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Wealth Without a Job: The Entrepreneur's Guide
by Phil Laut (658.11 LAU 2004)
Determine your true purpose so that you choose a business that expresses your own values and calls forth your dormant passion. Understand the fundamental changes in today's economic structure that virtually require self-actualizers to work for themselves. Discover and adopt the characteristics that separate the wealthy from the others. Earn the income you want from the work you love.

Multiple Streams of Internet Income: How Ordinary People Make Extraordinary Money Online (2nd ed.)
by Robert G Allen (658.872 ALL 2006)
Multiple Streams of Internet Income takes the idea of making money on the Internet to the next level, by revealing how to deliver a marketing message faster, cheaper, and to a larger number of potential customers. This new updated edition includes the same wisdom that made Allen one of the most influential financial advisors in the world, but also features updated information on everything readers need to know.

QuickBooks 2007 for Dummies
by Stephen L Nelson (657.9042 QUICKB 07)
QuickBooks gives you the power to manage all those accounting and financial tasks that go with having your own business. This handy guide helps you set up QuickBooks to manage daily, monthly, and occasional financial record-keeping tasks. Before you know it, you'll be speeding through invoices, managing inventory, printing checks, generating reports, and more. Look soon in our catalog for 2008 edition!

How to Start a Business In Oregon 2007 edition
(658.1109 HOW 2007, 2nd ed.)
How to Start a Business in Oregon is your road map to avoiding operational, legal and financial pitfalls and breaking through the bureaucratic red tape that often entangles new entrepreneurs. Contains state-specific sample forms and letters on CD-ROM, mailing addresses, telephone numbers and websites for federal, state, local and private agencies, state population statistics, income and consumption rates, major industry trends and overall business incentives to give you a better picture of doing business in Oregon.

There's a Business In Every Woman: A 7-Step Guide
by Ann M Holmes (658.1108 HOL 2007)
Based on extensive interviews with more than 80 women entrepreneurs, this work offers inspiring success stories--and instructive missteps--in a wide range of businesses. Holmes has created the perfect guide to help women turn their dreams into a reality.

E-Myth Mastery
by Michael E Gerber (658.421 GER)
The author presents a practical, real-world program based on seven key skills that will turn a small business into a world-class operation. Find out traits of successful managers. See examples of marketing, pricing & finance situations. Discover essential approaches to purpose, leadership, and customer service. For people who really want their business to be huge!

Start & Run an ESL Teaching Business
by Nicole T Pankratz (428.24 PAN 2006 edition)
Do you want to turn your passion for English into a side business? Washington County is more language diverse than the rest of Oregon. It’s not easy to just begin tutoring; learning about this work can mean studying books like this, TOEFL books, and contacting the Beaverton Literacy Council http://www.beavertonliteracy.org/

The One Minute Entrepreneur: The Secret to Creating and Sustaining a Successful Business
by Ken Blanchard (new book on-order, please check wccls.org catalog)
Authors describe how to think, act, and live passionately, no matter your industry. Through a powerful and engaging narrative, we are presented with the typical problems all entrepreneurs face in starting up their business, from finding new sources of revenue to securing the commitment of their people and the loyalty of their customers. More important, we learn the secrets to becoming a successful entrepreneur, including how to build a firm foundation, how to ensure a steady cash flow, and how to create legendary service.

The eBay Seller's Tax and Legal Answer Book: Everything You Need To Know To Keep the Government Off Your Back and Out of Your Wallet
by Clifford R. Ennico (658.87 ENN)
Readers will get practical advice on whether their eBay selling qualifies as a "business," illegal practices to avoid, what taxes must be paid and what they can and can’t deduct, spelling out a refund and return policy, knowing when a bid becomes legally binding, resolving seller-buyer disputes, protecting themselves when buying inventory and hiring employees, trademarking a business name and web address, customs, duties, and other considerations when selling internationally.

How To Start a Home-Based Antiques Business
by Jacquelyn Peake (745.1068 PEA 2005, 4th ed.)
When you read "home-based,", believe it. It's geared toward those who want to turn their living room into an antiques store and comes complete with tips on remodeling your home. It also covers pricing, displaying, and other ways to make money in antiques. It covers all bases on where to get stock.

How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job
by Dale Carnegie (158.1 CAR)
Before you quit your day job to start your own business, read this! If you find yourself struggling at your current job or if you're in conflict with your co-workers or employees, I'd recommend trying some of the techniques and principles outlined in this book. Even if you love your work, you probably have days when almost nothing goes right. Bestselling author Dale Carnegie shows you how to make every day more exciting and rewarding -- how you can get more done, and have more fun doing it.

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