The indispensable guide to earning a six-figure take-home income on your own terms, from Forbes.com contributing writer Elaine Pofeldt. The rise of one-million-dollar, one-person businesses in the past five years is the biggest trend in employment today, offering the widest range of people the most ways to earn a living while having the lifestyles they want. In The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Elaine Pofeldt outlines the pathways to joining this entrepreneurial movement, synthesizing advice from hundreds of business owners who've done it. She explains how to identify, launch, grow, and reinvent the business, showing how a single individual can generate $1 million in revenue--something only larger small companies have done in the past. Both inspirational and practical, this book will appeal to all who seek a great worklife and a great lifestyle.

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.

Business & Money

Pofeldt, Elaine

Job Hunting & Careers

Lorena Jones Books

An entrepreneur’s complete guide to making it big while keeping things small. Small business specialist Elaine Pofeldt offers her blueprint for getting a running start with your microbusiness―that is, a business with no more than 20 employees, including yourself. Following her previous book, The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Pofeldt gives readers the steps toward their next entrepreneurial venture, including testing an idea’s market viability while limiting risk, finding cash without giving up control, protecting your personal time and avoiding burn out, and knowing when it is time to start micro-scaling. 
Pofeldt’s focus is always on staying lean financially so that you can achieve your personal goals on an average person’s budget. In this book, Pofeldt profiles nearly 60 microbusinesses that have all reached $1 million in annual revenue without losing control or selling out. Tiny Business, Big Money also includes the results of a survey with the founders of 50 seven-figure microbusinesses that got to $1 million with no payroll or very small teams, which provides deeper visibility into their shared principles of success that you can apply to your own small business.

Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness

Management & Leadership

Countryman Press

The self-employment revolution is here. Learn the latest pioneering tactics from real people who are earning $1 million a year on their own terms. In 2019, freelancers made up 35% of the U.S. workforce and contributed nearly $1 trillion to the economy. But under changing circumstances, how do you create sustainable, meaningful work that enables your ideal life? In The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised, journalist Elaine Pofeldt shares the stories and strategies of those who have done it. After noticing a record number of one-person businesses hitting $1 million in revenue in 2013, Pofeldt began profiling them online at Forbes, synthesizing the best of their advice in The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business. As these owners show, with the right mindset and knowledge, people can not only unlock their true potential working for themselves, but attain an income that frees them to live exactly how they want. By outlining everything from the six most common high-revenue business categories to the tools hundreds of entrepreneurs use to overcome pitfalls, this revised and updated edition follows-up with founders and provides the latest strategies and new case studies, demonstrating how anyone--including you--can identify, launch, and grow a highly profitable business that reinvents your life.

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.

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The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.

Tiny Business, Big Money: Strategies for Creating a High-Revenue Microbusiness

The Million-Dollar, One-Person Business, Revised: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want.