Business for Beginners, Canadian Edition: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Small Business, third edition, revised and expanded - Softcover

 
9780968401118: Business for Beginners, Canadian Edition: A Simple Step-By-Step Guide to Starting a Small Business, third edition, revised and expanded

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Over 100,000 new entrepreneurs in both the United States and Canada have successfully started their first business using Business for Beginners. After six years in print, the best-selling Business for Beginners is used across North America in college, university, self-employment and entrepreneurship programs and courses, and as a business resource for the first-time entrepreneur with little or no business knowledge.

Easy to digest yet comprehensive content has made it a popular choice, even for people whose first language is not English.

This new edition is completely rewritten with many extras. Some exciting changes include a larger 7" x 9" format with more pages, more checklists, questionnaires and examples, in-text Web references, instant $UCCE$$ $TRATEGIE$ on most pages, up-to-date and new case studies, a small business Web site guide, and a detailed index.

Entrepreneurs take a step-by-step walk down the entrepreneurial path and learn how to:

* Evaluate and hone entrepreneurial skills
* Make the right business start-up or purchase decision
* Understand financial terms and statements
* Thoroughly research the market
* Target market and market on a budget
* Understand basic accounting and set up their books
* Organize their time and paperwork
* Understand legal and tax requirements
* Survive a home office... and more.

Share six success stories of newly-minted entrepreneurs, from teenagers operating a lawn and garden service to a retired couple with an art gallery in a remote area.

Whether you are sixteen or sixty-six, you will find Business for Beginners easily digestible and an excellent guide to point you onto the pathway to success.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Frances McGuckin, the Small Biz Pro, is an award-winning professional speaker, business consultant, columnist and best-selling author in the field of small business. She has been nominated for and won many business awards, including being awarded one of Business in Vancouver’s 2002 five Most Influential Women in Business.

Her self-published book, Business for Beginners reached best-seller in under one year and has sold over 110,000 copies. The sequel, Big Ideas for Growing Your Small Business was released by McGraw Hill-Ryerson in 2001.

With over 30 years of diversified business experience, Frances has amassed a wealth of knowledge. She has been teaching entrepreneurship for 17 years and in business for twenty. She operates Eastleigh Management Services, SmallBizPro Services and Eastleigh Publications from a home-based office.

A dynamic and inspiring speaker who travels internationally teaching business management, entrepreneurship and delivering keynotes, Frances speaks to a wide variety of audiences, from teenage entrepreneurs, women in business, equine enthusiasts and book retailers to sewing machine dealers.

She is a popular national media guest and firm believer in giving back, being a board member for a variety of organizations.

Frances inspires many and motivates them to be the best that they can be. She believes that you should follow that dream, and that anything is achievable - if you truly want it.

As a baby boomer firmly entrenched in the sandwich generation, she is a grandmother of two, and juggles raising a thirteen-year-old daughter, cares for her 94-year-old mother, two horses and assorted animals, including an adopted chinchilla.

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