This guide is to assist you in finding the many materials available in your free public library on Starting a Business. All items listed below are available through your local branch of the Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library. These are only a few of the many resources available. Should you not be able to locate what you are looking for, please ask our staff, who will be happy to assist you.

Our online public catalogue, is available in the Library using an Information Express computer or on the Internet at http://www.parl.ns.ca.

Subject Headings:

These are some of the subject headings to use when searching for books on our online public library catalogue. Our staff will be glad to show you how to search and locate materials, please ask!

• marketing

• small business

• business enterprises

• entrepreneurship

Books:

• Starting a successful business in Canada by Jack Douglas James. (Publisher: Self-Counsel Press, Pub date: c2007.Call number 658.1 Jam)

• Fast forward : an innovation guide for small and medium enterprises. Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. (Publisher: Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency.Pub date: 2007. Call number 658.1 Fas).

• Guide to federal incorporation to help small businsses incorporate federally Canada. Corporations Canada. Publisher: Corporations Canada,
  Pub date: 2007. Call number 346.71066Gui.

• Quicksteps to winning business presentations : make the most of your powerPoint presentations by Carole Boggs Matthews. (Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Pub date: 2007. Call number 658.452 Mat) With its clear explanations and illustrative graphics, QuickSteps to Winning Business Presentations is the fastest, easiest way to sharpen your professional presentation skills and master Microsoft PowerPoint. Learn how to conceptualize presentations, gather and prepare materials from a variety of sources, and adapt presentations to different types of audiences and situations.

• Start and run a retail business by Jim Dion. (Publisher: Self-Counsel Press, Pub date: 2007. Call number 658.87 Dio) It's one thing to open a retail business, but quite another to make it prosper. Most new small businesses end up closing their doors before their third anniversary! And retail businesses are no exception. Recognizing that the retail business has fundamentally changed in the past 30 years, this book addresses what an owner-operated retail business must do to survive today.

• Weekend entrepreneur : 101 great ways to earn extra cash by Anton, Michelle. (Publisher: Entrepreneur Press, Pub date: 2006. Call number 658.11 Ant) Thousands of people have found a way to live the lifestyle of their dreams--and now you can, too. Over a hundred weekend entrepreneurs share their secrets. It's all the information you need to forge your own path to the life you deserve.

• E-myth mastery : the seven essential disciplines for building a world class company by Michael E. Gerber. ( Publisher: HarperBusiness, Pub date: 2005. Call number 658.421 Ger) Small business consultant Gerber explores the roles of passion, purpose, and practice in the success of any enterprise. He outlines a program based on seven key business disciplines: leadership, marketing, money, management, fulfillment, lead conversion, and lead generation.

• Beat the taxman! : easy ways to save tax in your small business by StephenThompson. (Publisher:J. Wiley & Sons, Pub date: 2005. Call number 343 .71052)