30 Steps to Starting your Green Biz
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Use the thirty tips in this book to guide you through your work of building a thriving, sustainable, eco-friendly, 21st-century company. Each chapter is focused on helping you plan, launch, and grow your green business. Our community of women-owned businesses becomes stronger when you make an individual choice to "work for green." Our shared planet also 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.
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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
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Section 2: Focusing on Basics
Step 6 Fine-tuning your Mission
Step 7 Developing your Keywords
Step 8 Finding Customers
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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
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Section 4: Increasing your Customer Base
Step 18 Speaking and Presenting
Step 19 Meeting People
Step 20 Helping Others
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Section 5: Interacting Online
Step 21 Social Networking
Step 22 Blogging
Step 23 Making it Members-only
Step 24 E-mailing
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Section 6: Reviewing your Data
Step 25 Tracking Data
Step 26 Reviewing Reports
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Section 7: Refining your Process
Step 27 Managing Business Processes
Step 28 Automating Systems
Step 29 Refining your Model
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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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