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Thomas Winfield
About this listen
Only a veteran business owner can show you what you should and shouldn't do when starting a business. Only a business owner who has opened, closed, or sold over a dozen businesses in the last 24 years knows what to do first and what not do first.
You can call me a a serial entrepreneur. But no, I am not in the habit of starting a business and then closing its doors and moving on to the next shiny thing. No, I opened many locations of the similar type of businesses for the most part. But I did also venture into a few different ones like wholesale, exporting, dropshipping and once, I even started a service related business, but mostly I have always been in retail business.
In my quarter century experience, I have made more mistakes than I want to admit, but looking back, I believe that each and every one of those mistakes made me a better person in business and in my personal life. I call it the personal growth learning curve. We all have to climb over that curve at one point in our life.
Only a business owner can tell you what insurance to buy; what licenses to apply for and how; how to negotiate with your vendors and suppliers; how to promote your business; how to hire, train and fire employees; how to catch a thief; how to secure your business; and how to spot a fraud.
In Start Your Own Successful Small Business, I show you a simple and easy to follow step-by-step process of starting your very first business, from idea to launch, in a very short period of time. I show you how to come up with a viable business idea and evaluate your idea to see if it would fly or not. Next, I show you how to bring the idea into reality in a very detail step by step process. I also show you how to craft a Business Plan that actually helps you through the whole startup process.
Next, I help you:
- Identify Target Market
- Market Analysis & Research
- Evaluate the Market
- Marketing & Sales Plan
- Innovative Pricing Strategy
- How to use Internet & Social Media
- Risk Analysis
- Exit Strategy
- Team Building
- How to Choose and File the Right Legal Entity for your Business
- What Forms to File
- How to Open a Commercial Bank Account
- Financial Reporting
- How to Find Money for your Startup
- Insurance & Taxes
- Copyright, Trademark, and Patent
- How to Brand Your Business
- Home-based vs. Brick & Mortar Business Startup
- A few Innovative New Business Ideas You Should Explore
And Much More…
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- Danielle Moss
- 12-12-20
A must read!
I liked everything about this book. Especially how they throughly explained everything you would need to know on how to start your own successful small business. From beginning to end they didn’t leave anything out, it definitely have everything in detail. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to start their own business and even people that has already started their own business. I choose these ratings because it is the best book I’ve read thus far on starting your own business! It will definitely get you where you need to! A must read for sure.
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- SZ3
- 03-18-21
Concise roadmap for starting a business of many different types
He also did a good job at collecting and organizing important signposts and organizing them into a logical order to give the entrepreneur a concise roadmap. I used this book as a checklist for my first business. There is more research to do, but at least now I know what to Research and some of the pitfalls to avoid.
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