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| business owner icon png: How to Start a Home-based Mobile App Developer Business Chad Brooks, 2014-01-07 With the app market exploding, app designers will need a solid how-to guide to help them start their home-based business. This book will guide the reader through all the steps from design to marketing. |
| business owner icon png: Uncovering the Crimes of Urbanisation Kristian Lasslett, 2017-11-20 From the social cleansing of cities through to indigenous land struggles at the frontline of extraction megaprojects, planetary urbanisation is a contested process that is radically shaping social life and the sustainability of human civilisation. In this pioneering intervention, it is maintained that this turbulent planetary process is also a potent space for state–corporate criminality. Market manipulation, fraud, corruption, violence and human rights abuses have become critical spokes in the way space is being transformed to benefit speculative interests. This book not only offers investigative data that documents in detail the intricate ways state and corporate actors collude to profit from the built environment; it also establishes the tools for building a research agenda that can interrogate the crimes of urbanisation on a comparative, longitudinal basis. The author sets out an investigative methodology which can be appropriated to conduct probing research into the hidden schemas and forms of collusion that buttress state–corporate criminality in the urban sphere. Coupled to this, a theoretical framework is developed for thinking about the networks, processes and mechanisms at the heart of property market manipulation, and the broader social relationships that sustain and reward illicit speculative activity. This book concludes that researchers and civil society have a critical role to play in challenging a historical form of planetary urbanisation, marked by endemic state–corporate criminality, that poses significant threats to the sustainability of lived communities and the rich biospheres that they depend upon. This book will be of interest to criminologists, sociologists, human geographers, political scientists and those engaged with development studies, as well as civil society organisations and urban researchers. |
| business owner icon png: Rhythm Patrick Thean, 2014-02-25 From USA Today & Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author! Want to achieve breakthroughs and get exceptional results? Discover the system that successful growth companies have used to achieve their results. All growing companies encounter ceilings of complexity, usually when they hit certain employee or revenue milestones. In order to burst through ceiling after ceiling and innovate with growth, a company must develop a reliable system that prompts leaders to be proactive and pivot when the need arises. You also need to learn simple systems to empower everyone in your company to become and stay focused, aligned, and accountable. In Rhythm, you’ll discover all this and more, including: • How to identify potential setbacks and avoid them; • Think-Plan-Do rhythm to fire up and maintain great execution; • The inside scoop from growth companies showing you how they turned their potential setbacks into opportunities; • Practical tools that you can use immediately; • The habits you should start building to achieve your own breakthroughs. Patrick Thean’s process applies to any growing business and ensures that your organization gets into the habit of achieving success, week after week, quarter after quarter, year after year. Get your copy now and start leading your business towards successful growth today! |
| business owner icon png: Scrum Your Jira! Clemens Lode, 2017-08-09 This book challenges two illusions that can get in the way of your company’s road to being genuinely Agile: first, that your Scrum is “special,” and second, that you can hide behind project management software. JIRA is powerful—and this book will show you how to use it more effectively—but it makes it easy to forget that the first idea of Agile is: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. This book begins with the origin of Scrum: rugby. Unlike in football or soccer, in rugby, there is a strong team emphasis and few to no roles. This is what makes Scrum different from Waterfall, which is focused on hiring only specialists and then shifting work from one department to the next—a tiresome approach, especially in today’s knowledge-focused industries. Building multidisciplinary teams is a crucial element to achieving an Agile company. Sharing knowledge by working together as a team, removing production phases, and focusing on quick delivery can be achieved. The key is to transform your departments into individual teams that can do everything related to their part of a feature or product. This leads us to the tools. People tend to forget what Scrum is really about. Purposefully not using certain JIRA features to create new stories will help to remedy that situation. There is a great deal that JIRA does (and does not do), compared to the pen-and-paper approach. Two examples are the acceptance criteria and the definition of done. Here, there is often no clear decision made about how to integrate them into JIRA. They exist somewhere in the documentation, or implicitly in people’s heads. But with a plug-in and some workflow programming, we can automate the definition of done elegantly. All the information needed to complete a story in one place: great! With the tools and numbers in order, the focus moves to the team. Often, it is the last (or middle) chain of production. The team is not trusted to deliver the full product. Instead, management makes essential decisions because the best people were moved out of the team into management roles. With Scrum, it is vital to have the team own the product. If this is not done, you will face several tricky issues. One particular topic related to ownership is the sprint (its estimation, and the commitment to it). Not without reason, Scrum was changed a few years ago to replace “commitment” with “forecast.” Striking the right balance between the product owner and the team is crucial. If the team does not own the sprint in its totality, including deciding on its own how to complete it, the team will, consciously or unconsciously, blame the people who meddled with it. Leading the team to make