Business Strategy

As a veteran of six successful Kickstarter campaigns (and counting) and the proprietor of the Kickstarter Lessons blog, Jamey Stegmaier knows something about crowdfunding. In this audiobook, he goes beyond the nuts and bolts of how it works to a deeper level - crowdfunding not just as a cool way to raise money but as a better way to build and run a business.

According to conventional wisdom, innovation is best left to the dynamic entrepreneurs of the private sector, and government should get out of the way. But what if all this was wrong? What if, from Silicon Valley to medical breakthroughs, the public sector has been the boldest and most valuable risk taker of all?

"Blueprint to Business Success: Crafting Your Winning Business Plan" is the ultimate guide to transforming your entrepreneurial vision into a thriving and profitable venture. This book is packed with expert advice, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create a comprehensive and compelling business plan tailored to your unique goals and objectives. Unlock the secrets to business success as you dive into this comprehensive guide, which covers everything from market analysis, competitor research, and financial projections to branding, marketing, and operations...

Your Hidden Genius provides a custom-made road map to what makes you special, revealing your distinct combination of natural talents, interests, and personality traits—a mix as unique to you as your fingerprint. With the instant appeal of Enneagrams and Strengthsfinder, Your Hidden Genius instead focuses on scientific testing rather than self-reported answers as a means to unlock your potential.

What does it take to get the job done? How do you get the men in your unit to do what you say? To follow you into battle and shoot to kill? How do you build the confidence that spurs men on to do their jobs, to stand by their leaders and each other? Find the answers to these questions and more, in this classic for those who have to get the job done---military or not.

What if you discovered a blueprint that could grow your brand’s reputation and loyalty, dramatically reduce customer-service issues, produce content and technology, and cement a powerful, lasting relationship between you and your customers? Harness the power of communities, both inside and outside of your organization, to drive value and revenue, activate your employees’ and customers’ talents, and create a highly engaged, loyal customer base.

If you’re tired of building a business that looks good but feels exhausting, The Slow Hustle is your permission slip to do things differently. This is not another high-performance productivity manual. It’s a business book for the sensitive, the intentional, the boundary-aware, and the quietly ambitious. For the people who want to grow something meaningful — but don’t want to burn out doing it. Author Eliot Sage offers a steady, soul-deep reimagining of what it means to succeed — without selling your values, overextending your body, or pretending to be louder than you are. Inside, ...

'Create, Automate, Accelerate' takes a controversial look at what it takes to build a business. It explores a framework called the 5 P's of Priority. Purpose, Passion, People, Place and Profit. It looks at the need to ask the right questions to get these priorities answered, and the importance of doing so in the right order. It also explores the phases of starting, automating and then accelerating your business growth in a very practical manner. Rather than give a 'one solution fits all' approach it encourages the reader to ask questions at each step of the journey to identify what will be ...

Beauty + Power is a collection of personally written posts previously published on Lauryn Doll's website. Pulled down during her revamp, the content is designed to give you a trip down memory lane, and to help you hold the messages you need most, close to your fingertips. These articles were pulled down with the intention to never be published again, but the intention is that those who need to hear what's said, receive the messages within. Blessings.

Why is profitable growth so hard to achieve and sustain? Most executives manage their companies as if the solution to that problem lies in the external environment: find an attractive market, formulate the right strategy, win new customers. But when Bain & Company's Chris Zook and James Allen researched this question, they found that when companies fail to achieve their growth targets, 90 percent of the time the root causes are internal, not external.

Start your business safely with Salespreneurship! This is brand-new sales and marketing book to show how to start a business “Salespreneurship” breaks down the old sales frames and promotes new ways to walk the path of successful and happy entrepreneurs. Planning, personnel management, marketing, and finance are important in growing a business, but sales can't be excluded. Many entrepreneurs undervalue the importance of sales and are terrified by the prospect of personally conducting sales. So how can you learn sales and marketing and overcome your fears? And How to start a business? ...

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven marketing plan. The marketing plan is a problem-solving document. Skilled problem solvers recognize that a big problem is usually the combination of several smaller problems. The best approach is to solve each of the smaller problems first, thereby dividing the big problem into manageable pieces. Your marketing plan should take the same approach. It should be a guide on which to base decisions and should ensure that everyone in your organization is working together to achieve the same goals...

Work with data like a pro using this guide that breaks down how to organize, apply, and most importantly, understand what you are analyzing in order to become a true data ninja.

Discretion, secrecy, and subtle strategy were the weapons of choice at Wall Street investment bank Lazard Frères & Co. For more than a century, the mystique and reputation of the "Great Men" who worked there allowed the firm to garner unimaginable profits, social cachet, and outsized influence in the halls of power. But in the mid-1980s, their titanic egos started getting in the way, and the Great Men of Lazard jeopardized all they had built.

The standard work of Social Media Marketing Ranked among the best marketing books in the world by Bookauthority This updated and largely extended sixth edition of this global bestseller, chosen by Bookauthority as one of the best marketing/advertising books in the world is essential reading in top-tier universities and a staple for both practitioners and academics. This updated volume dives deep into the evolving landscape of digital and social media marketing, including expanded sections on tactical planning, execution, and the latest trends in AI, machine learning, and the Metaverse's ...

Two-time New York Times best-selling authors Roger Connors and Tom Smith show how leaders can achieve record-breaking results by quickly and effectively shaping their organizational culture to capitalize on their greatest asset - their people. Change the Culture, Change the Game joins their classic book The Oz Principle and their recent best seller How Did That Happen? to complete the most comprehensive series ever written on workplace accountability.

Business relationships are still dominated by a narrow perspective—trying to match products to customer needs and making deals. It's a buyer-seller relationship built on a transactional mindset, and it's not how you should be doing business. There's a better way—orchestrating growth—in which suppliers and customers collaborate to build strategies and grow together. Christoph Senn and Mehak Gandhi lay out the Triple Fit Strategy framework, which will help you escape the product-centric mindset and put customers at the heart of your business strategy.

Scaling an Amazon business isn’t just about running ads—it’s about building a system that drives consistent growth and lasting profitability. Dr. Travis Zigler knows this first hand. As a former optometrist who built and sold a multimillion-dollar brand, he developed a repeatable strategy that helps sellers break free from rising ad costs, unpredictable results, and wasted effort. Survival Guide to Selling on Amazon goes beyond surface-level advice, offering a clear and tested approach to transforming an Amazon store into a high-profit, scalable business. Dr. Zigler reveals how to ...

Digital transformation is no longer news - it's a necessity. For more than a decade, Gupta has studied digital transformation at Fortune 500 companies. He knows what works and what doesn't. Merely dabbling in digital or launching a small independent unit, which many companies do, will not bring success. Instead you need to fundamentally change the core of your business and ensure that your digital strategy touches all aspects of your organization: your business model, value chain, customer relationships, and company culture.

Marketing and business ideas can be overloaded with so many facts that none of them actually stick. Sometimes the simplest of ideas work. Not always, but more often than you might expect. Letting the point speak for itself can be easier for marketers to create and customers to consume and retain. This eBook offers reasons why simple might work for you.