BAB Bespoke Publishing Services Since 1986 - writing, editing, designing and publishing Books About Business In the early summer of 1986, just before co-founders Tony Robinson and Clare Francis, started BAB, The Business Advisory Bureau Limited, they wrote and sold a book, on Job Hunting, to the Industrial Society (now the Work Foundation) for the awesome sum of £500.
Many thousands of copies were sold! Quickly learning the lesson, within months they had written, self published and marketed their first semi-humorous book on business practice called 'Murder At T'Mill - How to Prevent Managers Strangling the Business'. It didn't sell thousands but it was very successful, as were the seminars BAB ran on the same theme.

Today, with their longstanding partners in design, production and promotion, they can count over 260 of items of online and offline media that they have written and published. Their current best selling 'how to' manual, as it has been for six years, with countless revisions and updates, is the award winning 'The Essential Guide To Earning a Living From Independent Consultancy'. Their very latest book, published this year for their 'Coming of Age' celebration at the Café Royal is 'Buzzing with the Entrepreneurs' and the formula of combining humour with serious guidance on best business practice continues to work well.

In-house corporate publishing assignments Although BAB is now well known for its work on business practice, interpersonal skills development and small businesses/entrepreneurship most of this work is privately commissioned and therefore not always publicly available. Around two-thirds of BAB's publishing output is through bespoke contracts for major companies, membership and trade associations and government departments and agencies.

Major clients have included Clerical Medical International, Steelcase, Bose, Dorling Kindersley, Grolier International, Department for Education and Skills, Amstrad, Meat Training Council, Investors in People (UK), DTI, Sales Qualifications Board, Duo-Fast, higher education, training organisations, professional institutes and membership bodies. These assignments include:

Please contact Tony Robinson or Clare Francis on 01525 211145 to discuss your organisation's requirements.

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We are always pleased to consider, occasionally, on a royalty basis, publishing new and existing business authors. So if you have a great manuscript on business skills, business opportunities, leadership, entrepreneurship, innovation or best business practice - do get in touch. If you're interested in looking at starting a publishing business then there is an excellent book on the trials and tribulations of setting up such a venture in our E-UK shop. It's called the 'White Ladder Diaries' - check it out!

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