Small Business Success

People are a company’s greatest asset, and the smaller the business, the more intimately connected employees are to the purpose. Yet small businesses are often ill-equipped at the process of hiring and training the new employees they need to function and grow. But with the right tools and information, hiring well is a skill you can learn. Laura Nelson breaks the hiring process down into clear, easy-to-follow steps that make finding and hiring talent a productive and enjoyable experience.

Startup Success is written in a logical sequence that follows the general life cycle of planning and executing a successful fundraising campaign. Actionable tips, tricks, and aha realizations will have listeners rewinding and noting passages for future reference. The author’s own words tell it all: “I decided to write something different that best exploits the gray in my hair and the hard lessons I’ve learned.” Any startup founder, advisor, or angel investor - regardless of their experience level - will come away with improved skills and an increased knowledge base.

This comprehensive guide offers essential insights and actionable strategies to elevate your entrepreneurial ambitions. You will discover how to establish a clear vision, define your goals, conduct thorough market research, develop a business plan, and navigate the essentials of legal and financial management.

It's a competitive world out there, and running your own small business is far more difficult than most people think. Pocket Guide to Small Business Success is aimed at anyone thinking of starting their own company, those who have recently started one, and the owners of established businesses that have stagnated and are feeling stuck in a rut.

The book explains how good money habits are formed and gives advice and tips on how to change consistently poor money habits. You will learn how to set realistic money goals, manage your savings and spending, and set up a budget that you can live with. For those who have debt, the book will help you pay it off by proposing different methods you can use to get out of debt and improve your credit rating score.

Our work-driven culture encourages us to take the entrepreneurial bait, but how can you know whether being an entrepreneur will end as a dream come true or a nightmare from which you cannot awake? Building on Bedrock will help answer that question. This book focuses on when you should take the leap and whether entrepreneurship is even the right thing for you. Based upon research, but told through the stories of American businessman and entrepreneur Sam Walton and others, this book discusses the who, what, when, where, how, how much, and why of successful entrepreneurs.

An engaging blend of business and baseball that inspires and entertains, Small Ball Big Results is about the little things that add up to the big wins in baseball, business, and life. Leaders and team players alike will draw vital lessons from stories that transport you from the baseball field to the board room revealing what it takes to build an unbeatable culture. Emmy Award-winning sports broadcaster Joel Goldberg shares tales of perseverance, patience, grit, and gratitude from soldiers, executives, entrepreneurs, baseball players, and many more.

Does striking up a conversation with a stranger make your stomach do flip-flops? Do you dread the very thought of networking? Help is on the way with The Fine Art of Small Talk, the classic guide that's now revised for the modern era. Small talk is more than just chitchat; it's a valuable tool to help you climb the corporate ladder, widen your business and social circles, and boost your self-confidence. With practical advice and simple conversation 'cheat sheets,' this book offers easy-to-learn techniques that will allow you to feel comfortable in any type of social situation.

A simple and accessible plan for success, based on seven scientifically tested steps that really work. We're often told to dream big, the sky's the limit and that nothing is impossible. While it is undoubtedly good advice to set yourself goals that have the potential to make you and those around you healthier and happier, how to reach those goals is often less clear. From getting fit or securing a new job to becoming a better manager or parent, simply setting your mind to something will rarely get you where you want to be.

In Blueprint to Business Credit: Navigating Vendor Accounts and Revolving Credit to Propel Your Business Success, readers are taken on an instructive journey, exploring the realm of business credit. Written with the entrepreneur and small business owner in mind, this comprehensive guide demystifies the complex world of business credit, providing an actionable blueprint to establish business credit linked to the company's EIN, rather than the owner's SSN. As the business world becomes increasingly competitive, securing your own line of business credit has never been more critical. This book ...

The Small Business Startup Revolution: Unlocking Entrepreneurial Success is your comprehensive guide to launching and growing a successful startup. This engaging, step-by-step playbook helps future entrepreneurs like you overcome the most formidable challenges startups face. The path to entrepreneurship may seem daunting, filled with unknowns and risks. That's why this book is your guide.

In this book you will learn the five-step marketing optimization system to scale and grow your bottom line. This proven method is used to increase the percentage of visitors to your site that convert into customers. You will learn to gather intelligence through qualitative insight and quantitative data and then execute successful split testing to increase sales and leads. Small Business Big Money Online will give you direct, actionable advice and techniques that you can simply apply to your own process, developing your own system along the way.

A detailed blueprint of exactly what to change for the biggest impact, The Health Habit is a researched framework of 27 of the most important habits a human can ever have. It starts from the morning, to what you eat, how you think, how you plan, how you sleep, and everything else. Learn how to make it painless and sustainable, and it will follow you for the rest of your life.

This audiobook is a must-listen for folks looking for easy ways to make extra income. The Airbnb platform is currently experiencing unprecedented growth in both popularity and opportunity. Whole industries have grown around this incredible travel hub creating a unique ecosystem that many are profiting from. It's time for you to get your piece of the pie. There is plenty of opportunity for enterprising individuals to jump in and create new, profitable passive income streams whether you own property or not.

For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to start their own business is exhilarating. For many others, the loss of a stable paycheck is terrifying. But what if we could easily create new income without giving up the security of a full-time job? Enter the side hustle, a mini-business that earns you extra money. With Chris Guillebeau's step-by-step guide, you can go from idea to income in just 27 days.

In Whatever Works, Thalma Lobel explores groundbreaking psychological research on job performance, satisfaction, and creativity. Did you know that just doodling in a certain way can increase your creativity? That looking at something green for forty seconds will improve your attention? That crossing your legs similarly to an interviewer could get you the job? That the mere presence of a smartphone on your desk can lessen your performance, even if it's turned off? These are the invisible factors that nudge our behavior on a daily basis.

Matthew Paulson, Founder of Analyst Ratings Network, Lightning Releases, and GoGo Photo Contest, has weathered the failures and triumphs of being an entrepreneur for nearly a decade. 40 Rules for Internet Business Success is his collection of core principles and strategies he used to grow his business. By listening to this audiobook, you will learn to: Throw away your business plan! Create a scalable business model that actually works.

Ever felt paralyzed by the endless maze of legal forms and business jargon when all you want is to pursue your passion? You’re not alone and this book is your breakthrough. LLC (Limited Liability Company) Success Playbook transforms confusion into clarity, empowering you to launch and grow a thriving small business with confidence and heart. This book is like having a friendly guide that walks you through every step of forming your LLC, from choosing the perfect name to unlocking crucial tax benefits and mastering the art of branding.

There is a mountain of hype around positive thinking. But have you noticed that positive thinking doesn’t, well, work? That's because positivity is just an emotion, and at the end of the day it doesn't change the reality of the situations we face. The Simple Shift turns positive thinking on its head and transforms it into something practical - a way of adopting beliefs that can change the way you see reality and make major obstacles into easily resolvable issues.

The worst thing you can do when taking that leap to start a business is leaping “without a parachute.” Dr. Sterling L. Carter and Stephen Levi Carter, MBA, know this all too well, and in Double Your Success, they share their decades of experience and knowledge so that you can plan how to build your business every step of the way.