The award-winning guide for any woman starting or running a business
Have an idea or skill that you’re ready to turn into a business? Want to expand or improve your current business operations? This book is for you! Learn how to:
• draft a solid business plan
• raise start-up money
• choose a legal structure and hire employees
• manage finances and taxes
• qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses, and
• efficiently market and brand your business online and off.
You’ll also hear from successful women business owners whose insights will inform and inspire you. And you will learn valuable tips for maintaining work-life balance.
The 7th edition covers the latest tax updates, legal developments on classifying workers as contractors versus employees, implementing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies, and defining your business’s digital strategy.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Companion 1. Choosing the Right Business for You 2. Targeting a Profitable Market With a Winning Idea 3. Making the Financial Transition to Self-Employment 4. Drafting an Effective Business Plan 5. Understanding and Choosing a Legal Structure 6. Your Business Location: Working From Home or Renting Space 7. Dealing With Start-Up Requirements and Bureaucratic Hurdles 8. Getting the Word Out: Cost-Effective Marketing 9. E-Business: Conducting and Marketing Your Business Online 10. Keeping Your Books and Managing Your Finances 11. Federal, State, and Local Tax Basics 12. Building Your Business and Hiring Employees and Other Workers 13. Lawyers and Accountants: Building Your Family of Professionals Appendix: How to Use the Interactive Forms on the Nolo Website IndexÜber den Autor
Peri Pakroo (www.peripakroo.com) is a business author and coach, specializing in creative and smart strategies for self-employment and small business. She has started, participated in, and consulted with start-up businesses for more than 20 years. She is the founder, publisher, and editor of Pyragraph (www.pyragraph.com), an online career magazine for artists, musicians, designers, filmmakers, writers, and other creative workers worldwide. Peri is also the founder of a digital services firm for small businesses, P-Brain Media (www.pbrainmedia.com). Peri received her law degree from the University of New Mexico School of Law. She is the author of The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit, The Small Business Start-Up Kit (national and California editions) and Starting & Building a Nonprofit (all from Nolo) and has been featured in numerous national publications including Entrepreneur, Real Simple, Investors Business Daily, and Business Week,Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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