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Start your own business with this step-by-step guide. Discover amazing tips for creating and developing your idea; quick and powerful questions regarding legal structures, so you can discover the best one for you; seven secrets that makes a remarkable brand; four powerful strategies for effective branded marketing; valuable insights into funding; and much more.

A bold, useful, uncomplicated guide to mastering the three keys of business success: In this practical book, Dr. Howard Farran shows that running a business isn't all that complicated - if you're focusing on the right three areas: people, time, and money. People: maximizing the potential of employees, customers, and yourself. Time: mastering the efficiency that helps a business turn the biggest profit possible. Money: learning to love the numbers that function as the business's scorecard.

50 Things to Know About Selling Stuff Online, by Amanda Walton, offers an unique approach to learning how to sell your items online. Most books on online sales tell you to create a store, and get ready to sell lots of things. Although there's nothing wrong with that, sometimes, you might need a quick way to get rid of the extra things that you have lying around your house. Based on knowledge from the world's leading experts, you can learn how to sell things online the right way for your needs.

This audiobook covers how to assess whether your business is ready for franchising, the benefits of and alternatives to franchising and how to evaluate the financial feasibility of franchising your business. It outlines a franchising road map which will help you to create a franchise action plan and make it happen.

In this book, I provide you with the simple road map you need to start a business that puts $1,000,000 in your personal bank account - regardless of your location, education, race, gender, or age. You'll hear stories of everyday people from all backgrounds that I've personally interviewed and vetted, from people with graduate degrees to high school dropouts and from yard guys to corporate professionals. Really, the only thing they all have in common is that they've put $1,000,000 in the bank (or will shortly).

Leadership is a learned skill. No one is a natural-born leader. Babies aren't given a manual on how to be a leader. Leadership is learned from others. So how will we teach eager distributors to become leaders? By showing, participating, experiencing ... and of course, sharing stories. Yes, our distributors could imitate us to become leaders, but not everyone is created the same, with the same set of skills or advantages. So there must be common lessons everyone can learn for leadership.

With the horrific failure rates of restaurants, how can you ensure yours will not only survive but grow and thrive? If your restaurant sucks, it is because you suck at running it; 100 percent. Donald Burns, author of Your Restaurant Sucks has created a methodology and mindset honed from his Special Operations training in the US Air Force. As a Pararescueman, his training developed a keen sense of purposeful and fast decision making. In the military, he learned the phrase, "embrace the suck".

Stephen J. Hunt, award-winning publican and the founder of Hunt Hospitality, turns his 30 years of buying, renovating, and selling pubs into an accessible, practical guide on how to turn a poorly performing business into a highly profitable one. From the early days of formulating an idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, you'll discover the wisdom, practical tools, and tips you need to take control over your business, turn it around, and live the life you've always wanted.

Do you have a regular nine-to-five but often find yourself wishing for more money to take care of yourself and your loved ones? For some people, the thought of quitting their day job to pursue the entrepreneurial life is exhilarating. For many others, it’s terrifying. After all, a stable job that delivers a regular paycheck is a blessing. And not everyone has the means or the desire to take on the risks and responsibilities of working for themselves.

The A.P.P.L.E. Principle is a simple daily system that when followed consistently can lead anyone from where they currently are, to where they desire to be in their network marketing business and life. Author Chris D. Estes teaches about the power of eating your A.P.P.L.E. everyday by focusing on just five key components: A- Attitude P- Prepare P-Perform L- Learn E- Evaluate Allow him to take you one bite at a time through the system he used in his own life to get from a place of complacency to a life unlimited by harnessing the power of The A.P.P.L.E. Principle.

Become a personal trainer, they said! It'll be fun and easy, they said! Well they were half-right. Being a personal trainer is meaningful, valuable, and fun as hell. But becoming a personal trainer is also difficult and confusing. Find clarity and launch your career with this step-by-step guide to a life in fitness. Using her signature wit and irreverent, no-nonsense attitude, Mia leads you on a journey through the world of wellness.

Are you tired of the 9-5 rat race? Do you dread getting up in the morning? Does it seem like you’re stuck at a dead-end job? In, How to Work from Home as a Virtual Assistant: The Beginner's Guide to Finding VA Jobs and Creating Multiple Streams of Income Online you will learn the tips and tricks that successful remote workers have put into practice to land top jobs!

Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like portable communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this audiobook will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend.

Here’s what’s happened...you’ve become the bottleneck in your business, wondering why it isn’t growing and why you’re not making the money you want to make, working too many hours with no freedom. Overwhelmed at six figures, you wonder whether it’s even worth it to keep going, let alone try to grow to seven figures. It doesn’t have to be this way! By following these proven strategies that leverage all aspects of your business, you can remove yourself from the day-to-day grind and experience the freedom and joy you set out to create when you first opened your company.

As statistics tell us that most of the "ventureholics" who go out on their own to start a business will ultimately fail; and, as readers will learn, the main reason for this is because most businesses are not started the right way. Based on decades of experience working with small business owners, Michael Gerber will teach budding entrepreneurs his one-of-a-kind seven-step method - which is meant to be conceptualized long before the doors are ever opened.

The Amazon Kindle marketplace has presented an amazing opportunity. Thousands of people are making passive income with this powerful platform.Through Kindle publishing you can easily create a source of income within a few weeks. Not only is this an extremely quick process, but it's also scalable. This means that you can quickly grow your Kindle business to make more money in a relatively short time. If you're looking for something to diversify your income, this is definitely where you want to start.

This book is like a language course that is meant to enhance your ability to communicate your art and creative ideas to the world. In the new millennium, artists must create new models for exhibitions and sales. They must also be aware of new modes of communication, from social networking to the latest mobile phone apps. How we share visual information is radically shifting, and artists can benefit from all of these new tools.

If you want to stand out from the crowd, develop a clear and consistent brand voice, and ultimately build a fruitful business - listen to your brand. Stop Listening to the Customer offers insights into how consumers are driving homogeneity in brands and shares the proven strategies you can implement to amplify your own position in the world.

In this audiobook, the author introduces approachable ways to make more money - even when you're not actively working. By mastering the method of passive-income streams, you can break free from traditional work models, avoid working long hours, and still earn a living.

Powerful eBay Secrets takes you all the way back to my beginnings of selling online - when I was broke, desperate, and losing hope - and brings you up to date years later, where I am now seen as an eBay expert by even the highest eBay power sellers.