Live Your Dream-Selling the Good Life!

Running a bar or club is one of the most popular-and most profitable-choices for entrepreneurs. If you're going to succeed, you'll need to arm yourself with the essential information in this book.

Discover the top bar types-sports bars, neighborhood bars, nightclubs, wine bars and more-and find out how to get started in each one. Reduce your financial risk and boost your chances for success with this lucrative advice. Before you open your doors, learn how to:

• Comply with federal, state and local regulations
• Research the market
• Scout and evaluate potential locations
• Secure financing
• Design an efficient, attractive bar
• Purchase and keep track of your inventory
• Promote and advertise your bar
• Interview, hire and train employees

With sample forms, checklists and work sheets, cost-cutting ideas, common mistakes to avoid and extensive resources, this guide takes you step by step through everything you need to succeed. Pick up this book today and start living your dream.

Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Wilder's autobiographical tales ring with truth and excitement. Readers will receive a perfectly painless history lesson, and in fact will clamor for more. Beloved illustrator Garth Williams spent years researching young Laura's pioneering family. His soft-line illustrations bring to life the full, simple days and nights in the family's log cabin. No one can read just one Little House book! (Ages 9 to 12) --Emilie Coulter

Not quite. Yes, Getting Things Done offers a complete system for downloading all those free-floating gotta-do's clogging your brain into a sophisticated framework of files and action lists--all purportedly to free your mind to focus on whatever you're working on. However, it still operates from the decidedly Western notion that if we could just get really, really organized, we could turn ourselves into 24/7 productivity machines. (To wit, Allen, whom the New Economy bible Fast Company has dubbed "the personal productivity guru," suggests that instead of meditating on crouching tigers and hidden dragons while you wait for a plane, you should unsheathe that high-tech saber known as the cell phone and attack that list of calls you need to return.)

As whole-life-organizing systems go, Allen's is pretty good, even fun and therapeutic. It starts with the exhortation to take every unaccounted-for scrap of paper in your workstation that you can't junk, The next step is to write down every unaccounted-for gotta-do cramming your head onto its own scrap of paper. Finally, throw the whole stew into a giant "in-basket"

That's where the processing and prioritizing begin; in Allen's system, it get a little convoluted at times, rife as it is with fancy terms, subterms, and sub-subterms for even the simplest concepts. Thank goodness the spine of his system is captured on a straightforward, one-page flowchart that you can pin over your desk and repeatedly consult without having to refer back to the book. That alone is worth the purchase price. Also of value is Allen's ingenious Two-Minute Rule: if there's anything you absolutely must do that you can do right now in two minutes or less, then do it now, thus freeing up your time and mind tenfold over the long term. It's commonsense advice so obvious that most of us completely overlook it, much to our detriment; Allen excels at dispensing such wisdom in this useful, if somewhat belabored, self-improver aimed at everyone from CEOs to soccer moms (who we all know are more organized than most CEOs to start with). --Timothy Murphy