First Business

Patagonia, named by Fortune in 2007 as the coolest company on the planet, has earned a reputation as much for its ground-breaking environmental and social practices as for the quality of its clothes. In this exceptionally frank account, Chouinard and Stanley recount how the company and its culture gained the confidence, by step and misstep, to make its work progressively more responsible, and to ultimately share its discoveries with companies as large as Wal-Mart or as small as the corner bakery.

While you might have the appearance of absolute success in everything you do, scratch below the surface the reality is that you are freaking out, even just a little. You have so many balls in the air that the juggle is becoming increasingly hard to sustain. You need to start doing things differently because trying to do it all represents a huge risk to your ongoing success and well being. This book teaches you how to successfully juggle your two lives and to be guilt-free, with a proven five-step process to help you identify and harness hours of lost time on the home front.

This book provides plentiful questions and answers, which, we hope, may prove useful in your interview preparation. An analyst and job seeker can practice these questions prior to their interview, and can be assured to come across as a confident, competent, and well-composed professional. Aside from sample questions and answers, the book also provides helpful tips to make the concepts easy to understand and some "shine on" pointers for listeners to stand-out in their interviews.

You're smart. You graduated dental school. But running a business isn't something you just automatically know how to do. Things can get out of hand quickly. Drew Hinrichs, CPA, and Barbara Stackhouse, RDH, MEd, have adapted the core principles of Mike Michalowicz's book Profit First and customized them for dental practice businesses. Profit First for Dentists addresses the specific financial challenges dentists face in their businesses. Using true stories of their clients, they pull back the curtain and share the steps to creating a highly profitable practice.

Want to grow herbs and give your family an enormous health head-start, but you don’t know how to begin? Looking for a cost-effective way to proactively promote health and wellness naturally, without relying on the pharmacy? Then learn to grow your own medicine in five easy steps.

In The Employee Advantage, behavioral economist Stephan Meier explains why organizations must value their employees as much as—if not more than—their customers: those that pivot toward an employee-centric model will be more profitable, innovative, and appealing to top talent.

Passing the CPA exam can change your life. It changed mine. This short guide provides you with the strategies and tactics, tips and techniques that I myself used to pass the CPA exam. I hope you find the ideas useful as you prepare to sit for, and pass, the exam.

Do you want to make money in commercial real estate, but you don’t have the knowledge? This book can be the tool to help you achieve your goal. Maybe you have some residential experience or are new to the industry entirely. Everyone starts somewhere, and I was in that same position.

This book is for first-time startup founders in the B2B space. Maybe you’re a software engineer, product manager, salesperson, doctor, or lawyer building your first startup. My bet is that although you’re an expert at your technical skill, you yourself recognize that there’s a lot to learn when it comes to building a product, marketing it to a specific audience and overall running a company.

“How much should I charge?!” It’s the question that confuses so many self-employed women. Millions of women do not understand how to price their services correctly—and end up undercharging and earning less than they deserve.

In this formative period, from 1941-78, Buffett developed and honed the investment philosophy that would lead him to become so successful as his career progressed. But it was not all plain sailing - Buffett made mistakes along the way - and Arnold shows how Buffett learned through success and failure how to select companies worth backing. Arnold also includes insightful "learning points" at the end of each chapter, which reveal how investors can learn from the craft of Warren Buffett to improve their own investing.

Selling technology to businesses can be one of the most rewarding careers, but getting started can be hard. Most knowledge is gained through word of mouth, and it can take years to learn how to perform well and consistently hit your target. In this how-to guide, you'll be introduced to the "sales flywheel", where Charlie Cowan will share his 20 years of technology sales experience and walk you through the external and internal tasks that combine to deliver a successful sales process.

Just when you're starting to figure out this parent thing, wham, your leave is over. Take a deep breath, you'll get through it. The first few weeks and months as a working parent are hard, but they can be truly affirming, too. People want to see you succeed, they'll support you if you ask, and you'll find you have energy stores and resources you didn't know existed. You can make great strides forward in your career as a new parent. Succeeding as a First-Time Parent can help.

Whether you're new to digital marketing or looking to enhance your existing strategies, Digital Threads is the ultimate playbook for achieving success in the digital age. Get started today and unlock the strategies to take your business to the next level.

Learn all the essentials for making your first year of teaching a success! In this exciting audiobook, internationally renowned educator Todd Whitaker teams up with his daughters - Madeline, an elementary teacher, and Katherine, a secondary teacher - to share advice and inspiration. They offer step-by-step guidance to thriving in your new role and overcoming the challenges that many new teachers face.

From the CEO of the Pavilion community, Sam Jacobs, Kind Folks Finish First weaves practical business lessons with fresh perspectives on how you can achieve success. The ideas in this book are backed by the author's personal experience building a nearly $200-million business rooted in kindness, reciprocity, and deeply held values. More than that, they're proven principles that have helped thousands reach their goals in every arena.

Right now in America, there are about two million homes with solar panels. Considering there are about 90 million single-family homes, that doesn’t seem like a lot. But consider this: We’re now on track to start adding a million new solar-powered systems each year. It’s taken a while to get here, but solar energy is increasingly becoming a popular option to power the home of the future.

Winning new customers is the number one challenge 80 percent of entrepreneurs face—and a big reason half of small businesses fail within five years. In Buyer First, Carole Mahoney—who once struggled to pay bills and is now a top sales coach and influencer—says the reason so many of us are bad at selling is, well, we think selling is bad. Mahoney shares her revolutionary sales-success formula that draws on data from 2.2 million professional sellers, plus solid research on the psychology of decision-making and behavior change

Too often, the sales process is all about fear. Customers are afraid that they will be talked into making a mistake; salespeople dread being unable to close the deal and make their quotas. No one is happy. Now there’s a better way to transform the buyer/seller relationship. These 3 titles are the perfect bundle for winning more sales than you ever dreamed possible.

Through her global consulting projects, keynote speeches, and work with thousands of leaders, Karen has seen first-hand how a pervasive lack of clarity strangles business performance and erodes employee engagement. Ambiguity is the corporate default state, a condition so prevalent that “tolerance for ambiguity” has become a clichéd job requirement. It doesn’t have to be this way.