obtaining expansion capital, and many other topics of vital importance to smart, enterprising business people like you. Proven strategies, techniques, and expert tips on every aspect of starting, managing, and growing a small business. Defines all important terms and clearly explains difficult concepts in plain English. Packed with useful worksheets, checklists, sample forms, and other valuable business tools that you can put to work for you, today. Chapters include listings of trade associations, periodicals, on-line services, software, government agencies, and other valuable sources of business assistance and information. Also available from the Entrepreneur library: Entrepreneur Starting an Import/Export Business, Entrepreneur Making Money With Your Personal Computer.




The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor


Book Description

It's like having a team of top business consultants on call 24 hours a day . . . but a whole lot cheaper. Each month for over 20 years, hundreds of thousands of enterprising individuals have turned to Entrepreneur Magazine for news on the latest business trends and expert tips on how to maximize the success of their ventures. Now from the experts at Entrepreneur, here is the ultimate guide to starting, managing, and growing a small business. Written to meet all the information needs of entrepreneurs, small business owners, and those thinking about going into business for themselves, this practical, user-friendly guide tells you everything you need to know about setting goals and objectives, assessing risk, finding the right location, financing, marketing, pricing, taxation, insurance, record keeping, personnel management, purchasing, inventory, time and stress management, legal matters, advertising, sales, obtaining expansion capital, and many other topics of vital importance to smart, enterprising businesspeople like you. Proven strategies, techniques, and expert tips on every aspect of starting, managing, and growing a small business. * Defines all important terms and clearly explains difficult concepts in plain English. * Packed with useful worksheets, checklists, sample forms, and other valuable business tools that you can put to work for you, today. * Chapters include listings of trade associations, periodicals, on-line services, software, government agencies, and other valuable sources of business assistance and information. ENTREPRENEUR is the banner publication of the Entrepreneur Magazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of any business monthly and has a total ABC audited circulation of 531,000. The Entrepreneur Magazine Group also publishes Business Start-Ups and Entrepreneur Mexico, and software that deals with business start-up management. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: * Starting a Home-Based Business, Second Edition. * Starting an Import/Export Business. * Small Business Legal Guide. * Making Money with Your Personal Computer.




Entrepreneur Magazine


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Extra money, a better lifestyle, the satisfaction of building a business you believe will really take off—whatever your motive, the success of your home-based business depends upon making the right decisions from the very start. And this comprehensive guide will help you do just that. It's packed with expert advice from some of the most experienced and knowledgeable people around—the staff of business consultants at Entrepreneur Magazine. You'll learn: What businesses are best conducted from home How to research your potential markets, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your competition, and set your prices accordingly How to organize your finances correctly right from the start—and avoid disaster later How to establish effective advertising and promotional strategies without spending a lot of money How to handle the legal aspects of a home-based business—forms of operation, licenses, zoning ordinances and restrictions, and taxes How to control crucial, but often overlooked, issues like time management, business image, and working in isolation How to turn a room into an office and buy equipment, supplies, and fixtures to create an efficient, comfortable work environment ENTREPRENEUR Magazine is the banner publication of the Entrepreneur Magazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of any business monthly and has a total ABC audited circulation of 410,000. The Entrepreneur Magazine Group also publishes Business Start-Ups and Entrepreneur in Mexico, as well as videos, audiocassettes, and software that deal with business start-up management. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor Making Money with Your Personal Computer Starting an Import/Export Business Small Business Legal Guide




Becoming a Trusted Business Advisor


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Being your clients’ Most Trusted Business Advisor is not about selling and making pitches. It’s really about showing an interest in your clients, asking the kind of questions that will help you learn what is important to them, and then listening. Based on the AICPA’s successful Trusted Business Advisor Program and intended for CPAs who want to take their consulting practice to the next level, this workbook provides approaches to help you do just that. By the time you finish working through the book’s helpful forms and exercises you will be better able to: have critical conversations with your clients ask the right questions effectively be a better listener easily identify services that will add value to your clients’ organizations avoid administrative pitfalls throughout the process effectively market your services, and profitably grow your practice Find out how to uncover critical client needs in ten minutes or less, how to help your clients prioritize their wish lists, and how to help them quantify the value of addressing each of the issues that keep them awake at night!