smarter estimations is an excellent way to win over both sides and increase productivity. All that said, and the work done, it is time for delivery, right? Too often, I see that people confuse Scrum sprints with development sprints. Scrum is the business side, to check on you, to communicate with the client, to plan in chunks, etc. But delivery? That can be done at any time. If you ever encounter a team that delivers at the end of the sprint, you will see many Waterfall elements in play. As your projects grow, you will need to add more people and teams. Organizing them in JIRA can be tricky, but there are ways the software can help you to accomplish the task. Finally, there are several ideas relating to your daily Scrum Master routine to help you to do your work better. From psychology to small productivity tips, big things are achieved in small steps. Where does your team stand in terms of Agile? Are you making the most of Scrum? This book was written with an experienced Scrum Masters in mind. It trusts that you already know the basics, so the chapters will jump right into the day-to-day challenges, as well as the global idea of Agile organizations. |
| business owner icon png: LinkedIn Profile Optimization For Dummies Donna Serdula, 2020-04-21 Give your LinkedIn profile the makeover it deserves—and get the attention you deserve Look at your profile: you know it could be a little better. Too many LinkedIn users are just posting a basic resume and hoping for the offers to come flooding in, missing out on the incredible opportunity the platform offers to properly showcase their talents, products, and services to 610 million professionals in over 200 countries. LinkedIn is way more than a resume tool—to display your professional past and present—it’s also your career future and personal brand. Used to its fullest extent, it helps you demonstrate the unique value and culture you provide, the skills and aspirations that make you different, to get the outcomes you truly want. But how’s it done? Profile branding expert Donna Serdula pioneered the concept of LinkedIn Profile Optimization and through her Website, LinkedIn-Makever.com, has helped over 5000 professionals use LinkedIn to achieve increased success. In this guide she applies that experience to help you use all of LinkedIn’s capabilities to meet your goals, whether they be job search, reputation management, or sales—including how to: Create a memorable, successful profile Optimize personal keywords Showcase your experience, accomplishments, and unique value Use LinkedIn features to grow your network and more You never get a second chance to make a first impression—and people are Googling you right now: Get a fresh online look and get results! |
| business owner icon png: Brand Management Emmanuel Mogaji, 2021-04-02 Branding is an increasingly important part of business strategy for all types of businesses, including start-ups, SMEs, NGOs, and large corporations. This textbook provides an introduction to brand management that can be applied to all these types of organizations. Using story-telling to guide the reader through the main concepts, theories and emerging issues, it offers a theoretical and applied perspective to brand management. Highlighting the relationship between different brand concepts, this textbook explores the role of branding from both a corporate and a consumer perspective and highlights implications for employability and future career options. With case studies, activities, learning objectives and online resources for lecturers, this book is an ideal accompaniment for undergraduates, post graduates or students who have never studied branding before. Written in an approachable way, it gives readers the basics, allowing them to enhance their understanding of the core topics and advance their study further. |
| business owner icon png: Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment Günter Wallner, 2019-07-11 The last decade has witnessed the rise of big data in game development as the increasing proliferation of Internet-enabled gaming devices has made it easier than ever before to collect large amounts of player-related data. At the same time, the emergence of new business models and the diversification of the player base have exposed a broader potential audience, which attaches great importance to being able to tailor game experiences to a wide range of preferences and skill levels. This, in turn, has led to a growing interest in data mining techniques, as they offer new opportunities for deriving actionable insights to inform game design, to ensure customer satisfaction, to maximize revenues, and to drive technical innovation. By now, data mining and analytics have become vital components of game development. The amount of work being done in this area nowadays makes this an ideal time to put together a book on this subject. Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment seeks to provide a cross section of current data analytics applications in game production. It is intended as a companion for practitioners, academic researchers, and students seeking knowledge on the latest practices in game data mining. The chapters have been chosen in such a way as to cover a wide range of topics and to provide readers with a glimpse at the variety of applications of data mining in gaming. A total of 25 authors from industry and academia have contributed 12 chapters covering topics such as player profiling, approaches for analyzing player communities and their social structures, matchmaking, churn prediction and customer lifetime value estimation, communication of analytical results, and visual approaches to game analytics. This book’s perspectives and concepts will spark heightened interest in game analytics and foment innovative ideas that will advance the exciting field of online gaming and entertainment. |
