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The Essential Business Guide
£24.95
The Essential Business Guide *WINNER* of the Plain English Award
The only business book EVER to win this award.

*WINNER* of the Start Your Business magazine
'Business Book of the Year' award.

More than 270 pages of fantastically useful business information, prepared so you can really make use of it.
It just demands space on your desk! Don't wait. Grab your guide here!

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274 pages, spiral binding, full colour, 8 tabbed dividers, 120 photographs

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Start Your Business Step by Step
£49.95
Start Your Business Step by Step BY POPULAR DEMAND ... AND ONLY AVAILABLE HERE!

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A new business start-up workbook and accompanying worksheets from the team behind the award-winning Essential Business Guide. With the same clear writing and common sense approach, this step by step workbook and interactive worksheets take you through every stage of starting your new business. Offering clear guidance and worked examples, this is the product we are constantly being asked for by customers both at exhibitions and on our website.

IMPORTANT Please read before ordering If you like this workbook, we couldn't sleep at night if we didn't mention that there is a £10 OFF voucher nestling in our free ebook, Before You Begin. In the ebook there's a special order code which you can type in as you move to the shopping cart. This reduces the price of this workbook to £29.95. Two books for the price of one! Click on the link below to be whisked directly to our ebooks page where you can download Before You Begin free ... and happy planning!

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The Step by Step pack contains: 88-page A4 wirobound workbook and accompanying worksheets (46 sheets on 104 pages, A4) in 4-ring binder, colour

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Before You Begin
£12.95
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This 80-page printed copy of our popular ebook is now available in its own full-colour ringbinder to give you all the printed pages from the book, as well as a handy place to store all your notes as you investigate your business idea. You can also download more copies of the worksheets if you wish.

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The Before You Begin pack contains: 80 colour A4 landscape pages in 4-ring binder


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Go It Alone
£9.95
Go It Alone SORRY! THIS BOOK IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE

This title has been so popular since we published the Go It Alone LITE
e-book that we have run out of stock (as have the publishers!). We are sorry and ask you to bear with us until we can source more copies. In the meantime, you can download the FREE e-book by clicking on 'Hot Off The Press' and then 'Essential News' in the menu on the left.

About the book This excellent and very funny book by one of our favourite authors, Geoff Burch, is the perfect read for someone starting or running a small business. Packed with insight and no-nonsense advice, it combines humour with sage advice based on years of experience.

Read Julie's review in the Spring issue of our e-newsletter

Paperback, 230 pages

RRP £12.99 Our price: £9.95 plus p&p


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Do Something Different
£8.95
Do Something Different Proven marketing techniques to tranform your business

An Essential Business favourite

This is one of Julie's favourite marketing books. We've all heard the saying, 'If you carry on doing what you've been doing, you'll carry on getting what you've been getting'. Well, it's the same with marketing. If what you're doing isn't working ... isn't bringing in the business or making the sale .. perhaps it's about time you did something new. This book is packed with ways of doing just that. We love it (and our copy is looking very much worse for wear now!)

Paperback, 240 pages

RRP £10.99 Our price: £8.95 plus p&p


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The Entrepreneur's Book of Checklists
£9.95
The Entrepreneur's Book of Checklists 1000 tips to help you start and grow your business

At the top of our checklist!

This is such a brilliantly useful book. Robert Ashton has produced a book which positively invites you to dip into it, starting at any page. And we can almost guarantee that you'll keep turning the pages.

Use The Entrepreneur's Book of Checklists for inspiration, as an aide-memoire, or as a reminder of what not to do. As a business owner, your mind will be constantly full of things to remember ... this book helps you make certain that you stay on top of it all. It's a guidebook to business success.

(And if that wasn't enough, Robert Ashton also has the reputation of being one of the most likeable and approachable authors in the 'business business'. We rest our case...)

Paperback, 220 pages

RRP £12.99 Our price: £9.95 plus p&p


The Way of the Dog
£6.95
The Way of the Dog The art of making success inevitable

Another great book from Geoff Burch. The Way of the Dog is funny, thoughtful and full of hints and tips to help you sell yourself, your business and your product (or service). We all know how important sales and negotiation skills are if you are trying to build a successful business. The only problem is, how do you learn to sell? Fear not. This book will help you learn the skills whilst making you laugh at the same time.

Paperback, 125 pages

RRP £7.99 Our price: £6.95 plus p&p


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The Beermat Entrepreneur
£9.95
The Beermat Entrepreneur Turn your good ideas into a great business

Based on the principle that a business is founded on strong cornerstones, the book takes you step by step though the things you need to be aware of when starting and growing your business. It is one of the only books we've read that helps you from early startup right through to preparing your business for sale. A book you'll refer back to often.

Paperback, 180 pages

RRP £12.99 Our price: £9.95 plus p&p


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Resistance is Useless
£9.95
Resistance is Useless The art of business persuasion

An Essential Business favourite

Are you picking up a recurring theme here? We're unashamed in our mission to tell the world about Geoff Burch's books!

Jane has always been a fan of Resistance is Useless and urged Julie to read it. It made Julie laugh so much that her husband wanted to know what on earth she was reading! How often can you say that of a business book? The blurb on the book jacket says about Geoff, 'He combines the quick wit of a stand-up comedian with the serious thoughfulness of a psychoanalyst'. That sums up Geoff perfectly!

Paperback, 270 pages RRP £12.99 Our price: £9.95 plus p&p


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E-Myth Mastery
£10.95
E-Myth Mastery The seven essential disciplines for building a world class company

If you've read the Our Vision page on this website (in the menu on
the left) you will know that Julie is a big E-Myth fan. This book takes the
E-Myth process even further by teaching the seven essential disciplines
of the successful business owner. It takes a certain amount of time and effort to read -- there's so much in it -- but it's worth the effort. In fact, it could transform the way you run your business.

Hardback, 450 pages

RRP £14.99 Our price: £10.95 plus p&p


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