The founder of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company offers insider tips on raising captital, marketing, making deals, hiring employees, and creating quality products
Offers advice on starting a home-based business, with chapters on creating a business concept, buying a franchise, turnkey businesses, business plans, insurance, and taxes.
Act on your dreams of starting a business with this lighthearted, user-friendly guide that provides expert advice on business planning, financing, legal concerns, and marketing issues--all the information one needs to become his or her own boss. Line drawings.
- Everything readers need to know to start up and operate a wildly popular mobile food business - Includes crucial marketing expertise from a successful food truck entrepreneur
Nowadays just about anything can be outsourced. From telemarketing to inventory management, collecting receivables to answering the phone, email account hosting to company management, it's all up for grabs. Business owners, managers at mid-level companies, and entrepreneurs who are even thinking about outsourcing some part of the business need The Complete Idiot's Guide to Successful Outsourcing. Included- The historical and global issues of outsourcing that may affect outsourcing decisions Tips on how to determine whether or not to outsource at all Advice on how to decide the costs and benefits of outsourcing Guidance on hiring and managing the outsourced help An explanation of ways to stay within government compliance
Dr. Sunny Baker gives readers a step-by-step guide to choosing, using and interpreting statistical analyses for business. She approaches statistical evaluations as concepts, using no math and focusing on what businesspeople need to interpret.
A comprehensive guide to running a retail store, with advice on hiring and training, licenses and registrations, working with customers, and learning the retail market.