How to find products to import and then do market research to find out if you can sell them. What legal form is best for your business? Register for sales taxes and protect your trademarks. Consider operating a home-based business. Look at the advantages of bonded warehousing. Learn about ways of paying for imports and the companies that offer trade financing. Take a look at freight alternatives and customs clearance. How to use advertising and direct marketing to sell your imports. Set up...

Essential reading if you are fed up with the paltry interest paid on bank savings accounts or the lackluster performance of your investment advisors. It assumes no prior knowledge of investing It shows how publicly traded shares are created; how the financial markets operate and how they are regulated. It covers equities, bonds, exchange traded funds, hedge funds and mutual funds. How to set up a trading account. It covers fundamental and technical analysis and the importance of allocating...

The Euro is in crisis and the United States is burdened with a national debt which is spiralling out of control. All of this places the major paper (fiat) currencies of the world at significant risk. Indeed, the role of the US dollar as a "reserve currency" is under threat. As a consequence, many central banks around the world have been quietly increasing their gold holdings as a hedge against the possible demise of the US dollar. This book shows readers different ways to invest in gold an...

This book assumes that you have a tight advertising budget and that you have to get the best bang for your buck. You will learn the use of advertising "hooks" and how they differ for the business market as opposed to the consumer market. The chapter on direct mail advertising will take you through the steps in creating an effective direct mail piece. The Internet offers tremendous opportunities for advertisers in the digital age and this book leads you through the steps to establ...

A delightfully cynical book which looks at the paper fiat currencies which we use everyday and questions how long they can survive. Could worthless paper be replaced by an ingenious worldwide cryptocurrency called "Bitcoin" which threatens to overturn the tables of traditional fiat money changers?

Keep your part-time business a secret if you are working for someone else! Locate products to sell and figure out if there is a market for them. Learn about legal structures for your part-time business and government sales tax permits. How to select the most suitable computer hardware and software to help you run your business efficiently. Learn how to create your own Web site and what's involved in opening your own Web store. Look at selling at eBay auctions or opening your own eBay store...

Crowdfunding platforms raised $2.7 billion in 2012 and funded over a million campaigns with predictions of an 81% increase in future crowdfunding volumes. In this book, I'll put crowdfunding into the context of the socially connected world of the Internet. I will lead you through some of the preparations you will need to make before approaching the equity crowdfunding market and then I'll lead you through some of the issues which you are likely to encounter. I will then show you the state ...

Create, sell and deliver digital products over the Internet. Open a Web site and sell online. Ways to promote your site and improve your chances of being discovered. How to use metadata to help in the "discoverability" of your individual titles.

This book helps readers evaluate their chances of obtaining formal venture capital or investment from angels. It takes a realistic approach and will save them time and effort in locating equity capital. It describes the venture business; the players and how much money is available. It discusses venturist's preferences and where to find them. It provides profiles of typical angels and the kind of investments they make. It covers angel clusters and corporate angels and hints on where to find...

Written by a former mining analyst, under a pseudonym, this book covers some of the less publicized factors which influence the price. These will be of interest to gold bugs as well as those who are curious about investing in the yellow metal

This book should increase your chances of securing a bank loan for your business. It tells you about different kinds of banks; how they operate and what kind of loans they offer. It covers government loan initiatives in the US, Canada and the UK. A business plan can greatly assist in securing a loan. See how your banker evaluates your application.. How to finance your accounts receivable from factors and how to finance exports and imports. Finally, this book puts the recent financial mess ...

How to create brochures, books and documents. Get an introduction to word processing, fonts, file formats and WYSIWYG. How colour is handled by commercial printers. How to create portable documents which can be read on different computers and to send documents to commercial printers. A chapter covers "Soup to Nuts" programs. Review the heavyweights in software publishing and layout. Learn about specialty programs for research papers and foreign language texts. Find out about voic...