Download or read book Building a Successful Business written by Jay Goldberg and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second edition, December, 2014.In its first year, about half of all businesses fail. Five years down the line, depending upon which study you look at, only 1 in 10 to 1 in 3 businesses are left standing. The main reasons businesses fail are no business plan and poor management. That is why this book covers both topics. However, this book goes beyond other books on these topics. The book not only provides a road map for writing a business plan, but also provides a strategy for writing a business plan. A business plan is both a strategic document and a sales document. It also provides the reader with a look into the skills, knowledge and personality of the business owner. Therefore, a good business plan is written to satisfy all of these uses. In addition, this book provides information on how to research and organize the information needed for a business plan, and has worksheets the entrepreneur can use to help make the process easier. Likewise, management topics such as strategic planning (SWOT analysis plus), advertising, branding, project management, customer service management, cash flow management, sales skills, business writing and more are explained, and a method is provided for each management skill that can be implemented and used in the business. There are worksheets for many of the management topics as well.While many business book writers know and cover business writing, it's amazing how few actually apply that knowledge to their business books. I do. The information in this book is presented in bullet points, assuring the reader that he or she does not have to wade through four paragraphs of writing to get a couple of key points. Even the size of the book is practical for the end user. An over-sized book might attract attention in the book store, but would make it difficult to copy and use the worksheets in the book. An under-sized book might demonstrate value by the sheer volume of pages (same amount of information, but more pages), but would mean compressing the worksheets into smaller sizes rendering them less useful.In addition to entrepreneurs, this book was written so that venues teaching entrepreneurship can use it as a text book. In fact, I have been teaching entrepreneurship courses since 1997. This book was written to be a stand alone book, to support my business plan mentoring service (I review the worksheets for clients), and to be a text book for my course, How to Start, Grow and Manage a Business.The book received a very good review from the Midwest Book Review:"Too many businesses are started without the experience needed to keep it alive and going. "Building a Successful Business" is Jay Goldberg's advice manual for those embarking on the entrepreneurial path, with tips on how to avoid the common pitfalls that strike many first time business owners. With advice on strategically planning your business, cautious advertising, business writing, managing the funds and more, "Building a Successful Business" is a strongly recommended pick for any first time business person."Author's personal note: While the review concentrated on new business owners, the book was written for both first time business owners and established business owners. Many people assume that established business owners are utilizing management tools to help ensure success. However, many do not and that is one reason for the high failure rate of existing businesses. My book provides management tools, with associated worksheets, that existing businesses can use to help them achieve or maintain success as well as tools and worksheets for new business owners.
Download or read book The Smart Entrepreneur written by Bart Clarysse and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More people than ever are becoming entrepreneurs, but the perils of starting your own business are well-documented. Two lecturers on the subject from Imperial College, London, have written 'The Smart Entrepreneur' to show how to avoid these pitfalls and make your business a success.
Download or read book Build the Damn Thing written by Kathryn Finney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wall Street Journal Bestseller featured in Bloomberg, Fast Company, Masters of Scale, the Motley Fool, Marketplace and more. An indispensable guide to building a startup and breaking down the barriers for diverse entrepreneurs from the visionary venture capitalist and pioneering entrepreneur Kathryn Finney. Build the Damn Thing is a hard-won, battle-tested guide for every entrepreneur who the establishment has left out. Finney, an investor and startup champion, explains how to build a business from the ground up, from developing a business plan to finding investors, growing a team, and refining a product. Finney empowers entrepreneurs to take advantage of their unique networks and resources; arms readers with responses to investors who say, “great pitch but I just don’t do Black women”; and inspires them to overcome naysayers while remaining “100% That B*tch.” Don’t wait for the system to let you in—break down the door and build your damn thing. For all the Builders striving to build their businesses in a world that has overlooked and underestimated them: this is the essential guide to knowing, breaking, remaking and building your own rules of entrepreneurship in a startup and investing world designed for and by the “Entitleds.”
Download or read book Building a Successful Family Business Board written by J. Pendergast and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Building a Successful Family Business Board , the authors show why private firms need the in-depth expertise and objective feedback that a well-chosen board, including qualified independent directors, can provide, and demonstrates how owners and directors can work together to ensure a long and profitable life for the firm.
Download or read book Successful Business Plan Development written by Lee Swanson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a practical and easy-to-follow guide for developing a business plan and follows a unique format that both explains what to do and demonstrates how to do it. This book is ideal for traditional classroom use and distributed learning, whether through online teaching and learning or when blended with classroom delivery.
Download or read book 101 Ways to Market Your Business written by Andrew Griffiths and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of simple tried and tested marketing ideas that business owners can implement easily and cheaply.
