The following SBA publications are available for purchase from the SBA.
EMERGING BUSINESS SERIES
Transferring Management/Family Businesses
Help your family business successfully survive the transfer of ownership from generation to generation. Proper planning is the key.
Item # EB01 $3.00
Marketing Strategies For Growing Businesses
Unravel the mystery of marketing -- putting the customer first -- and discover practical marketing approaches to budgeting, layout and design, copy-writing, media analysis and more.
Item # EB02 $3.00
Management Issues For Growing Businesses
Learn to examine the marketplace environment and create employment and profit opportunities that provide growth and financial viability to your business through effective management.
Item # EB03 $3.00
Human Resource Management For Growing Businesses
Uncover the characteristics of an effective personnel system and training program. Learn how these functions come together to build employee trust and productivity.
Item # EB04 $3.00
Audit Checklist For Growing Businesses
Designed with the small business in mind, this audit checklist helps the entrepreneur conduct a comprehensive search for existing and potential problems and opportunities.
Item # EB05 $3.00
Strategic Planning For Growing Businesses
Strategic planning is not just for big business. Learn to effectively match your business' strengths to available opportunities by developing a clear mission statement, goals and objectives.
Item # EB06 $3.00
Financial Management For Growing Businesses
Develop a comprehensive financial plan outlining the assets, debts and current and future profit potential of your business through effective financial management.
Item # EB07 $3.00
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
ABC's Of Borrowing
This best seller tells you what lenders look for and what to expect when borrowing money for your small business.
Item # FM01 $2.00
Eiementos Basicos Para Pedir Dinero Prestado
Esta publicación le da a conocer lo que los prestatarios buscan y lo que esperan de usted cuando pide dinero prestado para su pequeno negocio.
Item # FM01s $2.00
Understanding Cash Flow
The owner/manager is shown how to plan for the movement of cash through the business and thus plan for future requirements.
Item # FM04 $2.00
A Venture Capital Primer For Small Business
Learn what venture capital resources are available and how to develop a proposal for obtaining these funds.
Item # FM05 $2.00
Budgeting In A Small Service Firm
Learn how to set up and keep sound financial records. Study how to effectively use journals and ledgers and charts to increase profits.
Item # FM08 $2.00
Recordkeeping In A Small Business
Need some basic advice on setting up a useful record keeping system? This publication describes how.
Item # FM10 $2.00
Pricing Your Products And Services Profitably
Discusses how to price your products profitably, plus various pricing techniques and when to use them.
Item # FM13 $2.00
Financing For Small Business
Learn how, when and where to find capital for business needs including step-by-step instructions.
Item # FM14 $2.00
MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING
Problems In Managing A Family-Owned Business
Specific problems exist when attempting to make a family-owned business successful. This publication offers suggestions on how to overcome these difficulties.
Item # MP3 $2.00
Business Plan For Small Manufacturers
Designed to help an owner/manager of a small manufacturing firm, this publication covers all the basic information necessary to develop an effective business plan.
Item # MP04 $2.00
Business Plan For Small Construction Firms
This publication is designed to help an owner/manager of a small construction company pull together the resources to develop a business plan.
Item # MP05 $2.00
Planning And Goal Setting For Small Business
Learn proven management techniques to help you plan for success.
Item # MP06 $2.00
Business Plan For Retailers
Business plans are essential road maps for success. Learn how to develop a business plan for a retail business.
Item # MP09 $2.00
Business Plan For Small Service Firms
Outlines the key points to be included in the business plan of a small service firm.
Item # MP11 $2.00
Checklist For Going Into Business
This is a must if you're thinking about starting a business. It highlights the important factors you should know in reaching a decision to start your own business.
Item # MP12 $2.00
Lista Para Comenzar Su Negocio
Esta publicación es necesaria si usted está pensando en comenzar un negocio. Demuestra los factores importantes que usted debebe de conocer antes de tomar la decisión de comenzar su propio negocio.
Item # MP12s $2.00
How To Get Started With A Small Business Computer
Helps you forecast your computer needs, evaluate the alternatives and select the right computer system for your business.
Item # MP14 $2.00
Business Plan For Home-Based Business
Provides a comprehensive approach to developing a business plan for a home-based business.
Item # MP15 $2.00
How To Buy Or Sell A Business
Learn several techniques for determining the best price to buy or sell a small business.
Item # MP16 $2.00
Developing A Strategic Business Plan
This best seller helps you develop a strategic action plan for your small business.
Item # MP21 $2.00
Inventory Management
Discusses the purpose of inventory management, types of inventories, record keeping and forecasting inventory levels.
Item # MP22 $2.00
Selecting The Legal Structure For Your Business
Discusses the various legal structures that a small business can use in setting up operations. It identifies types of legal structures and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Item # MP25 $2.00
Evaluating Franchise Opportunities
Evaluate franchise opportunities and select the business that's right for you.
Item # MP26 $2.00
Small Business Risk Management Guide
This guide can help you strengthen your insurance program by identifying, minimizing and eliminating business risks.
Item # MP28 $2.00
Child Day-Care Services
An overview of the industry, including models of day-care operations.
Item # MP30 $3.00
Handbook For Small Business
Handy information for getting started - in a new publication developed by the SBA's Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).
Item # MP31 $3.00
How To Write A Business Plan
What you need to know to write a good plan at the start. It can save your business dow the line.
Item # MP32 $3.00
MARKETING
Creative Selling: The Competitive Edge
Explains how to use creative selling techniques to increase profits.
Item # MT01 $2.00
Marketing For Small Business: An Overview
Provides an overview of marketing concepts and contains an extensive bibliography of sources covering the subject of marketing.
Item # MT02 $2.00
Researching Your Market
Learn inexpensive techniques that you can apply to gather facts about your customer base and how to expand it.
Item # MT08 $2.00
Selling By Mail Order
Provides basic information on how to run a successful mail order business. Includes information on product selection, pricing testing and writing effective advertisements.
Item # MT09 $2.00
Advertising
Advertising is critical to the success of any small business. Learn how you can effectively advertise your products and services.
Item # MT11 $2.00
PRODUCTS / IDEAS / INVENTIONS
Ideas Into Dollars
This publication identifies the main challenges in product development and provides a list of resources to help inventors and innovators take their ideas into the marketplace.
Item # PI01 $2.00
Avoiding Patent, Trademark And Copyright Problems
Learn how to avoid infringing the rights of others and the importance of protecting your own rights.
