New Business

While referrals are important, they're not the endgame. Beyond Referrals helps you turn referrals into introductions, appointments, and sales - showing you how to turn referrals into introductions to the prospects who are eager to hear from you. Then, you'll learn proven ways to convert a high percentage of prospects into high-value clients.

Fred M. Haney, an experienced venture capitalist, angel investor, and company founder, explains start-up strategies that will help you understand the thinking of investors, build a “virtual team”, create initial value in a product or prototype, and recruit management that will help you raise capital. The Fundable Startup contains eight personal interviews with executives and entrepreneurs that will change the way founders think about managing a start-up company.

The Big Stretch delivers a four-tiered self-evaluation and empowerment program for jump-starting a new business, new career, or new idea - and maintaining high levels of success long-term. One of today's most effective coaches for entrepreneurs, Teneshia Jackson Warner walks you through a “career workout” routine designed to move you from idea to goal.

Do you love food? Do you enjoy cooking for others? Are you looking for a way to turn that love of cuisine into something profitable? Look no further than the catering industry! This book will tell you everything you need to know to start, run, and grow your own catering business—even if you have never before ventured into business for yourself! You will learn the nuances of the business, including how to get started, what supplies you need, costs for those items necessary to get your catering business up and running, how to brand and market your new catering business, and much more.

When BIC, manufacturer of disposable ballpoint pens, wanted to grow, it looked for an idea beyond introducing new sizes and ink colors. Someone suggested lighters.

Business leaders today face unprecedented challenges—and it's not uncommon to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number and complexity of nonstop decision making. To further complicate matters, you may believe that some decisions require rational (brain) decision making, while others call for you to "go with your gut." In The Steadfast Leader, you'll discover that integrating the two—brain and gut—will help you become the calm, steadfast and powerful leader you want to be.

Do you constantly doubt yourself? Do you downplay your achievements? Do you internalize your mistakes? Are you always apologizing for no good reason at all? Are you a perfectionist or people pleaser? Suffering from the nice-girl syndrome? Tired of saying yes to everyone else's demands of your time? Do you hate self-promotion? If this sounds like you, then this audiobook will motivate you to get out of your damn comfort zone!

The Cofounder’s Handbook brings business partnerships into the spotlight where they belong. Most people don’t realize how much their partnership affects the strength of their business. The right cofounder multiplies your success. But the wrong partner divides your attention and effort, hinders your business’s progress, and potentially destroys it from within.

If you’re an aspiring entrepreneur, you’ve come to the right place. In Million Dollar Launch, bestselling author and superstar consultant Alan Weiss shows you how to get your business up and running—fast! Step by step, Weiss reveals how to create a revenue-producing practice quickly and successfully—while funds last and while support systems remain passionate. This is an indispensable guide to those critical first 90 days.

Both aspiring and novice teachers will find this book with its easy-to-understand tips and techniques helpful.

A definitive audiobook for any CEO - first time or otherwise - of a high-growth company. While big company CEOs are usually groomed for the job for years, startup CEOs aren't - and they're often young and relatively inexperienced in business in general.

Shakti Gawain, a leader in the world consciousness movement, teaches us to view prosperity not as monetary gain but as fulfillment of the heart and soul.

There is blank paper in the back for additional reasons of your own.The first draft of this book was written by a group of people at a well-known treatment center in California. It was then revised and expanded by a second group working with the editors at New World Library. "It is our heartfelt wish," it states in the introduction, "that this little book may help you become healthy, happy, fulfilled in life - and clean and sober."

We have a crisis in the charitable sector. High turnover and difficulty in attracting skilled candidates to our organizations. Three decades in the social impact sector as a fundraiser and organizational leader gave Maryann Kerr a bird’s eye view of what’s working and what’s not. Tarnished provides an honest, well-researched and critical review of the social impact sector and tips and techniques to create the kind of workplaces that engage employees to do their best work.

Drawing on interviews with 75 leaders in more than 40 multinational organizations and NGOs, the author explores how ecological worldviews are expressed in the context of global sustainability practice. By empirically grounding key theories from developmental psychology in sustainability leadership practice, the author encourages us to think about leadership in a different way.

With the COVID pandemic has come the need to reinvent, to reimagine and to learn how to navigate the waters of a new landscape for most businesses - and that includes the business of acting, which is on the verge of the next great era of storytelling. Great art has always come out of challenging times and there will be - as there are now - great stories for actors and other content creators to tell from these challenges. The new normal includes new rules, new regulations and a new narrative about moving forward and thriving in this new artistic landscape.

Here’s how you can finally quit your dead-end nine-to-five job and start your own business from scratch! By the end of this eye-opening business guide, you will not only feel motivated but also equipped with all the essential practical and doable business ideas that show you a simple truth: “It’s time for you to build your own business!”

The Real Business of Blockchain is one of the first audiobooks on this transformative technology written for business leaders. Authors David Furlonger and Christophe Uzureau - both of Gartner, the world-renowned research and advisory company - will help you: assess how blockchain will impact your business by cutting through the hype and finding the real story; explore the value proposition that blockchain technologies offer; make smart near- and mid-term investments in your blockchain strategy; and position you and your organization in a new competitive landscape in the future.

Best-selling author and serial entrepreneur Dale Partridge provides a concrete, easily executed plan for listeners looking to start a business that will result in greater freedom, a stronger family, and healthier finances.

William Walker Atkinson, almost a century before the publication of the international phenomenon The Secret, was one of the first persons to write about the Law of Attraction and was one of the most influential members of the new thought movement. In this audiobook you will learn to connect the power of desire, use the force of your soul, and use the law of attraction for your benefit; and all this would help you to discover the person that you are destined to be and achieve the life full of abundance and happiness that you deserve.