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Small Business For Dummies [Kindle Edition]

Eric Tyson , Jim Schell
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This comprehensive and practical guide addresses how to find your business niche and time a start–up, figure out approximate costs, identify legal and tax issues, market products or services, and learn bookkeeping basics. Also recommended: Steven D. Peterson and others′ Business Plans Kit for Dummies (3d ed. Wiley, May 2010.) (Library Journal, May 1, 2010)

I have yet to find a business book…that collects together as much information as this…in a eminently readable book.’ (Bookworm73.wordpress.com, May 2011).

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The leading resource for starting and running any small business

Want to start the small business of your dreams? Want to breathe new life into the one you already have? Small Business For Dummies provides authoritative guidance on every aspect of starting and growing your business, from financing and budgeting to marketing, management and beyond.

This completely practical, no-nonsense guide gives you expert advice on everything from generating ideas and locating start-up money to hiring the right people, balancing the books, and planning for growth. You'll get plenty of help in ramping up your management skills, developing a marketing strategy, keeping your customers loyal, and much more. You'll also find out to use the latest technology to improve your business's performance at every level.

  • How start-up and established small businesses can use the Small Business Jobs Act to their advantage
  • Enhanced and expanded coverage on using technology in your small business
  • Hiring employees using online resources including LinkedIn, Facebook, and other social media sites
  • New coverage of the recent health care bill, health savings accounts, and their implications for small business
  • Updated coverage of the best places to get small business loans
  • What it takes to achieve and maintain success in an ever-changing economic landscape

You have the energy, drive, passion, and smarts to make your small business a huge success. Small Business For Dummies provides the rest.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1713 KB
  • Print Length: 432 pages
  • Publisher: For Dummies; 4 edition (30 Nov 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B006ISIA1Y
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #454,577 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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After I finished Tyson's excellent Investing for Dummies, I picked up Small Business for Dummies which Tyson, an entrepreneur, personal finance writer and counselor co-wrote with entrepreneur Jim Schell. This book too was outstanding. It's practical, well-written and organized and comprehensive. Filled with anecdotes as well as concrete advice.
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There are many people who start a small business every year, all around the world. 2011 will be no exception, and it is a key theme of the UK Government that small business has their role in supporting the re-energising of a stagnant economy. The problems that all entrepreneurs face are similar - what is my idea? Where will I get money to grow my business? How will I cope in the meantime?

"Small Business for Dummies" by Eric Tyson and Jim Schell takes these problems and adds a title to the very successful "...for dummies" series of books. This book has been written with the aim of providing answers to most if not all of your questions.
The help starts as soon as you turn the front cover over, as there is a tear-out page containing 20 Tips that can be kept as an aide-memoire pinned to the fridge door in case you might forget them.

"...for Dummies" is a very successful ranges of books, with this title being their contender to help small businesses. There are the usual chapters on finding your niche, making your planning effective and finding sources of capital, remembering to make the money work as hard as is possible so that your returns (profits) are greater.

What I like about this book, above and beyond all the other small-business-book offerings, are the chapters on negotiating deals, how to market and how to attract and retain superstar employees. I have yet to find a business book (at any level) that collects together as much information as this and provides it in a eminently readable book.

Aside from the usual disclaimer that reminds UK readers that the specific taxation and legal structures are for US audiences only, there is a lot to commend this book to anyone who is thinking about starting their own business. This is definitely a keeper, and as the book gets updated (the reviewed copy was a 3rd edition, 2008) its value can only grow.
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This book is a must read for those who are starting a small business or just thinking about starting a business. Eric Tyson has done it again!
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