| business owner icon png: Business Purpose Design Monika Smith, Shermin Voshmgir, Scot Carlson; Don Spampinato, Steffan Heuer, Curt Simon Harlinghausen, Friedericke Rode, Philip Siefer, Martin Sinner, Christian Solmecke, Daniel Heltzel; Maren Beverung; Katharina Zwielich, 2020-02-28 Business Purpose Design is an essential guide for a human-centric and holistic purpose for businesses. Discontinuity, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity are driving forces of our world. Entire markets, industries, departments, and specialist areas interact and correlate with each other - unplanned and open-ended. In our world, orientation and a common driver is key to navigate, to distinguish relevant information from irrelevant, to take decisions and lead companies to create a positive future. Together with 32 outstanding personalities, from thought leaders, executives, founders, designers, and scientists, Monika looks at the 30 most relevant topics für purpose entrepreneurship. Bonus: Many examples, trend outlooks, and conceptional images inspire new thoughts and ideas - and reassure existing developments. Furthermore, takeaways for every topic offer a hands-on guide to act right away. With the Business Purpose Design model, organizations of any size can design, build, and grow their business towards becoming impact-driven. It provides a toolkit, and over 90 practical tips to design or and implement purpose within an organization right away. It allows for many perspectives. Co-created by over 32 practitioners from 30 disciplines. Illustrated with a critical eye by one of Europe's most sophisticated graphic-recording duo. Specially designed for executives, consultants, entrepreneurs, coaches, managers, designers and leaders of all types of organizations. www.business-purpose.com |
| business owner icon png: Business Made Simple Donald Miller, 2021-01-19 Is this blue book more valuable than a business degree? Most people enter their professional careers not understanding how to grow a business. At times, this makes them feel lost, or worse, like a fraud pretending to know what they’re doing. It’s hard to be successful without a clear understanding of how business works. These 60 daily readings are crucial for any professional or business owner who wants to take their career to the next level. New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Donald Miller knows that business is more than just a good idea made profitable – it’s a system of unspoken rules, rarely taught by MBA schools. If you are attempting to profitably grow your business or career, you need elite business knowledge—knowledge that creates tangible value. Even if you had the time, access, or money to attend a Top 20 business school, you would still be missing the practical knowledge that propels the best and brightest forward. However, there is another way to achieve this insider skill development, which can both drastically improve your career earnings and the satisfaction of achieving your goals. Donald Miller learned how to rise to the top using the principles he shares in this book. He wrote Business Made Simple to teach others what it takes to grow your career and create a company that is healthy and profitable. These short, daily entries and accompanying videos will add enormous value to your business and the organization you work for. In this sixty-day guide, readers will be introduced to the nine areas where truly successful leaders and their businesses excel: Character: What kind of person succeeds in business? Leadership: How do you unite a team around a mission? Personal Productivity: How can you get more done in less time? Messaging: Why aren’t customers paying more attention? Marketing: How do I build a sales funnel? Business Strategy: How does a business really work? Execution: How can we get things done? Sales: How do I close more sales? Management: What does a good manager do? Business Made Simple is the must-have guide for anyone who feels lost or overwhelmed by the modern business climate, even if they attended business school. Learn what the most successful business leaders have known for years through the simple but effective secrets shared in these pages. Take things further: If you want to be worth more as a business professional, read each daily entry and follow along with the free videos that will be sent to you after you buy the book. |
| business owner icon png: Gather Octavia Raheem, 2020-04-12 Gather is a collection of soulful sayings, poetry, and flashes of insight sewn together into a sacred garment. Each thread was collected with reverence and care. The words here will weave their way into your heart and become a soft cover for you to land on. |
| business owner icon png: Manual for vtiger CRM v5.4.0 Frank Piepiorra, 2012-10-02 The vtiger CRM is one of the most exciting and best professional-quality Open Source CRM products for small and medium enterprises today. This book covers the CRM version 5.4.0 and is a step-by-step guide to using this powerful CRM application in your business and provides a practical, hands on introduction for beginners as well as experienced CRM system administrators. It covers such topics as navigating and personalizing the system, working with accounts and contacts, using e-mail, managing activities and reports, and security. If you are seriously interested in vtiger CRM you can't be without it. This book has been written for users and administrators only. If you are looking for developer support you may visit the vtiger web page. |
| business owner icon png: The Power of Connected Marketing Troy Spring, Glenn Pasch, Tracy Myers, 2016-04-23 GLAM |
| business owner icon png: How Brands Become Icons D. B. Holt, 2004-09-15 Coca-Cola. Harley-Davidson. Nike. Budweiser. Valued by customers more for what they symbolize than for what they do, products like these are more than brands--they are cultural icons. How do managers create brands that resonate so powerfully with consumers? Based on extensive historical analyses of some of America's most successful iconic brands, including ESPN, Mountain Dew, Volkswagen, Budweiser, and Harley-Davidson, this book presents the first systematic model to explain how brands become icons. Douglas B. Holt shows how iconic brands create identity myths that, through powerful symbolism, soothe collective anxieties resulting from acute social change. Holt warns that icons can't be built through conventional branding strategies, which focus on benefits, brand personalities, and emotional relationships. Instead, he calls for a deeper cultural perspective on traditional marketing themes like targeting, positioning, brand equity, and brand loyalty--and outlines a distinctive set of cultural branding principles that will radically alter how companies approach everything from marketing strategy to market research to hiring and training managers. Until now, Holt shows, even the most successful iconic brands have emerged more by intuition and serendipity than by design. With How Brands Become Icons, managers can leverage the principles behind some of the most successful brands of the last half-century to build their own iconic brands. Douglas B. Holt is associate professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. |
