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Is your small business a sitting duck for cyberattacks? You don’t need a fortune to protect your valuable data. Cybersecurity for Small Businesses: Protect Your Data on a Shoestring Budget provides a practical, actionable guide to securing your business without breaking the bank. This book cuts through the jargon and delivers straightforward strategies that you can implement immediately. Learn how to: Assess your unique risks: Identify your most vulnerable assets and understand the threats you face. Implement cost- effective security measures: Discover free and low-cost tools and ...

Legendary business coach Dean Graziosi has broken down the walls of complexity around success and created simple success recipes that you can quickly put to use in your life to reach the level of wealth and abundance you desire. This book is not about adding more time to your day. It is about replacing those things that are not serving your future with success habits designed specifically to assist you on your journey to a better you.

In the new recording of the Third Edition created in 2005, Bob Burg builds on his proven relationship-building principles to bring even more clients to your door and helps you attract only those who are interested in what you sell. He shows how to maximize your daily contacts, utilize your tools both online and off, leverage your relationships, and generate ongoing sales opportunities.

When Before You Quit Your Job was written and published, it was a guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs. Today - with the job market in shambles, overseas outsourcing and high unemployment - it can be a path to the salvation so many are looking for: A way take control of their life and use their skills and talents to create their future. Before You Quit Your Job asks: Do you have a million-dollar idea? Are you afraid of failing? Are you tired of making other people rich? Are you sick of taking order from your boss? Are you tired of working hard and not getting ahead?

Simple Numbers can guide you to increased business profitability! Take the mystery out of small business finance with this no-frills guide to understanding the numbers that will guide your business out of any financial black hole. Author Greg Crabtree, a successful accountant, small business advisor, and popular presenter, shows you how to use your firm's key financial indicators as a basis for smart business decisions as you grow your firm from startup to $5 million (and, more!) in annual revenue.

Interested In A More Productive Network? Forget about all those networking skills ... they are of little value. Abandon the notion of accumulating all those spiffy networking techniques … they are a waste of time. You can only achieve long-term networking success through the consistent practice of Foundational Networking, which is the process of consciously building in your relationships the quintessential networking elements of “know, like and trust.”

The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr., a seasoned venture capitalist, who noticed something strange. Start-ups like Twitter, Twitch, and Lyft had achieved extraordinary success despite their disregard for “best practices.” In contrast, other startups deemed highly promising often failed, even when they seemed to do everything right. Seeking answers, Maples and coauthor Peter Ziebelman set out to discover the hidden forces that drive extraordinary start-up success.

If you own a business or want to, you need to know about Quantum Stack Investing (QSI)—a transformative approach to entrepreneurship that can boost your income, wealth, and lifestyle while reducing risk and stress. The traditional path to business ownership is tough, but QSI reveals a smarter, counter-intuitive way to build lasting wealth. This groundbreaking strategy reshapes how entrepreneurs manage their careers, introducing methods not taught in any business school.

Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success.

Inspiring women to pursue their own colorful dreams, I'm Not Really a Waitress tells the story of how Suzi Weiss-Fischmann transformed a small dental supply company into a number one beauty brand around the world.

This book is a guide to help you navigate the world of cryptocurrency - particularly Ripple (XRP). Anyone with an eye on the current financial markets is probably aware that 2017 was the year cryptocurrencies took the world by storm. Now, everyone wants to figure out a way to get aboard this train, but some back off due to the fear that they may not know what to do. With this book, I would like to tell you otherwise. You might not have any prior experience in trading with cryptocurrency, but that is no reason for you not to get started right away!

There’s never been a better time to become an entrepreneur. As wages stagnate and traditional jobs lose their luster, people are eager to be their own bosses and to step out of the grind. But where to begin? What are the real opportunities? How do you avoid becoming consumed by your business, with no room for yourself? Or, even better, how do you use your business to create more peace and freedom in your life? Grant Sabatier has been through it all, and in this hands-on guide, he takes you through each step of the process.

The specialty food and beverage business is a thriving industry, and the barriers to entry are low: All you need is a recipe and a kitchen. It sounds simple, but launching a food or beverage company is a maze of choices and consequences. Douglas Raggio has been there: both as a food founder and as a consultant to other successful start-ups, and he's come to learn that every choice a food founder makes has a fairly predictable outcome.

Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole chronicles the rise, fall, and resurgence of SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci, giving you a primer on how to thrive in an unpredictable business environment. The sheer number of American success stories has created a false impression that becoming an entrepreneur is a can't-miss endeavor - but nothing could be further from the truth. Hopping Over the Rabbit Hole gives you the skills, insight, and mindset you need to be one of the winners.

In Crowdfunded, Mark Pecota breaks down the step-by-step system he and his team have used to launch thousands of products in dozens of categories. In the process, LaunchBoom has driven more than $100 million in revenue through Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and other e-commerce platforms.

The Purposeful Decision Maker presents Pádraig Ó Céidigh’s groundbreaking and holistic approach to decision-making in life and business. He explores both his own rich experience and the most up-to-date thinking in this area to arrive at a methodology for making great decisions consistently. The process begins with the concept of safe harbor: the people, places, and principles that are most important to you. Making great decisions is all about protecting that safe harbor and ensuring your actions are consistent with who you are at your core.

Make your breakthrough with the secrets that fueled 10 of today's greatest entrepreneurial successes!

The time is to act is now! The opportunities for wealth, success, and personal freedom are greater today than ever before. The only question that may be holding you back is: "How?"

Dave Whorton was John Doerr's associate partner at high-flying Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers during Silicon Valley's big shift. After Netscape's IPO, he witnessed the VC industry pivot from a proven forty-year playbook of managing risk to something much more aggressive: Get big fast. Don't worry about profitability. Cash out and find another venture.

Every business leader and entrepreneur should strive for success as well as deep fulfillment and happiness. Few, however, if they are being honest, actually achieve their goals. This causes great disappointment and disillusionment. Many decide they must make a choice between these seemingly opposing states. Is it even possible to be spiritual, incredibly happy and fulfilled and wealthy - all at the same time?

This audiobook is expressively for entrepreneurs and business owners who wear many hats - those who can't resist piling more responsibility onto his own shoulders, who has more great ideas than time and resources to take advantage of them, who runs (not walks) through each day. Serial entrepreneur Dan S. Kennedy delivers a fresh take on the mantra "time is money" as he shows you how to drastically re-engineer your entire relationship with time and, if applied faithfully, achieve peak personal productivity and make lots and lots of money.