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Entrepreneurship Book Resources

• Anatomy of a Business Plan. Pinson, Linda.
• The Business Planning Guide. Bangs, David H.
• The Complete Book of Business Plans. Covello, Joseph A., and Brian J. Hazelgren.
• How to Write a Winning Business Plan. Mancuso, Joseph R.
• The One Page Business Plan for the Creative Entrepreneur. Horan, Jim and Tom Peters.

Entrepreneurship

• Adams Streetwise Small Business Start-Up. Adams, Bob.
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything. Kawasaki, Guy.
• Craft, Inc.: Turn Your Creative Hobby into a Business. Mateo Ilasco, Meg.
• Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity. Spinosa, Charles, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L. Dreyfus.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It. Gerber, Michael E.
• Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. Hallett, Anthony, and Diane Hallett.
• Entrepreneur's Notebook: Practical Advice for Starting a New Business Venture. Steven K. Gold.
• Growing a Business. Hawken, Paul.
• Inc. Yourself: How to Profit By Setting Up Your Own Corporation. McQuown, Judith H.
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Drucker, Peter F.
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? Seth Godin.
• Making a Living without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work that You Love. Winter, Barbara J.
• No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs. Kennedy, Dan.
• Secrets of Self-Employment. Edwards, Paul, and Sarah Edwards.
• Start Your Own Business. Lesonsky, Rieva.
• Start Your Own E-Business. Entrepreneur Press and Lynie Arden.
• Visionary Business. Allen, Marc.
• The Way of the Guerilla. Levinson, Jay Conrad.

• 155 Legal Do's (and Dont's) for the Small Business. Adame, Paul. James E.
• Form Your Own Corporation, 5th ed. Eckert, W. Kelsea, Arthur G. Sartorius and Mark Warda.
• Small Business Start-Up Kit. Pakroo, Peri.

• Enlightened Leadership. Oakley, Ed, and Doug Krug.
• The Essential Drucker: The Best of Sixty Years of Peter Drucker's Essential Writings on Management. Drucker, Peter F.
• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Senge, Peter M.
• In Search of Excellence. Peters, Thomas J., and Robert H. Waterman, Jr.
• Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge. Bennis, Warren, and Burt Nanus.
• Leadership Made Simple. Oakley, Ed And Doug Krug.
• Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader. Bennis, Warren.
• Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future. Senge, Peter M., C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski and Betty Sue Flowers.
• Principle Centered Leadership. Covey, Stephen R.
• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership. Jawarski, Joseph, and Betty S. Flowers.

• 3G Marketing on the Internet: Third Generation Internet Marketing Strategies for Online Success. Susan Sweeney, Andy MacLellan and Ed Dorey.
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding. Ries, Al and Laura Ries.
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk! Ries, Al and Jack Trout.
• 1001 Ways to Market Your Services: For People Who Hate to Sell. Crandell, Richard C.
• e-Riches 2.0: Next-Generation Marketing Strategies for Making Millions Online. Scott Fox.
• Get Clients Now!: A 28-Day Marketing Program for Professionals, Consultants, and Coaches. Hayden, C. J.
• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. Li, Charlene and Josh Bernoff.
• Guerrilla Marketing: Easy and Inexpensive Strategies for Making Big Profits from Your SmallBusiness. Levinson, Jay Conrad.
• Guerilla Marketing on the Internet: The Definitive Guide from the Father of Guerilla Marketing. Jay Conrad Levinson, Mitch Meyerson, and Mary Eule Scarborough.
• How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money. Bruce Cameron Brown.
• The Little Blue Book of Advertising: 52 Small Ideas That Can Make a Big Difference. Lance, Steve and Jeff Woll.
• The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly, 2nd Edition. Meerman Scott, David.
• Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind. Ries, Al, and Jack Trout.
• ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income. Darren Rowse and Chris Garrett.
• Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition. Kawasaki, Guy.
• Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day. Evans, Dave.
• Startup Guide to Guerrilla Marketing: A Simple Battle Plan for First-Time Marketers. Jay Conrad Levinson and Jeannie Levinson.
• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Gladwell, Malcolm.
• Twitter Power 2.0: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. Comm, Joel Comm.
• Ultimate Small Business Marketing Guide, 2nd ed. Stephenson, James.
• Waiting for Your Cat to Bark?: Persuading Customers When They Ignore Marketing. Eisenberg, Bryan, Jeffrey Eisenberg, and Lisa T. Davis.
• What Sticks: Why Most Advertising Fails and How to Guarantee Yours Succeeds. Briggs, Rex and Greg Stuart.
• Word of Mouth Marketing: How Smart Companies Get People Talking.
  Andy Sernovitz, Seth Godin (Foreword), Guy Kawasaki (Afterword).

Sales

• Book Yourself Solid. Port, Michael and Tim Sanders.
• The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cold Calling. Rosen, Keith.
• The Greatest Salesman in the World. Mandino, Og.
• How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling. Bettger, Frank.
• How to Master the Art of Selling. Hopkins, Tom.
• The Irresistible Offer: How to Sell Your Product or Service in 3 Seconds or Less. Joyner, Mark.
• The Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness. Gitomer, Jeffrey.
• The One-Minute Sales Person. Johnson, Spencer.
• Selling the Dream: How to Promote Your Product, Company, or Ideas And Make a Difference Using Everyday Evangelism. Kawasaki, Guy.
• The New Strategic Selling: The Unique Sales System Proven Successful by the World's Best Companies. Miller, Robert B., Stephen E. Heiman, Tad Tuleja, and J. W. Marriott.
• Selling 101: What Every Successful Sales Professional Needs to Know. Ziglar, Zig.
• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing. Beckwith, Harry.
• Words that Sell, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Thesaurus to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas. Bayan, Richard.
• Zero Resistance Selling. Maltz, Maxwell.
• Zig Ziglar's Secrets of Closing the Sale. Ziglar, Zig.

Finance, Accounting, and Taxes

• Bookkeeping For Dummies. Lita Epstein.
• How to Get the Financing for Your New Small Business: Innovative Solutions from the Experts Who Do It Every Day. Sharon Fullen.
• The SBA Loan Book: Get A Small Business Loan - even With Poor Credit, Weak Collateral, And No Experience. Charles H. Green.
• Small Business Taxes Made Easy: How to Increase Your Deductions, Reduce What You Owe, and Boost Your Profits. Eva Rosenberg.
• The Small Time Operator, 2010 Edition. Kamoroff, Bernard.
• Starting on a Shoestring: Building a Business without a Bank Roll. Goldstein, Arnold S.
• The Startup Company Bible For Entrepreneurs: The Complete Guide For Building Successful Companies And Raising Venture Capital. Stathis.
• Streetwise Small Business Book of Lists: Hundreds of Lists to Help You Reduce Costs, Increase Revenues, and Boost Your Profits. Gene Marks.
• Tax Savvy for Small Business. Frederick W. Daily.

Creating a Web Site

• The Big Red Fez: How To Make Any Web Site Better. Seth Godin.
• Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability. Steve Krug.
• Learning Web Design: A Beginner's Guide to (X)HTML, StyleSheets, and Web Graphics. Jennifer Niederst Robbins.
• Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems. Steve Krug.
• Web Design All-in-One for Dummies. Sue Jenkins.
• The Ultimate Guide to a Successful Business Website - The Non-Technical Person's Handbook on How to Hire a Web Designer and Manage the Creation, Design and Marketing of a Successful Business Website. Jason P. O'Connor.