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Before You Apply: Key Tasks for Small Businesses Pursuing Bank Loans is an essential guide for business owners looking to secure funding from traditional banks. It's not the bank’s job to walk you through the loan process, and being unprepared can quickly lead to rejection. This book outlines the 14 crucial tasks every business owner must complete before applying for a loan and explains how failing to do so can hurt your chances of approval.

We humans crave security. Yet, continual change and adaptation are the lifeblood of a company. Keeping an organization competitive and relevant means regular change, thus shattering the sense of security people have with their jobs and their livelihoods. It’s no wonder people resist change. No matter a global corporation or small business, change is often "done" to a voiceless workforce.

Do you feel out of your depth when setting objectives for your team? Ah, the annual ritual of objective-setting! Loved by so few, undertaken by so many. Do you get a slight knot in the pit of your stomach, just thinking about it? Most managers dread it because they're not 100 percent sure of what they're supposed to do. Promoted with little training, they're just supposed to know how to design objectives. Know how to develop soft skills. Sure it's easy, right? On top of that, there’s the niggling feeling that the process doesn’t make much of a difference.

Management consulting is a $250 billion industry and growing at a rate of over four percent annually. Many predict that more than 40 percent of the US workforce will soon be contingent, freelance, or consulting members of the workforce - making this book more relevant than ever. Individuals become independent consultants out of necessity or preference: necessity because they lost their job or the company offered an attractive exit package; preference because they want a career change, more control over their time, or an enriched, varied work situation.

Despite the anticipated senior tsunami in population emerging across the nation, success in the senior living industry is not guaranteed. In this thought-provoking audiobook, management consultant Jill Johnson discusses the nine market forces that will influence on-going success in an industry over-saturated with competition and complexity. Market Forces offers insight on how these key trends influence the industry and the implications they may have on your occupancy, operations, programming, and desirability of your site.

If you've ever been curious about how to be the best version of you, wondered what makes people tick, or explored tools to help you understand how you fit in the world, you'll enjoy Unlock the Power of Your Perception.

You've been trying to get your solo business off the ground, networking online, sending cold outreaches, creating content, and following the advice of influencers. But time goes by, and you can't seem to break through the noise. Becoming the go-to expert in your field is not easy, but quite possible—if you follow the right path. This audiobook decodes the secrets that successful entrepreneurs have used to become thought leaders and make a lasting impact in their industries. Diego Pineda lays out the strategies and tactics you need to climb to the top of your domain.

Achieve Market Domination through Digital Marketing, Even with Limited Time and Budget. Are you a small business owner with big dreams, feeling overwhelmed by the maze of digital marketing? You’re not alone. Many small business owners struggle to keep up with SEO, social media, and online advertising while juggling daily operations. This game-changing guide simplifies digital marketing, turning struggles into strengths and helping you scale like never before.

According to Steve Jobs, "Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." The rise of digital technology in business has made this statement truer now more than ever. Today, businesses can be created, marketed, and ready to interact with customers in the blink of an eye, with nothing more than an internet connection! This accelerated pace of business is wreaking havoc on companies that are "too big to fail", sometimes in a matter of months.

Competitive Selling: The Guidebook to Proactive Calling in a Reactive World is about the toughness and edge you need to be successful in the highly competitive world of professional sales. But it doesn’t just give you theories...it gives you tried and true techniques to follow to be a proactive caller, in very practical terms.

Day Trading: The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Successful Trading is your one-stop guide to everything that you need to know about day trading. This audiobook is a handy manual specially written for beginners, but even intermediate and advanced traders will find this audiobook useful in many ways. Day Trading: The Essential Beginner’s Guide to Successful Trading lays down the fundamentals of day trading, as well as how you can turn it into a goldmine.

52 Weekly Sales Meetings is more than a book—it’s a complete sales coaching system. Designed for managers, team leaders, and anyone responsible for driving sales performance, this guide delivers a full year of impactful, ready-to-use meeting plans that build skills, boost morale, and drive results.

Award-winning author George Murray asks leaders and business owners…if your company is struggling to find new employees, you are not alone. If you find new people, but they soon leave, usually for more money, you are not alone. If you are working hard to engage those who have worked for you for a while—-or are brand new—-this book has answers how to help so you are successful. It's all related to the company's culture in how you Ignite. Engage. and Retain. with both long-term and new employees.

45 Days to Hired cuts through the typical “good advice” from well-meaning friends and co-workers in favor of a systematic and disciplined approach that delivers rapid results, with three simple steps. 45 Days to Hired draws on common themes of our digital lifestyles that can be adapted to the rapid job search.

At the printing of this book, there are 37 women leading Fortune 500 companies. This is an improvement from the previous year of 33. There is an ongoing debate about the reasons for the underrepresentation of women. The reasons vary from bias against women by male CEOs and male boards of directors to the assumption that women withdraw themselves from the workforce due to work/ life balance situations. The reasons are debatable. This book is for the career focused, intentionally strategic, female middle manager who wants to be equipped and ready when her opportunity arrives to propel her to ...

Do you consistently deliver unmatched value yet find your income doesn't mirror your expertise? You're not alone in feeling the sting of undervaluation. The annoyance of seeing others, perhaps less skilled, out-earning you can be frustrating. You're not alone. But what if the issue isn't "what you do", but how you position it?

Proven professional advice for the Agile Scrum: The Agile Product Owner Updated and Advanced Edition Launching Agile and SCRUM - the product owner as a change agent Trust as a key differentiator in project and portfolio success

This little distance learning playbook is here to help you. You will learn 20 silly yet engaging virtual activities. So, you can get your virtual classroom to laugh more, interact more, engage more, and have even more fun as though you were all still in a physical classroom! The first part will get your class to have some quick laughs. The second part gets into more sophisticated online class team-building activities that may require some preparation.

Many people wonder through life without knowing their real purpose. They skip from job to job hoping to stumble into something they like, or can at least handle. There's no need to continue living like this. This book is here to help you learn how to do just that.

Every interaction is a connection point with other people, and enhancing your ability to create rapport is the key to leveraging these connections and building powerful relationships. Learning to negotiate the levels of rapport creates dynamic and satisfying interactions that will not only increase your income and grow your career but will also build deeper and more satisfying personal relationships.