First Business

In 2003, Cindy Monroe founded Thirty-One Gifts in the basement of her home in Chattanooga, TN, with one goal: to help women by giving them the opportunity to run their own successful businesses. Today, she continues to lead Thirty-One Gifts and build relationships with her consultants all over the country.

Simply put, no one cares if you study hundreds of books or just spend few weeks prepping for the exam. The only thing that matters is a flash message on your exam computer screen stating: "Congratulations! on passing the PMP exam". This small guide (listening time is less than two hours) will give you everything you need to understand the dynamics of the exam and ace it like a pro.

The One Minute Sales Series: Volume 1, First Impressions, gives listeners quick, relevant, practical applications, and motivation for ensuring you make a solid first impression with your customers. Volume one, First Impressions, reminds us to "Wash your ass!" Whether you meet your customers face-to-face, over the phone, or online, learn some practical advice to ensure you win this part of the sales process.

Have you ever read or listened to a short, simple book that inspired your mind and filled your spirits - a book that you couldn't wait to pass on to family and friends? People First is such a book. It contains easily applied wisdom that will take your life, your business, and your home to the next level. Testimonies are pouring in from men and women all over the world who say this little book has changed their lives forever.

Congratulations, the day has finally arrived! You’re officially a first-time manager! But the question is, what’s next? How will you manage a team who works great with each other, meeting all their goals and making every project a success? When trouble arises, what are the proven ways to manage conflict, meet tight deadlines, and still make sure your team feels valued? This book will share with you the proven tips and strategies to help you become an effective and stress-free manager, lead a super successful team, and keep your boss happy.

One professional transition that stands out and is vital to your career is shifting from playing the role of an individual contributor to becoming a manager. There are a lot of things that new managers need to learn apart from leading others. You need to work on yourself, win your team members' trust and respect, become a motivator for them, and find the right balance between the delegation of responsibilities and maintaining control. Becoming a manager is the first step in this process. You work hard, dedicate long hours, and give up your weekends to earn a promotion.

Alixander Dietrich knows a thing or two on public speaking. From being stricken with crippling stage-fright to delivering speeches for international competitions, universities, and corporations, he shares his speech-writing process in this crash course to assist beginner and veteran speakers alike!

When the hot single dad next door asks me to babysit one morning in a pinch, I figure I can help him out temporarily. I'm supposed to be the resident baby expert at RockYourBaby, after all. Unfortunately, behind the computer monitor, my entire life is one big, fat lie. It's my late mother who was the baby whisperer and I'm simply trying to keep her online baby business afloat until we can sell it to the highest bidder.

From the author of The First Timer’s Cookbook and The First Timer’s Bakebook, comes the management playbook specifically written for food service professionals. (Standards plus accountability) consistency equals success. By becoming a servant leader and following this leadership formula, you will lead your teams to lasting success! Developed over 25 years, this management formula is based on principles and experiences, various success, and more importantly failures of Chef Shawn Bucher’s career in the food service industry.

Advertising veterans Mike Sullivan and Michael Tuggle unpack the poorly understood and grossly underleveraged connection between brand and culture. Filled with fascinating case studies, entertaining stories, and engaging insights, the book examines the true essence of what makes a company a challenger brand, unveils how successful challengers of all sizes use culture to create extraordinary brand distinction, and finishes with a detailed blueprint for building your own transcendent culture.

Do you want to generate consistent monthly income on the Internet? Without resorting to scammy get rich quick schemes? Or shelling out thousands of dollars on useless material? If so - you’ve come to the right place.... In this book, you’ll find seven proven methods for making your very first dollar on the Internet. Ones which are working right now, and will continue to work in 2018 and beyond. Each one explained in simple, easy to understand language.

As humans in today's modern society, we are wired to seek more, crave more, have more, and do more. But if you slow down and get honest with yourself around your purpose and life, what do you really want? What do you really seek? As a Purpose First Entrepreneur, it's your job to seize the opportunities in front of you. Discover your purpose and create a life and business that matter. The risk is always worth it.

The Man in the Arena offers the essence of John C. Bogle's thinking and the meaning of his life's work, which transformed individual investing to benefit tens of millions of investors. Through Bogle's own words - as well as the voices of others whose hearts and minds he touched - the book touches on topics he cares about most deeply: Vanguard, indexing, corporate governance, and a fiduciary society.

First 100 Customers: The Entrepreneur’s Roadmap to Success is a step-by-step guide designed to help entrepreneurs attract, engage, and retain their first customers. Packed with actionable strategies, this book covers everything from crafting a compelling value proposition and leveraging social media to building strong customer relationships and scaling your business. Whether you're launching a startup or growing an existing venture, this roadmap provides the tools and insights you need to achieve sustainable success in today’s competitive market.

Does your brand have what it takes to be a Reputation King? Scott and DJ think so. As two of the leading online reputation management experts running one of the largest and most trusted online review platforms in the world, Scott Brandley and DJ Sprague have helped thousands of brands to significantly increase their trust, traffic, and sales. Now, for the first time ever, they pull back the curtain and show you: how the online rating and review world really works, why it's deliberately rigged for you to fail, and what you can do to ethically "hack the system" to win!

Whether you’re a dad or a mom, whether you’re rocking the "parent" part of your life and feel your vision for that radical idea or revolutionary business is on the back burner, or you’re a rock star in the business arena, at the top of your game and you know your relationships pay the price…this book is for you. Cereal Dad Preneur provides a road map and a practical guide to achieve success in all areas of your life.

You may want to start a home business and don’t know where to start or don’t know if you are ready. There are many steps in starting a home business, but you may not know where to begin. Answering these questions will allow you to begin the process of moving forward with your home business.

Robert Carter III, also known as Councillor Carter, was one of the wealthiest men in the United States in the 1700s. He emancipated more than 500 of his enslaved African Americans. And in today's world, his wisdom and teachings are needed more than ever. A Man Named Robert chronicles the actions of Robert Carter III's life and identifies the key leadership lessons he displayed. This book is part history and part guide to becoming a great leader, inspired by Robert Carter III, an advocate of peaceful change while never wavering in making the opposition listen and give in.

CONGRATULATIONS , you are finally going to write your book! You have moved from planning to write a book, to actually writing one. It’s your goal to write a short book with clear benefits to the reader. But this isn’t your first attempt, is it? Maybe you have written your book a hundred times before and never finished because somewhere along the way, you end up stuck or hating your work. In other words, you lose the initial momentum and excitement you had for writing the thing. How to author and self-publish a book are questions that burn in your soul. Burn, baby burn. People who know ...

Das bahnbrechende Werk vom Autor der Weltbestseller "The Pumpkin Plan" und "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur" Mike Michalowicz. Entgegen der herrschenden Meinung sind Unternehmer nicht per se reich. Mike Michalowicz stellt fest, dass viele Unternehmen eher unrentabel sind und viele Selbständige selbst und ständig arbeiten - und so, dass sie kaum davon leben können. Die konventionelle Buchhaltung verwendet die logische (wenn auch fehlerhafte) Formel: Umsatz - Aufwand = Gewinn. Das Problem ist, dass Unternehmen von Menschen geführt werden und Menschen nicht immer logisch sind.