Small businesses and self-employment

This book provides a guided deep dive into the early stages of venture development of social entrepreneurship.

This book focuses on the steps a new business owner must take in the first 100 days of starting a business to establish a lasting and successful enterprise.

Family businesses are a breed unto themselves.

This book outlines a cost-effective process for dynamic strategic planning in the domain of the small entrepreneurial firm.

In the hard-fought business world, only one new business in 20 lives to see its fifth anniversary.

Strategy is about creating a plan to differentiate your business from the competition and to gain a competitive advantage.

This book outlines and illustrates strategies that you must employ to protect your intellectual property.

If you are an entrepreneur starting a new venture, this book provides the information you need to choose your initial team of cofounders and employees.

Family Child Care Contracts and Policies, Fourth Edition offers the most up-to-date tools for family child care providers to establish and enforce contracts and policies.

Family childcare homes provide care for hundreds of thousands of children every day.

Filled with information to effectively market a family child care program and maximize enrollment and income, Family Child Care Marketing Guide provides dozens of marketing tips and inexpensive ideas.

Family child care business owners will learn how to reduce their expenses and earn more money, handle special financial situations, and understand the basic principles of retirement planning, whether just starting out or an experienced provider.

Turn your career dreams into a profitable reality!

Everything you need to know about running a successful home-based business!

If you love fitness and you're looking for an alternative to the typical 9-5 office job, The Everything Guide to Being a Personal Trainer will help you turn your passion into a career.

Millions of Americans every year have troubles with their finances.

The painting, faux painting, and mural business is one of the most lucrative small business opportunities around, with more than $100 billion spent annually according to the International Franchise Association.

With a massive upside and potential for growth, the private investigation industry has been booming for years.

Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, the number of small farms operating in the United States dropped by more than 75 percent according to the US Department of Agriculture.

Herb businesses operating on the Internet alone have increased by more than 1000 percent since 2002 according to PEW Internet Research.

If you have always yearned for a career that makes a difference in someone's life and are thinking of opening a staffing service business, then we have a book that can assist you in taking those first steps and can answer all of your questions along the way.

Notaries can make an average of $10 to $200 per signing, depending on the document type.

Are you a whiz with numbers?

Starting and running your own small business can prove a daunting task.

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Only 7 percent of communication is verbal and 38 percent is vocal (pitch, speed, volume, tone of voice).

Everyone has had a good idea for a new product or service that would make life more comfortable, easier, or just more fun.

The overall retail value of the U.

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.

A recent survey by the Association of Management Consulting Firms found entry-level consultants earn an average of $65,000 annually while senior partners earn an average of more than $300,000 (including bonuses and profit sharing).

Are you looking to open a business that offers an endless stream of repeat customers, has a flexible work schedule, and allows you to make as much money as you are willing to put into it?

With loan restrictions tightening and interest rates skyrocketing, securing money from banks, credit card companies, or private investors is near impossible.

Anyone, anywhere can open a successful photography business thanks to the digital camera revolution.

The import export business is not just for large corporations.

As the Internet grows and continues to become an increasingly integral part of our lives, so does the opportunity to make money in this arena.

In this completely revised new second edition, the author leads you through every fact of the coffee business while providing detailed instructions and examples.

How to Buy and/or Sell a Small Business for Maximum Profit is geared toward the budding entrepreneur who wants to buy or sell a small business.

Florists create beautiful arrangements for individuals or special occasions.

Interior design has become a booming industry in recent years with interior designers who own their own firms pulling a median income of $75,000.

If you enjoy working with people and working outdoors, operating a small nursery, landscaping, or lawn service may be the perfect business for you.

Many people dream of starting and running a business of their own but often do not know HOW to start.

If you want to learn about starting a Web business, how to transform your brick and mortar business to a Web business, or even if you're simply interested in making money online, this is the book for you.

This book is for those already operating on eBay who want to know how to make more money using online auctions.

Entrepreneurs in record numbers are setting up shop on eBay, according to a recent survey conducted for eBay by ACNielsen Media Research International.

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The Small Business Owner's Handbook to Search Engine Optimization is ideal for small business owners who want to learn an efficient and effective process for dramatically improving their Web site's search engine rankings and doubling their site's monthly unique visitors.