The Entrepreneur's Solution


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Discover the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—the key to twenty-first century sustainable success: “A must read.” —David Bach, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Automatic Millionaire The Entrepreneur’s Solution introduces the Business Mastery Blueprint and the concept of sustainable success—the new model for thriving in the twenty-first century, which replaces the old standard “model of mediocrity.” New-millennium companies are blazing a very different path to an achievable and sustainable future. But what is the mindset behind the methodology? In these pages, potential and beginning entrepreneurs can learn exactly what it takes to live a rich life on every level. The Nine Entrepreneurial Essentials that make up the Three Elements of the Entrepreneurial Mindset—from the moment they are put into practice—become a game changer in growing a business and a meaningful life. “A thought-provoking new way to think about business.” —Daniel Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Life Includes a foreword by Brendon Burchard, New York Times–bestselling author of High Performance Habits




The Entrepreneurial Instinct: How Everyone Has the Innate Ability to Start a Successful Small Business


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Unlock your innate entrepreneurial talents, take rewarding risks, and launch and run a successful business The Entrepreneurial Instinct explains that entrepreneurial success is not the result of education, IQ, access to capital, or even an earth-shattering business plan. Instead, it comes from the instincts that enable entrepreneurs to take risks for gain and utilize adaptable action-oriented business planning. The Entrepreneurial Instinct shows you how to tap into your innate abilities to become a financially successful entrepreneur. Monica Mehta is a Managing Principal at Seventh Capital, a New York-based investment firm where she is actively involved with the day-to-day operations of portfolio companies.




Entrepreneur Magazine


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The next best thing to hiring a human resources professional If you need help managing the people side of your small business,you're in luck! This comprehensive, practical guide supplieseverything you need to know to manage human resources effectivelyand avoid legal hassles: * Easy-to-follow guidelines for job advertising, interviewing,hiring, setting wages and benefits, and conducting performancereviews. * Important information on civil rights, affirmative action, andthe ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). * Guidance on developing workplace policies, dealing with layoffs,managing employees with disabilities, and other sensitive issues. * Sample documents, including performance review forms, jobdescriptions, and applications. * Sample letters and memos for key types of formal communicationwith employees. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: * The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Advisor * The Entrepreneur Magazine Small Business Answer Book * Guide to Integrated Marketing * Making Money with Your Personal Computer * Small Business Legal Guide * Starting an Import/Export Business * Starting a Home-Based Business * Successful Advertising for Small Businesses SPECIAL OFFERS! * Free issue of Entrepreneur Magazine. * 50% discount on Entrepreneur Magazine subscription. * 1/2 price admission to any Entrepreneur Magazine Small BusinessExpo. * Discount on American Entrepreneurs Association membership. See details and coupons in back of book.




Entrepreneur Magazine


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From the source you trust most-everything you need to start up,grow, and prosper in international trade... If you're excited by the opportunities you see in internationaltrade but nervous about facing a world of problems you don'tunderstand, you've come to the right place. In Starting anImport/Export Business, the experts at Entrepreneur Magazine helpyou break into this fast-growing field and thrive. You'll find thewhole story on the import/export business in this easy-to-useguide--clear concise information that demystifies the foreign tradeprocess and explains precisely what clients expect fromimport/export services. In addition to all the basics you need to start your own business,this book is loaded with helpful statistics on international tradewith 17 countries, sample documents, and resource listings. You'lllearn about trade regulations, how to deal with customs services,and the best ways to protect trademarks and copyrights. You'lldiscover the best places to go for working capital, how to attractclients, and when to hire consultants. You'll also learn how to: * Price goods and services and calculate exchange rates. * Choose the best payment method for each transaction. * Cope with international legal issues. * Manage your company's finances. * Market your services both at home and abroad. * Hook up with import and export distribution systems. There's never been a better time to launch yourself into theexciting world of international trade, and Starting anImport/Expert business is the ideal book to get you going. ENTREPRENEUR Magazine is the banner publication of the EntrepreneurMagazine Group. It has the largest newsstand circulation of anybusiness monthly and has a total ABC audited circulation of385,000. The Entrepreneur Magazine Group also publishes BusinessStart-Ups and Entrepreneur in Mexico, as well as videos,audiocassettes, and software that deal with business start-upmanagement. Also available from the Entrepreneur Magazine library: Making MoneyWith Your Personal Computer, The Entrepreneur Magazine SmallBusiness Advisor.




The Business Startup Checklist and Planning Guide


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If you are one of the 40% of American workers who have considered starting a business, but have been held back by fear, funding concerns or the lack of a business plan or idea, this book is for you.




Ultimate Small Business Advisor


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All the Advice you Need to Start Your Own Business—Plus A Bonus CD with Tools to Help You Along the Way Starting and running a thriving business takes time and effort, expertise in managing people and finances, knowledge of your industry and market and the ability to look ahead and plan. And because you have to wear many hats when you own a small business, it's not always easy. Andi Axman has tapped into Entrepreneur magazine's 30 years of experience to reveal everything you need to know to get your business off the ground and keep it growing successfully. Axman advises you on: Performing market research Location, leases and licensing Writing a business plan and securing startup financing Record keeping and tax planning Pricing, financial controls and credit management Legal issues and insurance Marketing, advertising and sales Offering unparalleled customer service Plus, it comes with a bonus CD that provides hands-on learning tools It's the ultimate encyclopedia for any business owner.