Business
If you're looking for a business book guide, our 'business' section is a great place to start.
We have a wide range of free business books available to read online to help you with all your business related needs, whether it be raising finance for business, how to run a restaurant, or perhaps you're looking for bookkeeping books.
Whatever your business needs, feel free to browse our business section to find the answers to your needs.
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Business
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Writing A Report
This book provides insightful advice on how to write a report, including tips on report research, report presentation and writing techniques, as well as usin...
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The Event Manager’s Bible
This book will help you to research, plan, organise, manage and deliver any event, match, show, tournament or function that will be attended by more than a h...
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How to Buy and Run a Small Hotel
This book provides excellent advice on buying and running a hotel, covering topics such as writing a business proposal, raising capital and managing the star...
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How to Run a Successful Pub
This book offers advice on running a public house, including exhibiting the right image and tips on providing a good pub dining experience...
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How To Get Free Publicity
‘Is there something here that’s new, free or amazing?’ That’s how journalists often judge news stories. This book, which is all about...
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Starting a Sandwich - Coffee Bar
This book covers all aspects of how to set up and run your own coffee and sandwich business, from planning and creating your own identity, to hiring staff, s...
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Mastering Book-Keeping
This book covers all apects of learning business accounting and accountancy, explaining financial accounts, profit and loss, depreciation, accounting rules, ...
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100 Ways To Make Your Business A Success
This book provides an insight into the methods of building a successful business, covering a wide range of topics such as funding business, generating new bu...
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Conflict Management in the Workplace
Without realising it, we can become stuck in how we view things. The first way we look at something is not always the only or 'best' way. The more ways we ca...
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Make Your Mission Statement Work
This book provides information on the elements of writing a good mission statement, including business values and culture...
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Starting a Business in the Country
This book takes an in-depth look at starting a rural business and the related start-up costs. The book also offers advice on rural advertising, working from ...
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Starting and Running a Catering Business
This comprehensive guide provides a wide range of information, including writing a business plan, running a business & retaining customers. In-depth advice i...
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Starting Your Own Business
This book covers all aspects of starting a business, such as the initial start-up costs, writing a business plan and marketing your business, as well as the ...
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Starting and Running a B and B
This book provides indepth advice in starting and running a small bed and breakfast business in the hospitality industry, including help with conducting a fe...
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Raising Finance for Your Business
This book provides advice on funding a business, getting a business loand, as well as looking at the lending market and sources of finance...
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Putting Heads on Beds
This book provides indepth advice on hotel management, including creating a marketing plan, identifying the hotel customer, using promotional material, as we...
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Presenting with Power
Talks about presentations and shares the secrets that professional speakers use to make an impact and a memorable impression on their audience. This book giv...
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Buying a Business and Making it Work
This book offers information on business acqusition, valuation techniques and conducting due diligence...
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Turning A Business Around
This book provides comprehensive advice on business recovery, including understanding your business structure and setting a strategy for recovery...
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Organising A Conference
This book provides sound advice on the management, planning and costs involoved in organising a conference event, in addition to arranging a conference speak...
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Turn Your Business Into The Next Global Brand
This book provides advice on starting a franchise, including how to prepare franchising agreements and a guide to business franchises...
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Brilliant Business Connections
This book provides advice on the art of communicating with prospective business contacts & suggests networking tips to build effective business relations... ...
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50 Cautionary Tales for Managers
This book provides management tips on how to be a good manager, providing examples on where different management styles and effective leadership skills are a...
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The Kitchen Table Entrepreneur
This book provides valuable advice on the intial stages of starting a business, covering issues such as conducting market research and writing a business pla...
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Start and Run Your Own Business
This book gives in-depth guidance on starting and running a business, tips on preparing and managing accounts, as well as ways on raising business finance ar...
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Book-keeping and Accounting for the Small Business
This book provides is a useful source of advice for managing accounts & choosing accounts software, as well as information on double entry bookkeeping, doubl...
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How to Start Your Own Gardening Business
This book provides in-depth advice on starting a business in the gardening industry, including writing a gardening business plan, financing the business and ...
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Raising Start-Up Finance
This book provides advice on the different ways of building capital, detailing the many sources of finance, such as business grants and business loans, as we...
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How to Make a Fortune on the Internet
This book provides advice on making money online, encompassing techniques such as internet advertising and affiliate marketing, as well as offering tips on b...
