Small Business Leadership

Take a Leap of Faith and Start a Virtual Assistant Business Why are people getting crazy over the idea of starting a virtual assistant business? First, there's convenience of staying at home with your family. Second, you will become your own boss. Third, and perhaps the most appealing, the possibility to earn a lot of money is endless. Take a Leap of Faith and Start a Photography Business This book will guide you in starting your own photography business.

How is your Scrum going? Scrum provides you a framework but doesn't exactly tell you how to do it. Do you want to deviate from “textbook” practices but ensure that you’ll still be Agile? This guide will show you how to practically implement Scrum.

Everyone talks about leadership and teamwork, but where are the truly inspiring examples? Look closer, and you’ll find extraordinary small teams behind many of history’s greatest achievements. It Takes Two or Three: The Superpower of Small Teams reveals the secrets of epic teamwork. Discover how small teams shaped the world—from the women’s rights movement in the 1800s to the Wright Brothers’ first flight in the early 1900s, from Hillary and Tenzing’s summit of Mount Everest to Apollo astronauts overcoming life-or-death crises.

In Too Big to Ignore, recognized technology expert and award-winning author Phil Simon explores an unassailably important trend: Big Data, the massive amounts, new types, and multifaceted sources of information streaming at us faster than ever. Never before have we seen data with the volume, velocity, and variety of today. Big Data is no temporary blip of fad. In fact, it is only going to intensify in the coming years, and its ramifications for the future of business are impossible to overstate.

Have you ever been so comfortable in a situation that you stop growing? Have you ever reached your goals for success - the money, the prestige, the stuff - yet felt unfulfilled in your work and your life? That's the trap of conventional, incremental success. The Trap of Success takes you beyond that comfort zone so you can start your journey to significance and exponential success.

If you are a business owner who wants to be fast at their work and still do it efficiently and effectively, then Work Smarter, Not Harder: 9 Tips for Entrepreneurs to Improve Work Efficiency is for you. You will learn in this book that the secret to running a successful business is not just working harder, but working faster. The nine tips in this book have been a long-time practice of the author, a successful business owner. Your work life will get better, and your business will consequently experience exponential growth.

The concepts in this guide not only teach how to win in entrepreneurship but also how to leverage your network and resources to win at life. Millionaire mentor Christopher Raxton has traveled to many different countries around the world, sharing the blueprint on how to get to the next levels of your life, scaling businesses, selling your products, and impacting tens of thousands of people with this information. Christopher has created multiple six-figure earners through his teachings and looks forward to similar or more success happening for you. Welcome to the Process!

Have you ever felt stuck with a team that underperforms, lacks motivation, or just can’t seem to work together? You’re not alone. Many leaders face the same frustrating challenges—but the difference between success and failure comes down to one thing: how you lead. In My Team Sucked: 10 Rules That Turned Them Into Rockstars, renowned leadership expert Dr. Rick Goodman gives you the playbook you need to turn things around—fast.

Jeff Hayzlett is a big, boisterous guy who has the guts to get in your face and tell you exactly why your business isn't doing well. In short, he asks the questions that most business managers are afraid to ask. And as Jeff points out, if you aren't willing to look at what's working and what isn't - and then take the necessary steps to fix them -- well, you and your colleagues and employees are in for a tough ride.

The Start-Up Kit contains everything you need to start and run your own business! This book is a friendly guide covering all aspects of starting up - from developing a business idea and setting up a company to marketing your new business, getting that first sale and making the most of the latest tech developments. Full of great advice from start-up expert Emma Jones, it's packed with case studies of people who've successfully started their own businesses.

For a business start-up you will be required to pay your own taxes so you must be prepared to learn and understand the different variations of taxes, what's tax deductible and what you can write off. This guide will cover it all and will give you a more in-depth understanding of filing your own taxes.

If you are a marketing agency owner or hold a leadership position in a marketing agency, this audio book is the exact roadmap you need to grow, scale and eventually sell your marketing agency. Regardless of the type of marketing services your agency provides - digital, creative, advertising or a social media marketing - the timeless principles in my book are proven to accelerate the growth of any marketing agency.

Starting a creative company needn't cost you everything. If you agree, then you'll find wit and wisdom in this book for creative entrepreneurs. Author, artist, and graphic designer Patricia Arnold presents her best tips for starting a handmade business with this initial volume in her Creative Entrepreneur series. After starting a decade-old business with a shoestring budget and then founding a second business six years later, Patricia Arnold has a lot to say about building creative businesses from scratch.

When kindness becomes your primary goal, everything changes: how you look at life, what you get from it, and how others interact with and relate to you. The Profit of Kindness will help you master the art of building trusting, long-lasting relationships through open, nonadversarial interchanges that result in mutually beneficial outcomes.

Welcome to " The Workplace: Policies & Procedures to Help You Create a Safe Healthy and Vibrant Workplace." the informative book from the team at "The Small Business Bookstore." In the ever-evolving landscape of the professional world, employers are increasingly recognizing the profound impact of workplace policies on the well-being and performance of their most valuable asset – their employees.

By choosing minimalism, one lives with fewer resources by choice to prevent wastefulness and overwhelm. Minimalism for Business Owners applies these concepts to the entrepreneurial lifestyle to bring the ultimate reward of peace and simplicity. Between every learning chapter there is the fictional story of Jennifer, and how she uses these concepts in her own business as a private music instructor.

Seasoned publicist Bob Bradley offers his insight into the world of public relations and explains how any business or entrepreneur can secure online and print media coverage. Drawing inspiration from his hundreds of campaigns over nearly 15 years, Bob takes the listener through a step-by-step process that helps direct an easy to implement PR campaign that gets results.

Have you ever thought about starting your own tech company? Have you had a revolutionary idea that you knew could be turned into a viable business but just didn't know how to get it off the ground? Well here is your answer! Easier Faster Better teaches you just how to do it.

Startup Culture Mindset: A Primer to Building an Amazing Culture and Tribe was written for startup founders or executives who aspire to create an amazing team that buys into the mission. The key is to understand that the founder of a startup or leaders of a company determine the culture on purpose. And in order to do that well, you have to understand the key elements of a culture framework. Based on 20 years of company creation, leadership, and observation, Bernhard Schroeder shares with you the key elements of a culture framework:

Project Management for Small Projects shows you how to tailor bureaucratic planning processes to a sleek minimum while still keeping your project running like a well-oiled machine. This third edition has been updated to align with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®) and provides new tools, templates, and techniques to support the revised processes. In addition, there is new material on agile project management and on the essential leadership skills for small-project managers.