First Time Business

As a top-performing sales professional, you know how to own your calendar, focus your energy, create opportunities, navigate the sales process, negotiate, and close deals. Yet, if you are like most new sales managers, there is still so much you don’t know and that can trip you up if you aren’t careful. Luckily, Mike Weinberg knows the pitfalls to avoid and mindset changes needed to successfully make the leap. This powerful new resource contains candid guidance on how to master your expanded responsibilities like a pro.

Learn to conquer every challenge like a pro with the clear, candid advice in The First-Time Manager. For nearly four decades, this trusted guide has brought newcomers up to speed on the nitty gritty realities of managing people. The updated seventh edition delivers new information that helps you manage across generations, use online performance appraisal tools, persuade with stories, oversee remote employees, build a team dynamic, match a boss’ style, and more.

Do you have trouble keeping your team focused, motivated, and committed to the pursuit of their assigned goals? The truth is, the majority of bosses fail to inspire their employees to be engaged and productive at work. And they're often frustrated by their inability to incite their team to action.

As a manager, you are prepared to face any challenge when it comes to the work at hand, but you may not be ready to overcome a hostile work environment, a catastrophic disruption in workflow, or any other of a multitude to challenges that can arise, seemingly from nowhere.

In your career, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial - going from individual contributor to competent manager. New managers have to learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and respect, to motivate, and to strike the right balance between delegation and control. Many fail to make the transition successfully. In this timeless, indispensable book, Harvard Business School professor and leadership guru Linda Hill traces the experiences of 19 new managers over the course of their first year in the role.

Our goal is to help you as much as humanly possible START your Real Estate business. If you have recently completed “Real Estate School”, congratulations! You only learned how to pass your exam in real estate school! Real Estate school does not do a good job teaching you how to start, build and grow your business. That’s what this book is for. It’s a jumpstart We want to show you what strategies and techniques will help you build the foundation of your business FIRST. This is required to grow and scale your business long term. In short, we will give you the information that will ...

Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

The world of work continues to grow more complex with hybrid work, a shortage of talent, and a mandate for more inclusive environments with a true DEI perspective. These changes have created many exciting opportunities but also carry big risks for HR managers on the front lines in organizations in transition.

This new offering from management expert Gary S. Topchik, coauthor of The First-Time Manager, Fifth Edition, covers the basics of team building, giving novice managers all the activities and information they need to achieve team-building success. From making the transition from team member to team leader, to holding team members accountable, to managing challenging situations and resolving conflict, The First-Time Manager's Guide to Team Building tells listeners how their own management style can influence how successful their teams become.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, nearly 20 percent of startups do not live past their second year, and many more fail before their fifth year. Have you ever wondered why many new businesses fail so quickly after their inception? Over my decade-long journey of entrepreneurship, learning and observing other small companies, I've come to realize the importance of a few aspects when starting, launching, and growing a business.

When Lynsi Snyder’s grandparents founded In-N-Out Burger in 1948, they built it with a passion for quality and service that Lynsi embraced at a young age. After starting as a store associate at age seventeen, she then worked in other departments, gaining firsthand experience with almost every aspect of the family business until she became president in 2010. She has led the company through explosive growth—today, there are three-hundred-ninety-two stores and counting—and is deeply committed to the well-being of the In-N-Out Burger family.

This practical and motivational guide provides the tools and knowledge to control your future and secure your fortune. From establishing goals and sorting out the legal and financial paperwork, to advanced marketing strategies and relationship building techniques, this indispensable book offers step-by-step instructions for you to establish and grow your own consultancy business. This extensively revised and updated fourth edition includes new and expanded coverage on utilizing informal media, changes in guidelines, key distinctions of wholesale and retail businesses, and much more.

This book is a roadmap for aspiring entrepreneurs who want to start a business without spending a fortune. It begins by uncovering the lowest cost opportunities that often go overlooked. Readers are guided to connect business ideas with their own skills and local market realities. The chapters explain how to estimate true startup costs and navigate essential legal steps before launching. Practical strategies reveal how to earn that crucial first revenue quickly. Examples of leveraging online platforms, franchising, and gig models show how to start making money almost immediately. The book ...

When the last flight out for home gets cancelled, what’s a woman to do? If you’re recently divorced Vivian Duncan, you call an escort service, naturally. But what Viv requires needs that distinct touch of someone special, someone who can reignite a passionate fling from nearly thirty years earlier. Tonya arrives and to Viv’s delight, she’s young, beautiful, and just the right shade of mocha brown. When she’s told what Vivian wants, Tonya believes she’s got just what it is Vivian needs, and she’s determined to prove it…even if it takes all night.

If you are fed up not making enough money, working for someone else, going nowhere, and you want to start a small, profitable business for yourself even if you are young, unexperienced or just have little or no money then keep reading to discover which steps could help you change your actual situation. Are you someone who is looking to change your life, take control of your finances, and live the Dream Life that you have always wanted to live, but never seem to be able to achieve? Do you want to stop working for others and helping them achieve their goals and, instead, work for yourself ...

Imagine if you had a direct connection with thousands of readers who loved reading your books. And imagine if those readers eagerly awaited the launch of your next book. In Your First 1000 Copies, seasoned book marketing expert Tim Grahl walks you through how successful authors are using the online marketing tools to build their platform, connect with readers and sell more books.

You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a web of conflicting expectations from your subordinates, from those above you, and from your peers and customers. You're not alone. As Harvard Business School's Linda Hill and manager and executive Kent Lineback reveal in Being the Boss, becoming an effective manager is a painful, difficult journey. It requires trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey and instead just learn how to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses.

In this honest, practical and empowering guide, seasoned entrepreneur and investor Garry Mansell shows first-time founders how to master B2B sales – even if they’ve never sold a thing in their lives. Whether you’re building a SaaS product, a consultancy or a complex solution, you’ll learn how to approach sales with structure, confidence and integrity. No sleaze. No jargon. Just a clear, step-by-step approach to turning conversations into customers.

Saying the right thing the right way can make the difference between sealing the deal or losing the account, getting a promotion, or getting a pink slip. It's essential to be pitch perfect - to get the right message across to the right person at the right time. In Pitch Perfect, Bill McGowan shows you how to craft the right message and deliver it using the right language - both verbal and nonverbal.

Are you ready to embark on a rearding journey into the world of real estate? Look no further – our comprehensive guide is your key to acing the California Real Estate Exam with confidence and success. Designed by industry experts and tailored to the unique demands of the California market, this guide is your ultimate companion for achieving your dream of becoming a licensed real estate professional.