Prospect, evaluate, purchase, and grow an existing business
Buying a Business For Dummies guides you through the process of becoming an entrepreneur without starting from scratch. Before you purchase an existing business, you'll need to know what types of opportunities are out there, how to identify the right fit for your goals, and which strategies to use as you negotiate the deal and manage a smooth transition. This book gives you step-by-step advice on all of that. What about actually running the business successfully? You're covered there, too, with clear information on executing a smooth ownership transition and growing your new business. Let this friendly Dummies guide be your mentor as you embark on your business ownership adventure.
- Know what's involved in buying a business and see if it's for you
- Evaluate your risk tolerance and identify businesses worth buying
- Negotiating a great deal and managing a seamless handover
- Making changes to your new business-without making enemies
Buying a Business For Dummies is a great starting point for entrepreneurs interested in a lower-risk route to business ownership.
Make big sense of small business
Small Business for Dummies has been a leading resource for starting and running a small business. Calling upon their six decades-plus of combined experience running small businesses, Eric Tyson and Jim Schell once again provide time-tested advice and the latest information on starting and growing a small business.
This new edition covers all aspects of small business from the initial business plan to the everyday realities of financing, marketing, employing technology and management-and what it takes to achieve and maintain success in an ever-changing entrepreneurial landscape.
● Write a strategic business plan
● Start, establish, or rejuvenate a small business
● Hire and retain the best employees
● Get a small business loan
If you're a beginning entrepreneur looking to start and run your own small business, this book gives you all the tools of the trade you'll need to make it a success.