| business owner icon png: Faith Driven Entrepreneur Henry Kaestner, J. D. Greear, Chip Ingram, 2021-08 I'm excited about Faith Driven Entrepreneur. Anyone who is following the example of their creator God can find echoes of their work in this book. --Lecrae Entrepreneurship can be a lonely journey. But it doesn't need to be. God has a purpose and a plan for all those entrepreneurial dreams and creative gifts he gave you. The work you do today--the company you've built, the employees you work with, the customers you serve, the shareholders you report to, all of it--serves as an active part of what God wants to accomplish on earth. You are not alone in this journey. Join other faith-driven entrepreneurs as, together, we identify the values, habits, and traits that empower us to successfully build businesses, serve our communities, and faithfully pursue a loving relationship with God; read stories that exemplify how those values, habits, and traits unfold in everyday life; and discover the potential God wants to unleash through our work. Each book purchase includes access to the eight-session Faith Driven Entrepreneur video series, a discussion guide to encourage conversation among peers, and an invitation to join a Faith Driven Entrepreneur Group to meet other like-minded entrepreneurs. |
| business owner icon png: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Peter Drucker, 2014-09-15 How can management be developed to create the greatest wealth for society as a whole? This is the question Peter Drucker sets out to answer in Innovation and Entrepreneurship. A brilliant, mould-breaking attack on management orthodoxy it is one of Drucker’s most important books, offering an excellent overview of some of his main ideas. He argues that what defines an entrepreneur is their attitude to change: ‘the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it and exploits it as an opportunity’. To exploit change, according to Drucker, is to innovate. Stressing the importance of low-tech entrepreneurship, the challenge of balancing technological possibilities with limited resources, and the organisation as a learning organism, he concludes with a vision of an entrepreneurial society where individuals increasingly take responsibility for their own learning and careers. With a new foreword by Joseph Maciariello |
| business owner icon png: Pause, Rest, Be Octavia F. Raheem, 2022-02-01 Gold Nautilus Book Award Winner Restoring your body, mind, and spirit amid change is an act of courage, empowerment, and hope. This warm, powerful guide will help you honor the changes and spaces in your life with purposeful rest and reflection. If you're trying to push your way through endings, beginnings, and places of uncertainty, only to find yourself more confused, disconnected, tired, and uncertain, this book will hold and fortify you. Yoga teacher and activist Octavia Raheem offers us the motivation and guidance we need to restore ourselves in the midst of all sorts of change. Change in our lives—whether it be welcome, joyful, challenging, or more subtle—presents us with the opportunity to pause and gather our energy to work with whatever lies ahead. Drawing wisdom from yoga philosophy and her many years of teaching experience, Raheem offers us the motivation and guidance we need to restore ourselves in the midst of all types of change. She gives us three simple restorative yoga poses (savasana, side lying pose, and child’s pose), and offers short teachings, reflections, and practices to see us through times of ending, beginning, and liminal/transitional space. She shows us how slowing down, stillness, and deeper connection to our own transitions empower us to move through collective shifts with more grace—and what it means to navigate shifts and change with presence and courage. |
| business owner icon png: Fix This Next Mike Michalowicz, 2020-04-28 From Mike Michalowicz, the author of PROFIT FIRST, CLOCKWORK, and THE PUMPKIN PLAN, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur. The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales, staff turnover, and unhappy customers, what do you fix first? Every issue seems urgent -- but there's no way to address all of them at once. The result? A business that continues to go in endless circles putting out urgent fires and prioritizing the wrong things. Fortunately, Mike Michalowicz has a simple system to help you eradicate these frustrations and get your business moving forward, fast. Mike himself has lived through the struggles and countless distractions of entrepreneurship, and devoted years to finding a simple way to pinpoint exactly where to direct attention for rapid growth. He figured out that every business has a hierarchy of needs, and if you can understand where you are in that hierarchy, you can identify what needs immediate attention. Simply fix that one thing next, and your business will naturally and effortlessly level-up. Over the past decade, Mike has developed an ardent following for his funny, honest, and actionable insights told through the stories of real entrepreneurs. Now, Fix This Next offers a simple, unique, and wildly powerful business compass that has already helped hundreds of companies get to the next level, and will do the same for you. Immediately. |
| business owner icon png: Rise of the Data Cloud Frank Slootman, Steve Hamm, 2020-12-18 The rise of the Data Cloud is ushering in a new era of computing. The world’s digital data is mass migrating to the cloud, where it can be more effectively integrated, managed, and mobilized. The data cloud eliminates data siloes and enables data sharing with business partners, capitalizing on data network effects. It democratizes data analytics, making the most sophisticated data science tools accessible to organizations of all sizes. Data exchanges enable businesses to discover, explore, and easily purchase or sell data—opening up new revenue streams. Business leaders have long dreamed of data driving their organizations. Now, thanks to the Data Cloud, nothing stands in their way. |
