Small Business Development

Our tastes in coffee vary from person to person. Everyone is looking for the best cup of coffee, from lattes and cappuccinos to French press and drip-brew. Author Stella Perry prepares the listener for a career in coffee with a walk through different types and preparations of coffee, including tips you should always keep in mind to make the perfect cup.

For years, consumers have been promised a simple, carefree digital future. We could live, work, learn, and play from the comforts of our homes, and have whatever we desire brought to our door with the flick of a finger. Instant communication would bring us together. Technological convenience would give us more time to focus on what really mattered. When the pandemic hit, that future transformed into the present, almost overnight. And the reviews aren't great.

Author and world-renowned restaurant coach Donald Burns brings his straightforward advice on how to get the restaurant you want. His knowledge in running a restaurant not only comes from his technical skills, but also his nearly four decades of real-life restaurant experience as a restaurateur and working with celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck. Your Restaurant STILL Sucks! is not your usual guide on how to run a restaurant. Instead, it will challenge you to rethink the way you look at how you run your restaurant. This book is for those who want a better restaurant and a better life.

In The One Minute Entrepreneur, Ken Blanchard (coauthor of the number-one best selling business classic The One Minute Manager); Don Hutson, CEO of U.S. Learning; and Ethan Willis, CEO of Prosper Learning, tell the inspiring story of one man's challenges in creating his own business.

No apology is needed for presenting this famous lecture very early in this series for perusal of business students. May we congratulate ourselves and our listeners on the privilege we have of using and studying Mr. Carnegie's words of practical wisdom.

Si siempre ha querido iniciar su propio negocio, pero no sabe por dónde comenzar y cómo hacerlo con éxito, entonces siga leyendo.... ¿Está cansado de no poder tener el modelo de negocio adecuado? ¿Ha probado un sinfín de soluciones, pero nada parece funcionar durante más de unas pocas semanas? ¿Quiere por fin decir adiós a correr riesgos sin cuidado y descubrir algo que le funcione? Si es así, ha venido al lugar adecuado.

Business models aren’t one-size-fits-all—it's about finding the one that aligns with your personality, resources, and goals. Along the journey, you will need to adopt a positive and determined attitude and reset your mindset.

The word is out: content marketing is king. But when nearly every business has a blog, it's tough to stand out. The real secret is that there's a much better tool for spreading influence and generating revenue - one with far less competition. Podcasting offers rich opportunities, especially if you get in early and do it right.

If you want to succeed in your career, or make more room in your life for the nonwork stuff, then you need to free up some time. And what's the key to finding time? Delegation. Let Gail Thomas teach you to art of delegation. Stop wasting your time on tasks you're overqualified for and see how you actually can focus on the important stuff. And you won't just learn how to delegate 'down' - Gail will also help you master upwards delegation.

Ready to build the Etsy shop of your dreams? Regardless of where you’re starting from, you can launch, grow, and scale a successful Etsy business in less time than you could imagine with this practical step-by-step guide.

En este libro encontrará toda la información necesaria para iniciar su negocio móvil, desde los permisos requeridos para operar en el área de la bahía hasta la lista de utensilios necesarios para comenzar.

The complete guide that will provide you with proven tips and tricks to help you make even more money in your dropshipping venture, this book will teach you advanced dropshipping strategies, the best niche marketing strategies, how to get the best deal from suppliers, how to pick the right channels to sell, the importance of competing with other companies, and much more.

Creating a captive insurance company may sound daunting, but with Mr. Strauss's guidance you can navigate the legal maze and utilize this valuable strategy with ease. Don’t miss out on crucial out-of-pocket savings and create more liquidity in a more tax-efficient manner. Take steps today and reap the benefits of captive insurance!

The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on entrepreneurship and start-ups, listen to these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.

Get insider secrets on how to sell your own business. For years David C Barnett met with business owners and showed them that he could get them the maximum value for their business; now he shares these secrets with you. When it comes time to retire, divest, or simply move on to something else and you want to sell your business, listen to this book.

In the new edition of this fascinating book, a book that has appeared on MSNBC, CNBC, Slashdot.org, Lifehacker.com and in the New York Times, best-selling author Scott Berkun pulls the best lessons from the history of innovation, including the recent software and web age, to reveal powerful and surprising truths about how ideas become successful innovations - truths people can easily apply to the challenges of today.

For decades, statisticians, social scientists, psychologists, and economists (among them Nobel Prize winners) have spent massive amounts of precious time thinking about whether streaks actually exist. After all, a substantial number of decisions that we make in our everyday lives are quietly rooted in this one question: If something happened before, will it happen again? Is there such a thing as being in the zone? Can someone have a "hot hand"? Or is it simply a case of seeing patterns in randomness? Or, if streaks are possible, where can they be found?

Renowned entrepreneur and executive director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship Paul Cheek delivers an actionable field guide to transforming your one great idea into a functional, funded, and staffed startup. Building on the ideas presented in the bestselling Disciplined Entrepreneurship, the author delivers a comprehensive set of solutions you can implement immediately to advance your company to its next stage of growth.

Making a profit is the most important - some might say the only - objective of a business. Profit measures success. It can be defined simply: Revenues - Expenses = Profit. So, to increase profits you must raise revenues, lower expenses, or both. To make improvements you must know what's really going on financially at all times. You have to watch every financial event without any kind of optimistic filter. This guide will help you analyze your profits, their sufficiency and trend, the contribution of each of your product lines or services to them, and will help you determine if you have the ...

Discover the secrets to a thriving lawn care business with The Lawn Care Advantage: Winning Strategies for a Thriving Landscaping Business. In this compelling guide, author and industry expert Paul Jamison shares invaluable insights and real-life success stories that will transform the way you approach your lawn care entrepreneurship.