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Bloomsbury presents Buy, Run, Build: A guide to Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition by Charles Skinner, read by Tom Alexander. ‘This book is fun to read, exciting to apply, and profitable to implement.’ John Kay, economist Buying an established company – rather than creating a start-up...

Every property manager knows the 11:47 call. Water coming through a ceiling. A scared tenant. A nervous owner you can't reach. A plumber to find at midnight, and money to spend that someone has to approve. You're standing in the dark, the human shock absorber between every owner and every tenant and every broken thing. You didn't get into this to be on call twenty-four hours a day. This is a practical playbook for owners of small residential property management companies — single-family and small multifamily, roughly 50 to 500 doors — who want to use AI where it actually helps, and ...

"If you've ever worried about running out of things to say, this is the only conversation guide you'll ever need." Have you ever stood in silence trying to think of something interesting to say? Do you overthink every conversation, replay awkward moments in your head, or wish you could talk to anyone with confidence? You're not alone. The truth is that great conversationalists aren't born with some magical gift. They simply understand a few principles that most people never learn. Never Run Out of Things to Say is far more than a collection of conversation starters. It is a complete social ...

Most entrepreneurs start with freedom in mind but end up trapped by their own workload. You wake up already stretched thin—emails waiting, invoices stacking, clients expecting miracles. The dream that once drove you now drains you. You’ve been told to scale by hiring and delegating. Yet deep down, you know adding people won’t fix the overwhelm—it only multiplies it. There’s another path.

This incisive, practical audio guide provides a thorough breakdown of the ins and outs everyone needs to know when turning contracting skills into a business. From summoning the motivation to start your own business to the intricacies of being your own boss, Claudiu Fatu artfully turns his personal experiences and those of other successful contractors into advice on every aspect of building a business.

Every cleaning company owner knows the 5:44 Monday morning. Two crews didn't show. Three sites are open. And you're driving over with a mop bucket in the back seat, texting a property manager an apology before he unlocks the door. You didn't start the business to run it this way. You started it because you were good at the work — and now you barely have time to touch it. This is a practical playbook for owners of small cleaning companies — commercial, residential, or specialty, with 1 to 15 cleaners — who want to use AI where it actually helps, and never where it shouldn't. Thirteen ...

Fundraising isn’t just about raising money—it’s about creating campaigns that truly make a difference. Take inspiration from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, which raised over $220 million and helped develop a new treatment for ALS. That’s the power of effective fundraising.

You split the job across five agents. One stalls. One loops. One burns $50. Again. Meanwhile, builders on Reddit are running 451 agents in a single session and getting 96% of the output at 46% of the cost. The difference isn't talent. It's the boring machinery they wrapped around the agents, the part every demo skips. This book turns your one agent into a team that ships work you cannot take on alone. By Chapter 2 you'll have an orchestrator handing bounded tasks to workers. By Chapter 5 you'll fan out parallel agents across a job one context window can't hold. By Chapter 7 a stuck agent ...

Every HVAC owner knows the first 97-degree Saturday. Thirty-one voicemails before 7 a.m. Every caller says "no air," and every one of them is right that it's an emergency. A tech texts in sick — maybe sick, maybe interviewing with the shop that's been poaching. And somewhere in that phone, a $12,000 replacement quote is going cold, because the season that buries you in $189 service calls is the same season you lose the five-figure installs. Feast or famine, twice a year, every year. Either the season runs you, or you run the season. This is a practical playbook for owners of residential ...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. My name is Hank Steelman. I failed at hot shot the first time I tried it. Fifteen years in the oilfield, then I filed for my own authority on a Tuesday, gave notice on Wednesday, and was independent by Friday. Three months later I was back under the...

Most people don’t fail to build a community because they lack knowledge. They fail because they try to build excitement instead of behavior. Excitement spikes… then fades. Behavior repeats… and repetition becomes income. This book is not about getting attention. It’s about creating a place people return to — automatically. You don’t need a massive audience. You don’t need constant content. You don’t need daily motivation. You need a system that removes decision-making and replaces it with rhythm. That is what the Infinite Skool Engine is designed to do. Inside these pages ...

You know HVAC. You don't know how to stop being its hostage. You're booked solid, your trucks never stop moving, and somehow the bank account never reflects how hard you're working. You're the best technician in your company — which is exactly the problem. Every callback, every quote, every decision still runs through you, and the day you take off is the day everything quietly falls apart. PROFIT PER CALL is the practical, no-fluff playbook for HVAC contractors who are done trading their health for revenue that never seems to stick. Written by a retired licensed mechanical engineer with ...

Unlock explosive running speed and perfect your form without risking injury during your next 5K or fitness workout. Whether you are hitting the pavement for an early morning run or commuting to the gym, this motivating guide turns active listening into a masterclass in athletic conditioning...

Every plumber knows the 6:12 call — and the four words that come with it. There's water everywhere. The thirteen-year-old tank that picked a finished basement. The second emergency landing while you're mid-drive to the first. The board detonating, again — while a $15,000 sewer replacement dies quietly in your camera roll, lost to a shop that's no better in the ground. Just better on paper. In this trade, any Tuesday can detonate. The water clock never stops. And the emergency work that pays today is the same work that starves the big jobs that should be building your company. This is a ...

Are you trapped in the business you built? You started your company seeking freedom and success, but now you're working longer hours than any employee. Vacations get interrupted by "emergencies." Your phone never stops. The business that was supposed to create freedom has become your prison. It doesn't have to be this way. Imagine your business running smoothly without your constant involvement. Picture checking metrics occasionally instead of putting out fires daily. Envision having time for family, travel, or new ventures while your company continues generating profits. This isn't a ...

Escape founder burnout and scale your small business by building profitable operations that run entirely without you. If you are constantly putting out fires and running on adrenaline, this focused roadmap transforms daily chaos into predictable growth. Turn your daily commute into a productive...

For the Long Run gives you a personalised system for protecting your energy, resilience and recovery, one habit at a time. Jessica Spendlove has spent 15 years inside elite sport, military and corporate environments. For the Long Run is built around five daily rhythms (nutrition, exercise, stress, sleep and connection) and the practical question of how they operate under real-life pressure. It's time to stop feeling exhausted, to stop cycling through burnout and reset, and instead design an operating system that actually works for you.

You are still doing by hand what AI automation for small business was built to replace. Every hour spent on repetitive tasks is an hour stolen from the work that actually grows revenue. Meanwhile, other small business owners are already turning to AI automation to work fewer hours, not more. The gap between the two is compounding daily. Claude AI for Business Automation gives you the exact playbook for turning scattered manual tasks into reliable, self-running systems. You will use plain English instructions and the tools already built into Claude for real no-code automation. No technical ...

Don’t let your company run off the rails. If your organization is beset by competing deadlines, inexpert strategies, and missed milestones, it’s time to invest in your own business conductor: A program management office. In this essential field guide to building, staffing, and running a top-notch PMO, software industry executive and program management specialist Paula Dieli shares essential tools, insights, and real-life case studies from major companies such as Zendesk, Adobe, and Macromedia.

Most good contractors do not lose money because they are bad at the trade. They lose money because too much of the business still runs on memory. Leads come in through phone calls, texts, emails, referrals, Facebook messages, and voicemails. Estimates get delayed. Scope is explained verbally. Change orders get missed. Customers wait for updates. Photos and receipts get scattered. Job files are incomplete. Profit is unclear. The owner becomes the lead system, estimate system, communication system, job file, and training manual. AI-First Contractor Systems™ shows trade contractors how to ...