Resources
Here's some relevant books, tools and services to help in building
your business. Just click on a link below
and it'll take you to the section with the details.
Books
PDF Document Creation Tools
Recommended Books
Here's a few of the books in my own reference library. Recommended for small
business owners.
- “The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
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By Michael Gerber. The modern classic for small business owners, or those
dreaming of starting their own business. Gerber makes a strong case that most
small business owners
are just “buying a job” when they start a business.
They typically assume the role of technician or manager instead of adopting the
critical new role of entrepreneur.
Gerber’s mantra is to "work on your business, not
in your business."
A key means to doing this is through systematization of your
business. An easy and enjoyable read that will open your eyes.
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- “E-Myth Mastery: The Seven Essential Disciplines for Building a World Class Company
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By Michael Gerber. Read this after reading E-Myth Revisited. It provides more depth about the material introduced
in E-Myth Revisited. Systemization is covered in more detail. A good reference.
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- Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less
By Sam Carpenter. As a business owner having the proper mind-set is crucial. Sam
helps you "get it" in the first part of his book. The second part gets into systematizing
your business. I especially liked some of the insights he relates such as
Dancing-In-The-Meadow syndrome and The World is 99.9% efficient. Lots of real-world examples based on pulling his own business back from the brink. It's an easy read.
What I found interesting is that even though Sam and myself came at systemization on our own from different starting points
we converged on numerous ideas and constructs. No doubt eventually you would too
if you chose to figure out systemization on your own. But why struggle for
months or years doing that? That's not what your business is about.
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- PDFCreator
This is a free PDF creation tool and it's easy to install.
There's two ways to
use it. Print your document to the PDFCreator printer which then produces a PDF
file. Or, run it directly and point it at the files to convert.
It can create various file types such as PNG, JPEG, TIFF, BMP, PCX, PS, EPS as
well as PDF. PDFCreator lets you control security on PDF documents: encryption
and password protection.
If you don't need most of the fancy stuff in Adobe Acrobat or you can't
justify Adobe's high price then you'll like PDFCreator. It's free and it works.
We use it and like it.
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