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Everything you need to start a business, from creating a solid business plan and selecting a marketable name to business contracts, taxes, and reaching customers online.
Your one-stop guide to starting a small business Want to start a business? Don’t know where to begin? The Small Business Start-Up Kit shows you how to set up a small business in your state, while clearing state and local bureaucratic hurdles. We’ll show you how to: choose between an LLC and other business structures write an effective business plan pick a winning business name and protect it get the proper licenses and permits manage finances and taxes hire and manage staff, and market your business effectively, online and off. The 11th edition is updated with the latest legal and tax rules affecting small businesses, plus social media and e-commerce trends. With Downloadable Forms Includes access to cash flow projection and profit/loss forecast worksheets, state-specific business resources, and more (details inside).
The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit is a women’s business book of substance, not gender-pandering fluff. It concretely explains legal and bureaucratic rules—from drafting a business plan and raising start-up money to online marketing—and addresses women’s concerns without stereotyping them.
The go-to guide for quick and reliable answers to everyday legal questions, from the nation's most respected publisher of self-help legal information.
The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California is a comprehensive start-up resource for all kinds of California entrepreneurs, from solo-run firms to Main Street businesses and tech startups. It empowers anyone with a vision for a venture -- no MBA or experience required -- to turn it into reality, with a methodical approach to developing the business systems needed to bring the idea alive.
If your find yourself daydreaming about your own business and not just your next promotion, this book will help you shape your ideas as you begin your enrepreneurial journey.
Build a great nonprofit More people than ever are committing themselves to serving their communities and changing the world. Whether you’re aiming to protect the environment, support the arts, or help people in need, understanding how to set up a solid nonprofit organization is a great foundation for being as effective as you can be. With practical advice, legal information, tips, and step-by-step instructions, this essential guide will help you get your nonprofit up and running—and keep it going! It explains how to: develop a strategic plan and budget recruit and manage board members, volunteers, and staff market your organization to your target audience raise money including traditiona...
The nuts-and-bolts guide to forming a partnership A solid partnership agreement is the foundation for a lasting and successful business partnership. Don’t skip this essential step, or you might run into major problems later. Form a Partnership helps you create the agreement you need for your shared business venture. It takes you through the important issues, then helps you write your own partnership agreement tailored to your needs, clause-by-clause. The book covers: cash, property, and service contributions financial and tax liabilities how partners will make decisions allocating profits and losses admitting new partners what happens if a partner wants out buying out a partner’s interest the death of a partner and much more. The 11th edition—completely updated to reflect current law and business issues—provides the forms, worksheets, and legal information you need to create a partnership agreement. With Downloadable Forms: download and customize partnership agreements (details inside).
The award-winning guide for any woman starting or running a business Have an idea or skill that you’re ready to turn into a business? Want to expand or improve your current business operations? This book is for you! Learn how to: draft a solid business plan raise start-up money choose a legal structure and hire employees manage finances and taxes qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses, and efficiently market and brand your business online and off. You’ll also hear from successful women business owners whose insights will inform and inspire you. And you will learn valuable tips for maintaining work-life balance. The 6th edition is completely updated to cover the latest IRS rules, changes to the Affordable Care Act, and legal developments on classifying workers and online sales tax. With Downloadable Forms: includes access to a cash flow projection worksheet, partnership agreement, profit/loss forecast worksheet, and more (details inside).
Step-by-step, The Small Business Start-Up Kit for California outlines how to set up a business in the Golden State quickly and easily, pointing out the hurdles, fees and forms along the way.In language that's clear, readable and straight to the point, the book explains the ins and outs of: * choosing athe best business structure* writing an effective business plan* filing the right forms in the right place* being prepared for - and filing - the required taxes* acquiring good bookkeeping and accounting habitsAlso provides the latest rules and regulations, all the required forms as tear-outs and CD-ROM, and expanded discussion of running a business on the Internet.