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Starting Your Own Business Book Reference List
The Successful Business Plan: Secrets & Strategies
Rhonda Abrams

Market Planning Guide
David Bangs

Your First Business Plan and The Complete Book of Business Plans
Joseph Covello, Brian Hazelgren

Secrets of Self-Employment: Surviving and Thriving the Ups and Downs of Being Your Own Boss
Sarah & Paul Edwards

The E-Myth Revisited
Michael Gerber

The One Page Business Plan
Jim Horan, Tom Peters

Creating a Winning Business Plan: A No-Time-for-Nonsense Guide to Starting a Business and Raising Cash
Gregory Kravitt

Guerilla Marketing: Secrets for Making Big Profits from Your Small Business
Jay Conrad Levinson

Bottom Line Basics: Understand and Control Business Finances
Robert Low, Linda Pinkham

Anatomy of a Business Plan
Linda Pinson, Jerry Jinnett

Local, Westchester County Resources:
Business Council of Westchester
www.westchesterny.org

SCORE (Counselors to America's Small Business)
www.scorewestchester.com

Westchester Association of Women Business Owners
www.wawbo.com

Westchester County Association, Inc.
www.westchester.org

Westchester Library System in conjunction with Westchester Government, Office of the County Executive
www.wlln.org

New York State Resources:
Empire State Development
www.nylovessmallbiz.com

New York State Small Business Development Center
www.nyssbdc.org

National Resources:
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
www.microenterpriseworks.org

Starting a business:
http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/O..id=99336,00.html

IDA Resources
www.idanetwork.org

IRS Web site for small businesses and the self-employed:
www.irs.gov/businesses/index.html

How to get an Employer Identification Number (EIN)
www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/O..id=98350,00.html

National Association for the Self-Employed
www.nase.org

Online Women's Business Center
www.onlinewbc.gov

Women impacting public policy a national bipartisan public policy organization
www.wipp.org

Gateway for women-owned businesses selling to the Federal Government
www.womenbiz.gov

US Small Business Administration
www.sba.gov

Business Financing Information
Count Me In Ð Online Loan Program
www.count-me-in.org

Seed Capital for Small Businesses
www.trickleup.org

Business finance
www.businessfinance.com

Other Resources for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur's Help Page
www.tannedfeet.com

Women Entrepreneurship in the 21^st Century
www.women-21.gov

American Association of Home-Based Businesses
www.franchisewoman.com

Learn about the criteria for becoming a certified women's business enterprise and the benefits of certification
www.wbenc.org