| business owner icon png: The Growth Gears Art Saxby, Pete Hayes, 2016-02-18 WHY DO THE BEST RUN COMPANIES OFTEN HAVE THE HARDEST TIME GROWING? Are you running a highly successful company that just doesn't seem to be growing? You may be so operationally focused that you've ignored one of the most important aspects of an expanding business--working from a market-based perspective. In The Growth Gears, Art Saxby and Pete Hayes share their linear method of transforming into a market-focused organization. This book provides a simple framework as well as tools and action steps for identifying and adding these gears to give your company a set of repeatable behaviors and processes to fully capitalize on your market potential. Pete and Art bring their years of executive marketing experience, and their years of building a national management consulting firm, to lead you from insight to strategy to execution. In these pages, you will learn how to: - Determine if your business is operationally oriented or market oriented - Identify opportunities for business growth - Understand why marketing execution is sometimes not effective - Assure ongoing market relevance - Increase the returns on your marketing programs Align your organization and your employees behind your market-focused initiatives to lead your organization to new levels of growth! |
| business owner icon png: Integrity Selling for the 21st Century Ron Willingham, 2003-06-17 “I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like ‘bait and switch’ and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers... In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.” — Ron Willingham If you’ve tried manipulative, self-focused selling techniques that demean you and your customer, if you’ve ever wondered if selling could be more than just talking people into buying, then Integrity Selling for the 21st Century is the book for you. Its concept is simple: Only by getting to know your customers and their needs — and believing that you can meet those needs — will you enjoy relationships with customers built on trust. And only then, when you bring more value to your customers than you receive in payment, will you begin to reap the rewards of high sales. Since the publication of Ron Willingham’s enormously successful first book, Integrity Selling, his sales program has been adopted by dozens of Fortune 500 companies, such as Johnson & Johnson and IBM, as well as the American Red Cross and the New York Times. In his new book, Integrity Selling for the 21st Century, Willingham explains how his selling system relates to today’s business climate — when the need for integrity is greater than ever before. Integrity Selling for the 21st Century teaches a process of self-evaluation to help you become a stellar salesperson in any business climate. Once you’ve established your own goals and personality traits, you’ll be able to evaluate them in your customers and adapt your styles to create a more trusting, productive relationship. Drawing upon Willingham’s years of experience and success stories from sales forces of the more than 2,000 companies that have adopted the Integrity Selling system, Ron Willingham has created a blueprint for achieving success in sales while staying true to your values. |
| business owner icon png: The Boss Lady Investor(TM) Grace Everett, Krista Goodrich, 2020-01-27 Are you ready to stop being intimidated by money and instead, take control of your financial life?If Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad and Rachel Hollis's Girl Wash Your Face had a baby, this book would be it! This hilarious take on personal finance for women will get you learning and laughing at the same time.Ready to get out of debt? Grow your retirement? Increase your savings? Build a life of wealth, so you can do the things you REALLY want to do?The Boss Lady Investor: You Don't Need a D!*K to Understand Money is the go-to book for women looking to understand personal finance, saving, debt, investing, real estate, and more.This entertaining and relatable book explains, from a woman's point-of-view, how to understand the stock market, plan for the unexpected, and build yourself to a level of wealth beyond your wildest dreams.Jam-packed with ideas, information, and real-life examples, The Boss Lady Investor will get you started on your way to financial freedom. Want to have a wildly successful life? Then get ready to dive into this book and take the reins on your financial future. |
| business owner icon png: Predictable Results Patrick Thean, Chris Cosper, Alan Gehringer, Tiffany Chepul, Barry Pruitt, Cathy McCullough, Liz McBride, Ted Skinner, Melissa Enriquez, 2017-10-19 |
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| business owner icon png: Celebrity Protection and Touring Elijah Shaw, Dale June, 2018-10 Introduction to Celebrity Protection and Touring offers a peek behind the scenes of the close protection industry, more commonly known as the bodyguard business. More than the stereotypical “bullet blocker,” the modern protection specialist is a skilled practitioner who utilizes verbal judo much more than its physical counterpart. This book, written by industry experts, Elijah Shaw and Dale June, also narrows the focus, centering in on an exciting, but misunderstood, sector that involves working with celebrities ranging from actors to musicians and entering into their world of touring, filming and promotional appearances. While many may think that celebrity protection is “one size fits all,” nothing could be further from the truth, as you are not only dealing with the protection of the client, but the client’s reputation. All this with the added pressure of the entire world looking over your shoulder, just waiting for a misstep. With real-world advice, tactics and techniques on how to identify and defeat potential attackers, as well as covering everything from dealing with overzealous fans, to hyper-aggressive paparazzi, this book offers proven solutions from two experts that have covered the gambit from the Grammy Awards to the White House. |
