Small Business Success

Small businesses can do well in today’s fast-moving world by learning how to find new trends and respond to competition. First, it’s important to see new ideas before they become popular. Then, businesses need to study their competitors and think smart. They should learn how to make products that people really want and how to make customers excited about them. This excitement can lead to real sales. It’s also important to turn first-time buyers into loyal customers. Great customer service can help a lot with this and become a big strength. Every time a business talks to a customer, it...

“This book embodies everything a coach needs to be more successful in business. Incredible insight and timeless wisdom. If you read this book and implement what Jayne tells you, you’ll be far ahead in the business game and able to make the difference you want in the world. A must read for all coaches."- Walt Hampton, J.D., President & Chief Operating Officer of Book Yourself Solid® Worldwide; and Best-Selling Author of Journeys on the Edge: Living a Life That Matters. “This is brilliant. It’s the book that the coaching industry has been waiting for. Jayne is not scared to tell it ...

How you use your free time will make or break your success. The secret? It’s not about working harder or finding more time to do work. It’s about designing the freedom to engage in the high-value work that brings you energy and fulfillment. This is at the heart of the message that has made Dan Martell the world’s most popular SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) coach. Now, in his first book, Buy Back Your Time, he teaches entrepreneurs at every level how to scale their business, fast, while avoiding burnout.

Whether you're a novice entrepreneur or a seasoned pro, The Small Business Bible is a comprehensive A-to-Z library of everything you might need to know. Not only does it teach new entrepreneurs what works and what doesn't, with scores of tips, hints, insider information, and secrets of success, but it's also a reliable, valuable, and insightful resource for established business owners who want to help their businesses to grow and succeed.

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...

This book has helped thousands of network marketers, entrepreneurs, and individuals experience explosive growth following the program featured in this book. Scott's strategic approach to teaching others how to create wealth online is people-focused and results driven, with a focus on organic traffic, a game changer when it comes to competing in a saturated digital world.

Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than four employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt shows listeners the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling.

It's an axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar, a small number of companies have rejected the pressure of endless growth to focus on more satisfying business goals. Goals like being great at what they do, creating a great place to work, providing great customer service, making great contributions to their communities, and finding great ways to lead their lives. In Small Giants, veteran journalist Bo Burlingham takes us deep inside 14 such remarkable companies.

ChatGPT, machine learning, automation, natural language processing. Every day, it seems like there is a new AI term to learn and a new promise of how it will improve your work. But with tons of conflicting information, small business owners are left wondering exactly how to leverage AI technology to grow and, more importantly, stay competitive with larger companies. Cutting through the buzzwords and media frenzy, AI for Small Business is the road map to take you from overwhelmed to empowered.

Stephen R. Covey's book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a top seller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology for proven principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. Celebrating its 15th year of helping people solve personal and professional problems, this special anniversary edition includes a new foreword and afterword written by Covey that explore whether the 7 Habits are still relevant and answer some of the most common questions he has received over the past 15 years.

In "Starting and Operating a Service-Based Business," acclaimed best-selling author Billy J Riggs offers a transformative guide for aspiring entrepreneurs seeking to build successful ventures. Riggs delves into the core principles of entrepreneurship, emphasizing the importance of self-education and independent research in shaping a sustainable and thriving business. Drawing from his own experiences and the lessons learned from successful entrepreneurs, Riggs navigates readers through the intricate journey of entrepreneurship, highlighting the critical role of understanding the business ...

Many of us dread having to convey our ideas to others, often feeling ill-equipped, anxious, and awkward. Public speaking experts help by focusing on planned communication experiences such as slide presentations, pitches, or formal talks. Yet, most of our professional and personal communication occurs in spontaneous situations that creep up on us and all too often leave us flustered and stumbling for words. Stanford lecturer, podcast host, and communication expert Matt Abrahams provides tangible, actionable skills to help even the most anxious of speakers succeed when speaking spontaneously.

In The Small Big, three heavyweights from the world of persuasion science and practice describe how, in today's information overloaded and stimulation saturated world, increasingly it is the small changes that you make that lead to the biggest differences. In the last few years, more research-from fields such as neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and behavioral economics-has helped to uncover an even greater understanding of how influence, persuasion, and behavior change happens.

Struggling to start conversations? Constantly becoming tongue-tied around colleagues, close friends or even family? Ever wanted to talk with people but didn’t know what to say? Afraid of being embarrassed by saying the “wrong” thing?Painfully shy growing up, Tim Chang experienced the same problems. Then, from days spent combing through books at his mother’s bookstore, almost by chance he discovered the secrets to overcoming the very mindset that was holding him back. In his book, The Power of Small Talk, Tim shares the simple yet powerful methods he has learned and applied for ...

Listing Boss: The Definitive Blueprint for Real Estate Success is a powerful book for real estate agents at all levels of their career and success. Implementing Hoss Pratt’s 12 essentials will help you break down barriers and yield massive results. These 12 essentials include: create a vision, develop a top-producing mindset, identify your niches, deploy a marketing arsenal, master your listing presentation, and get buyers to take action…plus more. You can have the best plans in the world and get no results if you don’t take action. You are the reason you don’t have the results you ...

Small businesses that are built to win with M.O.D.E.L.S. follow a powerful guide for small business owners who are ready to rise above average and lead with purpose. At the heart of the book is a proven framework called M.O.D.E.L.S., representing Motivation, Organization, Discipline, Ethics, Lifelong learning, and the Strength to never give up. Each chapter explores one element of the model, offering real-world insights, tactical strategies, and inspiring success stories. Readers will learn how motivation can ignite even the most stagnant dream. They’ll discover how organization turns ...

Roger James Hamilton, himself a highly successful entrepreneur and successful investor, has designed nine steps - from barely surviving - all the way to the highest level of ultimate wealth for life - and he lays out his nine steps in an easy-to-understand "color-coded" manner that ranges from red (barely living paycheck-to-paycheck) all the way to ultra-violet (where generating income is simply no longer a worry)....

33 Strategies of War is a comprehensive guide to the subtle social game of everyday life, informed by the most ingenious and effective military principles in war. It's the I-Ching of conflict, the contemporary companion to Sun Tzu's The Art of War, and is abundantly illustrated with examples from history, including the folly and genius of everyone from Napoleon to Margaret Thatcher, Hannibal to Ulysses S. Grant, movie moguls to samurai swordsmen.

By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.

Twenty Women. One Bold Movement. Redefining Success on Their Terms. Success isn’t one-size-fits-all—and this book proves it. From Start-Up to Stand Out is a powerful anthology of 20 women entrepreneurs who are rewriting the rules of business with courage, heart, and authenticity. Whether they started from scratch, pivoted mid-career, or built empires from adversity, these women share raw, real, and relatable stories that will light something in you. This isn’t a book about getting rich quick. It’s a book about becoming who you really are—and building something meaningful from that...