Start Your Business: A Beginners Guide (Psi Successful Business Library)

Jump at the opportunity to pursue your biz dream! Start Your Business reveals the winning plays and strategies for reaching your business goals. Overcome the intimidation of being a business Start Your Own Business. With its friendly and clear format, you'll be able to consider and prep yourself for all of the major issues necessary for getting your business up and running. This essential handbook:

• Equips you to handle on federal, state and local licensees, taxes and other regulations
• Guides you through the location process or operating a business out of your home
• Shows you how to negotiate and buy an existing business or franchise
• Provides solid steps to creating a marketing strategy, including tactics for the Internet
• Introduces you to your financing alternatives, as well as what lending options
• Prepares you for the responsibilities of hiring and keeping your employees loyal
• Helps you develop a successful business plan
• Gives pointers on managing and keeping your business productive and profitable

Start Your Business also features handy Plan of Action worksheets that help you compile and prioritize your "to-do" checklists.

Packed with a vast supply of resources and additional sources of assistance. You'll appreciate the useful information from Start Your Business' Helpful Resources and Appendices. They highlight excellent resources for start-ups, such as:

• Additional business books on a variety of specific start-up topics
• Organizations dedicated to helping small businesses prosper
• Small Business Development Center (SBDC) state offices
• National and state-specific business magazines
• Over 60 small business web sites