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Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (107 Seiten) |
ISBN: | 9781398420342 |
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505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgements -- Bill McGowan Biography -- Fastway Couriers: (March 1983 to January 2017) -- Awards -- Involvement in the Franchise Community -- Wider Business and Community Involvement -- Steve Panozzo Brief Biography -- Bill's Fastway Story -- Eureka Moment -- Research Results -- A New Start -- Franchising -- Going to the Regions -- Fastway Post -- Moving to Australia -- Change of Style Needed -- Developing a Corporate Structure -- I Want to Grow but I Can't Let Go -- International Expansion -- Evolving Technology -- Technology Started to Deliver Results -- Challenges and Opportunities Ahead -- Going into Business on Your Own -- Introduction -- Why Go Into Business? -- What Are You Really Looking For? -- What Type of Business Do You Want to Be Running? -- Is It an Established Business? -- Will It Be a New Start-Up or the Purchase of an Existing Business? -- Maybe Franchising Is for You? -- But What About Business Failure Risk? -- Let's Look at You -- In Your Personal Life -- In Your Business Life -- A Few Basic Questions to Ask Yourself -- What Type of Business Activity Suits You? -- Goal-Setting -- How to Set Up and Use Your Goal Book -- Business Planning -- Research -- Competitor Research -- General Marketplace Research -- Customer Research (in the Case of an Existing Business) -- Research of Costs -- Research of Laws and Conditions -- Analysing the Research -- The Business Plan -- Vision -- Mission/Purpose -- Setting Goals -- Introduction -- Swot -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Opportunities -- Threats -- Objectives -- Strategies -- Consequences of Failure -- Financial -- Summary -- Business Should Be for Profit (That's the Cash in Your Pocket) -- Budgets/Cash Flow -- Business Plan Implementation Realisation -- What Does a Banker Really Want to See? | |
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contents | Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgements -- Bill McGowan Biography -- Fastway Couriers: (March 1983 to January 2017) -- Awards -- Involvement in the Franchise Community -- Wider Business and Community Involvement -- Steve Panozzo Brief Biography -- Bill's Fastway Story -- Eureka Moment -- Research Results -- A New Start -- Franchising -- Going to the Regions -- Fastway Post -- Moving to Australia -- Change of Style Needed -- Developing a Corporate Structure -- I Want to Grow but I Can't Let Go -- International Expansion -- Evolving Technology -- Technology Started to Deliver Results -- Challenges and Opportunities Ahead -- Going into Business on Your Own -- Introduction -- Why Go Into Business? -- What Are You Really Looking For? -- What Type of Business Do You Want to Be Running? -- Is It an Established Business? -- Will It Be a New Start-Up or the Purchase of an Existing Business? -- Maybe Franchising Is for You? -- But What About Business Failure Risk? -- Let's Look at You -- In Your Personal Life -- In Your Business Life -- A Few Basic Questions to Ask Yourself -- What Type of Business Activity Suits You? -- Goal-Setting -- How to Set Up and Use Your Goal Book -- Business Planning -- Research -- Competitor Research -- General Marketplace Research -- Customer Research (in the Case of an Existing Business) -- Research of Costs -- Research of Laws and Conditions -- Analysing the Research -- The Business Plan -- Vision -- Mission/Purpose -- Setting Goals -- Introduction -- Swot -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Opportunities -- Threats -- Objectives -- Strategies -- Consequences of Failure -- Financial -- Summary -- Business Should Be for Profit (That's the Cash in Your Pocket) -- Budgets/Cash Flow -- Business Plan Implementation Realisation -- What Does a Banker Really Want to See? Why Do Banks Now Like Franchising? -- How Does a Bank Look to Provide Finance for Businesses? -- Details of the Business Proposal -- Market Research -- Cashflow / Profit and Loss Projections -- Finance Required / Security Offered -- Professional Advisors -- Personal CV / Financial Profile -- Research - What Should You Be Researching? -- Commitment -- Knowledge -- Realism -- Belief -- Accuracy -- Marketing -- Understand How They Benefit the Customer -- Know How to Maximise Them Fully -- Flyers and Other Direct Mail Pieces -- Advertisements -- Promotional Activity -- Press Releases -- Website -- Sponsorship -- Have the tools -- Summary -- Franchising -- A Brief History -- Franchising Is Big Business -- The Six Main Reasons for Becoming a Franchisee -- What Are the Likely Advantages? -- What Are the Possible Disadvantages? -- Summary -- Franchise Legal Issues -- Life as a Franchisee -- How to Evaluate a Franchise System -- Basic Checks -- Be wary of: -- Also Note Personal Considerations -- What Are Potential Bankers and Financiers Looking For? -- What Bankers