| business owner icon png: Profit First Mike Michalowicz, 2017-02-21 Author of cult classics The Pumpkin Plan and The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur offers a simple, counterintuitive cash management solution that will help small businesses break out of the doom spiral and achieve instant profitability. Conventional accounting uses the logical (albeit, flawed) formula: Sales - Expenses = Profit. The problem is, businesses are run by humans, and humans aren't always logical. Serial entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz has developed a behavioral approach to accounting to flip the formula: Sales - Profit = Expenses. Just as the most effective weight loss strategy is to limit portions by using smaller plates, Michalowicz shows that by taking profit first and apportioning only what remains for expenses, entrepreneurs will transform their businesses from cash-eating monsters to profitable cash cows. Using Michalowicz's Profit First system, readers will learn that: · Following 4 simple principles can simplify accounting and make it easier to manage a profitable business by looking at bank account balances. · A small, profitable business can be worth much more than a large business surviving on its top line. · Businesses that attain early and sustained profitability have a better shot at achieving long-term growth. With dozens of case studies, practical, step-by-step advice, and his signature sense of humor, Michalowicz has the game-changing roadmap for any entrepreneur to make money they always dreamed of. |
| business owner icon png: Making Big Happen Mark Moses, Don Schiavone, Craig Coleman, Chris Larkins, 2022-01-11 Most books that teach you how to build and grow a business are organized around the functional areas of business, such as people, finance, operations, and marketing. Those things are important and necessary-no question- but what is missing is an overarching methodology that systematically reels in every aspect of building and growing a successful company and creates a repeatable process to execute on the activities that will lead to BIG growth in your company. In his first book, Make BIG Happen, Mark Moses outlined the four questions that formed the foundation of CEO Coaching International, an executive coaching firm that has helped over 875 companies reach extraordinary revenue and EBITDA growth. Now, in Making BIG Happen, CEO Coaching International's proven set of best practices have been translated into a simple three-step process, supported by over 30 tools, to show leaders how to achieve extraordinary business growth. |
| business owner icon png: We Are La Cocina Caleb Zigas, Leticia Landa, 2019-06-04 Finalist for the 2020 IACP Award for Best Cookbook, Food Issues & Matters Recipes and stories from more than 50 successful La Cocina entrepreneurs With 100+ recipes that span the globe from the United States, Mexico, Japan, Brazil, Senegal, Vietnam, and many more: Powerful stories. Beautifully evocative visuals. More than 100 recipes for all occasions, from many cultures. Here, in La Cocina's first cookbook, more than 50 successful La Cocina entrepreneurs share their inspiring narratives—and their delicious recipes! 2020 IACP Awards Finalist – Food Issues & Matters. This is the book for cooks who love great global recipes and support organizations that make a big difference. More than 150 photographs from award-winning photographer Eric Wolfinger capture the spirit of the people, the mouthwatering food, and the diversity of the immigrant experience. La Cocina is an incubator kitchen that provides affordable commercial kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance, and access to market opportunities to women of color and immigrant communities. La Cocina is food at its finest: inspiring, instructional, political, and delicious. This book brings the vitality of La Cocina and its mujeres through wonderful recipes—and even better stories.—Gustavo Arellano This cookbook reflects the flavors and foods of the city where La Cocina was founded. It will help you find inspiration in your own kitchen, in the kitchens that you pass on your way to work, and in the neighborhoods you've been meaning to visit. Delicious recipes will make your kitchen smell like you've traveled around the world Mouthwatering global recipes include Golveda Ko Achar (Tomato Cilantro Sauce), Mafé (Peanut Stew), Kuy Teav Phnom Penh (Cambodian Noodle Soup), and many more. |
| business owner icon png: Building a StoryBrand Donald Miller, 2017-10-10 More than half-a-million business leaders have discovered the power of the StoryBrand Framework, created by New York Times best-selling author and marketing expert Donald Miller. And they are making millions. If you use the wrong words to talk about your product, nobody will buy it. Marketers and business owners struggle to effectively connect with their customers, costing them and their companies millions in lost revenue. In a world filled with constant, on-demand distractions, it has become near-impossible for business owners to effectively cut through the noise to reach their customers, something Donald Miller knows first-hand. In this book, he shares the proven system he has created to help you engage and truly influence customers. The StoryBrand process is a proven solution to the struggle business leaders face when talking about their companies. Without a clear, distinct message, customers will not understand what you can do for them and are unwilling to engage, causing you to lose potential sales, opportunities for customer engagement, and much more. In Building a StoryBrand, Donald Miller teaches marketers and business owners to use the seven universal elements of powerful stories to dramatically improve how they connect with customers and grow their businesses. His proven process has helped thousands of companies engage with their existing customers, giving them the ultimate competitive advantage. Building a StoryBrand does this by teaching you: The seven universal story points all humans respond to; The real reason customers make purchases; How to simplify a brand message so people understand it; and How to create the most effective messaging for websites, brochures, and social media. Whether you are the marketing director of a multibillion-dollar company, the owner of a small business, a politician running for office, or the lead singer of a rock band, Building a StoryBrand will forever transform the way you talk about who you are, what you do, and the unique value you bring to your customers. |
