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The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site

The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site

by Steve Weber

Want to know the most profitable, lowest-risk idea for your home business? It's selling used books online, which is growing 33 percent annually, according to a November 2005 study by U.S. publishers. Here is the complete text of the most popular book about online bookselling of all time: The Home-Based Bookstore: Start Your Own Business Selling Used Books on Amazon, eBay or Your Own Web Site Learn how to... (more)

How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

How To Be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul

by Adrian Shaughnessy

Designers are quick to tell us about their sources of inspiration, but they are much less willing to reveal such critical matters as how to find work, how much they charge, and what to do when a client rejects three weeks of work and refuses to pay the bill. How to be a graphic designer without losing your soul addresses the concerns of young designers who want to earn a living by doing expressive and meaningful... (more)

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

A Leader Becomes a Leader: Inspirational Stories of Leadership for a New Generation

by J. Kevin Sheehan

A Leader Becomes a Leader opens with a window on history: Henry David Thoreau riding a borrowed horse and wagon into the woods around Concord, Massachusetts to Walden Pond in 1845. There, he writes a classic work that has a powerful effect on the lives and philosophies of seminal leaders in the next century as diverse as Mohandas Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela. Thoreau believed that a... (more)

Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself

Free Agent Nation: The Future of Working for Yourself

by Daniel H. Pink

If you’re having a baby, you read What To Expect When You’re Expecting . If you’re considering law school, you read One L . And if you’re thinking about working for yourself, you read Free Agent Nation —Daniel Pink’s contemporary classic about leaving the corporate rat race. Widely acclaimed for its engaging style and provocative perspective, Free Agent Nation has helped thousands transform their... (more)

Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business

Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business

by Meg Mateo Ilasco

Craft, Inc. is the hipster business primer for entrepreneurial crafters to turn what they do for fun into what they do for money. Pro crafter Meg Mateo Ilasco offers a step-by-step guide to everything from developing products and naming the company to writing a business plan, applying for licenses, and paying taxes. Chapters on sales, marketing, trade shows, and publicity round out the mix. Plus, in-depth... (more)

Multiple Streams of Internet Income

by Robert G. Allen

Praise for MULTIPLE STREAMS OF INTERNET INCOME "If ever the world needed some help to succeed on the Internet, this is the moment. Robert Allen’s new book is just in time to save the day."–Jack Trout, President, Trout & Partners, Ltd., author, Differentiate or Die "Earning money ... serious money is no different than piloting a jet aircraft or baking an apple pie. You have to learn how and you... (more)

The Van

by Roddy Doyle

The further misadventures of the Rabbitte family in working-class Dublin--from the author of The Commitments and The Snapper. This story follows Jimmy Rabbitte, Sr., and his best friend through Dublin, selling cheap grub to the drunk and hungry--keeping one step ahead of the health officials.

Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide

by James Stephenson

Over 1500 Secrets of Top Marketing Professionals Boost your sales revenue, profits and customer loyalty with the 1,500 great marketing tips jam-packed into this essential reference guide. Marketing secrets of top business and sales professionals help you devour competitors, close more sales, win new customers and keep them coming back. Stay one step ahead of the competition with dozens of new... (more)

The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques that Really Work

The Ultimate Guide to Electronic Marketing for Small Business: Low-Cost/High Return Tools and Techniques that Really Work

by Tom Antion

Effective, affordable, low-risk online marketing techniques for small business owners Most small businesses are not taking advantage of the powerful and inexpensive Internet-based marketing tools and techniques that are available to them. These tools and techniques can mean the difference between a viable business and closing up shop. But most of what small business owners hear or read about the Internet... (more)

Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service: Treating Your Customers Life Royalty (Unabridged)

Zingerman's Guide to Giving Great Service: Treating Your Customers Life Royalty (Unabridged)

by Ari Weinzweig

Entrepreneurial phenomenon Ari Weinzweig, co-founder of the much-loved Zingerman's Deli, shares the secrets to providing world-class customer service. Zingerman's in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is a beloved deli with some of the most loyal clientele around. It has been praised for its products and service in media outlets far and wide, including the New York Times, Men's Journal, Inc. Magazine, Esquire, Atlantic... (more)

Kick Start Your Business: 100 Days To a Leaner, Fitter Organization (Virgin Business Guides)

