Packed with features, this guide to writing business plans shows readers how to turn their entrepreneurial dream into a reality, by writing a business plan that will get them the financing and support they need to get a new business going. It includes a directory of new and little-known money sources, high-impact points - special tips and ideas, and a free disk offer, featuring sample business and financial spreadsheets.

Build-A-Bear Workshop® is one of the most successful retailing concepts in recent history. Starting with just one location in 1997, the company now operates more than 200 stores worldwide. Leading the way is Maxine Clark, the company's founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Bear. Clark is widely recognized as one of the nation's leading and most creative entrepreneurs. In The Bear Necessities of Business, she reveals how she built this amazing global business from the ground up, while arming you with the tools you need to start, run, and market your own company in today's tough competitive environment. While primarily drawing on real-life experiences from Build-A-Bear Workshop®, Clark also offers wisdom gained throughout her entire thirty-plus-year career, including lessons and examples from some of the other great companies that do so much right. Straightforward and accessible, The Bear Necessities of Business is divided into seven parts, each built around an essential element that will allow you to stand apart from the crowd. The short, accessible chapters show you everything you need to: Get your business started Become a great boss Connect with your customers Add value to the overall experience Effectively market your company Plan for future growth Give back to your customers, employees, and community Best of all, these principles can be applied to any industry and are proven to work whether your target audience is children, teenagers, baby boomers, seniors, or any age in-between. Whether you're looking to start a new business, improve an existing one, be a better manager, or hire the best employees, The Bear Necessities of Business contains the insights and information you need to succeed. Even if you work for some-one else and have no plans to strike out on your own, you'll still benefit from the advice found in this book. After all, the best employees—and those who consistently rise to the top—are those who think like entrepreneurs!

Packed with features, this guide to writing business plans shows readers how to turn their entrepreneurial dream into a reality, by writing a business plan that will get them the financing and support they need to get a new business going. It includes a directory of new and little-known money sources, high-impact points - special tips and ideas, and a free disk offer, featuring sample business and financial spreadsheets.

If you are starting a practice for the first time or your existing practice needs a kick-start, this is the book/CD Rom package you need. It covers everything you need to know about the business of practicing acupuncture and Chinese medicine. Used by over 25 schools as a required text, the companion CD Rom alone is worth the price. * advice and stories from real practitioners all over the U.S. and Canada * scores of pages of downloadable forms, letters, work sheets, and templates on the CD Rom so you don't have to invent them yourself * a well-organized, easy-to-read, compact and humor-filled writing style * condensed "points to ponder" at the end of each chapter * hundreds or resources, websites, and tips to make your professional life easy * Many effective marketing ideas * New chapter on buying and selling a practice

A clear and utterly practical 90-day program for discovering a new direction for your life. In Now What? pioneering life coach Laura Berman Fortgang shares the process that she has used so successfully to help hundreds of clients make major changes in their lives. Whether it's moving on from a dead end job, discovering an entirely new creative outlet, or answering the age old question "What am I meant to do with my life?" this book provides a clear and infinitely practical 90-day program that can help you make major changes in your life. For anyone who feels drawn toward a life-changing move but is not sure exactly what to do or how to move forward, Now What? provides a concrete process for finding and pursuing a new path in life. Full of inspiring and empowering exercises and tools, this book guides readers-day by day and step by step-through a 90-day process that will lead to true life satisfaction and fulfillment.

Faith Entrepreneurs is designed to equip leaders who want to launch bold entrepreneurial initiatives of faith-based people to empower institutions that are compassionate, caring, and healing. Dr. Michael Keith Simms, a consultant who specializes in nonprofit management and entrepreneurship, presents his ideas for successful spiritually guided leadership by touching on the following topics: How the faith-entrepreneur enterprise operates Building a volunteer workforce The nonprofit platform Acquiring the skills of capacity building Going global Writing business and/or strategic plans And much more! For those wanting to live a life of faith through the application of religious principles in relation to social science concepts, Faith Entrepreneurs will equip them in launching an organization that is dedicated to helping others through God.