Recommended Products, Services and Reading

The following are a list of recommended products and services. All of them we have either found useful or use currently. Please note that they have all been paid for by us, we get no freebies, unfortunately!

Useful reading material

	If you are thinking of setting up a business and you have no experience Michael Gerber's books are a good read, this is a good all round book on setting up and running a small business especially about getting systems in place early in the businesses life.
	A classic on creating uncontested market space - blue ocean strategies.
	A very useful guide to Venture Capital, if you are not using our services this is a good primer on raising VC funding. Even if you are intending to use our services this will still be a worthwhile read to understand the process and what VCs are looking for.
	A tale of woe, but a cautionary one showiing what to avoid and what to look out for if you intend to run a business. Also highlights the need to get systems right at the start (see Gerber above). On teh downside a little too much reference to Rachael's pregnancies.
	Mavericks and innovators businesses with unconventional ideas and groundbreaking strategies.
	Prince 2 is one of the more common and robust project management methodologies. If you are managing a project of any size a formal methodolgy is highly recommended to maintain control and acheive an outcome. Rather dry book though!

Useful Software

Setting up your own website but don't know what keywords to target so the search engines find you? Market Samurai is great tool that you can try for free. Identify the keywords you want to rank for in the search engines and what the competition is. We use it for all of our websites and highly recommend it. As it is free to try what have you got to lose? Click the image to try this now.

Useful Services

If you need to host websites cheaply Hostgator allows hosting of unlimited sites on one low monthly cost account, good up time and help also. We use Hostgator to host our free advice websites