Business for Beginners
Published on 6. September 2018
Book
Hardback
128 pages
978-1-4749-4013-9 (ISBN)
Description
Dive into the world of business with this lively introduction, whether you want to be an entrepreneur or a smarter consumer. With bright, infographic pictures, it describes how to start your own business, manage your money and beat the competition and explains global supply chains and interest rates. Includes links to websites to find out more.
Chapters in this book include:
- What is a business?
- Why do we need businesses?
- Business is everywhere
- Why set up a business?
How to start a business
Do you want to start a business? Here are the basics you need to get stuck in: think up business ides, testing them, sussing out your competition, and raising the money you need to start.
How to sell your stuff
Raring to go? Now you need to answer these questions: where should your goods or services be on sale? How much should you charge? And how do you persuade people to buy them?
Keeping track of money
How do businesses make sure they spend less money than they make? Why do you need to pay taxes? And why do some businesses fail?
People in business
Here's where to find out who does what in business. Read about what makes a good leader, how leaders get the best out of their employees, and how businesses can affect consumers and communities.
Making a product
How do you make something that is high quality, without it costing too much? How do businesses satisfy customers and protect the environment at the same time?
Growing the business
Bigger is better, isn't it? But how do you grow your business? And can a business ever get too big?
The bigger picture
All businesses are affected by the world around them. Find out about the economy and interest rates and how they affect business. Discover how governments support and control businesses, and the impact of new technology.
What now?
Chapters in this book include:
- What is a business?
- Why do we need businesses?
- Business is everywhere
- Why set up a business?
How to start a business
Do you want to start a business? Here are the basics you need to get stuck in: think up business ides, testing them, sussing out your competition, and raising the money you need to start.
How to sell your stuff
Raring to go? Now you need to answer these questions: where should your goods or services be on sale? How much should you charge? And how do you persuade people to buy them?
Keeping track of money
How do businesses make sure they spend less money than they make? Why do you need to pay taxes? And why do some businesses fail?
People in business
Here's where to find out who does what in business. Read about what makes a good leader, how leaders get the best out of their employees, and how businesses can affect consumers and communities.
Making a product
How do you make something that is high quality, without it costing too much? How do businesses satisfy customers and protect the environment at the same time?
Growing the business
Bigger is better, isn't it? But how do you grow your business? And can a business ever get too big?
The bigger picture
All businesses are affected by the world around them. Find out about the economy and interest rates and how they affect business. Discover how governments support and control businesses, and the impact of new technology.
What now?
Reviews / Votes
An infectiously energetic book, with plenty to set the next James Dyson on the right path. * The Telegraph * With chapters on starting a business, selling your stuff, keeping track of money, people in business, making a product, growing the business and the bigger picture, youngsters will be inspired to get creative and meditate on their own business ideas. * Lancashire Evening Post *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 10 to 16 years
Illustrations
full colour throughout
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
528 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4749-4013-9 (9781474940139)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Rose Hall (Author)
Rose grew up in Northumberland, studied Physiology at Oxford and looked after orphaned orangutans for a bit. She worked in the charity sector for ten years, writing about issues from renewable energy, to the safety of workers in Bangladesh. For Usborne, she's written books about engineering, business, computers and the environment.
Lara Bryan (Author)
Lara has loved books since the days of being read bedtime stories by her Irish dad and French mum. At school she set up a secondhand bookshop called Books Change Lives, and went on to study English and Italian at Oxford University. After teaching in Italy and Myanmar, she got her dream job as a writer for Usborne Publishing. From explaining how economics works, to inventing boredom-busting activities, to telling a good dragon yarn, she's enjoyed every minute of the job.
Rose grew up in Northumberland, studied Physiology at Oxford and looked after orphaned orangutans for a bit. She worked in the charity sector for ten years, writing about issues from renewable energy, to the safety of workers in Bangladesh. For Usborne, she's written books about engineering, business, computers and the environment.
Lara Bryan (Author)
Lara has loved books since the days of being read bedtime stories by her Irish dad and French mum. At school she set up a secondhand bookshop called Books Change Lives, and went on to study English and Italian at Oxford University. After teaching in Italy and Myanmar, she got her dream job as a writer for Usborne Publishing. From explaining how economics works, to inventing boredom-busting activities, to telling a good dragon yarn, she's enjoyed every minute of the job.
Content
Chapters in this book include:
- What is a business?
- Why do we need businesses?
- Business is everywhere
- Why set up a business?
How to start a business
Do you want to start a business? Here are the basics you need to get stuck in: think up business ides, testing them, sussing out your competition, and raising the money you need to start.
How to sell your stuff
Raring to go? Now you need to answer these questions: where should your goods or services be on sale? How much should you charge? And how do you persuade people to buy them?
Keeping track of money
How do businesses make sure they spend less money than they make? Why do you need to pay taxes? And why do some businesses fail?
People in business
Here's where to find out who does what in business. Read about what makes a good leader, how leaders get the best out of their employees, and how businesses can affect consumers and communities.
Making a product
How do you make something that is high quality, without it costing too much? How do businesses satisfy customers and protect the environment at the same time?
Growing the business
Bigger is better, isn't it? But how do you grow your business? And can a business ever get too big?
The bigger picture
All businesses are affected by the world around them. Find out about the economy and interest rates and how they affect business. Discover how governments support and control businesses, and the impact of new technology.
What now?
- What is a business?
- Why do we need businesses?
- Business is everywhere
- Why set up a business?
How to start a business
Do you want to start a business? Here are the basics you need to get stuck in: think up business ides, testing them, sussing out your competition, and raising the money you need to start.
How to sell your stuff
Raring to go? Now you need to answer these questions: where should your goods or services be on sale? How much should you charge? And how do you persuade people to buy them?
Keeping track of money
How do businesses make sure they spend less money than they make? Why do you need to pay taxes? And why do some businesses fail?
People in business
Here's where to find out who does what in business. Read about what makes a good leader, how leaders get the best out of their employees, and how businesses can affect consumers and communities.
Making a product
How do you make something that is high quality, without it costing too much? How do businesses satisfy customers and protect the environment at the same time?
Growing the business
Bigger is better, isn't it? But how do you grow your business? And can a business ever get too big?
The bigger picture
All businesses are affected by the world around them. Find out about the economy and interest rates and how they affect business. Discover how governments support and control businesses, and the impact of new technology.
What now?