Small Business Development

Tim’s Guide to Furniture Restoration: Turning Passion into Profit is the ultimate step-by-step guide for turning your passion for furniture restoration into a thriving business. This comprehensive book provides practical advice, clear instructions, and actionable steps to help you start, grow, and sustain a profitable restoration enterprise.

After 15 years stuck behind a desk in the software industry, Bob Clagett walked away from a well-paying, stable job to make the things he was interested in and show the world how to make them, too. His company, I Like to Make Stuff, started as a hobby but quickly grew into a passion project. In "Making Time", Bob recounts his history and build-up to becoming a full-time content creator, and shares his process, experiences, and mistakes from his first two years of self-employment.

Are you ready for the adventure of a lifetime? Buckle up: Serial entrepreneur Brian Scudamore is your guide on the journey of entrepreneurship, taking you through inspiring stories, hilarious anecdotes, and just a few industry secrets so you can start your own startup—today.

¿Siempre ha querido iniciar su propio negocio? Quizás tiene una idea de un nuevo producto o servicio para ayudar a la gente, pero no sabe por dónde empezar. Después de todo, gestionar una empresa no es una tarea fácil. Comenzar un pequeño negocio le mostrará que emprender una empresa independiente es posible y no tiene por qué ser tan difícil. Este audio libro contiene consejos para cualquier persona que quiera montar su propia empresa, no importa si es algo que siempre ha querido hacer o si solo es una idea que está considerando.

Wish you knew how to walk up to anyone and break the ice effortlessly? Do you hope to avoid awkward silences and make an instant impression? You'll get more than that in this book: not only what, when, and how to say it, but the exact roots of why from human psychology and interaction.

I have always appreciated wines. I guess, you could say, I was in love with wine. I knew what the supposed experts said about food and wine pairings. I knew how to describe the body and the tannins of the wine. When I found myself out of work, laid off from my typical office nine-to-five job, I was inspired by wine. One evening, while sipping a glass of my favorite casual red blend, I started examining the label.

Behind every successful business is a history of mistakes, failures, and embarrassing moments—some big and some small. Regardless of their size, these failures are essential to learning and to growing professionally and personally. Todd Palmer’s failure was big—and the best thing that could have happened to him. When his business nearly went bankrupt in 2006, he began learning the critical steps that would not only rescue his company but also guide him toward becoming a powerful coach for entrepreneurs looking to go from ordinary to extraordinary.

In Start Your Own Successful Small Business, I show you a simple and easy to follow step-by-step process of starting your very first business, from idea to launch, in a very short period of time. I show you how to come up with a viable business idea and evaluate your idea to see if it would fly or not. I show you how to bring the idea into reality in a very detail step by step process. I also show you how to craft a Business Plan that actually helps you through the whole startup process.

I work four to six days a week, 12 hour shifts, and make between $350 and $550 per shift, but I realize that I have just enough to pay all my bills with nothing left as I look forward to the next paycheck. I love this profession! This is my passion! But can't I be better financially while still doing what I love? The answer is found in this book.

Most people think of Walt Disney primarily as a visionary, but he was also a highly skilled marketer. In this unique book, maverick marketer Andrew Lock guides you through 17 success secrets from Walt and explains how your business can apply them to follow Walt Disney’s way. You’ll discover valuable lessons in sales, marketing, and customer service, as well as how to create memorable experiences that will cause customers to return to you, over and over again.

How can you guarantee that your company delivers great service, has a great culture, and still manages to stay profitable? You need to follow certain “Unbreakable Rules” for success. Best-selling business author and coach Karl W. Palachuk draws on more than thirty years of owning and running service-based businesses to present the rules his companies live by. These rules will help you align your personal and professional goals while creating “standard operating procedures” to automate successful habits.

Are you an aspiring business owner looking to start your dream venture, but feel overwhelmed by the daunting legal formalities and confusing jargon? The LLC Beginner’s Guide is your one-stop resource to help you turn your entrepreneurial aspirations into reality.

As a teenager, real-estate broker Danny Morel felt he was destined to do great things. Even though he had to contend with a lackluster education system and lived on welfare in a single-parent home, he didn't let any of that hold him back. He had resilience - and now you can, too.

When you're 50 or 60 years old, the job market is a combat zone, no matter what your skills or experience. Battle-scarred veterans report that they're passed over time and again for jobs which they are eminently qualified for. Successful applicants, often with fewer skills and almost always with far less experience, do seem to have one significant thing in common: they are younger, sometimes painfully younger.

1 platform, 2.4 billion monthly users, 200 million business profiles. Only two main ways to make money and one two-part book that teaches you both—in detail. These manuscripts will show you how to start making money on Instagram right away—even if you’ve never used it before.

Inheriting her aunt's historic beachfront hotel should have been Vanessa Lewis's chance at a fresh start. But returning to Isabel Island means facing two ghosts from her past—her aunt's legacy, and Wesley Anders, her childhood best friend who broke her heart fifteen years ago. Now a decorated Marine Captain, Wesley is temporarily stationed at the local base, and he's just as infuriatingly handsome as he was the summer everything she thought she knew about their friendship changed. Between his offer to help renovate the hotel and their undeniable chemistry, Vanessa finds herself falling ...

One big mistake people make when starting a business is to begin without actual knowledge of how the process works. This audiobook shows you the steps of forming a limited liability company and helps you discover the essentials of how to operate it successfully. Which business structure should you use? Should you form a limited liability company? What are the potential benefits of forming an LLC? These are questions that you need to find answers to in order to discover if the LLC business structure would work best for your business.

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.

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!

The Self-Reliant Entrepreneur offers overworked and harried entrepreneurs, and anyone who thinks like one, a much-needed guide for tapping into the wisdom that is most relevant to the entrepreneurial life. The book is filled with inspirational meditations that contain the thoughts and writings of notable American authors. Designed as a daily devotional, it is arranged in a calendar format, and features readings of transcendentalist literature and others.