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This book is quite different, because the author, Chris Gattis is himself quite different. He is determined that you will be successful in starting up your business, by doing the things every single business owner must do, but rarely does because he or she hasn’t read this book.
-- Michael Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited
If you are thinking about starting a business, stop thinking and start reading this book.
Read it with a pencil in your hand to turn the reading into a solid learning experience that will give you a powerful advantage. Chris is honest when he says that starting and growing a business is not for wimps but he is like a patient uncle pulling for your success. He guides you step by step because he has seen owners lose time, money and even relationships when they try to take shortcuts. Most owners spend too many years in the school of hard knocks because they didn’t take a few days to learn from a veteran like Chris.
-- Hattie Bryant, PBS Small Business School & Ollie8.com
Business Startup 101 is an excellent guide for the entrepreneur with a great idea who doesn’t know what to do next. Whether you have three-sheets or a whole roll, this guide will help bring your idea to market.
-- Mike Michalowicz, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur
Business Startup 101 is the best, most concise guide to the basic's of running a business I've ever seen. It uses clear terminology and explainations--and I learned some great tips from it. -- Jeny Clark, Solvability Chris was able to teach me in a very professional and knowledgeable manner how to use and understand the financial tools to help my business be more successful.
--Robbie Reynolds, Kitchen and Bath Renovations, Arab, AL
I’ve been using Chris’ tips on opening my practice and it has helped me for sure.
--Dr. Julie McKibben, North Alabama Worker’s Care, Decatur, AL
Although I took accounting in Business School and knew the terminology, Chris took all of that information and put it together in a clear, concise, and straightforward way that made it easy to understand, and showed me how to incorporate the information into my business plan.
--Raymond Cutts, President, X-Connect Technologies, Huntsville, AL
Chris is capable of simplifying complex financial strategies in a way that makes them easy to understand even for the non-financial entrepreneur.
-- Hilary Clayborne, Adjunct Professor, Management & Marketing, University of Alabama in Huntsville
A practical, real-world 'how to' guide for starting your own business by a man who’s done it successfully dozens of times - Chris Gattis, and the foreword is by Michael E. Gerber, author of The E-Myth Revisited.
Personal Financial Situation
Family Budgets
Preparing for Success
Recordkeeping
Hiring and Retaining Employees
Types of Legal Entities
Local Requirements
Intellectual Property
System Thinking
Competition
Customers
SWOT Analysis
Marketing Plans
Three Tools of Financial ViabilityTM
Income Statement Projections
Cash Flow Projections
Break Even Analysis
Measuring Performance
Forget the theory and management double speak. If you want to know how to start a small business in the real world, this book is for you! Maybe you are an entrepreneur with new business ideas but don’t know how to start a business or perhaps you want to start a home business. Entrepreneurship is hard and many famous entrepreneurs have tried and failed when their ideas for new businesses didn’t work out as planned. And forget about government grants to start a business, they don’t exist unless you’re a non-profit. If there is any doubt in your mind about the validity of a 'sounds too good to be true' business, call the Better Business Bureau.
Don’t waste your time with all the nonsense and scams. Take your idea, develop your business model using Chris’ system and launch your business. Business Start-up 101 is like a checklist for starting a new business. Get in business and get profitable, quick!
Contact Chris
Blue Point Strategies, LLC
Huntsville, Alabama
www.BluePointStrategies.com
cgattis@BluePointStrategies.com
