Small Business Development

Transform your business into a High-Value Asset, ready for expansion or sale. Are you a business owner striving to grow your company or prepare it for a lucrative exit? This book is your comprehensive guide to achieving both goals with confidence and clarity.

Exploring and explaining more than 80 of the world's most important theories and big ideas about trade, commerce, and management, this audiobook offers a fascinating look at the world of business past and present. A perfect primer on the fundamental tenets of the subject, The Business Book sheds light on some of history's most important milestone developments and the key business strategies used by leading thinkers and gurus from Henry Ford to Steve Jobs.

What makes you stand out? In a world filled with good choices, why should your prospective clients choose you over the competition? In short, it comes down to answering one question: "Why should I choose you?" Whether you compete in a market saturated with similar service companies, or with franchises and corporations thousands of times your size, Lobster on a Cheese Plate will give the tools you need to take them on and win.

A design process presents a series of steps, but in real life, it rarely plays out this neatly. Navigating Ambiguity underscores how the creative process isn’t formulaic. This book shows you how to surrender control by being adaptable, curious, and unbiased as well as resourceful, tenacious, and courageous.

This audiobook covers how to assess whether your business is ready for franchising, the benefits of and alternatives to franchising and how to evaluate the financial feasibility of franchising your business. It outlines a franchising road map which will help you to create a franchise action plan and make it happen.

Erik Shellenberger is back with Restaurant & Bar Marketing IV: If I Could Give It Zero Stars, I Would - his latest installment in the Bar Marketing Basics series. In this no-nonsense guide, Shellenberger cuts through the BS with refreshing honesty and raw insight.

A pioneer of content marketing, Joe Pulizzi has cracked the code when it comes to the power of content in a world where marketers still hold fast to traditional models that no longer work. In Content Inc., he breaks down the business-startup process into six steps, making it simple for you to visualize, launch, and monetize your own business.

Behind every successful business is a history of mistakes, failures, and embarrassing moments—some big and some small. Regardless of their size, these failures are essential to learning and to growing professionally and personally. Todd Palmer’s failure was big—and the best thing that could have happened to him. When his business nearly went bankrupt in 2006, he began learning the critical steps that would not only rescue his company but also guide him toward becoming a powerful coach for entrepreneurs looking to go from ordinary to extraordinary.

The Business of Real Estate Photography provides the blueprints to start your own real estate photography business by providing a detailed guide on developing a business strategy and marketing plan, in addition to valuable information on the financial and legal aspects of the business. It assists you in gaining a thorough understanding of the market and includes many useful tips and lessons learned from the author’s own experiences that can save you time and money when establishing and growing your own business.

This book was a long time coming. For years now, friends, family and colleagues have asked me how I continue to win not realising that I have the same daily struggles as them. I think the difference is that I just keep my head down and stay the course. My career has not always been wins. In fact, I have more losses than wins if you want my honest opinion. I fail every single day in one way or another. There are lessons here. Apply these lessons. Half of winning is just showing up. Apply these lessons and I am positive you will see improvement in your daily life.

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.

In this book, author Chris Penasa shows you how to attain consistency, profitability, and scalability in your construction or trade business. As the cofounder of the industry-leading coaching practice Small Business Growth Partners, Chris has helped develop a proven system for unlocking organizational growth. Whether you’ve been struggling with personnel issues, marketing, sales, processes, or anything in between, this book will help you transform your pain points into strengths.

If you have finally had enough of the constant cash flow struggle and you are ready to make a change, Profit First for Tradies will guide you. Katie Crismale- Marshall has taken the core concepts of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First method and customised it to meet the specific needs of Australian tradies.

Looking for a step-by-step guide to creating business plans that both boost operational focus and raise serious moola? Searching for a no-nonsense crash-course in business-plan writing that’ll have you talking like an MBA grad (even if you never got past 10th-grade geometry)? Then look no further, intrepid entrepreneur! Because in How to Write a Business Plan That Doesn’t Suck, you’ll have a business planner Sherpa walking you through every step of the way.

It is time to stop the busy work of constantly putting out fires. It’s time to Let Your Business Burn. Scott Beebe has helped liberate business owners around the world from the chaos of constantly putting out hundreds of petty fires and has equipped them to let their business burn. In Let Your Business Burn, Scott guides you through a story-filled, template-packed, step-by-step discovery of the foundational elements that every business needs to stop putting out fires and instead build a business that matters.

Growing up in poverty, Burton Hughes was constantly told: “That’s not for you.” Using that as a springboard, he has produced many outstanding achievements, financially and personally. Negative comments about his physique as a young man inspired him to capture the title of Mr. Ohio in body building and being featured in and on magazine covers.

Money is a game you can win. First, understand the rules. True financial independence provides the opportunity to use money the way you'd like, look after your family and plan for your future. This book explains how money works, how to understand it better and how to protect it once your bank balance starts growing

Most people think of Walt Disney primarily as a visionary, but he was also a highly skilled marketer. In this unique book, maverick marketer Andrew Lock guides you through 17 success secrets from Walt and explains how your business can apply them to follow Walt Disney’s way. You’ll discover valuable lessons in sales, marketing, and customer service, as well as how to create memorable experiences that will cause customers to return to you, over and over again.

I work four to six days a week, 12 hour shifts, and make between $350 and $550 per shift, but I realize that I have just enough to pay all my bills with nothing left as I look forward to the next paycheck. I love this profession! This is my passion! But can't I be better financially while still doing what I love? The answer is found in this book.