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In The Second Machine Age MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee—two thinkers at the forefront of their field—reveal the forces driving the reinvention of our lives and our economy. As the full impact of digital technologies is felt, we will realize immense bounty in the form of dazzling personal technology, advanced infrastructure, and near-boundless access to the cultural items that enrich our lives. Amid this bounty will also be wrenching change. Recent economic indicators reflect this shift: fewer people are working, and wages are falling even as productivity and profits soar.

Small businesses and start-ups face their own challenges, and Steve Coulson has been there, made the mistakes and found a way to triumph. His straightforward, no-nonsense advice outlines a path to success if you want to grow your business to something bigger and more successful than you could ever have believed possible.

We know running a business can be rewarding. However, it can also seep into every life crack, eat up your energy and leave you exhausted, stressed and snapping at your small humans. In Six Figures in School Hours, award-winning digital marketing coach and business mentor Kate Toon shares practical and doable tips for parents to run a successful business, make serious money and not burn themselves to a frazzle in the process.

Discover the four most popular online business models with proven strategies to gain financial independence. Start and grow your own business and begin building your Internet empire. If you're like most of us, you dream of a day where you won't have to keep dragging yourself in to your day job plugging away to earn a living. Life passes us by so quickly, and most of us would prefer not to spend all of our good years in the office. With the explosion of Internet businesses, it is now more possible and easier than ever for you to start your own online business.

Are you a small business owner overwhelmed by the complexities of taxes, bookkeeping, and financial forecasting? Does managing your business finances keep you up at night? Introducing this unique guide, a game-changer in small business accounting. It offers stress-free strategies for mastering tax compliance, enhancing financial literacy, maximizing profits, and fostering growth through effective bookkeeping.

Starting with nothing more than a home-brewing kit, Sam Calagione turned his entrepreneurial dream into a foamy reality in the form of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, one of America's best and fastest-growing craft breweries. In this newly updated second edition, Calagione offers a deeper real-world look at entrepreneurship and what it takes to operate and grow a successful business.

Stephen J. Hunt, award-winning publican and the founder of Hunt Hospitality, turns his 30 years of buying, renovating, and selling pubs into an accessible, practical guide on how to turn a poorly performing business into a highly profitable one. From the early days of formulating an idea, to raising money and recruiting employees, to fending off competitors, you'll discover the wisdom, practical tools, and tips you need to take control over your business, turn it around, and live the life you've always wanted.

What matters most to you? Should you focus on earning a living, pursuing your passions, or devoting yourself to the causes that inspire you? The surprising truth is that you don’t have to choose—and that you’ll find more success if you don’t. That’s the breakthrough message of the TOMS One for One movement. You don’t have to be rich to give back and you don’t have to retire to spend every day doing what you love. You can find profit, passion, and meaning all at once—right now.

Renowned consultant and author Peter Block delivers the latest and fourth edition of his bestselling Flawless Consulting, an intuitive and insightful step-by-step guide to the five phases of effective consulting. The book offers a deep exploration of the skills, tools, and behaviors required to successfully influence others. You'll see exactly what you need to say and do to help others achieve their goals, whether you are an internal or external consultant or anyone in a leadership position who wants to build effective partnerships in business, healthcare, education, or community work.

You can turn any warm or cold prospect into a hot prospect, wanting to know all about your business. How? By learning how to effectively introduce your business into a social conversation with an easy, rejection-free sequence of just a few words. Prospects want what you have to offer, but they are afraid of someone selling them. However, prospects love to buy and join. So why not use socially acceptable word sequences that compel any prospect to literally beg you for a presentation?

In The Most Powerful Sentence of All Time, persuasion expert Neil Gordon invites you into a world of high-stakes business communication and messaging strategy, where one simple sentence can transform sales presentations and attract customers. Meet Barbara, a struggling CEO who can’t seem to get her company’s marketing off the ground. She knows her new product offer is good and how it will help clients. She can communicate about it with her team with fluidity and ease.

Money Basics for Tough Times is about having a plan to recover from financial disaster. Packed with tips and strategies on money management, from negotiating with your landlord to buying groceries on a shoestring budget to investing in crashing markets to starting a side hustle for extra income, pioneering consumer finance journalist David Koch offers Australians hope in an unprecedented era by taking things back to basics. This is a clear, comforting, concise guide for how individuals and families, despite economic hardship and uncertainty, can turn their fortunes around.

Starting a business involves so much more than writing a business plan—but don’t let that put you off! The secret to making it work is to follow a clear blueprint that covers not just the basics, but allows you a comprehensive understanding of what building a successful business looks like… and you’ve just found it. Inside this detailed yet easy-to-follow manual, you’ll find everything you need to know to build a business primed for success.

In this hands-on successor to the popular book The Trusted Advisor, you'll find answers to pervasive questions about trust and leadership - such as how to develop business with trust, nurture trust-based relationships, build and run a trustworthy organization, and develop your trust skill set. This pragmatic workbook delivers everyday tools, exercises, resources, and actionable to-do lists for the wide range of situations a trusted advisor inevitably encounters.

Listen to writings by Bill Gates, Andrew Grove, Michael Eisner, David Packard and other business leaders. Possessing a rare combination of business genius and true grit, these captains of industry have created unprecedented wealth for their companies and themselves, pioneered revolutionary new industries, and in some cases, directly shaped the destinies of entire nations.

91% of small and medium sized businesses fail in the first 10 years. What is the other 9% doing to succeed? The 9% Edge is a highly practical guide to entrepreneurship and taking your business to the next level, no matter where you currently are in your build. Developed from extensive research on businesses and their founders, combined with the real-world, firsthand experience of author Candy Valentino, this book breaks down the core principles and concepts that are essential to bridging the knowledge gap between different stages of a build.

If you're looking for a step-by-step launch framework for your upcoming Kickstarter or Indiegogo campaign, this is the handbook for you! I'll teach you how to use crowdfunding to raise money online and bring your project to life. We're at the beginning of a movement as transformative as the industrial revolution. Never before in history have authors, musicians, artists, and film producers been able to connect with massive online audiences and get funding for their creative work.

In The Snowball System, Mo Bunnell offers powerful and proven tools for business development. Whether you are gregarious or introverted, whether you are a part of a small startup or a massive multinational, Bunnell's science-based system is effective and efficient, and easily adapted into your day-to-day work. With The Snowball System, you will not only succeed at growing your business, you'll learn to enjoy doing the activities that drive that growth. You'll be happier, and so will your clients.

Sharing hard-earned insights, advice, and best practices, brand and marketing strategist Karen Tiber Leland helps entrepreneurs, business owners, CEOs, and executives create a brand by design instead of default, gain greater influence in their industries and companies, and become thought leaders in their fields. The Brand Mapping Strategy uses proven strategies, best practices, and anecdotes from real life brand-building successes to give listeners the tools they need to design, build, and accelerate a successful brand.

Cadence is a parable of a business owner and triathlon coach named JJ, who left his stable job as a teacher to fulfill his dream of becoming an entrepreneur. Unfortunately, two years after opening his bike shop, JJ finds himself in a place that is all too familiar to most business owners, struggling to stay afloat. That all changes fast when an athlete he coaches teaches him how to turn the store's profitability around.