Small Business Management

In his comprehensive Starting a Business QuickStart Guide, Ken Colwell concisely presents the core fundamentals that all new entrepreneurs need to know to get started, find success, and live the life of their dreams.

From Clutter To Cash: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Junk Removal is a comprehensive guide that empowers aspiring and established entrepreneurs to navigate the lucrative field of junk removal. This book dives deep into every facet of starting, managing, and scaling a junk removal business, merging practical advice with actionable strategies to turn clutter into profit. Structured into ten detailed chapters, the guide begins by exploring the fundamentals of the junk removal industry, highlighting key challenges and opportunities. Readers will learn about the essential tools and knowledge needed...

Sell your business. Stick the landing. We’ll show you how. Exit Strategy is everything you need to know about selling a business. Dr. Sherry Walling, a clinical psychologist specializing in entrepreneur mental health, and Rob Walling, a serial entrepreneur who has secured life-changing sums in multiple exits, have teamed up to provide you with a roadmap for navigating this treacherous terrain, offering a rare combination of practical savvy and emotional nuance that can only come from a true understanding of the journey. Exit Strategy will teach you: When is the right time to sell?

With the horrific failure rates of restaurants, how can you ensure yours will not only survive but grow and thrive? If your restaurant sucks, it is because you suck at running it; 100 percent. Donald Burns, author of Your Restaurant Sucks has created a methodology and mindset honed from his Special Operations training in the US Air Force. As a Pararescueman, his training developed a keen sense of purposeful and fast decision making. In the military, he learned the phrase, "embrace the suck".

Are you feeling bogged down with the day-to-day activities in your business? Businesses fail and become miserable enterprises when business owners start losing clarity, focus and direction - when the business owner gets bogged down with the day-to-day activities - and working ON the business instead of IN the business becomes a ‘should’ instead of a MUST. Like a too-cluttered closet, the business can become overwhelming - presenting multiple options but none that leap out as a clear choice. What typically happens at that point is either the business owner sits on the fence and takes no ...

Business owners want growth but fear it will take over their lives. Surprisingly, the only way to truly grow your company is to reduce its reliance on you - to scale. Jeff Hoffman and David Finkel offer a blueprint to rapidly grow your business while also gaining more freedom. Based on their own experiences starting, scaling, and effectively exiting from multiple successful companies, they provide seven clear principles that will help you determine the best strategy for growth in your company.

Would your business be better off if you had more time to get stuff done? In this book, I'm going to share with you four key concepts you must understand and apply if you ever want to break free of your business. If you're like many business owners, you probably feel like you put in a lot of time working without a spectacular payoff. In this book, I'm going to show you a system that takes your frustration, long hours, and substandard pay and trades it all for freedom, comfortable hours, and higher pay for you. Then, you can take that long-overdue vacation. Sound good?

"ChatGPT Prompts for the Home and Business" is not just a guide—it is a revolution. Written by adjunct professor and writer Joseph Ejike Ojih (Ph.D.), this book reveals the secret weapon of modern families and entrepreneurs: the art of using AI prompts to simplify life, boost productivity, and win back time. Whether you are a busy parent trying to organize family dinners and chore schedules, or a bold entrepreneur looking to write better emails, craft business plans, or sell on Amazon and Shopify, this book gives you the exact prompts you need to succeed. No fluff. No jargon. Just ...

Leaders of large businesses rely on boards and their managers for guidance, but entrepreneurs like you have few, if any, experienced advisors to count on. Now, Self-Made Boss provides the community of advisors you need to help make the right decisions every time. Drawn from real-life stories directly from Square's Seller's Community, the book shows you exactly what works and what doesn't.

How does a suburban pizza joint end up profiled on national magazine covers and network TV news? (Hint: The secret is not in the sauce.) When Nick Sarillo decided to open a family-friendly pizza restaurant in the suburbs of Chicago, people thought he was nuts. Having worked as a carpenter for much of his adult life, he lacked any formal experience in restaurants or in managing a small business. Everyone told him no one else would ever care about his place the way he did.

