Small businesses and self-employment

Creating the next YouTube blockbuster is easier than you think!

With millions of people eager to lose weight and get in shape, personal training is one of the fastest growing careers in the health and fitness industry today.

"e;The pet sitting business is booming.

Whether you're about to start your own business or have already taken the plunge and want to keep everything on track, make sure you have a copy of The Financial Times Guide to Business Start Up on your shelf.

The majority of SMEs are operating in a networked business environment, and these networks extend beyond national and cultural boundaries.

Intellectual property protection is increasingly becoming a central issue for businesses.

Selling a business is a critical event that may occur only once in a lifetime.

From the bestselling author of The Market Gardener - key principles for biointensive market gardening and powerful stories of successful growers who are farming profitably on a human-scaleMicrofarms is a guide to setting up and running profitable small-scale vegetable farms using organic, low-tech, and highly intensive production methods grounded in ecological principles.

Product Development Strategy provides a concise theoretical and analytical discussion relating to the theory and practice of strategy, innovation capacity, and entrepreneurial performance.

Financial statements hold the key to a company's fiscal health so learn to read them!

With today's marketplace changing at lightning speed, how can entrepreneurs spend the traditional several months perfecting their business plans and finding investors before finally launching their business?

Describes the decisions that led to the success of 16 software companies.

Family business planning has traditionally centered on two issues - estate planning and succession.

Africa suffers from two main diseases: poor management and a lack of vibrant entrepreneurial activity.

Research in this book enhances the understanding of small and medium-sized businesses as a result of unprecedented challenges presented to them.

Use What You Know and the Profits Will FlowWhether you re a graphic designer, an accounting expert, or an advertising guru, your special skills are in high demand.

This book will help any leadership team use their talents to nimbly respond to shifting demands and create a better future for their business and their communities by transitioning from traditional management structures to a system of leadership behaviors.

The "e;look before you leap"e; guide to the joys and pitfalls of the rural good life.

Fed up with the numerous violations of tax law by individuals and businesses selling goods on eBay and other Web sites, the IRS is now making online marketplaces responsible for reporting sales information to the IRS.

Dieses Buch begleitet Gründer in der Food-Branche von der Idee bis zum Geschäftsmodell, von der Lebensvision des Gründerteams bis zum erfolgreichen Vertrieb.

Managing Tourism Enterprises: Start-up, Growth and Resilience brings a new contribution to the literature on tourism management.

Like much of SMEs research, innovation studies of small enterprises have commenced later and are less numerous.

Live your entrepreneurial dream with no-or little-money down Where there's a will, there's a way.

A recent study of 4,306 candidates that sat for the real estate sales associate exam provided these shocking results.

Entrepreneurship is often focused on understanding new ventures, but the entrepreneurial flame is required in growing organisations too.

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In this provocative exploration into the nature and value of power in organizations, authors David McClelland and David Burnham reveal how the drive for influence is essential to good management.

A how-to guide to small business anti-fraud protection and internal control Internal Control/Anti-Fraud Program Design for the Small Business is a practical guide to protection for businesses NOT subject to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

This book is designed to be a guide to demystify the journey leading to preserving family legacy.

Winner of the Business Book Awards 'Thought Leader' category -----The Startup Way reveals how organisations of all sizes can harness startup techniques to drive growth.

Captures the insights of leading academics and practitioners based on decades of research around the globe on factors of success and failures of private wealth, over time.

The strategic journey taken by firms starts with entrepreneurial inception and can go all the way through adaptation to sustainable enterprise, exit, or failure.

This monograph provides a new perspective on business modeling in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

Reinventing economic development as if small business matteredIn cities and towns across the nation, economic development is at a crossroads.

Ditch your day job or set up your side project with this ultimate guide to starting and running your own creative business.

Taking a leap and making the choice to start a business can be hard, but all that comes afterthe planning, loans, marketingcan be even harder.

In this new edition of the popular textbook, Nonprofit Organizations: Theory, Management, Policy, Helmut K.

Jon Gillespie Brown brings his extensive mentoring experience to bear in this new handbook for would-be entrepreneurs.

This title was originally published in 1988.

An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business.

How can you make your bookkeeping workflow smoother and faster?

Letting Go helps family business owners and CEOs make the decision to begin succession planning.

Working for yourself can be an incredibly rewarding way of making a living, giving you more freedom, control, fun, satisfaction and even money, than you could have imagined.

This insightful book looks at the phenomenon of low-cost innovation and explores what we can learn from the innovators in developing nations who are making amazing technical and social advances with scarce capital and resources.

Is it your dream to make it as a creative?

This book identifies the potential of intellectual property as a competitive asset for Latin American firms.