Setting Up a Small Business (Teach Yourself Business Skills)

Thinking of starting your own business? Just under way with your own business and wondering what to do next? TEACH YOURSELF SETTING UP A SMALL BUSINESS is for you. It contains the advice you would expect to find in a book of this sort, but it also offers very practical hints from two people who have done it themselves. TEACH YOURSELF SETTING UP A SMALL BUSINESS helps you to identify your product or service and consider the marketing and financing required, and suggests where to go for further advice. Starting your own business can be a daunting prospect. In addition to helping with the everyday aspects of running a small business, the authors give guidance on specialised areas such as legal requirements, self assessment for income tax, opening a retail or office-based business, staff selection and marketing. "Key facts" boxes in each chapter give a checklist of important points at each stage.

VERA HUGHES AND DAVID WELLER started their own business, DEVA Training Services, in 1980. Before that they were involved in the retail industry for many years, and Vera became a Senior Training Advisor with the Manpower Services Commission, specialising in office and retail training.They run their business as a partnership and have experienced all the rewards and traumas of setting up and running a very small business, which has thrived, diversified and changed and is still going strong.Vera and David have written a number of books on retailing, published by Hodder & Stoughton and Macmillan.