Kick Start Your Business: 100 Days To a Leaner, Fitter Organization (Virgin Business Guides)

by Robert Craven, Richard Branson

Too much to do, too little time? Feel your business could do with a tune-up, but are too busy running it to sort out the problems? With the fast, proven techniques in this book, you can transform your workplace into a powerhouse. You won't find textbook abstractions or irrelevant management school theories here - just dozens of practical ways to turbocharge any business. Including case studies, worksheets and... (more)

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

Guerrilla Marketing, 4th edition: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business

by Jay Conrad Levinson, Amy Levinson, Jeannie Levinson

When Guerrilla Marketing was first published in 1983, Jay Levinson revolutionized marketing strategies for the small-business owner with his take-no-prisoners approach to finding clients. Based on hundreds of solid ideas that really work, Levinson’s philosophy has given birth to a new way of learning about market share and how to gain it. In this completely updated and expanded fourth edition, Levinson offers a... (more)

Back On Blossom Street

by Debbie Macomber

Blossom Street where you'll find everything you're looking for! From yarn and flowers to friendshipÂ… There's a new shop on Seattle's Blossom Street a flower store called Susannah's Garden, right next door to A Good Yarn. Susannah Nelson, the owner, has just hired an assistant named Colette Blake, a young widow who's obviously hiding a secret or two. When Susannah and Colette both join Lydia Goetz's new knitting... (more)

Cute Little Store: Between the entrepreneurial dream and business reality

Cute Little Store: Between the entrepreneurial dream and business reality

by Adeena Mignogna

It’s those first couple of years that can make or break a small business. Before you decide to open up your own retail shop, read this book! You're ready to take that risk (or you've already started). You know the odds are stacked against you, and you're looking for some moral support. You want to know how others have dealt with the first difficult years of owning their own retail business, their own "cute... (more)

The Frugal Entrepreneur: Creative Ways to Save Time, Energy & Money in Your Business

The Frugal Entrepreneur: Creative Ways to Save Time, Energy & Money in Your Business

by Terri Lonier

Meet the Frugal Entrepreneur -- dedicated to using creativity instead of cash to generate business success. This upbeat, practical collection contains hundreds of tips and techniques from some of the savviest frugal entrepreneurs around. It's brimming with secrets on: * Finding low-cost and free business equipment and supplies * Strategies to negotiate the best discounts every time * Innovative ways to get the... (more)

Weekend Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash

Weekend Entrepreneur: 101 Great Ways to Earn Extra Cash

by Jennifer Basye Sander, Michelle Anton

Live the Lifestyle of Your Dreams! Are you hoping to build a better life for you and your family? Can you see yourself here? I could use some extra money to take a cool vacation or buy my kids something they really want. I dream of taking a chance on one of my own ideas and turning it into reality. I'm bored and have extra time on my hands. I'm looking for a way my whole family can... (more)

The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

The Baker's Trade: A Recipe for Creating the Successful Small Bakery

by Zachary Y. Schat

This is the first book ever to explain everything needed to work through the thicket of rules, procedures, and tasks for starting and running a prosperous retail or wholesale bakery. It gets going with "a day at the bakery," then takes up baking and business skills, start-up costs, sources of financing, legal and tax matters, local planning and heatlh regulations, retail and kitchen layout and design,... (more)

Step-by-Step Bookkeeping: The Complete Handbook for the Small Business (Revised)

Step-by-Step Bookkeeping: The Complete Handbook for the Small Business (Revised)

by Robert C.P.A. Ragan

“Persons beginning a business may have technical knowledge, management skills, or marketing experience, but most likely no knowledge of accounting or record keeping. <He> clearly describes the basics of ledgers, balance sheets, tax forms, accounts receivable, etc. Many updated sample forms are included.”— Booklist. “A book well worth reading...exhaustive detail.”— INC Magazine.

Marketing Hospitality

by Thomas F. Powers, Cathy H. C. Hsu

This book covers the basic theory and practice of hospitality marketing. It thoroughly discusses strategy, marketing planning and marketing organization.

Talk Up Your Business: How to Make the Most of Opportunities to Promote and Grow Your Small Business

Talk Up Your Business: How to Make the Most of Opportunities to Promote and Grow Your Small Business

by Mary Morel

There are hundreds of daily opportunities for talking up a business, and this helpful and informative resource details how to make word-of-mouth work and how to identify and make the most of every chance to promote and grow a business without spending a fortune on expensive advertising. The importance of understanding the basics of good verbal communication is stressed, and there are tips on networking... (more)

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