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Business Development Resources
We want you to have the best web resources at your fingertips to develop your business. Listed here are some of our favorite web links and books. Here’s to your success!
Links
INC Magazine - http://www.inc.com/ *****
The best available resource for growing companies. The site allows you to access all articles from past issues of Inc. and has many other useful links.
The Young Entrepreneurs Network - http://www.youngandsuccessful.com/ ****
The goal of the Young Entrepreneurs Network is to continuously build and maintain an international community of young business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. The site has a forum where users can share their dreams, goals, experiences and resources.
FastCompany -http://www.fastcompany.com/ ****
Online magazine focusing on business innovation, creativity and productive practices in the workplace.
Small and Home Based Business Links - http://www.bizoffice.com/homebased.html ***
Find resources for small and home-based businesses at this site, including information on franchises and multi-level marketing. Visitors can also explore the digital library.
Books
We recommend the following Business Development books out of the hundreds we have read, based on our own personal experiences in, not only reading them, but applying them in our own lives and businesses. You can click on any of the books to be linked directly to Amazon.com and have the book delivered to your door. Enjoy!
- Built to Last : Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
- James C. Collins, Jerry I. Porras / Paperback /
Published 1997
This analysis of what makes great companies great has been hailed everywhere as an instant classic - a must read for business owners or managers interested in more than the short-term bottom line.
- The One to One Fieldbook: The Complete Toolkit for Implementing a 1 To 1 Marketing Program
- Martha Rogers, Don Peppers, et al / Paperback /
Published 1998
This is a useful and practical how-to guide, full of checklists and ideas for getting any company on track with one-to-one marketing.
- Coaching for Performance (People Skills for Professionals)
- John Whitmore / Paperback / Published 1996
One of the first books out on business coaching and still the best.
- Customers.Com: How to Create a Profitable Business Strategy for the Internet and Beyond
- Patricia B. Seybold(Contributor), et al /
Hardcover / Published 1998
If you're wanting to catch the e-business wave, this is the best book I've found that goes beyond the hype.
- Co-Active Coaching : New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life
- Laura Whitworth, et al / Hardcover / Published
1998
While Co-active coaching goes well beyond business coaching to a more holistic approach, if you are truly committed to becoming an excellent coach and bringing out the best in people this book is a must read.
- The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom
- Suze Orman / Hardcover / Published 1997
I've included this book here because the biggest roadblock to business success I've found is people's relationship to money and abundance. Orman covers the ingredients to financial success--confronting our beliefs and fears, learning the nuts and bolts (and insiders secrets!) of savvy management, and finding the spiritual trust that leads to abundance.