Start Your Business - Week by Week: How to plan and launch your successful business – one step at a time - Softcover

Parks, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273694472 ISBN 13: 9780273694472

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2004

Synopsis

"Start Your Business Week by Week is written in such a clear and friendly way that you can't help being drawn into the excitement of becoming an entrepreneur. Breaking down the process into weekly steps makes it suddenly seem more achievable, and I'm sure many more people will be encouraged to turn their ideas into their own businesses as a result."

                                                                           Prime Minister Tony Blair

"I wish I'd had this when I started the gadget shop."

                                                        Jonathan Elvidge, founder of The Gadget Shop

Setting up a new business is a daunting task, 400,000 in the UK do it every year , yet millions more are put off before they ever begin to trade. Once you've done it, it seems actually quite straightforward. But knowing where to start and what to do is impossible, there is a mountain to climb and you are lost at the bottom.

Not any more. Each week for six months this book will tell you what you should be doing. Split into weekly sections that include explanations of the weeks' requirements, a checklist, useful contact information, a glossary, a case study of an entrepreneur, and suggestions for further reading material. This book will take you through the whole process from brainstorming and refining your business ideas, registering your company, opening a bank account to finding your first customer and keeping records.

This book will ensure you know what you should be doing and when, it’s like having a super-efficient project manager by your side as you tackle one of the biggest projects of your life.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Parks began his career as a journalist and presenter for BBC Radio. His work has been broadcast on Radio 4, Radio 5-Live, Radio 1, Radio 2, BBC TV and the ‘Today’ programme. He left the BBC to form his own company, initially to continue producing programmes for BBC Network Radio, but the company then evolved and grew intoRed Audio, the UK’s leading publisher of business audio.

From the Back Cover

Starting a business is one of the most rewarding and satisfying career moves you could possibly make and it’s not as difficult as you might think – if you have the right advice.

 

Start Your Business Week by Week will help you overcome the challenges and turn your idea into reality.  In 26 weekly steps it walks you though everything you need to do to get up and running, in the order you need to do it.

 

Each step contains a to-do list, an explanation of what needs to be done, useful hints and shortcuts, and the contact information you need.  Plus, each week you’ll share the experiences of early stage entrepreneurs like you, as well as advice from established, successful entrepreneurs.

 

It shows you how to:

• Develop, text and refine your idea
• Find the right bank and accountant
• Decide who you need to help you run the business
• Budget and forecast (without pain)
• Find and secure funding
• Plan cash flow
• Decide on suppliers
• Find customers
• Register your company
• Avoid the common problems faced by start-ups
• And much more

 

This book is written by an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs.  Everything inside is tried and tested reality, not academic theory.

 

This is your moment.  And this is the book to show you how.

 

“Steve Parks is probably the best person I know to advise you on starting your own business.  He has interviewed most of the best entrepreneurs alive today and also set up his own successful business.  This is a practical real-life guide that can be your ‘virtual’ mentor as you start up your business.”

John Barnes, serial entrepreneur behind Harry Ramsden’s Fish and Chips, La Tasca tapas restaurants, and many other businesses

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273694472
• ISBN 13: 9780273694472
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232