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Book Description

From the editors of Entrepreneur magazine, this bestselling business startup book has helped hundreds of thousands of readers start their own businesses. Revised, expanded and updated, the 4th edition will help you save time and money, minimize mistakes and maximize profits.

Our practical, easy-to-follow advice takes you step by step through the startup journey and guides you through the first three years of business ownership. You'll find the comprehensive, in-depth information you need to bring your business to life, plus dozens of work sheets and checklists you can use to measure your progress along the way.

How to Start a Small Business, and Why

Why Start a Small Business?

By starting a small business, you can:

  • Be Your Own Boss: You can make your own decisions, instead of letting the poor decisions of your boss affect your life
  • Work More Flexibly: Attend to personal and family commitments without being constrained by inflexible working hours
  • Achieve Success and Prestige: Work to succeed in your business and reap monetary and social gains that come with success

Are You an Entrepreneur?

People with widely differing personalities have succeeded in small business. At the same time most small businesses fail. What is it that makes one succeed and another to fail? Are you made out to be an entrepreneur? Check your entrepreneurship.

What Business to Start?

This is the first question that faces a new entrepreneur. Issues such as your background and resources, your inclinations, local demand and several other factors determine the answer. If this is your problem, read the discussions and ideas on what business to start.

How to Start a Small Business

It starts with making a detailed business plan that brings out how you will organize and run the business, and how you will market what you sell. We look at business planning and the several other aspects of starting a small business in the article on steps to starting a small business supported by many articles in this largest section.

How to Find Money for Your Small Business?

You need money to set up your small business and you need money to run it. We discuss the sources of business finance and how to present your case for funding your small business.

How to Promote Your Small Business?

Effective marketing is the critical element that keeps a small business in business. You can learn about marketing strategies and techniques in this extremely important section on small business marketing.

Small Business and Government Regulations

You cannot avoid licenses, permits, registrations, taxes and other government regulations for small business. Learn how to find which regulations apply to you and how to comply with them. Ignoring this aspect could drive you out of business

Managing Your Small Business

How do you control business operations and achieve sustained profitability? Study the many articles on managing your small business in this section. Learn also how ethical policies and practices help you in business.

SmallBusiness-Start.com Is Being Revamped

The revamp seeks to:

  • Cover a wider range of topics of value to small businesspersons
  • Write pages that are more focused on each topic
  • Make the explanations more lucid, and
  • Remove some redundant pages.

Till the revamp is complete, you will see both old and new pages, distinguished by the clearly different page layouts.