Small Business Development

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.

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.

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!

In The Mac & Cheese Millionaire: Building a Better Business by Thinking Outside the Box, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and culinary innovator Erin Wade shares her inspiring and often hilarious journey of leaving her corporate lawyer job to open a hit mac and cheese restaurant, taking you through the challenges and victories that paved her path to success. By sharing the lessons that helped her sell millions of dollars in cheesy carbs, she delivers the tools you need to create change and surpass all your expectations.

A pioneer of content marketing, Joe Pulizzi has cracked the code when it comes to the power of content in a world where marketers still hold fast to traditional models that no longer work. In Content Inc., he breaks down the business-startup process into six steps, making it simple for you to visualize, launch, and monetize your own business.

If you’re like most entrepreneurs, you walk a very risky line since you don’t have appropriate liquidity, so much of your money is leaking, and you have unnecessary risk. Financial FastStart will give you the practical and simple steps of how to build liquidity, manage and mitigate risk, and protect yourself from the inevitable financial surprises so that you will avoid major pain or worse.

The Business of Real Estate Photography provides the blueprints to start your own real estate photography business by providing a detailed guide on developing a business strategy and marketing plan, in addition to valuable information on the financial and legal aspects of the business. It assists you in gaining a thorough understanding of the market and includes many useful tips and lessons learned from the author’s own experiences that can save you time and money when establishing and growing your own business.

Sadly there are approximately 10,000 puppy mills in the US; it is alarming! The purpose of breeding is not to make a profit but to fulfill a need. When the priority is the dogs' well-being and to provide quality to the customer, the money will come. That's why this book is packed with all the information to start a humane dog-breeding business where the main focus is the proper care of dogs.

Making a profit is the most important - some might say the only - objective of a business. Profit measures success. It can be defined simply: Revenues - Expenses = Profit. So, to increase profits you must raise revenues, lower expenses, or both. To make improvements you must know what's really going on financially at all times. You have to watch every financial event without any kind of optimistic filter. This guide will help you analyze your profits, their sufficiency and trend, the contribution of each of your product lines or services to them, and will help you determine if you have the ...

At more than a billion dollars, the mobile-food industry is enjoying more publicity and notoriety than ever before. Catering to a new generation of foodies looking for quick and unique specialties, the mobile-food business is booming with new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. From gourmet food to all-American basics and hot dog wagons to bustaurants, our experts give you the delicious details behind starting and running a successful mobile-food business.

Tax time is the most feared phase of the year for most people. It's a full-time job to keep up with the intricacies of tax law and accounting, but it's not your full-time job. You've got to run a business. The book provides you with the help you need in the time you have so that you can get taxes off the road and get back to work.

Certain businesses are legendary, exerting immense influence in their field. Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor, Michigan, is one of those places. Over the years, the flagship deli has expanded into a community of more than a dozen businesses, including a wildly successful mail order operation, restaurants, bakery, coffee roastery, creamery, candy maker, and events space—transforming Ann Arbor into a destination for food lovers.

In this book, you'll discover the road map to financial salvation with proven steps to make your business more proficient, productive, and profitable. You'll learn how to unlock the proper mindset for success, practice compounding habits, and set authentic goals. You'll also gain insight into building a positive workplace culture, deciphering core values, and recruiting a team of high-achievers. Plus, you'll learn how to set up systems and processes for increased efficiency, establish consistent cash flow, and create a raving fan base.

A design process presents a series of steps, but in real life, it rarely plays out this neatly. Navigating Ambiguity underscores how the creative process isn’t formulaic. This book shows you how to surrender control by being adaptable, curious, and unbiased as well as resourceful, tenacious, and courageous.

Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like portable communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this audiobook will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend.

Internationally recognized “millionaire-maker” Dan Kennedy leads business professionals into the post-recession economy and introduces them to the new rules, new restrictions, new obstacles, and new opportunities that lie ahead. Entrepreneurs are mentored on which current business truths and principles are still relevant, but more importantly, Kennedy offers completely new strategies, tactics, and applications to help them succeed in the new economy.

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.

Bennie Pollard has spent his entire adult life working his butt off. After a very challenging childhood, Pollard followed in his mother’s and aunt’s footsteps who were both hairdressers. Pollard started cosmetology school in the early 1980s. He went on to open his own salon in 1992, and by the early 2000s he added “manufacturer” to his resume. Motivated by some of the world’s most influential speakers, Pollard began to make plans to expand his mark on the beauty industry.

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.

Are you among the thousands of retailers frustrated by market challenges and looking for ways to take control of your business? Are you looking for the advice of an expert consultant, but unable to spend the money? Then The Retail Doctor's Guide to Growing Your Business is for you.