Download or read book Start a Successful Business written by Colleen DeBaise and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, makers, doers, and dreamers have turned to Inc. for help in getting their businesses off the ground. The insanely successful entrepreneurs behind organizations like Skullcandy, Spanx, Elon Musk, and Airbnb learned lessons at every stage, experienced unexpected setbacks, and in the end triumphed wildly. All along, Inc. was there capturing it all so that others could experience even greater successes than these titans of business.Start a Successful Business gathers these important lessons into a single path-charting guide. From brainstorming to crowdfunding to building partnerships, the book walks new and aspiring founders through seven crucial stages, including:• Establishing a brilliant business idea• Selecting the best structure and strategy for your startup• Getting the word out and building clientele• Preparing to go global• And more!Learn how Elon Musk stays wildly productive. Discover how Sarah Blakely got the inspiration for Spanx. Read the stories of how a hashtag accelerated Airbnb’s success and how Warby Parker shook up the eyewear industry with its innovative, socially conscious business model. With the war stories and keen advice from a fleet of trusted experts, Start a Successful Business provides the all-encompassing guide for anyone wishing to not only get their business off the ground, but to become the next wildly successful entrepreneur everyone is reading about.
Download or read book An Insider s Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice written by Bruce L. KATCHER Ph.D. and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re a beginner just starting up a consulting practice, or a veteran looking for ways to invigorate your existing business, An Insider’s Guide to Building a Successful Consulting Practice is an invaluable resource. Featuring real stories from consultants in diverse industries, the book offers simple yet powerful ways to: Identify a market and narrow your focus • Make a smooth transition from employee to independent consultant • Sell effectively even if you’ve never sold before • Establish visibility through speaking, writing, and networking • Build credibility by leveraging the credibility of others • Set prices based on value • Develop a marketing strategy and divide your time between marketing and delivering your services • Keep plenty of work in your pipeline • Adapt and thrive in any market condition • And much more Complete with the results of an original survey of 200 successful independent consultants, this handy guide provides the kind of real-life advice you need to build a thriving business.
Download or read book Passion to Profits written by Kim Dawson and published by K.Dawson Company, LLC. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting and growing a business that you're passionate about and that brings in a profit is a challenge. After all, no business comes with an owner's manual on what to do and how to do it. That's because every business is uniquely different. It's built around the business owner's goals and dreams, how they want to live their life and who they feel drawn to serve.In 'Passion to Profits: Your Guide to Building a Successful Business You Love', lifelong entrepreneur Kim Dawson reveals the secrets she's learned from running a successful start-up, taking big business risks and helping other business owners find the profit in their passionate business ideas. This all-encompassing guide gives no-nonsense tips and actionable steps that will help you get your idea off the ground or grow an existing business to match the lifestyle you dream about. In this easy-to-consume, comprehensive guide for the budding and growing boss, you'll learn:-How to identify your audience,-How to build a profitable business,-Why raising your prices is essential to your success,-What your messaging says about you and your business,-The 5 questions you should ask during a sales encounter,-When DIY is best and when to build your team, and-How to identify and overcome obstacles so they don't hold you back.Business can be a lonely place, but you don't have to do it all alone. Start here, with practical support and valuable tips from someone who has been there and done that--in her own business and with her clients.
Download or read book Why Startups Fail written by Tom Eisenmann and published by Currency. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want your startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail. “Whether you’re a first-time founder or looking to bring innovation into a corporate environment, Why Startups Fail is essential reading.”—Eric Ries, founder and CEO, LTSE, and New York Times bestselling author of The Lean Startup and The Startup Way Why do startups fail? That question caught Harvard Business School professor Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research project to find out. In Why Startups Fail, Eisenmann reveals his findings: six distinct patterns that account for the vast majority of startup failures. • Bad Bedfellows. Startup success is thought to rest largely on the founder’s talents and instincts. But the wrong team, investors, or partners can sink a venture just as quickly. • False Starts. In following the oft-cited advice to “fail fast” and to “launch before you’re ready,” founders risk wasting time and capital on the wrong solutions. • False Promises. Success with early adopters can be misleading and give founders unwarranted confidence to expand. • Speed Traps. Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. • Help Wanted. Rapidly scaling startups need lots of capital and talent, but they can make mistakes that leave them suddenly in short supply of both. • Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. But the bigger the vision, the more things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise—from a home-furnishings retailer to a concierge dog-walking service, from a dating app to the inventor of a sophisticated social robot, from a fashion brand to a startup deploying a vast network of charging stations for electric vehicles—Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a wealth of strategies and tactics for avoiding them. A must-read for founders at any stage of their entrepreneurial journey, Why Startups Fail is not merely a guide to preventing failure but also a roadmap charting the path to startup success.
