Recommended Books for Women Entrepreneurs

Books We Love:

Anatomy of a Business Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide to Building a Business and Securing Your Company's Future (Anatomy of a Business Plan)

by Linda Pinson

"What does it take to succeed in starting and running a small business? All the experts advise writing a business plan to map the trajectory of a new or existing venture. Even though writing a plan may seem like an intimidating undertaking, with the right help, anyone can do it. For expert guidance to take advantage of powerful business-building opportunities, the latest edition of the bestselling Anatomy of a Business Plan offers step-by-step, proven advice."

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Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings

by Lynn Grabhorn

"Describes the principles of the Law of Attraction. It is written with humor and includes great stories."

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Finally Organized, Finally Free

by Maria Gracia and Josephy Gracia

"Over 1,300 ideas, tips, techniques and systems to help you organize your life. Also includes ready-to-use forms and checklists to help you get your life in order."

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Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

by David Allen

"Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on."

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Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time

by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz

"An easy-to-read book that explains the best way to approach the art of networking: it’s all in the title."

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New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with PowerWeb and New Business Mentor CD New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century with PowerWeb and New Business Mentor CD

by Jeffry A. Timmons and Stephen Spinelli

"Timmons & Spinelli's, New Venture Creation: Entrepreneurship For The 21st Century, 6/e is a perforated paperback text that covers the process of getting a new venture started, growing the venture, successfully harvesting it and starting again."

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Permission Marketing : Turning Strangers Into Friends And Friends Into Customers

by Seth Godin

"Seth Godin, one of the world's foremost online promoters, offers his best advice for advertising in Permission Marketing. Godin argues that businesses can no longer rely solely on traditional forms of "interruption advertising" in magazines, mailings, or radio and television commercials."

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Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

by Seth Godin

"Purple Cow describes something phenomenal, something counterintuitive and exciting and flat out unbelievable. Every day, consumers come face to face with a lot of boring stuff-a lot of brown cows-but you can bet they won't forget a Purple Cow. And it's not a marketing function that you can slap on to your product or service. Purple Cow is inherent. It's built right in, or it's not there. Period."

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Soul Proprietor: 100 Lessons from a Lifestyle Entrepreneur

by Jane Pollak

“A primer on the daily lessons that business ownership teaches, this book explores how to maintain a balanced and joyful life while striking out on an entrepreneurial mission. Illustrates that structuring a business to reflect personal values is the true key to success.”

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The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It

by Michael E. Gerber

"Describes how to work on your business (as an expert) as opposed to in your business (as a technician)."

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The Small Business Start-Up Kit

by Peri H. Pakroo and Barbara Kate Repa

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

By Dr. Stephen R. Covey

"What does it take to succeed in starting and running a small business? All the experts advise writing a business plan to map the trajectory of a new or existing venture. Even though writing a plan may seem like an intimidating undertaking, with the right help, anyone can do it. For expert guidance to take advantage of powerful business-building opportunities, the latest edition of the bestselling Anatomy of a Business Plan offers step-by-step, proven advice."

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Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow: Discovering Your Right Livelihood

by Dr. Marsha Sinetar

"The author offers the stories of many men and woman, herself included, who have "revised" their careers and in the process have developed healthy self actualizing personalities. She challenges all of us to make conscious choices that will enable us to express ourselves distinctively through our work. She gives concrete suggestions for building inner confidence and self-esteem."

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Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die

by Chip Heath & Dan Heath

"...the brothers Heath—Chip a professor at Stanford's business
school, Dan a teacher and textbook publisher—offer an entertaining, practical guide to effective communication. Drawing extensively on psychosocial studies on memory, emotion and motivation, their study is couched in terms of "stickiness"—that is, the art of making ideas unforgettable."

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Business by Referral : A Sure-Fire Way to Generate New Business

by Dr. Ivan Misner

"For any business person who has suffered from the "common cold call," Misner and Davis' book is the cure. Getting business through referrals-from satisfied customers, peers and colleagues, vendors, even your hairdresser-is certainly a smarter way to sell. Misner, the originator of Business Network International, and Davis, a motivational speaker and consultant with Drake Beam Morin, show you how in their friendly, well-organized manual."

