Kick Start Your Business

Get your business off the ground without an MBA or $50,000.

A detailed look at financial planning strategies surrounding professional corporations for doctors, dentists, lawyers, business owners and other Canadian professionals. If you're a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, or a business owner—virtually any type of professional in Canada—you strongly need to consider how incorporating fits into your financial plan. A good financial planner should acknowledge they have absolutely no control of the markets. However, taxes are completely controllable, and having a corporation is a powerful tool that allows professionals to control their tax bill. Using a mix of personal observations, real-life examples, and strategy evaluations, this book guides the professional along their path to using their corporation in the most efficient way. Kickstart Your Corporation: The Incorporated Professional's Financial Planning Coach is your practical guide to controlling your tax bill and taking advantage of all that a Professional Corporation has to offer. Drawing upon decades of hands-on experience in wealth management, author Andrew Feindel provides clear and accurate advice on making the incorporation decision, setting up and investing inside your corporation, optimizing your salary and dividend compensation mix, valuing permanent insurance on your corporate balance sheet, using prudent leverage, weighing the pros and cons of active or passive investment management, using alternative strategies like a Capital Gains Strip, Individual Pension Plans and Retirement Compensation Arrangements, and much more. This must-have book: Provides Canadian professionals with an accurate and straightforward investment and financial planning guide to incorporation Covers the basics of incorporating for the professional and business owner, including a review of the process and the costs to incorporate, and the likely benefits Analyzes the best financial strategy for various situations Offers real-world advice on structuring compensation, risk management, borrowing to invest, and the role of trusts in professionals’ financial plans Written by a senior vice president at an independent leading-edge wealth management firm Kickstart Your Corporation: The Incorporated Professional's Financial Planning Coach is essential reading for any professional who has incorporated and is looking to maximize benefits, and those wanting to incorporate for the first time with expert guidance.

"If you want to propel your success and dreams to realization, readKick Start Your Success." —Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator, #1 New York Timesbestselling series Chicken Soup for the Soul and coauthor ofThe One Minute Millionaire "Timeless wisdom presented in an extremely readablemanner." —Jay Conrad Levinson, author of the GuerrillaMarketing series of books "A wonderful little book filled with simple, transformationalwisdom that will reshape all aspects of your life and work. You oweit to yourself to read Kick Start Your Success." —Dr. Joe Rubino, bestselling author and CEO ofCenterForPersonalReinvention.com "I was lost. I knew I had an idea that would work but didn'tknow how to present it to the market. Kick Start YourSuccess allowed me to put my thoughts down in a concise way anddiscover an entertaining way to make them a reality." —Anne Patrick, television executive

'49 Ways To Kick-Start Your Business' is a book more about you than your business. Bite size tips covering topics such as motivation, resistance, creative thinking and social networking for business. An invaluable resource for any small business owner or anyone looking to start their own business.

You have an idea for a business but you're not sure where to begin. Or perhaps you have made a start but you're not sure what to do next. It's a common dilemma shared by everyone who has been down the same path. Where can I go for help? What are my legal obligations? How do I start generating sales? Can I use digital marketing? How can I organise my operations? How will I handle my finances? Kickstart Your Business is about getting into your own business. It is not just a book about being self-employed and getting paid for what you do; it also symbolises a set of values about how some of us want to live and how we want to be sustained by the work we do. Written by Australia's bestselling small business author, John English, the book is aimed at the reader who wants practical, common-sense advice that is easy to understand and simple to use. It covers planning, marketing, operations and financing and is intended to be read as a handy navigational guide that will enable you to discover the essentials of getting into business without having to wade through a lot of detail. In plain language, it emphasises the 'how to' techniques for navigating your way into your own business. John English brings together a lifetime of business insight as an academic, accountant, entrepreneur and author. The simplicity and clarity of this book reflects his professional training combined with years of practical first-hand experience. Kickstart Your Business is like having a personal business advisor at your fingertips.

For new graduates, the key challenge remains how to secure that first career-related job. Full of guidance and tips on how to handle the complex field of job hunting, Kick Start Your Career can help navigate an ever-changing job market and secure your chance at your desired career. It is a valuable investment in your future. It advises the reader on how to: stand out in job applications; use social media for job searching; create resumes and cover letters that stand out; succeed at interviews. It provides a practical, hands on, step-by-step approach. With an integrated Personal Plan that helps create key job search documents it directs soon-to-be graduates towards achieving their career aspirations. Accompanying online resources include examples and templates, which can be downloaded in Word format to help you prepare resumes and other job search documents. This book will help graduates progressively build up job-hunting resources – skills, achievements, resume, cover letter and interview responses – and turn this into a practical outcome: a new job. It is a key companion to any student or recent graduate exploring the job market.

From the ABC hit show "Shark Tank," this book-filled with practical advice and introductions from the Sharks themselves-will be the ultimate resource for anyone thinking about starting a business or growing the one they have. Full of tips for navigating the confusing world of entrepreneurship, the book will intersperse words of wisdom with inspirational stories from the show. Throughout the book, readers will learn how to: Determine whether they're compatible with the life of a small business owner, shape a marketable idea and craft a business model around it, plan for a launch, run a business without breaking the bank (or burning themselves out), create a growth plan that will help them handle and harness success, and pitch an idea or business plan like a pro. Responding to the fans' curiosity about past show contestants, readers will also find approximately 10 "Where Are They Now" boxes in which they learn what happened to some of the most asked-about and/or most popular guests ever to try their luck in front of the Sharks-and what they learned in the process.

4th edition of the world’s most popular LinkedIn handbook—completely revised and updated, including tips for the mobile app ​Many LinkedIn books focus solely on creating a killer profile. But LinkedIn is not a spectator event. You can't just show up and wait for people to come to you. LinkedIn is a professional networking community, and opportunities abound to make real money and advance your career. In addition to helping you create a magnetic, professional profile, this book will show you how to develop a comprehensive strategy for achieving your business and career goals. Over 100,000 professionals have already used Breitbarth's LinkedIn secrets to land lucrative new customers and top-notch employees, grow their businesses and brands, and find great new jobs. And most people have only scratched the surface of LinkedIn's potential. The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success will help you: • Set yourself apart from the LinkedIn masses and build a powerful professional network • Attract and engage with people who need your products, services, or skills • Locate the right people for business partnerships and revenue opportunities • Discover insider information about employers, customers, and competitors • Find a great new job—many times when you're not even looking for one! LinkedIn is one of the most powerful business tools on the planet—and The Power Formula for LinkedIn Success is your perfect step-by-step guide to mastering it!