Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, And Growing Your Small Business - In Any Economy! - Hardcover

Gottry, Steve

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9780060778385: Common Sense Business: Starting, Operating, And Growing Your Small Business - In Any Economy!

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060778385 ISBN 13: 9780060778385

Publisher: HarperCollins World, 2005

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Do you own or plan to own a small business?

Do you work for a small business and desire to better understand your boss?
Do you know someone who owns a business and wants to be stronger, more focused, and more successful?

This is the book for you.

The truth is that many business books offer a lot of wonderful sounding theories, but they have little practical application in the real world of small business. Common Sense Business is full of life-and-death ideas. Follow Steve Gottry's advice and your business will live and thrive. Ignore it and your business could founder or die. Benefit from Gottry's experience as an entrepreneur who grew a hugely successful media agency, experienced a harrowing business failure, then rebounded with a new business and a fresh start on life.

Common Sense Business tells you how to succeed throughout every phase of the small business life cycle -- from starting to operating, growing, and even closing down a business. No matter the state of the economy or the maturity of your business, you will find winning solutions to the questions and situations you face every day. Steve Gottry will help you understand yourself; your employees, customers, and vendors; and how people come together to form a successful business. You will learn how to maximize your business's assets and how to ward off those threats that could eat away at your resources and peace of mind, including debt, sloppiness, addiction, and fear. Warm, honest, funny, and factual, entrepreneur Steve Gottry tells the whole truth about successfully managing a business through good times and bad.

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Review:

"This is essential information for anyone who dreams of starting his or her own business--and staying in business. "--Kathy Player, EdD Dean, Ken Blanchard College of Business Grand Canyon University

"Small business men and women should read and reread this book. It's an eye-opener!"--John W. MacEachern Founder and former CEO (Retired) Offshore Maintenance

"A reality-based, down-to-earth, optimistically -sound, practical why and how-to approach to business success..."--Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker and bestselling author

"The section on marketing and advertising alone is well worth the price of the book!"--Elaine Ralls, President, HMI Marketing & Advertising, Tempe, AZ

A reality-based, down-to-earth, optimistically -sound, practical why and how-to approach to business success --Zig Ziglar, motivational speaker and bestselling author"

The section on marketing and advertising alone is well worth the price of the book! --Elaine Ralls, President, HMI Marketing & Advertising, Tempe, AZ"

This is essential information for anyone who dreams of starting his or her own business--and staying in business. --Kathy Player, EdD Dean, Ken Blanchard College of Business Grand Canyon University"

Small business men and women should read and reread this book. It s an eye-opener! --John W. MacEachern Founder and former CEO (Retired) Offshore Maintenance"

About the Author:

Steve Gottry is the owner of Priority Multimedia Group, Inc., a content creation company that develops films, videos, books, and marketing materials. Gottry and his firm have won a number of awards, including three Silver Microphones for radio and awards from the International Advertising Festival for direct mail and film. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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