Whether you’re planning a start-up or already running your own shop, get the expert guidance and tools you need for small business success! This book offers practical advice on how to work with the Microsoft Office System and other software as you plan, launch, and manage your business. Step through the key decisions and day-to-day details on everything from drafting a business plan to finding customers, managing finances, and building your brand. You also get a toolkit packed with timesaving templates and references on CD—all the resources you need to grow your small business with confidence! Discover how to: <ul>
<li>Focus your dream—learn how to do the research, define your goals, and develop your business plan.</li> <li>Find financing—where to get it, when you’ll need it, and how much you’ll need.</li> <li>Manage your money—know the essentials of forecasting, budgeting, data analysis, goal-setting, taxes, and more.</li> <li>Tap the right talent—recruit and hire the right people at the right time, and nurture great performance.</li> <li>Build your brand—gain recognition, credibility, and trust by managing your image and brand.</li> <li>Go to market—build effective strategies for customer relations and marketing—and make them pay off!</li> <li>Make technology work for you—from managing e-mail to setting up security-enhanced networks and servers, learn best technology practices for small businesses. Get the tools for success!</li> </ul>
CD includes: <ul>
<li>A directory of hundreds of key resources and references for small businesses</li> <li>Dozens of files, templates, and articles for business planning, payroll, taxes, marketing, and more</li> </ul>
For customers who purchase an ebook version of this title, instructions for downloading the CD files can be found in the ebook.

Microsoft® Small Business Kit

Computers & Technology

Pierce, John

Ryan, Ben

Krotz, Joanna L.

Software

Microsoft Press

"Keys, Codes and Modes" offers an alternative way to visualize, learn and understand the inter-workings of music. This guide presents a graphic and progressive approach to musical principals. It is perfect for experts trying to hone their skills, and for beginners trying to understand the basics. Making music work starts with the foundationsâ and they are all covered in this book! Building from simple concepts to complex progressions, "Keys, Codes and Modes" is an excellent tool for an aspiring musician to contextualize their musical world. Shapes, circles, compasses and the numbers on a clock face are used to express the complicated concepts found in music.

Keys, Codes and Modes: A Visual Method and Graphic Approach to Understanding Music

Arts & Photography

Music

BookBaby

The intention of this resource is to create a navigational guide for understanding music and playing the guitar. Graphic images and visuals depict constellations and reveal patterns found inside the world of music. Guitar players improve their skills through knowledge and the application of music-theory principles. This method is designed to encourage, support and celebrate an individual's creative journey and one's personal search for self-expression. Familiarity and understanding bolster confidence needed to experiment, write, compose and play "one's own" songs. Improvisation opens the imagination. It expresses emotions and feelings through creativity, words, minds and bodies, souls and spirits. This guide is created by and for musicians. This method provides an overview of music and supports teaching and learning efforts at all levels. It is designed for players of any age, level of dexterity and depth of understanding. This tool supports the professionals, singers/songwriters, "creative" types, students, teachers, music therapists, patients, hobbyists and enthusiasts. It reaches as far as one's desires are pursued toward musical realization, expression and style. This guide provides references and resources. It is designed to be reviewed periodically, especially with questions, or when seeking a new direction and inspiration. It can be viewed sequentially and/or by interest. Images represent concepts such as: notes, intervals and inversions, fingering patterns, scales, modes, chords and progressions. Music, science, artâall are intertwined, interrelated, relational and conform to the universal laws of physics and nature. Music opens the imagination to creativity, inspiration and expression. This guide helps to navigate music, in a visual and usable way. It is designed to expand one's knowledge of the basics and fuel a growing love and affection for music. With enjoyment in mind, this method suggests and encourages growth through one's dedication and passion. Frequency of practice and play are essential for development, growth and success in one's evolution of music and playing skills. This is a pathway from understanding one note to the harmonized C scale on the guitar, including: color coding, fingering charts and other visual tools.

Keys, Codes and Modes - Volume 1: A Visual Method and Graphic Approach to Understanding Music

Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji's Olympic Dream

The incredible story of how one man inspired a nation of underdogs to achieve sporting greatness.
It is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach Fiji's rugby sevens team, with the aim of taking them to the nation's first-ever Olympic medal. He has never been to Fiji. There has been no discussion of contracts or salary. But he knows that no one plays rugby like the men from these isolated Pacific islands, just as no one plays football like the kids from the Brazilian favelas, or no one runs as fast as the boys and girls from Jamaica's boondocks. He knows too that no other rugby nation has so little - no money and no resources, only basic equipment and a long, sad history of losing its most gifted players to richer, greedier nations.
Ryan says yes. And with that simple word he sets in motion an extraordinary journey that will encompass witchdoctors and rugby-obsessed prime ministers, sun-smeared dawns and devastating cyclones, intense friendships and bitter rows, phone taps and wild nationwide parties. It will end in Rio with a performance that not only wins Olympic gold but reaches fresh heights for rugby union and makes Ben and his 12 players living legends back home.

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018\nIt is late summer 2013. Ben Ryan, a red-haired, 40-something, spectacle-wearing Englishman, is given 20 minutes to decide whether he wants to coach Fiji's rugby sevens team, with the aim of taking them to the nation's first-ever Olympic medal. He has never been to Fiji. There has been no discussion of contracts or salary. But he knows that no one plays rugby like the men from these isolated Pacific islands, just as no one plays football like the kids from the Brazilian favelas, or no one runs as fast as the boys and girls from Jamaica's boondocks. He knows too that no other rugby nation has so little - no money and no resources, only basic equipment and a long, sad history of losing its most gifted players to richer, greedier nations.\nRyan says yes. And with that simple word he sets in motion an extraordinary journey that will encompass witchdoctors and rugby-obsessed prime ministers, sun-smeared dawns and devastating cyclones, intense friendships and bitter rows, phone taps and wild nationwide parties. It will end in Rio with a performance that not only wins Olympic gold but reaches fresh heights for rugby union and makes Ben and his 12 players living legends back home.

Sevens Heaven: The Beautiful Chaos of Fiji’s Olympic Dream

Westerners love an existential crisis. Each decade since the First World War has raised up prophets of doom proclaiming the end of the Western world as we know it. But this time it's real. Weighed down by economic woes, the seemingly endless war on terror, and the declining power of religion as a unifying force, the West has been limping along. With the public sphere fraying and authoritarian politics rising, this deep-seated crisis is now urgent, and potentially fatal. How did we get here? Ben Ryan's diagnosis is simple: the West is a myth, and it is dying. Its own people are no longer convinced or united by its defining ideal--a sense of universal morals, and of constant progress towards them. Following a series of 'system failures', Westerners--from urban millennials to post-industrial workers-- have lost faith in the West as a moral force. Yet there is a chance for redemption, if we can forge a new common myth of the West: one reviving its great values, and reshaping its ideals for a diverse, forward-looking world. This smart and thoughtful book explores what the West is, what has happened to it, and how we might save it.

How the West Was Lost: The Decline of a Myth and the Search for New Stories

History

World

Hurst

The Tay is Wet: Tales from Ireland's Valley of the Boyne

Original Writing Ltd

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