and Financiers Will Want to See -- Legal Checks -- Financial Checks -- Signing on the Dotted Line -- Weighing up the Cost of Going into Business -- R.O.I (Return on Investment) -- Business Structures -- Common Types of Business Structures -- Sole Trader -- Advantages -- Low Cost -- Simple -- Autonomous -- Income -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Highest Tax Rate -- Succession Planning Difficulties -- Partnership -- Advantages -- Low Costs -- Agreements -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Business Structure -- A Limited Liability Company -- Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Formal Legal Framework -- Widely Accepted -- Succession Planning -- Capital -- Disadvantages -- Costly -- Compliance Complexities -- Possible Liability Exposure -- Creditor's Security Trading Trusts (Not Common) -- Advantages -- Tax Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Flexibility and Control -- Disadvantages -- Not Widely Accepted -- Costly -- Tax Threats -- Creditor's Security -- Not a Legal Entity -- Summary -- Monitoring Systems -- Financial Control -- Cash -- Credit -- Stock -- Staff -- Your Personal Wheel of Fortune -- How's Your Personal Wheel of Fortune? -- Attributes and Scoring Method -- Results -- Summing Up |
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spelling | McGowan, Bill Verfasser aut Be Your Own Boss Chicago Austin Macauley Publishers 2023 ©2023 1 Online-Ressource (107 Seiten) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgements -- Bill McGowan Biography -- Fastway Couriers: (March 1983 to January 2017) -- Awards -- Involvement in the Franchise Community -- Wider Business and Community Involvement -- Steve Panozzo Brief Biography -- Bill's Fastway Story -- Eureka Moment -- Research Results -- A New Start -- Franchising -- Going to the Regions -- Fastway Post -- Moving to Australia -- Change of Style Needed -- Developing a Corporate Structure -- I Want to Grow but I Can't Let Go -- International Expansion -- Evolving Technology -- Technology Started to Deliver Results -- Challenges and Opportunities Ahead -- Going into Business on Your Own -- Introduction -- Why Go Into Business? -- What Are You Really Looking For? -- What Type of Business Do You Want to Be Running? -- Is It an Established Business? -- Will It Be a New Start-Up or the Purchase of an Existing Business? -- Maybe Franchising Is for You? -- But What About Business Failure Risk? -- Let's Look at You -- In Your Personal Life -- In Your Business Life -- A Few Basic Questions to Ask Yourself -- What Type of Business Activity Suits You? -- Goal-Setting -- How to Set Up and Use Your Goal Book -- Business Planning -- Research -- Competitor Research -- General Marketplace Research -- Customer Research (in the Case of an Existing Business) -- Research of Costs -- Research of Laws and Conditions -- Analysing the Research -- The Business Plan -- Vision -- Mission/Purpose -- Setting Goals -- Introduction -- Swot -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Opportunities -- Threats -- Objectives -- Strategies -- Consequences of Failure -- Financial -- Summary -- Business Should Be for Profit (That's the Cash in Your Pocket) -- Budgets/Cash Flow -- Business Plan Implementation Realisation -- What Does a Banker Really Want to See? Why Do Banks Now Like Franchising? -- How Does a Bank Look to Provide Finance for Businesses? -- Details of the Business Proposal -- Market Research -- Cashflow / Profit and Loss Projections -- Finance Required / Security Offered -- Professional Advisors -- Personal CV / Financial Profile -- Research - What Should You Be Researching? -- Commitment -- Knowledge -- Realism -- Belief -- Accuracy -- Marketing -- Understand How They Benefit the Customer -- Know How to Maximise Them Fully -- Flyers and Other Direct Mail Pieces -- Advertisements -- Promotional Activity -- Press Releases -- Website -- Sponsorship -- Have the tools -- Summary -- Franchising -- A Brief History -- Franchising Is Big Business -- The Six Main Reasons for Becoming a Franchisee -- What Are the Likely Advantages? -- What Are the Possible Disadvantages? -- Summary -- Franchise Legal Issues -- Life as a Franchisee -- How to Evaluate a Franchise System -- Basic Checks -- Be wary of: -- Also Note Personal Considerations -- What Are Potential Bankers and Financiers Looking For? -- What Bankers and Financiers Will Want to See -- Legal Checks -- Financial Checks -- Signing on the Dotted Line -- Weighing up the Cost of Going into Business -- R.O.I (Return on Investment) -- Business Structures -- Common Types of Business Structures -- Sole Trader -- Advantages -- Low Cost -- Simple -- Autonomous -- Income -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Highest Tax Rate -- Succession Planning Difficulties -- Partnership -- Advantages -- Low Costs -- Agreements -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Business Structure -- A Limited Liability Company -- Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Formal Legal Framework -- Widely Accepted -- Succession Planning -- Capital -- Disadvantages -- Costly -- Compliance Complexities -- Possible Liability Exposure -- Creditor's Security Trading Trusts (Not Common) -- Advantages -- Tax Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Flexibility and Control -- Disadvantages -- Not Widely Accepted -- Costly -- Tax Threats -- Creditor's Security -- Not a Legal Entity -- Summary -- Monitoring Systems -- Financial Control -- Cash -- Credit -- Stock -- Staff -- Your Personal Wheel of Fortune -- How's Your Personal Wheel of Fortune? -- Attributes and Scoring Method -- Results -- Summing Up Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe McGowan, Bill Be Your Own Boss Chicago : Austin Macauley Publishers,c2023 |
