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QuickBooks By: Intuit
QuickBooks is a fast, easy way to manage your business finances. It has all the features you need, plus QuickBooks has many new features for upgraders. QuickBooks is also simple to learn and customize to your business. That's why it is the #1 best selling accounting software. To order this software from Amazon, click here.

Business Plan Pro By: Palo Alto Software
Business Plan Pro is based on a business plan format recognized by leading banks, lenders, investors, and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Business Plan Pro walks you through the entire planning process and generates a complete, professional and ready to distribute plan with a proven formula for success. With the proprietary EasyPlan Wizard®, writing a business plan is easier than ever, making it a snap to get started! To order this software from Amazon, click here.

Business Start-up Guides By: Entrepreneur Magazine Group
Entrepreneur's Startup Guides provide you with a clear roadmap to success. Each guide is written, researched and edited by the editors of Entrepreneur. There are over 300 Guides, each one providing extensive information about a particular type of business. You'll learn about: The different types of market research and which one is best for your business; Which business structure suits you best; How to write your business plan and mission statement; What legal requirements you'll need to address; When to hire a lawyer or accountant; What types of financing are available to start a business. You may purchase these guides from Smallbizbooks.com.

Guerilla Marketing With Technology By: Jay Conrad Levinson
This book is the resource for those who want to realize the full potential of their small business through today's technology. Even with minimal investment in and experience with computers, databases, and the Internet, small businesses can maximize their limited resources and reap big profits. Without technical jargon, Levinson covers all the basics to get even the most technologically shy up and running. Levinson is the author of the bestselling marketing series of all time, including Guerrilla Marketing, Guerrilla Marketing Attack, and The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook. To order this book from Amazon, click here.

Low Risk, High Reward: Starting and Growing A Business with Minimal Risk By: Bob Reiss, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank, Howard H. Stevenson
Contrary to popular belief, most entrepreneurs don't like risk. While they are not afraid to take chances, the most successful entrepreneurs do what they can to anticipate, minimize, and offset risk at every opportunity. Full of practical suggestions and insights, this easy-to-read book is an indispensable guide for anyone thinking about starting a business and particularly for those would-be entrepreneurs without experience or much capital. It is equally valuable to entrepreneurs looking for ways to make their businesses more successful. To order this book from Amazon, click here.

Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! By: Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter
A national best seller! Robert Kiyosaki teaches people to be millionaires. That's why they call him the millionaire school teacher. "The main reason people struggle financially, is because thay have spent years in school but learned nothing about money. The result is that people learn to work for money ...... but never learn to have money work for them." To order this book from Amazon, click here.

Patent It Yourself By: David Pressman, Attorney
Patent It Yourself is the world's bestselling patent book, recommended by patent attorneys, inventors, librarians and journalists. Patent attorney and former patent examiner Davis Pressman takes you - step-by-step and in plain English - through the entire patent process, from conducting a patent search to filing a successful application. To order this book from Nolo Press, click here.

Wear Clean Underwear: Business Wisdom from Mom By: Rhonda Abrams
Columnist and consultant Rhonda Abrams believes today's most successful businesses are shifting from a patriarchal style of leadership to one in which characteristics such as growth, development, maturity, and nurturing--all traits traditionally associated more often with mothers than fathers--have moved to the forefront. Wear Clean Underwear: Using Mom's Fundamental Lessons to Run an Extraordinary Business is her light-hearted but utterly serious examination of this continuing trend, matching familiar motherly maxims like "How do you know you won't like it, if you've never tried it?" and "Don't get too big for your britches" with actual managerial practices at companies such as Nordstrom, Kinko's, and 3M. "Moms everywhere have developed an almost universal language to achieve their goals and instill common values," she writes. In this clever volume, Abrams shows how such wisdom can be both relevant and useful in today's business environment. To order this book from Amazon, click here.

The E Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It By: Michael E. Gerber
Michael Gerber's The E-Myth Revisited should be required reading for anyone thinking about starting a business or for those who have already taken that fateful step. The title refers to the author's belief that entrepreneurs - typically brimming with good but distracting ideas - make poor businesspeople. He establishes an incredibly organized and regimented plan, so that daily details are scripted, freeing the entrepreneur's mind to build the long-term success or failure of the business. You don't need an M.B.A. to understand or follow its directives; Gerber takes time to explain buzzwords and complex theories. Reading The-E Myth is like receiving advice from an old friend. To order this book from Amazon, click here.

Updated 7/13/2009 1:58:00 PM