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Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: You can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading a firm means you can be your own boss, put your executive skills to work, fashion a company environment that meets your own needs, and profit directly from your success.

Whether you're imagining your new business to be the next big thing in Silicon Valley, a pivotal B2B provider, or an anchor in your local community, the Harvard Business Review Entrepreneur's Handbook is your essential resource for getting your company off the ground. Starting an independent new business is rife with both opportunity and risk. And as an entrepreneur, you're the one in charge: Your actions can make or break your business. You need to know the tried-and-true fundamentals - from writing a business plan to getting your first loan.

One of the greatest challenges facing business owners globally is that they simply don't charge enough for what they do. And this leads to all kinds of nasty problems. There has never been a better time to put an end to this self-destructive business practice once and for all. Someone Has To Be The Most Expensive, Why Not Make It You? is the culmination of Andrew Griffiths' thirty-five-year entrepreneurial journey.

Through a series of cult commandments, Jody reveals how you can change how people feel about you and your brand, and why some brands effortlessly attract a devoted following while others struggle on the sidelines.

Rework shows you a better, faster, easier way to succeed in business. Most business books give you the same old advice: Write a business plan, study the competition, seek investors, yadda yadda. If you're looking for a book like that, put this one back on the shelf. Read it and you'll know...

The Wall Street Journal Bestseller Read by the author. For so many entrepreneurs, running a small business ended up looking different than they imagined. They’re stressed, discouraged, and not confident in their plan for growth. In How to Grow Your Small Business, Donald Miller gives...

Write Well to Sell Big! In the age of e-mail and instant communication, great sales copy is indispensable to closing a deal. But too many sales letters end up in the junk file or the wastebasket. In this new edition of his top-selling book, author Dan Kennedy explains why some sales letters work...

From Mike Michalowicz, the author of PROFIT FIRST, CLOCKWORK, and THE PUMPKIN PLAN, comes the ultimate diagnostic tool for every entrepreneur. The biggest problem entrepreneurs have is that they don't know what their biggest problem is. If you find yourself trapped between stagnating sales...

"The Wealth Mastery Machine: The Definitive Guide to Financial Freedom as a Business Owner" is a real-world guide designed specifically for entrepreneurs. Tested with thousands of business owners, it delivers life-changing results.

A couple working six months per year for 50 hours per week on 20 acres can net $25,000 to $30,000 per year with an investment equivalent to the price of one new medium-sized tractor. Seldom has agriculture held out such a plum. In a day when mainline farm experts predict the continued demise of the family farm, the pastured poultry opportunity shines like a beacon in the night, guiding the way to a brighter future.

If you're looking to start, scale, or grow a digital business where clients act like your boss, and you see more of your office chair than your family... There are plenty of other agency models that will help you do that. If you want a business where clients are your partners and you're only needed for a few hours a day because AI does all the delivery for you...The Instant AI Agency is worth your attention. Whilst most people help businesses make more sales by adding more complexity, more staff members and more expensive overheads - We do the opposite.

This book will completely transform your life. This book teaches how window cleaning is rooted in the perception of luxury and not necessity. When you learn how to present yourself as a luxury service, you can literally quadruple your income and make more than $500 a day cleaning windows, with no startup money.

Start Small, Stay Small is a step-by-step guide to launching a self-funded start-up. If you're a desktop, mobile, or web developer, this audiobook is your blueprint to getting your start-up off the ground with no outside investment.

Crush It! 2.0: The Audiobook: Read by Gary Vaynerchuk, this audiobook version contains additional material not found in the bestselling hardcover edition. Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that...

You started a business. But why? Entrepreneurs often lose sight of what matters. Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough? Derek Sivers accidentally started a business by helping musicians sell their music. It became the largest online seller of independent music with over 150,000 musicians and $100M in sales. After ten years, he sold the company for $22 million and gave all the money to charity.

Running a small business in 2025 isn’t about working harder — it’s about working smarter. Artificial Intelligence has become the ultimate competitive advantage for entrepreneurs, solopreneurs, and local businesses ready to scale efficiently. This book gives you a step-by-step roadmap to transform your business using ChatGPT, Canva, Zapier, and other AI-powered tools — no coding or technical background required.

Why do so many owners of mid-market companies chase bigger, only to end up further from the life they set out to build? For decades, business books have urged owners to focus on growth. Yet for many, this undisciplined pursuit of more creates debt, complexity, and stress. What began as a dream of freedom becomes a business that drains their energy and pulls them off course. In Bigger isn't Better, Better is Better, Brad Giles delivers a complete rethink of how owners build their companies.

The traditional methods of acquiring customers and generating sales are being replaced. Google’s endless algorithm updates, zero-click results, and AI-generated answers are choking off website traffic like never before. If your business relies even slightly on search engines—or if sudden drops in traffic have blindsided you—Goodbye Google, Hello Marketing is your wake-up call.

AI Income Secrets is a bold, modern guide designed for anyone eager to tap into the explosive earning potential of artificial intelligence. The sleek, metallic cover showcases a futuristic blend of technology and human innovation, featuring a stylized head with a glowing neural-circuit brain—symbolizing the fusion of creativity and machine intelligence. Surrounded by subtle circuit patterns, the design conveys both sophistication and practicality.

Bring out the best in your team! A good leader manages, but a great leader builds a culture that engages people emotionally - helping both individuals and teams to achieve more than they ever thought possible. High levels of employee engagement have been shown to lead to increased customer satisfaction, employee productivity and profitability while also reducing staff turnover and absenteeism.