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You're ready to finally tell your good-for-nothing boss exactly what you think of him, pack up your desk, and take the leap you've always dreamed of: starting your own business and growing it into a million dollar company. Taking that leap may seem scary, but when you have the right tools to guide you along the way, starting a million dollar business becomes a whole lot more than just a dream, and a whole lot easier than you ever thought it could be. CHOOSE THE RIGHT TYPE OF BUSINESS The first thing that you’ll need to do is decide exactly what type of business you want to run, besides one that makes a lot of money. One great way to get your feet wet as an entrepreneur is to try selling some things on eBay. It doesn’t require much of an investment, or a whole lot of specialized knowledge. Check out eBay Secrets: How to create Internet auction listings that make 30% more money while selling every item you list, which will provide you with lots of simple, easy to apply tips that can really jump-start your profits. Another easy and lucrative business to consider getting into is vending. Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned is a terrific roadmap for getting started in vending. Regardless of what type of business you choose to get into, it’s probably a good idea to pick up Home-Based Business for Dummies. There, you’ll get practical advice that works in a whole host of scenarios. GETTING STARTED THE RIGHT WAY The first several months of your entrepreneurial venture are of the utmost importance. Even the smallest of obstacles can become major stumbling blocks when you’ve just left the gate. If you want to get the perspective of two men whose long, illustrious careers offer a wealth of information, check out Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. A classic that will steer you clear of the major roadblocks of owning a small business is The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. The principles that Gerber offers in this book are developed more extensively in his two follow-up books: The E-Myth Manager: Why Most Managers Don't Work and What to Do About It and E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company. The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels offers a veritable goldmine of solid advice for those in transitional stages. For an easy read that nonetheless contains plenty of gems for the aspiring entrepreneur, offered with remarkable candor, Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life is a solid addition to your bookshelf. If you want to learn how to make the system work with you rather than against you, Inc. & Grow Rich! can be a big help. An invaluable resource for getting your business up and running is, Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need (Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need). It is just loaded with information on just about every aspect of small business ownership. Another great text that has stood the test of time (it’s in its twelfth edition) is, Small Business Management: An Entrepreneurial Emphasis. For those of us who like to get things moving in a hurry, Six-Week Start-Up: A Step-By-Step Program for Starting Your Business, Making Money, and Achieving Your Goals! is also a worthwhile read. No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs (No B.S. Series) offers tried and true techniques for navigating the hectic, time-consuming demands of business management. CONSIDER ALL YOUR OPTIONS FOR TYPES OF BUSINESSES If you’re going to pour your blood, sweat and tears into something, not to mention your savings, it’s important that you take your time in making a decision as to what type of business you want to run. Thankfully, there are tons of businesses to choose from, and just as many books out there to help you make your decision. Consider the following: Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned eBay Secrets: How to create Internet auction listings that make 30% more money while selling every item you list Start Your Own Wedding Consultant Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success Start and Run a Coffee Bar (Start & Run a) How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business (Home-Based Business Series) Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams! Start and Run a Money-Making Bar How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 4th Best Home Businesses for People 50+ How to Start a Home-Based Pet Care Business (Home-Based Business Series) How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, Third Edition (Home-Based Business Series) The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It's Not About the Money...It's About Being the Best You Can Be! Investing in Real Estate, Fourth Edition Start Your Own Coin-Operated Laundry (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) Start Your Own Car Wash (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up) WRITE A GOOD BUSINESS PLAN Of course, if you want your business to flourish, one of the most critical steps to take is to write a sound business plan, and stick to it! Although there are plenty of texts out there to assist you in this endeavor, three of my favorites are: The One Page Business Plan with CD-ROM Business Plans Kit for Dummies (With CD-ROM) The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies PROMOTE AND GROW YOUR BUSINESS So, after months spent planning and setting up, you’ve finally got your business ready to go. Now all you have to sit back, relax, and let the profits pour in, right? Wrong! You have to get out there and establish a name for yourself! The great thing is, establishing a name for yourself doesn’t always involve costly advertising campaigns or armies of employees canvassing the streets; there are ways to do it both effectively and inexpensively. Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing) offers non-traditional techniques that nonetheless get the job done. Unfortunately, in addition to basic marketing and promotional techniques, you will probably have to do something that, for some people, is a very scary four-letter word…SELL. Don’t worry, if you read a few of the following books, not only will you get a crash-course in selling, you’ll also gain the confidence that comes with knowledge. You’ll need it to make that first sales call. Check out: The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource, Revised Edition PAY LESS IN TAXES Taxes, detested by all, can be especially draining on the accounts of fledgling small businesses, and they can hasten some truly horrendous migraines. Although adequate preparation and a qualified CPA won’t always ward off the migraines and/or IRS, it’s a good idea to read up on ways to keep more of your money invested in your business as opposed to the current administration’s whims. You may want to consider investing in the following (the tips they contain will likely save you much more than the sticker price): Own Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them (Rich Dad's Advisors (Paperback)) J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2005: For Preparing Your 2004 Tax Return (J.K. Lasser) Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL When you’re starting your own business, there’s tons of information out there to help you with just about every aspect of getting your business off the ground. However, lots of times it’s better to step back and look at it from a totally new perspective. You’d be surprised what you might learn. Some of my favorites are: Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence Products mentioned include:
| CHOOSE THE RIGHT TYPE OF BUSINESS | | 1. |  | eBay Secrets: How to create Internet auction listings that make 30% more money while selling every item you list [Download: PDF]
by Steven Ellis White | | 2. |  | Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned [Download: PDF]
by Bryon Krug | | 3. |  | Home-Based Business for Dummies
by Paul Edwards | | GETTING STARTED THE RIGHT WAY | | 4. |  | Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy | | 5. |  | The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber | | 6. |  | The E-Myth Manager: Why Most Managers Don't Work and What to Do About It
by Michael E. Gerber | | 7. |  | E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
by Michael E. Gerber | | 8. |  | The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels | | 9. |  | Lucky or Smart?: Secrets to an Entrepreneurial Life
by Bo Peabody | | 10. |  | Inc. & Grow Rich!
