Small Business Development

Lifestyle changes can be overwhelming: It’s hard to take on major goals without falling prey to self-doubt. But with kaizen, big goals become small, approachable steps. This Japanese method first made waves in the business world by launching Toyota to success; it also adds magic to Marie Kondo’s life-changing method of tidying up. As Kondo puts it: “You can take the first small step toward your dream today, and keep taking small steps to grow your passions.” Now, Sarah Harvey unlocks kaizen’s amazing potential to enhance our everyday lives.

Content Inc. is the go-to guide to building a solid small business by establishing a loyal audience before you sell products or services. In this audiobook, Joe Pulizzi provides a lower-risk, more effective way to create a path to startup success by re-engineering the process that so often leads to failure: You’ll learn how to develop valuable content, build an audience around that content and then create a product for that audience. Content Inc. walks you through the entire process.

En este libro encontrará toda la información necesaria para iniciar su negocio móvil, desde los permisos requeridos para operar en el área de la bahía hasta la lista de utensilios necesarios para comenzar.

Six-Figure Pet Business is a business success book for dog trainers, dog and cat groomers, dog day care owners, and other pet service providers. Learn how to create the foundation for success, ensure business success from the very start, remove the roadblocks to let financial success in, hire the right staff members, and more!

He started his career with almost nothing but his own imagination - and ever since he's been challenging conventional wisdom. In this extraordinary audio program Paul Hawken demonstrates that the answers to small business problems today cannot be solved by college degrees, training or money - but only by you.

The lifeblood of your business is repeat customers. But customers can be fickle, markets shift, and competitors are ruthless. So how do you ensure a steady flow of repeat business? The secret--no matter what industry you're in--is finding and keeping automatic customers. These days virtually anything you need can be purchased through a subscription, with more convenience than ever before.

Growing on just one and a half acres, owners Jean-Martin and Maude-Helène feed more than 200 families through their thriving CSA and seasonal market stands and supply their signature mesclun salad mix to dozens of local establishments. The secret of their success is the low-tech, high-yield production methods they've developed by focusing on growing better rather than growing bigger, making their operation more lucrative and viable in the process.

Robert Kelsey's What's Stopping You? has become a self-help classic. His What's Stopping You? books have helped thousands of people worldwide overcome their limiting beliefs and bash through their barriers to success. Now Robert is back to help us defeat the obstacles that stop us achieving more in our everyday lives. Many of us have the greatest of intentions but find ourselves procrastinating, which results in low attainment and frustrated ambitions.

International speaker, business coach, serial entrepreneur, and cofounder of High Performance Salon Academy, Jason Everett has helped salon owners across the world rediscover their passions and reignite their salons’ success. If you are ready to finally become the salon owner you have always wanted to be, with a dream team of service providers and all the money you need, then make Profitable Salon Owner your new BFF.

¿Quiere un libro que no solo le dé los conocimientos básicos de los fundamentos de la contabilidad, sino que también le proporcione valiosas formas de gestionar su negocio y sus finanzas como un profesional? Esta guía fácil de entender le proporcionará conceptos y métodos claros que le ayudarán a pensar como un contable y le enseñarán a ponerlos en práctica en su pequeña empresa.

In this brand new addition to the No B.S. series, you'll learn how to build a business that you can sell for maximum wealth. Every business owner dreams of pursuing a successful, top-dollar exit that'll get them a seven- to eight- figure payday, but few ever achieve it. Those who do manage to sell their business are often bogged down by ruthless investment firms, BS valuation formulas, or their own poor business practices and systems. These stop business owners from getting the maximum amount of wealth that they can from their businesses. Don't be one of them!

Este libro contiene las estrategias de las jugadas que me llevaron de dormir en el piso de mi gimnasio, a ser dueño de una cartera de empresas que generan 200.000.000 de dólares al año en menos de una década. ¿Quieres saber cuál es la mayor diferencia entre esos dos periodos de tiempo? La cantidad de clientes potenciales que obtuve.

To achieve unimaginable business success and financial wealth-to reach the upper echelons of entrepreneurs, where you'll find Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Sara Blakely of Spanx, Mark Pincus of Zynga, Kevin Plank of Under Armour, and many others-you have to change the way you think. In other words, you must develop the Entrepreneur Mind, a way of thinking that comes from learning the vital lessons of the best entrepreneurs.

In the newly revised second edition of Conquer the Chaos, celebrated author and CEO of Keap Clate Mask delivers yet another incisive and exciting roadmap to entrepreneurial success for small business owners. The book offers six non-negotiable, must-have strategies for entrepreneurs, as well as an engaging mix of stories, quotes, anecdotes, and examples that highlight businesspeople who have successfully confronted and overcome the daunting challenges that accompany self-employment.

Get inside the minds of 30+ experts, authors, and seasoned entrepreneurs and learn from their hard-earned lessons. Discover the winning patterns of successful businesses and apply them to your own startup. Build a competitive edge and protect your business with a proven formula to scale up, add zeros to your revenue and profits, and crush the competition. Avoid common pitfalls and master the art of hacking your way to growth.

“How much should I charge?!” It’s the question that confuses so many self-employed women. Millions of women do not understand how to price their services correctly—and end up undercharging and earning less than they deserve.

In 2008, with no event production experience and two college degrees between the four of them, Elliott Bisnow, Brett Leve, Jeff Rosenthal, and Jeremy Schwartz became business partners and set out to build a global events company. With passion and tenacity, they began cold calling as many inspiring company founders as they could and tried to convince them to attend their first event. In the beginning, only nineteen people said yes.

This isn’t just a story about nails, wood, or construction—it’s about resilience, about swinging a hammer with grit and determination until you’ve built something unbreakable. I’m Ana, and my journey started under a leaking roof, my dad’s calloused hands guiding mine to patch our home. “We fix what’s ours,” he’d rumble, his voice a bedrock of motivation beneath the storm, and those words ignited a fire in me—a spark of perseverance that turned a broke twenty-two-year-old with a junkyard shed into a legacy of craftsmanship and empowerment. I didn’t plan to write a ...

As traditional marketing tactics continue to falter in today’s business landscape, simply amassing followers and leading with a corporate logo is no longer enough. This essential guide offers a new, seven-step approach to brand building and provides the tools for any leader to compete with giants by showing them how to amplify what most already do best: teaching and relationship building as a way to build trust in a way corporations cannot.

Applying the Business Model Canvas: A Practical Guide for Small Businesses is a book that was written for the entrepreneur trying to come up with a workable new business model. It teaches entrepreneurs using the Socratic Method of asking and answering questions to complete each of the 13 building blocks of the Business Model Canvas and the Value Proposition Model. Through this process, the listener will be able to turn abstract ideas into a practical business model in no time.