Business Steps

This book will show you exactly how to begin a freight brokerage firm from the comfort of your own home! You will gain a deep satisfaction knowing you built a successful business from scratch, on your own terms. All you need is a laptop, time, dedication, and industry knowledge. This book gives you all the tools you need to succeed.

Did you know that women only currently make up around 25 percent of the C-Suite? And they lead less than 10 percent of Fortune 500 companies? Hard to believe right? But things are slowly starting to change, and people are starting to realize that women can bring qualities to the table that men simply can’t.

The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business, 2nd Edition, is a detailed analysis of the subjects that all musicians should understand and apply to pursue a successful and sustainable career in music today. Full of practical advice, this music industry book provides comprehensive details on how to achieve self-empowerment and optimize your success in today’s music business. From production and performance tips to marketing and career-building advice, this music business book instructs and empowers artists.

Blue Ocean Shift is the essential follow-up to Blue Ocean Strategy, the classic 3.6 million copy global best seller by world-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne. Drawing on more than a decade of new work, Kim and Mauborgne show you how to move beyond competing, inspire your people's confidence, and seize new growth, guiding you step by step through how to take your organization from a red ocean crowded with competition to a blue ocean of uncontested market space.

Every business needs referrals from satisfied clients. A good referral can lead to a closed sale faster and easier than any other lead. But let’s face it - asking for referrals can be awkward. And asking is often ineffective. That’s why Stacey Brown Randall developed a method of getting referrals without asking. In her book Generating Business Referrals Without Asking, she shares her system for revolutionizing any business. Her structured approach reduces the hustle and increases productivity and profit.

A straight-shooting Silicon Valley executive reveals insider career strategies to becoming a great leader, developing your network, succeeding without wasting time, and managing trade-offs between your work and life so your life works. Patty Azzarello became the youngest general manager at Hewlett-Packard at age 33, ran a $1 billion software business at 35, and became a CEO at 38 - all without turning into a self-centered, miserable jerk. In Rise, Azzarello shares the insider secrets to advancing your career (while having a life) in three practical steps.

The Startup Checklist is the entrepreneur's essential companion. While most entrepreneurship books focus on strategy, this invaluable guide provides the concrete steps that will get your new business off to a strong start. You'll learn the ins and outs of startup execution, management, legal issues, and practical processes throughout the launch and growth phases and how to avoid the critical missteps that threaten the foundation of your business.

A positive attitude has the power to change your life. By ending negative thinking habits, you can embark on a new beginning and achieve your loftiest goals. Napoleon Hill's Keys to Positive Thinking provides a proven ten-step plan to help you achieve health, wealth and success. Filled with Hill's trademark inspirational advice and timeless wisdom, this powerful audiobook will help you implement and maintain a positive can-do attitude.

Performing with David Bowie, surviving the murky depths of the music business, enduring a painful divorce, and making the first music video in outer space, award-winning recording artist Emm Gryner has navigated through life’s highs and lows using a secret compass: singing. Her voice, and her desire to express herself in music, has been a constant, from the early days of playing in bands while growing up in a small town, to playing arena rock shows and stadiums. Across these years and on many travels, she’s discovered the human voice to be an unlikely guide.

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.

No one wins at everything they try. But any setback, whether professional or personal, can become a step forward with the right tools and mind-set to turn loss into a gain. Drawing on nearly 50 years of leadership experience, Maxwell provides a roadmap for winning by examining the 11 elements that constitute the "DNA" of people who succeed in the face of problems, failure, and losses. Learning is not easy during down times. It takes discipline to do the right thing when something goes wrong.

Does it sneak up on you on holiday when your mind finally has time to wander? After a bad day in the office where your ideas have gone unnoticed? We all have days when we idly dream of a new life. But this is different. The Career Change Guide is designed to take you from the confusion and indecision that stops you doing anything, to a clearer picture of the kind of work and life you want, with concrete steps to make it a reality. Get your brain into gear and equip yourself with the tools to become a committed career redesigner.

In her groundbreaking new book, Dr. Judith Orloff leads listeners to the heart of a radical revolution in health care: the union of medicine and intuition, of body, mind, and soul. We're all born with the gift of intuition; many of us have long ago blocked that "indisputable sense of rightness" which is our truest inner compass.

The ultimate cheat sheet to LLC success: Everything you need to know (minus the headaches). You've got the drive, the ambition, the killer business idea. But who has time to make sense of dense legal documents or navigate the ever-changing tax laws? But what if you had a shortcut? A clear, concise guide that gives you the exact steps to launch and grow your LLC, without the headaches and costly mistakes? That's where this book comes in— the blueprint that separates the dreamers from the doers, your personal roadmap to LLC mastery, written in plain English, not legalese.

Increase customer satisfaction and reduce cost! Increase revenue growth and improve productivity! This guide will provide you with the tools you need to work with Six Sigma and see an improvement in your business.

Each year, an estimated 1 billion people switch jobs worldwide. A lucky few stumble into the role of their dreams, but hundreds of millions are disappointed. What if, when looking for a job, we could make more informed choices to better select the opportunity we seize? What if the power to move along our career paths lies with each of us, as opposed to hiring managers or the market? According to the “Jobs to Be Done” theory of product design—customers don’t simply buy products; they recruit them to do specific jobs that solve a problem.

Dive into entrepreneurship with Pete Srodoski's "The Small Business Playbook—The Ultimate Beginner's Guide: Practical Steps to Become a Profitable Business Owner," an essential audiobook for new and aspiring business owners. With Charlie Brogan's engaging narration, this guide offers practical steps, strategies, and insights from Srodoski's extensive experience as a successful CEO and COO.

There's no shortage of advice out there on how to perform better, and better than others, at work. The problem is knowing which methods are actually proven to work-and how you should act on them to get the best results.

Nationally recognized self-esteem and communication expert S. Renee Smith distills what she’s learned and taught about assertiveness over the past 20 years into five easy-to-follow steps. Built on her successful engagement with hundreds of organizations and individual clients, S. Renee has curated this actionable five-step how-to guide that will help you see the value of what you have to say - and gain the confidence to say it.

Success is not a matter of luck, an accident of birth, or a reward for virtue. Success is a matter of decision, commitment, planning, preparation, execution, and recommitment. Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it.