Great Big Book of Business Lists: All the Things You Need to Know to Run a Small Business [With CD-ROM]

by Courtney Thurman

Thousands of answers and resources, right at your fingertips This one-of-a-kind reference guide from the small business experts at Entrepreneur offers a treasure trove of data aimed at starting and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599180073
• ISBN13: 9781599180076
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 4.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 8.1" x 10.0"

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Half of Knowing Everything about Business

If half of knowing anything is knowing where to find it, here is half of knowing just about everything there is to know about starting and running a small business. The good point about lists such as these is that they cover just about everything there is to know about the general business situation. In turn, they don't cover much about those specialty areas that may be critical to your particular business. But you should have your own knowledge in these areas. If you go look carefully, you will find areas with which you disagree. For instance in computers, it talks about spending $1,000 to $1,500 for a reasonably top of the line model. I'm writing this on a machine I purchased for $55 from a pawn shop. But, I've been in computers for about 45 years. If it breaks I can fix it (the video card went bad, I got another one on e-Bay for $5.40). Their comments on income taxes are very good, there are points brought out that you just wouldn't know yourself. But again, I'd say go buy one of the income tax software packages. They only cost about $20, and that's another deduction. It will save you and the tax advisor time and just might bring up something that both of you might forget. It's areas that you don't know about that will be of the biggest help: hiring and firing, sales and marketing, inernational operations, accepting credit cards (and credit in general), patents and copyrights, product distribution. There's a wealth of things here that no one person could know.