Download or read book Streetsmart Entrepreneuring written by Frank Zenie and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich guide to new and practicing entrepreneurs. A real life introduction to entrepreneurship for the aspiring entrepreneur.
Download or read book Street Smart Entrepreneur written by Jay Goltz and published by Addicus Books. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small firms in Chicago employ more than 1.6 million individuals—nearly 50 percent of the private work force, according to a new study released this fall by the Small Business Administration. The survey, which defines small firms as those employing less than 500 people, also shows that these businesses generate 47 percent of the area's total receipts of $278 billion dollars. However, SBA statistics also reveal that, on average, of the small businesses starting today, 53 percent will not be in business four years from now. Of these closings, it's estimated that 15 percent will close due to business failures. Chicago businessman Jay Goltz understands what it takes for a small business to succeed. During the past twenty years he has owned and operated Artists' Frame Service in Chicago. Goltz started the business in 1978, and today it's the largest, custom retail picture framing facility in the world. Now, Goltz shares some his secrets of success.
Download or read book Street Smart written by Gabriel Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faulty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to Street Smart. During the 1990s, bad government decision-making resulted in the U.S. Interstate Highway System growing by only one seventh the rate of traffic growth. The poor maintenance of existing roads is another concern. In cities around the world, highly political and wasteful government decision-making has led to excessive traffic congestion that has created long commutes, reduced safety, and caused loss of leisure time.Street Smart examines the privatization of roads in theory and in practice. The authors see at least four possible roles for private companies, beyond the well-known one of working under contract to design, build, or maintain governmentally provided roads. These include testing and licensing vehicles and drivers; management of government-owned facilities; franchising; and outright private ownership. Two chapters describe the history of private roads in the United Kingdom and the United States. Contemporary examples are provided of road pricing, privatizing, and contracting out are evident in environs as diverse as Singapore, Southern California, and Scandinavia, and cities as different as Bergen, Norway, and London, England. Finally, several chapters examine strategies for implementing privatization. The principles governing providing scarce resources in free societies are well known. We apply them to such necessities as energy, food, and water so why not to "road space"? The main obstacle to private, or semi-private, ownership of roads is likely to remain the reluctance of the political class to give up a lucrative source of power and influence.Those who want decisions about road services to be controlled by the interplay of consumers and suppliers in free markets, rat
Download or read book Street Smarts written by Norm Brodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One is tempted to say 'the only book you'll need on starting a business.' Brilliant! Genius! Choose your superlative-it'll fit."-Tom Peters People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, says veteran company-builder Norm Brodsky, there's a mentality that helps street- smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise. Brodsky shares his hard-earned wisdom every month in Inc. magazine, in the hugely popular "Street Smarts" column he cowrites with Bo Burlingham. Now they've adapted their best advice into a comprehensive guide for anyone running a small business.
Download or read book Street Smart Franchising written by Joe Mathews and published by Entrepreneur Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced franchisees and franchisors tell entrepreneurs what they need to know before they buy a franchise. Second edition includes a sample copy of the entire UFOC plus 40% new and updated examples. This straight-shooting franchise guide goes beyond the “how to” to teach potential franchisees what to expect when starting a franchise. Real life stories from the trenches illustrate how to cope with the difficulties a franchise presents. The author reveals the personality types most likely to succeed at franchising, and identifies entrepreneurial traits that may increase risk of failure. Plus, it takes an in-depth look at the research and investigation of a franchise, something glossed over in most franchise books.
