Small Business Consulting

1000 Tips and Tools for Small Business Success is a compact, informative guide for small business owners and managers. Written by an expert business consultant, this handy volume provides helpful advice for all areas of managing a business. If you need answers to your HR, marketing, and operation management needs, you will find them here.

The excitement of becoming an entrepreneur and starting a new business has faded. Your first dollar of revenue has been earned and quickly reinvested. Now, you are in the thick of the battle. This is where winning means making payroll for the month and losing means the bank foreclosing on your house. Maybe a professor talked you into running your own business. Or maybe you grew tired of serving in corporate America and working for underwhelming talent. 

Does it ever feel that you're stuck in traffic with a business that isn't growing while you watch marketing drain your bank account? Does it feel you might be missing critical marketing steps that can help your business grow? In his latest audiobook, Zev Asch, a successful international marketing executive and entrepreneur walks you through these critically overlooked marketing essentials, and with street-smart advice, he outlines simple steps that business owners can take right away to get a return on their marketing investment, increase sales, and boost customer retention.

The Golden Rules of Practical Marketing is an indispensable book for business owners and marketing managers. Dr. Ali Asadi is a well-known expert in his field and analyzes the many varied aspects of marketing and provides valuable tips on making your business a success. He presents an in-depth examination of marketing analysis and emphasizes the importance of setting goals and implementing strategies.

In a world of rapidly evolving technologies and business paradigms, your consulting business needs to radically adapt its techniques and models. Taking full measure of these changes, Alan Weiss, the "Rock Star of Consulting," will guide you through the process with a revised and completely updated sixth edition of his authoritative guide to consulting success.

Stop chasing money-making schemes and cookie-cutter businesses. Real success is personal and is achieved by finding the path on which you will thrive. The Book on Small Business Ideas will turn you into an idea and cash-flow factory. You'll generate simple small business and side-hustle ideas that are meaningful to you. You'll learn how to stay motivated, analyze your ideas, and launch them successfully.

Having inspired generations of consultants and entrepreneurs around the world, the “Rock Star of Consulting” Alan Weiss returns with a revised and completely updated edition of his authoritative guide to consulting success. 

The Ultimate Marketing Guide for Medical Practices is an indispensable audiobook for medical professionals to market their businesses. Dr. Ali Asadi presents an in-depth examination of marketing analysis and emphasizes the importance of setting goals and implementing strategy. He covers in detail such topics as designing an inviting reception area; marketing through brochures, newsletters, and your personal website; determining patient attitudes through surveys; and analyzing your competition. 

Now a number one international best seller! Half of all new businesses in the US and UK fail within five years. They fail for various reasons, but the main issue is that business owners either don’t face up to their problems at all or when they do, it’s too late. Face It & Fix It is a must-listen audiobook for owners of struggling small businesses; those who don’t have a moment to lose before disaster strikes and their business is lost. It is a hard-hitting and easy-to-understand guidebook that explains how any small business can be transformed into a 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.

An essential handbook for professionals and small business owners. This best seller has become a standard resource for those people looking for guidance on the actual words to use in a persuasive presentation.

Without question, IT consultancy is one of the smartest jobs for the money, time, and flexibility it allows. For this reason, people qualified and yet to be qualified aspire to enter the IT consulting space. It then becomes a question of what is required, how to set up, get clients, and dominate competition. How to Start and Run IT Consultancy Business provides you with proven answers to these how's as well as the educational requirements, and the financial outlay for starting an IT firm.

Does the life of a consultant tempt you? Are you worried about leaving the security and stability of corporate life? Does the thought of going it alone excite and terrify you in equal measure? If you are going to make the leap, then this book will alleviate a lot of the risk. Instead of trying to work it out on your own and falling into classic traps, follow Matt’s path and set your consultancy business up for success. If you want the flexibility of being a consultant with the financial security of a profitable business, you’re ready to learn how to go from full-time to fulfilled.

Using the metaphor of a “Leaky Bucket,” Howard Shore addresses the 15 most common issues in the areas of people, strategy, and execution that drain energy, direction, and profitability from every business. Shore provides a practical guide on how to effect change and ignite growth in the leadership team in order to achieve an organization's full potential. The principles outlined in this book lead to clear and purposeful direction, a stronger, invigorated leadership team, and maximum growth and revenue, all while reducing workplace drama. 

Want to know how to market the impossible twice effectively? Stephen Covey (seven habits of highly effective people) communicates with a simple, but effective model to change how people operate. I have revealed this powerful secret of the process and where the model fits.

With its clear blend of real-life examples and professional insights, Succeeding at Succession offers next generation members in family-owned businesses wise guidance for navigating competing business and family needs while fulfilling their own aspirations, upholding family values, and strengthening family relationships.

The whiteboard is not only a useful tool, but a powerful metaphor. This new "blank canvas" approach to business is changing how people and companies are executing and thriving in today’s world. Jason Balin and Chris Haddon show you how you too can "whiteboard" your way to a productive, leveraged, and highly profitable business.  

日本の会社の99％以上を占める中小企業。その中でも小規模企業のIT化は遅れている。IT化の遅れの大きな要因としてIT投資不足と経営者のITへの認識不足がある。