Small Business Management

Female entrepreneurs are a growing force to be reckoned with. Each year, more and more women take the initiative and start their own business ventures - at twice the rate of men. Women continue to reshape the business world with innovative models, both large and small. So why is there a lack of clear-cut, expert advice aimed at this dynamic female audience?

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.

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.

This is an audiobook for people with ideas. Do you make plans that never get implemented? Are they overly complicated and fail because you simply can't stop planning until it's perfect? Or do you refuse to plan because you care only about getting things done, but end up failing and causing chaos for those closest to you (spouse, partners, teammates, etc.)? Do you end up reworking projects instead of accomplishing your goals?

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.

This easy-to-use guide takes the guesswork out of setting up and running a small business. Reports, troubleshooting, tax preparation, reconciliation, and everyday bookkeeping issues will be a breeze. Cheryl has empowered business owners just like you to become confident in using the QuickBooks® software. Her simple-to-use processes will help your company run like a well-oiled machine.

Learn how to become confident, ambitious, and undeterred on your leadership journey as a woman in masculine environments. In Determined to Lead, award-winning leader and entrepreneur Nada Ahmed offers women an inspiring guide to break free and create their dream careers today. Through her stories, she provides actionable advice on how women can become successful leaders in today's digital age. By fearlessly sharing her own journey, she reminds us that when women believe in themselves, they become unstoppable game-changers; true pioneers who can achieve anything they put their minds to.

From the bestselling author of The Roaring 2000s and The Great Depression Ahead comes a work that looks forward, showing listeners how to weather the storm in this new economy that is going to get much worse in the years ahead.

In his most recent New York Times best-selling work, The Great Depression Ahead, Harry S. Dent predicted the debt crisis that would ensue in the wake of the government’s failed stimulus plan. Dent’s investment advice sees no place to hide....

Creating Your First Team is based on my experience and that of several business owners and professionals who have gotten a few reps to help them grow their business. It is designed to help entrepreneurs, start-ups, small businesses, and professionals obtain more clients and customers.

Meik Wiking understands happiness better than anyone. In his role as Founder and CEO of the world's only Happiness Research Institute, he has travelled the globe interviewing the world's happiest people to discover the key components of happiness.In The Key to Happiness, Meik explores the hidden treasures which can improve your happiness and divides them into the six building blocks of happiness: togetherness, money, health, kindness, trust and freedom.

How to Close A Deal like Warren Buffett offers an original spin on Buffett’s near-mythic dealmaking prowess that will catch the attention of millions of Buffet fans worldwide. Here, Tom Searcy and Henry DeVries acknowledge leaders in sales and sales training and deconstruct the Buffett approach for dealmaking to give listeners a wealth of Warren wisdom to help close every deal.

Do you want to become more productive at your 9-5 day job or at your self-employed business? The Checklist Mindset shows you how to implement not only four daily tasks for increased productivity, but Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, and Google Sheets. You'll also plug into the power of a ZenDesk help desk to systematize and outsource your business, Calendly to handle appointment scheduling, and Zapier to handle task automation.

Wes Berry built a remarkable $60-million-dollar international business from his family’s small florist shop, which began in Detroit. Now, in his extraordinary new audiobook, he shares what he has learned over the years about leadership and business growth. In many businesses that fail, the small things are overlooked; they are the things that are often the easiest to implement, but at the same, time they are easy to forget. It’s these small things that have the greatest impact in the long term.

This guide will walk you step by step through all the essential phases of developing a results driven marketing plan. The marketing plan is a problem-solving document. Skilled problem solvers recognize that a big problem is usually the combination of several smaller problems. The best approach is to solve each of the smaller problems first, thereby dividing the big problem into manageable pieces. Your marketing plan should take the same approach. It should be a guide on which to base decisions and should ensure that everyone in your organization is working together to achieve the same goals...

The Game of Inches offers a revolutionary and sustainable plan for business success and innovation, one improvement at a time. Entrepreneur Nigel Collin has tapped the wisdom and insight of more than 80 of Australia's most successful entrepreneurs and leaders to distill the surprising truth of what it really takes to build a prosperous business. Featuring candid and thought-provoking accounts, the audiobook sets out an actionable blueprint for real growth in your business.

Success as an entrepreneur takes a lot more than big ideas and dedication. With threats of burnout and rejection at nearly every turn, the entrepreneurial journey is riddled with obstacles-but the staff, experts, and voices of Entrepreneur want you to know you're not alone. Entrepreneur Voices on Emotional Intelligence brings you real-world strategies to help you get brutally honest with yourself and boost your emotional intelligence.

In The Five Characteristics of a Successful Entrepreneur, serial entrepreneurs Ryan Westwood and Travis Johnson recount their two-year mission to survey 100,000 highly successful US business CEOs and founders whose organizations have grossed at least $1 million in annual revenue.

A lot of businesspeople talk about innovation, but few companies have achieved the level of truly transformative innovation as brilliantly - or as famously - as the legendary Mayo Clinic. Introducing Think Big, Start Small, Move Fast, the first innovation guide based on the proven, decade-long program that's made Mayo Clinic one of the most respected and successful organizations in the world.

Gaining the Systems Advantage explores how unsuspecting small-business owners get trapped in the daily chaos of feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, and out of control while growing their business and provides strategies and solutions for escaping it.

Have a desire to start a business, but not the foggiest idea what of where to start? (Or what that business should look like?) Have a vague business idea, but unclear how what you need to pull it off? (And how to ensure you create products and services that actual human strangers will pay you money for?)