Download or read book Street Smart written by Gabriel Roth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poor health of today's roads--a subject close to the hearts of motorists, taxpayers, and government treasurers around the world--has resulted from faulty incentives that misdirect government decision-makers, according to the contributors to Street Smart. During the 1990s, bad government decision-making resulted in the U.S. Interstate Highway System growing by only one seventh the rate of traffic growth. The poor maintenance of existing roads is another concern. In cities around the world, highly political and wasteful government decision-making has led to excessive traffic congestion that has created long commutes, reduced safety, and caused loss of leisure time.Street Smart examines the privatization of roads in theory and in practice. The authors see at least four possible roles for private companies, beyond the well-known one of working under contract to design, build, or maintain governmentally provided roads. These include testing and licensing vehicles and drivers; management of government-owned facilities; franchising; and outright private ownership. Two chapters describe the history of private roads in the United Kingdom and the United States. Contemporary examples are provided of road pricing, privatizing, and contracting out are evident in environs as diverse as Singapore, Southern California, and Scandinavia, and cities as different as Bergen, Norway, and London, England. Finally, several chapters examine strategies for implementing privatization. The principles governing providing scarce resources in free societies are well known. We apply them to such necessities as energy, food, and water so why not to "road space"? The main obstacle to private, or semi-private, ownership of roads is likely to remain the reluctance of the political class to give up a lucrative source of power and influence.Those who want decisions about road services to be controlled by the interplay of consumers and suppliers in free markets, rat
Download or read book Heart Smarts Guts and Luck written by Anthony K. Tjan and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the traits that define most people who achieve success, heart, smarts, guts, and luck, and helps readers to determine which traits they possess.
Download or read book The Knack written by Norm Brodsky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People starting out in business tend to seek step-by-step formulas or rules, but in reality there are no magic bullets. Rather, there's a mentality that helps street-smart entrepreneurs solve problems and pursue opportunities as they arise.
Download or read book Street Smart Disciplines of Successful People written by Mark K. Mullins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Street Smart Disciplines by John A. Kuhn and Mark K. MullinsThese are the Disciplines that can change everything!Street Smart Disciplines gives you access to decades of successful real world, street smart business experience and best practices mined from successful people and businesses encapsulated into 7 easy to understand and executable action plans for Breakout Success.The authors identified the 7 essential and vital disciplines that people must incorporate into their playbook to reach the pinnacle of business success. Kuhn and Mullins speak from experience. One of their first businesses was started for less than $1,000; built it into a multimillion-dollar success and sold debt-free to a Fortune 500 company using these very same disciplines. They continue to use these disciplines to achieve ongoing success and personal fulfillment.The eye-opening insights and practical wisdom will inspire and guide go-getters who want to climb the corporate ladder, aspiring entrepreneurs looking to launch new businesses and established business owners who want to take their organizations to the next level. These indispensable disciplines are drawn from real people, real experiences, real successes, real problems, and real solutions. They are tried and true, time tested, and proven on the street by the authors, successful companies, and successful people—from Wall Street to Main Street—and include a compilation of advice, tips, tactics, techniques, and strategies that work.This is the first book that explains the how and why of Disciplines. Street Smart Disciplines captures the essence of good business practices and distills them into simple, straight- talking, and no-nonsense language. Kuhn and Mullins demystify the process of achieving Breakout Success. You can immediately start applying this vast storehouse of knowledge that combines the winning perspectives of successful entrepreneurial, corporate and academic experts.Learn how to: • Develop a Dynamic Plan for Break-Out Success • Maximize Yourself and Your Ideas• Duplicate Winning Strategies of Successful People • Manage Change and Complexity • Master the Mental Game of Doing Business • Establish Bulletproof Financial Systems and Controls • Create Powerful and Compelling Presentations • Seek out Role Models, Mentors and Smart People • Optimize your Resources …and much more. Integrate the disciplines one by one into your life and business and achieve more success and personal fulfillment in your life than you ever thought possible! “Straight talk! The only book that shows what it should really take takes to succeed in business. One of most honest books I've read.” Michael Kenny, Founder, Agoda.com (subsidiary of Priceline.com)
Download or read book Reflections of a Serial Entrepreneur written by Stoddard Bud Stoddard and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections of a Serial Entrepreneur includes hundreds of questions and pointers that will be invaluable to any aspiring entrepreneur. Filled with practical, useful, and accurate ideas on every aspect of a newborn company, this is a how-to field manual to getting it done. The author has built and operated five companies in different industries so his ideas cross industry lines and will work for every business. Too many entrepreneurs think their business is unique or harder than others. Stoddard feels the challenges we face are similar and therefore the solutions are universal. His practical and proven techniques will apply to your business regardless of what industry you are in. He brings real world workable and proven techniques to the subject matter and arms the newly minted entrepreneur with the right ammunition to guarantee success. Bud Stoddard has a no-nonsense, tell it like it really is approach that will entertain as well as enlighten the reader. If you have ever considered starting your own business, Reflections of a Serial Entrepreneur is must reading and will return the purchase price a thousand times over.
