Business Steps

Revised and updated to answer the challenges of a rapidly changing business world, the 4th edition of The Ten-Day MBA includes the latest topics taught at America's top business schools, from corporate ethics and compliance to financial planning and real estate to leadership and negotiation. With more than 400,000 copies sold around the world, this internationally acclaimed guide distills the lessons of the most popular business school courses taught at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Chicago, Northwestern, and the University of Virginia.

The first step towards gaining customers, increasing profit, driving growth, and attracting investors is your ability to secure warm leads. Scorecard marketing is the perfect tool to achieve this, attracting a steady stream of qualified leads and engaging with the right people.

Every industry revolves around Key People of Influence. Their names come up in conversation. They attract opportunities. They earn more money. Many people think it takes decades of hard work, academic qualifications and a generous measure of good luck to become a Key Person of Influence. This audiobook shows you that there is a five-step strategy for fast-tracking your way to the inner circle of the industry you love. Your ability to succeed depends on your ability to influence. Start now by listening to this audiobook.

Event planning business start-up. Are your friends and family always looking for you to plan the perfect party? Are you detail-oriented? Do you thrive on knowing what’s going on and making it happen? Do you take pride in providing the best experience for your guests? You should become an event planner! You can start an event planning business from home with little startup funds. Yes, you really can! This audiobook shows you exactly how to do just that, step-by-step, even if you have little to no business experience.

We all want to live a life that matters. But too often we find ourselves overwhelmed by the day-to-day. Our big goals get pushed to the back burner—and then, more often than not, they get forgotten. It doesn't have to be that way! This is the year you finally close the gap between reality and your dreams. In this fully revised and updated new edition of Your Best Year Ever, Michael Hyatt shares a powerful, proven research-driven system for setting and achieving your goals.

We all wish we had more time to pause and reflect about small decisions and big goals - and everything in between. But since we live and work in a vortex of tasks, meetings, decisions, and serious responsibilities, we rarely get the chance to step back. In this practical guide, best-selling author and Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco argues that you don't need long periods of solitude and tranquility to reflect well.

In Getting Ahead, one of the top 50 executive coaches in the United States, Joel Garfinkle reveals his signature model for mastering three skills to take your career to the next level: Perception, Visibility, and Influence. The PVI-model of professional advancement will teach you to: (1) Actively promote yourself as an asset and valuable person inside the organization, (2) Increase your visibility to gain others' recognition and appreciation for your efforts and (3) Become a person of influence who makes key decisions inside the organization.

This audiobook covers a 10-step process to plan, practice, and rehearse a presentation on any business topic. You'll review techniques to identify your audience, purpose, and main message. You'll strategize about ways to include all necessary information and eliminate unnecessary details. You'll practice how you'll carry yourself as you speak and also practice asking and answering questions. All the book's techniques can help you build confidence and deliver an engaging, effective presentation.

Dale Carnegie and his successors have shown us the way in their courses and in their writings. In this audiobook we have synthesized these principles into 10 steps that will guide listeners to a more fulfilling life. To get the most out of this audiobook, listen to all of it first, to absorb the overall concepts. Then listen again to each chapter, and start applying the guidelines for achieving each of the areas covered.

Why do so many farm businesses struggle to survive, let alone thrive? It’s because they don’t make clear strategic choices that reward them with a competitive advantage. Instead, most entrepreneurs start with a boilerplate business because they think they're supposed to. Boilerplate business plans offer little help in guiding strategic choices that determine if your business thrives or dies.

Traditional jewelers are struggling, more so now than ever before. The Internet has opened up a near-infinite supply of products, sending consumer spending far and wide. To thrive in this fast-changing world we find ourselves in today, you must now become a digital jeweler. It’s no longer acceptable to continue with the same strategies you’ve had from as little as 10 years ago. Simply put, the world has changed, and so should you.

From retailers to growers, producers, and suppliers, there's a seemingly never-ending list of startup opportunities in this emerging market. In Start Your Own Cannabis Business, cannabis, biotech, and entrepreneurship reporter Javier Hasse introduces forward-thinking entrepreneurs like you to the industry and shares hard-earned tips and success stories from pioneers and visionaries in the marijuana industry.

Why do only 30 percent of business transformation programmes deliver on time, on budget, and on scope, realising the intended benefits while 70 percent fail? Uncover HOBA® (House of Business Architecture®) the Business Transformation framework, design process and blueprint for increasing your organisation’s success rate and delivering the Target Operating Model (TOM). This audiobook provides a practical, hands-on tool that has helped organisation‘s design, build and implement their business strategy and Target Operating Model (TOM) as part of their business transformation.

I found a way that I could relax, enjoy life, have retirement, and own a revenue-generating business all at the same time. The solution? Owning and running an RV campground resort. In this book, I will show you in depth exactly how to go about starting your own RV park, RV resort, or rustic campground business from scratch.

When you feel that pull to be part of social change, where do you start? How can you ensure that your good intentions create a positive impact? How do you focus your scattered efforts? And how do you sustain yourself throughout? Impact brings you the answers. Drawing on their network and experience as founders of She's the First, Christen Brandt and Tammy Tibbetts show you how to create your own impact strategy, one that fits into your life and allows you to match what you have with what the world needs.

Through powerful stories and proven principles, Step Up Your Teamwork teaches how to create momentum, prepare for success, prevent collapse, and turn a group of individuals into a high-functioning team. Frank Viscuso encourages each person to tap into individual talents, skills, and abilities and recognize how to use these skills to improve the team as a whole.

Real estate wholesaling is not only the fastest and easiest way to get started in real estate investing; it is the fastest path to becoming a real estate millionaire as well. This book is the field manual that contains the strategies James Hodges used to go from making $17,000 per year as a personal trainer to making $1.1 million dollars in his first 12 months as a real estate wholesaler and has now used to help hundreds of investors launch and scale their own wholesaling businesses as well.

Pasos de gigante es la guía que necesitas para actualizar tu mentalidad y tener la actitud que hace que cualquier persona se convierta, rápidamente, en un ganador. En este libro, Brian y Margarita ayudan a los oyentes a acortar su camino y evitar frustraciones.

Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned business owner seeking a fresh perspective, this guide is your ticket to carving out a thriving niche business. So, let's take those ordinary steps to an extraordinary journey of financial independence with Ordinary Steps for Creating an Extraordinarily Boring, Niche Business. Ordinary is the new extraordinary!

Are you good at working with your hands? Do you love creating things? Would you like to start a profitable side hustle, but don’t know where to begin? Maybe you already make and sell your own soap, but you don’t know how to find new customers. No worries: My book, Ultimate Guide to Building a Soap Making Business Empire can give you the knowledge and inspiration to start making and selling your own unique line of handmade soaps.