Small Business Development

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.

Did you ever wonder what kind of impression you leave on the people you meet? Have you ever been introduced to someone only to run out of things to say after the initial “hello”? Do you struggle with small talk and often find yourself in a “awkward silence” situation? Luckily, there are methods and techniques you can use to improve your small talk skills, boost your confidence, and make a great first impression every time.

Zero to Sold is a comprehensive and actionable guide through the four stages of a bootstrapped business: Preparation, Survival, Stability, and Growth. From your first idea to successfully selling your business for life-changing amounts of money, this book will help you become a world-class entrepreneur. By focusing on your niche audience, finding their critical problem, and solving it with a product that your customers can't resist to pay for, you will learn how to create a recurring revenue engine that will make you financially independent.

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.

Existe un increble método para convertir un negocio pequeño en una compañía multimillonaria lder de la industria: el mismo que utilizan los campesinos para tener las calabazas más grandes y ganar los concursos de Halloween, el Gran Plan.

Social media doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. You just need a smarter way to approach it. Social Media Made Smarter is your real-world guide to building a time-saving, repeatable system for showing up online with confidence. Whether you’re a solo entrepreneur, service-based business, or small business owner wearing all the hats, this audiobook gives you clear steps to create content that works, without burning out.

This book was a long time coming. For years now, friends, family and colleagues have asked me how I continue to win not realising that I have the same daily struggles as them. I think the difference is that I just keep my head down and stay the course. My career has not always been wins. In fact, I have more losses than wins if you want my honest opinion. I fail every single day in one way or another. There are lessons here. Apply these lessons. Half of winning is just showing up. Apply these lessons and I am positive you will see improvement in your daily life.

A start-up is a risky thing, but there is a better way. Three-time best-selling author David C. Barnett uses his decades of business ownership, management, and consulting experience to show you the lower-risk path to owning the business of your dreams. It’s not new. It may be less exciting. But your kids will get fed every day with this plan.

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.

Are you sick of your office job? Sick of office politics? Then consider working from home. Discover the benefits of working from home; types of work from home jobs; how to find work from home opportunities; important skills to learn; building your online portfolio; networking online; getting your first paid client; and much more.

Erik Shellenberger is back with Restaurant & Bar Marketing IV: If I Could Give It Zero Stars, I Would - his latest installment in the Bar Marketing Basics series. In this no-nonsense guide, Shellenberger cuts through the BS with refreshing honesty and raw insight.

The one and only reason your business exists (and why it matters). Your business can have a dramatic impact on your personal life. Understanding why you are in business will help you enjoy your business more and will help you build the right kind of business.

Stop chasing money-making schemes and cookie-cutter businesses. Real success is personal and is achieved by finding the path on which you will thrive. The Book on Small Business Ideas will turn you into an idea and cash-flow factory. You'll generate simple small business and side-hustle ideas that are meaningful to you. You'll learn how to stay motivated, analyze your ideas, and launch them successfully.

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.

Based on over 10 years working with small businesses, Kassan says the landscape of investment capital is far larger and more diverse than many would have you believe. Venture capitalists looking for a tenfold return on their investment are a tiny minority, and many investors are just as mission-driven as entrepreneurs. Kassan takes listeners through a six-step process to create a customized capital-raising plan, one that inspires them, excites them, and is in complete agreement with their business, their values, and their lives.

The Entrepreneur’s Exit Playbook: Navigating the Sale of Your Company by Brett Vogeler, a licensed Business Broker and multi-business owner, is your roadmap to a profitable, smooth exit. Drawing on decades of experience, this book offers practical strategies to boost your sale price, simplify the process, and safeguard your financial future.

The most dangerous move in business is the failure to make a move. Global business celebrity and primetime Bloomberg Television host Jeffrey W. Hayzlett empowers business leaders to tie their visions to actions, advancing themselves past competitors and closer to their business dreams.

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.

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.

Have you got an itch to start your own business, go to the North Pole, retrain, lose weight, get promoted, learn to play the ukulele? Or do you just have a nagging sense that there must be more to life? If there is something you really want to do, but secretly fear you'll never do it, then you need this. This is your kick in the pants! To make your thing happen, you have to climb into the ring. You have to face your fears and move from talking to doing.