Running Business

In February 2009, Dan Maccarone, a digital product design executive who works with some of the world’s top brands, walked through the doors of what would be his new bar, Destination, in Manhattan’s East Village. The overwhelming stale-beer smell, ruined floor, and “Happy New Year 2008” banners that hung from the walls were the least of his worries. He had just six weeks and a budget of $150,000 to turn the place into the neighborhood’s new favorite hang-out - and start turning a profit.

A start-up is a risky thing, but there is a better way. Three-time best-selling author David C. Barnett uses his decades of business ownership, management, and consulting experience to show you the lower-risk path to owning the business of your dreams. It’s not new. It may be less exciting. But your kids will get fed every day with this plan.

Filled with intriguing insights about the trucking industry, and packed with practical strategies on how to start and succeed in the business, this guidebook will help you lay your path to success.

Blueprint to Business is the ultimate guide to becoming a successful entrepreneur. Best-selling author and CEO Mike Alden puts aside the rainbows and sunshine, gets real about what it takes to "make it", and gives you the real-world guidance you need to hear. Through anecdotes and advice, he shares his experiences along with those of other top founders and entrepreneurs to give you a realistic picture of what it takes to build a business. It's a bit of tough love, a healthy dose of reality, and a tremendously motivating guide to striking out on your own.

With the unprecedented rise in remote work due to the pandemic, many businesses have struggled with how to effectively transition to a distributed format. Meanwhile, companies who had always been remote-first had a unique advantage: a highly scalable set of work processes, a unique communication style, and the proper “async mindset” required to succeed without an office.

If you are an OnlyFans or Myystar Content Creator, or a Sugar Baby, you are running a business. How do I file my income tax returns? When do I need to pay my taxes? How do I keep track of my accounting books and records? How do I handle banking? Do I need to form an LLC? This book is your comprehensive guide to answer those questions, and more. I have taken my 30 years experience as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and explained everything you need to know.

Without setting foot in an office, Buddha knew that helping people work right was essential to helping them find their path to awakening. Now more than ever, we need Buddha's guidance. Too many of us are working long hours and dealing with difficult bosses, high-maintenance coworkers, and nonstop stress. We need someone to help remind us that there is a better way. With Buddha's wisdom at the core of every chapter, Buddha's Office will help you learn how to stop taking shortcuts and pay more attention.

Along the path to any goal - completing a marathon or a thesis paper, winning a medal or a contract - familiar mental hurdles arise: We may fixate on the odds of failure or find our interest flags two-thirds of the way through. That’s when elite endurance athletes - top performers in running, cycling, and swimming - turn to their rich arsenal of cognitive strategies to overcome self-doubt and unlock peak performance.

By turns irreverent and profound, Straight Up: Real World Secrets to Running a Killer Bar is your guide to the attitude, organization, and teamwork necessary to absolutely crush it in the world of bartending and bar management.

Whether you're new to running meetings or a seasoned executive with no time to waste, leading effective (and even pleasant!) meetings is a must.

Are you ready to turn your passion for home staging into a w successful business? Look no further than The Home Stager's Handbook: A Complete Guide to Starting and Running a Thriving Home Staging Business. This comprehensive resource is your ultimate ticket to mastering the art of home staging and taking your career to new heights.

Do you love traveling, eating, and exploring new locations? Are you thinking of starting your own bed-and-breakfast? This book will quench your curiosity and answer all your questions. We interview everyone from huge B&Bs to small mom-and-pop B&Bs, inns that have been around for decades and B&Bs that are new and making a big splash! This is one of the most interesting books about the bed-and-breakfast business written in the last decade. The vast amount of different people we spoke with gives us a truly eye-opening glimpse into what the industry is all about!

The Cheer Gym Owners' Handbook is your indispensable guide to building a profitable and thriving all star gym. Recognized as the #1 industry resource, this book is packed with actionable advice and practical strategies, covering everything from enhancing your marketing and optimizing staffing to mastering the financial aspects of gym ownership.

50 Things to Know about Running a Business by Jennifer McGuire offers an approach to the steps it takes to run a successful company. Most books on running a business tell you that it’s worth the reward. Although there’s nothing wrong with that, they never go into the struggles you’ll face financially, mentally, and possibly physically. Based on knowledge from leading experts, you’ll learn how to face these struggles head on.

This book will take you from knowing nothing about the vending machine business to learning more about it than most people running an already successful business of this kind!

This is a complete guide to how to create a plan for, open, operate, and market a new small business. This book intends to help you overcome fear and inspire you to own and operate your own small business.

With the enabling power of technology, turning a great idea into a successful business does not have to be merely a dream. It can be a reality. The Lemonade Stand presents a new perspective on entrepreneurship that anyone who is considering starting a business or already running one, should read. The Lemonade Stand principles are thirteen guidelines that empower anyone to welcome adversity and transform problems into innovations.

Against The Grain is full of principles and ideas that you can apply to improve your business and your life. Taken from 15 years of running and exiting multiple businesses, this book gives stories, experiences and real world advice on how to take action on achieving your dreams, how to build a business, and how to create the life you've always wanted. If you listen to this book, you'll get some tools and lessons I learned the hard way through life and business, and hopefully there will be a few gems in here that you can take and apply to your life or your business moving forward.

At the age of just 19, JW Murphey didn't have access to large amounts of private security industry experience, a bunch of cash, an audiobook, or the Internet to help him start his security guard company. But, he didn't want to spend years as another cog inside of a large security corporation. Instead of staying employed with a big corporation, he struck out on his own and started his own security agency. How to Start a Security Guard Company book includes Murphey's creative strategies for building a private security agency with a minimal up-front investment.

Sports journalist and veteran shoe tester Brian Metzler takes runners and kicksologists deep inside the $10 billion running shoe industry with a behind-the-curtain look at what makes iconic running shoe brands tick. Kicksology follows a shoe from inspiration to store shelf to show how innovative ideas evolve into industry-wide trends and fads. Metzler tours shoe labs where scientists advance our understanding of shoes and running mechanics as well as the domestic and overseas shoe factories where the world's favorite kicks are assembled.