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The best entrepreneurs balance brilliant business ideas with a rigorous commitment to serving their customers' needs. If you read (or listen) to nothing else on entrepreneurship and start-ups, listen to these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you build your company for enduring success.

Though it's a potentially lucrative enterprise, the reality of independent consulting seldom matches the dream. Most solo consultants and boutique consulting firms are perpetually within six months of bankruptcy due to the sputtering unreliability of their new business engines.

In Launching & Building a Brand for Dummies, Amy Will covers everything from crafting a powerful brand identity and planning that all-important launch to being prepared to scale up as you begin to take off.

READ BY THE AUTHOR Fraser Doherty’s 48-Hour Start-Up is your handy and essential cheat sheet to starting your own business giving the key steps for developing an idea and getting it to market quickly. Almost everyone dreams of starting their own business but very few do. But what if it only...

Do you have a brilliant idea to create a business but you have no idea where to start? Is the number one reason for not growing your business that you don´t have enough money to invest? There are many reasons why people don´t succeed with their business, but there are at least as many proven strategies to succeed. In Profit First you´ll discover: How anyone from newbie to business pros can create more profit in their online business, the 8 step blueprint to set up an online business even if you have no previous knowledge, and much more!

To put a business on the map, nothing beats great marketing. No matter how original your idea or ambitious your dreams, the company will stall without a plan to spread the word, build momentum, and drive sales. But how many entrepreneurs excel at marketing? If you are like most, you are focused on building your product or service...and don't know how to execute a marketing strategy or measure the results. No one is better positioned than Inc. to help you get up to speed fast.

Do you have a million-dollar idea but aren't sure how to make it a reality? Young entrepreneur Pete Williams can show you where to start! Pete Williams has been referred to as Australia's Richard Branson. At just 21 years of age, Pete embarked on a highly publicised and successful entrepreneurial venture, to sell the Melbourne Cricket Ground, in pieces! In How to Turn Your Million-Dollar Idea into a Reality, Pete passes on the techniques he used to sell the 'G.

BUILD A PROFITABLE CONSTRUCTION OR TRADES BUSINESS THAT WORKS FOR YOU. In Build and Grow , Alison Warner shares her proven BUILD system which enables tradespeople and construction business owners to get 'off the tools' and develop a profitable and rewarding business.

I am sure you have heard it said that wealth and abundance have nothing to do with your background, gender, or location. However, this undeniable nugget of wisdom is just the tip of the millionaire's iceberg. The harsh reality is there is a careful balance of wealth and poverty in the world. If you act in one way you will become rich and have everything you desire. Act another way and you will stay among the majority who struggle to cope with never quite having enough.

Catherine Gladwyn, founder of Delegate VA - Virtual Assistant, went from a PA to a thriving business owner, and you can follow in her footsteps. Gain insights into every step of the process and practical advice on subjects from finding your niche to finding clients, what services to offer, and what to charge to how to prepare for losing clients and avoid running out of money. With honesty, directness, and a large pinch of Catherine's trademark humor, How to Be a Virtual Assistant will give you vital techniques for building your business and increase your self-belief.

Creating Passive Income with Digital Products by VentureNest Books is a comprehensive guide designed to help readers achieve financial independence through digital products. It addresses common challenges faced by aspiring entrepreneurs, such as feeling overwhelmed with options and lacking effective strategies for generating passive income online. The book provides a step-by-step roadmap, covering essential topics like identifying lucrative niches tailored to individual skills and interests, developing marketable digital products, and automating income generation.

Get expert advice on marketing, selling online, accounting, and more—all tailored to the current economic climate—in this new, updated edition of the go-to resource for hopeful entrepreneurs. America’s #1 small business expert is back with a brand-new, updated, and expanded edition of her...

The perfect prospect. The perfect presentation. And our prospect says, "No". What happened? Our prospect did not connect with or understand our presentation. Our presentation is clear to us, but our prospect understands the world differently. Yes, our prospect understands a different language. There are four different color personalities, and each of those personalities interprets our world differently. They have their own viewpoint and their own language. They make their decisions based upon their viewpoint, and the language we use to present to them has to match their personality.

Why are people getting crazy over the idea of starting a virtual assistant business? First, there's the convenience of staying at home with your family. Second, you will become your own boss. Third, and perhaps the most appealing: the possibility to earn a lot of money is endless. This book tells you everything you need to know about virtual assistants.

Based on over 10 years working with small businesses, Kassan says the landscape of investment capital is far larger and more diverse than many would have you believe. Venture capitalists looking for a tenfold return on their investment are a tiny minority, and many investors are just as mission-driven as entrepreneurs. Kassan takes listeners through a six-step process to create a customized capital-raising plan, one that inspires them, excites them, and is in complete agreement with their business, their values, and their lives.

Here’s what’s happened...you’ve become the bottleneck in your business, wondering why it isn’t growing and why you’re not making the money you want to make, working too many hours with no freedom. Overwhelmed at six figures, you wonder whether it’s even worth it to keep going, let alone try to grow to seven figures. It doesn’t have to be this way! By following these proven strategies that leverage all aspects of your business, you can remove yourself from the day-to-day grind and experience the freedom and joy you set out to create when you first opened your company.

The Business of Real Estate Photography provides the blueprints to start your own real estate photography business by providing a detailed guide on developing a business strategy and marketing plan, in addition to valuable information on the financial and legal aspects of the business. It assists you in gaining a thorough understanding of the market and includes many useful tips and lessons learned from the author’s own experiences that can save you time and money when establishing and growing your own business.

This timeless text is required listening for any business person or athlete interested in strategy. It includes a soundtrack entitled "The Mysterious Sound of Wind In the Bamboo", a 43-minute collection of Zen-inspired Japanese music by the Matsu Take Ensemble.

Most business owners love to think they are saving their business from impending doom by doing everything and in the process gain themselves a really expensive job there is no escape from. I know—I’ve made every mistake in the book. But it’s actually ridiculously simple.

Ready to build the Etsy shop of your dreams? Regardless of where you’re starting from, you can launch, grow, and scale a successful Etsy business in less time than you could imagine with this practical step-by-step guide.