Small Business Development

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off.

This book will take you from knowing nothing about the vending machine business to learning more about it than most people running an already successful business of this kind!

Have you ever considered creating your very own podcast? Podcast Launch will take you through the entire process, from step one to step done. These tutorials will make your podcast experience enjoyable and stress-free. Podcast Launch begins with identifying your podcast, followed by the equipment needed, recording and editing, intros and outros, tagging your MP3, uploading to a media host, embedding your MP3 onto your website, submitting your podcast to iTunes, Stitcher Radio, and Blackberry, launching your podcast the right way, and monetizing.

Whether you're one of the 47 million Americans who dreams of running your own small business or you're already the owner of one of the 25 million small businesses in the United States, Jeffrey Fox is the man who can help you get to the top. Using his own experience as an extremely successful entrepeneur, Fox offers his blueprint for success.

Are you struggling to turn your small business dreams into reality? Do you feel stuck in a cycle of setbacks and disappointments? Have you ever wondered what separates successful entrepreneurs from those who never quite make it? In "Small Business Growth Strategies - Self-Made Millionaire Journey: From Failure to Success in Business," Nafeez shares his hard-earned wisdom and practical insights. He doesn't just tell you what to do; he shows you how to do it, step by step, drawing from his own experiences of both failure and triumph.

Starting a small business may have been your dream, but the reality can be a rollercoaster of stress and anxiety. As an ambitious entrepreneur, you face unique challenges every day. Juggling multiple tasks and wearing multiple hats can take a toll on your mental health. Imagine if there was a way to reclaim control of your life, achieve success and maintain a healthy work-life balance. Well, there is. This book guides you through the challenges and headaches of running a small business, helping you transform stress into success!

As a solopreneur, you can take control of your life, use your unique talents, and choose the work you love. But avoiding the pitfalls of being your own boss can be a challenge. Money-Smart Solopreneur gives you the essential knowledge, tools, and inspiration you need to live a successful solopreneur life as a full- or part-time freelancer, independent contractor, or side-hustler in the on-demand economy.

In the book, The Daily Entrepreneur, we talk about the power of habit development and show how to use it to overcome your specific challenges. What makes this book different is it's organized according to obstacles that we all face on a daily basis.

I've spent years working as a business broker and consultant to buyers and sellers. It always frustrates me when sellers show up with problems in their businesses that could easily have been solved if they had sought some advice in the years leading up to the sale. This guide is a simple overview of the things you can do and the things you need to learn before you begin the process of selling your business.

Discover: How to add dozens of positive changes to your daily routine. Want to improve your life, but don't have enough time? Right now you could easily think of a dozen ways to instantly improve your life. Odds are, these ideas will only take a few minutes apiece to complete. The problem? You might feel like there's not enough time to do all of them. One solution can be found using the power of "habit stacking."

Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this little book is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes. As the coffee shop owner looks for ways to retain his customer base, a consultant helps him focus on what really matters. Authors Yerkes and Decker, renowned for their consulting and business savvy, have done their homework and turned Beans into "a business fable taken from real life".

The only secret you need to grow your business now: Elevate your customer experience. This audiobook can show you how! Are you looking for a how-to guide on building loyalty, generating word-of-mouth, and keeping customers coming back? The customer is the heart and lifeblood of every business, if they’re not happy, they won’t come back. If they don’t come back, they don’t spend money. This vicious cycle can end a business, so don’t get caught up in this vortex of doom. With concepts, statistics, and real-world examples, this audiobook rises above all others like it.

Discover everything you need to know to turn your big idea into a thriving business with this unique guide. With clear, jargon-free language, How to Start Your Own Business shows you how to develop your ideas into a profitable venture, taking you step by step through everything from business plans to branding.

Why do almost all new business fail? Nearly every time it is due to a lack of knowledge. How do you avoid opening a business and falling into the same trap? Find out by listening to this audiobook! The number one problem for opening a business is not a lack of drive, but it is knowledge and the will to do what it takes. But do you know what to do if you have these things? Vital steps in opening a new business are discussed in this audiobook. In this audiobook, you’ll find proven methods to open a small business.

Congratulations on deciding to start a business! Everything is going great. You're motivated, you've got an idea (or maybe not!), you've seen and read enough people starting their own small businesses, and you know you can do it, too. But there's one small problem: You've never actually started a small business before! Don't worry. It's not as difficult as it seems once you know the steps you need to take.

I’ve written this book because selling your business is quite possibly the biggest financial transaction of your entire life, and you’ve never done it before and will likely never do it again, and you really need to be smart about this. I recently did a quick study on the likelihood that a firm in a particular, narrow vertical would have a successful exit—defined as someone else purchasing, for real money, a majority of your firm’s equity.

Zachary Green’s life experiences in the military, firefighting service, and as an entrepreneur helped him realize that these careers have a lot in common. They entail risk, struggle, grit, and bravery. The idea behind this book revolves around preparing for your crucible - a turning point in your life - that changes your forward trajectory.

Supermaker is a guide to business and career development by Jaime Schmidt: acclaimed entrepreneur, founder of Schmidt's Naturals, and icon of the Maker Movement. In Supermaker, she shares how you too can start or grow your own business with advice on branding, product development, social media marketing, scaling, PR, and customer engagement, all based on her own hard-won mastery.

Do you want to make money teaching others how to save lives? By starting a CPR training business, you can truly make a difference in the world and get paid to do it.