Building Business

There is an old saying about problems that you may have heard before, "There are no problems, only opportunities." To this simple-minded approach, Bill Gibson says, "Hogwash." Problems do exist. And you need to prepare for them and understand them before you can overcome them. Even the great problem solvers can't make problems go away, but they often find opportunities linked to them.

Legacy in the Making celebrates an active, dynamic form of "modern legacy," seen through the eyes of a select group of extraordinary men and women who are pursuing their enduring ambitions in the age of now. More than caretakers of the past, these modern legacy builders are also the authors of a vital today and tomorrow. Rather than leaving their legacies behind them, they are looking ahead to harness their long-term ambitions and inspire others to help carry them forward. These are not static, traditional legacies. These are legacies in the making.

Just Make Money! The Entrepreneur's Handbook to Building the Life of Your Dreams, written by the founder and CEO of Fierce Brands, Eric Casaburi, will change the way you define entrepreneur and entrepreneurship. With decades of inspired insight and elbow grease under his belt, Casaburi sheds light on aspects of starting and owning a business they don't teach in college. Listen to Just Make Money! and get pumped.

New York Times best-selling author and leadership expert Ken Blanchard’s popular TrustWorks! training program is now available in audiobook form! Trust Works!: Four Keys to Building Lasting Relationships is an insightful guide designed to help people navigate one of the most complex issues that affects all areas of our lives: trust. In Trust Works!, Ken Blanchard, Cynthia Olmstead, and Martha Lawrence demonstrate how to get along better with those around us.

This program is about creating change in your life. It's about living a life you love and doing what make you happy! More importantly, it's about making money while living the life you love. It's a program about financial freedom and escaping the nine to five prison and making your own hours. The focus of this book is on starting your own business for under $100, and in so doing gaining the keys to controlling your own financial destiny!

A food scientist turned business owner, Carrie started helping people commercialize their recipes and grew the business to a thriving company. But she was managing everything herself. The unsustainability of this became clear 15 years in, when a fire erupts at her manufacturing plant. She is miles away and feels helpless. This devastating feeling gets worse when she arrives at the plant a short time later to find her team standing around watching the fire burn. Carrie knows there’s a better way to run and grow her company.

Today's business leaders operate in an increasingly harsh environment. Uncertainty in the economy causes paralysis. Quarterly goals drive short-term and shortsighted decisions. Workforce mobility kills loyalty. Iconic products decline as fast as start-ups create new categories. And the pressure to do more with less, combined with the multiplicity of available marketing tools and technology, can be overwhelming. Now more than ever, brands and the people who lead them need clarity and guidance.

Nafeez Imtiaz, a self-made millionaire entrepreneur, has walked the path you're considering. He understands the fear, uncertainty, and challenges that come with leaving a stable job to pursue your dreams. Through years of trial and error, Imtiaz has distilled the essence of building wealth from zero into a comprehensive guide that speaks directly to aspiring entrepreneurs.

Do you feel the pull to start your own business? Tired of working for others and dealing with office politics, eager for control and more money, Ed ''Skip'' McLaughlin certainly felt it. When he left his high-level corporate position to start not one but two new businesses. One of his businesses thrived...Now, you can learn from his experience - what to do and what not to do - to create your own successful startup. The Purpose Is Profit eliminates the mystery of becoming an entrepreneur.

A practical guide to developing productive business relationships to hasten your success, whether you work for a major corporation, a small business, or are a self-employed entrepreneur or freelancer.

He negotiated the deal of a lifetime: the first Disney theme park in mainland China. In From the Mouse’s House to the Penthouse, Michael Crawford reveals the lessons he learned about allowing culture and geography to shape his approach so you too can build and operate high-profile brands on an international scale.

Creating and sustaining a good brand is the most complex and perilous task any business will ever face, yet nothing is as misunderstood. Under the direction of marketing wizard David D’Alessandro, John Hancock transformed itself from a sleepy old life insurer into a leading financial services giant, with a sustained 20 percent annual rate of growth. In Brand Warfare, D'Alessandro draws on his personal experience as a brand-builder and examples from America's smartest and most foolish corporations, developing principles that you can use in any market.

This quick guide is straightforward and jam-packed with information. It contains the exact steps thousands of others have followed to achieve their goals. Become the passive millionaire you were born to be.

Tej purchased 15 properties in nine months, 150+ miles from home, using investor finance of which he'd raised £598,000 in five months. His portfolio grew from £0 to £1.3 million. All whilst growing a podcast to 550,000 listens in 100 countries. On paper, Tej was "financially free" very quickly, but the reality was very different from that.

How do you go from hitting your lowest low to living the life of your dreams? Shine tells the story of one entrepreneur’s inspiring journey to rebuild his life, find health, happiness, and become the creator of one of America’s most successful healthy meal delivery companies. At the age of 39, Adam Zbar was 50 pounds overweight, in the middle of a divorce, and stressed out as his start-up ran out of money. Today, in the best shape of his life, Adam helps millions of Americans eat better and live healthier through his company Sun Basket.

Mike Sharman invites you to share in the hustle in The Best Dick. From the enthusiastic, entrepreneurial beginnings of a bootstrapped startup founder - a relatively inexperienced 26-year-old - to a seasoned, professional storyteller, Sharman built a boutique social media advertising agency that has made more brands go viral globally than any other studio in Africa.

TV host and PR know-it-all Richard Laermer literally wrote the book on public relations. In 2004, the PR vet and CEO of award-winning RLM PR created the ultimate guide for snaring publicity. Now Full Frontal PR is back in a big and exciting way, as audio book read by Laermer that includes new tips and a brand-new series of Web inclusions.

Smart executives who want to reach virtually any business goal - from raising capital to finding sales leads to finding the perfect job - know that networking is the key to their success. But traditional networking approaches - meet as many people as possible, amass huge numbers of "connections" and "friends" in your LinkedIn and Facebook networks - rarely produce more than a handful of relationships that pay off.

Drop shipping is a retail fulfillment model that allows you to purchase products individually from a wholesaler and ship them directly to your customer. Instead of purchasing a large number of products, you simply go into partnership with a drop shipping supplier and list their merchandise for sale. Then, once you get a buyer/receive an order, you forward it to the supplier for fulfillment. The supplier will ship the product directly from their warehouse to your customer, and charge you only for the price of the shipped item (product). The drop shipping model has some number of advantages. Apart from being easy to start with low capital and low risks, locational flexibility coupled with wide range of product selection are also some of the reasons why drop shipping is a great business.

The Business of Excellence offers a unique and compelling perspective on the drivers of excellence in teams and organizations. The challenges of high performance and leadership are explored in depth and are illustrated with insights, interviews, and case studies from the military, sporting, and corporate worlds. The material includes a proprietary performance model that can be applied to a wide spectrum of organizations.