Download or read book The Street smart Entrepreneur written by Jay Goltz and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're in business now... or have ever even thought about being in business, read this book! Starting with two thousand dollars and a gritty determination to succeed, Jay Goltz built his business the hard way...from the ground up. Early on, he realized that no amount of education could prepare him for the day-to-day rigors of building a business. So, he learned through experience. Today, thirty-five years later, Goltz operates the world's largest custom picture-framing facility... it is thirty times the size of the average framing shop. No waxing philosophical here. In The Street-Smart Entrepreneur, Goltz tells it like it is, offering real-life lessons that can help you suceed in the "in-your-face" world of business. Among the important topics Goltz covers: Savvy Marketing Analysis: Starting up without throwing upUnderstanding Cash Flow: How you can be swamped with business and still go brokeGrounding Your Business: Controlled growth or growth out of control?Hiring Smart: You're only as good as your worst employeeKnowing the Numbers: Good accounting won't make your business, but poor accounting can ruin it.Leveraging Assets: All your assets? No just the financial ones.Serving Customers: Is the customer always right?
Download or read book Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities written by Carvalho, Luisa Cagica and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the population continues to grow and expand, many people are now making their homes in cities around the globe. With this increase in city living, it is becoming vital to create intelligent urban environments that efficiently support this growth, and that simultaneous provide friendly, progressive environments to both businesses and citizens alike. The Handbook of Research on Entrepreneurial Development and Innovation Within Smart Cities is a comprehensive reference source that discusses social, economic, and environmental issues surrounding the evolution of smart cities. It provides insightful viewpoints on a range of topics such as entrepreneurial ecosystems, competitive tourism, city efficiency, corporate social responsibility, and smart destinations. This publication is ideal for all researchers, academics, and practitioners that wish to expand their knowledge on the emerging trends and topics involving smart cities.
Download or read book The Street Smart Salesman written by Anthony Belli and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GROWING UP IN POVERTY, every day is a battle with fear, stress, and anxiety. Mistakes, misreads, misplays, miscalculations: all can end in missed opportunities that may never come again. The struggles of the poor demand courage, stamina, constant re-ordering of priorities, and the need for winning strategies. Salespeople from entry-level cold callers to wily veterans suffer much the same anxieties but lack the street-smart skills that a deeply deprived childhood demands: adapt or die,while still having fun! Author Anthony Belli is a millionaire high-performance salesman and sales force manager who grew up dirt poor in East Harlem, New York. Often hungry and without a cent in his pocket, as a child, Belli became expert in the highly creative art of person-to-person negotiation using a variety of risk- managed, cash-producing techniques to underwrite his next slice of pizza, tactics he describes as "eating without stealing." The Street-Smart Salesman imparts Belli's hard-earned wisdom and advice to the lasting benefit of a salesperson's bottom line and ability to sleep at night. Populated with real-life characters from Belli's old neighborhood deadbeat landlord, hooker with a heart, mobbed-up candy store owner, countless junkies, winos, and wiseguys this unflinching memoir teaches how the survival skills of the honest poor can be used to maximize success in sales. Belli's wholly unconventional, ghetto-tested strategies include: Minimize cold-calling: Using customers' networks to supply your pipeline Recognition that sales are driven by emotions not logic, and not price Playing dumb: When to talk and when to shut up Why hope is your enemy and reality your friend Ways to play a last-minute balky customer Prioritizing for profit And more! Belli's hard-earned insights defy conventional sales training wisdom by valuing humility, creativity, attention, and improvisation over the vaunted one-two punch of ceaseless script recitation accompanied by free samples. Take his advice to heart, and watch your anxiety recede as your fortunes grow.
