Small Business Leadership

Debra Traverso tells you how to prepare for the surprises most likely to throw small businesses off course. She helps you anticipate both predictable hurdles and devastating ordeals, so that no crisis will catch you off guard. No need to waste emotions, time, and money when a crisis hits: you can get a good night's sleep!

You take the first (and crucial!) step toward becoming a successful entrepreneur by actually doing something about it. Let's go on the journey together and find out how to start your business.

Whether at work or at home, success is something we strive for in all aspects of our lives. And while there are a number of obvious things you should be doing in order to achieve your goals and reach success, there are also some not-so-obvious ones. Entrepreneur Voices on the Science of Success offers data and research-backed tools and tactics for both business and personal achievement from entrepreneurs and small business owners including Tim Ferris, Brian Tracy, and Reid Hoffman.

The world's most successful startups all share one quality: Their journey to becoming known by many people started with being known by a passionate few. In this book you'll learn how to recognize and grow your startup culture, when to take the steps you need to grow your community, what engagement tools and techniques build community, and how to combine your culture and community into an engine to attract and retain users.

Strategisches Management als unternehmerische Erfolgsgrundlage. Willst Du Unternehmensführung lernen? Bist Du als Geschäftsführer oder Manager permanent überfordert? Sind Dir die strategischen Fehler bekannt, welche das Unternehmen zugrunde richten? Diese Probleme werden ab heute der Vergangenheit angehören. Lerne, wie Du als Manager/Geschäftsführer die Grundlagen der Unternehmensführung kennen, um endlich auch alle personellen und organisatorischen Ressourcen für Dich zu nutzen.

You have a job and an idea for a business. What do you do then? Crisp, listener-friendly and practical, Entrepreneur 5 P.M. To 9 A.M. tells you how you can become an entrepreneur even if you have a full-time job and are risk-averse. This is a fast and super-useful listen from which you will come away with a clear and solid road map for converting your idea into a viable enterprise and taking your venture from zero to launch.

With over 50 percent of businesses failing in the first five years, there’s no doubt that the pressure to perform is ever increasing. Most new business owners say they’re exhausted, overwhelmed, and lost on how to create businesses of their dreams. For those who have the goal of becoming a successful entrepreneur, it’s absolutely crucial to understand and develop the skills for running a business so that it doesn’t become the entrepreneurial nightmare.

This book has been deliberately written in straightforward, jargon-free language understandable by anyone with even a modest background in business. It’s designed to show you how to manage projects of all types, small or large, local or global, in-person or digital, for any kind of organization. I want it to be your toolbox - and I’m looking at you, engineers, software developers, managers, and teachers. Your toolbox is what you go to without thinking, knowing it has the thing you need, and knowing, too, where to find it.

For a business start-up you will be required to pay your own taxes so you must be prepared to learn and understand the different variations of taxes, what's tax deductible and what you can write off. This guide will cover it all and will give you a more in-depth understanding of filing your own taxes.

Relationship Economics® takes a unique long term, strategic and quantifiable view of business relationships that goes far beyond networking oriented books. Nowadays, many companies believe that networking is a key to success. Relationship Economics shows us that this notion is a mere fallacy. With this course, the reader will learn that success comes from learning how to invest in people for an extraordinary return.

Digital marketer and entrepreneur Joshua Littlejohn provides entrepreneurs and small business owners with a proven road to establish their company's image, without breaking the bank. From branding to client relations, Joshua borrows from his own story of starting his small business using a $500 savings withdrawal and structuring it to seem larger than it was. Through that, Joshua worked with top clients, including Fortune 500 companies, established an impressive professional network and earned a solid stream of income, all while still in college.

One learns from mistakes and this educational audibook for entrepreneurs introduces the ten most fundamental mistakes made by entrepreneurs every single day. These are mostly the same mistakes that are made repeatedly. Therefore, the aim of this audiobook is to educate how to prevent these mistakes or how to remedy them, especially to protect your assets from business risks.

This book, should you choose to be inspired and motivated by it, will give you a stronger brand and a great reputation with a regular flow of new and potential clients. Ensuring you are able to provide the value-added services that today's customers demand, plus a clear, long-term strategy that will continue to drive your business forward.

Learn the 25 keys to securing the funds to start a business and keep it growing, including planning how much capital you'll need and how you'll use it and achieving the appropriate mix between equity and debt in the capital structure of your firm. Business Financing is part of the New York Times Pocket MBA Series, a 12-volume reference tool for all businesspersons.

The goal of the book is to introduce you, the entrepreneur, to the power of online assessments, so you can hire the right people and put them in the right roles to build a winning team. This book is for you, the hard-working entrepreneur, who has a big vision and has worked hard.

All across the planet, entrepreneurs and innovators are actively working to solve humanity’s toughest problems. If you are an inventor, trailblazer, or game-changer who dreams of making the world a better place through crazy ideas with extraordinary results, this book is for you. Super-Entrepreneurship Decoded will show you how to make that dream a reality, from tackling an insurmountable problem to creating the kind of breakthrough business that can fix it. You will be able to materialize your dreams, build your own future, and achieve anything you want in life.

Create a Happy Business is a step-by-step guide that will teach you the inner (how you think, your attitudes and habits) and the outer (time management, marketing, communication, delegation, and execution) skills you will need in order to achieve success as a self-employed businessperson. The inner game starts with your fundamental ideology and helps you determine your vision, values, and mission and shows you how thought impacts performance.

Business professionals often find themselves trapped in an endless loop of managing their business, making rent or payroll, managing vendors and contractors, handling the books, the HR, legal, facilities management, and most often the marketing, websites, print, and social media.

Over 100,000 businesses have slow or non-paying customers. Yet very few actually have a workable plan for claiming the missing revenue that results. This book gives you a complete solution and tool set to ensure your business maximizes its collections while maintaining an effective, profitable credit plan. Get Paid enables you to decide what matters most to your business when it comes to billing, payment terms, pricing, cash flow, and more.

If you're fed up with lenders ignoring your calls or less-than-sincere bankers giving you the runaround when you're on the clock to fulfill lucrative government contracts, you'll be delighted to know that this audiobook reveals powerful insider lending tips. They will have you laughing out loud all the way from the bank.