| business owner icon png: The Suburban Micro-farm Amy Stross, 2018-03-19 Reduce your lawn and your grocery budget. Take gardening to the next level! Would you like to grow healthy food for your table? Do you want to learn the secrets of farming even though you live in a neighborhood? Author Amy Stross talks straight about why the suburbs might be the ideal place for a small farm. In these pages you'll learn: How to make your landscape as productive as it is beautiful Why the suburbs are primed with food-growing potential How to choose the best crops for success Why you don't need the perfect yard to have a micro-farm How to use easy permaculture techniques for abundant harvests If you're ready to create a beautiful, edible yard, this book is for you. The Suburban Micro-Farm will show you how to grow your own fruits, herbs, and vegetables even on a limited schedule. From seed to harvest, this book will keep you on track so you feel a sense of accomplishment for your efforts. You'll learn gardening tricks that are essential to success, like how to deal with a 'brown thumb', how to develop and nurture healthy soil, and how to manage garden pests. Although this book has everything a new gardener needs to get started, experienced gardeners will not be disappointed. With helpful tips throughout, you will love the in-depth chapters about permaculture and making money on the micro-farm. |
| business owner icon png: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, 2013-04-16 Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung' is a volume of selected statements taken from the speeches and writings by Mao Mao Tse-Tung, published from 1964 to 1976. It was often printed in small editions that could be easily carried and that were bound in bright red covers, which led to its western moniker of the 'Little Red Book'. It is one of the most printed books in history, and will be of considerable value to those with an interest in Mao Tse-Tung and in the history of the Communist Party of China. The chapters of this book include: 'The Communist Party', 'Classes and Class Struggle', 'Socialism and Communism', 'The Correct Handling of Contradictions Among The People', 'War and Peace', 'Imperialism and All Reactionaries ad Paper Tigers', 'Dare to Struggle and Dare to Win', et cetera. We are republishing this antiquarian volume now complete with a new prefatory biography of Mao Tse-Tung. |
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| business owner icon png: Sales Engagement Manny Medina, Max Altschuler, Mark Kosoglow, 2019-03-12 Engage in sales—the modern way Sales Engagement is how you engage and interact with your potential buyer to create connection, grab attention, and generate enough interest to create a buying opportunity. Sales Engagement details the modern way to build the top of the funnel and generate qualified leads for B2B companies. This book explores why a Sales Engagement strategy is so important, and walks you through the modern sales process to ensure you’re effectively connecting with customers every step of the way. • Find common factors holding your sales back—and reverse them through channel optimization • Humanize sales with personas and relevant information at every turn • Understand why A/B testing is so incredibly critical to success, and how to do it right • Take your sales process to the next level with a rock solid, modern Sales Engagement strategy This book is essential reading for anyone interested in up-leveling their game and doing more than they ever thought possible. |
| business owner icon png: Big Gorgeous Goals Julie Ellis, 2022-06-07 This book is for ambitious, high-achieving women leaders, entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, and corporate leaders ready to move to the next level. It is a manifesto and call to action for women to lift themselves and each other up by refusing to accept limitations and instead embracing an ethos of possibility. There are big gorgeous goals that we all need to set. These are so different from goals that we know we can accomplish because they feel safe and tidy. These goals scare us; they keep us up at night—because we fear they are beyond our grasp. We all know women who are great at achieving big gorgeous goals. How do they do it? What allows them to reach outward, upward, and think expansively? The book explores the possibilities that open when we set big gorgeous goals, and the common characteristics in the women who move towards these. Through stories and lessons, the book shows women leaders how thinking beyond habitual limits allows us to surpass our current levels of success. It includes Julie’s personal story of becoming a founder of an unexpectedly and wildly successful children’s labels company that started in one of the founders’ basement and was eventually sold at an eight-figure price. And it tells the story of what happened next, when having hit a business high, she found herself at an inflection point, where she needed to draw on different resources to find a new path to success. Julie Ellis shares the lessons she has learned as an entrepreneur and those of several other women entrepreneurs she interviewed for the book. Their experiences impart to readers the qualities that allow us to thrive as women in business, to healthily, sustainably integrate the work of leadership into their larger lives as mothers, caregivers, partners, dreamers and so much more... |
| business owner icon png: Fundamentals of Business (black and White) Stephen J. Skripak, 2016-07-29 (Black & White version) Fundamentals of Business was created for Virginia Tech's MGT 1104 Foundations of Business through a collaboration between the Pamplin College of Business and Virginia Tech Libraries. This book is freely available at: http://hdl.handle.net/10919/70961 It is licensed with a Creative Commons-NonCommercial ShareAlike 3.0 license. |
