Business Books and SoftwareLearn from the experts! Develop your business acumen by reading some of the best business books available and using top of the line software. Support the Chamber by purchasing items from Amazon using the links below. All items purchased through the links below earn the Windsor Chamber (a non-profit organization) a small commission. Thanks for ordering!
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Business Plan Pro 11.0
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Palo Alto Business Plan Pro has everything you need to see your business plan through, from conception to completion. You can browse over 500 different sample business plans of the type commonly accepted by banks, the SBA, angel investors, and venture capitalists all around the world. You can also design your own loan documents, summary memo, product descriptions, marketing plans and more. You will get advanced collaboration tools, so you can easily assign portions of the plan to team members and then combine it all into a complete plan. The new Wizard-driven Financials can be exported to Microsoft Word and Excel, PowerPoint, or to Adobe PDF documents. |
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Microsoft Office Small Business 2007
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- Powerful and easy-to-use suite of productivity and contact management software features new tools to help you save time, stay organized, and deliver better customer service
- Includes the 2007 versions of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook with Business Contact Manager
- Create professional looking documents and presentations, build powerful spreadsheets, and manage your e-mail messages, calendar, and contacts
- Intuitive look and feel, and improved tools; task-based menus and toolbars automatically display the commands and options you can use
- Instant Search function saves you time; junk mail and anti-phishing filters protect the security of your computer; new graphics capabilities help you produce publication-ready documents
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QuickBooks Pro 2009
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Manage accounting tasks, payroll and routine paperwork quickly and accurately. It's the leading choice for fast and easy financial management. QuckBooks Pro includes everything in the Simple Start version of QuickBooks, plus tools for payroll, custom forms and inventory.
- Complete tasks like paying employees, invoicing, bill tracking and check-writing
- Track sales and expenses, and easily share this data in Word and Excel
- Stay on top of your business by seeing who owes you money or which bills are coming due
- Quickly create your own professional-looking custom forms
-Over 100 included templates for reporting
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Getting Things Done
Business Book Club: Friday, June 6th & July 11 at 12:45 pm at the Beanery. 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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Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device
- Revolutionary electronic-paper display that looks and reads like real paper.
- Simple to use: no computer, no cables, no syncing.
- Wireless connectivity enables you to shop the Kindle Store directly from your Kindle-whether you're in the back of a taxi, at the airport, or in bed.
- Buy a book and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute.
- More than 115,000 books available, including more than 100 of 112 current New York Times Best Sellers.
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Never Check Email in the Morning
| Friday, May 2nd Business Book Club: Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work
The Business Book club read this book in March, but decided it was such a good book, we had another discussion on in May!
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On Becoming a Leader
Business consultant and professor of business administration, Bennis deplores what he considers a dearth of leadership in the world. He provides solid, practical guidance and seeks primarily to define leadership--which, in his view, requires self-knowledge and clear personal goals. Leaders all share the ability to unite people in a common purpose.
Business Book Club:
April 4th, 12:45 pm at the Beanery Bistro
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The E-Myth Revisited
| The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
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Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Synch?
In past decades companies were able to get rich by making average products for average people, but those markets have long since been sewn up; mass is no longer achievable [or] desirable. Rather than simply rely on mass media to raise product visibility, New Marketing treats every aspect of interacting with customers-including customer service and the product itself-as an opportunity to grow the organization. In order to be successful with such marketing techniques, a company must change its practices across the board. Otherwise, you're just putting whipped cream on a meatball.
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Little Red Book of Sales Answers
| Little Red Book of Sales Answers: 99.5 Real World Answers That Make Sense, Make Sales, and Make Money Every salesperson on the planet, at some point during their sales day, needs an answer or 10 about what to do in a given selling situation. But there's a big difference between AN answer and the BEST answer. I have compiled 99.5 BEST ANSWERS to the barriers salespeople face every day.
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Stop Telling, Start Selling
| Stop Telling, Start Selling: How to Use Customer-Focused Dialogue to Close Sales In this revised edition of her best-seller, noted sales consultant Linda Richardson offers salespeople the tools they need to successfully use customer-focused, dialogue selling. Featuring real-world dialogue samples, helpful dos and don'ts, self-tests, checklists, and other useful tools, this guide offers insight on every aspect of face-to-face selling. |
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