Download or read book Miss Jessie s written by Miko Branch and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Jessie's is a memoir and business guide rich with inspirational life lessons and unique business advice from Miko Branch, the Chief Executive Officer of the dynamic Miss Jessie’s — the company that revolutionized the hair care industry. When Miko and her sister, Titi, were children, their grandmother, Miss Jessie, taught them independence and showed them the value of being “do it yourself” women, all while whipping up homemade hair concoctions at her kitchen table. As co-founders of Miss Jessie's, Miko reveals how she and Titi applied those lessons to create a successful business from scratch. A family memoir with a wealth of practical business advice and handy hair tips, told in Miko's funny and relatable voice, Miss Jessie’s is her remarkable story — from her childhood learning independence as a latchkey kid in Jamaica, Queens, to building a highly regarded company with her sister in their shared home salon in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Miko reflects on her hard-won insights working for her autocratic, iron-fisted father, and how the self-sufficiency she learned in childhood helped her blossom as a single mother with bills to pay, a child to raise, and a dream to pursue. She speaks honestly of her mistakes and successes, and of her role as an industry leader, negotiating multi-million dollar deals while at the same time restoring the self-esteem of natural and curly haired women. Charming and enlightening, chock full of entertaining stories and invaluable instruction that can be applied to any business, and illustrated with 16 pages of photos, Miss Jessie's confirms that with effort the American Dream is possible.
Download or read book How to Create a Successful Business Plan written by Dan Galai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can all the nuts and bolts of a business be analyzed effectively in one comprehensive model and translated into a business plan? At various points in the life of a business, entrepreneurs will need to take stock of their ideas and plans and reformulate them in business and financial terms. How to Create a Successful Business Plan is about dynamic planning for businesses and provides a structured approach to business planning that focuses on the main components of the business model, while addressing key issues often raised by investors and potential business partners. It gives the company order and structure and helps managers optimize team integration and resources. The book provides a framework in which professionals from a broad range of backgrounds can work together on a successful business plan. Readers will find that the business model is discussed in depth, yet in accessible and easily understood terms. Contents:An Introduction to the Business Plan:What is a Business Plan?The Goals of the Business Plan ProcessPlanning the Business:Gathering Information and Analyzing the Business EnvironmentPlanningThe Written Business Plan:Writing the Business PlanConfidentiality and DisclosureGetting the Most Out of Your Business Plan:Promoting Your Business Plan Readership: Undergraduate and graduate business and management students; independent entrepreneurs; executives (in high-tech firms or in the more established industries); investors (such as angels or venture capitalists); and other potential business partners and service providers.
Download or read book Building Running a Successful Research Business written by Mary Ellen Bates and published by Information Today, Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online research is one of the hottest work-from-home business opportunities of the decade, and this handbook provides the information necessary to launch, manage, and build a successful research business.
Download or read book Play Bigger written by Al Ramadan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founders of a respected Silicon Valley advisory firm study legendary category-creating companies and reveal a groundbreaking discipline called category design. Winning today isn’t about beating the competition at the old game. It’s about inventing a whole new game—defining a new market category, developing it, and dominating it over time. You can’t build a legendary company without building a legendary category. If you think that having the best product is all it takes to win, you’re going to lose. In this farsighted, pioneering guide, the founders of Silicon Valley advisory firm Play Bigger rely on data analysis and interviews to understand the inner workings of “category kings”— companies such as Amazon, Salesforce, Uber, and IKEA—that give us new ways of living, thinking or doing business, often solving problems we didn’t know we had. In Play Bigger, the authors assemble their findings to introduce the new discipline of category design. By applying category design, companies can create new demand where none existed, conditioning customers’ brains so they change their expectations and buying habits. While this discipline defines the tech industry, it applies to every kind of industry and even to personal careers. Crossing the Chasm revolutionized how we think about new products in an existing market. The Innovator’s Dilemma taught us about disrupting an aging market. Now, Play Bigger is transforming business once again, showing us how to create the market itself.
Download or read book How to Establish a Successful Business in Thailand written by Philip Wylie and published by Philip Wylie. This book was released on 2007 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for anyone thinking of starting or buying a business in Thailand, this guide is full of information on how to run a business in this Asian country. It includes practical tips by successful foreign business people from such different trades as guest house, bar trade, e-commerce, export, and restaurant.
Download or read book Motivation written by Brian Tracy and published by AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn. This book was released on 2013 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of your employees have all the ingredients for greatness inside them already. They simply need you to motivate them. Learn how today!
Download or read book Building a Million Dollar Book of Business written by Esq Daniel P. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-10 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want to build an above-average book of business, this book is a must! Through a disciplined commitment to foundational principles and growth-oriented behaviors, Dan Lynch built a 10-lawyer Firm and a $1 million ++ annual book of business, surpassing the average lawyer by a wide margin. While practicing law and generating business, Dan regularly mentored his associates and articulated these principles and behaviors. He teaches these principles to his four children as well. Then one Monday morning, Dan was blind-sided when five partner-level lawyers of the Firm came into his office and announced, without notice, "We're leaving." This group proceeded to recruit support staff and some of Dan's own clients away from him. The betrayal caused Dan to question the things about life and business that he had believed in and so often articulated. As he debated the answers to these questions and tried to learn from this situation, Dan recruited and hired. He did what he had always done to build a team and build a business. Two years later, The Lynch Law Group had more lawyers, more staff, and more revenue than it did at the time of the betrayal. The Firm was also voted one of the top 100 Best Places to Work by the Pittsburgh Business Times in each of the years following the betrayal. In this book, Dan shares the principles and behaviors he used to build a successful firm, not once, but twice. If you've been looking for a proven guide to build an above-average book of business, you've found it!
