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  • Starting a Small Business: From Scratch to Success

  • Turning Napkin Doodles Into a Booming Business
  • By: Lee Merritt
  • Narrated by: Christopher J. Orlando
  • Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Starting a Small Business: From Scratch to Success

By: Lee Merritt
Narrated by: Christopher J. Orlando
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Publisher's summary

Are you ready to transform your visionary idea into a thriving business, achieve financial freedom and write your own success story?

Then dive into this comprehensive, lighthearted and engaging business guide, providing you with practical, hands-on strategies to kickstart your business journey from ground up

Master an empowering entrepreneurial mindset and overcome fear of failure

  • Cultivate an unstoppable entrepreneurial mindset: Learn to ride the entrepreneurial roller coaster with resilience like a seasoned mogul
  • Rewire your brain for success: Adopt a powerful psychological model to shift from limiting to empowering beliefs & safeguard against entrepreneurial burnout

Discover the secret of identifying, validating & tweaking a winning business idea

  • Idea evolution: From identification and validation to fine-tuning, master the art of turning raw ideas into lucrative ventures
  • Interactive SWOT analysis: Engage in a workbook exercise in a complementary PDF designed to crystallize your business's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats

Demystify finance & get your business funded in the right way

  • Finance, simplified: Grasp the essentials of business finance and taxation, making the complex understandable (and a little less boring!)
  • Capital insights: Explore diverse funding avenues

Learn how to run your business like a seasoned pro even if you are new entrepreneurship

  • Talent acquisition and leadership: Discover effective techniques for recruiting a stellar team and fostering a culture of collaborative success
  • Marketing decoded: Unravel the mysteries of impactful marketing

Are you ready to ditch the 9-to-5 grind forever? Your blueprint to entrepreneurial triumph awaits! Make this guidebook yours now!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2023 Lee Merritt (P)2023 Lee Merritt
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A Great Guide for Newbies

This book has all the hacks for one to develop a business mindset . Figuring out what you are good at and turning if from a hobby perspective to a business mindset can be very enriching. Make good use of this book if you are starting a business so you do not make the same mistakes others have made.

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Very helpful

I have experience starting multiple small businesses and found this book very helpful. It gave me ideas I hadn’t even thought of!

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Great overall audiobook about starting a business

I got a lot more out of this guide than I originally thought. The swot analysis really helped me me see my business idea through a more professional lens. Before it, my idea was all a bit fuzzy, now I feel confident.

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Excellent for entrepreneurs!

I am in the process of starting my first business and this guide was so helpful. So many little tips and i loved the exercises.

highly recommend!

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Interesting for business beginners

Lee Merritt's "The Entrepreneur's Blueprint" is a fun, engaging guide for aspiring business owners. It covers from mindset shifts to funding options, making it a great starting point for your entrepreneurial journey.

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A perfect guidance book for new entrepreneurs

This is a perfect guidance book for anyone diving to entrepreneurship. It's like having a supportive mentor guiding you through the anxieties of starting a business! It packed with practical tips that could help readers in growing and navigating their business ventures. Totally love it!

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Fantastic, straightforward guide

I loved this audiobook. It covered so many topics in an easy and engaging manner. Highly recommend it to anyone wanting to plunge into entrepreneurship. It covers everything from idea, to market positioning, pricing, taxes, business structure marketing and more. While this topic can get a bit boring this audiobook kept me engaged the whole time. Especially thanks because of the amazing narrator.

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Great guide!

This is a great guide to not only motivate you start your own business but also give you the know how how to make it a reality. There is a surprising amount of content packed into it.

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Inspiration for Small Business Entrepreneurs

Loved this inspirational how-to for entrepreneurs entering the world of small business. Expert reality-based advice from Lee Merritt is friendly and encouraging with clear step-by-step instructions throughout. Christopher Orlando's narration is lively and engaging, and he proceeds at a good pace. The language is colorful with great metaphors that bring in a bit of humor. From overcoming fears and roadblocks, identifying new opportunities to grow, to winning social media marketing techniques, the path to success is laid out like an adventure. Highly recommend. I took a lot of notes, and will be using these ideas to help me grow my small business as an indie publisher.

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Solid advice

There are many useful tips and pointers from someone who's succeeded in business in this audiobook. It's a useful guide in terms of helping you identify a potential opportunity and then gain clarity about how you could tap that market. It's an honest and insightful guide. If anything, I would like the narrator to just speak it out as if talking to me individually more....perhaps would have been better if the author himself did it. Having said that, the information is very good.

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