Small Business Development

Volume I of the How to Become an e-Learning Freelancer series, “Launching Your Freelance e-Learning Career,” is an easy-to-use, practical guide to getting your freelance e-Learning career off the ground. It covers the basics of starting as a freelancer, from making the decision to go solo all the way through setting up your business’s tax structure. Consider this book your guide to establishing the fundamentals of your freelance e-Learning life, and then move on to Volumes II and III to take your career even further!

Business models aren’t one-size-fits-all—it's about finding the one that aligns with your personality, resources, and goals. Along the journey, you will need to adopt a positive and determined attitude and reset your mindset.

Have you ever wondered what separates people who think bigger from people who set their bars low? What makes one person accept low standards and another person constantly raise them? What drives a person who's optimizing every single aspect of her life, and what causes another person to maintain the status quo? I found this topic so fascinating, I decided to find out the answer for myself and write a book about it.

In this accessible guide, nonprofit attorney Audrey K. Chisholm shares in plain English how to legally structure your nonprofit to avoid IRS trouble, lawsuits, financial scandals, and more. This book is perfect for anyone who wants to start a nonprofit or who already has a nonprofit and wants to make sure they're in compliance with the I.R.S. and the law. Nonprofit founders, board members, officers, employees, volunteers, donors, and community partners can all benefit from this text.

Si siempre ha querido iniciar su propio negocio, pero no sabe por dónde comenzar y cómo hacerlo con éxito, entonces siga leyendo.... ¿Está cansado de no poder tener el modelo de negocio adecuado? ¿Ha probado un sinfín de soluciones, pero nada parece funcionar durante más de unas pocas semanas? ¿Quiere por fin decir adiós a correr riesgos sin cuidado y descubrir algo que le funcione? Si es así, ha venido al lugar adecuado.

Volume III of the How to Become an e-Learning Freelancer series, “Managing a Successful e-Learning Project,” covers the ins-and-outs of running projects effectively—from writing a strong project, to creating effective communication plans, all the way through collecting useful feedback afterward. The resources, strategies, and guidance provided in Volume III are essential for both new and veteran e-Learning freelancers!

The sixth edition of Starting an Online Business: All-in-One For Dummies will teach you the basics and beyond. It will prepare you to set up your business website, offer your products in an online store, and keep accurate books. The authors help you navigate the primary legal, accounting, and security challenges related to running an online business.

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.

The initial excitement of starting a business for many independent contractors, solopreneurs, and small business owners can quickly turn into a whirlwind of chaos and confusion. Knowing Isn't Doing provides you with a roadmap that will turn the chaos to clarity and confusion to confidence. More importantly, it will provide you with professional, personal margin to envisioned.

Taking a leap and making the choice to start a business can be hard, but all that comes after - the planning, loans, marketing - can be even harder. Every new business owner needs an easy, clear, and useful guide to follow when embarking on this venture, and Minding My Business will make the process as simple as possible.

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.

Kim Hvidkjaer was twenty-nine years old when he became a millionaire. Two years later, after a cluster of disasters, he found himself basically broke. Now, having rebuilt his fortune as the founder of several successful enterprises and studied thousands of failed startups, Hvidkjaer has become an expert in failure: what it means, what it looks like, and the strategies that business owners can use to prevent it. In How to F--k Up Your Startup, he takes us on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the complex patterns of failure in the life cycle of a business.

There are 20 million acres of lawns in North America. In their current form, these unproductive expanses of grass represent a significant financial and environmental cost. However, viewed through a different lens, they can also be seen as a tremendous source of opportunity. Access to land is a major barrier for many people who want to enter the agricultural sector, and urban and suburban yards have huge potential for would-be farmers wanting to become part of this growing movement.

How do you cut through the noise, commotion, and bad information that is right now cluttering up your customers' digital space? Epic Content Marketing. One of the world's leading experts on content marketing, Joe Pulizzi explains how to draw prospects and customers in by creating information and content they actually want to engage with. No longer can we interrupt our customers with mediocre content (and sales messages) our customers don't care about. Epic Content Marketing takes you step by step through the process of developing stories that inform and entertain and compel customers to act - without actually telling them to.

Finally, a book that speaks to the heart of small business struggles! Small Business, Big Opportunity is a beacon of hope for entrepreneurs drowning in overwhelm. Beverlee’s expertise shines through as she provides actionable strategies to streamline operations, empower your team, and finally make sense of your numbers.

In The One Minute Entrepreneur, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the number-one best selling business classic The One Minute Manager); Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning; and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story of one man's challenges in creating his own business.

Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.™ Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively.

Tommy Mello, the Home Service Millionaire, shares what inspired him and how you can learn from his experiences. He quotes from his favorite successful business gurus and explains what it takes to get to the top. He teaches you his method for training and inspiring employees, teaching accountability, and improving performance for any size business. A lively discussion of what it takes to succeed.

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Make It Happen explodes the myth that the restaurant business is harder than other industries. It challenges the belief that you must be in your restaurant all day every day just so things get done right.