For new AADMM members questions about how to run their business are often as urgent as those about daily money management. Even long-term DMMs need information to keep up-to-date on effectively managing the day-to-day activities of an entrepreneurial business.

Now to supplement information that can obtained through AADMM educational programs and networking, the association has introduced an online Bookshop. Through special arrangements with publishers, the AADMM is gathering a library of resources to help DMMs in their business operations.

Steps to Small Business Start-Up

By Linda Pinson and Jerry Jinnett
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing

Along with the AADMM outline, this book has become a staple resource for the Business Basics Workshops. Now through a special arrangement with the publisher, AADMM is able to offer this book to members at a significant discount over the list price. Add it to your business library.
AADMM Members: $15 each
Non-members: $22.95 each

When it comes to starting a new business, there are many details entrepreneurs need to consider—securing a name, getting financing and licenses, and marketing the new venture are just a few. Without a practical business plan, new ideas drift or are lost completely due to a lack of preparation. With up-to-date information on new technologies, e-commerce, Web resources, and the trendiest marketing techniques, aspiring entrepreneurs can create and implement their business plans to the fullest extent. The forms, examples, and worksheets make this workbook an ideal resource for anyone inquiring about, considering, or serious about entrepreneurship. Over the years, some of the most successful entrepreneurs have found Steps to a Small Business Start-up to be one of the most dependable and informative resources on the market. Now in its sixth edition, written for small business owners, by successful small business owners, this comprehensive guide offers proven methods for building a business on a solid foundation.
 

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Don’t Buy Green Bananas …A Humorous Journey Through the Sometimes Puzzling World of Aging

By Barbara H. Hance

DMM Barbara Hance wrote this book to share her feelings about the experience of owning her own business and working with the elderly and disabled, to show how it is better to laugh than to wallow in despair, and to demonstrate how humor has a way of connecting people. Through a special arrangement with her publisher we are able to offer this lovely 193 page hardback book to members at a discount.
AADMM Members: $13 each
Non-members: $16.95 each

When AADMM Board Member Fredi O’Hara reviewed this book in 2005, she called it “a poignant journey thorough all life’s unexpected . . . peppered with Barbara’s very humorous observations and frustrations as she deals with her own aging process.” Each chapter stands alone as she introduces the reader to the real characters in her story and at chapter’s end there is a lesson to be learned which she relates with humor and love. Ms. O’Hara recommends that “reading it is a present you give yourself and you may want to present it to someone as a warm act of sharing.”
 

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Getting It Together: A Helpful Guide for Record Keeping

By Trudy Couch, Ph.D.
Publisher: Project Compassion

A remarkable 32-page workbook that makes organizing important personal information as easy as possible. It is a useful tool for gathering information about legal affairs, financial affairs, health affairs, final plans, and significant life events in one place. This book is an invaluable resource for seniors, for baby boomers, for anyone getting organized. Discounted for AADMM members, each book in this special edition carries the AADMM logo and information about how to “Find A DMM.”
AADMM Members: $60/ pack of 5
Non-members: $75/ pack of 5

“Events in anyone’s life can take a sudden turn and catch you unprepared,” says Dr. Trudy Couch, who found herself in that position when she nearly died a number of years ago. She developed this guide to aid her two daughters should they need to act on her behalf. Now in its second edition, Getting It Together has been reviewed in the New York Times and shared throughout the country through her publisher Project Compassion. In her review for the AADMM newsletter, Board Member Pamela Nielsen Brehler suggests that DMMs might consider implementing the use of Getting It Together as part of their practice, or giving the guides as gifts to their clients.
 

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