Building a Profitable Business, 2nd EditionThe Proven, Step-by-Step Guide to Starting & Running Your Own Business [Paperback]

Charles Chickadel (Author), Greg Straughn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1994

The first step-by-step business management system for starting, operating, and succeeding in your own business.

Building a Profitable Business is a comprehensive guide for start-up and existing businesses that want to advance to the next level and anyone else who wants to succeed as their own boss. It includes everything you need to assess, start, operate, or grow your business. It also includes over 80 forms, worksheets, and checklists ready for you to duplicate or customize for use in your business. Building a Profitable Business also helps you create a business plan that immediately gains you credibility and will makers and investor sit up and take notice.

If you're serious about succeeding in your own business, buy and use Building a Profitable Business to learn "the business of business" and put the odds in your favor.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"An excellent publication. It is positive, motivational, and extremely informative." -- Lindsey Johnson, Director, Office of Women's Business Ownership, U.S. Small Business Administration

"This well-organized system takes you step-by-step...like a franchiser's manual for business newcomers." -- San Francisco Examiner

About the Author

Charles Chickadel is the founder and Chairman of Meridian Learning Systems. He has launched several previous businesses, and has also written several books, including Publish It Yourself and As You Think, and the Health is Wealth series, used by thousand of corporations across America, including General Motors, AT&T, Johnson and Johnson, and USX. Greg Straughn is President of Meridian Learning Systems. He took his previous company, a major equipment leasing company from start-up to over 10 million in annual revenue.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media Corporation; 2 edition (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558502726
• ISBN-13: 978-1558502727
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,904,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Building A Profitable Business, January 26, 2000

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Daniel C. Wink (Milwaukee, WI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Building a Profitable Business, 2nd EditionThe Proven, Step-by-Step Guide to Starting & Running Your Own Business (Paperback)

There are a number of well written "how-to" business start-up books on the market. Building A Profitable Business does a very nice job of being detailed and thorough while retaining ease of comprehension. I use it as a text for high school age students in a youth entrepreneurship education program. Students report it to be easy to follow and informative. The material is easily adaptable for people of differing levels of background and experience. It is useful tool to employ if one is interested in the nuts and bolts (and beyond) of starting a business. The book includes forms and additional resource information which makes it a recommended volume for the beginner and intermediate level business "wanna be". As a business plan forces an individual to think about their business dream in an organized manner, this book takes one on a logic-based tour of issues to be addressed. It provides valuable information in a "user friendly" manner. The section on Personnel, as example, includes a sample help-wanted ad and a list of illegal questions to avoid in the applicant interview process. The section also includes sample forms which would be very useful to the entreprenuer who is considering making their first hire. Likewise, the Marketing section includes numerous useful tips and strategies. And the Finance section makes a subject that is uncomfortable for some a digestible tutelage. Comprehensive, easy to read and use; this book rates among the best.