With 25+ years of experience as owner, officer, vendor, customer, manager and
consultant to hundreds of small businesses, Joe Kennedy knows how entrepreneurs
think and their drive to get to the essence of an issue, make the right decision
and move on.
A well-known speaker with a Master?s in Business Administration from the
Pennsylvania State University, Kennedy?s new book, The Small Business Owner?s
Manual (Career Press) is available at bookstores nationwide and online at
Amazon.com
and
BarnesAndNoble.com.
Busy entrepreneurs rely on The Small Business Owner?s Manual because its
highly-organized format lends itself to easily and immediately locating the answer
to their question of the moment.
Kennedy also is the founder and president of ANT in Los Angeles (www.ant91.com),
which provides IT products and services to some of the largest (Bank of America,
IBM, IRS, Kraft Foods) and smallest - organizations in the world.
Contact Joe at 310.259.2403 or email Joe@TheSmallBusinessOwnersManual.com
Topics Joe is often asked about include:
? Choosing from 13 ways to get new financing
and the 17 steps to building a winning loan package;
? Weighing the pros and cons of eight legal
structures, from corporations to LLCs;
? Writing winning ads and analyzing 16 advertising
and marketing alternatives, including the latest in Search Engine Marketing
and Search Engine Optimization;
? Developing a powerful business plan in
half the time;
? Learning to sell products and services
by considering 10 possible sales and distribution channels;
? Harnessing the latest trends to quickly
and inexpensively set up a web-site and e-store;
? Getting taxes paid on time, collecting
from deadbeats, protecting the business from litigation, securing potent
legal agreements, effectively finding and partnering with CPAs and attorneys;
? Analyzing the top 14 forms of business
insurance, including workers comp and medical;
? Considering the top 18 critical factors
used to evaluate locations and 24 of the most important clauses in lease agreements;
? Understanding the legal side of hiring,
firing, and managing employees and contractors;
? Minimizing taxes by learning the ins-and-outs
of business income taxes, the top 5 payroll taxes, sales and use taxes, common
tax dodges, and the latest loopholes for business owners;
? Optimizing credit cards to minimize chargebacks,
disputes and headaches.
Let's talk small business!