Small Business Handbook : The Small Business Handbook: The Complete Guide to Running and Growing Your Business

Getting a business off the ground is only part of the challenge. What every entrepreneur needs is a handbook to guide them through every stage of actually running their business, from finance to marketing, from sales to hiring and managing. This book provides vital guidance on all the day-to-day aspects of running your own enterprise. Content: Running your business \*\* What are the vision and values of your business? \* What are your vision and values? How can the business get you there? \* Work on the business, not in the business. \* Business planning. \* Developing your managers. \* Converting to a Limited Company \* Learning to delegate \* Monitoring your competition \* Be your own competition \* The board of directors \* Board Meetings \* The executive management team. \* Executive Meetings \* Growing through acquisitions \* Sell your business every year! \* Finance \* Planning the finances of your business \* Raising Finance \* An accounting system \* Good financial controls \* Paying Staff \* Paying Suppliers \* Getting paid by customers \* Working with your bank \* Working with your accountant \* Working with business angels or VC's. \* VAT \* Corporation Tax \* Dealing with money problems \* Making the most of a cash surplus \* Legal Issues \* Best Practice \* Opportunities \* The big emerging trends. \* What business are you really in? \* What are your markets trends? \* Developing your products and services. \* Using new technology. \* Adding services to products. \* Be the best in the world - going global. \* What is your 'edge'? \* Staff \* Identifiying your need for staff \* Recruiting People \* Managing People \* Retaining People \* Motivating people \* Incentivising people \* Promoting People \* Preventing People Problems \* Handling People Problems \* Developing People \* Legal Issues \* Best practice \* Customers \* Finding new Customers \* Persuading them to buy from you \* Satisfying your customers \* Keeping your customers \* Doing more business with your customers \* Serving your customers by Mail Order \* Serving your customers over the Internet \* Serving customers outside the UK \* Legal Issues \* Best Practice\* Suppliers \* Finding suppliers \* Selecting suppliers \* Appointing suppliers \* Working with your suppliers \* Handling problems with your suppliers \* Dealing with suppliers outside the UK \* The next stage: partnership \* Legal Issues \* Best Practice \* Resources \* Property \* Machinery \* Furniture \* Telecoms \* IT \* E-commerce \* Vehicles Abstract: The Small Business Handbook is THE definitive guide to running and growing your small business.Once you're up and running you need more advice and practical guidance of a different kind to make sure your business thrives and grows, and that you are well equipped to tackle every new situation that arises. Read more... The Small Business Handbook is THE definitive guide to running and growing your small business.Once you're up and running you need more advice and practical guidance of a different kind to make sure your business thrives and grows, and that you are well equipped to tackle every new situation that arises. - This is the replacement for Webb and Webb's Small Business Handbook , the current edition of which has been a high priced bestseller - Steve Parks is the author of the new highly endorsed and fast selling Start Your Business Week by Week, supported by the website (http://www.flyingstartups.com) www.flyingstartups.com He will have a natural audience who progress on from this to the Small Business Handbook - The current choice of books on entrepreneurship is largely focussed on starting a business and testing and developing new business ideas. There is a huge demand for a book in this space, for those who are up running and growing. - The UK's business start up show in November showed the size of the market for these books, the customer's hunger for knowledge and the popularity of PH Bus titles.(7 thousand pounds of PH bus entrep books sold in 2 days). And the customers were asking for a book in this space. -Will contain a FREE CD with audio of successful entrepreneurs tips, as well as all the spreadsheets and key documents you need to make your business grow and fly. - Steve Parks is the founder of the Institute of Entrepreneurs that already has the ear of No.10 Downing St and will be taking off in a big way in 2005. This book will be endorsed and heavily promoted by the Institute throughout the UK. - sits excellently with all our small business titles. It is the customers next step after reading Acorns, Week by Week, Beermat. People hugely multi-purchase in this space. Getting a business off the ground is only part of the challenge. What every entrepreneur needs is a handbook to guide them through every stage of actually running their business, from finance to marketing, from sales to hiring and managing people. The Small Business Handbook is THE essential reference for anybody who is starting a business. It provides vital advice and guidance on all the day-to-day aspects of running your enterprise and also helps you plan your growth and exit strategy, so that whatever happens you'll be ready to tackle it, informed and prepared. The accompanying CD contains a whole range of useful templates and essential documents for use in running your business, and also features audio clips of successful entrepreneurs offering their tips and techniques for making your business really successful. Unlike many small business guides, Steve Parks is an entrepreneur with his own small but fast growning business. It's clear from every page of the handbook that he knows exactly what it's like to be in the reader's position, and he shares everything he wishes he had had during his early years of running his own business. The book is endorsed by the Institute of Entrepreneurs, and by a wide range of entrepreneurs who have been there and done it.