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| business owner icon png: Intergenerational Engagement Dillon Kalkhurst, 2018-01-07 Intergenerational Engagement: Understanding the Five Generations in The Economy offers much more than a simple path of just trying to figure out Millennials. The book will first, help you become self-aware of your own generational tendencies so you can then, embrace age-diversity, dispel generational stereotypes, and learn how to use each generations' unique strengths to: * Enhance Internal and External Communications* Boost Customer Engagement and Sales* Increase Productivity* Bring Generational Harmony to the Workplace, School, Community, and the Family Your success as a business owner, manager, employee, educator, or parent is often in direct proportion to your ability to effectively connect and communicate with other people. The problem is that not everyone speaks the same language. The 'language' that people 'speak' can be influenced just as much by their age as the country in which they live. Today, humans are living longer than ever before. This has created a scenario in our society in which five different generations are active in the economy, the workplace, the household, and the education system. From the Silent Generation to Baby Boomers, Gen Xers, Millennials, and iGens, we all live on this planet and interact daily. Each generation has values, expectations, and tendencies that are unique to them and their peers. A one-size-fits-all model will not work regarding engagement methodology. Learning to bridge the generational gaps and relate to people on their level will be invaluable in your quest to excel in life. In this book, Dillon condenses decades of his knowledge and experience, distilling it into easily understandable information that will help you better understand yourself, customers, employees, managers, co-workers, teachers, parents, teachers, teens, and even complete strangers. |
| business owner icon png: Created to Flourish Peter Greer, Phil Smith, 2017-03-01 A compelling call to carry Christ's love and mercy to families in poverty around the world This eminently practical book by two leading experts on poverty alleviation offers a clear plan to help ordinary Christ-followers translate their compassion into thoughtful action. Authors Peter Greer and Phil Smith draw on their personal experiences to discuss proven solutions for effectively alleviating poverty. Created to Flourish examines the pitfalls of traditional approaches and outlines a new model of economic development aimed at breaking the cycle of dependency. Through discipleship-based savings groups and small loans, families in poverty are employing their God-given talents to provide for their families and serve their communities. With photographs showcasing the dignity of clients from around the HOPE International network, this book provides straightforward guidance for individuals and groups eager to carry God's justice, mercy, and compassion throughout our world. |
| business owner icon png: Touching Two Worlds Sherry Walling, PhD, 2022-07-26 A trauma psychologist explores the inner workings of her own grief—and leaves an invaluable guide for those seeking hope in the aftermath of loss. As a therapist, Dr. Sherry Walling knew all the “right” things to say to help people through grief. But when she lost her father to cancer and her brother to suicide within six months of each other, she had the unfortunate chance to encounter two types of mourning up close—the slowly unfolding terminal illness and the sudden and stigmatized death by suicide. She realized we’re getting grief all wrong. In Touching Two Worlds, this trusted expert dares to open the inner workings of her own grief—and in the process, provides an invaluable resource for those seeking hope in the aftermath of loss. Written with honesty, gentle humor, and deep understanding, this book was created to bring comfort to friends and family when there are few helpful words to say. Dr. Walling grieves as a sister, daughter, mother, and mental health expert. She shares moving personal stories while offering a broad range of healing strategies and exercises derived from neuroscience—like how to heal through movement, how to cry in public, how to talk to kids about death, and how to cope with survivor’s guilt. These are tips from someone who has been there, as well as approaches informed by professional expertise. Touching Two Worlds is a story of love, sadness, and renewal. Whether your loss is recent and sharp or old and familiar, Dr. Walling delivers wise and tender guidance to help you carry the weight of grief while finding your own path forward. |
| business owner icon png: Think Right Feel Right Robert D. Isett Ph. D., Robert Isett, 2010 Think Right, Feel Right, finally a book that truly shows us how! In many lives, past wounds and circumstances have kept peace and happiness beyond reach. Now, with the help of Dr. Isett's innovative guide, we can reach them. This groundbreaking book is loaded with fresh thinking, solid answers, and the tools we need. Step-by step, the guide helps us build lasting emotional well-being and overcome problems with anxiety and worry, depression, addiction and self-esteem. We find out how to regulate our emotions, build esteem, and mindfully control our emotional health and well-being and, we come away with the ability to live a happier, healthier life. Life affords no guarantee that we learn how to feel well. If we weren't taught how to self-nurture or regulate our emotions effectively, happiness and emotional well-being will be scarce. We over rely on substitutes like spending, eating, working, or drugs and alcohol to prop up our sagging moods and emotions, increasing the risk of addiction. Or we may struggle along with low self-esteem, anxiety and depression and perhaps try to buffer these telltale symptoms with medication. Think Right feel Right puts us on the right path: it shows us how to feel well and stay feeling well. Offering cover-to-cover self-help, this practical guide delivers its powerful, behavior-changing message with compelling logic and clarity. The guide's straightforward style, helpful examples, chapter summaries and study guide questions make it easy to use. Empowering personal growth through its cutting-edge cognitive-behavioral approach, Think Right, Feel Right extends the opportunity for real help to many. Although the guide is not intended to be a substitute for professional help when indicated, it is an important and long-needed resource for those seeking to improve their emotional health and well-being as well as for mental health professionals, educators, parents and others promoting wellness. |
| business owner icon png: The Next Step Forward in Running Records Jan Richardson, C. C. Bates, Maryann McBride, 2021-01-15 In the hands of informed teachers, running records reveal the meaning-making, problem-solving strategies children are using as they process text. Richardson, Bates, and McBride provide expert analysis of sample running records and offer how-to videos that take teachers beyond calculating a simple accuracy rate to observing their students' reading behaviors--and then taking next steps to plan targeted lessons. |
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