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Thirty Steps to Starting your Green Business

Thirty straightforward, easy-to-use tips in this book guide you through the startup phase of building a green business and building a thriving, sustainable, eco-friendly, 21st-century company.

Originally created as part of the business series for The Green Girls, a community devoted to inspiring an eco-conscious lifestyle.

Eight chapters from a green businesswoman focus on helping you plan, launch, and grow your green business.

Our shared planet benefits when you create more organic, fair trade, and holistic solutions.

Use these tips to help you get organized, focus on the basics, build your infrastructure, increase your customer base, interact online, review your data, refine your process, and maintain your course.

Find additional information on green metrics, sustainable practices, long-term sustainability, and a resource list.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Getting Organized

• A Green Business: Is it Right for You?
• One Hundred and One Green Business Ideas: Creative and Consciously Successful
• Step 1. Prioritizing
• Step 2. Creating a Timeline
• Step 3. Budgeting
• Step 4. Planning
• Step 5. Building Relationships

Section 2: Focusing on Basics

• Step 6: Fine-tuning your Mission
• Step 7: Developing your Keywords
• Step 8: Finding Customers

Section 3: Building Infrastructure

• Step 9: Creating your Website
• Step 10: Committing to Success
• Step 11: Incorporating
• Step 12: Getting Licensed
• Step 13: Filling out the Checklist
• Step 14: Accounting Basics
• Step 15: The Numbers
• Step 16: Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss
• Step 17: Taxes

Section 4: Increasing your Customer Base

• Step 18: Speaking and Presenting
• Step 19: Meeting People
• Step 20: Helping Others

Section 5: Interacting Online

• Step 21: Social Networking
• Step 22: Blogging
• Step 23: Making it Members-only
• Step 24: E-mailing

Section 6: Reviewing your Data

• Step 25: Tracking Data
• Step 26: Reviewing Reports

Section 7: Refining your Process

• Step 27: Managing Business Processes
• Step 28: Automating Systems
• Step 29: Refining your Model

Section 8: Maintaining Course

• Step 30: Keeping a Focus on your Customers
• Sample Green Metrics: Tracking your Green Efforts
• Goal Setting: Setting Attainable Goals
• Building your Team: Finding the Right People
• Thriving: Strategies for Success
• Old School versus New School: Finding Green Alternatives
• Staying in Business: Envision your Success
• Five Final Principles: Succeed with your Green Business
• Making Connections: Meet with Green Business Women

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Social Networking for Women in Business

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Targeted tips on effective social networking.

This is a digital download how-to guide on social networking for women in business.

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The world is becoming increasingly connected. For women in business, social networking tools are an excellent way to promote your message. Use these tools to:

• Extend your company's brand and find your community of clients where they work and play
• Develop a community of fans and followers for your organization
• Communicate, collaborate, and join forces with like-minded individuals who share your interests

The purpose of this handbook is to help you navigate through the world of social networking and social media. Easy-to-use tips and tools give you concrete information on how to build a valuable professional social network online.

Learn social networking basics, ideas on how to connect, guidelines on what to post, etiquette, specific recommendations on how to expand your network, and ideas on using metrics to understand the success of your social networking strategy.

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Fifty-one Ways to Build your Community of Clients Online

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51 step-by-step tips to increase your website effectiveness.

This is a digital download how-to guide on making the most of your website, written by our own Monica S. Flores.

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This practical and inspirational business book offers fifty-one tips and tools to increase your website's effectiveness.

Written by a web development pro, the book targets women business owners who desire a competitive edge through smart, spirited internet marketing. Each chapter includes tips, checklists, and information on how to immediately apply the methods to a new or expanding website.

All businesses -- from those run by mompreneurs to those maintained by Fortune 500 corporations -- need an interactive, engaging, and functional website, and these fifty-one tips provide straightforward information on how to share knowledge, build resources, target clients, increase usability, and measure website data.

"Everyone has a level playing field on the Web," says Flores, a programmer since age 9. She's collected nine years of research as a web consultant into this easy-to-use resource. She focuses on business-building tools and their immediate application on your website to increase your online sales. A great corporate gift and perfect for organizations, entrepreneurs, owners and founders of brick-and-mortar businesses, solopreneurs, and women in business.