Small Business Success

When pioneering business journalist and Inc. magazine editor at large Bo Burlingham wrote Small Giants, it became an instant classic for its original take on a common business problem - how to handle the pressure to grow. Now Burlingham is back to tackle an even more common problem - how to exit your company well. Sooner or later, all entrepreneurs leave their businesses and all businesses get sold, given away, or liquidated.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Mastering Cold Calling and Building a Business Are you ready to launch your first business? Perhaps you’ve owned one before, or maybe you’re already running your own company. Wherever you are in your journey, there’s one skill every entrepreneur needs to master: cold calling. While it may seem like an outdated strategy, cold calling remains one of the most effective ways to drum up new business and achieve real growth. In this candid, no-nonsense guide, author Jon Robert Quinn takes you through the highs and lows of his career, from spending long hours ...

Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that passion and make a living doing what you love. In Crush It! Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion, Gary Vaynerchuk shows you how to use the power of the Internet to turn your real interests into real businesses.

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.

There’s a world of difference between making a living and having a life. Balancing the demands you face every day can feel like being trapped in a frustrating maze, but there is a way out: you can take control and live the life you want to live - and love your work at the same time.Live Life, Love Work, from bestselling NLP expert and coach Kate Burton, is full of ideas for reviewing your priorities and re-charging your energy levels.

Small Business, Big Dreams: Your Path to Success in the Modern World and ChatGPT is the ultimate guide for aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners who want to thrive in today's digital landscape.

"Small Town Success: Effective Advertising Strategies for Small Businesses" is a comprehensive guide for local entrepreneurs seeking to amplify their market presence. This book covers various advertising techniques, from traditional print and radio to cutting-edge digital and AI-driven strategies.

Drawing on cutting-edge research from behavioural science, Dr Grace Lordan offers immediate actionable solutions and tips that will help you get closer to your dream future, every day. Focusing on six key areas - your time, goal planning, self-narratives, other people, your environment and resilience - Dr Lordan reveals practical, science-backed hacks that will help you get ahead.

Tim’s Guide to Furniture Restoration: Turning Passion into Profit is the ultimate step-by-step guide for turning your passion for furniture restoration into a thriving business. This comprehensive book provides practical advice, clear instructions, and actionable steps to help you start, grow, and sustain a profitable restoration enterprise.

Jenny Blake, author of the award-winning book Pivot and co-creator of Google’s acclaimed Career Guru coaching program, is back with her signature blend of heart-based operating principles and practical tools. This book will teach you how to move from friction to flow through smarter systems and the three-stage Free Time Framework.™ Free Time is a playbook to free your mind, time, and team for your best work. This book will teach you and your team to operate efficiently and intuitively.

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.

This book needed to be written because every single day a business professional or entrepreneur comes to me with a problem, I give them the answer or point them in right direction and a lot of times, they never do anything with it. I know this is not just me who deals with this. This is a problem that plagues the workforce and if I can help even one person, this book was worth it. You cannot be successful if every opportunity presented to you slips through your fingers. You have to do the work. You cannot think and grow rich. You have to DO to grow rich. You have to get off your butt and ...

Here, the FUBU founder and star of ABC's Shark Tank shows that, far from being a liability, broke can actually be your greatest competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. Why? Because starting a business from broke forces you to think more creatively. It forces you to use your resources more efficiently. It forces you to connect with your customers more authentically and market your ideas more imaginatively.

Simple Strategies, Remarkable Results Mastering sales is one of the fastest ways to fortune and freedom. Sara Blakely (founder of Spanx) and Zig Ziglar (author, motivational speaker) started their careers doing direct sales and went on to build billion dollar and multi-million dollar empires, respectively. Marcus Chan, one of the world’s leading sales experts, has followed in their footsteps to launch a highly profitable business of his own. Now, he’s bringing you Six-Figure Sales Secrets, a proven framework for taking your sales results to the next level. Whether you’re new to sales ...

At the core of this classic treatise is the message that sledgehammer approaches can backfire, and size alone does not guarantee wins. Strategy, positioning, planning, leadership - all play equally significant roles, making Sun Tzu's teachings perfect for small business owners and entrepreneurs entrenched in fierce competition for customers, market share, talent - for their very survival.

In "How To Turn Your Passion To A Sustainable & Profitable Business," you are invited to embark on a transformational journey that bridges the gap between deep-seated passion and entrepreneurial success. This book is not just a guide; it's a blueprint for turning your fervor into financial freedom. Through its pages, discover how to harness your unique talents, create a business model that thrives, and maintain a balance between passion and profit. Why You Should Buy This Book: Uncover Your Entrepreneurial Spirit: Dive deep into the art of identifying your true passion and learn how to ...

Mastering TabShop for Small Business Success This book is a complete and practical guide for entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to take control of their sales, inventory, and customer management using TabShop, the flexible mobile Point-of-Sale (POS) system. From the first steps of setting up your store to more advanced techniques like synchronizing data with Google Sheets or connecting to WooCommerce, the book walks you through how to build a professional, efficient, and scalable POS system entirely from your tablet or smartphone. The journey begins with an introduction to ...

What if the smartest people in the world understand something that the rest of us don't? (They do.) What if they know that in order to achieve success, they will sometimes have to do things that others may initially perceive as stupid? The fact of the matter is that the smartest people in the world don't run from stupid, they lean into it (in a smart way). In The Power of Starting Something Stupid, Richie Norton redefines stupid as we know it, demonstrating that life-changing ideas are often tragically mislabeled stupid.

From Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, Clockwork, and The Pumpkin Plan, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur.... The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent—but there's no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things.

Behind every successful business is a history of mistakes, failures, and embarrassing moments—some big and some small. Regardless of their size, these failures are essential to learning and to growing professionally and personally. Todd Palmer’s failure was big—and the best thing that could have happened to him. When his business nearly went bankrupt in 2006, he began learning the critical steps that would not only rescue his company but also guide him toward becoming a powerful coach for entrepreneurs looking to go from ordinary to extraordinary.