spellingShingle | McGowan, Bill Be Your Own Boss Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Copyright Information © -- Acknowledgements -- Bill McGowan Biography -- Fastway Couriers: (March 1983 to January 2017) -- Awards -- Involvement in the Franchise Community -- Wider Business and Community Involvement -- Steve Panozzo Brief Biography -- Bill's Fastway Story -- Eureka Moment -- Research Results -- A New Start -- Franchising -- Going to the Regions -- Fastway Post -- Moving to Australia -- Change of Style Needed -- Developing a Corporate Structure -- I Want to Grow but I Can't Let Go -- International Expansion -- Evolving Technology -- Technology Started to Deliver Results -- Challenges and Opportunities Ahead -- Going into Business on Your Own -- Introduction -- Why Go Into Business? -- What Are You Really Looking For? -- What Type of Business Do You Want to Be Running? -- Is It an Established Business? -- Will It Be a New Start-Up or the Purchase of an Existing Business? -- Maybe Franchising Is for You? -- But What About Business Failure Risk? -- Let's Look at You -- In Your Personal Life -- In Your Business Life -- A Few Basic Questions to Ask Yourself -- What Type of Business Activity Suits You? -- Goal-Setting -- How to Set Up and Use Your Goal Book -- Business Planning -- Research -- Competitor Research -- General Marketplace Research -- Customer Research (in the Case of an Existing Business) -- Research of Costs -- Research of Laws and Conditions -- Analysing the Research -- The Business Plan -- Vision -- Mission/Purpose -- Setting Goals -- Introduction -- Swot -- Strengths -- Weaknesses -- Opportunities -- Threats -- Objectives -- Strategies -- Consequences of Failure -- Financial -- Summary -- Business Should Be for Profit (That's the Cash in Your Pocket) -- Budgets/Cash Flow -- Business Plan Implementation Realisation -- What Does a Banker Really Want to See? Why Do Banks Now Like Franchising? -- How Does a Bank Look to Provide Finance for Businesses? -- Details of the Business Proposal -- Market Research -- Cashflow / Profit and Loss Projections -- Finance Required / Security Offered -- Professional Advisors -- Personal CV / Financial Profile -- Research - What Should You Be Researching? -- Commitment -- Knowledge -- Realism -- Belief -- Accuracy -- Marketing -- Understand How They Benefit the Customer -- Know How to Maximise Them Fully -- Flyers and Other Direct Mail Pieces -- Advertisements -- Promotional Activity -- Press Releases -- Website -- Sponsorship -- Have the tools -- Summary -- Franchising -- A Brief History -- Franchising Is Big Business -- The Six Main Reasons for Becoming a Franchisee -- What Are the Likely Advantages? -- What Are the Possible Disadvantages? -- Summary -- Franchise Legal Issues -- Life as a Franchisee -- How to Evaluate a Franchise System -- Basic Checks -- Be wary of: -- Also Note Personal Considerations -- What Are Potential Bankers and Financiers Looking For? -- What Bankers and Financiers Will Want to See -- Legal Checks -- Financial Checks -- Signing on the Dotted Line -- Weighing up the Cost of Going into Business -- R.O.I (Return on Investment) -- Business Structures -- Common Types of Business Structures -- Sole Trader -- Advantages -- Low Cost -- Simple -- Autonomous -- Income -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Highest Tax Rate -- Succession Planning Difficulties -- Partnership -- Advantages -- Low Costs -- Agreements -- Disadvantages -- Personal Unlimited Liability -- Business Structure -- A Limited Liability Company -- Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Formal Legal Framework -- Widely Accepted -- Succession Planning -- Capital -- Disadvantages -- Costly -- Compliance Complexities -- Possible Liability Exposure -- Creditor's Security Trading Trusts (Not Common) -- Advantages -- Tax Advantages -- Limited Liability -- Flexibility and Control -- Disadvantages -- Not Widely Accepted -- Costly -- Tax Threats -- Creditor's Security -- Not a Legal Entity -- Summary -- Monitoring Systems -- Financial Control -- Cash -- Credit -- Stock -- Staff -- Your Personal Wheel of Fortune -- How's Your Personal Wheel of Fortune? -- Attributes and Scoring Method -- Results -- Summing Up |
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