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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.

This modern parable tells the engagingly simple story of one man's journey of going from a life filled, yet unfulfilled. You'll find yourself walking in his footsteps in this easy-to-listen narrative packed with practical applications and a timeless process. Define what's most important you. Clarify your wants and heart's desire. Find your purpose. Tap into the power of your authentic self. Listen to The On-Purpose Person, year after to year, to better calibrate and navigate your good life into a great life.

Good capital allocation is the secret sauce of business success and investment returns. How could what you spend money on inside a business not be of utmost importance? I looked for a business person's guide to effective capital allocation for years. I thought, "What a nice gift to send to the CEOs of my portfolio companies!" as visions of outsized returns danced in my head. To my dismay, the search came up dry. I decided I'd have to write my own. I started at the individual customer transaction level and built all the way up to M&A, share buybacks, and beyond.

The legal industry has long been risk averse, but when it comes to adapting to the experience-driven world created by companies like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb, adherence to the old status quo could be the death knell for today’s law firms. In The Client-Centered Law Firm, legal technology expert Jack Newton offers a clear-eyed and timely look at how providing a client-centered experience and running an efficient, profitable law firm aren’t opposing ideas. With this approach, they drive each other.

The essence of resolution lies in the recognition of the deep and unbroken connectedness that we share as human beings. This groundbreaking book shows how the processes of Coming to Peace meet those in conflict and provides them a pathway to reconciliation and wholeness.

Execute Your Tech Idea applies to all technology projects, including apps, portals, Software as a Service, software tools, smart devices, the Internet of Things, and many more.

Bodo Schafer is a successful time management trainer. Through his time spent as a financial guru, Schafer has come up with a set of 30 laws that, when followed, can drastically improve the quality of one's life. The laws give you the tools used by this world's elite in order to gain control of your life and attain the confidence you need to move forward with all the gusto and purpose of a true winner.

You may not know Edward Bernays, but Edward Bernays knows you. His 1923 classic Crystallizing Public Opinion set down the principles that corporations and government have used to influence and manipulate public attitudes over the past century, and the mass media continues that practice today. This seminal work on how public opinion is created and shaped, offers a glimpse into the world of propaganda and advertising.

Excel VBA: A Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide to Learn Excel VBA Step by Step will take you from the basics of coding all the way to writing your own programs. You’ll learn to create dialog boxes and UserForms, install add-ins that make Excel VBA more powerful, and utilize the debug tool to find errors. You might be worried that you’ll be in over your head, but where this book differs from others is in the method of instruction. Instead of telling you about all the great features of VBA, this book will take you through each step and explain what to do, and why.

J. P. Morgan is more than just the name on one of the largest banks in America. He was a man who altered the course of American finance and the chief financier for the strategic interests of the titans of the day, such as Carnegie and Rockefeller. He also financed new and ingenious technologies developed by Thomas Edison and was a visionary who saw the potential in Nikola Tesla. Hear all about him and find areas that you may have in common with this towering titan.

Start Your Music Business is a simple guide for songwriters, producers, music publishers, independent record labels, artists, bands, musicians, and individuals in the music industry who want to legally start and grow a successful music business.

Featuring a foreword by Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, this fascinating handbook inspires potential founders and provides essential guidance and advice for people who want to create their own start-up and build a successful company. This audiobook answers the question “how do I get started?” It takes the listener from making the decision to plunge into entrepreneurship, through the process of choosing and developing an idea and team, all the way to raising capital and working with VCs and angel investors.

How to Start a Landscaping Business is a classic struggle to victory story on how to overcome fear and self-doubt. This book is for someone stuck in a dead-end job and looking to venture out into their first small business.

The life story of Gary Gygax, godfather of all fantasy adventure games, has been told only in bits and pieces. Michael Witwer has crafted a dynamic, dramatized biography of Gygax from his childhood in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to his untimely death in 2008. Gygax’s magnum opus, Dungeons & Dragons, would explode in popularity throughout the 1970s and ’80s and irreversibly alter the world of gaming. Gygax’s involvement in the industry lasted long after his dramatic and involuntary departure, and his footprint can be seen in the role-playing genre he is largely responsible for creating.

Whether you are looking to boost your visibility and traffic, master Facebook advertising, or know the best strategies for getting powerful results, this audiobook will give you everything you need to master Facebook marketing. Make yourself visible to the billions of Facebook users. Before you can sell anything, you must first capture the attention of your target audience. You want to find a way to target your ideal customers with a well-placed, strategically formulated message that can stop your customers in their tracks and cause them to sit up and take notice.

Mental health is on everyone’s minds these days. People are looking for a something to help but don’t know what to do. Pioneering a program to meet this need head on, the author found a way to reach students and give them the tools they need through a medium they already experience daily: music. This is a practical guide for using songwriting for personal fulfillment that backs up its assertions with research-based evidence from multiple fields of study: physics, psychology, anthropology, music therapy, evolutionary biology, and the wisdom of centuries of music makers.

Art-Write:The Writing Guide for Visual Artists has a single intention: to teach artists how to write about their own artwork. This concise and current career resource is filled with achievable advice on how to write for art promotion and sales. The audiobook offers a step-by-step approach to create a professional artist statement, with thinking and writing exercises to ease the process and develop authentic and clear content.

The biggest lie you will ever believe is the one that says you’re unwanted. But if rejection or betrayal has come crashing through your door, you know the emotional shattering this brings. You understand the brokenness and tailspin of confusion and anxiety. And you know the heartache of standing in the jagged fragments of a new normal, wondering if you will ever feel okay again.

This book was born out of the wake-up call I received from God in 2016. He said to me, "Emmanuel, you are not disciplined enough for where I am taking you to." Before then, I didn't see myself as an undisciplined person. Even though I understood God was not saying I lacked discipline, this assessment set me on an exploratory journey to find out what discipline really means and how I can enhance my discipline.

What does an executive director actually do? And how can you lead your organization to a stronger place? Nonprofit expert Erik Hanberg wrote The Little Book of Nonprofit Leadership to speak directly to executive directors of small (and very small) nonprofits who are asking these questions. EDs, especially at small nonprofits, tend to be dropped into the deep end of the pool with the expectation that they know how to swim. The Little Book of Nonprofit Leadership will be a welcome rescue line.