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Seven Second Marketing : How to Use Memory Hooks to Make You Instantly Stand Out in a Crowd

by Dr. Ivan Misner

"This book helps you make a lasting impression with proven examples to show you how to create your own personal memory hook."

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The Referral of a Lifetime: The Networking System That Produces Bottom-Line Results Every Day (Ken Blanchard (Paperback))

by Tim Templeton , Lynda Rutledge Stephenson, and Ken Blanchard

The Referral of a Lifetime by Tim Templeton

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

by Steve Krug

"The title of the book is its chief personal design premise. All of the tips, techniques, and examples presented revolve around users being able to surf merrily through a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Readers will quickly come to agree with many of the book's assumptions, such as "We don't read pages--we scan them" and "We don't figure out how things work--we muddle through." Coming to grips with such hard facts sets the stage for Web design that then produces topnotch sites."

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The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich

by Timothy Ferriss

Whether you are an overworked employee or an entrepreneur trapped in your own business, this book is the compass for a new and revolutionary world. Join Tim Ferriss as he teaches you:

• How to outsource your life to overseas virtual assistants for $5 per hour and do whatever you want
• How blue-chip escape artists travel the world without quitting their jobs
• How to eliminate 50% of your work in 48 hours using the principles of a forgotten Italian economist
• How to trade a long-haul career for short work bursts and freuent "mini-retirements"
• What the crucial difference is between absolute and relative income
• How to train your boss to value performance over presence, or kill your job (or company) if it’s beyond repair
• What automated cash-flow “muses” are and how to create one in 2 to 4 weeks
• How to cultivate selective ignorance—and create time—with a low-information diet
• What the management secrets of Remote Control CEOs are
• How to get free housing worldwide and airfare at 50–80% off
• How to fill the void and create a meaningful life after removing work and the office

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Sabbath: Finding Rest, Renewal, and Delight in Our Busy Lives

by Wayne Muller

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The Guerrilla Marketing Handbook (Guerrilla Marketing)

by Jay Levinson & Seth Godin

"This book will guide marketers into the world of positioning and selling products and services. The authors lead the reader step by step through the process of developing a marketing campaign. They offer detailed descriptions of more than a hundred marketing tools from contests to affinity programs, from direct mail to billboard advertising. Anecdotes, graphics, and rules of thumb are also included."

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Guerrilla Marketing for Free: Dozens of No-Cost Tactics to Promote Your Business and Energize Your Profits

by Jay Conrad Levinson

"The guru of the Guerrilla Marketing series, with over a million copies in print, teaches entrepreneurs how to market aggressively without spending one cent. Levinson, the authority on big-business marketing on a small-business budget, takes this concept one step further by offering scores of marketing ideas that are completely free."

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Guerrilla Marketing Weapons: 100 Affordable Marketing Methods

by Jay Conrad Levinson

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Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days

By Jay Conrad Levinson and Al Lautenslager

" A Blueprint for Great Marketing!

In Guerrilla Marketing in 30 Days , co-authors Jay Conrad Levinson and Al Lautenslager take the best selling marketing series in history, Guerrilla Marketing , and boil it down into one dynamic package of the most up-to-date guerrilla tactics."

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Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants: Breakthrough Tactics for Winning Profitable Clients

by Jay Conrad Levinson and Michael W. McLaughlin

"Trusted advice on successful consulting from the authors of the bestselling Guerrilla Marketing series
Consulting is entering the era of the guerrilla client-buyers with a glut of information at their fingertips and doubts about the value consultants add. Guerrilla Marketing for Consultants is the first book to reveal how guerrilla marketing can transform today's challenges into golden opportunities for winning profitable work from the new breed of consulting clients."

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The Answer: Grow Any Business, Achieve Financial Freedom, and Live an Extraordinary Life

by John Assaraf and Murray Smith

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Rich Dad, Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money--That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

by Robert T. Kiyosaki and Sharon L. Lechter

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Write It Down, Make It Happen: Knowing What You Want And Getting It

by Henriette Anne Klauser

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