Small Business Success

In the heart of every entrepreneur lies this paradox of success: The strengths that got you to initial success—such as “shooting from the hip,” closing all the deals, and making all the decisions—will stunt your company’s future growth. That’s the essence of Founder’s Syndrome. It causes you to cling to excessive control in the business for too long. It stifles collaboration, hinders innovation, and undercuts financial performance.

Intentional Success is written for the aspiring entrepreneur, the business professional, the dreamer, and the doer. Taken from actual life lessons, the book provides a real-world viewpoint on what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur. The book addresses the typical struggles aspiring business owners encounter when starting, managing, growing, and maintaining a successful venture. It features a formula for success that embraces the key tenets of persistence, sales, time management, goal setting, and leadership.

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.

Connect the Dots is the story of 20 enterprising individuals without MBAs who started their own ventures. They were driven by the desire to prove themselves. To lead interesting, passionate, meaningful lives. Their stories say one thing loud and clear: you don't need a fancy degree or a rich daddy to dream big and make it happen. It's all in your head, your heart, your hands.

Are you a small business owner with big dreams? Whether you're just starting your entrepreneurial journey or looking to take your existing business to new heights, the "Small Business Owner's Guide" is your essential companion on the road to success. In this comprehensive audiobook, you'll find a wealth of practical advice, time-tested strategies, and invaluable insights tailored to the unique challenges and opportunities that small business owners face. From the fundamentals of business planning to mastering marketing, financial management, and customer relations, this guide covers it all.

How do you do justice to your business idea? It's a question that entrepreneurs are always asking, aware that 70% of new businesses fail. Starting a business is scary, especially for first-timers, but there is a safe, Launch in 5 way to do it. If you are launching a new business, this audiobook will improve your chance for success in the most economic, efficient and painless way possible, before you put large amounts of time and money on the line. It provides a comprehensive guide on how to rapidly turn an idea into a money-making machine.

Using extensive research, life experiences, and hands-on exercises, this book reveals the Small Is Big source code and outlines how to apply it. When you harness Small Is Big, fulfilment, productivity and extraordinary results are inevitable.

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.

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 ...

The Smart Accelerated Success System (A.S.S.) for Your Business Strategy (B.S.) is a model to put nitrous into your success engine. This audiobook contains the tools of thought to move you past any blocks in your life and propel you into the greatness that has always been inside of you. Each time you listen to the audiobook, a new lesson will appear to you, unlocking the secret to your next level of your 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.

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 ...

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.

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!).

Unlike most academic books that merely define research, The Refractive Thinker® series offers unique application of effective business practices from the perspective of multiple authors – each offering a chapter based on their scholarly expertise. The Refractive Thinker® series provides doctoral scholars with a collaborative opportunity to promote and publish their work in an award winning peer-reviewed publication, which meets the university standard. Our goal is to provide an affordable outlet for scholars that supports the tremendous need for dynamic dialogue and innovation while ...

This book reveals the most innovative and successful tools for increasing your income, building your professional authority, creating and maintaining a community of customers, engaging in creative marketing, and maximizing your sales. Apply the skills and strategies you will gain here, and your business will soar! Learn all about getting high prices for your products, thinking creatively at all times, turning compliments into income and motivating people to act, marketing and selling more effectively, making as many people as possible talk about you as much as possible, and more.

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.

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.

You don’t need a huge amount of capital to start an online business, nor do you have to be a tech geek. You just need the right information explained in straightforward language. It doesn’t take a whole lot of time and energy either. You can be up and running and making money in a matter of days. Of course, things can go horribly wrong if you don’t do it right. That’s where this guide comes in—everything you need to know about the ins and outs of starting an online business is at your fingertips.