Choosing the right business for you -- Targeting a profitable market with a winning idea -- Making the financial transition to self-employment -- Drafting an effective business plan -- Understanding and choosing a legal structure -- Your business location: working from home or renting space -- Dealing with start-up requirements and bureaucratic hurdles -- Getting the word out: cost-effective marketing -- E-business: conducting and marketing your business online -- Keeping your books and managing your finances -- Federal, state, and local tax basics -- Building your business and hiring employees and other workers -- Lawyers and accountants: building your family of professionals.
Summary:
"This book is a guide for women interested in starting or running a small business. It covers how to: draft a business plan; raise start-up money, including through crowdfunding; choose a legal structure and hire employees; manage finances and taxes; qualify for special certification programs and contracts for women-owned businesses; and market and brand a business online and off. This book also contains interviews with successful women business owners, and has tips for maintaining work-life balance"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.