Product Description: Recognizing that multiple income streams are key to success in the fitness business, the Personal Trainers Guide to Earning Top Dollar identifies those streams and provides instruction on how to command your income. Noted fitness expert Ben Greenfield examines face-to-face personal training; physician referral systems; online training; Web 2...read more

Product Description: Like many business owners, Susan-Urquhart Brown never expected to end up as an entrepreneur. Launching her own business spoke to her passions, but she soon realized there was much more to being a successful owner than she ever expected...read more

Product Description: A staggering 33% of new businesses fail within 3 years. In the real world for most start-ups the real challenge of the first three years is survival; being successful is icing on the cake - it can and will happen, but you need to navigate the survival phase first...read more

A guide to running and growing your business, this handbook is designed with the small business owner in mind. It guides you through the key areas, giving clear explanations of the rules and regulations, as well as explaining how successful entrepreneurs put these into action in the real world.

Product Description: An Owner's Manual provides fast, practical and direct advice and that's what you get with this book! The Small Business Owner's Manual is useful for newly minted entrepreneurs as well as seasoned business owners and can be read from cover-to-cover or to quickly look up information in the midst of a crisis...read more

Product Description: Motivation, desire, and talent are the key qualities in starting and managing a business, as are research and planning. This book suggest that the reader take time to explore and evaluate both personal and business goals and then use that information to build a comprehensive business plan...read more

Product Description: Everything You Need to Know to Start, Run and Grow Your Own Profitable Business - Right From Home! Are you looking for ways to minimize the cost of starting your own business? Then why not run your business from home - some of the most successful companies were started from a kitchen, a spare room, even a garage...read more

Product Description: This book is about making money in the fitness business by the application of real business principles that maintain your integrity. Club owners are still acting on fitness-industry assumptions that come from 20 years of bad business practice...read more

Product Description: Whether it be a cart on the sidewalk or a cafe serving food and beverages, you too can take advantage of one of today's most popular and profitable businesses -- a coffee bar or tea shop. Offering a comprehensive guide outlining what you can expect as an owner/operator of this unique business, this book includes: -- Anticipating costs-- Securing a profitable location-- Purchasing the right equipment-- Roasting beans and serving coffee, espresso, and teaWritten by owners of prosperous coffee bars, this book contains recipes for perfect coffee drinks...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: All the techniques and information for turning a flair for figures into a highly profitable, well-rounded financial services career. The book considers the advantages and disadvantages of self-employment, looks closely at entrepreneurship, reviews the nuts and bolts and costs of start up, presents the legal requirements, and tells how to acquire adequate computer equipment to do the job right...read more

Advice on creative self-employment

Product Description: Today's affordable technology such as computers, fax machines, modems, and laser printers makes it possible, and profitable, for you to operate an office service business from your own home. You can provide word processing, desktop publishing, or accounting services from your kitchen table, spare bedroom, or even the garage...read more

Product Description: This book provides advice and guidance on almost every topic related to starting a small business. From finance to marketing it provides practical, down-to-earth advice that can help any budding entrepreneur succeed. This second edition contains sections on customer relations, retail operations, and managing computers...read more

Tells how to assess one's strengths and hidden assets, identify markets, develop products, plan test marketing, and handle distribution

Product Description: This book provides advice and guidance on almost every topic related to starting a small business. From finance to marketing it provides practical, down-to-earth advice that can help any budding entrepreneur succeed. This second edition contains sections on customer relations, retail operations, and managing computers...read more

Answers questions about buying, selling, or subcontracting a business, low-cost start-up ideas, government assistance, business plans, loans, franchising, management techniques, marketing, accounting, personnel management, publicity, quality control, andpatents