BUSINESS
CONTENTS, LINKS
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The pieces on business on this website are meant to make a few key points.  For complete, expert level of information use the specialty sites and be sure to use a mentor, if you want to increase the odds of being successful.

First, go to:  Business Overview Page, then return for specificss.













































 
THE FIRST QUESTIONS

Own Your Own Business Or Work For An Organization - What are the realistic                    tradeoffs?  You'll be able to see them "at a glance" and do a realistic evaluation of which way would really work best for you.

Choosing The Right Career/Business - Measure Twice, Cut Once - Don't blow a big portion of your life! 

SUCCEEDING

Successful In My Business or Career - These Are Needed To Be...  Use this checklist to see if you are ready to go up to the success stage and beyond  
                    
Networking For Advice - One of the strongest ways of developing a real network and/or
reaching solutions/objectives.
 
TYPE OF BUSINESS

Multi-Level Marketing - A Good Idea Or Not? 
Your Own Business - Should You Provide Services And/or Products? - There are some choices that are more workable and some combinations that multiply your net profits. (1 pg, chart)

THE BUSINESS PROCESS

Stages Of A Business - Getting to competency, going through incompetency.


Marketing:

The Two Elements To Successfully Have People Do Something - This is simple and appropriate and fits into personal and business relationships.  This "marketing insight" by a business marketing professor to "remove the barriers" to buying was
used by me to produce ease and more success, more so that any other single strategy.


RESOURCES

Recommended Books and Tapes

PLANNING, DECIDING:

Books:  (See also Business Work Resources.)  

Six-week Start-Up, Rhonda Abrams.  Excellent forms and guidance.

What Business Should I Start?, Rhonda Abrams.  Objective and should help you figure out whether or not to go into a new business.  See website, below.

The Complete Guide To Buying A Business, Steingold
       
Expensive Mistakes When Buying & Selling Companies, Stieglitz and Sorkin 
         
Creativity

     How To Get Ideas, Jack Foster

Website:   www.planningshop.com   For planning forms, including pre-set up spreadsheets.   Includes Rhonda Abrams books and materials (with pre-set up Excel worksheets)  for your business plan.

www.bplans.com - Software highly recommended.

See Business Plan Outline.


SAGE ADVICE AND BUSINESS PRINCIPLES: 

See Resources.

www.strategiccoach.com - Managing your business life more productively.  Brilliant.

CONSULTING:  Contact the Business school at your local university to find out about  consultants.  Often they will have retired businessman doing consulting for small   businesses at no cost.  An example would be S.C.O.R.E. at California State University Sacramento.

Small Business Administration - Lots of materials.  Also, they link into S.C.O.R.E.!
    Evaluating A Business - Even better, go to the
        S.C.O.R.E. site.

WEBSITES, OVERALL:

Entrepreneur.com
SmallBizTrends.com 
Google for others...


You should pay particular attention first to
setting up a viable, written business plan and include a great, complete marketing plan!)  We cannot be successful in business without using the principles of  SUCCESS.  See also the Steps To Success in that section.  It is essential to do
excellent planning as in the resources cited below; see The Planning Notebooks.