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Make yours a successful small business with The Essential Business Guide, one brilliant volume packed full of big ideas and practical small business help. It's the indispensable reference, clearly written and easy to follow.

In-depth business advice

From cover to cover, The Essential Business Guide is comprehensive and packed with in-depth business advice. The guide has assembled the combined knowledge of 32 highly experienced business experts, and makes all its small business information so accessible!

The Essential Business Guide is comprehensively indexed, so you can find the help you need instantly. What's more, it's spiral bound for the ultimate in durability, so you can refer to it day after day

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Over 200 pages of small business information

The Essential Business Guide gives you eight sections stuffed full of small business information: (To download a pdf of the Contents page for each section, click on the red title text; for sample pages click on the red arrow.)

 

  1. Starting your business — how to launch your business successfullyo» sample

  2. Money matters — how to make a profit and control your financeso» sample

  3. Marketing & Sales — winning the right kind of business, and building on successo» sample

  4. People power — hire the right people, keep them, and keep them happyo» sample

  5. Keeping it legal — how to avoid endangering your business by unwittingly breaking the lawo» sample

  6. Information Technology — make technology an asset, and make the most of the Interneto» sample

  7. Running your business — get the practical stuff right, including premises, sales and customer serviceo» sample

  8. Developing your business — growing safely, broadening your horizons and planning your exit strategyo» sample

Each section has expert advice, jargon-busters and indispensable directories of where to get further information and support — if it's not in The Essential Business Guide, we tell you where to find it!

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From small business start-up to mature business

No matter where your business is in its lifespan, as it grows The Essential Business Guide supports you all the way — from small business start-up
to mature business.

We've included eight case studies to show you how it's done, and how successful business people have negotiated the ups and downs.

And, as your business expands, you'll find the guide is great for training
your staff.

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I have rarely come across such a readable and attractive business book.

Jeremy Spiller

Managing Director, White Hat Media


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