The personality of a business will mirror the personality of its owner. While no one person is all things to all people; its business MUST be all things to all of its customers or you risk losing them to your competition. This, in a nutshell, is the single-most influential factor in the success of your business. Understanding your personality and how it impacts your  business will give you great insight as to where to place your focus on any given time. Survival in today’s economic climate requires you to develop strategies for upmarkets, down-markets and sidewaystrending market conditions. The 7 Stages of Small Business Success is written as a roadmap for any entrepreneur to reach his or her ultimate  destina tion.We are in the midst of a massive financial meltdown and the most volatile... Less

Office 2003 Small Business delivers it all. Microsoft Office Word 2003, the latest version of the best-selling word processor, takes customer experience and feedback to deliver innovations you can use to create impressive- looking documents and help you work better together. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 enables you to turn data into information with powerful tools to analyze, communicate, and share results. Excel 2003 can help you work better in teams, and help protect and control access to your work. In addition, you can work with industry- standard Extensible Markup Language (XML) data to make it easier to connect to business processes. Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 provides an integrated solution for managing and organizing e-mail messages, schedules, tasks, notes, contacts, and other... Less

The Tool Box Startup includes 6 StripSerts with Carbides, Wedges, Tool Box, Punch and Hammer. The Strip-Serts are carbide tipped blocks designed to clean floors without grinding into the concrete. Strip-Serts have a replaceable, multi-sided tungsten carbide edge that can be rotated for maximum use. These Strip-Serts are ideal for removing mastics, paints, resins, tar, fiberglass, ice and industrial buildups. The Strip-Serts are designed to strip away coatings, not to grind concrete. Grinding concrete with Strip-Serts will dull the sharp edges quickly causing the grinding action to stop. The wooden wedges are used to wedge the holding case into the Grinder's Multi-Accessory Disc.

America is a nation of entrepreneurs. Six million new businesses are started each year, and small businesses—from online diamond dealers to neighborhood cafes to biotech companies— generate 70 percent of new jobs in the U.S. annually. Brothers Jeff and Rich Sloan, the founders of StartupNation, have helped start dozens of successful businesses and have guided and encouraged thousands of others through their Web site, e-newsletters, and syndicated radio talk show. STARTUPNATION examines every aspect of smart entrepreneurship, including figuring out your tolerance for risk, taking advantage of your skills and past accomplishments, and focusing on what you love to do. The Sloans bring their lessons home through the stories of a wide variety of successful ventures, from their own patented... Less