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One of the things I enjoy most about ExploreStartups is all of the free information available for such a huge number of great business ideas. We strive to create this great information to help fellow entrepreneurs discover their dream of business ownership. There is nothing like the thrill of owning your own business - getting up each morning, not sure exactly what to expect, but knowing you are building something for yourself and your family.

As I browse the hundreds of free business ideas available on ExploreStartups, it strikes me that though we have a lot of great, free information, we do not have the depth necessary to truly understand what it takes to open a business.

Today, we are launching a new store with guides to starting your own business. When we were making a decision whether or not to go this route, we reviewed the options available to entrepreneurs and found most books and ebooks available do not truly paint a complete enough picture for business startup and operation. Most of them were so general that most entrepreneurs would find the information lacking.

In contrast, we want to create guides which truly lead you down the path to business ownership. It isn't enough to simply throw together a document about starting a business - we want you to have the expert advice of people who have gone down the road before you. This expert business advice, combined with templates, forms, and checklists, will help you launch the business of your dreams.

We are pleased to introduce our first product: How to Start and Run a Coffee Shop. This ebook is the culmination of months of research, writing, and editing to produce a book we are proud of. This book is packed with 130 pages (letter size, not some cut down 6" x 9" like the other guys) of expert advice, support, and real world examples to help you start your coffee shop.

Producing this guide first was no surprise for anyone who knows my family: we have had a long time love affair with coffee shops. My wife has managed them, we have produced countless business plans to build our own. Jay Andrews does an excellent job writing a guide which not only shows you how to start your coffee shop, but also how to manage it on a day to day basis - and how to make it a success. This guide shows you how to create a business plan, open your coffee shop, hire and manage employees, write a marketing plan, execute the marketing plan, and more. Included in the download are samples and templates you can use in your business including an employment application, frequent customer punch cards, gift certificates, and more.

I am proud of this product and glad to make it the first one we sell in the ExploreStartups.com Store.

We priced this book at only $29.97 so as many people can enjoy it as want to. This isn't like a book you find at the store - the samples and templates alone are worth more than the purchase price. We use Google Checkout for credit card processing to ensure your data is secure - and for added measure, we use the highest security SSL certificates right here on our own server. The entire process is safe and secure.

Thanks for making ExploreStartups.com one of the biggest free business idea and business plan sites on the Internet. Over time, we plan on releasing more titles like this one, so check back and enjoy!