Small Business Management

Operations Management is a skillset of management focused on business process flows. It is a set of tools with which you can understand and quantify the process from raw material to finished good or service. The main goals of operations management are making sure business operations are efficient and effective. These are terms you’ll read about later in this book and are central to making sure costs are as low as they can be, profits are as high as they can go, and the business still maintains or improves the quality of its product and the loyalty of its customers. In this guide you will ...

The Little Black Book of Project Management Advice is a career companion for those navigating leadership, legacy, and growth—especially in spaces where they're often the only one in the room.

Each year, Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive—let alone grow—it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of "sell it—do it, sell it—do it" that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead no matter how hard they try. Full of stories of other successful entrepreneurs, The Pumpkin Plan guides you through unconven­tional strategies to help you build a truly profitable blue-ribbon company that is the best in its field.

In this lesson, learn about acquisitions and mergers, the role they play in business and how to use them successfully. Advice for entrepreneurs who want to rapidly expand their business and safely buy a functioning company or companies.

Would you like to be able to draw people towards you like a magnet? This book is NOT just another communication book and is NOT just a book of tips. This is the ultimate communication system for talking to anybody, anywhere, and in any situation. Using the scientific principles of communication and ©POWER2MIND technology, it will have you talking and communicating to anyone with confidence, charm, and conviction, rapidly and naturally.

Blueprint to Business is the ultimate guide to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Best-selling author and CEO Mike Alden puts aside the rainbows and sunshine, gets real about what it takes to "make it", and gives you the real-world guidance you need to hear. Through anecdotes and advice, he shares his experiences along with those of other top founders and entrepreneurs to give you a realistic picture of what it takes to build a business. It's a bit of tough love, a healthy dose of reality, and a tremendously motivating guide to striking out on your own.

In this book you will: Learn The Strategies That Successful Businesses Use For Optimal Cash Flow Management Tips on How to Use Business Credit Card Points and Rewards For Business Travel and Tax Deductions Learn How To Get Large Credit Lines With Business Credit Cards That Have No Utilization Rates. List of companies that offer Vendor Credit with Employee Identification Number instead of Social Security Number Learn how to get business credit cards with a personal credit score as low as 560 – 580.

Speak the Language of Money: Accounting – Unlock Financial Fluency! This is Book 2 in the Speak the Language of Money book series. Unlock the Power of Financial Fluency with Speak the Language of Money: Accounting—the second book in the Speak the Language of Money series! In a world where financial literacy is a key driver of success, understanding accounting isn’t just for professionals—it’s essential for anyone who wants to build financial confidence and make smarter decisions. Whether you're a business owner, investor, or someone looking to better manage personal finances, this...

Stop the Money Drain: A Simple Guide to Cutting Business Costs Transform Your Business Finances in Just 6 Months – Reduce Operating Costs by 20-35% Without Sacrificing Quality or Service Is your business hemorrhaging cash through hidden expenses, forgotten subscriptions, and inefficient processes? You're not alone. Most business owners watch helplessly as money drains from their accounts through dozens of tiny leaks they never even notice – until now. What You'll Discover: This comprehensive 12-chapter guide reveals the systematic approach successful entrepreneurs use to slash operating...

Introducing "Gold Mining 101" – the ultimate guide for anyone seeking to enter the fascinating world of artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM)! Whether you're an entrepreneur looking for a new venture, an outdoor enthusiast seeking a unique challenge, or simply a gold enthusiast wanting to learn the ins and outs of this exciting industry, this comprehensive eBook is a must-read! This action-packed guide contains 38 informative chapters, packed with essential knowledge, tips, and advice to jumpstart your very own ASGM venture. "Gold Mining 101" offers a step-by-step roadmap, covering...

From Oh Sh*t to “I Got This” is the essential guide for anyone looking to start a successful business from scratch. This book provides you with the basics you need to understand your entrepreneurial identity—whether you are an entrepreneur, solopreneur, or manager. Learn to identify who you are and the importance of understanding your client and product for effective marketing. Covering products, staffing, insurance, legal, and tax needs, this comprehensive guide takes you through the necessary steps while sharing stories to help you customize a roadmap for your business. From Oh Sh*t...

Do you feel like your pay check just passes through your account each payday, all spent up before you even get a chance to look at your account? Do you always find yourself scraping money together just to pay your bills? Do you often wonder where all your money goes, even if you’re making a decent income? If you do, then let’s face it - you need a budget. No matter how much money you have coming in, without a consistent way to keep track of it, that money is bound to vanish as soon as it goes into your pocket.

Any cursory online search will reveal thousands of books and articles that try to help you become a better manager or a better leader. In this audiobook, we propose a third set of skills that are often neglected but are just as essential for effective leadership: the ability to clarify individual and organizational values and to find a way forward when these values conflict. This audiobook will help you develop those skills and apply them in your organization to become a better leader.

It's a rainy day in Seattle, and on the third floor of First Guarantee Financial, people have stopped believing they can make a difference. To new manager Mary Jane Ramirez, the challenge of bringing life back to her unenthusiastic and unmotivated team seems impossible, until she discovers an incredibly successful workplace down the street where the employees are so alive and passionate that people stop just to watch them work!

UCLA psychologist and organizational consultant Dr. Robert Maurer provides a simple and proven effective technique for making major changes with minimal disruption. Applying the operational concept of kaizen - small, continual improvements - to common management challenges, managers can drive major improvements with a series of well-planned techniques for boosting quality, innovation, sales, and morale.

In today's complex, highly competitive, global environment, those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability and remain focused on must-achieve desired results. Achieve with Accountability is your personal handbook for awakening your (or your team or organization's) inner confidence, drive, perseverance, determination, resolve, and can-do mindset.

In this vital work, author Michael Levine offers compelling evidence that problems in business, large and small, typically stem from inattention to tiny details. Social psychologists and criminologists agree that if a window in a building is broken and left unrepaired, soon thereafter the rest of the windows will be broken - and the perception will build that crime in that neighborhood is out of control. The same principle applies to business.

Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father Cal Turner, Sr. and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the Fortune 300 - at the cost of risking that very father/son relationship. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse.

Mark Siebert, franchise expert and author of Franchise Your Business, flips his script from franchising your existing business to offer entrepreneurs a comprehensive guide to succeeding as franchisees. The Franchisee Handbook tells listeners how to take a systematic approach to assess and invest in franchise opportunities, so they end up with the right fit for their entrepreneurial style. Sharing tales from the trenches and real-world anecdotes from successful franchises, Siebert lays out everything you need to know before signing with well-known franchises.

What are the underlying handful of fundamentals that haven't changed for over a hundred years? From Harnish's famous "One-Page Strategic Plan" to his concise outline of eight practical actions you can take to strengthen your culture, this book is a compilation of best practices adapted from some of the best-run firms on the planet. Included is an instructive chapter co-authored by Rich Russakoff, revealing winning tactics to get banks to finance your business.