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Presents a clear road map for starting and maintaining a successful consulting business. Whether you are already a consultant or thinking about becoming one, this guide has everything you need. This book shows you how to: - Create a business plan - Set your rate - Select the legal form of your business - Set up retirement funding - Choose appropriate insurance - Market on the Internet - Understand basic record keeping Also included is a recommended resource list and sample worksheets to help you start and maintain your consulting business. If you are an experienced professional at a crossroads in your career, this book can point you in the right direction.

Give your business a successful credit and collections plan with this easy and clear guide Over 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. Yet very few actually have a workable plan for claiming the missing revenue that results. This book gives you a complete solution and tool set to ensure your business maximizes its collections while maintaining an effective, profitable credit plan. You'll discover how to set up an efficient in-house credit policy that not only lets you collect more debts, but also boost sales, increase cash flow, and grow profits. Step-by-step credit management instructions show you how to weed out bad-paying customers, add more good-paying customers, collect on past-due balances, avoid bad debt, and limit credit risk. Contains all needed forms to set up and implement an effective credit policy Author is a popular columnist for several newspapers and national magazines, and appears regularly in the media as a go-to authority on debt Get Paid enables you to decide what matters most to your business when it comes to billing, payment terms, pricing, cash flow, and more, then set up the systems to meet these goals and increase profitability.

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Take Control of Your Destiny! Bottom line: You want to get published. You want to control the future of your manuscript and your writing career. Best-selling author Marilyn Ross and publishing expert Sue Collier show you how to make your own success - whether you're a published author, entrepreneur, corporation, professional, or absolute newcomer to writing. In this expanded and completely revised 5th edition of the "bible" of self-publishing (over 100,000 copies sold), they empower you to publish your own work with minimal risk and maximum profits. You'll find: • Complete step-by-step guidance on publishing and marketing a book • Ways to leverage social media marketing to build your platform and make yourself stand out from the crowd • A thorough explanation of the difference between POD self-publishing, subsidy publishing, and true self-publishing - and how to decide which is the best option for you • Practical advice on making the decision between offset printing and print-on-demand • How to leverage the Internet to create "buzz" and promote your book with killer PR • The latest information on e-publishing • A detailed marketing plan and timetable to keep you on track • Proven marketing strategies to get free publicity, reach nontraditional buyers, and sell books • Information-packed appendices with marketing contacts, organizations, and vendors, complete with names, addresses, and websites • Valuable case studies and examples of how other publishers excel • An in-depth discussion of exclusive distributors, plus coverage of the most recent changes in bookstores and the book-selling industry • Thirty-one creative ideas for generating capital to launch your publishing company The Complete Guide to Self-Publishing is the one book you need to take control of your writing career. Read it. Believe it. Do it. Your future depends on it.

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