Small Development

Business conferences and other networking events often require a significant investment of your time and money, but are you getting the maximum benefit in return? Anyone can benefit from better networking skills, and Conference Crushing provides you with 17 highly effective skills you can put to work for building better relationships and growing a wider, stronger network.

What happens when you consciously chart a course for your life, a course guided by your ethics and values? What happens when you truly recognize and embrace community? So often business books tell us about how to earn more, how to make our businesses more remunerative, and how to become more influential. Seldom do they address the small business and its impact on the life of its owners and those they employ. There are almost 30 million small businesses in the United States, employing over 56 million people or 57 percent of people who work in the private sector.

In this book, you will learn how to overcome social anxiety and become a confident conversationalist. Have you ever frozen in silence, unsure what to say next? Or wish you could effortlessly connect with others and leave a memorable impression? This book is your comprehensive guide to mastering the art of small talk and transforming your social interactions.

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Climb Greater Heights is a transformative guide for entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, and CEOs aspiring to achieve extraordinary success. With captivating case studies, actionable exercises, and real-world examples, this guide becomes an indispensable roadmap for high achievers committed to elevating their business performance, scaling their ventures, and creating a lasting legacy in both business and life.

Unlock Your Alpha Potential: Delve into the empowering insights of "Alpha Female Bible." Awaken your inner alpha, overcome self-doubt, and harness your leadership skills. From effective communication to finding balance in personal and professional life, this guide encompasses the history of alpha females, diversity, and ethical empowerment.

Through personal experience and working with and interviewing some of the world’s most successful people, Chukwudi discovered that there is a proven blueprint that top entrepreneurs, business owners, and leaders use to scale up their life and businesses without comprising key personal relationships. You will learn how to lay a robust and solid foundation for building long-term wealth for you and your unborn generation and how to enter a role that frees you to utilize 100% of your gifts, talents, and acquired skills.

Imagine if you could easily strike up a conversation with anybody at your next work function or social gathering. How would you like to build new connections, make new friends, and advance in your career? Small Talk, Powerful Impact is a must-have companion guide that’s perfect for anyone looking to overcome social anxiety—or simply become better at talking to people.

Launching Your Meditation Coaching Business by VentureNest Books provides a comprehensive roadmap for individuals eager to turn their passion for mindfulness into a successful meditation coaching practice. This guides listeners through the essential steps of starting and growing a mindfulness business, addressing common challenges such as creating a business plan, marketing services, managing logistics, and establishing a unique coaching style.

This comprehensive audiobook is your step-by-step guide to building a lean, profitable business in just 90 days. Created by successful entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs, this practical framework eliminates guesswork and focuses exclusively on what truly matters. You'll learn how to validate your ideas rapidly by testing market demand before you invest. Discover strategies to launch with momentum, building buzz and securing those crucial early sales. Master established tactics to scale your business toward seven-figure revenue.

Our book provides fundamentals tools and guidance to use as you start a new business, grow an existing business or use simple capital raising strategies. We also discuss complex capital raising (such as Securities and Intellectual Property). As the authors of Raising Capital, we have attempted to give you ideas, suggestions, examples and enough information for you to start the long hard and rewarding process of starting your own business or restoring life to an existing business.

Most of us feel surprisingly awkward asking for money. This book shows you how to feel more confident, to know your worth and to frame your services in terms that clients value. Blending practical Business Development techniques with a fresh money mindset, it explores the psychology of value and worth, helping you have client conversations that win both respect and proper reward.

This newly launched report argues that development policies based on new insights into how people actually think and make decisions will help governments and civil society more readily tackle such challenges as increasing productivity, breaking the cycle of poverty from one generation to the next, and acting on climate change.

Start with a plan. One of the biggest reasons goals fail is that we often don’t put enough thought into what we really want before diving in. Your Goal Guide by Debra Eckerling starts with that first, crucial step: figuring out your goals and putting a plan in place. As a professional writer, communications specialist, and project catalyst with more than 20 years of experience, Eckerling is prepared to help you achieve success.

In the fast-paced world of home service, success isn't left to chance—it's achieved with a well-crafted strategy. Game Plan to Success in Home Services is your ultimate guide to building a winning playbook, identifying key positions, and mastering the KPIs that drive your business forward. This book offers a unique approach by applying the principles of sports strategy to the home service industry.

Sustainability is rocking the business world as profoundly as any global trend of the past, from electrification to digitalization. But unlike previous revolutions, this one is being driven by consumers, for whom environmentally sound practices matter as much as price, quality, and brand. In The Demand Revolution, Andreas von der Gathen, Nicolai Broby Eckert, and Caroline Kastbjerg offer a strategic framework for winning these consumers—and taking advantage of the vast commercial opportunity presented by sustainability as the first demand-driven, transformative megatrend.

Amid growing international concerns about income inequality, labor abuses, racial injustice, and disinformation online, Conscience Incorporated examines the gaps in current corporate social responsibility measures and what more needs be done to address these challenges. The rise of new technologies such as smartphones and social media have made it easier than ever to document and spread awareness of corporate actions. Despite these developments, large corporations often fail to meaningfully address the human rights abuses linked to their business models and practices.

Nada es más inspirador que una ambiciosa visión que se convierte en una realidad triunfante: el Empire State Building pasó de ser un boceto a cambiar el skyline de Nueva York en tan solo veintiún meses. Sin embargo, la mayoría de las veces las grandes visiones se convierten en auténticas pesadillas: según las estadísticas, un asombroso 92 por ciento de los megaproyectos superan el presupuesto o el cronograma, o ambas cosas. Incluso los esfuerzos más modestos, como emprender un pequeño negocio, suelen fracasar.

Que você seja um grande empreendedor. E, quando empreender, não tenha medo de falhar. E, se falhar, não tenha medo de chorar. E, se chorar, repense sua vida, mas não desista. Dê sempre uma nova chance para si mesmo e para quem você ama. Saiba que a vida é um grande contrato de risco, risos e lágrimas, sucessos e fracassos fazem parte desse contrato. Por isso, quem vence sem riscos sobe no pódio sem glórias.

In this book, Krista Mashore will share the specific techniques and strategies she used to build a coaching business from zero to over $1 million per month in just 4 ½ years.