Small Business Success

In Small Beginnings, Sara Thurman, artist, author, and founder of a Christian business called Acts 1:8 Blessings, pens her inspiring true story of becoming an artist by pursuing God’s calling. Sara shares how her creative path intertwines with our own impossible journey by giving hope to what seems unreachable. Small Beginnings is anchored on Sara’s belief that we all have an innate ability to create and it will teach you how to discover and focus on your own gifts to build a life and work full of purpose.

The Law of Small Things also exposes how our culture encourages breaches of integrity through an array of “permitted promise-breaking”, a language of clichés that equates self-interest with duty, and the “illusion of inconsequence” that excuses small breaches with the breezy confidence that we can fulfill integrity when it counts. Brody challenges the prevailing notion that integrity is a possession you hold permanently. No one “has integrity”, and no one is perfect in practicing it. What we have is the opportunity to uphold promises and fulfill duties.

This audiobook is full of practical steps to more sales, more profits, and more peace of mind when it comes to running a small business. This 25th anniversary edition is updated for modern day marketing and other challenges.

Are you unsure how to hand over control, or how to take it? Passing Down Your Success reveals the family dynamics that can hamper intergenerational transition–and how to address them. Learn how to face difficult questions together as a family, analyze your business, and prepare for a successful transition.

Turning passion into a business takes much more than desire, energy, and creativity. You need a sound game plan and a solid understanding of business fundamentals to give it wings. In Dream Bold, Start Smart, visionary business advisor and tax and accounting expert Tatiana Tsoir gives “almost-preneurs” the skills, tools, and confidence to successfully pursue their dreams of starting a business.

This book reveals the most innovative and successful tools for increasing your income, building your professional authority, creating and maintaining a community of customers, engaging in creative marketing, and maximizing your sales. Apply the skills and strategies you will gain here, and your business will soar! Learn all about getting high prices for your products, thinking creatively at all times, turning compliments into income and motivating people to act, marketing and selling more effectively, making as many people as possible talk about you as much as possible, and more.

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.

No Startup Left Behind is a breath of fresh air in the coddled, avoid-failure-at-all-cost world of traditional entrepreneurship that aims to wait until passion strikes to even launch, please every customer at any cost, and over promise but underwhelm every market.

Bookkeeping and accounting can be the most daunting tasks facing owners of small businesses. Information can be difficult to find or access and learning what tools will help you excel in business accounting can seem to take far too long. QuickBooks: A Complete Guide to Bookkeeping and Accounting for Small Businesses for Beginners can assist even the most novice business owner in learning the ins and outs of bookkeeping and effective ways to use one of the most valuable tools in the accounting world, QuickBooks (with illustrations!).

More people are becoming successful entrepreneurs than ever before, and you can too. This lively, authoritative program introduces you both to experts and to people like you who are living their dreams, in six information-packed lessons to jump-start your future.

Nowadays, the world is changing fast toward global automation, even in the world of work! It’s a golden moment for those who want to ride this wave and build financial freedom, getting back much more time for their loved ones, their passions, and their lifestyle. Step by step, you’ll discover the world of vending machines, forging your skills in this profitable market.

This audiobook will help you develop effective communication skills you can use in all aspects of your daily life: at home with your family, at work, with friends, and in every situation requiring interaction with other people. You will learn how to communicate lovingly and respectfully. You will develop self-confidence and influence. Above all, you will learn why just being an effective listener can instantly elevate your ability to communicate well.

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.

Following the pack and doing what you are told may get you a job and even a promotion, but it won’t lead to real success. Entrepreneur Arthur Wylie, who made his first million by 26, has conquered the worlds of finance, real estate, and entertainment with more than $50 million in deals brokered and almost half a billion in assets and transactions under management. In Only the Crazy and Fearless Win BIG!, he shares a little secret that few books discussto win big you have to be fearless.

So how does he do it? Does Elon Musk have some kind of superpower? Does he know something you don't? Is it possible for someone like you to make the kind of waves in history that this South African-born entrepreneur did? Actually, yes. There is no special potion to conjure, no magic spell to recite, no rare crystal one must attain to follow in Musk's footsteps. All it really takes is determination, dedication to a goal, and recognizing and accepting personal limitations.

Wayne Rogers has, over the past four decades, become an enormously successful entrepreneur and businessman - and in Make Your Own Rules he shows you how to retain your own identity and reap tremendous rewards in your career and business while doing so. Using fascinating examples from his wide array of experiences - all of which involved leaping into situations where he lacked the traditional background in a particular field - Rogers presents a clarion call to the creative-minded person who isn’t quite sure how to apply that creativity to the world of business.

Have you ever been thrust into a surprising place of leadership? Are you looking for a mentor who has had similar experiences? Ebony S. Small is a young leader with a wealth of experience in both churches and organizations. She's got practical and biblical wisdom to offer whether you are just starting or are looking for a fresh start in your life and leadership. Every life experience - good, bad, or indifferent - is a distinct marker that God used to hardwire you for purpose and help you lead from an authentic and healthy place.

Thousands of talented, capable entrepreneurs and creatives are playing small and wondering why they aren’t getting the results they deserve. Increasing your visibility to become the leading figure in your field isn’t rocket science. It takes two things - the mindset of self-belief and a strategy for becoming an authority. This book takes you back to the basics of how you think about yourself and your success. The first step to becoming visible is understanding the limiting beliefs that keep you hiding and stuck.

As the world's economies continue to melt down, Dr. Goldsmith gives us the information we need to help us make it through this difficult and scary time. Anyone who wants to keep his or her job - and any leader who wants to keep his or her company afloat - needs to learn how to deal with and utilize the power of emotions.

There are so many different ways to make money these days that you're almost spoiled for choice. Take a look at the options in this book, and work out which ones work best for your situation. You might choose just one or a combination of two or more options to build your business. You might even choose some of these options to help supplement your cash flow while you're building up another part of your overall business plan.