Small Business Development

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off.

So you have an idea, or maybe a service and you’ve decided you want to open your own business…But where do you start? Whether it's simple like a local window cleaning business you want to begin ... .or a software idea that could take over the globe, we help you cover all of the basics & foundational steps so you learn to walk before you run! Now, it's time to get to work so you can get back to doing what you do best…serving your customers.

In this latest offering from Tim Lyons, a renowned fitness pro, seasoned entrepreneur, and marketing expert, he takes you through mistakes gym owners make, distilling over 15 years of first-hand experience into a handy guide. With real-world examples and actionable advice, Lyons covers everything from location misses, mismanaging teams, blunders in marketing, all through to how gyms handle their clients. He provides practical insights on bouncing back from mistakes, optimizing operations, and building a strong community brand.

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

99% of the time what we THINK is the problem is actually NOT the problem. We’ve all been there. You thought you solved a tough problem, and then it’s back again. Or you’ve worked and reworked your solution and you’re hitting dead ends. Why? We have been taught to find answers to problems, not to question the problem itself. We are still using strategies we learned in elementary school to solve complex, non-routine, difficult and potentially dangerous problems.

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.