Local Business

Small businesses are the lifeblood of the economy. Making sure they stay in business is as simple as learning the marketing strategies and techniques that are working right now. In this book you will learn how to make the phone ring for your own business, as well as for those you may wish to help do the same. Local business marketing includes building relationships, attracting the clients and customers who are right for you, as well as leveraging the power of the internet for maximum results.

Feeling overwhelmed by the constant flood of marketing advice, platforms, and strategies? You're not alone. Every day, business owners face an avalanche of marketing information. New platforms launch. AI tools promise miracles. Experts contradict each other. The result? Paralysis instead of progress. Welcome to Marketing Mayhem. Marketing Mayhem cuts through the confusion and gives you something rare in today's business world: clarity. This isn't another book filled with empty promises or one-size-fits-all solutions. It's a practical roadmap designed specifically for business owners, ...

In this thrilling novel from a New York Times bestselling author, an attorney and mother of two discovers her husband’s secret life—and it might cost them all their lives. ​ Everyone in Hemingway Grove, Illinois, knows David and Marcie Bowers. David owns the local pub. Marcie is a former...

What if the junk people throw away could become your ticket to financial freedom? Imagine building a small business so simple, so in-demand, and so profitable that it pays you $1,000 per day—without years of schooling, crushing debt, or complicated tech skills. Right now, countless hardworking people are stuck in jobs they hate, grinding through long hours with little to show for it. Meanwhile, the junk removal and hauling industry quietly generates billions every year. Families, landlords, real estate agents, and small businesses are desperate for someone reliable to take their clutter, ...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | #1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER In his unfiltered style, Dave Portnoy details the journey of how he built his polarizing media empire, Barstool Sports, while refusing to bend the knee to those who tried to tear him down, staying true to himself and blocking...

“Create Your Own AI” is a comprehensive, hands-on guide for anyone who wants to build a fully private generative AI system—at home or within a small or medium-sized organization. Instead of relying on cloud platforms, this book shows you how to deploy powerful open-source models locally, control your own data, and create intelligent tools tailored to your real needs. Across its chapters, you will discover how today’s generative models truly work, how the technology evolved into modern LLMs, and how to install, configure, and operate them using secure, free, and open-source software....

The Sovereign AI Stack — How to Match Your AI Setup to Your Actual Usage Without Wasting Money You are tech-comfortable. You already pay for ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro. You probably have at least one API key in a `.env` file somewhere. You've heard "you can run this locally" enough times that you've started wondering if the math actually works for an operator running a real business — not for a researcher with a grant or a YouTuber building a benchmark rig. The honest answer is: yes, the math works. But not at every spend level, not on every machine, and not for every kind of work. The ...

The extraordinary story of Atlassian - how two university friends with a billion-dollar idea created a global tech company. In a cramped share house in inner-city Sydney, university classmates Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar started working together to create a $160 billion company from...

Not long ago, building an AI agent sounded like a project for a multi-million-dollar research lab. Today, a motivated beginner can sit down on a Saturday morning and have a functional voice or text assistant booking real appointments and handling customer inquiries by Saturday afternoon. Written by Dave Shwarma, a former Google engineer who left big tech to build AI-powered agencies full-time, AI Agents With Claude For Beginners cuts through the hype, frameworks, and get-rich-quick pitch noise. This isn't a theoretical textbook or a collection of growth hacks that stop working next month—...

For as long as Cleveland can remember, Tim Misny's face has been everywhere. Billboards. Bus benches. Television screens during Browns games. He is the most recognized personal injury attorney in Ohio, and possibly the most recognized professional of any kind in the city's history. Most people assume it's ego. Or money. Or some combination of both that produces a man willing to put his face on everything. Most people are wrong. The Misny Method is the first book to decode the system behind the saturation. Cleveland entrepreneur Jim Kukral spent months inside Misny's inner circle, ...

You installed OpenClaw. You followed the README. And now it just sits there, doing nothing useful. You're not alone. The 145K-star GitHub project that Jensen Huang called "the most important software release probably ever" has a dirty secret: most people who install it never get past "Hello World." They burn through API credits, get confused by YAML configs, and end up with an expensive chatbot that can't even manage their calendar. This book turns that dead install into a staff of AI agents that run your email, write your content, and send you money while you sleep. You won't read about ...

Stop chasing one-off projects. Start building monthly recurring revenue with AI. Most AI agency books teach you to land a client, deliver a project, collect a check — and then start the exhausting cycle all over again. Your income graph looks like a heart rate monitor. February is a $25,000 month. March is zero. You're talented, you're working harder than ever, and you're still broke half the year. This book teaches a fundamentally different model. The AI Retainer Playbook shows you how to build an agency that charges local businesses $1,500 to $5,000 per month — every month — for AI-...

Master cross-cultural negotiation and build a thriving enterprise in Japan by avoiding costly expatriate mistakes. Perfect for a morning commute or a long business flight, this pragmatic audio experience bypasses dry frameworks to deliver the unvarnished realities of international...

A freewheeling, small-town attorney takes on a national murder trial when an out-of-town client is accused of killing a federal judge in Texas. “A spectacular courtroom thriller that kept me turning pages like the best of Grisham or Turow." —Michelle King, co-creator of The Good Wife, The...

Los ricos tienen un secreto. Y ese secreto podría estar esperándote a la vuelta de la esquina. Todo el mundo quiere ser millonario, pero casi nadie busca la riqueza donde realmente está. Por eso caemos en los cantos de sirena de las start-ups, el dropshipping milagroso y los ascensos corporativos que prometen éxito a cambio de regalar nuestra vida. Pero los ricos de verdad juegan a otro juego, menos glamuroso, pero mucho más rentable e inteligente: los negocios de barrio que ya ganan dinero.

Amazon Book Description Are you tired of customers who shop around endlessly, negotiate every price, then hire your cheapest competitor? The problem isn't your skills, your experience, or even your pricing. Most local business owners who struggle to attract quality customers are actually excellent at what they do. They just don't know how to present their services in ways that customers immediately understand and value. Winning Offers for Local Business gives you the complete step-by-step system for packaging your services so customers stop shopping around and start trying to figure out how...

You do not need to know every repair skill to start a handyman business. You need the right starter services, clear boundaries, fair pricing, and customers who trust you. Starting a handyman business can look simple from the outside. People need things fixed. You know how to handle basic repairs. So why not get paid for it? The challenge is that a real handyman business is more than carrying a tool bag. You need to choose the right services, avoid jobs outside your skill level, answer customer calls, estimate work, set prices, collect payment, keep records, ask for reviews, and build a ...

Stop bleeding cash and drowning in market noise. It’s time to re-engineer your business for the modern digital economy. Most traditional small business owners make a fatal mistake during economic shifts: they cut critical survival costs indiscriminately or micro-manage minor expenses. This isn’t optimization—it’s slow liquidation. True enterprise resilience requires a clinical, aggressive operational overhaul. In The Digital Pivot Blueprint, you will discover the exact step-by-step framework to transition your brick-and-mortar or local service business into a lean, digitally ...

Most small businesses don't fail because they lack talent — they fail because they never learn how to consistently attract the right customers and grow with confidence.

Local SEO for Small Business Owners is a guide for local entrepreneurs who would like to learn and understand the best local search engine optimization (SEO) strategies - on-page SEO and off-page SEO and how to market their products and services with Google. Nowadays, when it looks like everybody is competitive and vying for the top spot on search engine rankings and customers’ wish lists, devising an SEO blueprint that stands out is the foregone conclusion. Remember, you want to be better than your competitors!