Personal Small Business

Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness—that is, a business with no more than four employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt shows listeners the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling.

**Unlocking Financial Opportunities in 2024,"** Gerald Lacey, MBA MSSCM, takes you on a comprehensive journey to establish and grow your business credit without the need for a personal guarantee. This guide is designed for entrepreneurs and business owners who want to build a solid credit foundation and access unlimited capital to scale their businesses. **Why This Book?** - **Proven Strategies:** Learn from an expert with real-world experience in building business credit. - **Step-by-Step Guidance:** Follow detailed steps to establish business credit, ensuring you don't miss any critical ...

By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.

Your small business idea is your baby. Maybe you've had this idea for years, and you've just never known where to start in executing it. Or perhaps you've only had the idea for a short amount of time, but you're ready to jump right into it. This may not be your first business, either. Maybe you've had some failed businesses in the past, and you're ready to give it another go. Whatever the case, starting up your own business is an exciting time. Before you start up your small business, there are many things you need to learn and understand. Starting a business requires planning for the ...

Ready to Start a Business — But Don’t Know Where to Begin? You don’t need a business degree, a huge budget, or prior experience. You just need the right roadmap—and this step-by-step guide delivers it. How to Start a Small Business walks you through every stage of launching your first successful company, from business idea to formation to growth. In this book, you’ll discover how to: ✅ Choose the right legal structure (LLC, S-Corp, or sole proprietorship) ✅ Write a business plan that keeps you focused and fundable ✅ Apply essential tax hacks and smart financial strategies ...

The government has ear marked billions of dollars for small business funding to stimulate the economy, yet 89% of small business loans are rejected (Small Business Lending Annex). In, "The Ultimate Small Business Owner's Guide to Getting Bank Funding" you will learn how to design a business credit file that will impress underwriters. Unlike personal credit, business credit rewards those who borrow. You'll be able to aggressively expand your business and take advantage of windfall profit opportunities with unlimited bank funding behind you. Most importantly, you'll finally learn how to ...

Nationally recognized communication expert, keynote speaker and trainer and best-selling author Debra Fine reveals the techniques and strategies anyone can use to make small talk—in any situation. With practical advice and conversation cheat sheets, The Fine Art of Small Talk will help you learn to feel more comfortable in any type of social situation.

Carol Fleming wants to show you that small talk is not as “small” as you might think. It’s the foundation of every relationship, professional and personal. It is the sound of people reaching out to each other, searching for similarities, shared interests, goodwill, connections, and friendship. And it’s something we all do every day with people we know. It’s just the one little bit about strangers that throws some people off. Graceful social conversation can be learned, even by those requiring the smallest of baby steps.

Ever thought business taxes were a nightmare of endless forms and impossible deductions? Easily take control, save money, and master the strategies that the pros use to keep more of what you earn. Picture this: a tax guide so comprehensive and accessible, it turns dreaded tax season into a stress-free, money-saving opportunity. No more guesswork, no more—just simple steps that keep your business out of trouble and your income in your pocket.

Since you were old enough to hold a job, you've been hoodwinked to believe that wealth can be created by blindly trusting in the uncontrollable and unpredictable markets: the housing market, the stock market, and the job market. I call this soul-sucking, dream-stealing dogma "The Slowlane" - an impotent financial gamble that dubiously promises wealth in a wheelchair. For those who don't want a lifetime subscription to "settle-for-less", there is an alternative.

Struggling to start conversations? Constantly becoming tongue-tied around colleagues, close friends or even family? Ever wanted to talk with people but didn’t know what to say? Afraid of being embarrassed by saying the “wrong” thing?Painfully shy growing up, Tim Chang experienced the same problems. Then, from days spent combing through books at his mother’s bookstore, almost by chance he discovered the secrets to overcoming the very mindset that was holding him back. In his book, The Power of Small Talk, Tim shares the simple yet powerful methods he has learned and applied for ...

In his comprehensive Starting a Business QuickStart Guide, Ken Colwell concisely presents the core fundamentals that all new entrepreneurs need to know to get started, find success, and live the life of their dreams.

Attorney and CPA Mark J. Kohler targets the leading tax and business issues among small business owners, across all stages of business, and delivers a practical guide to the fundamental tax and legal conflicts faced by new and established entrepreneurs. Coached by Kohler, business owners are armed to seek out the right professionals relevant to their concerns, confidently ask the right questions, and ultimately, save time, money, and in many cases, potential heartache.

Discover the potent force of kaizen... and use it to easily, effortlessly achieve any goal or make any change you want to!We've been programmed to believe that change is a "battle" - something hard fought and hard won, something that demands struggle and sacrifice. But as anyone who uses the technique known as kaizen can tell you, nothing could be further from the truth. With kaizen, it's effortless, simple, and inevitable to change your life.

A habit expert from Stanford University shares his breakthrough method for building habits quickly and easily. With Tiny Habits you’ll increase productivity by tapping into positive emotions to create a happier and healthier life. Dr. Fogg’s new and extremely practical method picks up where Atomic Habits left off.

Many people want to be more likable and confident in both social and business settings. They dream of captivating conversations and meaningful relationships but often feel awkward, anxious, or tongue-tied. This transformative guide gives you tools to unlock smoother, more confident communication.

Do you have a small business, but all the talk of tax returns and payrolls is weighing you down? Worried about an audit from the IRS? Look no further! Narrated with the beginner in mind, inside this detailed guide you’ll find everything you need to make perfect sense of the world of tax returns, deductions, and business finance.

A business parable about how to create a start-up that won't trap you when you want to sell it. According to John Warrillow, the number one mistake entrepreneurs make is to build a business that relies too heavily on them. Thus, when the time comes to sell, buyers aren't confident that the company-even if it's profitable-can stand on its own. To illustrate this, Warrillow introduces us to a fictional small business owner named Alex who is struggling to sell his advertising agency.

What if greatness isn’t about giant leaps—but about the quiet power of small, deliberate steps repeated with purpose? In a world obsessed with overnight success and instant gratification, The Kaizen Effect: Small Steps, Infinite Growth offers a timeless alternative. It’s not a book about working harder. It’s a guide to working wiser—to transforming your habits, mindset, and soul through the simple yet profound philosophy of continuous improvement. Rooted in the legendary Japanese concept of Kaizen, this book redefines what it means to master life, business, creativity, and the ...

Here, the FUBU founder and star of ABC's Shark Tank shows that, far from being a liability, broke can actually be your greatest competitive advantage as an entrepreneur. Why? Because starting a business from broke forces you to think more creatively. It forces you to use your resources more efficiently. It forces you to connect with your customers more authentically and market your ideas more imaginatively.