Small Business Management

Starting from Scratch, the first installment of The Self-Employed Journey series, is a collection of stories shared by 12 small business owners, each successful in their own way. Coming from a variety of industries, business models, and experience levels, these trailblazing professionals break down their unique self-employed journeys, providing hope, courage, inspiration, education, and guidance, no matter whether you are a seasoned self-employed professional or contemplating taking that leap into the unknown.

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.

Your digital marketing firm is failing your business, not delivering on the kind of passion, commitment, and innovation they promised. To ensure that you’re getting the best, you need to know how to demand better—by learning from the incredible strategies of the fast-paced arena of political marketing. In Fire Them Now, Phillip Stutts illuminates common failures within the digital marketing industry and explores the strategies and tactics used in politics that win for businesses. He examines why political marketers are producing some of the most successful marketing in the game—...

1000 Tips and Tools for Small Business Success is a compact, informative guide for small business owners and managers. Written by an expert business consultant, this handy volume provides helpful advice for all areas of managing a business. If you need answers to your HR, marketing, and operation management needs, you will find them here.

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what, and what not, to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the listener with practical answers to the issues they will come across every day, and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and UK perspectives.

Seasoned publicist Bob Bradley offers his insight into the world of public relations and explains how any business or entrepreneur can secure online and print media coverage. Drawing inspiration from his hundreds of campaigns over nearly 15 years, Bob takes the listener through a step-by-step process that helps direct an easy to implement PR campaign that gets results.

Jeff Hayzlett is a big, boisterous guy who has the guts to get in your face and tell you exactly why your business isn't doing well. In short, he asks the questions that most business managers are afraid to ask. And as Jeff points out, if you aren't willing to look at what's working and what isn't - and then take the necessary steps to fix them -- well, you and your colleagues and employees are in for a tough ride.

Dan Matheson is the founding member and CEO of K2 Business Group and is the founding member of the Utah Chapter of Certified Exit Planning Advisors. He specializes in business succession and transitioning business owners from business income to safe, predictable, lifetime income with a key emphasis on minimizing current and future taxes. Erik Woodbury is a CPA who specializes in forward-thinking tax strategies for small business owners. He is an expert in holistic tax planning and strategy.

iCoach is not just a book, but a system refined over 35 years of coaching CEOs and other leaders to meet strategic imperatives. Even if you stay in your current job - and especially if you're the CEO - iCoach gives you access to being a successful coach. iCoach is your road map to real power - by unleashing people. The problem is, we know how to fly a robot to Mars, yet we know next to nothing about empowering people - igniting their productivity. If working with others is a mystery (or a pain) to you, iCoach® is the solution.

You will learn the depths of commitment you need, the perseverance and focus you must have, and the resolve for getting your life and business back on track. This book will help you rebuild confidence, provide you with strength and direction, and help you learn that you can overcome most things that are put in front of you. Out of necessity, you will learn just how far you can push yourself, and others, to get what you need to succeed. Listen to hear the follies, learn from perseverance, and mostly to hear what you need to do to make get your business and life back on track.

Engaging and informative, this book skillfully examines what usually goes wrong on the road to entrepreneurship, revealing what business owners regret and what you can do to address these issues. Along the way, it provides an overview of the personality traits and qualities that make success in entrepreneurship more likely, and also explores how the weight of wearing the entrepreneurial hat can affect you.

The Levels: a manual for growth that focuses on the changes a business should put in place to make the difficult transition up from a small to medium-sized company. This book is a guide to challenging and changing your entire way of thinking. This is your route to taking control of the future of your business and grabbing hold of the lifestyle you really want to be living.

Have you ever thought about starting your own tech company? Have you had a revolutionary idea that you knew could be turned into a viable business but just didn't know how to get it off the ground? Well here is your answer! Easier Faster Better teaches you just how to do it.

In America's small business landscape, the fail-success rate leans entirely too far in favor of failure, and past experiences provided the author with invaluable insight into many of the reasons. Adam Starks' Vultured is part autobiography, part self-help book, highlighting the dark side of entrepreneurship by identifying pitfalls in the decision-making process as it relates to starting and running a small business. Serving as a cautionary tale, the book warns against all such mistakes one can make that may result in landing on the failing side of a small business venture.

Now more than ever, the old models of how to start, promote, and run a successful business are no longer viable. What Works delivers real, applicable knowledge that will help you to grow your business and create the outcomes that you're striving for. What Works offers the opportunity to learn how a couple of successful entrepreneurs did it themselves. Gain an edge by getting inside information that you can put into action today. No fluff, no filler. Only what works.

Die meisten Marketingstrategien für soziale Medien sind darauf ausgerichtet, nutzlose Kennzahlen wie Likes, Shares und Kommentare in die Höhe zu treiben. Diese Metriken sehen vielleicht cool aus, aber sie bringen Ihr Unternehmen nicht voran. In diesem Buch räume ich mit den fünf häufigsten Sozial-Media-Marketing-Mythen auf und zeige Ihnen, wie Sie Sozial Media zu Ihrem Vorteil nutzen können. Die Strategien, über die ich in diesem Buch spreche, funktionieren auf allen Sozial-Media-Plattformen, und es spielt keine Rolle, ob Sie 50 oder 50.000 Follower haben.

Build a Business That Thrives—One Relationship at a Time Are you grinding away at your solopreneur business, feeling like you’re doing it all on your own? The Connection Advantage will change the way you think about success. This isn’t another book about hustle or scaling fast—it’s about something deeper and far more sustainable: building meaningful professional relationships that lead to real business growth. Whether you’re a coach, consultant, creative, or freelancer, The Connection Advantage gives you the exact strategies you need to turn your network into your most powerful ...

Leadership Hacks is the business leader's guide to getting things done. Over the years, the leader's role has expanded to encompass more duties, more responsibility, and more accountability - yet we're still stuck with the same 24 hours in every day. The evolving business environment leaves many of us struggling to achieve against constantly shifting priorities, competitors, and deadlines, and we are forever expected to do more with less. Is it even possible to make a real impact? Yes! This book shows you how to sort through the madness and get back to getting results.

Entrepreneur Voices on Growth Hacking shares the inspirational stories of unconventional entrepreneurs who retooled companies and industries and were rewarded handsomely for it while giving you the tools you need to do the same.

Stadium status is that elusive place every coach, athlete, entertainer, and performer strives to reach. It's moving from being an opening act to the headliner, from performing on a small stage to the greatest stage in the largest venue possible: a sold out stadium. Everything starts from humble beginnings; talent and work ethic might get you in the game, but stadium status takes strategy - and that starts with a vision.