Small Business: An Entrepreneur's Business Plan

by J.D. Ryan, Gail P. Hiduke, Robert J. Ray, et al.

Book Overview

Begin your small business success today as you transform your business idea into a powerful, functional business plan with Hiduke/Ryan's SMALL BUSINESS: AN ENTREPRENEUR'S BUSINESS PLAN, 9E. This indispensable guide to small business takes a practical action-step approach to help you sharpen your business talents and focus your business ownership dreams. You learn to identify business opportunities, market needs, and target customers as you develop an actual working business plan from the ground up. Timely business tools and ongoing links to the latest small business information available on the Internet keep the information you're using focused on the future. Throughout the book, you gain firsthand glimpses into the challenges and successes that other passionate entrepreneurs face. Whether you plan to build your own business, pursue a franchise, or purchase an existing business, in SMALL BUSINESS: AN ENTREPRENEUR'S BUSINESS PLAN, 9E, you'll find the timely advice, powerful skills, and effective plans you need for success. Make the grade with CourseMate + LivePlan! This interactive website helps you make the most of your study time by accessing everything you need to succeed in one convenient place. This version of CourseMate includes LivePlan from Palo Alto Software; a proven web-based business plan software that allows you to produce a professional-grade business plan through software used by real entrepreneurs. MANAGEMENT CourseMate also provides an interactive eBook, dynamic flashcards, interactive quizzes, videos, games, and more to help you master today's management concepts.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285169956
• ISBN13: 9781285169958
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 503 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.8"

Customer Reviews

Enlightening and helpful

This is an enlightening book that provides a road map to success in a small business. The book gives, step-by-step, a comprehensive guideline of a business start-up process, identifying target customers, promoting the business, doing the cash flow forecasts, budgeting and other important issues. I found the information to be very practical and provides critical advice to help entrepreneurs avoid costly errors. The book is well written in an easy to follow and understand format. The experienced entrepreneur as well as the beginner will find the book useful, helpful and handy as it provides real life advice that will help your business to stay afloat and thrive.

Do it yourself guide!

Entreprenuer's Business Plan provides a chapter by chapter guide to researching and developing your own business plan. Wnether your starting out, growing or looking to buy an existing business or franchise, this book will help you assemble the plan you need.Includes internet resources for information; guidance on legal issues; assembling a winning team and other critical elements to a business plan.

Don't start a business without it

A step by step process leading you to a fail-safe busines

Outstanding start-your-own business book.

In the large world of how-to-do business books, this one stands out. It is logical, uses real-life, fund-limited examples, and provides both a detailed as well as a quick-start guide to beginning your own business.It is oriented to the small start-up sector, which is always idea rich but fund limited. It includes strategies for breaking through roadblocks, finding financing and partners, and making a clear presentation of your business strategy to outsiders.Highly recommended.