Here's the proven, step-by-step program to super-charge your business! The Small Business Tune-Up is your vehicle for achieving the level of success that you deserve. Using the analogy of an automobile, author Dave Cross shows you how to diagnose, assess and resolve the things in your business that are holding you back. It's practical, how-to insight that works! The Small Business Tune-Up is designed to get you on the road and accelerate your success. Small Business Tune-Up helps you think differently about your business. It shows you how to realize success using a "systems" approach. It's easy to understand and apply in any business. Author Dave Cross passes along the techniques and methods that have made his businesses extremely successful. Whether your business is service, retail, wholesale or manufacturing, you'll gain valuable tools. This book is not another "start-up" manual. Here are some of the topics covered: Getting and staying organized Small Business toolbox (methods, techniques and short-cuts) Reading the indicators of your business The primary business components Profit margin and cash flow Customers and sales Signs of trouble -- and what to do about them Working environment Quality systems and measurement Marketing and advertising Profit power Organization and leadership Drive, enthusiasm and stress Company image Employee issues Watching the competition Protecting your company Staying legal

Small Business Tune-Up

Business & Money

Cross, Dave

Personal Finance

Cypress Pub Group Inc

The definitive guide to sales and marketing disguised as a travel narrative, this book takes readers on a trek through the rich and wild landscape of Eastern Africa. Guided by an enterprising Masai, the experienced "Salesman" studies the "laws of the Jungle" and the ways that he can apply them to his sales career. As he observes the ways of the wild, he discovers 27 indispensible laws of survival and prosperity. The parallels between life on an African savannah and live in the American Business Jungle make this book essential and entertaining reading.

Zebras Don't Wear Pinstripes

Brown, Tom

Marketing & Sales

How ordinary people become extraordinary leaders 
Andrew Harvey outlines the path to effective and productive leadership for anyone wishing to improve and excel. This book offers easily accessible advice on how to improve management skill for everyone from new manager to the seasoned executive. With new insights and tools to face everyday challenges, The Call to Lead will help leaders to: 
Recognize strengths and weaknesses 
Solidify visions and create mission statements 
Hire and promote the right people 
Develop open, effective communication that really works 
Motivate and support employees to increase productivity 
Avoid stress and anger and balance work with life 
Differentiate between active management and micromangement 
Delegate properly so as to optimize performance

The Call to Lead

HARVEY, Andrew

Business Culture

You may think it's workplace stress, but it's not! 
The Dragon Complex illuminates the often-overlooked problem of workplace abuse. Manipulative and abusive bosses, named Dragons, exert control over their targets through fear, intimidation and threats. The workplace becomes an environment of hostility, tension and fear, and workers must struggle with the physical and mental ramifications of abuse. You'll learn how to: 
Recognize a Dragon's patterns 
See the ploys and games that Dragon's use to exploit their victims 
Know how to defend against Dragon attacks 
Successful strategies to de-fang and de-flame a Dragon

The Dragon Complex: Identifying and Conquering Workplace Abuse

TAYLOR, John

Dorin, Patrick

Commercial Real Estate is instructional and entertaining. It is filled with complete, easy-to-read advice that covers both commercial and industrial real estate from A to Z. Learn how to analyze, buy, develop, manage and sell for a profit from the experience of a recognized authority. This book is well suited for beginning and expert investors alike. It is the handbook for anyone interested in making money in this very lucrative field.

Commercial Real Estate: The Ins and Outs of Making Money in Investment Properties

Manning, Lloyd R.

Real Estate

A few unspoken universal truths are the common denominator of all small business success stories. This book contains a simple set of infallible rules to help you run your business more efficiently and for more profit. You will find more than 25 things you can do on a daily, monthly, yearly, and long-term basis to prosper in good times and bad. These short lessons can put you on the road to profit and prosperity.

Act of Faith: 25 Golden Rules for Small Business Success

Hackler, George

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

In the midst of Thomas Edison's laboratory, a scientific discovery was made that has a direct effect upon your livelihood. Although it took nearly a century to mature, its effects resound through every facet of our personal and professional lives. In an age of uncertainty, one thing is certain: those who don't learn to deal with it will be shackled to a lifetime of low wages. But it doesn't have to be that way. 
To be successful today requires a new set of skills, new ways of thinking, and new approaches to problem solving. 
The Edison Effect shows you how to be entrepreneurial, self managing and oriented towards life-long learning. You'll discover a new way of approaching challenges. You'll learn: 
Strategies for determining what to learn 
Four guaranteed steps to problem solving 
How to add value to your job 
How to use technology, rather than be abused by it 
How to sift important information from "noise" 
How to learn things quickly 
The most important assets to have in an information and service-based economy

Edison Effect: Success Strategies for the Information Age

Ploof, Ron

Management & Leadership

Follow Joe and Jane Anderson as they grow their net worth. Written in the form of an investing story, Real Wealth takes readers on a journey from merely getting by to having real wealth. First in the Millionaire Mentor series, this book shows readers step-by-step how to locate, purchase, rent-out and manage residential rental property. You'll learn all the secrets to successful and profitable ownership of rentals. Designed to help first time buyers, this book has many tips and suggestions that even veteran rental real estate owners will find informative and profitable.

Real Wealth: An Investment Story Describing the Road to Wealth Through Rental Real Estate

Cooke, Frank

Cooke, Andrea

Successful Real Estate Investing in an Ever Changing Market

Mossing, Doug

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