Bootstrapper's Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget

by Kimberly Stansell

Offers tips on such topics as evaluating one's idea, setting up shop, marketing a business, working with others, and coping with adversity. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564142779
• ISBN13: 9781564142771
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Career Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

real advise for real people

I highly reccomend this book for anyone who's looking for practical and sound advice for starting their own business. I would also reccomend this book to anyone who wishes to know how a business becomes successful. As a university student, I have thumbed though many books on the topic but none have given me a clear picture with resources like is book. I would also like you to know, I actually read this book cover to cover and I am still learning from it!

It's like American Express; "Don't leave home without it!"

There is an age old adage; "nothing happens by chance" It's often true. At first I thought that I stumbled across this teaching tool and roadmap to the vast world of entrepreneurism, it was later realized... It meant to be. The start of a new, ongoing literary relationship! "Bootstrappers Success Secrets: 151 Tactics For Building Your Business On a Shoestring Budget" will help flush out any doubt and set straight, any indecision about becoming and maintaining entrepreneur status. If you have just one drop of making it on your own, (successfully) in your system, this is the book for you! When I showed it to my husband & colleague William, "he refused to give it back. Now neither of us can put our respective copies down and we continue to suggest the book to others,"in all professions". Don't end up missing out altogehter... Make the investment now.... Get your copy of Ms. Stansell's book today!!

Packed with practical, creative, action-oriented strategies

What's so special about this book? The examples. They are gold. Kimberly is clearly experienced working with many entrepreneurs and has story after story to illustrate how entrepreneurs have creatively implemented a growth strategy and gotten results. Where other books give theory, Kimberly's book gives practical ideas that stimulated my thinking about new ways to grow my business. The book is easy to read and formatted in a way to quickly gain new ways to approach your business. She understands all the dilemmas in the entrepreneurial life and has strategy after strategy to solve the dilemmas. This is a must have book for every entrepreneur who is serious about being successful.

Provides a great foundation for your business (s)

A good sound investment is when years have passed and the information you read in this book is still keeping your business growing. Ms.Stansell wrote information that you can use now and in the future. The information is easy reading and application. The fear of making a bad business move is removed because she was able to share and explain how and what to do step by step. The tips and resources are just wonderful. I remember the first time I used one of her tips and it yield me a great profit. I still make money from using the information from this WONDERFUL BOOK .Thanks for making my business foundation strong.

Read and Devour the Information in This Book! :)

When I first opened "Bootstrapper's Success Secrets" I really expected it to be a fresher version of a lot of other books/articles/magazines on Entrepreneurship. It is not. It is, I believe, a 12 hour investment that any Entrepreneur would be wise to devote time to. It is excellently written, with compassion, intelligence and understanding. Kimberly Stansll has been there and is a leader for those of us who will listen. Ms. Stansll explains rather than tells us of the various components we need to develop in order to build our business. I have come away with a much better understanding of what I have done incorrectly, why and how to repair my mistakes. And avoid them again. I believe it took me, from the first time I sat down with "Bootstrapper's Success Secrets" and began to take notes, until I finished the last page and the last note, a total of 12 hours. If you cannot pledge 12 hours to your business, maybe you should consider being employed by someone else. :) I have a "Success Tip #152: Read and Devour the Information in this Book": This book was worth the 12 hour investment to encourage an Entrepreneur who might want to start a business; to encourage an Entrepreneur whose business is in transition; to encourage an Entrepreneur who is well established (in which case it can be a part of networking.) No matter how established we are in our business, I believe we should never reach the point of "oh, I know that; I've read it before; I really don't need that anymore." I only wish I'd known of the newsletter while it was active! Ronda L. Clair