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A Practical Guide to Research Methods
This book provides a comprehensive guide to the best research methods, including qualitative and quantitative research techniques. The book also offers advic...
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How to Be a Motivational Manager
This book provides advice on motivating employees, including theories on how to motivate staff, delivering constructive employee feedback and improving emplo...
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Setting Up a Complementary Health Practice
This book offers essential advice on setting up a health practice business, including information on working from home, the start up costs involved, marketin...
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Selling Your Business for All It's Worth
This book provides techniques on calculating business worth, grooming a business for sale, selling a business and the sale process.
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Preparing a Winning Business Plan
This book provides a full guide to writing a business plan, explaining what a business plan is, why you need one and how it should relate to your business id...
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How To Start and Run Your Own Restaurant
This book covers all apects involved in opening a successful restaurant from financing, marketing, designing and equipping to creating the menu, choosing sta...
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How to Grow Your Small Business Rapidly Online
This book provides in-depth advice on how to take your small business online, including internet marketing strategies and conducting market research online.
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Making Management Simple
This book provides essential advice on effective management, including how to manage and motivate staff, in addition to dealing with change management and re...
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85 Ways to Market Your Small Business
This intuitive book provides tips on small business marketing & effective marketing strategy. The book also explores ways to increase website traffic and mea...
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Getting Free Publicity
This book offers key advice on how to get free publicity, providing information on free public relations, writing a press release, as well as tips in adverti...
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Setting Up and Running a Limited Company
This book covers all apects of how to start a business, from writing a business plan and choosing a company name to running a business and dealing with compa...
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Starting Your Own Childminding Business
This book offers a detailed guide into starting a daycare business, including the regulations, start-ups costs, running the business and complying with regul...
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Management courses
An article explaining how to get into a management position using management courses
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Doing Business in The Middle East
Learn how to effectively do business in the Middle East
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Writing a Business Plan
Matthew Record shows you how to write a winning business plan.
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Seliing Your Business (Article)
Selling your business? Learn more about how to go about it & how to get the best price in this article.
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Opening a Restaurant (Article)
Thinking about opening your own restaurant? Find out more in this How To article
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Starting Your Own Childminding Business (Article)
Learn more about starting your own childminding business in this How To article
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Data Protection
The Data Protection Act 1998 is important for any business holding personal information. Find out what you need to know.
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Intellectual Property
Understand the basics of Intellectual Property law with this article.
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Gaining Advantage through Competitor Analysis
Competitor analysis is one of the most important things you can do as a small business. Find out how it can work for you.
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Motivating Employees
Motivating employees is one of the hardest jobs of a business leader, but one of the most important. Read this article for some helpful advice.
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How To Delegate
Delegation is one of the workeplace's most important skills. Read this article for some invaluable advice on how to do it effectively.
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Starting & Running a Greetings Card Business
Lots of prectical advice to help you build an exciting and profitable business
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How to Be a Successful Life Coach
A practical guide to setting up a profitable coaching business.
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Start and Run a Sandwich and Coffee Shop
A handy guide for anyone considering opening their own sandwich and coffee shop business
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How to Start and Run a Petsitting Business
A step by step guide to setting up a successful enterprise in this rapidly expanding market
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Writing a Business Plan
This book takes you through step by step, how to write a business plan
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Starting and Running a Coaching Business
A guide to starting your own coaching business, helping you to become your own boss
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Wake Up and Smell The Profit
Make more money from your coffee business. Maximise your profits with this handy guide
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Start and Run a Business from Home
A well written guide explaining in great depth the do's and dont's of starting up a successful business at home...
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Just Six Guests
A handy guide for anyone thinking about starting a bed and breakfast. First hand, encouraging advice!
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Start And Run a Successful Cleaning Business
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Mastering Book Keeping
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Finance for Small Businesses
Article explaining about Equity, Loans and Grants for your small business
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Raising Business Finance
This article explains finding buisness investment and how to go about it
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Self Certified Mortgages
Explaining about self-certified mortgages and how to obtain one
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Small Business Finance
How to get business finance through a bank
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Internet Consultancy
A handy guide to unlocking the potential of your web venture
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Online Business Advice
Maximise the success of your online business with this guide to the strategies and resources that will work for you.
