Small Business Development

Success in business is difficult. It takes an amazing amount of work to set up a new business and keep it alive in the long run. According to the US Small Business Administration, only half of all new businesses with employees survive five years. Long before thinking about startup financing or even what products to stock, you need to decide what your business name will be. Choosing your business’s name is not an easy task. Adopting the improper business name means doing all the hard work of starting a new business with a handicap. Before considering goods, prices, or promotions, you must ...

Do you love the smell and taste of doughnuts and want to make money selling them? If you want to sell doughnuts via a brick-and-mortar shop, food truck, or ghost kitchen, then this audiobook is for you. Just imagine what life would be like being around delicious doughnuts all day that you specially made and not having to worry about someone else telling you what to do. Achieving these things is very realistic with the proper knowledge and game plan. It doesn’t have to take years of pain and misery to be successful with this business.

Delivering the Digital Restaurant explores the massive disruption facing restaurants through firsthand accounts of food industry veterans and start-up entrepreneurs innovating the future of food. Combining sociological observations, rich industry data, and insider knowledge, Delivering paints a picture of how food is evolving and how you as a leader, owner, or operator can successfully innovate and meet the new consumer demands to capitalize on the opportunities ahead.

The number-one reason most people don't reach their biggest dreams and goals is what international business coach Howard Partridge calls F.T.I. Failure to Implement. Many times, people know what to do and how to do it; they just don't do it. This book reveals the causes of F.T.I. and offers a proven path to overcoming the tendency toward inaction.

Inspired by that British (BBC) television program called The Great British Bake Off and love, more pet owners are making homemade treats for their furry companions. Fueled by the rapid spread of information on the internet, there is, what seems like, an unending array of pet recipes. It’s never been easier to treat Fido and King homemade artisan dog treats. And for those dog owners who haven’t yet jumped into baking for their pets but are more than willing to buy gourmet treats, some of the best options can be found at places often called pet bakeries.

Continuing with his successful Your Restaurant Sucks series, Donald Burns, The Restaurant Coach, digs down to the root of all business problems and that is culture. All restaurants can buy from the same vendors and hire from the same labor pool. What separates the good, from the great to the outstanding is culture!

Glamping may just be your ticket to property rentals without the added hassle—accumulate wealth with this essential guide for glamping start-ups!

Are you ready to double the profit in your salon business and cut your stress in half? This audiobook is for the salon owner who wants to create an amazing experience for their clients and run a successful business that leaves them the time, energy, and money they need to enjoy family, friends, and hobbies.

Author and world-renowned restaurant coach Donald Burns brings his straightforward advice on how to get the restaurant you want. His knowledge in running a restaurant not only comes from his technical skills, but also his nearly four decades of real-life restaurant experience as a restaurateur and working with celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. Your Restaurant STILL Sucks! is not your usual guide on how to run a restaurant. Instead, it will challenge you to rethink the way you look at how you run your restaurant. This book is for those who want a better restaurant and a better life.

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.

The road to launching a successful business can be long and confusing. Where do you start? Should you rent office space or work out of your garage? Should you register as a for-profit or a nonprofit business? How should you handle legal issues that come up? What does it mean to be a "Christian" entrepreneur anyway? Drawing from his work as a legal expert and business coach, Brock Shinen combines practical wisdom and a biblical worldview to help Christians turn their dreams and passions into viable businesses.

Ready to turn your skills in numbers into a rewarding home-based career? 'How to Start a Home-Based Bookkeeping Business' is your definitive guide to building a successful bookkeeping practice from your home office. Designed for both newcomers and seasoned bookkeeping professionals, this book offers step-by-step instructions on setting up, running, and expanding a bookkeeping business.

Ready to build the Etsy shop of your dreams? Regardless of where you’re starting from, you can launch, grow, and scale a successful Etsy business in less time than you could imagine with this practical step-by-step guide.

An indispensable guide for individuals seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the core concepts of marketing. The goal of this book is to provide a clear and concise overview of key frameworks and models that are essential for developing effective marketing strategies, making it an ideal resource for students, entrepreneurs, managers, and educators. Written in a crisp and easy-to-read format, the book covers a wide range of topics, including branding, product development, pricing strategies, and more. Besides covering the core marketing concepts, we show you how to leverage the ...

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.

Have you ever wanted to start a vending machine business in your spare time? This book is a quick start guide to help even the busiest people go out and get started in the vending business. From where to buy machines, finding locations, and collecting cash flow, you will find everything you need to know in order to get started and begin your own vending machine side hustle business!

Leadership development speaker & consultant Andy Ellis is the former CSO of Akamai, where he contributed to the creation of Akamai's billion‑dollar cybersecurity business. He now brings his speaking, consulting, and business knowledge to listeners with 1% Leadership—based on the reality that real-world leadership is messy and complicated; it rarely fits into an acronym or a dogmatic overarching philosophy. Ellis says that there are no “irrefutable laws” of leadership or power; there is no secret.

Fraser Doherty's 48-Hour Start-Up is your handy and essential cheat sheet to starting your own business, giving the key steps for developing an idea and getting it to market quickly. Almost everyone dreams of starting their own business, but very few do it. What if it had to be only a decision of a weekend, and it didn't cost a fortune?

This publication features a compendium of best practices tailored to the needs of the private security services entrepreneur. Listeners are treated to a host of innovative concepts for managing and growing a private security business. Strategies include the science of post assignments, security officer archetypes, private security key performance indicators, client retention strategies, patrol route design, and more.

Rob Sperry is one of the top coaches and leaders in the network marketing industry. With decades of experience and success in his network marketing business, Rob is now known for hosting the most prestigious masterminds in all of the network marketing profession. Rob has a passion for processes, making it simple, and finding wins that create momentum for everyone in the network marketing business. Rob's life's work is coaching and showing people the way to create the lifestyle that they have always wanted through network marketing.