The Entrepreneur's Guide for Starting a Business (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780982407714)

Connie Sparks, is widely recognized as an award winning leading expert on business development and strategic planning. As an Author, Business Coach and National Trainer, she has trained thousands of executives, business owners, and professionals from various backgrounds on topics that range from starting a business, strategic planning, and financing a business, and running a successful business. With an interest in a more holistic approach to running a successful business, she strives to enable entrepreneurs and small business owners to identify, clarify and define their vision for success. Her latest work The Entrepreneur's Guide for Starting a Business & Where's The Money: Big Dollars to Do Big Business Like the Big Boys are an all inclusive journey of Sparks professional career and entrepreneurial experiences. They are ultimately about building on a dream of owning a business, taking professional and personal experiences and turning them into a vehicle to help others, and how to survive as a small business using corporate level planning. Sparks knowledge on her subject is thorough and her expression is passionate. Her interview style is captivating to both interviewer and audience and she never fails to share inside tips and helpful ideas from which her audience can gain immediate benefit. She relates well to entrepreneurs and business owners, as she too had to learn the ropes of starting a business and overcoming many hurdles along the way. Connie Sparks, holds a degree in Business Management and Human Resource, she holds a credential in Business Communication and Computer Applications. She is founder of a business development and training firm Wade Institute, LLC, and Community Capital Lending. Also a certified trainer in diversity, finance consultant and a certified Technical Assistant for the Small Business Administration (SBA) and Superior Financial Group. Sparks creative energy and passion drive her to keep pushing forward to a healthy and balanced transition toward success. In addition, she has taken on a variety of roles that emphasize success including being an expert business coach she has facilitated workshops and open forums on starting a business, finding funding, and strategic planning, and setting goals. These experiences have provided her with critical knowledge about being a successful business owner.