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SEO Consultancy
Learn more about promoting your website and enhancing your sites performance in search engine results
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Advice For Small Businesses
Running a small business? This article helps you to find the advice and support you need to make your business work for you
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Business Start-Up Advice
Find out more about starting your own business, including information about writing a business plan and financial forecasting
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Small Business Insurance
A handy article for small business owners, helping you to arrange the insurance you need for security and stability within your business
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Small Business Consultancy
This article helps you to arrange the consultancy you need to grow your small business and choose a firm who will best suit your needs
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Small Business Advice
Where to go to get the advice you need for your small business.
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Small Business Loans
Advice on getting a loan for your small business
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Small Business Tax Advice
Essential reading for any small business owner concerned about tax.
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How to Instruct a Solicitor
This article will help you understand the basics of hiring a solicitor
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Employment Contracts
An article outlining the contracts in place for employment
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Employment Pay
As a new employee, this article explains the basics of being paid
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Working Hours
An article detailing the working hours regulations
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Flexible Working
Flexible working is becoming more and more popular - this article explains where to start
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Employment Dismissal
The basics on wrongful, unfair and constructive dismissal
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A Practical Guide to Mentoring
This book explains how to help others achieve their goals
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How To Run a Great Hotel
A guide to success as a hotelier and srtategically planning the future of your hotel business.
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Work From Home
Essential advice on how to make money working from home and get the most out of life.
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You're On!
Teaching you how to develop great media skills for TV, Radio and the Internet
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Marketing Your Complementary Therapy Practice
101 tried and tested ways to attract and retain clients
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Developing Mental Toughness
A truly valuable resource on how to develop mental toughness for improved business performance.
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Starting and Running a Catering Business
This book provides an essential guide for anyone thinking about starting or already running their own catering business. If you are serious about going...
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How to Write a CV that Really Works
A comprehensive guide to writing a CV that will get you that job
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Start and Run a Fish and Chip Shop or Burger Bar
This book takes you through the steps to starting and running a Fish and Chip shop or Burger Bar
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Killer Presentations
With this handy giude to getting the most out of PowerPoint, you'll never be at a loss as to how best to make presentations again.
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How to Start and Run a Gift Shop
In depth tips and advice on starting and running a successful gift shop.
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Coaching Skills for Leaders in the Workplace
An extensive, well written guide on how to develop. motivate and get the best out of your staff.
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A Guide To Good Business Communication
This book guides you through successfully communicating your thoughts and ideas in a business context, helping you to gain an understanding of the key differ...
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Start and Run a Delicatessen
A guide to starting and running your own delicatessen
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Start and Run a Shop
A guide to sucessfully starting and running a retail business
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The Small Business Start-Up Workbook
A comprehensive guide giving tips and advice on how to start up a new business
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How To Sell Your Business For The Price You Want
A handy guide to selling your business and getting the best deal available to you.
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The Marketing Toolkit
Bite sized wisdom, perfect for people who would rather be succeeding, not reading
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Raising Finance
Learn about the commercial and financial criteria on which proposals for sourcing investment are assessed.
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The Event Manager's Bible (3rd Edition)
The complete guide to planning and organising a voluntary or public event
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Leadership & Team Building
Improve your leadership skills with this free article on effective training and executive coaching
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Strategic Destinations in Project Management
Project planning is a lot more than just a list of simple tasks. It should be visionary and proactive.
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Top Tips for Selling Your Business
Selling your business isn't as easy as it sounds, but there are things you can do to help ensure a successful, and profitable sale.
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How to Plan an Effective Meeting
Proper planning is essential for the success of any meeting. Learn the important principles of meeting planning in this article.
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How to Run an Effective Meeting
Chairing a meeting is an important skill, and the success of a meeting is dependant on effective management. Learn more in this article.
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How to Choose a PPC Search Engine
Google is often the default choice for a PPC campaign, but it might be that you get better results elsewhere.
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How To Create Inbound Links To Your Website
One way links are SEO gold dust for most webmasters, but there are a few simple ways to obtain them with simple hard work.
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How To Convert To A Paperless Office
Starting on the road to a paperless office is a lot harder than maintaining it, but definitely something worth doing.
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10 Tips for Small Business Entrepreneurs in Spain
To run a small business in Spain it's helpful to know a few things about how things are done out there. Here are 10 tips to get you started.
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How to Write an Agenda
Agendas can make or break meetings, and there are good practices to be followed when writing them.