Please recommend books for a new young entrepreneur in service sector? -

Hi guys, please recommend me a list of good books for someone who has not start a business before and would like to start one soon. I will be in the service sector selling watches and clock mainly in my shop. I will also be selling on my website and on ebay. Please give me a list of good books that1) teach me the basic of starting a business (the must-do and must not do)2) how to promote/market and sell my business and service both in a physical shop and on website/ebay.3) how to choose shop locations, how to advertise my service, how to get rapport with customers.I know one book will not summarize all this factors, so please give me a list of books. The more books the better, as long as the books teach the above questions. And lastly, does anyone recommend this book Start Your Own Business by Rieva Lesonsky ? Good reviews on amazon, but I would like to hear more about it. Thanks. Cheers :D

Here is a list of books I have found helpful:The Art of the StartThe Sales BibleClose More Sales!Aside from books I have also found many websites useful. Like this one. Also I have found that once you start a business a lot of companies will call you to let them do your advertising. What I have done (after trying out a few of those companies) is to do your own marketing. Sign up for a Google Adwords account and start doing it. There are often codes given out for free advertising with them. I started by entering in my business in the Local Business Center and then they sent me a code for $100 in free advertising with adwords. As I do it, I learn what people are searching for and so how to make my ads more appealing. Good Luck!

Setting up a small business a dog sitting service do i need to be registered or anything? -

i would only ever have 2 dogs at a time

Whenever you can do something properly and run a business using it, you should be concerned about clients and their satisfaction and if you get regular income, money management.Dont worry about registration. Gone are the days when people used to steal or take over small biz names. After you gain a reputation, it is still difficult for others to copy your biz name. So instead of worrying about registration, jumpstart your business.Your clients will push you up on these matters.

To keep things legal I would suggest setting up a DBA (doing business as) especially if you are going to call your business by a name besides your own. You just need to contact your county clerk for information about that.

You can sign up for your own free account here: http://www.WebStarts.com?aff=chery

I have a cunning internet business plan? -

Building profitable websites for companies whether they want me to or not. If they like it, they can offer to buy them off me. I have trouble getting employment even though I m quite capable of building profitable websites, so this seems like a good course of action for me. Any ideas?

Good idea. You should build a standard sales pitch emphasizing the benefits of having a web presence, and how the cost of your website can be paid for by adding only [xx] new customers! Should pretty much sell itself, as long as you keep your cost reasonable.I m surprised every day how many businesses do not have a website. Part of my job is researching new companies/sources of supply, and my best tool is the internet. No website, no business.

In my analysis, if you do this way, you ll have big overhead cost, which is actually not efficient for a business that operate this way. I think making website has been a commodity, which means you need to develop your own service not only for making website to get more income. because in commodity you can t have much income.

How to add the 613 percent to an amount in excel? I need to add 613% to $2.8476. Please help? -

you multiply 2.8476 by (1+6.16)in excel you would type:=2.8476*7.16

Thank you so much DTH I got it right. Report Abuse

if you have $2.8476 in A1 then in B1 you could type=(A1*613%)+A1I am assuming that the $ sign is from the cell formating

Could i use 4 seasons as the name of my new business? -

im in the tree landscaping business

I would doubt it as four seasons is taken as a company name - you could try something similar and more speccific to your line of work eg. Four Seasons Landscaping or All Seasons etc . When you apply for a company name at Companies House they ll advise you of any other companies with that name and if it is too similar to an existing name it won t be allowed. Generally it s not a good idea to choose something with a name similar to that of a large corporation - their legal department won t allow it and their pockets will be deeper than yours.

Actually, you could. It s not like you re going to go into the hotel business, and much less at a scale that would create real competition for the chain.Go for it. It s a great name for your type of business.

Already in use in the catering business I know Name of a pub in the Hungry Horse bgroup

depending on how you use it and all that because where i live there is a 4 seasons salon mayb u can put a little twist to it

the only other business i could find was four seasons hotel

try Seasonal Treasure

probably not. the four seasons is a hotel chain.

ye thats good

yes...sounds good

If your in Ireland now there is all ready one of that name here