Step by Step to Building Your Own Business: A Practical and Academic Guide for Beginners, Farmers, and First-Time Entrepreneurs (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798196858826)

Starting a business with limited capital is not just possible - for millions of beginners, farmers, and first-time entrepreneurs, it is the most reliable path from financial pressure to dignity, independence, and lasting impact.

This 27-chapter practical handbook is the road map. Used as a working manual over months, it can take you from idea to a functioning, profitable business - without a fancy degree, family money, or a perfect environment.

This book is written for:

• Beginners with limited capital wanting to start a small business


• Farmers ready to formalize, add value, and grow commercially


• Students preparing to enter the working world


• Traders and informal operators ready to scale up


• Unemployed adults wanting to take their economic future into their own hands


• First-time entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and beyond

What you will learn:

Part One - Foundations (9 chapters): the entrepreneurial mindset, identifying real opportunities, understanding your customers, market research on a small budget, creating a business plan, starting with limited capital, choosing the right business structure, and legal basics.

Part Two - Operations and Growth (9 chapters): building your brand, financial management, pricing your products, marketing fundamentals, sales techniques, managing your time, building customer relationships, using technology, and developing confidence and communication.

Part Three - Long-Term Success (9 chapters): hiring and managing people, business ethics, common mistakes to avoid, overcoming challenges, growing and expanding, saving and investing your profits, long-term vision, learning from successful entrepreneurs, and the mindset for lifelong success.

What makes this book different:

• Grounded in the realities of small-budget, informal-market economies - not Silicon Valley fantasy


• Every chapter ends with a practical exercise to apply within seven days


• Every chapter defines key terms in plain language


• Written as a working manual to be returned to every six months, not a one-time read


• Combines academic rigor with field-tested practicality

About the Author: Nicholas Kontor is an Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness Consultant based in Ghana, with a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture and a Master of Philosophy in Agribusiness, both from the University of Ghana. He is also the author of How to Start and Profit from Poultry Farming.

Begin where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. The harvest comes to those who keep planting.

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Author: Nicholas Kontor
ISBN-13: 9798196858826
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 05/13/2026
Pages: 110
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26d