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Small Business Rocket Fuel: LaunchHave you ever thought about starting your own small business but just didn’t know where to begin?In Small Business Rocket Fuel: Launch, Candice M. Hughes, Ph.D., shows you how to start up a small business step-by-step. Starting with a solid business plan, Dr. Hughes describes what needs to be done for each step based on her own experience starting up and running a successful consulting firm that allowed her to increase her income 300% within 2 years. In addition to her own firm, Dr. Hughes launched a department for a venture-backed start-up that went from zero to $2.5 million in revenue within 2 years. This practical, in-the-trenches experience is critical to taking the right actions and avoiding the wrong ones. Combining experience with MBA training, Dr. Hughes demonstrates what is realistic and necessary in a business plan and how to achieve it on a tight budget with limited staff and resources. Topics include financing, legal forms of incorporation, assessing the competition, insurance, assessing risk and more. This book is especially applicable to consultants, writers, medical writers, solo entrepreneurs, virtual companies, and small business owners.
Small Business Rocket Fuel: Marketing Tools to Boost Revenue (Toolkit for writers, consultants, entrepreneurs & CEOs)
Want to Make Money from Your Small Business?
In today’s rollercoaster economy, your small business needs every competitive advantage it can get. Most marketing books tell you what you could do, if only your company were Google or Facebook. In Small Business Rocket Fuel: Marketing Tools for Boosting Revenue, Candice M. Hughes, PhD shows you how real small businesses can increase their sales with affordable, effective marketing. Her ideas are firmly grounded in business theory based on MBA training, over a decade in marketing-related positions and six years of running her own consulting firm where she increased her income 300% in 2 years.
Whether you run Sally’s Pet Grooming, Joe Smith’s Consulting Group, or are Chris Brown the Thriller Author, you will find clear, explicit steps with worksheets to lead you along the road to stand-out marketing.
Worksheets? Sounds too much like work? In Dr. Hughes’ hands, marketing is creative and fun. Real world examples show fabulous and failed marketing. Dr. Hughes even reveals some of her own small business marketing secrets. Warning: Once you read this book, marketing may become addictive. And people get paid for this? Sign me up!
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Barnes and Noble- The book will not be available through Barnes and Noble until late May due to restrictions set by Amazon while the book is available for borrowing in KDP Select
Candice’s THRILLERS:
Believe nothing. Not your name. Not the doctor who slapped you screaming into the world. There is no truth. Live with it.
If you like edgy, pulse-pounding books that keep you off-balance and gripping the arms of your chair then my novels are the types of books you’ll love. Excerpts are below. Enjoy!
In Progress:
Manuscript 4- A new urban medical thriller with a unusual teen hero and a goth teen heroine in a fight to save a world slipping into Armageddon.
Manuscripts 3- A new history-infused thriller set in New England with a twist of romance and a brush with the paranormal world.
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Manuscript 2:
When forensic artist and archeologist, Dr. Hope Howland, is nearly killed by a demon conjured by her grandmother, she discovers that her wealthy, Mayflower-descended family is pure evil.
Gabe Bennett stepped out of his truck and inhaled searing gases that ripped his lungs raw. He had never felt a fire this hot or seen flames so hungry, not even in the fire that had consumed his own house.
Manuscript 1:
Thirty years from now, Meara Flannagan invents a drug that can mutate DNA to cure or kill. The United States is in collapse. The Chinese Premier and the Indian Prime Minister want Meara’s drug to expand their growing territory. A wealthy senator who heads a religious cult wants to use the drug to force American citizens to elect him President. All these leaders have to do to control the world is hunt Meara down.
When the Senator kidnaps Meara’s best friend, Dara, Meara’s only chance of saving her and keeping the drug out of his hands lies with Sebastian Gates. Sebastian, a wealthy, British security agent who plays jazz saxophone is sent by her former employer to arrest her for theft of the drug. Suspicious of his employer’s motives, Sebastian joins forces with Meara. They run, but fall deeper into an international intrigue where the lives of American citizens are expendable. With the clock ticking on release of a biological weapon in New York City, will Meara and Sebastian stop the Senator in time?
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