Running Small Business

Make a lasting impact by launching new initiatives, inspiring others, and championing innovative approaches with this from-the-trenches guide by trusted executive mentor, entrepreneur, and leadership expert Joel Peterson.

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!

What if you could start your own business within the next 30 days? The majority of occupations require you to work long hours each day on monotonous duties that don't satisfy you. Every day from 9 to 5, when others are creating fortunes, you WASTE YOUR BEST ENERGY, leaving you with nothing but peanuts. After leaving the daily grind, you will no longer have the energy to care for the people and things that are most important to you, such as your family, friends, or simply taking some time for yourself.

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.

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.

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.

Finally, here is a book that covers it all. Right from the concept to the implementation of the idea, this book will guide you through every step, making it easy and possible for you. Of late, there has been quite a buzz about the boom in this sector opening up wonderful business opportunities for everyone who is ready to think smart and act fast. This book is for those who had the urge, but didn't know how to get started and take it forward.

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.

Kathleen Shannon and Emily Thompson are self-proclaimed "business besties" and hosts of the top-ranked podcast Being Boss, where they talk shop and share their combined expertise with other creative entrepreneurs. Now they take the best of their from-the-trenches advice, giving you targeted guidance on: The Boss Mindset: how to weed out distractions, cultivate confidence, and tackle "fraudy feelings"; Boss Habits: including a tested method for visually mapping out goals with magical results; and Boss Money: how to stop freaking out about finances and sell yourself (without shame).

This is not a how-to book per se, yet it tells you how to do so many things! Hiring and firing, for instance; reading people; identifying nonproducers; cutting expenses; knowing what your customers need; and, most of all, growing your business. It doesn't tell you how to start a business, yet listening to it will make doing that so much easier. It doesn't tell you how to run one, but even if you've been a COO for 30 years, you'll find new wisdom in it.

Robert Rosenberg took over as CEO of Dunkin’ Donuts in 1963, 13 years after the first restaurant was founded by his father William. In his remarkable 35-year run, he grew the company from $10 million in sales to over $2 billion with more than 3,000 outlets. Through his tenure, Robert learned important lessons on running and scaling a family business. Rosenberg shares his insider perspective on all the dramatic highs and lows that are part of the Dunkin’ Donuts story to guide you to your own success story.

With more than 50 years of professional experience, Mark C. Zweig has seen it all—from the fear and excitement of starting a new business to the joys and challenges of life as an entrepreneur. In Confessions of an Entrepreneur: Simple Wisdom for Starting, Building, and Running a Business, Zweig draws upon this wealth of experience to offer practical, easy-to-understand guidance for bringing a business to life and cultivating success at every stage of its development.

The Parent Entrepreneur will show you how to balance family and business life, manage your time and money, test your business, market it to the right people in the right places, and get stuff done around kids. All supported and illustrated by Terry’s own experiences, hard times, and good times. If you’re a parent with a great business idea, or an existing business owner with kids on the way, this book will help you succeed at both.

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what, and what not, to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the listener with practical answers to the issues they will come across every day, and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and UK perspectives.

This book explores topics such as business coaching, the benefits of business coaching, the difference between training and business coaching, what to look for when choosing a business coach, how to develop a mission statement, the importance of developing an effective mission statement for your organization, tips on writing a financial plan for your business, branding, and so much more.

Running with My Head Down is the inspirational story of one man’s search for purpose and meaning, a quest without limitation that ultimately leads to unique business success and personal fulfillment. A native of Queens, New York, Frank was born into a working-class family, surrounded by the unified love of his parents. But in the mid-1970s, the 9-year-old was deeply impacted by his parents’ divorce. Emotional and financial turmoil follow, fueling Frank’s burning passion to discover his direction in life, and with it, certainty and security.

Being an entrepreneur is both exciting and challenging, but with determination and hard work, anything is possible. Through this book, I hope to inspire and empower other young women to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams and navigate the highs and lows of the business world.

The growth engine of the global economy is no longer through mega-production and huge conglomerates, but rather through the proliferation of smaller enterprises. In America alone, tens of thousands of businesses crop up each year. Unfortunately, few will succeed, though not due to a lack of ingenuity, initiative, or even capital. Why, then?

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!

Are you a business owner that does “Okay”, but you’re struggling to increase profits and carve out more personal time? Could you benefit from expert advice in the key areas for success in your business? Pathway to Profits provides no-nonsense guidance you can use to run your company more profitably and more efficiently, which means more time for you!