Starting Your Own Business: The Bestselling Guide to Planning and Building a Successful Enterprise , 5th Edition Date: 30 April 2011, 05:25
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This book concentrates on the creative heart of business, on how to develop an exciting enterprise from the original germ of an idea. It covers topics such as: Finding a good idea; Getting started; Creating a winning business plan; Funding your enterprise; Marketing your business; and, Maintaining progress. Preface Becoming a successful entrepreneur is not only a rewarding and self-fulfilling experience, it’s also a tremendous amount of fun. Many people equate the term entrepreneur with multi-millionaires running international conglomerates. Yet traders just down the street from where you live who make their living from retailing, plumbing, painting and decorating, electrical installation, building, floral arrangement, interior design, child minding, dentistry, chiropody, garden maintenance, insurance, image-making and a host of other things – all are entrepreneurs, and they get as much satisfaction from their enterprises as any multi-millionaires. Entrepreneurship is an attitude, a whole way of life. When you choose to start your own business you are also choosing to become an entrepreneur, and to begin this new way of life. Maybe you’ve already given some thought to striking out on your own but feel that the risks are too great, the timing not right, the economy too bad. You feel you’d never be able to raise the funds, you’re too young/old/ tired/retired, you’re too unemployed/redundant/rejected – you’re too whatever. This book aims to help you decide whether you’re right or wrong, whether you have what it takes to strike out on your own and stamp your personality on an enterprise of your very own making. Let me tell you my own story. It was a cold wet Friday morning in November and for the last time I was walking the short distance from the car park to my little office on the hill. I was feeling my age, the money had almost run out and my wife was just days away from death. Thirty minutes later I had lost my job, my income and my car. As I trudged through the rain looking for a taxi home I thought, ‘You should be cracking up now.’ But I wasn’t. Instead, I was experiencing an inner peace I’d never felt before, coupled with a fierce determination to fight back. And fight back I did. I also ceased to worry about anything from that day on. It was my personal road to Damascus, the dawn of realisation. You will find many strands of ‘fighting back’ throughout these pages. Regardless of your personal circumstances this book will show you how to strike out on your own and get your life going again. I’ve been an entrepreneur for a long time. I’ve won some and I’ve lost some but I wrote the first edition of this book while I was doing it yet again so that whatever wisdom it might contain would come fresh to the reader from current experience. Now 14 years on, as I complete my revisions for the fifth edition, I’m still at it: launching an ever-increasing shoal of virtual businesses online. The contents are not about the mechanics of running a business. You won’t find any mention of the complexities of the VAT system, how to compile your tax return, what qualities you should be looking for when choosing a solicitor or accountant. There are lots of excellent books around dealing with these matters, including some in this series. This book concentrates on the creative heart of business, on how to develop an exciting enterprise from the original germ of an idea. If you do decide to become an entrepreneur may good luck and good fortune be yours all the way
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