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A thoroughly revised edition of the comprehensive guide to building and maintaining a successful career in writing. Writers talk about their work in many ways: as an art, as a calling, as a lifestyle. Too often missing from these conversations is the fact that writing is also a business, and...

How to Succeed in the Music Industry in 2025 and Beyond is your ultimate guide to thriving as an independent artist, producer, or DJ in today’s digital landscape. This audiobook breaks down the essential steps to build your brand, market your music, and create multiple income streams while staying true to your artistry.

In The Business Playbook, serial entrepreneur Chris Ronzio walks you through his proven framework for building a playbook: the profile of your business, the people who work in it, the policies that guide it, and the processes that operate it. He shows you how to codify your culture and create a living document that allows you to let go of day-to-day responsibilities and empower your team to run the business without you. If you want to build a company that doesn’t rely on you putting in more hours, this book will show you the way.

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.

Demielle Summers never planned on falling for anyone again—especially not a man like Lyle Chancellor. After heartbreak flipped her world upside down, she’s focused on rebuilding her peace one cup of coffee at a time in her small-town café.

FOUR STEPS TO LASTING HAPPINESS You are four steps away from creating the life of your dreams. The best part? You already have everything you need. In Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life, authors Taylor and Dr. James Grant detail a proven process to unlock the power within you. It’s a simple, four-step framework. You will clear yourself of negativity, address your issues with authenticity, clarify your intentions, and watch your circumstances change for the better. With real-life examples from professional and personal settings, the authors break down the four steps into manageable, ...

Winner, 2024 Best Independent Book Award Bronze Winner, 2024 Global Book Award (Business Life) Available in Hardcopy, Paperback, Kindle, and Audiobook Success at the Table Has Very Little to Do with Privilege—and Everything to Do with Confidence. Have you ever been invited to a business dinner, networking event, or interview lunch and worried about ordering the wrong thing, choosing the wrong wine, or making a mistake in front of clients or colleagues? You're not alone. In today's world, careers are often advanced over meals, relationships are built at the table, and first impressions can...

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife... but as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clients deserve no less. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. Sarah Krasnostein has watched the extraordinary Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead - and the book she has written is equally extraordinary.

The strongest Network Marketing businesses aren't built on hype, hacks, or whatever strategy is trending this month. They're built on timeless principles. If you're ready to stop chasing shortcuts and start building a business that lasts, this book was written for you. More than 13 years after publishing Go Pro: 7 Steps to Becoming a Network Marketing Professional, the book that helped millions of people raise their standards and become professionals, Eric Worre brings together the principles behind every lasting Network Marketing business in one practical framework.

For famous virtuoso Opal Bloom, death isn't the final note—it's a jarring, off-key change in tempo. She wakes up in a strange realm of forgotten souls and unfinished business, only to be told she's "found lacking" and won't be admitted to Heaven. Her only hope seems to be in trusting an annoying receptionist and a master luthier who keep sending her on strange quests. Opal's journey become a desperate, absurd act of redemption. She confronts the ghosts of her past (and a few who are just a little too alive), learns how to forgive, and transforms into a much better person than she was on Earth.

I show you my experiences selling 100,000 copies of my own children’s books to help you master: - Social Media and Advertising - Increasing Visibility - Book Prices and Profits - And Much More! I left my job in 2018 because I made more money writing and self-publishing children's books (picture books, chapter books, middle grade novels) than working full time for someone else. I wanted to write books from home full time for years but was stuck in a life working for other people. Determined to change my life, I set out on a path to live the one I always imagined for my family. I tell you ...

Discover How to Quickly Launch the Cleaning Business and Start Making Money With This Handy Guide. Running a business is not easy, especially during these trying times, but sometimes you can make it easier for yourself. The cleaning business is a pretty solid venture to try out. Would you like to: Start a successful cleaning business? Boost your income immensely? Start earning within weeks? But you: Have no experience in running a business? Think it is too complicated to handle everything? Don't have extra funds to spare? If so, then you never came across this book before. This book ...

Want to self-publish your book but don't know where to start? Worried it's too complex or you don't have the right skills? This updated and expanded Fourth edition of Successful Self-Publishing provides everything you need to successfully self-publish your book in ebook, print, and audio formats, plus proven marketing strategies to reach more readers/listeners. Written by award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Joanna (J.F.) Penn, this practical guide shares the exact methods used to publish more than forty books and build a multi-six-figure author business.

Transform your sales leadership with "The Strategic Sales Leader: Mastering the Art of Vision, Strategy, and Execution." This no-nonsense guide by a seasoned sales expert offers a powerful blueprint for those serious about achieving peak performance in the highly competitive sales arena. If you're looking for fluffy theories and untested hypotheses, this isn't your book. But if you're ready for a pragmatic, step-by-step guide that delivers results, keep reading. What This Book Delivers: Crystal-Clear Vision: Learn the art of crafting a vision so compelling that your team can't help but ...

Surrounded by incompetence? Feeling like you’re trapped in a never-ending meeting with clueless coworkers? Welcome to the survival guide you didn’t know you desperately needed. For anyone navigating today’s chaotic workplace filled with baffling decisions, endless meetings, and maddening mediocrity, How to Work with Stupid People offers a practical, witty, and research-backed blueprint to protect your sanity — and your career. Drawing on 30 years of experience inside corporate madhouses, JS Paxton unpacks the psychology of irrational behavior and gives you tactical strategies to ...

From the founders of MeidasTouch, the independent news network that helped redefine how millions of people consume news, WTF America?! is an unflinching look at how the United States and the world arrived at this dangerous moment—with authoritarian movements gaining ground and democratic...

Over the past 6 years, Nicolas Cole has ghostwritten for more than 300 different industry leaders, C-Suite executives, founders of Silicon Valley startups, venture capitalists, and even Olympic athletes, Grammy-winning musicians, and New York Times bestselling authors. In 2017, Cole founded the first ghostwriting agency specializing in opinion articles online, and to date has ghostwritten more than 3,000 articles (under other people's names).

Starting a Successful Airbnb Business for Beginners is a comprehensive guide, offering valuable insights and actionable steps based on my personal trials and errors. If you’re looking for guidance, my book will show you on how to make a profitable property, by showing you how to provide your guests with great experiences that will give you five-star reviews and a fully booked calendar.

YOUR LIFE IS A CASUALTY, OR A CONQUEST. YOUR CHOICES HOLD THE POWER. BREAKING NEWS: If you suck at making decisions, your life will suck too. Stop waiting for the world to conspire in your favor. The world doesn’t care about your vision board, your pronouns, your deadbeat dad, or your PhD in Philosophy. It cares about one thing: The decisions you make every moment of the day, from what you eat for breakfast to how you spend your free time. The fact is, most people are prisoners of their own choosing, imprisoned by the siren song of "Easy.

💼 DIY Small Business Bookkeeping the Easy Way Learn How to Master Financial Statements, Ledgers, Journals, P&L Reports & More – Without the Headache! If you own a small business, there’s one truth you can’t escape: numbers matter. Understanding your financials is not optional, whether you’re just starting, managing day-to-day operations, or scaling for growth. It’s essential. That’s where this book comes in. "Bookkeeping doesn’t have to be boring—or hard!" DIY Small Business Bookkeeping the Easy Way is your hands-on guide to controlling your business finances—without ...