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    Steps To Small Business Start Up — An oversized paperback with everything you need to create a successful business - 260 pages of the practical advice you would expect from authors of SBA material. Alongside the usual stuff like legal structure and accounting, you will find real world topics like shopping for insurance, cash flow and planning. Details are specific and on-target rather than the generalities often found in this sort of book. "Highly recommended!"

    Anatomy of a Business Plan — Companion book to "Steps to Small Business Start Up". A well-written business plan provides a pathway to profit for any new or existing business – a business road map that gets you from here to there. It also provides the documentation a lender or investor requires. And this book helps you write YOUR plan from start to finish. "This step-by-step guide is highly recommended!"

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    More Than a Pink Cadillac: Mary Kay Inc's 9 Leadership Keys to Success — an excellent look at one of the most influential companies in the world. It shows how a strong founder and leader can grow a company from a one-person sales outlet to a $3 billion dollar international company, all the while maintaining a personal touch. The author has managed to show just how caring for one's people and 'doing what's right' directly affects the bottom line.

    Business Start-Up Kit — An easy to read compendium of everything an aspiring entrepreneur needs to start and succeed in business. Strauss covers these topics very well: Buying A Franchise Or Other Business, Planning Your Business, gives a brief overview of Laws, Taxes, and Insurance, and looks at Bootstrap Financing. It's written in a friendly, entertaining way that made even complicated subjects pretty easy to understand.


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    Successful Proposal Strategies For Small Businesses : Using Knowledge Management To Win Government, Private-Sector, And International Contracts — This is THE book for small business wishing to grow and thrive in the Federal Government market place. Winning proposals in this market space is incredibly challenging for small businesses and this book is based on extensive first-hand experience with what works, what does not, and why. It is the single best government proposal development resource on the market,

    Flexible Leadership : Creating Value by Balancing Multiple Challenges and Choices — You often hear that "leaders are born", and you're out of luck if you don't get the gene. Unfortunately this doesn't provide most of us with any guidance on how to be a better leader and manager. This book finally demystifies the notion of leadership. The authors emphasize what can and can't be learned about leadership, and the relative importance of leadership vs. managership -- arguing effectively that "leaders need to be good managers, and managers need to be good leaders."

    Climbing the Corporate Ladder in High Heels — is a practical guide to career success. This book brings light and awareness to the often difficult and confusing choices we make along our journey through life. Not just another self help book, Kathleen Archambeau teaches every woman how to get where she wants to be in the corporate world.

    THE BUSINESS START PAGE is a registered associate of  AMAZON.COM A Wish Can Change Your Life : How to Use the Ancient Wisdom of Kabbalah to Make Your Dreams Come True — Though deep in content, the book is written so that anyone can enjoy the stories and application of esoteric instruction. The concepts are easy to understand and a joy to implement. LIfe wants us to achieve our dreams and wishes and if we really want something, the universe will respond and give it more power if it's made of love, appreciation and gratitude. This book is well written and filled with smile-inspiring wit.

    The Bear Book : Survive and Profit in Ferocious Markets — Prudent advice on preparing to panic! This amusing discourse on the history and psychology of the U.S. stock market, provides suggestions on how to survive and even thrive when the stock market tumbles. History shows that when optimism reigns as it seems to now, the carnage is likely to be all the worse.


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