About ninety-seven percent of a rocket's fuel is used in the first three feet of its launch. The same is true in launching a new business, product, or service. Those first few steps are absolutely critical.Scott Duffy has developed a practical approach for turning your big idea into a thriving venture by focusing on the crucial period immediately before, during, and after opening your doors (literally or online).His approach is based on his experiences working with top entr...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare for and manage disasters effectively with this comprehensive guide to resilience in crisis. It delves into innovative strategies, real-world case studies, and expert insights to help you navigate the challenges and uncertainties of disaster response.The book provides a comprehensive overview of the disaster relief landscape, from preparedness and risk assessment to response and recovery. It explores the latest trends in ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare for and manage disasters effectively with this comprehensive guide to resilience in crisis. It delves into innovative strategies, real-world case studies, and expert insights to help you navigate the challenges and uncertainties of disaster response.The book provides a comprehensive overview of the disaster relief landscape, from preparedness and risk assessment to response and recovery. It explores the latest trends in ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare for and manage disasters effectively with this comprehensive guide to resilience in crisis. It delves into innovative strategies, real-world case studies, and expert insights to help you navigate the challenges and uncertainties of disaster response.The book provides a comprehensive overview of the disaster relief landscape, from preparedness and risk assessment to response and recovery. It explores the latest trends in ...

Serial entrepreneur, business growth expert, and brand ambassador Scott Duffy weaves together stories from his own journey and those of superstar entrepreneurs along with sage advice to help listeners identify their own "aha!" moments and turn them into unique growth opportunities to help them break through and level up their entrepreneurship game.● Helps listeners identify opportunities to rethink how they plan, start, grow, and scale their businesses—no matter how big or small

Ben Horowitz, cofounder of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, offers essential leadership advice on building and running a startup—practical wisdom for managing the toughest problems business school doesn’t cover, based on his popular ben’s blog.While many people talk about how great it is to start a business, very few are honest about how difficult entrepreneurship is when it comes to running one. ...

Network marketing has turned millions of people into successful business owners. But to truly reach their earning potential, network marketers need to successfully grow their businesses by recruiting the right people.Network marketing superstar and recruitment expert Mary Christensen takes the guesswork out of successful recruiting, letting you in on her easy-to-use system for finding and training the right people to sell your product or services, and teaching them...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the stars of ABC’s Shark Tank and QVC’s Clever & Unique Creations by Lori Greiner comes a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts guide to getting a new product or company off the ground and making it a success.Turn your idea into a reality.Become your own boss.Make your first million.Achieve financial freedom.Lori Greiner shows you how.

When Before You Quit Your Job was written and published, it was a guidebook for aspiring entrepreneurs. Today-with the job market in shambles, overseas outsourcing and high unemployment-it can be a path to the salvation so many are looking for: A way take control of their life and use their skills and talents to create their future.Before You Quit Your Job asks: Do you have a million-dollar idea? Are you afraid of failing? Are you tired of making other people rich? Are you sick of ...

Do you feel like your career exists somewhere between your last sale and your next one? Are you always searching for the way to bridge the gap and create long-term success? Does it seem that somehow your life is only about your ability to perform on the job?For too long you have bought into the idea that the business you do and the life you lead are completely separate. What Todd Duncan has learned in his twenty-two years of sales is the polar opposite: When you discover how to con...

A concise extension of the business classic Topgrading, targeted to sales managersBrad Smart's Topgrading has sold more than 150,000 copies since 1999, making it the definitive book for executives who want to hire, coach, and retain top talent. Now Smart has teamed up with Greg Alexander, who used Topgrading to radically improve his sales force at EMC.In Topgrading for Sales, they have boiled down the key Topgrading ideas to a pithy 112 p...

After 5 years of appearances as a Globe and Mail business bestseller, the fully updated and revised edition of this book could not be more timely. The first edition was a plea to North American leaders to confront three crises – hyper-messaging, the labor shortage and the rise of China – by embracing the fact that a Brand is not a logo, advertising or any other marketing communication, but what people think of you.Unfortunately, these crises have only become more serious, and the m...