The Small Business Survival Guide

 

Struggling to Keep Your Small Business Alive?

Help is on the Way!

 

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. But for today’s struggling small business owner, the going is tougher than it has been in decades. Do you have the strategies you need to ensure your company’s survival?

 

After all, under normal conditions, half of all small businesses fail within the first five years. Those are poor odds to begin with, and the current conditions are anything but “normal.”

 

Whether your business is new or established, The Small Business Survival Guide can help you solve your problems and improve your odds. It’s filled with practical solutions to help you ride out the storm and even position your business for future growth. No hocus-pocus…just sound, proven small business principles that, for one reason or another, many entrepreneurs never got around to learning, like:

 

How to Survive

  • How to Perform Cash Flow Projections

  • Proven Strategies for Reducing Expenses

  • Creative Collection Strategies

  • How to Deal with Banks (and Ask for a Loan) 

  • Using Vendor Relationships as a Form of Financing

  • What If You’re Already in Trouble?

 

How to Thrive

  • Retooling Your Company from the Ground Up

  • Tracking Your Progress 

  • Seizing Opportunities

 

Plus, it includes business-building worksheets to help you assess your company’s health and brainstorm strategies for improvement and growth. 

 

Even if the economy were to turn around tomorrow, this is timeless knowledge you can always use, whether you’re dealing with a nationwide recession, an industry downturn, or company-specific problems. Consider it a crash course in small business CPR! 

 

Bonus: we’ve made our 93-page Survival Guide available in ebook form, so you can start putting it to work for you ASAP. The going is tough. It’s time to get going!

 

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Buy this ebook, at the special introduction price of $11.95, and start improving the health of your business now! As soon as your payment is processed, we’ll email your Survival Guide in PDF form. You can save it or print it, and refer to it as often as you like. Special Introduction only, regular price $19.95

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Contents:

 

Part 1: How to Survive

  1. Rule #1, Cash is King!

  2. Understanding Your Expenses

  3. How to Reduce Expenses

  4. Managing Accounts Receivable

  5. Banks, Loans and Credit

  6. Getting Support When You Need It.

Part 2:  How to Thrive

  1. Retooling Management

  2. Retooling Sales

  3. Retooling Marketing

  4. Retooling Human Resources

  5. Tracking Your Progress

  6. Seizing Opportunities

  7. PRO Worksheet & Diagnostic Tests

About the Author

Ray Silverstein has become the guru for hundreds of small business owners - people faced with the same challenges as you encounter every day - through his Presidents' Resource Organization (PRO), a nationwide network of entrepreneurs who meet regularly to serve as one another's advisory board. Ray founded PRO in 1993, after he sold his multi-million dollar tool and hardware manufacturing business more...

Visit Ray's Blog http://propresblog.wordpress.com/

About Peer Groups

As a small business owner, you know that it's lonely at the top. You don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of or discuss your problems with. You don't have a board of directors, you often can't turn to your employees, and it's hard to be objective about your own business and management style. But some savvy entrepreneurs have found a solution, based on the old proverb, "all of us are smarter than one of us." That's why they band together, with a pro to guide them as they pool their collective wisdom. And author Ray Silverstein is the ultimate PRO. more...