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Bootstrapper's Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget

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I highly reccomend this book for anyone who's looking for practical and sound advice for starting their own business. I would also reccomend this book to anyone who wishes to know how a business becomes successful. As a university student, I have thumbed though many books on the topic but none have given me a clear picture with resources like is book. I would also like you to know, I actually read this book cover to cover and I am still learning from it!

There is an age old adage; "nothing happens by chance" It's often true. At first I thought that I stumbled across this teaching tool and roadmap to the vast world of entrepreneurism, it was later realized... It meant to be. The start of a new, ongoing literary relationship! "Bootstrappers Success Secrets: 151 Tactics For Building Your Business On a Shoestring Budget" will help flush out any doubt and set straight, any indecision about becoming and maintaining entrepreneur status. If you have just one drop of making it on your own, (successfully) in your system, this is the book for you! When I showed it to my husband & colleague William, "he refused to give it back. Now neither of us can put our respective copies down and we continue to suggest the book to others,"in all professions". Don't end up missing out altogehter... Make the investment now.... Get your copy of Ms. Stansell's book today!!

When I first opened "Bootstrapper's Success Secrets" I really expected it to be a fresher version of a lot of other books/articles/magazines on Entrepreneurship. It is not. It is, I believe, a 12 hour investment that any Entrepreneur would be wise to devote time to.

It is excellently written, with compassion, intelligence and understanding. Kimberly Stansll has been there and is a leader for those of us who will listen. Ms. Stansll explains rather than tells us of the various components we need to develop in order to build our business. I have come away with a much better understanding of what I have done incorrectly, why and how to repair my mistakes. And avoid them again.

I believe it took me, from the first time I sat down with "Bootstrapper's Success Secrets" and began to take notes, until I finished the last page and the last note, a total of 12 hours. If you cannot pledge 12 hours to your business, maybe you should consider being employed by someone else. :)

I have a "Success Tip #152: Read and Devour the Information in this Book": This book was worth the 12 hour investment to encourage an Entrepreneur who might want to start a business; to encourage an Entrepreneur whose business is in transition; to encourage an Entrepreneur who is well established (in which case it can be a part of networking.) No matter how established we are in our business, I believe we should never reach the point of "oh, I know that; I've read it before; I really don't need that anymore." I only wish I'd known of the newsletter while it was active!

Ronda L. Clair

What's so special about this book? The examples. They are gold. Kimberly is clearly experienced working with many entrepreneurs and has story after story to illustrate how entrepreneurs have creatively implemented a growth strategy and gotten results. Where other books give theory, Kimberly's book gives practical ideas that stimulated my thinking about new ways to grow my business. The book is easy to read and formatted in a way to quickly gain new ways to approach your business. She understands all the dilemmas in the entrepreneurial life and has strategy after strategy to solve the dilemmas. This is a must have book for every entrepreneur who is serious about being successful.

A good sound investment is when years have passed and the information you read in this book is still keeping your business growing. Ms.Stansell wrote information that you can use now and in the future. The information is easy reading and application. The fear of making a bad business move is removed because she was able to share and explain how and what to do step by step. The tips and resources are just wonderful. I remember the first time I used one of her tips and it yield me a great profit. I still make money from using the information from this WONDERFUL BOOK .Thanks for making my business foundation strong.

Kimberly Stansell has written a very valuable book for new business owners. Her book has given me a new prospective on how to do business on a limited budget. Capital is often the deciding factor in the success of a start-up. Using Kimberly's proven money managing, organization and saving suggestions has allowed me to grow my business quickly. Everyone who has dreamed of owning their own small business, but don't feel they have the necessary financial resources, should get a copy of this book. It will change your life!

As a writer & researcher for Home Office Computing magazine, I see a lot of How to Start a Home Business books that come my way. The reality is, they know as much about starting a business as a goat shepard in the 13th century would about programming a VCR. Kimberly Stansell's book is as welcome a relief from those generic books as nitrous oxide was to dental patients. Want to make it as a small business? Read this book. *Study* this book. Why? If you were lost in the forest, you'd want matches and water. Well, if you're starting a small business, you're going to be lost at some point, and then you'll need this book as badly as you would that other gear.

I enjoyed Bootstrapper's Success Secrets: 151 Tactics for Building Your Business on a Shoestring Budget, given to me by fellow Santa Barbara resident and KINKO'S founder, Paul Orfalea.

Kimberly Stansell manages to do what many others can only claim: put together real and constructive steps to building a strong business and work ethic, simply. I have spent many years building a successful food business, with offices and processing facilities in the USA and Great Britain and have been involved in helping a number of smaller businesses mature, so I feel qualified to say how impressed I am with this book and the author's clear insight into providing sound business advice. -- Patrick A. Martin

Kimberly Stansell's book is jam-packed with helpful in- formation for the new entrepreneur as well as for all small businesses looking for low-cost ways to expand their businesses. Her book's listings and tips are a result of her exhaustive research and experiences she has gathered over the years in publishing her newsletter, Bootstrappin' Entrepreneur, and her own business' activities, Research Done Write!. Her book offers information that is both real and practical. I recommend Stansell's book to be placed on every small business owner's bookshelf

Kimberly Stansell's book is terrific! Unlike other small business books, she offers real information you can use immediately to better your business without spending a fortune. The book is written in a very easy to read format so you don't have to wade through hundreds of pages to find the good stuff. I found at least ten tips on my first read through that probably will pay for the cost of the book. As a small business consultant and writer I highly recommend this book! Carolyn Z. Lawrenc