Small Business Success

An organization's future success depends on their decision makers' ability to anticipate changes and disruptions in the marketplace. This book provides the information you need to anticipate the future, understand tomorrow's market dynamics, and make the necessary decisions to meet the future on your terms. Small Data, Big Disruptions lets you exploit the period between the moment you could know about emerging disruptions and the moment most everybody will know about it. It's the difference between being ahead of the curve and struggling to catch up.

A well-known mantra in business is to “follow your passion” or to “do what you’re passionate about”. Whilst this is true, a key and pertinent question remains – is passion the only attribute required to start, grow and maintain a successful enterprise? In this insightful book, the reader is exposed to the additional essential considerations that will ensure that entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners launch and run thriving businesses. Whilst passion is a strong motivator behind a business idea, this book argues that this alone is not sufficient. This...

Are you an entrepreneur overwhelmed by endless tasks, feeling there's never enough time in the day? Imagine unlocking the secret to doubling your productivity and living your best life. Introducing "Time Hacking for Entrepreneurs: QuickStart Guide to Double Your Productivity and Enjoy a Balanced Life with Proven Time Management Strategies," your ultimate guide to transforming time management skills and achieving success.

Can you be a leader that people will follow? The most successful leaders and influencers are not only committed to making the world a better place, but they have the character and integrity to lead others to do the same. People Follow People is a practical guide for embracing your true character and values to create an authentic, long-lasting connection with your audience, colleagues, and customers. Best-selling author and international speaker Sam Cawthorn reveals the 12 characteristics you need to become an outstanding leader who attracts a loyal following, attains longevity to achieve objectives, and leaves a revered legacy.

We all know people who jump out of bed every morning, eager to start the day, so fulfilled by their personal and professional lives that they wouldn't change a thing. What's their secret? Passion. We all have it, but we don't all use it to its full potential. In The Passion Plan, Dr. Richard Chang presents seven simple steps to discovering the things we really care about, deciding where we want them to take us, and developing a plan to get us there.

Build a Powerful, Supportive Network that Fuels Business Growth and Personal Success What if traditional networking could be turned on its head? In "Connect and Conquer," Anna D. Banks unveils the surprising truth: you don’t have to force yourself into awkward small talk to thrive in the business world. In this revolutionary guide, you’ll discover the art of Authentic Networking tailored for entrepreneurs and small business owners. Learn how to forge authentic relationships that foster both personal and professional growth. Say goodbye to stuffy business cards and hello to genuine ...

What separates the struggling small business owners from the mighty rich CEOs who seem to have everything working in their favor? Why is it that one person can start a business and become wealthy, happy and incredibly successful while the other person have nothing to show for no matter what they do? What's the truth behind their success? Are they lucky? Are they born talented or do they have breakthrough approaches to doing business? What if I told you that none of this matters much at all? You can have an amazing idea. You can have an amazing product that meets a massively ...

In Not to Scale, Jamer Hunt investigates the complications of scale in the digital age, highlighting an interesting paradox: We now have a world of information at our fingertips, yet ironically the more informed we have become, the more overwhelmed we feel. The global effects of our daily choices (Paper or plastic? Own or lease? Shop local or buy online?) remain difficult for us to comprehend, and solutions to large-scale national and international issues feel inconceivable.

Why Not Me?!? aims to inspire listeners to drop every fear and follow their heart and soul to live the life of their dreams. Small's true story balances personal experiences with spiritual lessons and guidance, and highlights what a year in Maui taught her about living her dreams with the goal of showing others the possibilities for them to do the same.

Wayne Rogers has, over the past four decades, become an enormously successful entrepreneur and businessman - and in Make Your Own Rules he shows you how to retain your own identity and reap tremendous rewards in your career and business while doing so. Using fascinating examples from his wide array of experiences - all of which involved leaping into situations where he lacked the traditional background in a particular field - Rogers presents a clarion call to the creative-minded person who isn’t quite sure how to apply that creativity to the world of business.

Bookkeeping and accounting can be the most daunting tasks facing owners of small businesses. Information can be difficult to find or access and learning what tools will help you excel in business accounting can seem to take far too long. QuickBooks: A Complete Guide to Bookkeeping and Accounting for Small Businesses for Beginners can assist even the most novice business owner in learning the ins and outs of bookkeeping and effective ways to use one of the most valuable tools in the accounting world, QuickBooks (with illustrations!).

Everyone knows that it is difficult to break old habits and painstaking to build new ones, but most of us don't really understand why. We've tried following the Seven Habits of just about everything and been met with constant frustration. New advances in brain science offer a better understanding of what keeps us from getting the big results we want to improve our lives and build our businesses.

Ignition: How to Start a Successful Detailing Business is a comprehensive guide for aspiring entrepreneurs who are interested in starting their own auto detailing business. The book is written by a successful detailing business owner who shares his insights, tips, and strategies for building a successful business. The book covers a wide range of topics related to starting and growing a detailing business, including market research, business planning, financing, marketing, branding, customer service, and more.

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Entrepreneurship starts with an idea and a dream: a dream of a better world for others, and a life less ordinary for yourself. These days, more people than ever are full of world-changing ideas and, thanks to technology, have the means to bring them to life. But many ideas remain just ideas, and many dreams just dreams. Startup Mixology is first and foremost a book about turning your ideas into action. From the cofounder of media company Tech Cocktail, a veteran entrepreneur and investor.

The statistics are grim: Less than 20 percent of the businesses started each year survive their fifth anniversary. Jay Myers, founder of Interactive Solutions, Inc. in Memphis, Tennessee is one such survivor. Jay has built a company that, by tapping into the demand for high-tech video conferencing and communication equipment, continues to grow even beyond the 10 year anniversary.

No Startup Left Behind is a breath of fresh air in the coddled, avoid-failure-at-all-cost world of traditional entrepreneurship that aims to wait until passion strikes to even launch, please every customer at any cost, and over promise but underwhelm every market.

As the world's economies continue to melt down, Dr. Goldsmith gives us the information we need to help us make it through this difficult and scary time. Anyone who wants to keep his or her job - and any leader who wants to keep his or her company afloat - needs to learn how to deal with and utilize the power of emotions.

In 2014, in her farmhouse kitchen in Wales, Shann Nix Jones started to manufacture a relatively unknown probiotic goat's milk called kefir. It was a powerful healing remedy that cured her son's eczema and even saved her husband from a life-threatening MRSA infection. Today, the business she started on her kitchen table has 300,000 customers and an annual turnover of £4.5 million. In this audiobook, Shann shares the innovative methods that helped her turn her passion into a sustainable business.

Downsizing your home or possessions can be a tough project to finish - or even start. From simple logistics to complex feelings, the process can quickly overwhelm without a plan in place. Here’s help organizing and accomplishing your decluttering; Downsizing: The 5-Step Method for Life Transitions Big and Small. Written by a minimalism expert, this straightforward guide draws from real life experience and offers actionable advice for specific situations.