Download or read book Street Smart Sustainability written by Joe Sibilia and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go Green While Making Green You already know why your company should go green. This comprehensive guide tells you how to do it profitably. It details every step of the process - from getting employee buy - in and conducting a current sustainability audit to developing a plan of action and measuring progress. Nuts - and - bolts guidance helps you make continuous, cost - effective improvements and shift the prevailing business culture by infusing green practices into your organization's very DNA. Through illustrative examples from a wide variety of industries, this book shows how to: Design sustainable products Green your facilities Find green vendors Use renewable energy Reduce harmful emissions Recycle waste products, and more The emphasis is on practicality - stand - alone chapters you can read when you need them and tools you can use to implement change in any area of your organization. enough
Download or read book Effortless Entrepreneur written by Nick Friedman and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick Friedman and Omar Soliman started the multimillion-dollar franchise College Hunks Hauling Junk when they were just twenty two, and they’ve been having the time of their lives ever since. What’s their secret? That's just it--there isn't one. There's no fancy software or complicated business schemes. No outside investors or quirky market niche. They just followed 10 common-sense commandments to building a straightforward, fun, and successful business that does a simple job well. Anyone can understand it, and anyone can do it.
Download or read book The Entrepreneur s Secret to Creating Wealth written by Chris Hurn and published by Advantage Media Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An often overlooked secret to creating wealth as a business owner has little to do with actually running the business. Marketing, customer service, quality products, and more are required to make a business successful...but when it comes to creating real and lasting wealth, decisions regarding this key "secret" will have the greatest impact. As both a small business lender and a small business owner himself, Chris Hurn has a bird's eye view of how businesses create wealth, as well as an in-the-trenches perspective on the tough decisions that must be made if a business is to go from good to great. In The Entrepreneur's Secret to Creating Wealth, Chris explains the myriad of factors and variables involved in this significant wealth-creation strategy. Plenty of books describe how entrepreneurs can create more ideas or have happier employees. But no other business book outlines in such detail -- or with such authority -- how to actually develop the wealth behind the business. SPECIAL OFFER When you buy two or more copies of this book (say, one for you and one you give to a friend), we'll donate the net proceeds of the sale to the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) Young Entrepreneur Foundation. All we need is a copy of your receipt showing the purchase, and that can be emailed ([email protected]), faxed (407-682-1632) or mailed (60 N. Court Avenue, Suite 200, Orlando, FL 32801).
Download or read book Street Smart Network Building written by André Abouzeid and published by Epic Press. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a great tool for sponsors to share with your new recruits. It is a quick short guide for people involved in the direct selling business, whether they are newly involved or as a refresher for the ones doing it. This book teaches street-smart proven techniques, avoiding all the trials and errors that the author has gone through. Part 1: Shows you how to get your business started the right way. Part 2: Shows you how to recruit your first business associate. Part 3: Shows you how to work with your team members and take their businesses to the next level. Part 4: The bonus program provides you with the right mindset and clarity for pursuing your journey towards greatness. For more than twenty years, André Abouzeid has been helping people transform their self-limiting beliefs into self-fulfilling breakthroughs to achieve their dreams in the field of direct sales. He is an entrepreneur, direct selling professional, real estate investor, trainer and author. His motivational story of rising from a FedEx delivery boy to become a self-made entrepreneur will inspire you to want to change your life. He built an organization of over 8 million IBOs (independent business owners) from 38 different countries. He has also created many entrepreneurship and wealth building resources to help you avoid painful mistakes and learn valuable lessons.
