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Anatomy
of a Business Plan: A Step-By-Step Guide to Starting Smart, Building the
Business and Securing Your Company's Future (3rd Edition) by Linda Pinson,
Jerry Jinnett
Create a polished, professional
business plan with this great step-by-step guide. This award-winning bestseller
has successfully helped more than 50,000 people write business plans that
work and will help entrepreneurs create an effective, results-oriented
plan quickly and easily - put concepts into action.
Small
Store Survival: Success Strategies for Retailers (National Retail Federation
Series)
by
Arthur Andersen
The retail experts at Arthur
Andersen LLP conducted a study in Illinois to determine what stores are
doing now and what they can do to improve their chances of success. The
findings led to this in-depth survival plan for independent retailers,
with tactics applicable in any state and addressing every store function:
customer service, marketing, merchandising, store operations, management,
human resources, and finance. Provides case studies on the problems faced
by various types of stores, including appliance/electronic, pharmacy, and
apparel. Features worksheets and questionnaires enabling retailers to evaluate
their own businesses. |
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FACTORS
TO CONSIDER
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DON'T LIMIT YOUR
POSSIBILITIES OR SQUANDER YOUR POTENTIAL,
BECAUSE YOUR OWN NATURAL
RESOURCES ARE UNLIMITED!
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business plans to fail, but many fail to plan. Good business plan helps
you draw a clear picture of your own business objectives and it gives you
goals to shoot for. It shows the potential, weaknesses and strengths of
the business you propose. It gives prospective lenders or investors the
means to determine whether your company is a good risk or a suitable investment.
Business plan gives you a chronology of events and financial data to which
you can compare your actual results. |
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are bought and sold. The decision to buy a small business should not be
made lightly. A lot of key issues must be considered before you complete
the final purchase. Before you sign on the doted line, make sure that you
know what is included in the terms of sale. You would be wise to consult
a lawyer with experience in this field before making any purchase decisions.
You should find out the answers to the
following questions:
 Are
you just buying the business or does the purchase price include the land
and the building?
If
the purchase is for business only, what type of lease exist?
What
are the seller's future plans? Perhaps you should include a clause in the
contract to prohibit the seller from opening a similar business during
the next five years in the same community.
Does
the day-to-day operation of the business depend on the presence of the
owner?
Is
the equipment owned or rented?
What
is the reputation of the business in the community?
Why
is the business for sale?
How
much you should pay?
If
there are employees, are they properly trained?
Are
all present employees needed?
How
much are employees paid?
Is
there a union contract? |
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Consult a professional accountant
to find out the following:
Whether
the inventory (merchandise available for sale) is selling as quickly as
it should be?
Whether
the customers are paying their bills on time?
Whether
the expenses of the business are in line with its sales?
Does
the business owes to much money?
How
much profit the business is earning?
What
is the cash flow position? |
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Take
your business seriously from the beginning.
Business
success comes from understanding and caring deeply about everything:
your
technology,
your
products and
your
customer's needs. |
Accounting
and Recordkeeping Made Easy for the Self-Employed
In this new guide written just
for the self-employed, business consultant and renowned seminar leader
Jack Fox, shows you how to painlessly and inexpensively--set up and maintain
easy-to-follow recordkeeping and accounting systems in your business, whether
it's service or manufacturing oriented. |
Franchising
101 by The Association of Small Business Development Centers
This definitive guide provides
clear, concise explanations for finding, buying, operating, and growing
a successful franchised business from top experts from the ASBDC and the
American Association of Franchisees and Dealers (AAFD). Checklists, forms,
worksheets, and more... |
Low
Risk, High Reward: Starting and Growing A Business with Minimal Risk
Bob Reiss, founder of several
companies and the subject of a Harvard Business School case study, has
written Low Risk, High Reward to share the many ideas he's developed over
the past 4 decades for succeeding through prudent action. In straightforward
language, he addresses practical methods for spotting, managing & reducing
risks in virtually every facet of business, from... |
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“Women
In Small Business - Setting Up Your Business Right The First Time”
You need to realize that being
a small business owner brings with it many responsibilities. It is easy
to overlook them in your excitement. But they won’t go away if you ignore
them and they are, ultimately, your responsibility. |
Project
Management Basics
Project Management Basics is
training that:
- Delivers the basics of
all Projects (Quality, Cost and Delivery) to speed your management skills.
- Shows you how to manage
and BALANCE your QCD deliverables to deliver first time on time.
- Trains you to RUN a Project
Team Meeting with precision that delivers RESULTS.
- Instructs you in the right
DECISION MAKING PROCESS to move your project forward. This is not some
pie in the sky course that takes 10 weeks to learn and costs you thousand
of dollars. Is is not written by some guy who never ran a project in his
life. This course is no nonsense and used daily by myself and others. |
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