Boat Business

Almost everything you know about Mickey Mouse is wrong: He wasn’t Disney’s first star; Steamboat Willie wasn’t his first movie; Mickey wasn’t a nice guy - and Walt Disney didn’t invent him. In 1928, two very different best friends invented Mickey Mouse. And the success tore them apart. Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks’ friendship is a story of betrayal, love, war, money, power, tragedy, intrigue, humor, despair, and hope. You’ll love them both - when you don’t want to drop anvils on their heads.

Even if you’re an inveterate landlubber, you’ll appreciate his water-borne humility as he absorbs lessons about what not to do before embarking on his own entrepreneurial adventure. Part memoir, part business primer, part hero’s journey, Boat Boy will have you alternately shaking your head, laughing, and taking notes.

The allure of starting a boat rental business can be captivating, but navigating the actual process can be daunting. Sailing into Profits is your essential guide to transforming your dream of owning a boat rental business into a successful reality. This comprehensive book addresses the most common challenges faced by aspiring boat rental entrepreneurs, offering actionable solutions to set you on the right course. From understanding the initial investments, obtaining necessary licenses, insurance, and permits, to marketing strategies and customer service excellence—this book covers it all.

Are you tired of having to trade hours for dollars? Do you want to start investing into a sneaky good asset class that not a lot of people think about? If you feel stuck with your current life and you want to learn about investing in a good asset class, then this book is for you.

*A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER!* Read the book that has inspired thousands of people around the world to pursue their Plan A—making bold career moves, launching dream businesses, fleeing toxic relationships, and silencing the naysayers. Feel like you’re always settling for Plan B? Have...

Discover the simple principles that took a team from mediocrity to Olympic gold, and which you can use every day in work, life and play. How do you go from ordinary to exceptional? This bestselling coaching classic will show you how. Ben Hunt-Davis shares the inspiring story of how he and the...

The Study Guides, written by Mr. Canna provide valuable information about how to start up, own and operate your own professional boat detailing business. The comprehensive business plans are based on over 30 years of running his own detailing business; Mirror Finish Detailing, Williamstown, New Jersey. The Study Guides include timely information about how to write a business plan. The marketing, advertising and promotional plans are designed to help the entrepreneur create a strategic road map for success and communicate more effectively in the marketplace while targeting new clients. The ...

Start Your Own Detailing Business Study Guides provide valuable information about how to start up, own and operate a professional detailing business. The comprehensive business plans include timely information about how to write a business plan. The marketing, advertising and promotional plans are designed to help the entrepreneur create a strategic road map for success and communicate more effectively in the marketplace while targeting new clients. The complete process of detailing is thoroughly covered in the training plan along with information about the necessary detailing supplies and ...

The New York Times bestselling author of Bitter Brew chronicles the birth and rise to greatness of the American auto industry through the remarkable life of Harley Earl, an eccentric six-foot-five, stuttering visionary who dropped out of college and went on to invent the profession of automobile...

The Choose-Your-Current guide for navigating career uncertainty instead of avoiding it. School gave you structure. Then it disappears, and you're in open water. The rules you were given stop making sense. The next step isn't obvious, and everyone seems louder than the answers you're looking for. "Cue the Lifeboat" is for anyone standing at that edge —unsure where to go but certain they can't stay put. Whether you're a recent graduate, navigating a career pivot, or facing a moment when the old roadmap no longer fits, this story begins there. You're the main character.

Everybody else sees a junk boat. You’re about to see a deal. Right now, millions of aging boats are flooding the market, and most owners are desperate to be rid of them. Some will even pay to make a boat go away. Meanwhile, a small group of sharp, hardworking people is getting paid to haul those boats off — and then flipping them, parting them out, or scrapping them for steady cash. The boats are often free. The know-how is in this book. Salvage Rights shows you how to turn one of the country’s strangest problems into a real income — starting small, with low overhead, in a field ...

The Study Guides, written by Mr. Canna provide valuable information about how to start up, own and operate your own professional car detailing business. The comprehensive business plans are based on over 30 years of running his own detailing business; Mirror Finish Detailing, Williamstown, New Jersey. The Study Guides include timely information about how to write a business plan. The marketing, advertising and promotional plans are designed to help the entrepreneur create a strategic road map for success and communicate more effectively in the marketplace while targeting new clients. The ...

The breakout star of Discovery’s hit automotive restoration show Fast N’ Loud takes readers on an entertaining ride through his wild life and behind the scenes of his hit show in this memoir and automotive handbook, revving with outrageous details and jaw-dropping stories, and injected with...

A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift’s wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw-genius auto mechanic as he painstakingly attempts to restores a classic 1957 Chevy to its former glory—all while the FBI and local law enforcement...

What do you do when your house burns down—literally—and your financial future goes up in smoke? You build a better boat. Brad and Emma DeGraw know a thing or two about starting over. After losing everything—from a rental house fire to hurricane disasters to a devastating trading loss—they did what most people wouldn’t: they rebuilt smarter. This isn’t another real estate success book full of theory. It’s a boots-on-the-ground, emotionally honest, and surprisingly entertaining guide to how two ordinary people created an extraordinary lending business—one deal, one mistake, ...

In the 1970s, Mark Johnson was a gangly North Carolina farm boy with a big imagination. An avid reader of Doc Savage pulp novels and Hardy Boys mysteries, Johnson knew he wanted adventure in his life. He just had no idea where to get it or how to escape the Christmas tree fields of the Appalachians. As a teenager, Johnson discovered music. Then, girls. These epiphanies would lead to an adventure even Johnson’s wild imagination couldn’t have predicted.

Right now in America, there are about two million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: We’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar energy is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the home of the future.

The former Stanford University sailing coach sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal tells the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit in this eye-opening memoir that offers a damning portrait of modern college administration and the ways in...

A deployed nuclear submarine operates alone - hundreds of miles from any support and hundreds of feet below the surface. An emotionless and indifferent enemy constantly surrounds the crew. Thousands of pounds of sea pressure sit right over their heads, waiting to crush them like a tin can and send them to the bottom of the ocean. Even the most junior sailor’s mistake can result in loss of the submarine and everyone on it.

Interested in turning your passion for boating and marine care into a profitable home-based business? 'How to Start a Home-Based Boat Cleaning and Maintenance Business' offers comprehensive guidance for aspiring entrepreneurs eager to navigate the marine services industry. Whether you are a boat enthusiast or experienced in nautical care, this book will equip you with the necessary skills and knowledge to build, manage, and scale a successful business.