Small Business Management

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.

Wish you knew how to walk up to anyone and break the ice effortlessly? Do you hope to avoid awkward silences and make an instant impression? You'll get more than that in this book: not only what, when, and how to say it, but the exact roots of why from human psychology and interaction.

Breaking into freelance writing has gotten much easier for word-savvy entrepreneurs like you. But even in the golden age of content creation, you still need to know what it takes to launch and consistently pitch your services so you can grow and scale your freelance writing side hustle into a full-fledged career you really love. Start Your Own Freelance Writing Business is an easy-to-understand, introductory, and nontechnical approach to the world of freelance writing.

Most leaders feel the inevitable interruptions in their jam-packed days are troublesome. But in TouchPoints, Conant and Norgaard argue that these - and every point of contact with other people - are overlooked opportunities for leaders to increase their impact and promote their organization's strategy and values. Through previously untold stories from Conant's tenure as CEO of Campbell Soup Company and Norgaard's vast consulting experience, the authors show that a leader's impact and legacy are built through hundreds, even thousands, of interactive moments in time.

Author Amber Richards owned and operated a single-person home-cleaning business for three years. She shares tips and advice she wishes someone had shared with her before starting up the business. With transparency to both mistakes and successes, this audiobook is packed with useful information and strategies from someone who actually worked in the business.

The emphasis is not focused on practical cleaning tips, although there is a chapter about products in general.

The Entrepreneur's Guide to Mastering Cold Calling and Building a Business Are you ready to launch your first business? Perhaps you’ve owned one before, or maybe you’re already running your own company. Wherever you are in your journey, there’s one skill every entrepreneur needs to master: cold calling. While it may seem like an outdated strategy, cold calling remains one of the most effective ways to drum up new business and achieve real growth. In this candid, no-nonsense guide, author Jon Robert Quinn takes you through the highs and lows of his career, from spending long hours ...

How you create a legendary school starting tomorrow. Have you ever wondered, why didn’t they teach me about this in school?

How do you become a better manager? What are the most important things you should do to get the most from your work force? Can you operate a virtual office? What should you consider when hiring from competition? This is one of a series of eight short, easy to read books from the Small Business Success Collection, containing actionable insights from Dave Berkus, nationally recognized successful entrepreneur, angel investor and board member, serving over forty companies. Dave tells stories of successes and failures - of strategies that worked, and those that didn’t. He offers his insights ...

With the enabling power of technology, turning a great idea into a successful business does not have to be merely a dream. It can be a reality. The Lemonade Stand presents a new perspective on entrepreneurship that anyone who is considering starting a business or already running one, should read. The Lemonade Stand principles are thirteen guidelines that empower anyone to welcome adversity and transform problems into innovations.

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.

Finally! Develop good habits that stick! Do you find yourself trying to adopt good habits only to abandon them down the road? Are you frustrated because you seem unable to develop them in the first place? If so, there's a simple solution: starting small. This effective, time-tested method is described in detail in Small Habits Revolution: 10 Steps to Transforming Your Life Through the Power of Mini Habits!

The only secret you need to grow your business now: Elevate your customer experience. This audiobook can show you how! Are you looking for a how-to guide on building loyalty, generating word-of-mouth, and keeping customers coming back? The customer is the heart and lifeblood of every business, if they’re not happy, they won’t come back. If they don’t come back, they don’t spend money. This vicious cycle can end a business, so don’t get caught up in this vortex of doom. With concepts, statistics, and real-world examples, this audiobook rises above all others like it.

Unlock the transformative power of outsourcing and elevate your small business with "How to Use Outsourcing to Grow Your Small Business—SCALE!" Dive into the journey of an entrepreneur who turned a small venture into a thriving empire through strategic outsourcing. This guide is filled with actionable tips and insights on leveraging outsourcing for growth and personal freedom.

A bold, useful, uncomplicated guide to mastering the three keys of business success: In this practical book, Dr. Howard Farran shows that running a business isn't all that complicated - if you're focusing on the right three areas: people, time, and money. People: maximizing the potential of employees, customers, and yourself. Time: mastering the efficiency that helps a business turn the biggest profit possible. Money: learning to love the numbers that function as the business's scorecard.

Positive leaders are able to dramatically expand their people’s - and their own - capacity for excellence. And they accomplish this without enormous expenditures or huge heroic gestures. The authors show that, like the butterfly in Brazil whose flapping wings create a typhoon in Texas, you can create profound positive change in your organization through simple actions and attitude shifts.

Don't let your career be a victim. Get and keep the job you want, today. Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying, “by failing to prepare, you prepare to fail.” Strategic Career Planning is the ultimate form of career preparation. It will help you to navigate your career to the level of success you may only be dreaming about right now.To help you prepare, in this book I am going to teach you how to use a powerful process that many companies have used to survive and prosper in both good times and bad. Applying it to managing your career will require you to apply a proven ...

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Starting a creative company needn't cost you everything. If you agree, then you'll find wit and wisdom in this book for creative entrepreneurs. Author, artist, and graphic designer Patricia Arnold presents her best tips for starting a handmade business with this initial volume in her Creative Entrepreneur series. After starting a decade-old business with a shoestring budget and then founding a second business six years later, Patricia Arnold has a lot to say about building creative businesses from scratch.

While playing hooky from a conference in Boston a few years back, three former colleagues from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management hopped in a car and headed on a road trip. They pulled into a shoe store in Maine and noticed that the sales help was unusually pushy. After a few questions, they discovered the store had a "secret shopper" program, in which employees would be marked down if they were not sufficiently aggressive with customers. A lightbulb went off.

Birds of a feather flock together. We're all in the same boat. Great minds think alike. While just figures of speech to some, they reflect a simple truth - it's the company we keep that often determines the level of personal growth and professional success we achieve in life. Business leaders exchange information and ideas. They network to make deals and build partnerships. They work together to optimize best practices, and they reach out to leaders outside their companies to accelerate growth.