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Marlene Coleman, William Huss, Judge Huss

Start Your Own Medical Practice: A Guide to All the Things They Don't Teach You in Medical School about Starting Your Own Practice

What they don't teach you in medical school.

Jacquelin Stanley, Jeffrey Degood

Start a Business in North Carolina or South Carolina

Simplifies the start-up process in either state.

Charles H. Fleischer

HR for Small Business: An Essential Guide for Managers, Human Resources Professionals, and Small Business Owners

"HR for Small Business" explains in simple, clear language what business owners and managers need to know about their relationship with their employees in order to comply with the law and protect themselves and their business from being sued.

Allen R. D'Angelo

Fun, Creative, and Profitable Salon Marketing: 67 Ways to Grow Your Salon Business

Ben Cohen, Mal Warwick

Values-Driven Business: How to Change the World, Make Money, and Have Fun

There's no shortage of books on how to run small businesses, but few of them cover the special value -- and special challenges -- of socially responsible business practices for small- or medium-size companies. "Values-Driven Business" addresses that gap. The first entry of the new Social Venture Network series, this guide uses real-world examples to show how "triple bottom line" practices -- profits, people, and planet -- have helped companies throughout North America thrive. The book contains first steps that owners or managers can use to start narrowing the gap between personal values and business practices. It also illustrates the many dimensions of value-driven business, addressing the varied roles of customers, employees, the community, the environment, shareholders, and owners. Included is a self-assessment tool that lets readers determine how successful their company will be in implementing values-driven practices.

Laury Hammel, Gun Denhart

Growing Local Value: How to Build Business Partnerships That Strengthen Your Community

Chip Conley, Eric Friedenwald-Fishman

Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World

Written by two down-to-earth, experienced entrepreneurs, this work is an in-the-trenches guide to building a marketing plan that embodies personal values instead of exploiting them.

Kevin Lynch, Julius, Jr. Walls

Mission, Inc.: The Practitioners Guide to Social Enterprise

Two social entrepreneurs draw on their own extensive experiences and those of20 other enterprise leaders to focus on the fundamental blocking and tacklingtactics that make the difference between success and failure.

Doug Hall

Jump Start Your Business Brain: Scientific Ideas and Advice That Will Immediately Double Your Business Success Rate

Doug Hall shares data-proven methods that can make sales, marketing, and business development measurably more effective.

Ron Macher

Making Your Small Farm Profitable

Small Farms Can Equal Big Pay! Choose the right products, process and market them effectively, and you too can join the ranks of top-earning farmers, some of whom gross nearly $100,000 per acre. Whether you're buying a new farm or jump-starting an old one, Ron Macher's down-to-earth advice on planning, farming, and marketing you'll soon make your farm profitable -- and find satisfaction doing it. Macher shares proven methods for farming smarter and explores today's new crops, new livestock, and new markets that translate into new ways to make money. Making Your Small Farm Profitable explains how to: Exploit lucrative niche markets that others overlook Plan for optimal farm efficiency Determine equipment requirements and estimate machinery costs Compare costs against profit for common vegetables and livestock Sell your products a dozen different ways

Sarah Beth Aubrey

Starting & Running Your Own Small Farm Business

Stephen H. Greer

Starting from Scrap

A rags-to-riches story of a young man who comes to Hong Kong and builds a global metals-recycling business. Keen insights into entrepreneurial drive, Asian business, and business-success fundamentals.

Kathie Fitzgerald

Crafting a Business: Make Money Doing What You Love

Wallace Wang, Jon B. Fisher, Gerald A. Fisher

Strategic Entrepreneurism: Shattering the Start-Up Entrepreneurial Myths

"Discusses the way to design a startup company specifically with the goal of being acquired by a larger one"--Provided by the publisher.

Guy Kawasaki

The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything

A new product, a new service, a new company, a new division, a new anything--where there's a will, here's the way, with Kawasaki's essential steps to launching one's dreams.

Bo Burlingham, Norm Brodsky

The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up

Two of "Inc." magazine's hugely popular columnists show how small-business people can deal with all kinds of tricky situations.

Guy Kawasaki

Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition

Kawasaki--entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and irreverent pundit, and author of the bestselling "The Art of the Start"--has compiled his best wit, wisdom, and contrarian opinions in this work that shows readers how to ignore fads and foolishness while sticking to commonsense practices.

Bo Burlingham, Norm Brodsky

Street Smarts: An All-Purpose Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

"One is tempted to say 'the only book you'll need on starting a business.' Brilliant! Genius! Choose your superlative-it'll fit."-Tom Peters People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom every month in "Inc." magazine, in the hugely popular "Street Smarts" column he cowrites with Bo Burlingham. Now they've adapted their best advice into a comprehensive guide for anyone running a small business.

Erik Calonius

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us

Drawing on recent insights from neuroscience about the roles that intuition, emotional intelligence, and courage can play, "Ten Steps Ahead" reveals what makes visionaries tick and how they develop and use their extraordinary powers.

Dan Ramsey, Judy Ramsey

The Everything Guide to Starting and Running a Retail Store: All You Need to Get Started and Succeed in Your Own Retail Adventure