Be Your Own Boss: How to Set Up Your Own Business, 3rd Edition

Setting up your own business and ensuring its survival can appear a daunting prospect. This practical guide from entrepreneur David McMullan offers advice on every aspect of starting up a business and ensuring its success. It explains what planning is necessary beforehand and what the problems are likely to be so they can be avoided and the future of the business guaranteed. All the key topics are covered, such as choosing a business, preparing a business plan, raising the finance, selecting premises, and the crucial area for most small businesses - marketing, selling and promoting their products. "A concise, practical guide from experienced entrepreneur David McMullan, this book provides sound, easy-to-read advice on every aspect of starting up a business and ensuring its success. It explains what planning is necessary beforehand and what the problems are likely to be - so they can be avoided and the future of the business guaranteed. All the key topics are covered in the author's approachable style."--BOOK JACKET