by Cheri S. Hill | | 11. |  | Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need (Start Your Own Business: The Only Start-Up Book You'll Ever Need)
by Rieva Lesonsky | | 12. |  | Small Business Management: An Entrepreneurial Emphasis
by Justin G. Longenecker | | 13. |  | Six-Week Start-Up: A Step-By-Step Program for Starting Your Business, Making Money, and Achieving Your Goals!
by Rhonda Abrams | | 14. |  | No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs (No B.S. Series)
by Dan Kennedy | | CONSIDER ALL YOUR OPTIONS FOR TYPES OF BUSINESSES | | 15. | | Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned [Download: PDF]
by Bryon Krug | | 16. | | eBay Secrets: How to create Internet auction listings that make 30% more money while selling every item you list [Download: PDF]
by Steven Ellis White | | 17. |  | Start Your Own Wedding Consultant Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success
by Eileen Figure Sandlin | | 18. |  | Start and Run a Coffee Bar (Start & Run a)
by Tom Matzen | | 19. |  | How to Start a Home-Based Event Planning Business (Home-Based Business Series)
by Jill Moran | | 20. |  | Your First Year in Network Marketing: Overcome Your Fears, Experience Success, and Achieve Your Dreams!
by Mark Yarnell | | 21. |  | Start and Run a Money-Making Bar
by Bruce Fier | | 22. |  | How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, 4th
by Denise Vivaldo | | 23. |  | Best Home Businesses for People 50+
by Paul Edwards | | 24. |  | How to Start a Home-Based Pet Care Business (Home-Based Business Series)
by Kathy Salzberg | | 25. |  | How to Start a Home-Based Gift Basket Business, Third Edition (Home-Based Business Series)
by Shirley George Frazier | | 26. |  | The Millionaire Real Estate Agent: It's Not About the Money...It's About Being the Best You Can Be!
by Gary Keller | | 27. |  | Investing in Real Estate, Fourth Edition
by Andrew James McLean | | 28. |  | Start Your Own Coin-Operated Laundry (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)
by Mandy Erickson | | 29. |  | Start Your Own Car Wash (Entrepreneur Magazine's Start Up)
by Entrepreneur Press | | WRITE A GOOD BUSINESS PLAN | | 30. |  | The One Page Business Plan with CD-ROM
by James T., Jr. Horan | | 31. |  | Business Plans Kit for Dummies (With CD-ROM)
by Steven D. Peterson | | 32. |  | The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies
by Rhonda Abrams | | PROMOTE AND GROW YOUR BUSINESS | | 33. |  | Guerrilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business (Guerrilla Marketing)
by Jay Conrad Levinson
| | 34. |  | The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
by Jeffrey Gitomer
| | 35. |  | Build It Big: 101 Insider Secrets from Top Direct Selling Experts
by Direct Selling Womens Alliance (DSWA)
| | 36. |  | Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants
by C. J. Hayden
| | 37. |  | The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource, Revised Edition
by Jeffrey Gitomer
| | PAY LESS IN TAXES | | 38. |  | Own Your Own Corporation: Why the Rich Own Their Own Companies and Everyone Else Works for Them (Rich Dad's Advisors (Paperback))
by Garrett Sutton
| | 39. |  | J.K. Lasser's Your Income Tax 2005: For Preparing Your 2004 Tax Return (J.K. Lasser)
by J.K. Lasser InstituteTM
| | 40. |  | Home Business Tax Deductions: Keep What You Earn
by Stephen Fishman
| | 41. | | Vending Business-In-A-Box: A step-by-step guide to starting a profitable vending business without getting burned [Download: PDF]
by Bryon Krug
| | BUSINESS STRATEGIES THAT WILL HELP YOU BECOME MORE SUCCESSFUL | | 42. |  | Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
by W. Chan Kim
| | 43. |  | Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
by Clayton M. Christensen
| | 44. |  | Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win
by George Stalk
| | 45. |  | Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't
by Jim Collins
| | 46. |  | Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom
by Robert T. Kiyosaki
| | 47. |  | The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness
by Stephen R. Covey
| | 48. |  | The Medici Effect: Breakthrough Insights at the Intersection of Ideas, Concepts, and Cultures
by Frans Johansson
| | 49. |  | Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
by Malcolm Gladwell
| | 50. |  | Automatic Wealth: The Six Steps to Financial Independence
by Michael Masterson
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