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The indispensible handbook that every entrepreneur needs,
Brilliant Checklists for Entrepreneurs is packed with hundreds of easy to follow, detailed lists that tell you everything you need to know, everything you need to think about, and everything you need to do to when starting and managing a business.
The fast, focussed guidance in this practical and user-friendly book covers all aspects of your business journey right from thinking up your business idea, writing a plan and getting funding, and selling your business.
List of contents
- Be ambitious: set your sights at the right level
- Goals: making sure your enterprise fits your ethos
- Do research: easy ways to check your business idea
- Write your plan: how to make a convincing case
- Get advice: find people able to help you
- Find the cash: how to fund start-up and growth
- Be profitable: ways to manage your margins
- Manage cash flow: keeping the business going
- Control costs: how to earn more by spending less
- Go to work: how to find premises, or work successfully at home
- Market yourself: understand why people buy
- Succeed online: make more from your website
- Meet people: network on and offline
- Get sales: how to win and keep customers
- Build a team: recruit and manage people
- Be motivating: get the best from yourself and others
- Avoid surprises: predict and overcome
- Be generous: how to help yourself by helping others
- Sell your business: how to realise the value
- Useful document templates: shortcuts for you to copy, adapt and use
About the author
Robert Ashton has started three small businesses and sold two. He has also been instrumental in starting a charity and recently established a social enterprise. Robert works with entrepreneurs of all kinds, advising growing businesses, evolving charities and social enterprises. He is a popular business speaker and a prolific author who also writes regularly for a number of business and consumer magazines. He is increasingly becoming a social activist, challenging convention and encouraging innovation.
Summary
The indispensible handbook that every entrepreneur needs, Brilliant Checklists for Entrepreneurs is packed with hundreds of easy to follow, detailed lists that tell you everything you need to know, everything you need to think about, and everything you need to do to when starting and managing a business.
The fast, focussed guidance in this practical and user-friendly book covers all aspects of your business journey right from thinking up your business idea, writing a plan and getting funding, and selling your business.