Mark Siebert, franchise expert and author of Franchise Your Business, flips his script from franchising your existing business to offer entrepreneurs a comprehensive guide to succeeding as franchisees. The Franchisee Handbook tells listeners how to take a systematic approach to assess and invest in franchise opportunities, so they end up with the right fit for their entrepreneurial style. Sharing tales from the trenches and real-world anecdotes from successful franchises, Siebert lays out everything you need to know before signing with well-known franchises.

Are you a business owner who has little experience with accounting notions? Do you want to optimize resources and lower the costs of managing your business? Learn to easily manage the accounting by using the software QuickBooks. If you want to manage your business well, optimizing accounting processes and financial planning, saving time and money to invest in the growth of your business, this audiobook will become your best partner.

Small businesses often fail because owners are unaware of the many elements that can prevent the business from growing and being successful. Often, small businesses are organized around the manager's specific area of expertise, such as marketing, accounting or production. This specialized expertise often prevents the busi¬ness owner from recognizing problems that may arise in other parts of the business. This guide will provide you, the small busi¬ness entrepreneur, with the essentials for conducting a comprehensive search for existing or potential problems in your production system. This...

Stop the Money Drain: A Simple Guide to Cutting Business Costs Transform Your Business Finances in Just 6 Months – Reduce Operating Costs by 20-35% Without Sacrificing Quality or Service Is your business hemorrhaging cash through hidden expenses, forgotten subscriptions, and inefficient processes? You're not alone. Most business owners watch helplessly as money drains from their accounts through dozens of tiny leaks they never even notice – until now. What You'll Discover: This comprehensive 12-chapter guide reveals the systematic approach successful entrepreneurs use to slash operating...

If you are the owner of a home-improvement company of any kind and you want to make quantum leaps in the results you get from your life and your business - this book is for you. Inside this book, entrepreneur, marketing strategist, and host of The Wealthy Contractor podcast Brian Kaskavalciyan will share with you the seven “secrets” that drive the results of every wealthy contractor.

What does an executive director actually do? And how can you lead your organization to a stronger place? Nonprofit expert Erik Hanberg wrote The Little Book of Nonprofit Leadership to speak directly to executive directors of small (and very small) nonprofits who are asking these questions. EDs, especially at small nonprofits, tend to be dropped into the deep end of the pool with the expectation that they know how to swim. The Little Book of Nonprofit Leadership will be a welcome rescue line.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Company of One by Paul Jarvis, read by Sam Woolf. What if the real key to a richer and more fulfilling career was not to create and scale up a new business but rather to be able to work for yourself, determine your own hours and become a (highly profitable) and sustainable company of one? Suppose the better - and smarter - solution is simply to remain small? Company of One is a refreshing new approach centred on staying small and avoiding growth for any size business.

In this lesson, learn about acquisitions and mergers, the role they play in business and how to use them successfully. Advice for entrepreneurs who want to rapidly expand their business and safely buy a functioning company or companies.

You don’t need a marketing degree, an office, or years of experience to launch a profitable online business. You just need the right tools, a step-by-step plan, and the confidence to take action. Launch Your Own Social Media Marketing Agency with AI is the complete beginner’s guide for anyone who wants to build a flexible, modern business from home—using powerful (and often free) AI tools like ChatGPT, Canva, Buffer, and more. This book takes you by the hand and shows you exactly how to: Choose a niche and create a brand—even with no prior experience Use AI to write captions, design...

Far from a dry listen, The Lean Law Firm is the first book published by the ABA to employ the novel to teach business lessons. Follow the engaging story of lawyer Carson Wright, who suddenly finds himself responsible for saving a small law firm, as his mentor Guy Chapman imparts the lean techniques that transformed his factory from the brink of bankruptcy to new heights of profitability. As you hear the The Lean Law Firm story unfold, you’ll see how your own firm is really just a system.